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in my defense i just assume that all scientists are someones dad (my dad is a scientist, to me a physics professor is someone whose whiteboard you doodle on)

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reproducing gender bias by blithely making this characters dad the scientist instead of his mom and only realizing afterward. im sorry women.

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omg we bought these when we saw them, and they sure are flaccid

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absolutely getting bookshelfmogged by the other ppl in the zoom rn

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all the travel this summer / fall has been fun but it also has led me to feel that every time im home i have to do a mountain of laundry before immediately leaving again, lol

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reach exceeding its grasp is exactly how it felt!! like. hm. i can see the shape of what they were trying to do. but it didnt really properly work. kind of felt like they were trying to tell too many stories in a single space, and were using the structure to juggle them

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I’m one episode behind u rn and I had a whole arc of liking the structure to disliking the structure - the way the szn is set up makes it feel like we spent 3/4 of it on backstory, if that makes sense.

maybe skip the law school step then

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oh no I fully did step 1, until 3/4th through college I thought I was going to do Art art and get a MFA and make conceptual installation art and have no money and such

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The third step is to cowrite ans update a fanfiction religiously for two years instead of writing your novel

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that’s a lie. The first step is to give up on art forever. The second step? Going to law school.

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

clickbait article about “how to get a seven figure book deal for your debut” and the first step is to be so freaked out by having your first job that you write a whole book to prove you’re not wasting your life

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Data centers promise jobs but hire few people That's why I propose a law that every data center must hire 1,000 Priests of Data to worship the computers, pray to the servers, light candles, etc. The priests will boost the local economy and fill the air with the sweet sound of their Gregorian chants

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by god I will get my little avatar into Seoul national university though

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classic sort of guy who peaked in high school

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 26/09/2026

much psychoanalysis to be done about the fact that I started playing a game called “Korean student simulator” about studying for the csat

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If you’re at bookmarks comes say hi :)

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I have no interest in this discourse other than posting except for my evergreen statements “it depends” and “there’s nuance”

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bijan @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

real ones know that there’s a tier of job interview that is just getting coffee with a friend and then parlaying that through a bizarre Rube Goldberg machine of networking into a job offer, in which the iced coffee is actually mandatory

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i think about this post all the time. you might too

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I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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I’m not letting that man into our house he would have too many questions and also he would create an insanely awkward vibe

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look its better than either of us being the sunny balwani to the other’s Elizabeth Holmes

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you to me when I do book stuff and mention wow if true

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if everyone buys SUBLIMATION by Isabel j Kim we can make the answer ME

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intrigued and excited to see your brain halves locked in neverending combat, symbolizing the division within our selves

We used to go to my grandmothers grave out in the mountains in Korea most years and once my grandfather pointed at his plot nrxt to hers and went “I’m going to be lying there someday” and I was like “im eight why are you saying this to me” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuseok

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Chuseok - Wikipedia

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happy chuseok everyone go get your ass one of these bad boys en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songpyeon

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Songpyeon - Wikipedia

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[scribbles in my notepad] the wealthy...have no sense of direction.....

sorry ill stop talking about this soon im just like damn man. your address? your address????

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imagining a saw trap but its just removing jensens phone and the two women he mentions in the interview from his vicinity and challenging him to figure out his way home

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YESS glad it worked for you!! Spread the good word of the phone camera glasses finding trick…

i think the aggravating thing is that being rich and powerful gives you so much slack in the system to make stupid errors. this dude doesnt even need to know his home address. the hell? like it shouldnt work that way.

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coining a new term called "billionaire brain" for instances when a billionaire says something without knowing how profoundly weird it is, because their life is so different than a normal one. Jensen Huang you may not need to fill out forms with your address, but I do.

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@amanda.omg.lol and I spent like an hour talking about this for the pod last week trying to create a framework of how it all fits together, which this does wayyyy better than we managed

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your magnum opus who nobody has asked for yet: infinite time, infinite heartbreak and hope the next book in your contract: i have one year and a prayer (and having a next book to do is the GOOD option!!)

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lol that was exactly my experience too, because of the way my publishing schedule w/ my two publishers shook out, and then i was writing the second adult book and it was like "oh god" .....good to know it never stops !!

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other people have probably talked about this enough but its really interesting how it feels different when its your Dream versus your Job (sometimes Dreamlike, sometimes Not)

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posts i wont make: newsletter aimed at debut writers about how writing multiple books is different than writing One Book, and how writing the book on contract is different than writing it on spec

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its literally just "open phone camera, walk around the suspected glasses location with it and stare at the image because its clearer than looking with my naked eyes" and USUALLY i can find my glasses within fifteen minutes LMAO

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