gabriel smith

new fiction in @thedrift_mag (best in the game right now imo) if you read one thing by me make it this one, i really like it props to them for being excellent, esp. @emmalegin for pushing me for literally 18 months to find the 'vibe' of it, true heroes

@FtsyParliament Ez

Who can score the highest policy that begins with "Abolish the NHS" This was inspired by an earlier conversation and I will be very impressed if anyone can get more than 50 or so on this one e.g. abolishing the NHS and keeping it free as an insurance model only managed 13.6% favourability Good luck!

@WhatHoARat @xtebordo It was one of the first books Lish edited at Knopf, I believe making further edits from how they were presented when individually published: gordonlisheditedthis.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/air…

@xtebordo Ah, makes sense. They didn't feel 'tight' like ray.

Still digging out from under the pile of books i started and never finished in the past few months. Just closed out this one - my second Hannah. Definitely not as strong as Ray. A few good stories, several that felt like sketches that didn't go anywhere. He has a wild way of using language that can be really fun, but clearly needs an editor. Sometimes the language drew me in, but sometimes it kept me out.

@FtsyParliament @THFCJex Probably quite difficult, but (though it’s the most fun way to play) you may wish to consider penalising campaigns with a single untenable policy, or policy aspect, more. If u don’t immediately get fired u can still win people round. Though maybe that’s true-to-life, hard to say

@gabriel666smith @THFCJex Ok nice I was losing faith in them

Fun Fact: The AI tools weren’t even meant to be a game to begin with I was trying to make a public opinion model tool for polling companies

@FtsyParliament @THFCJex Yeah, it was, but to be fair to your imaginary voters, I jammed it between vast childcare expansions and paying pensioners for the childcare they do of their own grandchildren, funded by closing loopholes for non-doms, and used relatively mealy (but clear) wording

@gabriel666smith @THFCJex Wasn’t a flagship policy though haha?

@THFCJex @FtsyParliament I managed this on medium with a policy that made the royal family available for breeding purposes to up the country’s birth rate, which I suggested would help us maintain the triple lock for future generations

@FtsyParliament Has anyone else won this much?

@cd_hooks i think its more like an involuntary aesthetic response. like a gag reflex

the hate this thread is getting from other writers is very silly!!! you get the sense that a lot of people resent having to thick about money. but you must think about money x.com/viajoshhunt/st…

@itvmeridian Admirable initiative, trying to improve literacy in the next generation of Pompey supporters. Bless their hearts x

Portsmouth children break Guinness World Record for world’s largest reading lesson at Fratton Park itv.com/news/meridian/…

Sadly, one of these cops (not the main one with the sunglasses and mustache) was hit during a routine traffic stop by a drunk driver. Horrifically, their body was cut in half at the waist. The force of the impact (reportedly 80+mph) sent their police utility belt (now detached from their separated body) flying. Their partner reported seeing their partner’s bloodied handcuffs come to a perfect stop in the direct centre of the patrol car’s headlamps. “In a way,” he said later, to cameras, “it was just what he would have wanted.”

The Irvine Police Department releases a video warning people not to drink and drive.. 🤣🤣

@stconroe Don’t you understand man Art is a zero sum game The second any of our peers has success it is crucial we cut them down, perhaps by ostracising them from little parties or w/e All that attention ur book got could have been theirs - for their book they are working on atm Duh

Crazy how you start an entire movement and they actively try to box you out of it. The rise in nyc literary readings the last three years started with the Fuccboi launch

@GRTRD_STN And only $7 for your mother

Imagine how bad I feel

@formermissNJ @thecreativeindp Nothing scarier than reading what you said a couple of months ago lol

happy halloween! 👻 i interviewed Gabriel Smith (@gabriel666smith)—king of benzo horror 🎃💊—for @thecreativeindp 🕸️ read the rest here (if u dare!) ☠️ thecreativeindependent.com/people/writer-…

@blgtylr @bookforum I think you’ve misunderstood the deployment of present-progressive in both the sections you’ve quoted here, or they’re poor examples. They’re both moments of stasis. Energising the ‘line of action’ in them seems wildly inappropriate if your intention is for your reader to linger

lol months ago, before Intermezzo came out, I uploaded it to pirate book sites except it was just the first 50 pages of Brat but the Intermezzo cover assumed nobody noticed, but just found this 'in the wild', love a long-term payoff

They shot the Russian spy whale in Brat to death

My profile of @gabriel666smith in @AVENUEinsider : avenuemagazine.com/attack-of-the-…

Gabriel Smith IS brat ssense.com/en-us/editoria…

no it's the other one