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Cyberpunk author exploring the violent intersection of technology and humanity. Tech nerd, gamer, exhausted father. Always down to talk writing and/or Weekend at Bernie's 1 & 2. Austin, TX danielverastiqui.com
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Day 37 of correcting LinkedIn ads.

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You can stop staying “only in theaters.” I’m still not going outside.

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I do not like that Michelle Trachtenberg has passed. I’ll always remember her as 1/2 of the worst twins ever. Boo to this. Boo, I say.

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LPT: always have a goal in mind before starting a workout. Today’s goal is a double Whataburger with cheese, jalapeños, and no gross, empty-calorie onions. 🍔

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The older I get, the more I love sleeping, which I imagine is preparing me for something, but I don’t know what.

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The call is coming from inside the house.

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It was fun being a full-time author for a while, but since my family can't live on one Whataburger combo a month, I went and found myself another full-time job. If Elon Musk has recently laid you off, here are some tips / things that worked in my job search. Good luck! #OpenToWork

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Moving mad books this month. Guess all those wishes I’ve been making at 12:34 every day are finally paying off.

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The Science Fiction / Fantasy shelves at my usual bookstores are shrinking by the day. I can't imagine what will happen if I ever get my wish to separate SF into its own genre where it belongs. It'll just be Neuromancer, 27 Star Wars books, and a worn copy of 1984 on an endcap with Deadpool funkos.

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Been fighting this ding dong for SEO supremacy for decades, and now he pulls this? For shame, uglier me!

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"I can't cancel my Amazon account; I would lose access to all of my Kindle books!" - some marketing intern (now board member), years ago, probably.

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We (read: I) make too many concessions to Amazon in pursuit of self-publishing success. KU just happens to be the worst of it. Bad for us. Bad for readers. But always good for Amazon. Anyway, if you want to read my #cyberpunk novels "for free," you should hurry: danielverastiqui.com/amazon #fwiw

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One day Pandora is finally going to update their iPhone app and it’s going to give all us older folks a heart attack.

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It's a crisp, beautiful Saturday morning here in Texas, and I'm wondering what's to stop Trump from pressuring Bezos to remove "banned books" from amazon.com. I mean, nothing really... right? Anyway, happy Saturday!

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Orange Theory in your mid-40s is basically just figuring out how to exercise around the new injuries you earned in the previous class.

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Y'all better buy my books, or you're not getting any federal funding.

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Oh, you’ll see me in court? You think the judiciary is your ally, but you merely adopted the court. I was born in it, molded by it.

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LPT: shirt pockets are great places to hide a handful of Runts.

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Me at one of RFK’s “wellness farms.”

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Would you kindly stop going backward, America?

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I promise I’m a real writer.

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There's only one king, and he works at S-MART. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart.

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It was cold and flatulent at Orange Theory this morning, my friends. ❄️🍊💨

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ChatGPT needs an update.

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February 19th, 2025. Afternoon. It is so very cold. I fear I will never sweat again. What shall become of my flippy floppies?

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I don’t really know what it does but the nerd in me is jazzed about this.

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Please support my Kickstarter “Figure Out How to Aim the Asteroid at Elon.”

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Guy at Kohls gave me his 15% off coupon that he couldn’t use and I’m glad to see society is finally healing.

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Favorite pastimes include standing in the middle of my room looking around repeating "I just had it!"

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Winter storm warning? I’ll believe it when Ted Cruz touches down in Cancun.

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I am a specialized hacker, and have succeeded in hacking your operation system.

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Fun fact: the official city motto of Pflugerville, Texas is “oh great, another mattress store!”

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Also my fellow Gen Xer wife never listened to Boyz II Men as a teen, and now I’m not confident she even knows what love is anyway Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Been sending “tell your wife I said happy Valentine’s Day; she’ll know what that means” texts to my friends all day and it’s the best time I’ve had in a while.

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I am on a mission to block Meta's crawling of my website but I can't seem to figure it out on a hosted ghost.org instance. Give me the robots.txt or let me configure a firewall. Something.

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Sometimes book reviews from Goodreads don't automatically push to Amazon and we call those times "awesome."

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Sell directly to your readers and cut out the middle-oligarch.

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The price-per-page to print books on demand needs to be cheaper! (This may only benefit me personally, but 2025 is the year of "Me and Only Me First.")

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Just give us all your medical information. It's not like we're going to... do... anything with it.

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"Every book sale is a surprise" has been my writing career vibe for the last twenty years.

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Like you, I've been writing for a long time, but I still produce sentences like this: > Lee considered the offer, considering the deputy himself, his considerable girth and defeated posture, and the way his hair fell in stringy curls [...] Pulitzer Prize stuff for sure, all things... considered.

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Been scrolling YouTube shorts for fifteen minutes and still haven’t heard a human voice yet.

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Did you mean cowardice?

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They put Letterkenny actors in Venom 3 and now I can’t take this fine piece of cinema seriously.

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