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John Rickards
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Freelance editor, sometime writer, occasional trade journo and general dogsbody. Decent human being. Find me at johnrickards.com
Ah, you’re too kind. It was a shame it never got traction (or a trad home before my agent jumped ship). It was a lot of fun to write…
December 12, 2024 at 6:03 PM
I mean, it’s very poorly targeted spam anyway. It’s not like I (a) have an office or (b) need any furniture of any kind.
November 29, 2024 at 10:33 AM
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It's strange that ghost written novels are so accepted, if a celebrity said he was exhibiting a collection of paintings that turned out to be painted by someone else we'd all think he was having a breakdown.
November 18, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Yeah, that ship sailed long ago. Apparently taking everyone’s spines with it.
November 16, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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We're not a new release, but we're an important one, especially now. Proceeds go to the Chicago Abortion Fund. 🫀

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ASEPTIC AND FAINTLY SADISTIC Anthology - Cosmic Horror Monthly
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November 15, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Yeah, it's luckily easy enough to toggle (unless people have followed some of the advice I've seen to edit their system registry to get rid of it...). I *am* mildly curious how many people doing it have left Windows Copilot on, though...
November 15, 2024 at 6:38 PM
I mean, anything that makes it less likely to look stuff up on Bing can only be a bonus (I, of course, joke), but to my knowledge - which could be wrong - all you're doing by turning Connected Experiences off is make Word's spellchecker and text-to-speech a bit shitter.
November 15, 2024 at 6:28 PM