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Mr. Travers of Travers Tales
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Mr. Travers, whimsical storyteller of soft magical realism, sci-fi sitcoms & surreal serials—all with a dash of absurdist deadpan humor.

https://www.wattpad.com/user/MysteriousMrTravers

https://buymeacoffee.com/duketravers
Oliver needs answers. He’s calling it a sleepover—but really, he’s invited his friends over to witness something impossible. Mrs. Riley agrees… as long as nobody needs a ride home past midnight.

#BookSky #Book #AmWriting

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Chapter 4 - Operation Fox Shield
The front door hadn’t even clicked shut before Oliver bolted for the bathroom, twisting the shower handle hard enough to wrench it loose.
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April 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A whimsical, offbeat tale for those who remember the sting of leaving things behind in order to appear grown. (Three chapters published as of now)

#Book #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #IndieAuthors #WIP

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The Gallery on The Fridge
Long ago, back when cable TV still ruled the living room, Oliver Riley had been sitting in front of the television set in the living room.
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April 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A tale about a boy and his imagination...to put it mildly.

It’s weird, it’s whimsical, it’s an inverted bildungsroman infused with absurdist deadpan satire.

But most importantly it's about the things we leave behind to seem grown.

#BookSky #IndieAuthor

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The Gallery on The Fridge
Long ago, back when cable TV still ruled the living room, Oliver Riley had been sitting in front of the television set in the living room.
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April 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.
April 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Alright! Fess up! Which of y’all were signed up for Gerber Grow Up Plan?
March 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
So the Pentagon performed a blanket search term for the word “gay” and inadvertently called for the deletion of “Enola Gay” the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Is that what I’m understanding?
March 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The history of brainrot is embedded with the history of internet culture itself.

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The Cyber-libertarian Origin of Brainrot
Many oldheads like to reminisce on the "Wild West" days of the internet, but little did they know it didn't start out that way.
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February 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
1/7 From its inception to the early 90s, Internet Culture was shaped by academics, office work, and word processing. It was professional, functional, and structured. But three key conditions shattered this, giving rise to the first great digital countercultural movement. 🧵⬇️
February 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Not everybody rediscovering the appeal of Web 1.0.
learning to enjoy bad writing on websites because that means that at least a person wrote it, somebody who cared about what they were writing about enough to try. totally non-dystopic state of affairs
January 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I guess ChatGPT lost it’s job to AI #deepSeek #nvidia #AI
January 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
So glad that the US went "lol jk" on the TikTok ban.

Where else can you casually stumble upon unhinged information such as that Arapahoe County, Colorado has an disproportionately large amount of searches for "skunk furries"?

www.tiktok.com/t/ZT28y9a3m/
Most popular furry species" Google search in every state follow @Riley Winters❄️ #qna #tumblr #funny #storytime #furry
TikTok video by Entertainment Sauce
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January 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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SCOOP: In the days before TikTok went dark, Instagram and Facebook released a flurry of new features and ran advertisements promoting itself as a comparable alternative.
How Meta Tried To Lure TikTok Users To Instagram
In the days before TikTok went dark, Instagram and Facebook released a flurry of new features and ran advertisements promoting itself as a comparable alternative.
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January 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Not TikTok beating Prohibition for the US’s shortest ban. 💀
January 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Name a Facebook creator. 😐

#Meta #Facebook #tiktokban
January 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Many US politicians and platform owners are about to relearn a harsh lesson about the free market. #unprecedentedEvent #tiktokban #GreatTikTokMigration #Xiaohongshu #RedNote
January 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The whole TikTok debate has been giving “yellow manace” ahh rhetoric, and I can’t be the only one who noticed.
January 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The FBI in my webcam doesn’t feed me dopamine like the Chinese Spy in my TikTok does js
January 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
If the users are the smoke, then the 6.2 billion hours of footage, equivalent of 1.2 billion VHS cassettes, are the kindling on the fire.
January 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Are y’all prepared for The Great TikTok Migration?
Bluesky is going to be the meeting hub if TikTok gets banned in the US.

We will be talking and organizing on here—not Twitter. Not Facebook/Instagram.

If TikTok gets banned I’m deleting Instagram.
January 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The ban of US TikTok is a modern day Library of Alexandria-level tragedy being experienced in real time and I feel like nobody is talking about it. #Tiktokban #unprecedentedtimes
January 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
To this day, I demand to know who was the goofball who decided that Instagram Reels couldn’t pause.
December 19, 2024 at 3:46 AM
Do you ever sit and wonder if British colonist thirsted for rebels like people are thirsting for Luigi? Do you think the loyalists judged them for it too?
#ShowerThoughts
December 19, 2024 at 3:41 AM
As a casual internet historian, I’m Feeling big feelings about the #TikTokBan
December 9, 2024 at 3:49 AM
Imma bet nine normie bucks that Haley "Hawk Tuah" Welsh was scammed by some seedy tech bros who conned her into making a meme coin. God, even the word "meme coin" sounds so astoundingly brainrotted. And dumbasses really spat "their lifesavings" on that thang? 1/2
December 7, 2024 at 6:05 AM