Matthew Somoroff

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Editor (copy and developmental, academic/nonfiction). Music studies PhD, lifetime jazzhead. Associate director of the Institute for Advanced Columbo Studies. Queens (NY) native, Durham (NC) resident. He/him.

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ultimate reality

Funkadelic with Sly Stone - Funk Get's Stronger (Killer Millimeter Longer Version)youtu.be Autism and Recipes sample

wow so much going on in this interview (in a good way)

Sly and The Family Stone - July 13 1970youtu.be

yes, I use emojis in comments and queries to authors to convey tone and sometimes for congeniality. no, I'm not sorry about it.

theory about what makes this track so "funky": Sly sets a slow tempo and then subdivides the beat, constantly emphasizing the 16th notes with the figures played by the horns, drums, bass, etc. This approach is all over Fresh. Musicians who actually *play* funk, does this theory hold any water?

Thankful n' Thoughtfulwww.youtube.com Provided to YouTube by Epic/LegacyThankful n' Thoughtful · Sly & The Family StoneFresh℗ 1973 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music EntertainmentReleased on:...

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prominent winemom from the top rope

Ouch

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folks… we are juiceless we have lost the juice how could we lose out to Threads of all places on bullying the Times

Wow. @nytimes.com has closed their Threads account and left the platform after days of getting just shredded in the replies for their handling of Biden post debate. Now they're getting dog piled on Instagram for running from Threads.

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book

dude was clicking and expanding some of the memes so he could ponder them and really take them in, like he was looking at a complex painting or something

at the kids’ swim lesson, sitting in back of a dad holding his phone high and scrolling through one MAGA meme after another. he’s been doing this for at least 10 minutes straight

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MedSky folks! Needle-stick aftercare? Giving kitty her shot when she bolted, and I got myself through her skin. She's up on her shots, and her issues are only orthopedic (i.e., nothing bloodborne). I forced some blood and washed the wound. Anything else I can/should do here? Thanks in advance!

actually the musical ground covered from 1967’s A Whole New Thing to 1973’s Fresh is kind of mind-blowing. I realize I usually take it for granted in the typical hindsight perspective of looking back on historical events. but as it was happening, it must have been…phew

almost beyond belief that in the space of about 10 months Sly & the Family Stone went from LIFE to STAND!

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Gift link in first comment.

“More than a century later, many of the economic and social scars remain, along with an enduring, painful question: Who perished in the massacre?” www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/u...

Who Died in the Tulsa Race Massacre?www.nytimes.com After more than a century, researchers hope to finally identify the victims of one of the worst racial attacks in American history.

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"Today only 5.7% of physicians identify as Black, while Black people make up over 13% of the U.S. population. Similar gaps exist for Indigenous and Latinx populations. Increasing the number of Black primary care physicians by county leads to an increase in the life expectancy of Black patients."

Good health care is rooted in evidence. So is DEI.harvardpublichealth.org DEI in healthcare has become controversial, but it shouldn’t be. Evidence shows that patients benefit from doctors with the same background.

at the kids’ swim lesson, sitting in back of a dad holding his phone high and scrolling through one MAGA meme after another. he’s been doing this for at least 10 minutes straight

almost beyond belief that in the space of about 10 months Sly & the Family Stone went from LIFE to STAND!

man sometimes editing really makes my brain tired

I don’t understand, did the baked beans balaclava dude win the seat or was he just there?

really didn’t intend to post about the POTUS election but it just clicked in my brain: the panic about Biden assumes that voters who otherwise would have voted Biden might vote GOP because of “cognitive issues” but seriously do we think people who actually would vote DEM are going to change their—

“Agambian” doesn’t make sense to me. why not “Agambenian”?

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thinking about writing a manifesto about why sparing use of quotations in body text is an objective good in scholarly writing. said manifesto would, ironically, contain quotations from various nonfiction writing sages to support my views on the matter

I genuinely could not put this book down. Juggernaut plot with good character-building, and I was really struck by how @gabino.bsky.social seamlessly integrated horror elements into (very dark) noir.

Author: please give me your honest thoughts about whether this MS will fare well in peer review Me: my honest opinion is that if you make the revisions I’m suggesting, it will do better in peer review

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Get ready to celebrate Independence Day with this reading list on the history of the US Constitution 🇺🇸📚 uncpressblog.com/2024/07/03/c...

Celebrating Independence with the US Constitution - UNC Press Bloguncpressblog.com As we prepare for a day full of barbecues, fireworks, family, and friends, let's not forget the foundation upon which American independence rests: the US Constitution. Ratified on July 4th 1776 this d...

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Getting kind of Weimar-y

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"Tidier" and "more concise" are so often wrong for a narrative voice. It's more a matter of genre, style, etc., and besides, we now have AI to homogenize literature. 🫤 Most writing "rules" are made to be broken...it's just a matter of knowing when and how to break them.

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Announcing a FREE workshop for academic book authors on July 31, 1pm ET! We'll model ways to revise a book chapter efficiently, working from the biggest pieces to the smallest. Many of my editing clients love this method—come find out why! Fellow editors, you're welcome to join us! #AmEditing

Developmental Editors and U Presses--we want to help your authors produce standout research with less stress. This summer @allisonvandev.bsky.social and I are offering the best of what we have, FOR FREE 😄 Help us get the word out to your authors! Registration: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

a friend recently pointed out how cover copy for fiction titles is now an unreliable indication of what the book is actually about, and I gotta say I really see it on recently released books. gross misstatements of basic plot points, distorted takes on a books premise 😵‍💫

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻🎯🎯🎯

The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them

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Giving a shout out to a few of our Pitt Press family: Editorial Director @abbyscollier.bsky.social Senior Acquisitions Editor @umewmasa.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor @andcleverness.bsky.social Managing Editor @kellylynnthomas.bsky.social & Publicity Manager @lesleyrains.bsky.social (me)

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Normal people: enjoying their Sunday The WSJ: we gotta send out the push alert that says fuck the minorities.

So who’s “us”?

maybe next weekend…

need everything to stop and everyone to leave me alone so’s I can read this book dammit