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Author of NOS4A2, Heart-Shaped Box, and other family favorites. Co-creator of Locke & Key (along with maestro Gabriel Rodriguez). Let's do a better job lookin after the kids: www.sandyhookpromise.org

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Was working on a text and laboriously typed "Siouxsie and the Banshees" only to watch helplessly as autocorrect changed "Siouxsie" to "Susie" and all of a sudden I want to burn all of Silicon Valley to the ground. That's not an overreaction is it?

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surged 48%. for a mass plagiarism tool that tells you to eat rocks and glue.

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Oh man I love Soul Coughing so much.

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Never did bag my dream job: writing the captions for the photos in Fango.

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I just watched an autocorrect change my "These are SO good" to the perhaps slightly different "These are no good." It's all going to end not with a bang but with a wimple.

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People will really yell at you if you suggest AI models should pay for a license to all the works they ingest and cite their sources in their answers. I think it’s in part bc they believe in the magic of a machine intelligence. But we see more and more undeniable examples of straight up copying.

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The term “main character syndrome” might’ve been coined to describe Marjorie Taylor Greene.

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I’ve been taking a selfie once a week for six weeks now to track the progress of my beard growth and thought it was time to share.

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“The remedy for loneliness is in learning to admit solitude as one admits the bayonet: gracefully, now that already it pierces the heart.” —Denis Johnson, “The White Fires of Venus”

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Thanks again for the pen. I wrote a whole bunch of a story called "The Dinner Bell" with it.

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I hate that I feel this way, but I don't believe the public interest would be served by a debate between these two. But then Donald Trump doesn't come to these events to debate: he shows up to threaten, lie, sputter, contort his orange face, stalk about, and filibuster over his opponent. Pass.

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(I'm not posting these quotes for any particular reason, aside from the fact that I like them, and felt the need to share them. Nice and chewy.)

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Related thought: The bad news is bad news about us, not just about other people. - Francis Spufford, Unapologetic.

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When you're having a moral feeling, self-congratulation is never far behind. - Claire Dederer, Monsters.

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I've found it hard going -- the ladies just come in for such a brutal time, episode after episode.

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Oh thanks for this. Yes—hell of a show.

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Can anyone identify the painting—it might be of Lancelot and Gwennie—in #BadSisters, Ep 5?

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I admit it, I laughed, my sense of humor is not sophisticated, see my last 8,007 posts for the proof.

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Diet tip: Always eat your custard in a hurry. Nutritionists agree--time waits for no flan.

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The transcription process is another opportunity to reconsider each line, each moment—it’s a chance to rewrite as you go. It’s actually kind of magical.

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I gave it a try because @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com suggested I give it a whirl. I wound up writing all 900 pages of The Fireman in longhand. 9 great big Leuchtturm journals.

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Also, I know I have an omen-haunted brain—that I’m absurdly prone to believing the universe is sending me signals. But I worked longhand yesterday morning and then in the evening, at a Michael Koryta event, a stranger gave me a beautiful fountain pen. That seemed non-random.

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Oh I love that. I’m going to start referring to Gandalf time.

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My inexpensive Lamy fountain pen.

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The last story I wrote longhand was “Rain” & then I quit working that way for years. Yesterday I went back to the pen & it was such a pleasure I wonder why I stopped. But I know why: I told myself it was faster to begin on the computer. Only it’s not true! It takes exactly the same amount of time.

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Despite the timing, not an April Fools Day bit, I am actually doing this if all y'all support the Locus fundraiser, which is in its final couple of days. So please: make me write a story and help Locus stay on its feet!

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AI feels like a real mania, a genuine collective break from reality among the ruling class. They might as well be pouring billions of dollars into an attempt to replace all jobs and knowledge with a large bronze idol of Dagon.

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I have four VIP Tier-1 tickets for Taylor Swift in Lisbon on Saturday 5/25 that I need to sell. The app will release tickets on 5/11, so I won't be able to transfer them until then, so anyone wanting to buy them would have to trust me. Reach out.

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On a Saturday afternoon in winter, when nose and fingers might be pinched enough to give an added relish to the anticipation of tea and fireside, and the whole weekend’s reading lay ahead, I suppose I reached as much happiness as is ever to be reached on earth. - C.S. Lewis

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You bet. Long as I get a copy.

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(with my last breath as I lay dying of smallpox to my 11 year old son who just returned from the mines) save the drainpipes

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Paul, it’s like you dreamed up a comic just for me.

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MYSTERIOUS STRANGER: *hands woman box* If you press this button, someone you don't know dies WOMAN: Ok *presses button* STRANGER: Whoa, I didn't even tell you about the money WOMAN: I can't afford to pay much STRANGER: No, you don't pay WOMAN: Oh good *presses button again* STRANGER: Jesus Christ

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Trying to decide if I need this. Have you seen The Book? Extraordinary.

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I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years. - Lewis, Surprised by Joy. I love that. Your thoughts are so BIG when you’re twelve or thirteen. Every insight and realization feels momentous.

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$9.95. That’s a lot of toy for under ten bucks.

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The Seattle Museum of Pop Culture has deemed our movie worth representing and holy shit what an honor.

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It’s crazy to think about how many alt-right Twitter clones now exist in the wild: Gab, Truth Social, Parler, and of course X.

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