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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 01/10/2026

I'm too old to afford to be an insomniac 😆 This will at least get me 4-5 hours

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 30/09/2026

The expression should really be "happy as ducks in mud"

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 29/09/2026

Copyedits FINALLY arrived!! Very excited!! It's gonna HAPPEN. AT SOME POINT

These Savage Stars style sheet
Sources
Merriam-Webster’s 12th Collegiate Dictionary (MW12) & online https://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/ or https://www.merriam-webster.com/
Chicago Manual of Style, 18th ed. (CMOS)
Checked against The Stars Are Legion when possible, but many terms are specific to this book.
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Punctuation
• Commas:
Use serial comma.
Comma follows “Now” as interjection; generally no comma after “Now” in temporal use.
No comma with “too” or “either” (except occasionally in mid-sentence or for distinct pause).
No comma between verb and adverb (she said softly, not she said, softly).
Comma usually unnecessary to set off adverb such as then, sometimes, once, yesterday beginning or w/in sentence.
oh interjections: Use comma when followed by a longer phrase or natural pause (“Oh, is that right?” “Oh, right.”) but not in short phrase that functions as a unit (“Oh no!”). (CMOS 6.38)
No commas between noncoordinate adjectives

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 29/09/2026

Love it when I forget that I pre-ordered books and they just... Show up. Past me has great taste!

Cover of The Haunting by Micaiach Johnson and Forged in Fiyah anthology

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 27/09/2026

I recommend this book to everyone. It completely changed my approach to how I comport myself on social media link.amazon/B03bM9Eth

Cover of How Minds Change by David Mcraney

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 26/09/2026

Not sure if there's anything better than feeling sane and motivated after a long spell of NOT feel sane and motivated (except maybe the feeling of finishing a book!!!)

Meme with boy in glasses holding out hand to butterfly. Over his head it says is this and under butterfly it says mental health

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 26/09/2026

Happy weekend to all weekend word hackers who celebrate

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 25/09/2026

They love the frogbit from the pond

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 25/09/2026

Was watching a "what does your house look like when you haven't gotten it ready to film?" video and... my house generally just looks like this all the time? Maybe just with more dog hair. I have a physical aversion to piles of shit, but I like cozy maximalism; everything just needs a proper place

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 25/09/2026

All right. As Bob Ross says: Time to make some decisions.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 24/09/2026

Speaking of, I replaced this blanket today with a fluffy new one and Kojack decided he lives there now.

Black dog with white uzzle lying on a purple blanket on a leather chair

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 22/09/2026

This book is fucking wild and also extremely accurate about the absurdity of startup culture. I'm about 20% in and expecting the dead people dating app to start doing funding rounds any day

Cover of For Human Use. By Sarah G Peirce

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 21/09/2026

Watching my painting videos again and reminding myself that drafts are just like underpaintings. It looks like a hot mess when you start

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 21/09/2026

Watching my painting videos again and reminding myself that drafts are just like underpaintings. It looks like a hot mess when you start

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 19/09/2026

From Michael Pollen's book on consciousness: "A World Appears." Exactly this 😆 It's curious we haven't seen more discourse around this related to AI obsession among bros. It's the new Pygmalion.

When I told her about Mark Solms’s effort to build a conscious AI and Kingson Man’s blueprint for a robot with feelings, she rolled her eyes. “Why don’t they just make a baby?” she said. “We already know how to do that!”

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 18/09/2026

So many exciting new terms out there! 😆

"slopgrade" - when someone less talented than you runs your work through GPT and "fixes" it for you - examples "the campaign copy was locked until the CFO flopgraded it" usage note "the slopgrader has ready neither the original nor the fix. confidence is unaffected"

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 18/09/2026

I'm already envisioning the ad campaigns for kids in a couple years. "This is your brain on AI."

80s drug free america advert. Hand holding egg: this is your brain. Frying pan: this is drugs. Eggs in frying pan: this is your brain on drugs

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 17/09/2026

New arrival! I did not expect the 7 plots to require over 700 pages, however 😆

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 17/09/2026

Everyone here in corp America staring hard into 4th quarter like

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 15/09/2026

Also look at my fine haunted mansion pajamas!!! LIVING THE GODDAMN DREAM

Black and purple pajama pants with yellows eyes of the haunted mansion wallpaper on the.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 15/09/2026

Came home to find this fine new arrival!

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 13/09/2026

Mando and my spouse!! Grogu's head moved and Mando had some fun pre-recorded lines for the kids. Good times.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 13/09/2026

Still shocked my spouse did not walk out of there with one of the chunky light sabers, but we did come home with a new friend 😆

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 13/09/2026

Star Wars land was indeed as advertised. We stumbled into the secret lightsaber shop and were too dazzled to remember to take many photos, but everything was great. Also got to meet Mando! I imagine this is what Potter fans felt at Universal. Really surreal

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 13/09/2026

So far the best food of the trip is this poutine, from Le Cellier. So much garlic, we were burping it up for 24 hours 😆

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 12/09/2026

We are having an amazing time

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 06/09/2026

He's a dog who takes after his mother. He's just lying up here directly in front of supplemental AC unit

Large brown and white dog asleep on bed with rainbow colored quilt

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 04/09/2026

Also near enough out to check this, and fingers crossed, but while it's going to be stormy, should not be STORMY-stormy like Hurricane Irma in 2017.

NOAA map of the atlantic saying there's no tropical cyclone expected in the next 7 days

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 03/09/2026

Switching from the estrogen pills to patches, and friends, this front and back is all the warnings and instructions. ...it's just... a sticker that secretes a small amount of a hormone.

Holding a map-sized printed text of instructions in the bathroom

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 02/09/2026

Woke up worried it was only Tuesday, but it's NOT. It's WEDNESDAY!! And that means....

Blackboard with 6 days to disneyworld written on it in chalk

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 01/09/2026

All Kojack would like to do is snug

Black and white dog lying on checkered blanket

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 01/09/2026

I was tempted to get a full day ride pass for the 9th, but both the 9th and 10th are predicted to be the now ultra-rare green crowd level days, and I'd rather save that money for snacks

September 9th Disney Parks shcueld showing hours of operation and green crowd levels, green being low

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 01/09/2026

Crowds should be lower when we're there, but I caved and did buy us a couple lightning lane passes for Tron, Rise of the Resistance, and Guardians of the Galaxy, just to make sure we do them. My XP with a 90 min Avatar line 10 years ago was memorable 😄 Getting excited!

Blackboard with 7 days to Disneyworld written on it in chalk

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 30/08/2026

How I recommended it to my mom 🤣

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 30/08/2026

Speaking of enthusiasm have you all read this yet????? amzn.to/4wQJepn

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