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Paul Bradley Carr is author of The Upgrade, Bringing Nothing To The Party, and Sober Is My New Drunk.

He was previously Silicon Valley columnist for the Guardian, and has written for the Wall St Journal, The Times (London), The Daily Telegraph, National Geographic, The Huffington Post, Food and Wine, Private Eye, BBC Radio, Channel 4 TV (UK) and countless other outlets on both sides of the Atlantic.

Paul was born in Dunfermline, Scotland and currently lives in Palm Springs, California. He is on Twitter and Instagram, but only barely.

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Pamela Smith @pamelacadabra·

14 Jan

Thanks to an episode of Jonathan Creek I watched in 1997, I am still scared of walking under scaffolding, incase I'm hit on the head by a falling part and subsequently collapse and die in a wardrobe. Thanks @alandavies1

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Apparently there’s a big debate on book Twitter about whether fan fiction is good or terrible. Although not really a debate because it’s just one snob saying fanfic is terrible and everyone else telling them to stop being such a jerk.

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Book-ish @Bookishcrick·

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Morning! Today I'm going to drink tea, do some yoga and read. That is all

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AC Tatum @actatumonline·

16 Jan

Nobody defends billionaires more than hundredaires.

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Deepa Seetharaman@dseetharaman·

16 Jan

Selena Gomez emailed Sheryl Sandberg last year to take her to task about hate on Facebook, per ⁦@AP⁩. https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-jack-dorsey-susan-wojcicki-sundar-pichai-mark-zuckerberg-f6e012799df27392750dd13bdf306bd2?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

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