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"Veracity is subordinate to effect. A beautiful lie beats serviceable truth every time." - Laird Barron (on fiction)

Gods DAMN.

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There's a flood of new followers lately that's just an account with a profile pic of a model and no activity. Any ideas how to block this bot bullshit?

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Lifelong goal achieved today. A duck came swooping low over the water at the Chinese Gardens, heading straight for the person next to me. I finally got to yell, "DUCK!" and mean *both* definitions simultaneously. Bucket list item ✔️

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Ah, but if a story didn't have to end this way but was always going to, then you really have a tragedy.

"This story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way."

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"This story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way."

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It's impossible to know how much your hands weigh AND keep your hands.

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Her: Who's your favourite vampire?

Me: The one from Sesame Street

Her: He doesn't count

Me: I assure you he does

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I think I might write my next book in black and white. More gravitas, you know?

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#Maximo update

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If you want to try my stuff for free, you can get the ePub of Shadow Bites by clicking below. This is a sampler including a complete novella, three complete short stories, and sample chapters from six of my novels. #Horror #ComeGetSome

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🤘😝🤘

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In a world where capitalism thrives on conformity, be weird.

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My usual barber was closed so I went to a different place. Sitting in the chair and the barber's doing the usual chit chat, asks me what I do for a living. I give him the short version and he says, "Wow, that's cool!" Then there's a silence that needs filling. So I say, "How about yourself?"

"Errr... I'm a barber."

I fucking hate small talk.

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Punctuation - for example, titles in quotes - is SO important.

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I fucking love Minecraft and have my 9yo to thank for that. You can see my world on Patreon if you're interested.

i definitely think minecraft won't be the game for everyone in the end and that's just how things are no problem but i do think *some* people who don't get the hype of it just need to play with their friends and build a house with them. its also for doing things like this.

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Let your activism be irreversible accumulative damage far worse than spray paint.

In the town where I grew up, there was a large statue in one of the parks, of a famous historical white colonizer. I'm not going to say who specifically, suffice it to say that it was someone who wasn't worth memorializing for their deeds. And as you can imagine, this statue was a frequent target of vandalism, with paint or toilet paper or eggs on multiple occasions. Now, the local council was generally pretty lax when it came to repairing potholes or other public damage in the town, but every time, 24 hours after this particular statue was hit, the same person would always appear in a Hi-Vis vest, hat, mask and sunglasses, carrying a bucket of water, and wash it clean. They would do it as quickly as possible, but always made sure the face and the name carved at the bottom were generously scrubbed. This only encouraged people to do it again, and so it became a vicious cycle.

Within a year, the statue had sustained so much damage that it was unrecognizable and the lettering unreadable, so eventually the council came and took it down. Also apparently, the person in the Hi-Vis vest didn't even work for the council. They were supposedly just some 'good samaritan' who cleaned it, often before the council even discovered it needed cleaning, so they just let them do it and ignored the problem. They didn't bother putting the statue up again.

Much later, we found out that the anonymous 'samaritan' had been deliberately washing the statue with a bucket of saltwater, which had dramatically corroded it, causing irreversible accumulative damage far worse than spray paint ever would have done. It's even theorized that they were also often the one spray-painting it, just so that they had an excuse to come back after a day to wash it.