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Allyson Rudolph
@the-punctuator.bsky.social
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Manager of proofreading at DC Comics. All opinions my own (derogatory).
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rusty.todayintabs.com
Did I know what a Hand of Glory was by age ten, including what it does and how to make one? You bet I did, because I read books that were specifically written for children.
December 24, 2024 at 2:27 AM
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quatoria.bsky.social
You are MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

If they threaten you with arrest for trying to access a site you are lawfully entitled to access, YOU MAKE THEM FUCKING ARREST YOU.

YOU MAKE THEM SLAP THE CUFFS ON A CONGRESSMAN LIVE ON TV, YOU MAKE THEM FUCKING DO IT.
newsguy.bsky.social Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · Feb 3
Members of Congress say they were just denied entry to USAID headquarters on orders of Elon Musk and DOGE and were told to contact the State Department for any further information.
February 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
the-punctuator.bsky.social
Few things make me feel as aligned with my heritage as proofreading MAD Magazine pages from my dad's office, which is full of MAD memorabilia
January 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
the-punctuator.bsky.social
Be careful out there!
specialguest.bsky.social Tonight's Special Guest @specialguest.bsky.social · Jan 3
Along those lines, "Final" can look suspect as well.
A Marvel comics panel of Loki chained up in Ghostriders trunk. He is saying, "GAARRGGH! FINAL HOST! Get me out of this Odin-damned trunk! And then BURN everything you see!" Due to the letter kerning, he looks like he is yelling "ANAL HOST"
January 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
the-punctuator.bsky.social
Comics proofreading tip: FLICK and FLICKER tend to look like FUCK and FUCKER in lettering, so use with care.
January 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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merriam-webster.com
“Look up!” = Superman

“Lookup!” = Dictionary
December 19, 2024 at 2:49 PM
the-punctuator.bsky.social
much to think about on my timeline rn
December 2, 2024 at 7:59 PM
the-punctuator.bsky.social
Proofreading tip: *always* check that links and QR codes resolve where you expect them to.

Corollary: Advise against fake URLs and social media handles, in case someone grabs the domain and turns it into something you don't like.
November 11, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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ohnola.bsky.social
Getting real tired of seeing people say that the election is an "admonition of the left" when the left wasn't in the fuckin election
November 7, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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timcarvell.bsky.social
I’m sorry, I know we’re all distracted and busy but you don’t get to try and sneak “swang” by us today.
NYT headline: These 15 Voters Swang Between Trump and Harris for Months. Here's What Decided Things.
November 5, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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petridishes.bsky.social
I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM
The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers. But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world. Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out. The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it. Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know. I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!
October 26, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
There will be a huge push, if we make it through this, to "look forward and heal the country" and I'm really.hoping that unlike 2009 and 2021 we go the other way and haul Bezos and Zuck and the other oligarchs in front of Congress to explain why he corruptly pulled strings for Trump
October 26, 2024 at 1:58 AM
the-punctuator.bsky.social
Pondering my orb*

*the three different meanings of the phrase "out of pocket"
October 22, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
“Male loneliness” is quickly becoming to 2024 what “economic anxiety” was in 2016: a euphemism meant to disguise a dominant group’s turn to Trump out of status and identity grievance as a kind of reaction to their supposed victimization. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/u...
The Evidence for a Big Youth Gender Gap and a Right Turn for Young Men
Young men are much more Republican than young women, the best data suggests, and may wind up backing Donald Trump.
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2024 at 1:17 AM
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stopproject25comic.bsky.social
Hi. We’re a group of comic book writers & artists who are furious about Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation’s plan to consolidate power under authoritarian rule. So we made a bunch of comics to explain their agenda and move you to vote against it. stopproject2025comic.org
Stop Project 2025 Comic
Trump's Project 2025 is a detailed plan to shut you up, and shut you out. Don’t let it do either. Read on, then vote.
stopproject2025comic.org
October 14, 2024 at 8:11 AM
the-punctuator.bsky.social
Gone, gone the form of man
Rise the demon Etrigan!
Etrigan, he's our man
If he can't do it, no one can!!
October 11, 2024 at 5:33 PM
the-punctuator.bsky.social
Overhearing a first date in which a man is interrogating his date about Flashpoint. Do I pull up a chair and join them?
September 18, 2024 at 5:42 AM
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katemckean.bsky.social
I just saw something about the Cambrian period and I thought it was related to the Oxford comma.
September 17, 2024 at 10:08 PM
the-punctuator.bsky.social
My origin story is that I sprung fully formed from Joe Spreadsheet's skull, like Athena.
philsalv.bsky.social Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · Sep 12
Just learned about the existence of Joe Spreadsheet, the beefcake 80s spreadsheet software mascot a la Mavis Beacon
A hunky dude with huge forearms and a mustache doing some paperwork. His name is Joe Spreadsheet, and this is his software.
September 13, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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edithcharles.bsky.social
When you've just used a semicolon correctly
Kim Yeji, olympic gold winning Korean markswoman
July 31, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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astrobailin.bsky.social
People keep saying "unprecedented" like there's never been an election when a Dem incumbent drops out , RFK is running, the Dem convention is in Chicago, there's an unpopular foreign war, and the Rep nominee is a crook who thinks he's above the law.
July 21, 2024 at 10:43 PM