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Sylvain Neuvel

@neuvel.net
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Author of THE THEMIS FILES, THE TEST. TAKE THEM TO THE STARS, NO KINDNESS TOO SOON, THE MANY. www.neuvel.net

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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 2h
Yeah you need it. I do too, really. It’s the Davy Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean vibe that does it for me. Heh heh heh … Welcome to the Jedi Order, lad!
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 3h
Pas super difficile à croire mais je n’aime vraiment pas la tendance qui se dessine où on accuse n’importe quelle personne contre laquelle on a une crotte d’utiliser l’IA. Il y aura toujours un outil bidon pour corroborer. C’est un cancer comme techno et il n’y a pas de remède facile.
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 3h
Ok then. I will try when I run into it. My son drinks things with slimy chunks in it. It can’t be worse.
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 3h
Really?
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 4h
The pictures are sort of funny. Like, did you see the tiny thing in its hand? DID YOU?
A toy robot with an area of the pic showing a slightly bigger view of a tiny thing no one cares about
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 4h
Oh shit but it does transform!
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 4h
I had to google so many things to understand this :)
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 4h
FWIW, the Québécois approve of the mushroom shirt.
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 4h
I really don’t trust the Good Smile Company ads on FB but I like this thing…
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 4h
I don’t do heights (I lose control and curl into a ball) but I had to install stuff on the roof. It’s reeeerally slow when you’re crawling chest to the ground. There is, however, a small area in the MIDDLE of the roof where I can’t see anything . There, I’m basically a superhero.
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 01/10/2026
I prefer my giant hands in a different material but still… I’d have stopped.
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 01/10/2026
He's very cool.
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 01/10/2026
Oh I like him. Predator crossed with Jim Carrey's The Mask. "WHAAAAAARGHHHHHHH'lrighty then!" (Wrong movie, but WAAARGHSssssmokin'! doesn't wound as good...)
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 01/10/2026
Also, Luna has the same "Why are we doing this? Do we have to?" look as last time :)
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 01/10/2026
Damn, that was fast! Glad it made it. I shipped on Tuesday.
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 30/09/2026
Went something like this: Me: Mini-Batman was sleeping under the living room table, when suddenly...! Son: There's a knock on the door! - Yes! - It's Black Widow! - No - Princess Leia? - No - WHO???? - Another Mini-Batman! - Whoa. (Then they go to the park and there's scary wind and stuff...)
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 30/09/2026
The 2 1/2" Batman (aka Mini-Batman) was the hero of every bedtime story when my son was maybe 2-8...
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 29/09/2026
Oh that's a tough year. The Matrix... Iron Giant. Run Lola Run. ( Being John Malkovich was a trip)
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 29/09/2026
I'm a bit late, but Wonder Man was good! It's funny how superhero shows are much better without the superhero stuff. (The better half of Loki, The better half of Wanda, Lanterns, etc...)
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The obvious conclusion (to me): if you have proprietary research & you upload it into the Plagiarism Nexus, it's not YOUR proprietary research anymore. Behave accordingly.
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 27/09/2026
All these AI email scams are copying other people's stuff and mishmashing it to fit your book. My question is who's stuff? Seriously. WHO WRITES LIKE THAT? It's soooo cringy. There is at least one person out there going "Whoa. This looks like I wrote it" and I someone needs to talk to them.
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 27/09/2026
Yeah it's really bad.
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 26/09/2026
I really think my name for it is better…
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 26/09/2026
This is a good chunk of the Veil Nebula (C33), also the place where kaijus break into our universe.
C33 the Veil Nebula
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 26/09/2026
Math definition of smol: it’s 2,570 light-years away and has a diameter of one light year.
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 26/09/2026
It’s smol. Really smol.
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 26/09/2026
Tiny tiny disco space anus… Also called the Ring Nebula
Ring nebula looking like a tiny tiny disco space anus
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 26/09/2026
I freak out when the hotel TV knows my name. This is…
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 25/09/2026
I'm Quebecois, we have ZERO clue what order to write dates in.
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 25/09/2026
9/25 is 0.36
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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🪲 @premeemohamed.com 👀
Screenshot of a Twitter post by @PoorMatty, 5 Sep 20:

'Think of three friends. If none of them are beetles, you are a beetle.'

Screenshot of text, with the last sentence circled in red. : 

'Insect species are divided up into 32 orders. The largest group is beetles, with about 500,000 different species. One out of every four animals on the planet is a beetle.'
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 25/09/2026
WE HAVE OUR WINNERS
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 25/09/2026
Also the WTF is happening look is first grade :)
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 25/09/2026
Well, no. But I love this pic so much I'm sending you a book :) DM address and whether "To Lynne" is OK :)
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 25/09/2026
This is awesome. Also your cat looks like an otter.
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 25/09/2026
Ooooh. Name?
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 25/09/2026
Oh maybe I need to follow you…
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 25/09/2026
“I made a thing that’ll make every single human on the planet less intelligent, and I’m gonna brag about it"
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 25/09/2026
We have our first winner. There is ANOTHER book available but we need a cat WEARING some sort of hat and a real overripe banana.
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 25/09/2026
So I’m calling it mid-beer. You get a book. DM an address and whether “To Larisa" is OK. There is ANOTHER book available but we need a cat WEARING some sort of hat and a real overripe banana.
A beer
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 25/09/2026
Jyn has a primordial pouch big enough to carry hockey gear…
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 25/09/2026
Nice. Madame prez is now 14 ans we just built her a wooden step to get on the couch after she failed the 11 inch climb :)
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 25/09/2026
I just saw your pinned pic :)
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 25/09/2026
Three! I have two, Jyn Erso and President Laura Roslin (aka Rosie). They are both old and fat now but that is what they looked like as youngens.
A catAnother cat in a cup
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 25/09/2026
I take it there are multiple
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 25/09/2026
Oh that is good. But I was hoping to get a cat _wearing_ some sort of head attire… Short of a new pic with cat with hat, I will make this the default winner if nothing else comes in while I’m having the next beer. What’s the cat’s name?
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 25/09/2026
#2 or #3 for me
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 25/09/2026
I am tempted to say yes, if you add a spoon to the pic. In the spirit of fairness, should this happen, I will mail a second book to the first real overripe banana with cat in a makeshift hat.
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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 25/09/2026
I am bored… I will mail a signed copy of my latest book, The Many, to the first person (anywhere I’m allowed to mail stuff) to reply with a fresh pic (with proof of the time it was taken) of a cat with a makeshift hat next to an overripe banana. I say again, you have to take the picture now.
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