j°shua davis

Fiction writer. Husband to an adored wife, father to paint-spattered children. I will have my Veblens.

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Alright, for those of you who’ve enjoyed 12 years of persistent silence, interrupted with occasional deleted jokes, you can expect more of the same from now on, just also on Bluesky

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See note xi on page 103, says the footnote. As if I can be bothered to read what the author can’t be bothered to write

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@Greg_Gerke Thanks for sharing this! In some sense a continuation of the trajectory in this passage from Nicholson Baker’s “Survival of the Fittest”?

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Novel in a sentence

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Reading a 600 page novel because a 50 second video told me to

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I will continue to use X until the day my phone’s app library stops offering the X app when I type in “twi—”

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@LouiseMBuckley Dorothea Brande’s Becoming a Writer is a brilliant (but brutally direct) early work about writing and making a writing life

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The first stage of recognising a mistake is failing to recognise a mistake

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@kevinbaker Absolutely yes!

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For centuries we’ve slept on wool mattresses in the alcove above the wood-burning fireplaces that serve as oven, hob, water heater, and literal centrally heating. And all of a sudden you want to tell me that’s a fire risk

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@dannolan I’m not even sure it’s a good medium for texting

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@JoyceCarolOates The left-brain interpreter! Mike Gazzaniga’s memoir has a great section on discovering the “explainer” system in the brain

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Germany bombed mainland Britain (London, Edinburgh, Great Yarmouth..) with Zeppelins in WW1, killing 500 people. The attacks stopped when the Brits invented an incendiary bullet that could not only pierce the Zeppelin’s bags, but ignite the hydrogen inside..

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Imagine making a seven and a half hour movie and then risking it all on a pun title

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@cullenroche Some of these books bear repeat readings and deeper thought. I’m still finding new ideas in Goodnight Moon, which I’ve read 453 times

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@dsquareddigest @IronEconomist Twitter

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The Earth is a Windows 95 screensaver on a billion year cycle

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12. 300 million years from now all the continents of the earth will merge into a new supercontinent.

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@BarryPierce What would your syllabus look like?

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Not naming the brand, but day 12 of my advent calendar was empty to raise awareness about inequality in the chocolate industry, and it’s the only thing I remember about that advent calendar. Good job, I guess? My awareness is raised. I hate you

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‘Twas the night before Christmas
And in my gmail
Not a brand was disturbing
With news of a sale