Belem is sort of leaving home. My occasionally irritating alter ego is going to publish smutty stories on Medium. His stories will be available exclusively on Medium for subscribers on that platform. The masses will get to decide whether his filthy ideas are worth reading. In the meantime Rupert will continue to work on Novels and longer-form fiction.
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I announced a while back that I would be evolving my social media presence in 2023, since it was already apparent that X..er, Twitter was deteriorating to the point that its signal-to-noise ratio would become unacceptable. That has already occurred. Since the beginning of the year, the site has been overrun by sex bots and Elon Musk authoritarian fans, who mostly have less than 50 followers, and have the intellectual acuity and debating skills of
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At the end of 2022 I published a post about changes in my social media strategy. At the time, I intended to transition off of Twitter, where I had several accounts. It was already obvious that Elon Musk had no understanding of how to manage a social media platform, and probably did not care in any case, because he had (and still has) other motives. As we can all see, Twitter’s reliability and functional integrity
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Silverdale Academy is a spin-off book from New Society. As is usual, Rupert dreamed up Silverdale, and then Belem rubbed his hands in glee and said “I’m going to write about this place”. So off he went, and was soon typing. Now there is a novel in work. In this prologue from Silverdale Academy, Patrick, until recently a run-of-the-mill, bored primary care physician in South Monterey, heads off to his new primary day job at Silverdale. However, it
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I am going to be transitioning off of Twitter as my primary social media platform for myself and Belem Knight. The reasons are somewhat obvious. Elon Musk is busy dynamiting his own business, by encouraging toxic actors and driving away advertisers by arbitrary, capricious and nonsensical decisions. (He is also busy expelling and driving away employees, who are a lot less replaceable than he thinks). The results are already visible, via the re-appearance of assholes
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