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Happy Andy Boyle

@andymboyle

7 years

Happy pub day to my first book! Here's my proud mama with a copy. Order yours today!

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Happy Andy Boyle

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5 months

stop calling it content. you're writing stories. making movies and videos. creating photos and art. it's not content. it's goddamn proof that we lived for a brief and wondrous moment and attempted to communicate with the world what's deep in our mind

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1 year

this may be the greatest art to ever run in the paper of record

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9 months

love how we all get to see how dumb as shit billionaires are. used to require a massive expose in a magazine or a post-mortem biography researched for 10 years. now these captains of industries post shit on here like “the mcflurry machine is broken because of diversity”

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3 months

Ira Glass speaks the truth. chicago supremacy

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7 months

@pagan_hoetry he hung out for 40 days, basically jump scaring people and being like “I’m alive! okay be nice to each other like I said please” and then ascended into heaven

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2 years

unrelated to anything, worked at a news org where, during a company all-staff, I asked the leaders if I would get in trouble for tweeting “nazis are bad,” and they spent five minutes not answering the question

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4 months

@sonyashea3 dude’s mad he didn’t know he could join in their revelry

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2 years

anywho probably going to delete this later because it’s Too Serious, but golly if you run a news org and think journalists aren’t allowed to be anti-nazi then you shouldn’t be in charge of anything anymore

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2 years

eventually they said oh yeah, that’s fine, but gotta be careful, people might misconstrue it as an attack, gotta stay objective. someone else asked “who, other than nazis, would feel attacked?”

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2 years

I think a big reason we love John Wick movies is because it’s just awesome to watch someone who’s good at their job

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2 months

it’s important for you to know that Tim Walz is from Nebraska, and no party featuring a Nebraska-born candidate has ever lost the presidency

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5 months

@rhinotary hell yeah the scans are speeding through time

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1 year

one of my deepest held beliefs is if you own a house worth more than $1 million you should be forced to put a plaque outside that says what you do for a living/how you can afford it

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7 months

@PetreRaleigh always find it weird when people get mad that folks try and do a really, really good job. "no, you gotta do a good job and not try to do a good job, it should be almost an accident, otherwise you're a tryhard, we can't have authenticity like that."

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8 months

my cat when I meow back at him

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2 months

oh so is The Leftovers supposed to just make you feel Like This and then it doesn’t go away?

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10 months

Today marks ten years since I last drank alcohol. My main advice is this: if you want to make a change in your life, try it. Life's a science experiment. See what happens. And remember you've got people around you who want to see you succeed.

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2 years

perhaps the most important book I read when I was younger, which shaped my belief that journalists need to stand for something

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Pulitzer Prize...

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

www.amazon.com

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9 months

after getting home from any social interaction

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1 year

before my niece’s first communion mass I pointed to this row of priest portraits in a hallway and asked my nephew if he knew any. he pointed at one and said “he got arrested” and boy I’ve never googled so fast in my life

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11 months

I am incredibly proud to have won the 2023 Hugh Holton Award from the Mystery Writers of America Midwest. This is just so cool and humbling and wouldn't have happened without the other amazing writers who've helped me along the way.

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7 months

@pagan_hoetry it’s so weird it isn’t really talked about much, in catechism classes they kinda just hand waved that and I was like “excuse me this is the most insane part, I demand more answers!!” like do you think the apostles were kinda like “man he just … won’t leave”

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1 year

damn you made a bad investment on an 18-year-old kid by giving them $100k for college and they can't pay it back? sounds like the invisible hand of the market so you gotta take a loss. sorry bro 😔

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3 months

also you don’t need a car, that’s his NYC infected brain talking I assume

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1 year

there are niche businesses and then there is this

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2 years

@sophiekleeman someone did this at a paper I worked at and we discovered the culprit wasn’t stealing food, they were going through and randomly throwing away anything they thought would maybe taste bad!! still perplexed this person didn’t get in ANY trouble

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2 years

once at a conference where I was the keynote speaker, they had breakfast for us and I told the organizers I’d never had deep dish egg pizza before but it was great. the woman running it paused and said “well uh we call it quiche.” anywho they paid me money to hear my wisdom

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7 years

Hello friends. I just ran my first half-marathon, with an unofficial time of 2:16:40. Gunna go pass out now.

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2 months

@pwallinga Shania Twain’s “That Don’t Impress Me Much”

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6 months

you know what's always a cool scene in something? people go to the local library to find information. always works. always pulls me in. "fuck yes what are they going to discover on microfiche from the defunct local afternoon newspaper??"

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5 months

everyone who liked this post has the mandate of heaven

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2 years

@LaneHeymont unfortunately. it must be said, however, I worked at many orgs where leadership would’ve quickly answered “yeah fuck nazis”

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9 months

watching Masters of the Air and I have never been more enraptured by a human than Austin Butler. this is a movie star. he could start a cult based off a downward look and a little smile. he is so powerful. how is this possible

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8 years

Holy cow! I am holding my own book in my hands. This feels incredible. I'm so excited! Tiberius, meanwhile, not so much.

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7 months

well this is some pretty badass news. I am the co-winner of @uncharted_mag_ 's novel excerpt prize. I wish I had some of my standard ironic detachment to share, but I'm actually pretty delighted and feel accomplished. congrats to the others as well!

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3 years

Public schools made me think I’d encounter a lot more cornucopias than I have.

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1 year

I have received two (2) high fives so far today for my shirt

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3 months

even better to have this in the new yorker, like getting to write THE RED SOX ARE WICKED AWESOME on the yankees stadium jumbotron

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7 years

Hello friends. I ran my second half-marathon in 1:58:05, almost 19 minutes faster than my first. I’m gunna go lay down now. k bye

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8 months

Austin Butler proves that men can be hot, amazingly talented AND have good taste. finally, more of us in the public eye

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9 months

this perfectly encapsulates the internet now (via @broderick )

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2 years

nothing better in all of sport than aaron rodgers getting sacked

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1 year

thankfully it was ONLY for (alleged) embezzlement of almost $100k from the parish (lmao)

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2 months

listen I know I’m ten years late but jesus christ, you know when you’ve just watched or read something that has forever altered your brain? and you are just stuck in absolute awe in the majesty of creation? yeah I just finished season one

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2 years

a shipment is not on the way when a label has not even been created yet. do not email people until a package has moved at least one (1) mile, thanks

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1 year

younger folks can't fathom the strength TITANIC had on pop culture in the late 90s. I knew someone whose mom saw it in theater like 22 times. you heard the song 13 times daily, minimum. one day you woke up and the double-VHS copy was in your house. nobody knows how it got there.

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2 years

@donniebrat @sophiekleeman their personal preferences, which, yes, makes it all the more wild!!

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3 months

Folks, astoundingly thrilled to share that an excerpt from my novel-in-progress, "What The Living Carry," has been published over at @uncharted_mag_ , a dream publication. Check it out!

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1 year

my family had NO CLUE and it was from their parish! how come the ten-year-old knows and you don’t? did they only share the news on minecraft youtube videos??

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1 year

*indiana jones voice as a nytimes editor holds me back* it BELONGS in a MUSEUM

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16 days

a boy who is going to be okay (because it’s his birthday)

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Happy Andy Boyle

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8 years

Happy news: I'm joining @axios as their Director of Platform Architecture at the end of January. Super excited and honored!

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5 months

a dude in the hallway saw me and went “man I just love your style” so I will be living off that compliment for the next four to 17 months

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8 months

seeing lots of people saying they’d never be scammed to do something stupid yet here they are still posting on twitter

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2 years

barely checked twitter all day and my mental health seems much better. will I learn anything from this? no

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1 month

here’s to another 95 years @musicboxtheatre

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11 months

going to a punk show tonight with a friend I made 17 years ago on a webpage dedicated to said band, hell yeah

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4 months

not to be weird but does anyone wanna support and lift up each other and our creative endeavors until the end of our days, pushing us all to be greater than we ever could be alone

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1 year

going to bed before another social media network launches

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6 years

Hello I ran a 10K in 1 hour 54 seconds after not really training and having a terrible heel spur. This just goes to show the lengths I’ll go for a fancy necklace.

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6 months

@PetreRaleigh no one is ever afk, as the k follows us always

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9 months

if you order delivery today you’re tipping at least 100 percent or going to hell

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1 year

Tiberius would like to say hello

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5 months

going to probably be one of the greatest days of posting on here. remember to take breaks, stay hydrated and stretch

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4 months

I’m in a real bad place right now (indiana)

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17 days

turned 39 today. but at what cost?

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1 year

ah man @RobertOttone won a stoker award for young adult novel!! hell yeah buddy

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11 months

@AGoldmund if your bio says “the owner of several NFTs” you should be legally barred from making business decisions

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2 years

to explain what happened to the 49ers to my fellow tech pals who don’t like sports, it’s as if every AWS availability zone went down, then so did google cloud, and they had to switch everything to the “we’ll never need it” azure backup

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you can’t make me google gerald ford

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I don’t know if this is true but I believe it in my heart

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2 years

@thebrianasman @BrianMcWriter when my first book came out, I was in a B&N in NYC, saw it in the new releases at the front, a guy then picked it up and I went “can I tell you something” “uh, sure?” and I picked up another copy and pointed to the author photo. He went “fuck now I gotta buy it” and I said “yup”

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2 years

72 percent of movie and TV plots hinge on People Just Won’t Tell One Another Things For Some Unexplained Reason and this annoys me because it’s so stupid

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2 years

@ibogost also while on runs or at the gym or while cleaning/doing mindless boring things

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1 year

younger people don't understand that it used to be hard to post. you had to know how to make websites, or belong to a message board, or you worked in media. lots of true idiocy was kept in check.

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7 years

Inefficient way to deliver mail imho

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11 months

getting vibes he doesn’t wanna be at the vet today. will report back later

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5 months

me before stokercon: okay I won’t get *that* many books me after stokercon: gotta redefine my definition of “many”

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11 months

they said I couldn’t become more middle aged, folks. they were wrong

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4 months

remember when we had something called The Computer and it was in the kitchen or living room. can we go back to that

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2 years

hate that I love getting regional fast food while traveling

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1 year

ah shit ah fuck I have that deep yearning that men of a certain age start to develop. yes, I am talking about the intense, sudden desire to watch KEN BURNS THE CIVIL WAR

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1 year

I just wanna know! This fact should be listed on redfin

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7 years

I made this and I'm pretty proud of it.

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2 years

@ibogost totally get it, I think it’s mostly that I would rather die than be stuck with my own thoughts

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8 years

Tiberius has the first finished copy of my first-ever book! It comes out in a month! Holy cow! PRE-ORDER NOW!

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1 year

would like to apologize to my neighbors who heard me scream at 3am. I thought I saw a menacing demon in my bedroom when I got up to go pee but no it was just a lamp that’s been there for two years

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1 year

forever ago I worked at a newspaper where a huge percent of their daily traffic came from a "50 best horror films of all time!" list that required you to paginate through each one and it was considered a cornerstone of their digital moneymaking strategy

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5 months

@cjsinner you will be remembered through the ages as a saint of reason

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1 year

this is what you call long time friends who always bail on plans

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2 years

just got paid for the first time for writing fiction. story comes out soon in a badass lit mag. wanting to make a joke because sincerity is hard but this is really cool and I’m allowing myself to feel proud for seven minutes before I tweet something dumb

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3 months

one great joy as a chicago resident is when you meet someone elsewhere and they say “I’m from Chicago too!” and you tell them what neighborhood you’re in and ask theirs and they have that hesitation, that moment, when you both know they are A Liar, and are about to name a suburb

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2 years

man if I was a billionaire I’d first buy a cool house and invite friends over a lot and then figure out how to do the most good with the rest of my money. the other option apparently is to be a thin skinned piss baby who sucks

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5 months

@questionableway oh so you are literally living the fucking nightmare so many of us still have about taking a class and forgetting. this definitely won’t make mine go away

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1 year

a guy once loaned me $20 when I was broke in college so we could go to the bar and 16 years later I would still take a bullet for him but yeah paying for a supreme court justice’s vacations for years won’t impact his thinking, okay sure

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my city is so much better than yours, sorry, learn to cope

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11 months

oh my god I finally get to do a vague publishing tweet about great news and it’s not ironic!!

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11 months

I apologize for not watching The Gilded Age sooner. I wasn’t aware TV existed that was 90 percent passive aggressive scoffing and 10 percent outlandish clothing. this show is amazing

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7 months

@PetreRaleigh oh that's somehow worse imho, however I like a phrase I heard from a professor that 90% of all art sucks (because all art WANTS to suck, because it's the easier route), and we all just have a different 90%

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