If you want something to lift your spirits today. Former sitcom writer and current absolute prick of a TERF and fascist Gl*nner had a new book out in the last week. It sold 390 copies, including pre-sales. - ThreadSky

teddypasketti.bsky.social•498 days ago

Yeah, but to be fair, evvvvverybody loves dinosaurs around the world.

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spinny.bsky.social•498 days ago

While checking my sources, I discovered RationalWiki had summarized him thusly, which made me cackle.

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spinny.bsky.social•498 days ago

...how? Library sales alone should have been a few thousand.

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skywitches.net•498 days ago

Librarians in much of the English-speaking world are currently under orders to ditch *any* works that touch on LGBTQ *at all*

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tithegirl.bsky.social•498 days ago

libraries are incredibly under funded, they don’t stock all books and if this one performed this poorly i would bet it’s hasn’t been requested anywhere

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publiusmaximus.bsky.social•494 days ago

He's a bigot, and also transphobic. But is he a TERF? Do we have any evidence of his feminism?

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lamhfada.bsky.social•494 days ago

TERFS are feminist in the way the DPRK is a democratic republic.

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publiusmaximus.bsky.social•494 days ago

TERF doesn't just mean "transphobic", though. TERFs believe that women are an inherently oppressed class and that men are inherently oppressors.

To say that Lind is a TERF is to say that he holds those beliefs.

Otherwise he's just a sparkling transphobic asshole.

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eddsteel.com•494 days ago

Yes, he claims his transphobia is to protect those he considers to be women from predators.

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heyrodney.bsky.social•494 days ago

Sparkling transphobic asshole sent me into orbit😂😂😂

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sazeracla.bsky.social•494 days ago

It hasn't exactly caught on, but I've preferred the term FART: Feminism-appropriating reactionary transphobe.

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helenstirlinglane.bsky.social•498 days ago

But I thought he was the Terf-Master General

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vtuberyubel.bsky.social•498 days ago

common wordsearch W

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phorenzik.bsky.social•498 days ago

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theunorthodox.bsky.social•498 days ago

I can’t believe anyone bought it, but it sure is nice to see him failing

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rine.bsky.social•498 days ago

Probably the only people who did are in his hate-cult, which given how few actually sold I feel has a bit to say about the volume vs numbers of that group.

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fingertrouble.bsky.social•497 days ago

Oh you mean the GCs I engage with here and on Twitter are lying about being the majority? MUCH SURPRISE.

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ianwolf.bsky.social•497 days ago

My book, "CLAMPdown" only sold around 200 copies, but that's mainly due to me only printing about 200 copies due to the amount I reached on my Kickstarter. I'm cool with that, but it's always nice to see my sales double just in vague hope I could pass this TERF tosser. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1914170318

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jackalpants.bsky.social•498 days ago

Where did you get the data on this? I can verify that currently in the amazon uk store he's outside the top 1,000 kindle books, but I can't find sales data on either of those other books. Like it's clear it's not done very well, but where did you hear this?

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lamhfada.bsky.social•498 days ago

Source is popbitch's newsletter, don't think it's on their website yet.

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jackalpants.bsky.social•498 days ago

Awesome thank you! It was driving me bananas and I so wanted it to be true I was worried it was a bit overblown

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fingertrouble.bsky.social•497 days ago

Turns out Simon Edge (oh dear didn't know he was a TERF) and Glinner have been mistaking books shipped with actual sales. Guessing the Popbitch figure is actual physical books.. But Glinner is absent from the Top 25 Autiobio lists and it's not the sell out some are claiming.

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jackalpants.bsky.social•497 days ago

Hah, nice

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fingertrouble.bsky.social•497 days ago

Screen grab from the latest Popbitch email

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drflob.bsky.social•498 days ago

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aswineofculture.bsky.social•498 days ago

we can definitely get those numbers up!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CFZQBSRF/ref=x_gr_bb_amazon

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vegetablegremlin.bsky.social•498 days ago

im doing my part https://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Around-World-Coloring-coloring/dp/B0CFZQBSRF

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vegetablegremlin.bsky.social•498 days ago

scratch that. looks like an AI-generated coloring book. welp

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mattfromchicago.bsky.social•498 days ago

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vegetablegremlin.bsky.social•498 days ago

amazingly "how nobody wanted to hear from me anymore" did not fly off the shelves

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mjfgates.bsky.social•498 days ago

Losing to dinosaurs is not dishonorable. Sure, being Glumper *is* dishonorable, but plenty of okay people lose out to dinosaurs too.

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periquito8.bsky.social•494 days ago

TBF he did say he lost his career

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actioncookbook.com•498 days ago

he did say he lost the career…

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kingslib.bsky.social•498 days ago

it's unironically so funny that he ruined his entire life because he couldn't stop being a hateful, bigoted bastard

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acidcorbyn.bsky.social•497 days ago

Riley’s Law: “once you post transphobia you never post normally again”

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julesprom.bsky.social•498 days ago

If rumors are to be believed he got turned down by a transfem and that’s what caused this

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skywitches.net•498 days ago

🤢🤮

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rivercavy.bsky.social•498 days ago

Oooh that has cheered me up greatly. I have decided to believe this fact even if it isn’t true.

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garrettlep.bsky.social•498 days ago

I'm dying 🤣

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smilodonichthys.bsky.social•497 days ago

oooh dinosaur coloring book

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skreee.bsky.social•498 days ago

Omg, I loudly *gasped* when I read this just now. Thank you, this is incredibly cheering!

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dorkphoenix.bsky.social•498 days ago

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zyntaks.ca•498 days ago

awh, i didn't know the IT crowd writer was a terf :(

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lamhfada.bsky.social•498 days ago

Oh he's been a raging TERF, bully, homophobe and online creep for years now.

So transphobic his wife and kids left him.

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btnboy.bsky.social•498 days ago

Hah get fucked. And take Ayoade’s recommendation with ya.

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absolutelyok.bsky.social•498 days ago

discovering this about richard ayoade has ruined my day. i hope it's just british professionalism or something, but still not any sort of excuse. damn it

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lamhfada.bsky.social•498 days ago

No he's burnt his bridges.

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fingertrouble.bsky.social•497 days ago

British professionalism is no excuse, I mean Glinner is a totally toxic brand, or Brand *cough* in UK comedy and Richard would have known that. I sort of get he might feel duty cos of IT Crowd but even then it makes zero sense.

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lamhfada.bsky.social•497 days ago

He could simply have stayed quiet, but he chose what he did. No respect for him because of that.

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madeleineswann.bsky.social•493 days ago

That disappointed me so much

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dean-tane.bsky.social•498 days ago

Richard Ayoade tanked his career for this? lmao

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tomciancaglini.bsky.social•498 days ago

Not a total loss, since he’s also featured as one of the coloring book dinosaurs.

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jamesw228.bsky.social•497 days ago

Turns out it's not just his ex wife and former colleagues who think he's a cunt

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3fecta.bsky.social•498 days ago

Dinosaurs around the world sounds like a fun read though to be fair.

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arewenotben.bsky.social•498 days ago

L M A O

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reverendjesus.com•498 days ago

I hate that he made two of my favorite shows.

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acekatana.bsky.social•498 days ago

Astounding

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baj.bsky.social•498 days ago

If you are a professional writer, and you decide to alienate your existing fans and endear yourself to a cohort of assholes, you should probably check to make sure they're not ILLITERATE assholes first.

There's always vitamin supplements!

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boubayaga.bsky.social•497 days ago

In Glinners defence, Dinosaurs Around The World goes hard!

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8letters.co.uk•493 days ago

Oh no. Where is my tiny violin when I need it.

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nostikvvvibes.bsky.social•498 days ago

You would think JK Rowling would have bought a bunch to bump the numbers.

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seentoomuch.bsky.social•498 days ago

My first thought too. But I guess being bigotry buddies only goes so far.

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irishwol.bsky.social•496 days ago

Most of the GC crowd don't like him either because he centres himself, thinks he's the saviour of all women and is more than a bit creepy. That and he keeps asking them for money.

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ilmariwalker.bsky.social•498 days ago

the thing is, the GCs don’t like Glinny either, because he is an emarassment.

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rewhan.bsky.social•498 days ago

Unfortunately for hambone, JKR's loyalty lies with herself and nobody else.

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irishwol.bsky.social•496 days ago

I think she definitely donates to Maya, worse luck.

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hvillealrailfan.bsky.social•498 days ago

Don't forget about the myth of the "silent majority" as well. Wouldn't be surprised if JK and others didn't think they'd need to tip the scales as they like to pretend their views are somehow actually extremely popular.

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nostikvvvibes.bsky.social•498 days ago

Yeah but she could use them as stocking stuffers for Christmas.

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rewhan.bsky.social•498 days ago

Bold of you to suggest she still has people to send Crimbo gifts too

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nostikvvvibes.bsky.social•498 days ago

passive aggressive christmas gift

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lamhfada.bsky.social•498 days ago

@alt-text.bsky.social

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alt-text.bsky.social•498 days ago

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kithrup.bsky.social•498 days ago

Oooh the dinosaur book sounds interesting.

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fingertrouble.bsky.social•497 days ago

Was that really worth Richard Ayoade and Jonathan Ross upsetting so many LGBTQ fans and allies? Whole thing is a hot mess.

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lamhfada.bsky.social•497 days ago

Jonathan Ross's wife has been a very vocal TERF for years, that's not surprising.

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fingertrouble.bsky.social•497 days ago

Did now know that :-(

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fingertrouble.bsky.social•497 days ago

*not

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transmorpherdds.bsky.social•498 days ago

You'd think he would just pay someone to buy a bunch of copies to sneak it onto the sales charts, like politicians do.

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koruandthistle.bsky.social•497 days ago

He’s broke 😆

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timblue.bsky.social•498 days ago

While this would be delightful it seems ... unlikely. What's your source?

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fingertrouble.bsky.social•497 days ago

Popbitch apparently. They don't lie, cf Private Eye, usually on the money.

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lostinberkeley.bsky.social•498 days ago

Whomever told him to write a book just wanted to see him fail harder and I salute them.

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listentocrass.lesbian.cat•497 days ago

Also given the fact that loads of bigots and far right people buy their own books in bulk to give away at events in order to artificially inflate their numbers, gl*nner is either too stupid or too broke to even do that

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skipai.bsky.social•497 days ago

Okay, failure to sell more copies than a large print for visually impaired as there isn't that many... Okay about 3-5 million in the UK is actually pathetic.

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hlkfotos.com•498 days ago

This seems too good to be true?! Incredible.

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hlkfotos.com•498 days ago

Of course, dinosaurs are fucking rad.

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papango.bsky.social•498 days ago

It's the large type word search book that gets me. Hardcopy word search fans who don't have glasses or a reading magnifying glass is a pretty small niche, but not the smallest audience, it turns out.

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joeartguy.bsky.social•497 days ago

hey @bitterkarella.bsky.social news to laugh about

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cabridges.bsky.social•498 days ago

I wonder how many of those 390 are in his garage right now.

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sewunicorn.bsky.social•498 days ago

Probably 389.

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lamhfada.bsky.social•498 days ago

At a conservative guess, 25%

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guyver3x.bsky.social•498 days ago

My favourite bit of this is Glinner sucking shit

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jhb.bsky.social•498 days ago

Dinosaur Supremacy 🦖🌎🦕

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gregbaldino.bsky.social•498 days ago

Shocking! Didn't he do that one show with the two idiots and the ditzy lady they know? And the other show with the two idiots and the ditzy lady they know? And that one other show, the one with the ditzy lady and the two idiots she knows? Who wouldn't want to read the life story of that guy?

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simomo.bsky.social•497 days ago

Lmao damn you're right

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ilmariwalker.bsky.social•498 days ago

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alistairoliver.bsky.social•498 days ago

Is he going to watch it get pulped?

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tashldn.bsky.social•492 days ago

Think the dinosaur colouring book would be doing an even better ratio if books bought by their own author were taken out of the count…

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poesmyaa.bsky.social•498 days ago

Maybe Gl*nner can beg JKR to put her name on the book in a desperate attempt to sell more copies.

I've run into him on twitter a few times, can't imagine a more vile person. With how abusive and dangerous Gl*nner is towards trans folks, I'm delighted to see his book flop.

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gothmusiclatam.bsky.social•498 days ago

The dinosaur coloring book was absolutely the more engaging read.

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geographer.bsky.social•498 days ago

Lol you love to see it. Just wondering, is this full article somewhere or is it in someone's Substack/newsletter. I'd love to share the good news.

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lamhfada.bsky.social•498 days ago

Source is Popbitch newsletter, I think they usually have their latest newsletters updated to their site in a day or so.

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imaculthero.bsky.social•498 days ago

Is this the one Richard Ayoade pissed away his reputation for?

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cakeandcrows.bsky.social•498 days ago

:)

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drcarpineti.bsky.social•498 days ago

And ayoade ruining his reputation for this is even funnier now

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rrrowdy.bsky.social•497 days ago

I'm pretty sure if I wrote a book, I could convince at least 400 of you to buy it.

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arkle.bsky.social•494 days ago

My personal Tumblr has more than twice as many followers than that.

And my Incorrect Star Trek Voyager Quotes blog has almost ten times.

This makes me feel better about my week.

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adw.bsky.social•498 days ago

Nice 😎

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mikekeating.bsky.social•498 days ago

does the UK not have the "buying up massive quantities of your own book so you dont look like a fringe weirdo" practice that the US does?

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davemayhem.bsky.social•498 days ago

You need money to do that and by all accounts he’s skint.

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samanthah.me•498 days ago

Hence the book … 😂

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davemayhem.bsky.social•498 days ago

The only thing he’ll ever get is the advance. Fir a book like that it was never gonna be gold buckets of diamonds dumped at his front door.

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malachitetiger.bsky.social•498 days ago

I'm honestly a little surprised it wasn't vanity press

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jaster.bsky.social•494 days ago

Ohhh that's absolutely priceless 😁

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inferknow.co•495 days ago

My guy failed to account for just how HARD Dinosaurs Around the World slaps.

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dariaphoebe.com•498 days ago

I mean, why would I need to read this, when he’s spent the last several years repeatedly telling me what’s in the book.

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lamhfada.bsky.social•498 days ago

Fair, I imagine even those awful people who follow him on twitter know what he'd say.

I think he has some twisted dark side patreon thing where at least some people do pay him regularly, but prob not enough for a good seller.

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