Nick Hembery
@proofreadernick.bsky.social
Proofreader, editor, video and board game player, occasional blog writer. Contact at nickhembery.carrd.co.
Found a freelancer networking website where to sign up you need to already be a successful freelancer (i.e. have a client network). If I want a network but don't have one, I can't sign up. But if I had a network, I wouldn't need to sign up would I. Who makes buinesses like this?!
November 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Found a freelancer networking website where to sign up you need to already be a successful freelancer (i.e. have a client network). If I want a network but don't have one, I can't sign up. But if I had a network, I wouldn't need to sign up would I. Who makes buinesses like this?!
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A happy picture of a crocheted Frog and Toad to enjoy.
A happy picture of a crocheted Frog and Toad to enjoy.
#happies #tbim #indiarosecrawford | Julie Willson
Hey, folks! My happy for today is the sweetest crocheted froggies by India Rose Crawford. She features them in all sorts of outfits and backgrounds, in photos and lifelike videos. They just melt my he...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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A happy picture of a crocheted Frog and Toad to enjoy.
A happy picture of a crocheted Frog and Toad to enjoy.
Took me a minute to find an email I was waiting on because an automatically applied update switched on the Focused/Other filter and hid the email from me. We need a term for this kind of tech mess up. Auto-broke or update-barred.
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Took me a minute to find an email I was waiting on because an automatically applied update switched on the Focused/Other filter and hid the email from me. We need a term for this kind of tech mess up. Auto-broke or update-barred.
It's fireworks night in the UK, the perfect opportunity to go for a walk, wait until a firework goes off with a loud bang and scream "AAAARGH! I'M HIT!"
November 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
It's fireworks night in the UK, the perfect opportunity to go for a walk, wait until a firework goes off with a loud bang and scream "AAAARGH! I'M HIT!"
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sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
The key to sticking to habits is to remember that even if you do the thing at quarter to midnight, it still counts as being done that day.
October 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The key to sticking to habits is to remember that even if you do the thing at quarter to midnight, it still counts as being done that day.
Every act of charity of a failure is government.
The government said they aren’t releasing SNAP benefits in November — but ALDI is helping families out. Their Thanksgiving meal bundle feeds 10 people for just $40! 🦃 Available now through Christmas Eve, it includes 21 items (like a 14-lb turkey + sides). Share this with everyone!
October 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Every act of charity of a failure is government.
I thought today's Connections had a neat Batman category, but it turns out it was a deep cut trap.
Puzzle #854
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October 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I thought today's Connections had a neat Batman category, but it turns out it was a deep cut trap.
Puzzle #854
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But doctor, I am the editor.
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
But doctor, I am the editor.
How typical that on the day I was going to start a new routine I wake up with a big headache and can do Jack All.
October 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
How typical that on the day I was going to start a new routine I wake up with a big headache and can do Jack All.
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(solemnly) You've had mail.
September 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
(solemnly) You've had mail.
Tried an experiment to exercise/read more. Walked on treadmill while reading physical book, moderate success. Played board game while listening to audiobook, went badly. Played Minecraft while listening to audiobook, went well. Will do more of A and C in the future.
September 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Tried an experiment to exercise/read more. Walked on treadmill while reading physical book, moderate success. Played board game while listening to audiobook, went badly. Played Minecraft while listening to audiobook, went well. Will do more of A and C in the future.
Power cut at my house caused me to realise that my only non-mains light source is my phone. So, need to get some torches.
September 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Power cut at my house caused me to realise that my only non-mains light source is my phone. So, need to get some torches.
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Check your Accessibility Settings folks - as I discovered after some other people posted about it, my "require alt text before posting" setting too had switched itself off.
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Check your Accessibility Settings folks - as I discovered after some other people posted about it, my "require alt text before posting" setting too had switched itself off.
Thinking about people who have AI psychosis and the uncanny valley. While we have built-in defences against things that look sort of like us, we don't have any for things that talk sort of like us.
September 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Thinking about people who have AI psychosis and the uncanny valley. While we have built-in defences against things that look sort of like us, we don't have any for things that talk sort of like us.
Suddenly stopping playing a video game really shows you how much you actually played that game.
September 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Suddenly stopping playing a video game really shows you how much you actually played that game.
I wonder if the road sign that's an out of office auto reply in Welsh is still up.
Interesting regarding AI and Kpop Demon Hunters 1/2
September 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I wonder if the road sign that's an out of office auto reply in Welsh is still up.
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The Internet Archive has archived this report. Let's "Streisand Effect" this finding
web.archive.org/web/20250911...
web.archive.org/web/20250911...
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
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September 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The Internet Archive has archived this report. Let's "Streisand Effect" this finding
web.archive.org/web/20250911...
web.archive.org/web/20250911...
This wine is apparently made with AI. I find it amusing that people jumped on a band wagon with a product that if you consume it you've fallen off a wagon.
September 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This wine is apparently made with AI. I find it amusing that people jumped on a band wagon with a product that if you consume it you've fallen off a wagon.
Coming in 2026: Critterz cancelled after running out of budget due to rising AI costs and poor results from the same AI. Director says "We could never get it to look quite right, so we kept rolling the dice until we couldn't afford to anymore."
OpenAI confirms they're helping make an AI-generated movie called 'Critterz'
• Goal is to finish production in 9 months
• Budget is ~$30M
• Plan is to debut the film at Canne
• 'Paddington 3' writers penned the script
• Art will be fed into Chat GPT 5 and other image models
(via WSJ)
• Goal is to finish production in 9 months
• Budget is ~$30M
• Plan is to debut the film at Canne
• 'Paddington 3' writers penned the script
• Art will be fed into Chat GPT 5 and other image models
(via WSJ)
September 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Coming in 2026: Critterz cancelled after running out of budget due to rising AI costs and poor results from the same AI. Director says "We could never get it to look quite right, so we kept rolling the dice until we couldn't afford to anymore."
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Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
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September 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Another day, another generic rejection email from a company. They're definitely all using LLMs to make the emails, as I've got not two but three all using the same language within days of each other.
September 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Another day, another generic rejection email from a company. They're definitely all using LLMs to make the emails, as I've got not two but three all using the same language within days of each other.
Everyone knows that today the number of babies needed to maintain population levels is 2.1 babies per woman. I can't help but wonder, what was the ratio a hundred years ago to compensate for all the children dying of disease?
"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda
How quick we forget.
How quick we forget.
September 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Everyone knows that today the number of babies needed to maintain population levels is 2.1 babies per woman. I can't help but wonder, what was the ratio a hundred years ago to compensate for all the children dying of disease?
Today's feeling: the saddness of seeing a linkedin notification prompting you to congratulate someone on X years at [company], but you know they got made redundant from that job a few months ago.
September 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Today's feeling: the saddness of seeing a linkedin notification prompting you to congratulate someone on X years at [company], but you know they got made redundant from that job a few months ago.
I looked at the picture before reading the post and literally thought it was a star wars still.
The images that came down from Mars yesterday had a Star Wars vibe to them, so I just did what came naturally
September 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I looked at the picture before reading the post and literally thought it was a star wars still.