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DAYLOG 2026–10–06 10:57:39 Today I’m working on book two of the Shadow Trilogy. Also, the next episode of the Future Lab Podcast. I catch up with author Richie Billing about his latest novel The Breakaways. youtube.com/shorts/0_xMiuJP7rU

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What happens when monster hunters are hopeless at their jobs? #booktube #thefuturelab

Coming up this week on the Future Lab ...What happens when monster hunters are hopeless at their jobs? Fantasy author Richie Billing talks about The Breakawa...

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The seventh story in the Hollywood Extinction Event series HAS ARRIVED. It's a story series for the web (short, readable on a phone) about what brought down Hollywood. All the stories are at the link. #hollywood #shortfiction #stories #offprint 500-words.offprint.app/a/3mstt3xsje...

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#07 HOLLYWOOD EXTINCTION EVENT

The 7th story in a series.

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

DeAndra Davis, author of All the Noise at Once and The Lovers, the Liars, and Me, says that when you listen to an audiobook, it COUNTS. You are absorbing the information of that book. Listen to the whole episode or watch on YouTube: thefuturelab.redcupagency.com #books #booksky #audiobooks

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Funny... I was just re-reading it. But I will stop now before it's too late.

The novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven, with a bookmark in it.

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🎙️ Just published a new episode of The Future Lab with Lee Schneider Season 3: DeAndra Davis. Have a listen:

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DeAndra Davis

Author DeAndra Davis (All the Noise at Once; The Lovers, the Liars, and...

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Part six of my stories series about the end of Hollywood. #06 HOLLYWOOD EXTINCTION EVENT". #offprint 500-words.offprint.app/a/3mscem22u4...

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#06 HOLLYWOOD EXTINCTION EVENT

Part six in a story series.

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The latest media and reviews about me, including a profile discussing what projects have mattered the most. ThunderCats is discussed. (I was a writer on ThunderCats and other fine animated series.) #thundercats #animation #writing #fiction leeschneiderbooks.com/media-reviews/

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Media & Reviews - Lee Schneider Books

Media & Reviews of Lee Schneider's 3-BOOKS Utopia Engine Trilogy - LIBERATION, RESIST and SURRENDER

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The latest in the story series is here. An Uber driver and a director talk about how Hollywood came to an end. #05 HOLLYWOOD EXTINCTION EVENT. Miss a story? Read all at the link. #offprint #stories #hollywood 500-words.offprint.app/a/3mrvsg2xzc…

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#05 HOLLYWOOD EXTINCTION EVENT

The fifth story in the series.

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I was on Buttondown for a long time. It's good. Sometimes glitchy. Testing Offprint.app now. Liking it.

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Write. Publish. Keep what's yours. | Offprint

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

-> Getting Chosen: How Storytelling Changes the Way Firms Win Work docuguy.medium.com/getting-chosen-h…

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The latest story in a series about the extinction event that ended Hollywood. Read it now, or if you missed the earlier stories, read them at the link. "#04 HOLLYWOOD EXTINCTION EVENT". #offprint #shortfiction #hollywood 500-words.offprint.app/a/3mrvogvw4n…

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#04 HOLLYWOOD EXTINCTION EVENT

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🎙️ Just published a new episode of The Future Lab with Lee Schneider Season 3: Trailer Season 3 - The Future Lab with Lee Schneider. Have a listen:

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Trailer Season 3 - The Future Lab with Lee Schneider

Hi, it’s Lee Schneider, host of the future lab podcast. In Season 3, The...

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

DAYLOG 2026–09–09 10:31:06 We’re living in a simulation, and the writers have lost the plot .[Sinkhole opens in front of Nicolas Cage Malibu home](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026–09&)#8211;08/malibu-driveway-collapses-into-massive-sinkhole-amid-coastal-flood-risks

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Malibu residents evacuate after massive, expanding sinkhole opens at Nicolas Cage's house

Evacuation orders were issued for 31 Malibu homes due to a massive and expanding sinkhole in the driveway of Nicolas Cage's property.

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

DAYLOG 2026–09–04 10:31:52 At first, the internet gave everyone a voice. Now we shout into a feed owned by a billionaire. We must not only ask, Who owns the means of production? But also, Who owns the feed? —Karl Marx, recently discovered writings.

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yes, Satie can be precious and even pretentious, but when he does the turn-of-the-century modernist thing, it works so well.

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

DAYLOG 2026–09–03 13:02:32 All our children will become professional poker players. Problem solved.

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's time for the third story in the series: HOLLYWOOD EXTINCTION EVENT. A conversation about the end of Hollywood. #shortfiction #webfiction #offprint 500-words.offprint.app/a/3mrns75a3r…

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#03 HOLLYWOOD EXTINCTION EVENT

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

DAYLOG 2026–09–03 10:24:31 You can’t exactly blast Chopin through your headphones. Or…can you?

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

@theatlantic.com says the age of reading is over. They're right, because they paywalled their fucking story. Readable, however, on the Internet Archive.

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"AI is the opium of the technocrat, a fever dream of frictionless exploitation of the workers dressed up as progress." —Karl Marx

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Check out my new story "#02 HOLLYWOOD EXTINCTION EVENT". #offprint 500-words.offprint.app/a/3mrnpu6yu7...

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#02 HOLLYWOOD EXTINCTION EVENT

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

That's good news! Our senior cat (also 15) has decided all he wants to eat is a hydration supplement that comes in a packet. He's going through it by the case.

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hey, I accepted an award this weekend in Hollywood for my novel LIBERATION. First award I’ve won for science fiction. It was at the Los Angeles Book Awards. I got to thank the wonderful people who helped me. #awards #writing #sciencefiction #hollywood

Lee Schneider holding his book Liberation in the lobby of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

Lee Schneider talking about his book LIBERATION at the podium at the Los Angeles Book Festival.

Lee Schneider and Tabby Biddle at the step and repeat at the awards of the Los Angeles Book Festival. Lee is holding his book LIBERATION. He's dressed in black. Tabby is dressed in a red dress.

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is the first story in a series about what brought down Hollywood. The stories are a record of conversations between a screenwriter/director and an Uber driver. "#01 HOLLYWOOD EXTINCTION EVENT". #offprint #hollywood #ai #amwriting 500-words.offprint.app/a/3mrnpic3ep...

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#01 HOLLYWOOD EXTINCTION EVENT

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I have renounced my membership in the Lakers fan club.

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'm getting ready to publish a new series of short stories here on Bluesky. It's about the end of Hollywood. 500-words.offprint.app/a/3msvskly7o...

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INTRODUCING: HOLLYWOOD EXTINCTION EVENT

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Yes, a useful feature on my phone, once upon a time, has become a waste bin.

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

DAYLOG Aug 10, 2026 at 12:06 PM After 12 years of riding a single speed bike, getting one with gears is a revelation.

A close-up view of a bicycle's rear cassette, chain, and wheel hub taken from above, with a tiled floor and a person's feet in black sneakers visible in the background.

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I wrote that capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction. The climate emergency is proving me right. Sorry, not sorry! —Karl Marx

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Considering that you're coming up with this while on a sheet of ice in a kayak, no notes.

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I wrote the Communist Manifesto with my bestie Friedrich in a six-week sprint. ChatGPT can write your manifesto instantly. But the server farm running it is owned by Microsoft. Capital still controls the means of production. WTF. —Karl Marx

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Soon, I'll be starting HOLLYWOOD EXTINCTION EVENT. A made-for-Bluesky story series that gets to why Hollywood is coming apart and how it might be reborn. I'll start it up in a couple of weeks. Subscribe now so you don't miss the first story. 500-words.offprint.app/a/3mqrynaaxc... #microfiction

The Hollywood sign, after a storm, broken. Image is in color tinted black and white. The words Extinction Event appear below the sign.

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

DAYLOG Friday, July 31, 2026 at 3:36:52 PM The Guardian rules with headlines like this: Release schedule: when to wee and when to wait during this summer’s biggest movies And an opening like this. The Odyssey You will almost certainly need to urinate during Christopher Nolan’s epic.

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

DAYLOG Thursday, July 30, 2026 at 10:46:14 The petite bourgeois aesthetic of podcasting now has diminished the art form, making it less ambitious than it once was. —Karl Marx

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Lee Schneider @docuguy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Jack Reacher can also do that.

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