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#1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Not an American.
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Half the population of Canada live south of Milan
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Ha! My experience with an extremely fluffy doodle makes me suspect it's not so much aesthetic as "YOU LET THOSE PEOPLE DO HORRIBLE THINGS TO ME"
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I'm aware. Warmer summers, too, I think?
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firstly he never wants that and secondly he's just had one
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not the small ones
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yes yes but their ancestors did and cats are not that far removed from their wild cousins in the way dogs are,
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lot of cute pet stories in response to this but I don't really understand how any of these creatures ever functioned in the wild
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that's lovely
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He has, though he eats less when he's uncomfortable so obviously I am low-key worried he's dying again
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Heatherwick
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my god I loathe him
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I didn't say otherwise. But am not gonna spend the day defending points I didn't make sorry
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Fair play, forgot that line. But that's me looking on the bright side. If you read "I don't think AI will replace me personally" with "AI IS FUCKING BRILLIANT" then that's a comprehension problem.
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I'm not celebrating it, I literally say that it's bad, you've just misunderstood my argument
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okay but you have a great dog who needs you
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it isn't big James that's the point
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there's really no nice way of saying "fuck off my soul isn't that cheap"
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...they once offered me a hundred quid to turn a tweet into a piece. Cheap fuckers
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didn't think to even check the bio before asking that huh
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I sort of like having done it - a professional actor would give a cleaner read, but wouldn't necessarily get the intonation I want for some of the jokes? But on the other hand it is a knackering and boring job and having done it three times I feel no particular enthusiasm for the actual reading
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making it easier to sublet while I [checks notes] complete my undergraduate at NYU
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I suspect it's because it's quite a long and tiring job and they offered him an actor
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thank you! hope you enjoy
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thanks! hope you enjoy
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Which is... not what you necessarily want to hear
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Not just in free online stuff, either. Last autumn agent, publisher and I were wandering round Waterstones Piccadilly in search of inspiration for the new book, and publisher looked really freaked out and started mutering, "God, there are a LOT of books these days, aren't there? Bloooody hell"
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well do you
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what will you tell your children when they ask why you didn't