Colleen Barry

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Copy editor (ProPublica, FiveThirtyEight, ESPN), baker, cross stitcher, cat furniture. she/her

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Last night I watched “Gladiator” for the first time and it made me want to watch a good movie about Romans, so “Hail, Caesar!” it is.

For once he is sleeping sweetly next to me while I read instead of attempting to nap on my book.

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Hot gout summer in Boston, I guess

BREAKING: Sometimes Dottie sleeps like this.

You say eggcorn, I say upgraded idiom.

Lately, when he's feeling energetic, my husband will say he is "full of bees." I told him that the saying is "full of beans," but according to him, that doesn't make sense. Just now he is attempting to do a task he's put off for a year because he "has the bees" to do it.

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If you ever pick up prescription stuff at Petco stores, be warned that they now require you to make an appointment at their store clinic to get a “verification card” before they will sell to you. PetSmart will still let you use a copy of a prescription from your vet.

Is Jeff Goldblum actually hot or are 40-year-olds just horny for the ’90s? Discuss.

I’m a simple human adult and all I want is a small parade whenever I successfully handle my most hated responsibilities.

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Over the weekend, I found a tiny pink plastic shoe on the ground near my office. I placed it at eye level, on a wooden post, by the stairs. This morning, on that same post, was this picture.

Earlier I remembered that the Lonely Island Bash Brothers thing existed so now I am once again losing it at Sterling K. Brown as Sia.

Do not tell my mom that I sometimes take pictures on a moving bike.

The “Equalizer” movies are set in 2004 even though they came out in the 2010s and were meant to be current at the time, I cannot explain this but it is nonetheless true.

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Anyone who has done any relief printing can empathize with how I feel about this stock image. www.alamy.com/stock-photo-...

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It’s hard to beat a good Manhattan.

Rye manhattan at the local whiskey concern

Strongly recommend going to any fair/market/pop-up event near you and buying cool stuff from local artists.

Today a specialist vet told me to let my elderly cat “set her own limits” for what she wanted to eat and do. Lady, you know what this visit costs, you ought to be able to guess that Dottie is already the boss of this household.

Opening this app again after watching a movie feels very troy walking into blazing room dot gif

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Look I cannot recommend a better way to improve your life than going to the local animal shelter and asking, “what is the nicest cat you have” and then adopting them, especially if they are plain and old

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Oh thank you for the correction Grammarly I was going to write “the Chumash people traditionally smudged during ceremonies” now I will write “the Chumash people traditionally streaked during ceremonies”

Hello! Not only does Grammarly steal your work to train it's bot, but now it tells you lies and tells you to pay if you want the 'correct' suggestion. This example came from someone else. Get this shit off your phones and delete it from your computers.

Every time I exercise and feel better afterwards I get mad all over again. Why must my body always ruin my brain-in-a-box dreams? Anyway I think I’m a bike weirdo now.

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fun massachusetts fact: when you see this sign, you are actually traveling east

A lot of unrealistic (but fun) things happen in “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,” but by far the most unrealistic thing is someone telling a normal human man, “You’re too pretty for me,” and then turning to literally Henry Golding and saying, “Now you, on the other hand …”

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I know being a grammar and spelling pedant is classist and shitty but I still want to beg the denizens of Facebook gardening groups (and possibly autocorrect in all its forms) to understand that “perennial” and “perineal” are two very different words.

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Me restraining my cat while accepting my pizza delivery.

It’s a fantastic day for snail mail at my house! Linocuts by @vilain.bsky.social, game by @kenlowery.bsky.social.

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I will die on the hill of: The word “that” is more necessary than many writers and editors seem to think

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"Yeah I guess you could say I'm a... member of the second oldest profession" -- Guy about to sell you some really bad copper ingots

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i feel like this ad copy needs a little more workshopping