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@[email protected] Author, THE FRIENDLY ORANGE GLOW (Pantheon, 2017) http://amzn.to/2ol9Lu6 In Santa Fe NM New Writing Project in 2025 Music: https://confusionboats.bandcamp.com Fmr startup founder/CEO LBXD: https://letterboxd.com/brianstorms_
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Imagine if Louisiana banned the companies that have created Cancer Alley instead, and ordered them to do a full cleanup of the site. Nah, I know, The Stupid doesn't work that way. www.newsweek.com/louisiana-pi...

The new police procedural DEPT. Q on Netflix seems ... good.

Holy crap. Never thought this day would come. A new #STEREOLAB album! Plus, it's available on #Bandcamp! #music stereolab.bandcamp.com/album/instan...

The heck with "Verified" checkmarks. What I'd like to see instead is @Bluesky implement a "Paywall Alert" on all posts. If someone is sharing a link to something that requires payment in order to read, then put some indicator like this up in the corner of the post:

Presenting my "Ooh-Cat Theory." Remember the ooh-cat, from the PUSS IN BOOTS movies? Of course you do. This is the problem with society. Everyone has become an ooh-cat, addicted to/reacting to outrages every second in social media, but never taking any action. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

AppleTV+'s new Murderbot show is surprisingly unoriginal and only so-so amusing. Though, corporations right about now are probably shaking their heads up and down like that Jack Nicholson gif at the portrayal of Murderbot's contempt for humans/customers, and taking notes for future, er, operations.

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No idea what triggered last month's spike in sales of my 2017 book THE FRIENDLY ORANGE GLOW, but thank you, and please, go right ahead and keep purchasing it--and reading it! 🙏😍 Anyone interested in signed, mint copies of the rare hardcover edition, I still have some--DM me for purchase details