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[@doctorow](/creator/twitter/doctorow)
"Viva is the other fulcrum of the tale: her employers the elderly couple behind the Mink Foundation are secret white nationalist bankrollers who use their charity to funnel money to militia groups including Strokers For Liberty. 18/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696611006325209) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"The AI bubble is on its way to sucking up a trillion dollars and not all of that money is coming from Saudi royals hedge fund bastards and Elon Musks credulous creditors. Plenty of it will come out of the savings of working people whove forced to play the suckers at the table thanks to the replacement of guaranteed pensions with market-based pensions that only pay out if you guess right about which stocks to buy:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978953486583861668) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-16T22:37Z 470.6K followers, 35.2K engagements


"The book revolves around a classic Hiaasen bumbler Dale Figgo an incompetent white nationalist who was kicked out of the Proud Boys after the Jan X insurrection. 12/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696593352519836) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"There's Clure Boyette's soon-to-be-ex-wife who must not on any account be shown the photos Galaxy took of Clure in a fur dog-collar and leash defecating on the floor of a luxury hotel suite. 26"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696767139311961) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"There's Noel Kristianson whom Dale Figgo runs over and nearly kills during an altercation over Figgo's practice of stuffing incoherent antisemitic rants into ziplock bags weighted with beach-sand and tossing them onto the driveways of unsuspecting Floridians. 38/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696849968427229) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:05Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"There's a constellation of minor characters and spear-carriers including Key West drag queen martial artists and assorted discount-store Nazis long-suffering charter bus drivers and a hit man who cannot abide racial prejudice. 29/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696874387747229) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:05Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"Count Chocula Franken Berry and Boo Berry TV commercial animation cel - General Mills (1973)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1979578873110258027) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-18T16:02Z 470.6K followers, 2506 engagements


"Illustrations by Adrienne Adams (1974 1981)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980007814648271032) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-19T20:27Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"The Kid from Mars by Oscar J. Friend Cherry Tree Fantasy Book XXX 1951 Cover by Terry Maloney"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980007818553123281) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-19T20:27Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"Now you *could* get your government to order Apple to open up its platform to third-party app stores but they will not comply - instead they'll drown your country in spurious legal threats: 8/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980278176019579100) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:21Z 470.6K followers, 1923 engagements


"That's a law banning Canadian farmers from fixing their own tractors Canadian drivers from taking their cars to a mechanic of their choosing and Canadian iPhone and games console owners from choosing to buy their software from a Canadian store: 30/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980278625615442075) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:23Z 470.6K followers, 1064 engagements


"Twitter gets worse every single day. Someday it will degrade beyond the point of usability. The Fediverse is our best hope for an enshittification-resistant alternative. I'm @pluralistic@mamot.fr. The Fediverse edition of today's threads is at: 15/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980281963027337385) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:36Z 470.6K followers, 2070 engagements


"After 20-some volumes in this vein (including *Bad Monkey* lately adapted for Apple TV) something far weirder than anything Hiaasen ever dreamed up came to pass: Donald Trump the most Florida Man ever was elected president. 9/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696584368333001) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:03Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"You do not need to have read any of Hiaasen's other novels to love this one. But I'm pretty sure that if you start with this one you're going to want to dig into the dozens of other Hiaasen books and you will not be disappointed if you do. 32/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696979270455734) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:05Z 470.6K followers, 1940 engagements


"I'm on a tour with my new book *Enshittification* Catch me next in Portland Seattle and Vancouver Full schedule with dates and links at: (New dates just added in San Diego and Denver) eof/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980697043451724028) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:05Z 470.6K followers, 4536 engagements


"Twitter gets worse every single day. Someday it will degrade beyond the point of usability. The Fediverse is our best hope for an enshittification-resistant alternative. I'm @pluralistic@mamot.fr. The Fediverse edition of today's threads is at: 15/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980700400937525594) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:19Z 470.6K followers, 1900 engagements


"I'm on a tour with my new book the international bestseller *Enshittification* Catch me next in Portland Seattle and Vancouver Full schedule with dates and links at: (New dates just added in San Diego and Denver) eof/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980700406335566333) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:19Z 470.6K followers, 1957 engagements


"The daily dose of Fay Wray"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980707436366545287) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:47Z 470.6K followers, 2080 engagements


"1Church of the "Hersteld Apostolische Gemeente" (1929) in Rotterdam the Netherlands by J.J.P. Oud"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980707445434630654) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:47Z 470.6K followers, 2038 engagements


"I'm on a tour with my new book *Enshittification* Catch me next in San Francisco Portland and Seattle Full schedule with dates and links at: eof/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980281966315675845) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:36Z 470.6K followers, 2139 engagements


"1959 Swamp Fox flintlock pistol ad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980622565006799095) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T13:09Z 470.6K followers, 2060 engagements


"The plots play out like an intricate clock that has been much-elaborated by a mad clockmaker with an affinity for eccentric gears all set against the background of Florida a glorious and beautiful place being fed into a woodchipper powered by unchecked greed and depravity. 8/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696580685721614) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:03Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"The conduit between the Minks and the Strokers is Rep Clure Boyette a MAGA Republican failson of an ultra-powerful lobbyist who (unbeknownst to his dad) raised $2m for the Strokers for a "Stop the Steal pollwatching" op designed to terrorize voters who favor his opponent. 19/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696614210768966) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"Upcoming appearances: * PDX: Enshittification at Powell's Oct XX * Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy with Ed Zitron (Clarion West) Oct XX * Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival) Oct XX * Montreal: Montreal Attention Forum keynote Oct XX * Montreal: Enshittification at Librarie Drawn and Quarterly Oct XX * Ottawa: Enshittification (Ottawa Writers Festival) Oct XX * Toronto: Enshittification with Dan Werb (Type Books) Oct XX * Madrid: Conferencia EUROPEA 4D (Virtual) Oct XX * Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books Nov X * Miami: Cloudfest Nov"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980700379097833617) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:19Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"Eavy Metal "A wide selection of models from the studio staff and a page dedicated to Paul Benson plus an ad for Marauder Miniatures which was owned by Citadel (White Dwarf XXX December 1989)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980714538602569984) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T19:15Z 470.6K followers, 2452 engagements


"Of course the Trump administration is running away from municipal fiber - indeed from *all* fiber - as fast as it can because every fiber installation competes with Elon Musk's satellite based internet service Skylink: 32/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1974167249880784938) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-03T17:38Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"We have to get our supporters to stop focusing on agonizing about whether they should use a plastic straw or agonizing about whether they should quit Facebook. 16/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1976971261915152722) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-11T11:20Z 470.6K followers, 1135 engagements


"Focus instead on using politics to shatter the power of the giant wildly profitable corporations that got us into this crisis. We need to smash oil companies like Chevron and Exxon and we have to smash oily rag companies like Facebook and Google: 17/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1976971263739675000) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-11T11:20Z 470.6K followers, 1167 engagements


"Some of the great illustrations from The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884) including tales of the mythical Glooskap whose name literally means Liar because it is said that when he left earth he promised to return but has never done so:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1976982808280109199) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-11T12:06Z 470.6K followers, 3812 engagements


"Hauntings - art by Edward Gorey (1968)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977474870054121707) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-12T20:42Z 470.6K followers, 4187 engagements


"Corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street New York 1909"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977697165867618472) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-13T11:25Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"Hands weaving magnetic-core memory IBM Poughkeepsie New York 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977697168090685764) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-13T11:25Z 470.6K followers, 2497 engagements


"Here's a surprising stat: from 1845-1960 UK house prices pretty much kept pace with inflation - a house you'd bought XX years ago could only be sold for more-or-less what you paid for it (technically houses rose about XXXX% ahead of consumer prices). 1/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977743896189755569) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-13T14:31Z 470.6K followers, 72.1K engagements


"But that's not how it works when a bank originates a loan. Banks are "fiscal agents" for the UK's central bank the Bank of England. That means that banks can create new money simply by crediting one of its depositors' accounts. 17/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977743923545051349) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-13T14:31Z 470.6K followers, 2100 engagements


"When a bank loans you 100k to buy a house 100k in new money is created. Banks don't raid other depositors' accounts for your loan - they make new money out of thin air. 18/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977743925096993173) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-13T14:31Z 470.6K followers, 1987 engagements


"So after the bank originates your loan your account has 100k more in it and the bank has an IOU from you for 100k which sits on its books as an asset. In the moment the money is created the bank makes 100k in new money for its balance-sheet. 19/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977743926900543851) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-13T14:31Z 470.6K followers, 1900 engagements


"(Where the cost of your home eats up so much of your income that you struggle to pay for heating groceries transportation etc.) 43/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977744698463719768) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-13T14:34Z 470.6K followers, 1037 engagements


"Here's Keen's math: say you're a median UK household (37k/year in disposable income) and you buy a median house (270k) with a XX% deposit (what Americans call a "down-payment") at X% interest. 44/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977744733674852475) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-13T14:34Z 470.6K followers, 1031 engagements


"Over a 25-year mortgage your monthly payments will be 20.6k/year more than half of your disposable income. Not only is this more than you can afford - it's also so much that you just *won't get a mortgage* from a bank. 45/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977744791048696178) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-13T14:34Z 470.6K followers, 1112 engagements


"They'll look at those numbers and decide that you can't afford to pay back this loan (they'd be right too). But what if we trim that interest rate to zero 46/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977744839409102991) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-13T14:34Z 470.6K followers, 1063 engagements


"Even though he's the darkest of clouds Trump has some deeply weird silver linings formed out of a combination of his self-owning isolationism and blunt aggression. 1/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978454483131625659) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-15T13:34Z 470.6K followers, 45K engagements


"Apple's monopoly over iPhone apps is a big deal - it lets the company structure the market for software in Europe without any accountability or limits and Apple extracts a XX% tax on every euro that changes hands via an iOS app. 39/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978455261263044986) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-15T13:37Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"Globally Apple makes more than $100b/year from this "app tax." When the EU passed a law aimed at halting this racket Apple *lost its mind*. First they proposed a "solution" that was so onerous and tortured that it was a kind of sick joke: 40/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978455361045635379) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-15T13:38Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"Volkswagen used the fact that it was illegal to reverse-engineer its engines to disguise the fact that it was cheating on its emissions tests and the resulting "Dieselgate" scandal killed thousands of Europeans: 50/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978455804358324496) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-15T13:39Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"But they don't have a long time: the massive GPUs that power AI's "foundation models" and cost six- or seven-figures *each* burn out remarkably quickly. 5/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978874373441491113) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-16T17:23Z 470.6K followers, 1574 engagements


"The companies that buy these GPUs claim they'll last five years (and depreciate them over that schedule); however this is accounting fraud because in reality these GPUs have a duty-cycle that's more like *two to three years*: 6/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978874375484117273) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-16T17:23Z 470.6K followers, 1777 engagements


"Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread). NOTE: I DID NOT BUY A BLUE TICK. IT WAS NONCONSENSUALLY ADDED TO MY ACCOUNT. Inside: The AI that we'll have after AI; and more Archived at: #Pluralistic 1/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978877993524297941) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-16T17:37Z 470.6K followers, 3519 engagements


"Mad Tea Party July 1960"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978953815685468427) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-16T22:38Z 470.6K followers, 2866 engagements


"Mad Tea Party July 1960"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1979148968748814697) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-17T11:34Z 470.6K followers, 2278 engagements


"Vogue France 1994"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1979337664240431500) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-18T00:04Z 470.6K followers, 2764 engagements


"The Dragon Flies (1975) So this Dragon of the title flies a hang glider If so Im not impressed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1979543517530857693) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-18T13:42Z 470.6K followers, 2649 engagements


"Elsa Lanchester as The Bride of Frankenstein - art by Sanjulian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1979543549554405387) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-18T13:42Z 470.6K followers, 2302 engagements


"1968 First Day of Issue Walt Disney USPS stamp and envelope"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1979543553123737935) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-18T13:42Z 470.6K followers, 2220 engagements


"Kiln Tower/Exhibition Space (2021) of the Brickworks Museum in Cham Switzerland by Boltshauser Architekten"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1979871852920254829) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-19T11:26Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"1 Confiscated pens containing cheat notes intricately carved by a student at the University of Malaga Spain. (2022)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1979871860696482192) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-19T11:26Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"socks used to cheat on civil service exams Qing Dynasty China"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1979871864173588496) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-19T11:26Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"1987 Walt Disney Company Telephone Directory"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1979871868061626394) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-19T11:26Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"David Byrne riding in on his bike for No Kings in Philly like a king"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1979871871828152610) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-19T11:26Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"The daily dose of Fay Wray"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1979871880187449672) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-19T11:26Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"Wood House (1937) in Shipbourne England by Maxwell Frey & Walter Gropius"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1979871886009086382) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-19T11:26Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"Halloween Party Treats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1979871893105922109) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-19T11:26Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"Monster Bash Pinball Machine - Cabinet artwork by Kevin O'Connor (Williams 1998)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1979871906372436168) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-19T11:27Z 470.6K followers, 2480 engagements


"Dutch music magazine Oor No. X - January 11th 1986"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980266395771474170) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T13:34Z 470.6K followers, 2815 engagements


"1964 GM X Stiletto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980266400955736376) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T13:34Z 470.6K followers, 2172 engagements


"I'm on a tour with my new book *Enshittification* Catch me next in San Francisco Portland and Seattle Full schedule with dates and links at: 2/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980281912704004593) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:36Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"The mad king's digital killswitch: Every accusation is a confession. 3/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980281916910907690) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:36Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"#20yrsago Fox shuts down Buffy Halloween musical despite Whedons protests Fox shuts down Buffy Halloween musical despite Whedons protests #20yrsago Norways public broadcaster sells out taxpayers to Microsoft #20yrsago Lifehackers profile in NYT #20yrsago Pan-European DRM proposal https://dissected #20yrsago EFF cracks hidden snitch codes in color laser prints #20yrsago Nielsens top-10 blog usability mistakes #20yrsago Microsoft employee calls me a communist and a liar and insists that a Microsoft monopoly will be good for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980281924582351097) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:36Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"My ebooks and audiobooks (from @fsgbooks @torbooks @HoZ_Books @versobooks @beaconPressBks etc) are for sale all over the net but I sell 'em too and when you buy 'em from me I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements." 8/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980281940403163639) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:36Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"Upcoming appearances: * Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest) Oct XX * Calgary: Big Techs Betrayaland How to Break Free (Calgary Wordfest) Oct XX * San Francisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith) Oct XX * PDX: Enshittification at Powell's Oct XX * Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy with Ed Zitron (Clarion West) Oct XX * Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival) Oct XX * Montreal: Montreal Attention Forum keynote Oct XX * Montreal: Enshittification at Librarie Drawn and Quarterly Oct XX * Ottawa:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980281945906139524) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:36Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"Recent appearances: * Enshittification (Smart Cookies) * Enshittification (The Gist) * Canadian tariffs with Avi Lewis * Enshittification (This Is Hell) * Enshittification (Computer Says Maybe) 10/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980281950259843430) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:36Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels" a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC about Ponzi schemes techbros and the dawn of enshittification: 7/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980700362551226396) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:19Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"Remember when we were all worried that Huawei had filled our telecoms infrastructure with listening devices and killswitches It sure would be dangerous if a corporation beholden to a brutal autocrat became structurally essential to your country's continued operations huh 1/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980278157166133434) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:21Z 470.6K followers, 36.8K engagements


"That means that if Trump (a man who never met a grievance too petty to pursue) orders Tim Cook (a man who never found a boot he wouldn't lick) to remove apps from your country's app store you won't be able to get those apps from anyone else: 7/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980278173544890494) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:21Z 470.6K followers, 7018 engagements


"Typical Tiki Hut Aloha Lagoon Cape Coral Gardens Florida"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980622519687344581) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T13:09Z 470.6K followers, 2373 engagements


"McDonald's Riverboat St. Louis Missouri 1985"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980622560783180083) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T13:09Z 470.6K followers, 1991 engagements


"Every one of these people is engaged in some form of skulduggery even the heroes who are every bit as lawless and wild as their adversaries though Hiaasen's protagonists are always smarter and more competent than his villains. 7/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696577808482432) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:03Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"If you asked an LLM to write a Hiaasen novel you might get Trump: a hacky unimaginative version of the wealthy callous scheming grifters of the Hiaasenverse. 10/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696586935247283) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread). NOTE: I DID NOT BUY A BLUE TICK. IT WAS NONCONSENSUALLY ADDED TO MY ACCOUNT. Inside: Carl Hiaasen's 'Fever Beach'; and more Archived at: #Pluralistic 1/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980700325268058511) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:18Z 470.6K followers, 2540 engagements


"The Halloween Hex - art by Keith Birdsong (1989)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980735694084743403) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T20:39Z 470.6K followers, 2358 engagements


"Ork glyphs from Waaargh the Orks a Rogue Trader supplement by Nigel Stillmann & Bryan Ansell Games Workshop 1990"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977149689016320035) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-11T23:09Z 470.6K followers, 3106 engagements


"In order for your building society to credit your mortgage account by 100k there must be a corresponding decrease of 100k in its savings account (just like when you send XX to a friend you have XX less and they have XX more). 16/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977743922018373755) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-13T14:31Z 470.6K followers, 2062 engagements


"As much as I like my 2gb symmetrical fiber the fact that it exists because a crook stole billions of dollars from everyday people who were only hoping to live a dignified retirement of material sufficiency is *terrible*. 19/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978874404802318543) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-16T17:23Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"Carroll Borland as Luna - Mark of the Vampire (1935)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980077731443577075) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T01:04Z 470.6K followers, 3288 engagements


"These anti-jailbreaking laws were designed as a tool of economic extraction a way to protect American tech companies' sky-high fees and rampant privacy invasions. 31/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980278740732260459) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:23Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"Sailing Ship Columbia 1960"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980622523684524414) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T13:09Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"Dwellers in Shadow (1996)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980622528780595667) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T13:09Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"Dwellers in Shadow (1996)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980622538507186193) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T13:09Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"Employment Office Altona (1927) in Hamburg Germany by Gustav Oelsner. Photo by Carl Dransfeld"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980622543993377049) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T13:09Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"Yesterday's threads: The mad king's digital killswitch; and more 6/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980700356972888563) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:18Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"Its 1991 and Goblin Green bases still arent standard. This 2-page article in White Dwarf XXX (March 1991) includes a description of Englands process: The bases were painted with Bestial Brown and Woodland Green. When this was dry Wayne painted PVA glue onto the bases and sprinkled sand over them. Once the glue had set he brushed off the excess sand and drybrushed the bases with a mix of Sunburst Yellow and Bilious Green"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980735689584259188) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T20:39Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"* Miami FL: Keynote for Cloudfest (Nov X 9:45AM) * Burbank CA: Signing at the Burbank Book Festival (Nov X 2PM) 19/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1973054327120908378) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-09-30T15:56Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"* Lisbon PT: A post-American enshittification-resistant internet with Rabble at Web Summit (Nov XX 1040AM) * Cardiff UK: Hay Festival After Hours at Wales Millennium Centre Bute Place (Nov XX 7PM) 20/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1973054330182803877) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-09-30T15:56Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"Upcoming appearances (cont'd): * Lisbon: A post-American enshittification-resistant internet with Rabble (Web Summit) Nov XX * Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours Nov XX 18/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1973061102499193215) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-09-30T16:23Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"Upcoming appearances (cont'd): * Miami: Cloudfest Nov X * Burbank: Burbank Book Festival Nov X 19/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1974470252227682486) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-04T13:42Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"TFW your book has been on sale for XX HOURS and your editor tells you that it's just gone into its FOURTH printing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1976471879411171628) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-10T02:16Z 470.6K followers, 33.6K engagements


"Main Entrance of the Central Bus Station (1956-59) in Rovaniemi Finland by Niilo Pulkka Kaarlo Leppnen and Pekka Rajala"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1976962505957356023) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-11T10:46Z 470.6K followers, 2105 engagements


"A departing soldier bids farewell to his loved one at New York's Penn Station 1943"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977149680187589052) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-11T23:09Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"Fay Wray 1930's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977149684272836908) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-11T23:09Z 470.6K followers, 3113 engagements


"When you take out a 100k mortgage the bank adds 100k to your account *without* taking it from anywhere else. 49/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977745095270023563) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-13T14:35Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"Banks are "fiscal agents" of the national bank and they are permitted to create money this way - and then charge you rent (interest) on that money they can create for free. 50/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977745116119863444) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-13T14:35Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"Do interest free loans sound like a communist plot to you Keen asks us to consider such noted socialist proponents for this ideas as Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. 55/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977745324430029199) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-13T14:36Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"They railed against financing the Muscle Shoals hyrdroelectric plant with bank loans instead insisting that the national bank should simply create the money to make those loans: 56/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977745349885177919) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-13T14:36Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"The Amazing Spider-Man "Bells of Doom""  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978547210213376270) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-15T19:43Z 470.6K followers, 2835 engagements


"House Windstoer (1957-59) in Stuttgart Germany by Max Bcher"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978547218727514552) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-15T19:43Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"The daily dose of Fay Wray"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978547226101375012) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-15T19:43Z 470.6K followers, 2433 engagements


"Worldcom CEO Bernie Ebbers deserved what he got and worse. The AI bubble is on its way to sucking up a trillion dollars and not all of that money is coming from Saudi royals hedge fund bastards and Elon Musk's credulous creditors. 20/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978874407197315231) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-16T17:23Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"Entry of one of the Housing Blocks (1926-27) at Helmholtzstrasse in Hamburg Germany by Gustav Oelsner. Photo by Carl Dransfeld"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978940585084960803) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-16T21:46Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"The Daily Dose of Fay Wray"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978940590671728725) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-16T21:46Z 470.6K followers, 2297 engagements


"1965 Brachs Candy ad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980077703811465308) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T01:04Z 470.6K followers, 3396 engagements


"A post-American internet starts with abandoning the laws that give US companies - and therefore Trump - a veto over how your technology works. 41/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980279073520967943) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:24Z 470.6K followers, 2428 engagements


"I'm on a tour with my new book *Enshittification* Catch me next in San Francisco Portland and Seattle Full schedule with dates and links at: eof/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980279116206428294) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:25Z 470.6K followers, 2647 engagements


"Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread). NOTE: I DID NOT BUY A BLUE TICK. IT WAS NONCONSENSUALLY ADDED TO MY ACCOUNT. Inside: The mad king's digital killswitch; and more Archived at: #Pluralistic 1/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980281906773332185) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:36Z 470.6K followers, 3113 engagements


"@FontaneJames Not avoiding just missing it this time. I've had many great events in Dallas and Austin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980634583260622865) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T13:57Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"Back in 2020 Hiaasen wrote Trump into *Squeeze Me* a tremendous and madcap addition to his canon: *Fever Beach* is the first Hiaasen novel since *Squeeze Me* and boy does Hiaasen ever have MAGA's number. 11/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696589833499019) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"Figgo mistook a statue of a revered Confederate general for Ulysses S Grant (it was the beard) and released a video of himself smearing shit all over it. 13/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696596036923475) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"As a front for this dark money op Boyette has founded the "Wee Hammers" a charity that pulls prepubescent children out of school and puts them to work with heavy power tools to construct houses in a child-labor-centric MAGA version of Habitat for Humanity. 20/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696617805312083) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"There are *so many characters* - I've barely scratched the surface here. 24/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696628806971630) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"There's Galaxy a dom who loses patience with her long-term client MAGA Congressman Boyette after he stiffs her on a payment because he was busy tweeting about plot by woke billiard manufacturers to replace the nation's black 8-balls with Pride-themed rainbow versions. 25/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696631373918576) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"There's Jonas Onus the number two man in the Strokers For Liberty who terrorizes all and sundry by bringing them into contact with Himmler his 120lb pitbull mix. 27/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696806242808143) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"I'm on a tour with my new book the international bestseller *Enshittification* Catch me next in Portland Seattle and Vancouver Full schedule with dates and links at: (New dates just added in San Diego and Denver) 2/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980700332398375336) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:18Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" from MCD/Farrar Straus and Giroux: 8/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980700365738869196) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:19Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"Recent appearances: * The Great Enshittening (The Gray Area) * Enshittification (Smart Cookies) * Enshittification (The Gist) * Canadian tariffs with Avi Lewis * Enshittification (This Is Hell) 11/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980700385011724681) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:19Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"The Girl With the Key by Mary Kay Simmons Dell Books 3196 1974 Cover by Robert Maguire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980707427009056967) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:47Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"RHPS (1975) Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980757413151273056) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T22:05Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"992 updated Citadel Miniatures Painting Guide by Mike McVey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980757416565420201) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T22:05Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements