Paul Fairie
@paulisci
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Threads (I've written a book, The Press Gallery!), politics, fun, Headline of the Year, Dr. Cronk, @DowntownCoreCA. Researcher, instructor, @UCalgary.
Calgary, AB, Canada
Joined December 2009
If you're still cheering on this project (and I understand if you're not), the main thing I ask is that you be really nice to me (unnecessarily so, even, though honestly most people usually are) and cheer me on.
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This project started completely by accident when I tweeted the "A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore" in July 2022. In spring 2023, the book project launched. In summer 2024, I handed in the book. In 2025, the original publisher and its successor both folded.
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If it does find a home & there's a non-financially ruinous way to get people who pre-ordered copies their books, I'll see what's possible, though I can't imagine what a plan that resulted in this would be. I suspect I'll need to drink more coffee and beer to figure that one out.
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With Boundless winding up, the rights revert back to me. The book is complete (and has been for a year and a day now!), and I think it's quite fun. I will try to see if I can get a publisher's interest in the project. (If you know anybody, let me know đ).
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I held on with them after their troubles became obvious earlier in the year in the hopes that they would send copies to the 1400+ people who pre-ordered, even if it seemed realistic that I would probably never end up getting paid for them. This did not work out at all.
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This means that the book will not be coming out from them. If you pledged for a copy when the project launched two years ago, you will not be getting a copy from them. I feel terrible about this.
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While there is no official announcement I can find, I understand that the publisher (Boundless, who earlier this year, bought Unbound, who went bankrupt) is winding up as well.
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AN UPDATE ABOUT THE PRESS GALLERY. I finally have an update about The Press Gallery (the newspaper clippings book), though it's not a positive one.
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RT @BenRothenberg: This is the genius-level AI for which we are melting our glaciers. (h/t @TunedIntoTennis).
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Remember: AABALA2CP.
If youâve ever heard that. - The F-Word is an acronym for âFornication Under Consent of the Kingâ.- The Sh-Word is an acronym for âShip High in Transitâ.- Any other older word being an acronym. Itâs untrue. Acronyms are, by and large, a 20th-century phenomenon.
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-People today: People in the 1920s used to be so elegant I wish we could return to those times. -People in the 1920s:
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