S.A.Cosby
@blacklionking73
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Best selling award winning author of RAZORBLADE TEARS,BLACKTOP WASTELAND, ALL THE SINNERS BLEED Fun at parties
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Dude on my Facebook page was complaining about student loan forgiveness when his ex wife jumped in the comments
Dude: I don't knw why ppl can't pay their own debts
Ex wife: u owe our child 18k in back child support and you begged me to hide your truck so it wouldn't get repoed
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I pretended we were old friends from college. She asked me if we could exchange current information I suggested we go outside cuz the bar wsd noisy
"Thank you. I'm so glad I drove myself "
I'd already settle my tab so I'm back in my room.
I kinda hope he is stil there lol
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Guys complaining about a Comanche warrior woman taking on a Predator have intentionally forgotten a waitress killed the Terminator
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There isn't a labor shortage. There is an abundance of ppl who are sick of taking shit like this
Trashy couple in Maryland throws icees at an innocent 16-year-old trying to do her job
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In the gas station I'm wearing a mask . Some guy behind in line
You know u don't need that thing right ?
I didn't turn around but I said
In my experience if someone tells me I don't have to wear protection i sure as HELL better wear protection
The next 3 mins were very quiet
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After Sandy Hook I stopped engaging in social media arguments about gun regulations because I realized if dead 1st and 2nd graders didn't make you see the problem nothing would
Sadly I have been proven right again and again.
I'm a gun owner.
REGULATE ME
Please
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@JoyceCarolOates
Your friend is a liar. Writers of color are still in the minority when it comes to debuts and certainly when it comes to advances. I think what u are mistaking for oppression is equality but it feels like oppression because you've never known any other way
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What happened in Tennessee is the direct result of the coddling of Confederate sympathizers this country has engaged in since Andrew Johnson stopped Reconstruction. I've grown up in The South, I've read text books that call it The War of Northern Aggression-
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@juliecbarrett
Well he didn't kill 22 ppl with a wooden spoon so i think guns are a part of the problem
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I've said it before but it bears repeating. And this isn't my original thought but...
Social media has made too many ppl too comfortable with disrespecting someone and not getting punched in the face for it.
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I can't speak...there are no words ..
I'm crying right now, not Razorblade Tears but Tears of joy
All
Things
Are
Possible!!!
I’ve read a couple of great books this year and wanted to share some of my favorites so far. What have you been reading this summer?
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@ModestyQueen19
I see you don't know who Prince or Rick James or James Brown or The Parliament Funkadelics are. Clothing doesn't denote masculinity.
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Went to talk to the 8th graders today. All the kids were great but 1 really moved me
Shy young black boy comes up to me after
"I kinda want to be a writer but I never knew any black writers before. Now I kinda think I can do it too"
Cue my 😭
#RepresentationMatters
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The fact that Shia Lebouef and Britney Spears both had public mental breakdowns but one got treated like an avant garde artist and the other one got put under conservativship is all the proof u should ever need that misogyny is woven into the very fabric of our society
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When aspiring writers say they want to use AI to help them write I'm reminded of the African proverb
"The trees fooled themselves into believing the axe was their friend because his handle was made of wood"
Or as my mom would say
"You want it but u don't want to work for it"
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Guess what Mama?
I got published
My books are gonna be movies
I wrote with Questlove
I wrote an audiodrama
I been to LA NYC and England
The president knows my name
I never believed it was possible
But you did
I miss you. 😢
But I hope you're proud .
RIP Joyce Ann Cosby
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This is me.
This is my book
I hope you will buy my book and read about a world that isn't often repped in crime fiction. Rural black America.
We live in the former Confederacy.
It takes an uncommon amount of strength to do so
But my mama ain't raise no punk
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Went to see The Equalizer 3 tonight on my way out ran into a diverse group of teenagers.
We passed each other then one of the kids, yng black boy said
" Are you the writer? "
"Yes I am "
" You came to our school earlier this year. It was cool seeing a black man as a writer"
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I think the hardest thing to accept as an adult is just how dumb some of my fellow adults are. When I was a kid I knew some adults were smarter than others but I had no idea about the absolute proliferation of stupidity that runs rampant
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@RonnyJacksonTX
You are insane. Joe Biden has been a public servant his whole life. He has suffered incredible tragedy and all you can do is try to tear him down to placate your orange l'enfant terrible.
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In celebration of
#BannedBookWeek
Whatever they are telling you not to read ....
Read it as soon as possible.
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All Things are Possible!!!!
Here’s some books that I’m reading this summer. Check them out and let me know what I should be reading next.
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My ex was having an affair with the married father of a family she babysat for when the dad died during sex and the EMT's who came to work on him were both related to me and told me they found him nude and her in her underwear .
What’s the craziest way you found out someone was cheating on you?
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Like Covid really crystallized the fact that ppl don't value the work ppl do to allow them the comfortable life they have become accustomed to. Ppl are risking their lives to give you a Goddamn icee and you toss it back at the like u think you're Henry VIII
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@Itz5harmony
@motivatefenty
People always want to use that excuse that someone was young and a child except when it's a young black man who makes a mistake or young black woman who makes a mistake
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So TWO former presidents are fans ?
To qoute Mathew McConaughey...
Alright , alright, alright!
Thanks to
@alafairburke
for thr heads up
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@JDVance1
There were over 600 mass shootings last year. 99% by straight white men but you never once suggested any soul searching by them.
F*ck off
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A dream come true ....
Shakespeare's birthplace Stratford Upon Avon
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Yeah got go meet
@pattonoswalt
tonight after a show so funny my back aches from laughing so hard!!!!
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A lot of ppl who said Hilary was exactly the same as T*ump are spending a lot of time today saying 2016 isn't why the SCOTUS is the way it is today and man that sounds like a" we were just following orders" type of excuse to me
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My niece graduated from college today with a Bachelor's in computer science. I'm a proud uncle 😎
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@AmiriKing
The man who MURDERED him didn't know any of this tho. He choked him for 15 mins and killed him without any prior knowledge because being a jerk or being loud STILL isn't a death sentence
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At the Newport News Barnes and Noble....
I used to go here and read books I couldn't afford in their comfy chairs 🙃
This will never get old 😊
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Y'all
Writing is hard. Getting published is harder. If you're in a position to help someone with the talent, drive and madness to be a writer,
Do it.
Help them.
This dream is sometimes all a person has.
It's a safe harbor in a world full of storms
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Was on FB talking about Elon buying Twitter and I said Elon doesn't create anything he just buys companies like toys. An Elon fan boy slid in the comments and said snidely
"And what do u create?"
So I posted a picture of my book billboard in Times Square 😎
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Kanye being anti-black and antisemitic in the same week isn't because of his mental issues.
It's because he is an entitled spoiled brat who only finds solace in the hollow attention of sycophants.
Ray Bradbury knew the truth
Laugh men like him out of existence
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So for the 2nd year in a row I'm nominated for the LA TIMES Book award
I know y'all sick of me but I can't believe I've come from a trailer in the woods w/o indoor plumbing to this place in my career...😌
Warning:
If we win I'm getting country Ignant lol
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I had to drop out of college to help take care of my mom. I'd gladly do that a 1k times but I lived a long time embarrassed because of I didn't have a degree or an MFA
As of today 21 colleges have asked me to come speak to their students
Life is a wheel my friends😌
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My French publisher Sonatine just announced that LES ROUTES OUBLIEES / BLACKTOP WASTELAND by S. A. Cosby has won the Prix Nouvelles voix du polar 2023 in the category of Foreign literature!
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@lazerdoov
Me and my cousin tried to run through a wooden fence to leave an outline like Bugs Bunny...
It did not work
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Newspaper in Madrid did an article about me. The picture makes me look kinda cool 😁
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We won 😊
All the Sinners Bleed is an Audie Award winner! Congratulations to
@blacklionking73
and
@alazarrewhite
!
Congratulations to all of this year's nominees, finalists, and winners!
#audies2024
@MacmillanUSA
@Flatironbooks
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I'm sitting in the airport heading to another great book tour stop and it just hit me( and now I need to wipe my eyes)
Two books I wrote made it to the best seller list. A book I co-wrote made it.
My words are out there in the world .
I am so so grateful.
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@shannonrwatts
@Jason_Aldean
I live in a small town ..moat good ol' boys are too busy beating their wives and crunching oxy like tic tacs to live out this vigilante fantasy...or they are stealing my catalytic converter
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@JDVance1
So you think it's racist if whiteness isn't the center of a workplace.
YOU THINK ITS RACIST IF WHITENESS, WHICH HAS BEEN THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING IN THE USA TO THE POINT SLAVES WERE USED SO WHITE PPL DIDNT HAVE TO GET DIRTY IS NOT AT THE CENTER
Full mask off moment for JD
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My Daddy sent me this 😭 from his flip phone
This is wild 🫡
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I couldn't be MORE THRILLED!!!!
Travon Free & Martin Roe Sign With CAA, Set Jerry Bruckheimer-Produced Adaptation Of S.A. Crosby Bestseller ‘Razorblade Tears’ For Paramount As Next Project
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I didn't win but it was such an incredible honor to be nominated!
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The people who say " that bear ain't that big" "I'd fight his ass" have never ever lived near wild animals I've seen white tail deer run fades on folks Even a juvenile bear like this WLL FOLD YOU UP LIKE SUNDAY LAUNDRY.
don't let your hubris have you on a dumb ways 2 die remix
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Was picking up some food last night and an old friend saw me and told me that he has been struggling to get his son into reading. The kid is 16 and on a lark he gave him his copy of BLACKTOP WASTELAND
"Now he wants to be writer "
Bruh...thats what it's all about 😌
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The Confederacy is not your heritage
Its your curse
It's your mark of Cain
...its the sign thats you're not the righteous man
And im tired of trying to be the Shepherd
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I was boarding a plane recently and sat down in my private seat next to the window and a nice old whitr lady behind me tapped me on my shoulder and whispered "this is 1st class"
To which I responded I know ma'am I paid for the seat
Smh...🙄
I can’t figure out a pithy way to express the caucasity so I’ll just say what happened: A random yt lady asked if I was a dog walker.
I replied, are you, & she laughed. Yt ppl can only conceive that a Black woman outside w/ a dog must be working, and does not live/belong here.
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Oh no big deal , just me and one of our greatest living writers
@jesmimi
at the National Book Festival
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
If you know me u know it takes a lot to make me tongue tied.
I could hardly speak.
She's the heir apparent to Faulkner.
Beyond honored
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In spite of all I have achieved in my writing career one of the things that I have always coveted had eluded me ...the first Best American Mystery Stories anthology I ever read was edited by Tobias Wolff. Ever since then I've wanted to be in it. Got close once
But now
I'm in!!!
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RAZORBLADE TEARS won the best fiction novel at the BCALA awards tonight. The BCALA is the Black Caucus of The American Library Association and I couldn't be more honored .
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- I've seen Confederate re-enactments , a re-litigation of a definitive loss , I've heard the myth of Lee's benevolence
All this makes the true believers THINK they won , it makes them THINK nothing changed except the chains,
It allows them to exist in cognitive dissonance-
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When I first started ALL THE SINNERS BLEED I was nervous my readers wouldn't go the dark places I was exploring. I was pleasantly surprised they did. I am truly honored for me and my team to be one of
@nytimes
notable books of the year.
Thank you all so much
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I was feeling real down about the holidays missing my mom and then Shane McGowan passed and I was in such a funk and then I got a call for The Daily Show...and I got my own Fairytale in NYC...
I gotta think my mom and Shane pulled this together for me🥰😘
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This arrived in the mail today!!! Such an honor. When I was a kid I used to rent the Dashiell Hammet reader from the library....I can't believe this has my name on it 😌
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I have no words ....
😭 I'm so honored
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Ya boy won the ITW award for best Audiobook and best Hardcover Novel.
(2nd year in a row I won the Hardcover award)
I am so so blessed 🙌
#ThrillerFest
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It never feels real until you get the ARCs😊
I'm so so proud of this book ...
I hope you guys will like it too!
Pre-orders are open
Available everywhere 6/6/2023
Come to Charon County
Come see the Season of Pain
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I'm no longer allowed to post on our local Nextdoor page because someone asked if anyone knew someone who cut down trees and I said Paul Bunyan
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I've worked for over 20 years to be a professional writer. I've sacrificed so much. I didn't do all that for some AI farming site to use my words. Take My books down now. I'm not asking again
@Flatironbooks
FYI
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I won the Dashiell Hammet award !!!
@Flatironbooks
@HGLiterary
Thank you to the judges. Hammet, Chandler and Ross Macdonald defined the American Noir novel taking crime out of the drawing rooms and back to the dirt roads and alleys where it belongs .
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I can't put into words how hurtful and insulting and dehumanizing this new conservative taking point that "slavery had some benefits to enslaved ppl" is My great great grandmother was born a slave ( Mama Jo) and the stories she handed down didn't include a fucking resume
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Was picking up some food from a restaurant and I heard a server brag that the restaurant wasn't making them get vaxxed
😐
I canceled my order and went to a place that requires vaxx for employees and guests
I'm so sick of this
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In my writing journey I've met and talked with 4 of my 6 biggest influences
Dennis Lehane
Walter Mosley
Jessymyn Ward
Michael Connelly
The only ones I haven't met are Elmore Leonard who sadly is no longer with us and Stephen King
Truly, it is a magical world
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-the truth is theh knew they were they wrong. They didn't want to shatter the lie of Southern gentleness. But Trump snd social media belligerence and Fox News has washed away that shame
ThEY THINK ITS 1858
THEY THINK THEY WON
THEY ARE ABOUT TO LEARN OTHER WISE
I promise u this
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BLACKTOP WASTELAND won the Anthony for best Hardcover Novel
And it was announced by DENNIS FUCKING LEHANE
Im gonna pass out now
Thank u
@HGLiterary
@Flatironbooks
Thank you
@jgetzler
@ckopprasch
@kellyekell
@nikkidolson
@reverenderyk
And thank you Mom
Your boy did good 😌
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At a bar and the band said they were gonna play " Try That In Small Town:...
And the boos that rained down were BIBLICAL...
I'm proud of you Virginia 👏 😎
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From chopping wood and sitting in an outhouse to a billboard in NYC!!!
Anything is possible!!
@HGLiterary
@Flatironbooks
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At a comedy club and a comedian ask what I do, I say I write crime novels and I wrote a kids book with Questlove
" Yo, are you SA Cosby?"
That was a new experience lol
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So I won the Macavity and the Barry
And Dennis Lehane presented me with the Barry
Cousin when I tell u I'm floating....😱😱😱😱😱
If you see
@blacklionking73
receive an award from
@dennis_lehane
and don’t get a giant smile on your face there’s something wrong with you.
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For all you snarky edgelords crapping on ppl for being emotional about the Blues Clues guy and his video
The last 18 months have been a maelstrom of pure unadulterated misery . So even tho I didn't grow up with Steve his positive kind message had me in tears
Let ppl have this
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So ..y'all
BLACKTOP WASTELAND just won the L.A Times Book Prizes for Mystery/Thriller of the Year ...
Thank you
@HGLiterary
@Flatironbooks
and everyone who has read this book
Gah!!!! No matter what else happens no one can take this away from me !!!
This one's for you Mom❤
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- a false reality that runs up against actuality every single day ...
They charges 3 ppl but only expelled the 2 black men because their shame is no longer more powerful than their hate
They will tell you the Klan wore hoods to scare superstitious black ppl
That's not true-
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I think sometimes we take for granted that
@StephenKing
was 27-28 years old dropping BANGERS like Carrie and Salem's LOT while ALSO writing some of the scariest short stories of all time like Survivor Type and One For The Road, Gray Matter , Graveyard Shift etc..
Wild man..🤯
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Sometimes I think of
@StephenKing
growing up with an outhouse and then going on to be one of the best selling authors of all time and how I used to read his books sitting in an outhouse with a flashlight and he doesn't know how much he inspired me
So im saying it now😊
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Line outside The STATE Theater in Austin for my talk today at The Texas Book Festival
Not bad for a country boy in dusty Timbs lol 😊
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Last night backstsge Patton Oswalt introduced me to his other guests as " a great novelist "
A novelist...
This just hit me lol ..omg
This is so surreal
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Well the Twitter overlords have finally set me free after I told a racist he should [REDACTED] with his [REDACTED] and that goes for his mama too
Anyway I'm back and look what arrived today! ARCs of the re-issue of my 1st crime novel MY DARKEST PRAYER coming soon from Flatiron
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Hanging with
@questlove
doing some promo stuff for our upcoming book THE RHYTHM OF TIME....
Check the professorial blazer I'm rocking 😎
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@lifesafeast
My great great great grandfather wrestled a bear for his freedom at a town fair. An abolishnists who was trying to help him bet the plantation owner my ancestor could beat the bear. Then he secretly plied the bear with alcohol the night b4. He then helped him escape to MD.
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@NateSilver538
Will you please shut up you goddamn glorified bookie. You don't understand science or epidemiology or politics. Just go back to handicapping horse races
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Went to see the home place today. My mom is gone and my brother has moved out so I guess we gonna sell it .
I wrote my 1st story here. There were a lot of tears in this place but a lot of love too
"We might can't help being poor but you can help being stupid"-
Joyce A. Cosby
😊
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Talking to my editor about my current project
The Editor: well currently the ending is darkity dark dark. Can we scale it back to darkity dark?
Me: so one less dark is the unit of measure we are using ?
Editor: Yes!
😄
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