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Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 6h

Ten days to go. I didn't choose the @booklife.bsky.social, the book life chose me. (This tag worked better on Twitter)

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Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 8h

Do you think when Pokémon got big Neil Diamond was hoping Weird Al would spoof "Soolaimon" to tackle it, or do you think that's not the sort of thing he thinks about

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Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 19h

I was watching in the background but had to leave at 11 PM and this is how I found out that game is still going :O

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Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 1d

Eleven days to go. That's good, I'm running out of stock photos of women in mysterious silhouettes.

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Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 1d

Getting vintage Cake vibes off this. (The band, not 'vintage cake' in the sense of that Seinfeld episode)

furiousBall @furiousball.bsky.social · 1d

Only 14 Fridays left this year, let's start this one right, with gratitude...

- Thank you to Flyflewradio for spinning "Hide it Like a Magic Trick" on today's show!

Give this tune a spin here -> furiousball.bandcamp.com/track/hide-i...

Be good to each other out there, we all need kindness.

Hide It Like a Magic Trick, by furiousBall

from the album I'll Be Your Arsonist

furiousball.bandcamp.com

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Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 1d

A few weeks ago I mused that Ladies Mary and Edith from "Downton Abbey" could conceivably have lived long enough to see the original "Star Wars". Not sure why they *would*, maybe they went with a grandson or something

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 2d

YOU: Help, help! My house is on fire!
ME, A WISE PUNDIT: Actually, house fires are down significantly. It's more likely that you're just in a media environment disincentivized to give you the right information
YOU: It's spreading to my room!
ME: It's an issue of framing, really

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Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 2d

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The Sorcery of White Rats

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Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 2d

Twelve days to go. Time to repost stuff you've already read—er, I mean, cleverly repurpose existing content resources for impactful brand synergy.

Jokes aside: as we whip through pull quotes of the great reviews thus far, there was never a chance I wouldn't start with this one.

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Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 3d

PERSONAL FINANCE TIP: For retirement, save 10-15% of your income. Also 10-15% of _my_ income, so I can mooch off you

Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 3d

My upcoming novel "The Sorcery of White Rats" has 691 em dashes, not counting the back matter.
No AI used. All human-made. No machine could ever overuse em dashes as much as I do.

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Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 4d

PERSONAL FINANCE TIP: Cancel any subscriptions you're paying for that you don't use. Not only will it save you money, but in a few months you'll get to read a free article whining about how Millennials aren't subscribing to enough things

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Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 4d

Two weeks to go.

I'll be hyping this thing pretty heavily across these two weeks… but rest assured, it lives up to whatever hype I deliver. I've measured very carefully.

Happy spooky season to one and all.

www.adambertocci.com/whiterats

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Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 5d

I wonder if the toilet paper industry ever looks back nostalgically on the big rush in 2020, or if, in the end, it was hard on them too

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 5d

People keep endlessly falling for this idea that if they can just finally prove once and for all that Trump is a bad person, his voters will turn their back on him and it'll all be over. It's not even remotely close to reality and should have been clear as day the second he got elected back in 2016.

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 5d

I've spent way too much time talking to MAGA people and something I consistently note is that they tend to bucket politics into two categories 'policy' and 'noise'. Policy is whether their politicians are doing what they want, and noise is anything else. The latter gets ignored.

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Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 6d

Who is this novel for, anyway?

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Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 7d

Yesssss! My fellow Millennials, it's finally our time to shine! Time to go out and get that entry-level job now

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Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 8d

*extremely showgirl voice* my life

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Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 8d

Put another way, I agree with Murphy that you can't make your message anything that implies to the voter that the election won't matter, vote won't be counted etc. or it won't motivate him to vote or donate. Trump at least worked around that problem with his "too big to rig" framing.

Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 8d

But people *won't* be seeing it destroyed, because we're ultimately talking about messaging for an *election* which is how the average American visualizes democracy. You can't tell people "Trump will destroy democracy" and then two years later say "Oh he didn't do it yet, but vote for me or he will"

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Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 8d

Also, the audience always had at least one reliable laugh

Brian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 9d

GUY WHO JUST CAME BACK FROM DOING THE JABBA'S PALACE COMEDY FESTIVAL:

You know, I gotta say they're really great in there, they're just like us. I thought it was only gonna be women in chains and a trapdoor monster they feed slaves to but like, they also have a band that plays cool music.

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Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 9d

MODERATOR: And what would you do about rising health care costs if elected President
GEN Z CANDIDATE: *stares*

Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 9d

I'm probably in the top 100% of smart people

Adam Bertocci @adambertocci.bsky.social · 9d

Keeping the Boomers in power another generation by convincing Gen Z that getting elected is cringe