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Paddy

@paddy.carvers.com

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I'm kind of half here. Find me at paddy.carvers.com or mastodon.cloud/@paddy. Hopefully more the former than the latter, over time. Mostly here to follow, not to post.

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Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · 9d

I like one (1) braggart

Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · 14d

I still have a signed copy of this book! He was very kind to me when I was a teenager and discovered he lived in my city. Chatted with me and a bunch of other people interested in writing. Gave me a Word doc with the text of Am I Blue? to share with people. And Full Cast Audio is really cool!

Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · 23d

It's Dylan, Dylan is the nice things Kupo sleeps on

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Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · 28d

The real mismatch I've found is that Asciidoc expects you to be writing the entire document in it, but what people mostly end up writing in markdown are fragments of a page 😞

But yeah, Asciidoc is so much nicer and feels more thought-through

Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · 28d

I wish Asciidoc(tor) footnotes were implemented better, support for outputting multiple pages was better, that Asciidoctor wasn't the elephant in the room and non-standard, and that editors actually existed, tho

Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · Sep 16

Proud of you, swole husband

Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · Sep 14

It's just a failure of imagination. We have an opportunity to invent a whole new, impossible way for speech to sound, to bring something new into the world, and we're just like "nah"

Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · Jul 19

I turned 35 today, so I'm giving myself a gift.

I'm absolving myself of having to think about AI anymore. And I finally wrote about it somewhere durable to free myself from feeling like I need to keep reiterating my position.

paddy.carvers.com/posts/2025/0...

I’m Tired of Talking About AI

I don’t want to talk about LLMs anymore.

paddy.carvers.com

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Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · May 16

I don't think I've said it yet so I'll say it now: I really enjoyed Long Live Evil and am glad you wrote it, it's a Very Good Book

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Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · May 16

Wait you can't just say it's easy for you to pick a favorite book you wrote and then not tell us what it is!

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Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · May 11

Does preordering All Hail Chaos help?

Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · May 11

I'd love to see @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social do more with In Other Lands

Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · Sep 24

I could also be misremembering things.

Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · Sep 23

I could've sworn John Oliver mentioned this

Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · Jun 22

... is it streaming somewhere I can buy it, tho? Or is there a physical copy I can buy? I would like to see it!

Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · Apr 9

I can't stop in the middle of a series or I forget everything that's happened, so I either read everything back to back or I abandon things 😭

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Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · Apr 9

Having read all 9 of the released books, I can confirm I did, in fact, Like Them! Can't wait for the next one to come out.

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Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · Jan 9

It took me an embarrassingly long time to understand the genre of story Jack of Thorns is, but can confirm I liked it and am moving on to Knight of Flames!

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Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · Jan 8

I have been trying to figure out macarons and just got gifted a cookbook of Mexican desserts, so, uh, RIP to you I guess

Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · Jan 8

Wait, am I reading this right that KD can be sent baked goods

Asking for a friend

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Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · Jan 2

Lmfao, mood.

Wild! Looking forward to reading it.

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Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · Jan 1

Am I reading this right that the first book is free on Google Play???

Why is the first book free on Google Play? 🤯

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Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · Dec 17

I will personally send you a gift card to Powell's for the exact price of In Other Lands if you'll read it, everyone should read it, it's an excellent sword gays book.

Paddy @paddy.carvers.com · Dec 11

@kdedwardsnc.bsky.social just a heads up: the CAPTCHA on your site is broken so nobody can contact you through it. I wrote a letter to the PO box, but I imagine you're busy and don't check it too frequently. Excited to hear you're exploring doing more with your blog, though! I love blogs.

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