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you’ll be SORRY when I’m gone (opens the original)
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As I have the cognitive capability and energy of a snail right now, I am only consuming trash. Therefore I am off the Jason Arday story and onto the Natalie Harp story. Did you know that Donald Trump likes to have a young woman hanging off his arm? That breaks the habit of a lifetime, for sure, and shows us a new side of a man who—oh, fuck it, who is surprised? The angle here is that she seems to like him back, and a little too much for comfort, writing him letters and running after him.Is Harp
Jason Arday and the identity trap (opens the original)
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I know I am late on this subject (by online standards of time) and the ground has been thoroughly plowed already, but I am intellectually a fat little piggy who loves true crime and fakery stories and all sorts of other things that are bad for me, so ahead I go.I didn’t expect Jason Arday to kill himself. Decades of the Internet have provided an endless parade of impostor and grifter stories, at the ends of which the impostor either slinks off in disgrace for a period of self-imposed reflection
in which I make another attempt to read science fiction books (opens the original)
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Have been reading Rich Horton’s reviews of this year’s batch of Hugo-nominated novellas and was inspired to read and review some of the candidates myself. Sadly, the two I read weren’t that inspiring, so I’ve added some recommendations for Tanith Lee novels if you want to read something more appealing on the same themes. And if you don’t want to read Tanith, what are you doing here? So—In Olivia Waite’s novella Murder by Memory, humanity has solved the problem
Happy fourth of July! (opens the original)
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I love extolling Donald Trump and Taylor Swift as Americans. I do not mean that I am extolling their goodness but I must praise their American-ness. I think they are spiritual siblings or at least very close relations in the great spiritual family. Oh, yeah, they don’t like each other, but who said siblings have to like each other?1 Their politics are different, and one of them is obsessed with being the Greatest Boy Ever and one of them the Greatest Girl, but in basic temperament they seem so a
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