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Billy Don Loper
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Writer/Mississippian/Being Composed of Pure Static

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BEYOND THE RUINED NIGHTS out now.
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The time is finally here! I'm excited to show you the official cover for BEYOND THE RUINED NIGHTS.

See the full reveal here: billyloperhistory.com/uncategorize...

#fantasy #coverreveal
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PENCE: “TARIFFS ARE A TAX… American importers, businesses and ultimately consumers end up paying all of that $300 BILLION. We're paying that.”
July 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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You're looking at the largest land animal of the Permian (~290 MYA), Eryops megacephalus, which translates to "long-face giant-head".

It's a GIANT AMPHIBIAN. Like somewhere between a SALAMANDER & a FROG, but hog-sized.

And, to get this out of the way, bears a striking resemblance to Barney. 🟣🦖
June 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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If tech people want to do something useful for historians, one problem that I actually have is that all the links to a less-than-10-year-old digitization project are fucking broken. Maybe get on the whole "making digital humanities last more than the time it takes to write a book" thing.
June 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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We feed you.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Hey, it’s #MondayReads time! Think of it like a key party, but you know, with books! Repost this post and tell us what you want reposted. Me, I’m looking for a few like-minded individuals who want to burn them all.
#BookSky 📚🪓

www.bishopriderbooks.com
June 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
In the long tally of history, I can't imagine the Internet will end up with the scales balanced to the good.
May 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Every path has a price and every chapter is written by me and only me. Come, join the resistance. See how we make them burn. #BookSky 📚🪓

www.bishopriderbooks.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Advanced Reviews for BEYOND THE RUINED NIGHTS are coming in. See what this reader thought of my upcoming fantasy debut.
Now available for preorder.
May 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.

What the fuck are we doing here?
May 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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BEYOND THE RUINED NIGHTS, NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREODER.
May 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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May 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Happy New Comic Book Day Everyone!
May 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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If you continue to use chat GPT, you need to unfriend me. I understand being forced to use it for work. But there is no other excuse. You should know by now. It's not fun. It's not correct. It's harmful. Some of you are professors. I hope you know your cognitive abilities are being diminished.
May 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
BEYOND THE RUINED NIGHTS, NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREODER.
May 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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May 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
May 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Decided that the real world wasn't quite depressing enough so I'm rereading THE ROAD. It's been a couple years. Now, in the place we are, I'm seeing a lot more quite optimism in it than I did the first time around.
April 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Erik here, he isn’t wrong. #elbowsup
April 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The reality of that piece of history is that, despite the various horrible things the Robber Barons like Rockefeller did, they were ACTUALLY talented, industrious people who, at least at the start, worked for their money.

Musk could never.
April 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Rockefeller was considered the richest person in history at a net worth of 198 billion dollars in today's money.

If he were alive today, he'd be only the 5th richest person alive.

Somehow they still all had plenty of money in the 40s when we instituted the 90% tax rate.

Anyway tax billionaires
April 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans.

dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
ICE detains 2 men in Charlottesville courthouse raid
Three men who identified themselves as Homeland Security officers raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation.
dailyprogress.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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The thing is if the pope had died a day after meeting Kamala Harris your uncle whose emails you had to mark as spam would be on FB for the next four years sharing 1000-word posts about a vast conspiracy and the posts would be accompanied by AI images that drained you of the will to live
I have it on good authority from my sources inside the Vatican that JD Vance killed the pope
April 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
It's a real validating to be an X-Men fan who's always thought Magneto was right.
April 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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face down. like a hog at a trough. squealing, grunting, howling my way through the Friendly’s Dutch Fudge Roll
Friendly's Dutch Fudge Roll (1975-2021): A log of chocolate truffle-filled chocolate ice cream, inside a log of premium vanilla ice cream, all topped with ribbons of chocolate and vanilla ice cream, chocolate flakes, and a fudge drizzle.
April 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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I don't know who needs to hear this today, but

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
April 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM