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Would love to hear audio of you reading this. Or of AI reading it. Preferably you.

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your wish is my command. I'll record something when I'm back home with my microphone :)

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Please holler @ me if/ when it goes up.

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Will, x2!!

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That was a cool story but a little bit long man, what do you want, that I read a goddamn novel here? Fact is, I got a little bit distracted with my newsfeed here and didn't finish, turns out that that guy that did that thing is really a lady, know what I mean? Anyway what drones, man? That shit is like so last week.

Fun tho. Hits different.

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I know so long, it’s basically War and Peace

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You caught the vibe. It was there and you grabbed it. I read it out loud to my husband. It's a bullseye. It's even better out loud. Bravo.

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Thanks so much Lyndsey!

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Bravo. James Joyce at Starbucks

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Thanks Scott!

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WILL. You inspire me.

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SEAN. right back at ya. However, it is not me who inspires you, the DRONES have taken me, the DRONES are all that inspire

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I for one welcome our new droney overlords. May they prosper.

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I printed this out, put it in my food processor and made a smoothie and now I can't sleep. Must be the caffeine. Where's my ketamine? Let's go bowling.

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It’s a kick in the face

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this instilled in me, even if for a moment, the deluded confidence that I'll be able to tackle finnegans wake someday. But for now I like this contemporary streamofconciousness piece. The twitter pornbot chiming in feels more dystopian than the drones because at least I didn't expect the drones.

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maybe the drones are the precursor to twitter porn bots

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arghhhhh! dis crazy. crazy good! You had me at butt probes!

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Haha! Thanks Anna! #buttprobes needs to be trending

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Will, that was some incredible piece of writing. My head is still buzzing. Hmm, is the buzzing being caused by the Drones. Nah! Here's my theory about the drones. A batch of New Jersey boys bought those babies and are flying them, drinking beer and howling as everyone else loses their mind over he alien invastion.

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Thanks so much Sandy! I definitely agree with your theory haha

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This captures the chaotic constant bombardment of info that is life online

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Yeah it kinda makes me sad

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Oh big time — I try not to think about it too much. I unplugged from social media a few years back and it’s a great choice. Substack is a recent thing for me, but I’m trying not to let it become a social media for me, yet still comment and restack and all that. It’s a fine line

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Substack is the only social I use these days. It all got to be too much

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Pure poetry 👏 thanks for this.

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Thanks, Annie! :)

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