This has lived rent-free in my head for over a week

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Asking for an actual friend: any mystery-focused book agents have open submissions right now?

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I sat down (ie went about my daily life intermittently sending lengthy text messages) with the great Tim Barnes.bsky.social for this extensive interview!! I hope you read it and subscribe to his excellent newsletter

Casting my biometric data to the wind to tell you I made trading cards of characters from 90’s alt rock songs and the only way to collect ‘em all is to subscribe to my free ‘sletter now

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I wrote about a classic Grateful Dead album to celebrate hitting a subscriber milestone. Never been a Dead fan despite looking like I oughta be.

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Later today in my free ‘sletter: a book 3 progress report

Tl;dr: I’m getting close to being close to… something

Can’t believe the AMPTP told a bunch of actors they’re not special and thought it would go over well

'They proposed that our background actors should be able to be scanned, get paid for one day's pay, and their company should own that scan, their image, their likeness and to be able to use it for the rest of eternity in any project they want with no consent and no compensation.'

That's a new one. They want to build their own libraries of background actors that exist in a computer. Nightmare shit.