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Patrick Lenton
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(He/him) freelance writer and editor. Author of some books.

My debut novel ‘In Spite of You’ out in 2025.

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Hooray! Today is release day of my debut novel, a queer rom-com called In Spite of You. I’m very excited and happy. You should go buy it and help a special boy

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I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential
December 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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still my favorite christmas post
December 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Billionaires are so bold these days that we had to give the ghost of Christmas past a gun
December 25, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Basil and his toy horde
December 25, 2025 at 4:52 AM
If it’s set in Alaska, my parents are gonna watch it
December 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Hockey!
December 21, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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to add to the Jake Paul schadenfreude, Andrew Tate also lost a fight to some reality TV influencer. most analysis of the fight I've read described his opponent as deeply untalented but Andrew lost anyway. Tate's endurance was awful and he was gassed after the first round.
December 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Heated Rivalry has shown me that I had even less of an idea of how hockey is played than I expected, and my assumptions were LOW
December 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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incredible stuff over at r/ididnthaveeggs

It’s a eggnog recipe
December 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My controversial opinion is that brown sugar is much classier than white sugar
December 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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America, you do not like home break-ins. But what if selling stolen goods is the way to restart the retail industry?
vox.com Vox @vox.com · 13d
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
New saddest short story dropped
December 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
No shoes
December 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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This infuriates me.

They're embedding an AI in Kindles that is empowered to analyze our books without our permission and tell the reader about them....likely inaccurately.

We have no recourse.
writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/k...
Kindle's New Gen AI-Powered "Ask This Book" Feature Raises Rights Concerns - Writer Beware
In a recent press release, Amazon noted that some new features were coming to Kindle. We’re adding new AI-powered reading features that preserve the magic of reading on Kindle. Story So Far lets you c...
writerbeware.blog
December 13, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The best thing I’ve ever see at the Mardi Gras parade were a bunch of cyclists in lycra holding signs that said “I’m on the bike track baby I was born this way”
December 14, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Why did the mother of a gay vinyl collector send him to conversion therapy? It was time to set the record straight
December 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I’m not just a pretty face, I am also pretty mentally unwell
December 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The border control agents having a big chuckle at my five years of excellent jokes
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
December 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Not that I would want to go, but there is no fricken way I would ever go now.
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
December 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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mcdonalds deleted their ai ad, bullying works
December 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.
December 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Every staff meeting at the zoo must be like “it’s time to talk about the elephant in the room”
December 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
They call it a liver because if you don’t got one you’re a die-er
December 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🎶I saw daddy topping Santa Claus🎶
December 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM