Colleen Barry
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Colleen Barry
@copycurmudgeon.bsky.social
Copy editor (ProPublica, FiveThirtyEight, ESPN), baker, cross stitcher, cat furniture. she/her
Poor guy can’t find the B button
October 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
@kenlowery.bsky.social Oh hey it’s ya boy

(I hadn’t seen this one before!)
October 27, 2025 at 2:27 AM
This guy sensed that I was looking at another black cat.
October 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Behold the majestic fluffpotato
October 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Turning my niece into a reader by hook or by crook.
October 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Anyway this was Dottie. She was definitely a girl, she was not a chimera and she was not a doofus. She was the softest cat in the world and I miss her very much.
September 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Decided to go touch some grass.
September 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I mostly don’t mind working in Google Docs — a minority position among editors — but one thing I do hate with a passion is its craptacular spellcheck, which failed to flag “cornplex” for “complex,” leaving my myopic ass to spot the telltale wisp of white space on my own.
September 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
One thing that copy editors can do for you is flag when your promo code is an extremely poor choice for a marketing blast in the second week of September.
September 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Found my Bannerless Games order in my mailbox at the moment when the friend I ordered a spare sticker for dropped by. It’s like he was drawn inexorably to the sticker by powers beyond mortal understanding. A+ service, would defy villagers’ warnings to meet again. @kenlowery.bsky.social
August 31, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The smug face of a guy who has proven he’s more important than chores.
August 31, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Au contraire, he does not have a single brain cell, he just really loves snuggling.
August 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
There are a LOT of candidates.
August 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Throwing my cat into the ring for my city’s extremely fake “bike path mayor” race.
August 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
My boss is such a micromanager
August 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
One of the rare days when there is no unframed art in my house. Now I just need more walls.

Artists, left to right: Edward Gorey, @vilain.bsky.social, @nathannunn.bsky.social.
July 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Sleepy boy brigade
July 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Winter Hill got a little cloudburst and then a surprisingly bright and long-lasting double rainbow.
July 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I just noticed the slogan on the robbers’ painter van in “Inside Man” and I must confess I am tickled.
July 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Sometimes an ice cream cone is medicinal.
July 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Setting is under “gameplay,” and when you toggle it off the screen just goes red when you die.
July 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Genuinely lol

He’s not named Landlord but he is officially my supervisor, according to the sign on his office.
July 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
There’s a new sunbeam in town (landlord restored a window that had been filled in) and this guy’s all over it.
July 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Some area residents will be sad to see the heat dome go.
June 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This guy came within a gnat’s whisker of stealing a whole takeout container of Brazilian food. Also he’s not supposed to be on the table.
June 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM