M
@mizhenheimer.bsky.social
a dimension 20 enthusiast in wyoming. I write for a living, and in my free time, and frequently in my dreams. personal account; opinions my own.
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Since we seem to be doing this again ... I recently investigated the origin of the ridiculous myth that em dashes are a sign of AI writing. (The people who blew up the idea didn't even know it's called a dash. They called it "the long hyphen.")
I kept hoping this myth would burn itself out, but no — the idea that em dashes are a sign of AI writing just keeps spreading.
I finally couldn't take it anymore, so I crashed a segment into the latest Grammar Girl podcast. 🧵
APPLE PODCASTS: bit.ly/4kV4HbF
SPOTIFY: bit.ly/45YGCfh
I finally couldn't take it anymore, so I crashed a segment into the latest Grammar Girl podcast. 🧵
APPLE PODCASTS: bit.ly/4kV4HbF
SPOTIFY: bit.ly/45YGCfh
July 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Since we seem to be doing this again ... I recently investigated the origin of the ridiculous myth that em dashes are a sign of AI writing. (The people who blew up the idea didn't even know it's called a dash. They called it "the long hyphen.")
there are a lot of federal agencies in my town, & a lot of seasonal workers, & some of my rl friends have started opening conversations with "do you still have a job?" bc as often as not, the answer is no. absolutely grim out here
March 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
there are a lot of federal agencies in my town, & a lot of seasonal workers, & some of my rl friends have started opening conversations with "do you still have a job?" bc as often as not, the answer is no. absolutely grim out here
Trapp's right & he should say it
Everyone Should Agree With These Standardizations of Regionalisms Wholeheartedly! @mikewtrapp.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Trapp's right & he should say it
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"We run around looking like something you’d see in a post-apocalyptic aftermath, which is sometimes what it feels like to grow up in the town we’re from."
The people asked for @coriwinrock.bsky.social on Hole's "Gold Dust Woman" again, and that's what you get today: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
The people asked for @coriwinrock.bsky.social on Hole's "Gold Dust Woman" again, and that's what you get today: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
March 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"We run around looking like something you’d see in a post-apocalyptic aftermath, which is sometimes what it feels like to grow up in the town we’re from."
The people asked for @coriwinrock.bsky.social on Hole's "Gold Dust Woman" again, and that's what you get today: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
The people asked for @coriwinrock.bsky.social on Hole's "Gold Dust Woman" again, and that's what you get today: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
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"in your horny middle age, you will drop the needle on an old Afghan Whigs album and ask yourself why the only indie band of your youth that fucked were these guys."
3/12 brings back @modaviau.bsky.social on The Afghan Whigs: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
3/12 brings back @modaviau.bsky.social on The Afghan Whigs: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
March 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"in your horny middle age, you will drop the needle on an old Afghan Whigs album and ask yourself why the only indie band of your youth that fucked were these guys."
3/12 brings back @modaviau.bsky.social on The Afghan Whigs: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
3/12 brings back @modaviau.bsky.social on The Afghan Whigs: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
"We're here to speak truth to power while we shine a laser in its eyes. If we do that long enough, and hard enough, and we are taken seriously enough, then eventually, politicians and other powers-that-be will stop acting like spoiled toddlers and will do their jobs honestly, truthfully and openly."
OPINION: Columnist Rod Miller has his "dog-eared copies of the U.S. and Wyoming constitutions" at the ready and is looking forward to "tying firecrackers to the tails of sacred cows" in his new gig at WyoFile.
Opinion | The first day at my new school
Columnist Rod Miller is looking forward to "tying firecrackers to the tails of sacred cows" in his new gig at WyoFile.
wyofile.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"We're here to speak truth to power while we shine a laser in its eyes. If we do that long enough, and hard enough, and we are taken seriously enough, then eventually, politicians and other powers-that-be will stop acting like spoiled toddlers and will do their jobs honestly, truthfully and openly."
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Before the song ended I encountered 2 giant wooden hands, on poles like the legs of billboards, thirty feet high. Both hands flipped giant middle fingers.
3/10 flashback to @jdfish9.bsky.social on Ini Kamoze's "Here comes the Hotstepper" in March Fadness 90s (2017): marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
3/10 flashback to @jdfish9.bsky.social on Ini Kamoze's "Here comes the Hotstepper" in March Fadness 90s (2017): marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
March 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Before the song ended I encountered 2 giant wooden hands, on poles like the legs of billboards, thirty feet high. Both hands flipped giant middle fingers.
3/10 flashback to @jdfish9.bsky.social on Ini Kamoze's "Here comes the Hotstepper" in March Fadness 90s (2017): marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
3/10 flashback to @jdfish9.bsky.social on Ini Kamoze's "Here comes the Hotstepper" in March Fadness 90s (2017): marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
there are many things I dislike about ap style, but spelling cell phones as one word while insisting healthcare is two has gotta be up there
March 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
there are many things I dislike about ap style, but spelling cell phones as one word while insisting healthcare is two has gotta be up there
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The man has a green card and 8-month pregnant wife, who doesn't know where he is. Democratic elected officials in New York need to get off their asses and find him now
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...
ICE Arrests Pro-Palestinian Activist at Columbia
Mahmoud Khalil, who recently completed a graduate program at Columbia, has legal permanent residency, his lawyer said.
www.nytimes.com
March 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The man has a green card and 8-month pregnant wife, who doesn't know where he is. Democratic elected officials in New York need to get off their asses and find him now
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...
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"Approaching things in new ways is scary: I think it’s worth the risk. "
3/9 it's @katiedarbymullins.bsky.social's ode to Robbie Williams's "Rock DJ" from March Danceness 00s: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
3/9 it's @katiedarbymullins.bsky.social's ode to Robbie Williams's "Rock DJ" from March Danceness 00s: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
March 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
"Approaching things in new ways is scary: I think it’s worth the risk. "
3/9 it's @katiedarbymullins.bsky.social's ode to Robbie Williams's "Rock DJ" from March Danceness 00s: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
3/9 it's @katiedarbymullins.bsky.social's ode to Robbie Williams's "Rock DJ" from March Danceness 00s: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
Searched "saddest songs" for Reasons, & there are multiple playlists that include chasing cars?? which last I checked is not a sad song at all??????
March 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Searched "saddest songs" for Reasons, & there are multiple playlists that include chasing cars?? which last I checked is not a sad song at all??????
"What matters to me about art is not how popular it is but whether it resonates."
"We are beleaguered by these years we’ve lived through…and it is because of this, not in spite of it, that I’m doubling down on “Walking in Memphis”."
Let's go Walking in Memphis (again) and in earnestness in 2017 and 2025 with @lisaoneill.bsky.social: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
Let's go Walking in Memphis (again) and in earnestness in 2017 and 2025 with @lisaoneill.bsky.social: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
March 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"What matters to me about art is not how popular it is but whether it resonates."
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FRIDAY UPDATE:
1) They were playing "the Humpty Dance" at the convenience store and nobody wanted to do the dance with me.
2) My MarchXness essay from 2019's Goth tournament gets the Second Chanceness treatment today! I've been loving reading everyone's work so far this March.
1) They were playing "the Humpty Dance" at the convenience store and nobody wanted to do the dance with me.
2) My MarchXness essay from 2019's Goth tournament gets the Second Chanceness treatment today! I've been loving reading everyone's work so far this March.
"Nick Cave is still someone worth writing about."
On 3/7 we bring back @elenavox.bsky.social's essay on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "Red Right Hand": marchxness.com/2xness-cave/
On 3/7 we bring back @elenavox.bsky.social's essay on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "Red Right Hand": marchxness.com/2xness-cave/
March 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
FRIDAY UPDATE:
1) They were playing "the Humpty Dance" at the convenience store and nobody wanted to do the dance with me.
2) My MarchXness essay from 2019's Goth tournament gets the Second Chanceness treatment today! I've been loving reading everyone's work so far this March.
1) They were playing "the Humpty Dance" at the convenience store and nobody wanted to do the dance with me.
2) My MarchXness essay from 2019's Goth tournament gets the Second Chanceness treatment today! I've been loving reading everyone's work so far this March.
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"my essay’s methodical plodding did lead me to a place that caught me off-guard": On 3/5 we bring back @twonnet.bsky.social's Faxness essay on Bronski Beat: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
March 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"my essay’s methodical plodding did lead me to a place that caught me off-guard": On 3/5 we bring back @twonnet.bsky.social's Faxness essay on Bronski Beat: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
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March 2xNess Day 4 rewinds to Jaime Danehey's excellent 80s Fadness essay on Frank and Moon Zappa. Give it a read and some love: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
March 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
March 2xNess Day 4 rewinds to Jaime Danehey's excellent 80s Fadness essay on Frank and Moon Zappa. Give it a read and some love: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
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🚨 Public health data disappeared. We’re restoring it. 🚨
RestoredCDC.org preserves unaltered CDC content after key pages were removed or changed without notice.
Public data belongs to all of us. 🔗 RestoredCDC.org
#PublicHealth #ScienceTransparency #RestoredCDC
RestoredCDC.org preserves unaltered CDC content after key pages were removed or changed without notice.
Public data belongs to all of us. 🔗 RestoredCDC.org
#PublicHealth #ScienceTransparency #RestoredCDC
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
RestoredCDC.org
March 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🚨 Public health data disappeared. We’re restoring it. 🚨
RestoredCDC.org preserves unaltered CDC content after key pages were removed or changed without notice.
Public data belongs to all of us. 🔗 RestoredCDC.org
#PublicHealth #ScienceTransparency #RestoredCDC
RestoredCDC.org preserves unaltered CDC content after key pages were removed or changed without notice.
Public data belongs to all of us. 🔗 RestoredCDC.org
#PublicHealth #ScienceTransparency #RestoredCDC
I'm admittedly terrible at analyzing my own writing, because the things I wrote are usually the things I intended to say, & sometimes there are things I was thinking & feeling that I'm too close to see but someone else can pick apart. but here's what I think about my essay vs this year's reflection:
March Second Chanceness Day 3 (re)presents M. Gookin on Cupid: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
March 4, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I'm admittedly terrible at analyzing my own writing, because the things I wrote are usually the things I intended to say, & sometimes there are things I was thinking & feeling that I'm too close to see but someone else can pick apart. but here's what I think about my essay vs this year's reflection:
it's a me!
March Second Chanceness Day 3 (re)presents M. Gookin on Cupid: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
March 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
it's a me!
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March 2 brings back to you @martinseay.bsky.social's outstanding March Vladness essay on @acertainratio.bsky.social: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
March 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
March 2 brings back to you @martinseay.bsky.social's outstanding March Vladness essay on @acertainratio.bsky.social: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
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March Xness rewind essays all month long!
3/1/25: March 2xness rewinds to @erinvachon.bsky.social's great essay on Patrick Swayze feat. Wendy Fraser, She's Like the Wind: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
March 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
March Xness rewind essays all month long!