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i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests

- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact

I always write a brief outline. And then I deviate from it in a few chapters. But it's comforting while it lasts :)

Neil Young says: “Untruths are abounding on Fox. New York Times used to be where I went for news. Now I go to The Guardian."

Same for me. The Guardian is far from perfect, but it's *way* better than the NYT or any other US news outlet.

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Congratulations!

Absolute nonsense. Young people have fallen out of love with an advocate of hatred.

Nice!

And whose column won't get picked up either :)

Hard to imagine anyone voluntarily watching that.

That Other American Tolkien When I was a child, the novels of Fritz Leiber were way more important to me than The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings. If anything Tolkien was the British Leiber

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This is definitely true for me. Leiber was a terrific influence, both as a fantasy writer and an sf writer. Genius, and now virtually out of print.

Leiber was great! My favorite writer when I was a kid. Somewhat dated now, of course, but still brilliant. Of course, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are fun, if retrogressive, but Our Lady of Darkness is a superb, pioneering work too.

Quote skeet a gif with a clue of where you’re from…

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My novella Pâtissier et Étranger is now up on NetGalley. Currently scheduled for publication on February 10. I'd be delighted by any ratings or reviews.

This is a mashup of baking drama, spy thriller, and science fiction set in Paris in 1967.

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Story acceptance!

Absolutely. Of course, under even a biased and distorted reading of the emoluments clause, Trump should have been impeached at least a dozen times by now....

Perhaps they had their own sessile civilizations....

Wow. Last year, all these fancy intellectual European accounts started following me. Of course, I followed them back. Now I know why I don't see any of their posts.

Thinking about how bsky has the most horrible setting turned on by default that says "i don't want to see any other languages except English" and if no one tells you to put it on "no selection" you straight up won't see posts from people set to different languages on your TL.

Plainly yes, because guidelines don't say "never use AI for other things". That said, if I were an editor it sure would bias my attitude toward the work, but hopefully not prejudice it.

(from the legal principle that everyone is biased, but you should reject prejudice)

Rem acu tetigisti. Well said, PM.

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

Tired: philanthropy
Wired: 90% top marginal tax rates

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Got to be careful at the destination, too.... My mother is in Tenerife for a week of rain and 15C weather.

Deadly Sex Mistake Could Be KILLING Seniors

Deadly Sex Mistake will be the name of my next band.

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Xipe Totec November 15, 2021. A new dwarf planet has been discovered in our solar neighbourhood. It was given the provisional name Xipe Totec. It has gone unnoticed due to its small size and complex orbit, bu…

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