Going through some old photos. Here’s the Lions Gate Bridge in 1959
I had the pleasure of watching Cory Doctorow @pluralistic on Granville Island in #Vancouver! Thanks for visiting!
We had our share of shade thrown towards a #BritishColumbia -grown Harper cabinet member. But otherwise, we were a receptive audience to Cory's notion that #solidarity and #unions are the greatest source of our power to counteract enshittification. Plenty of allusions to the #Fediverse throughout.
I had the pleasure of watching Cory Doctorow @pluralistic on Granville Island in #Vancouver! Thanks for visiting!
We had our share of shade thrown towards a #BritishColumbia -grown Harper cabinet member. But otherwise, we were a receptive audience to Cory's notion that #solidarity and #unions are the greatest source of our power to counteract enshittification. Plenty of allusions to the #Fediverse throughout.
I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*! 
 
Catch me next in  #Vancouver,  #Montreal and  #Ottawa!
 
Full schedule with dates and links at:
 
https://pluralistic.net/tour
(New dates just added in #SanDiego and #Denver!)
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*! 
 
Catch me next in  #Vancouver,  #Montreal and  #Ottawa!
 
Full schedule with dates and links at:
 
https://pluralistic.net/tour
(New dates just added in #SanDiego and #Denver!)
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) 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."
Upcoming appearances:
*  #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
https://www.showpass.com/2025-festival-39/
*  #Montreal: Montreal Attention Forum keynote, Oct 24
https://www.attentionconferences.com/conferences/2025-forum
*  #Montreal: Enshittification at Librarie Drawn and Quarterly, Oct 24
https://mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/events/3757420251024
*  #Ottawa: Enshittification (Ottawa Writers Festival), Oct 25
https://writersfestival.org/events/fall-2025/enshittification
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/23/traveling-salesman-solution/
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*! 
 
Catch me next in  #Vancouver,  #Montreal and  #Ottawa!
 
Full schedule with dates and links at:
 
https://pluralistic.net/tour
(New dates just added in #SanDiego and #Denver!)
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The chickenized reverse centaur is a new circle of labor hell, a genuinely innovative way of making workers' lives worse in order to extract more billions for one of the most profitable companies in history.
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*! 
 
Catch me next in  #Vancouver,  #Montreal and  #Ottawa!
 
Full schedule with dates and links at:
 
https://pluralistic.net/tour
(New dates just added in #SanDiego and #Denver!)
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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:
 
https://pluralistic.net/tour
(New dates just added in #SanDiego and #Denver!)
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) 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."
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Upcoming appearances:
*  #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
https://www.clarionwest.org/event/2025-deep-dives-cory-doctorow/
*  #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
https://www.showpass.com/2025-festival-39/
*  #Montreal: Montreal Attention Forum keynote, Oct 24
https://www.attentionconferences.com/conferences/2025-forum
*  #Montreal: Enshittification at Librarie Drawn and Quarterly, Oct 24
https://mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/events/3757420251024
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Carl Hiaasen's 'Fever Beach'; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/21/florida-duh/
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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:
 
https://pluralistic.net/tour
(New dates just added in #SanDiego and #Denver!)
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The resulting story has more twists and turns than an invasive Burmese python, that apex predator of the gate-guarded McMansion development. It's screamingly funny, devilishly inventive, and deeply, profoundly satisfying. With *Fever Beach*, Hiaasen makes a compelling case for Florida as the perfect microcosm of the terrifying state of America, and an even more compelling case for his position as its supreme storyteller.
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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.
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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:
 
https://pluralistic.net/tour
(New dates just added in #SanDiego and #Denver!)
eof/
My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) 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."
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Upcoming appearances:
*  #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25
*  #PDX: Enshittification at Powell's, Oct 21
https://www.powells.com/events/cory-doctorow-10-21-25
*  #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
https://www.clarionwest.org/event/2025-deep-dives-cory-doctorow/
*  #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
https://www.showpass.com/2025-festival-39/
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#Vancouver, this, tomorrow: https://www.mobilize.us/commoncause/event/841100/ I didn’t do this, but will be there. #NoKings #NoMasters #NoTyrants
#Vancouver, this, tomorrow: https://www.mobilize.us/commoncause/event/841100/ I didn’t do this, but will be there. #NoKings #NoMasters #NoTyrants
Upcoming appearances:
*  #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-10-16/cory-doctorow-enshittification
*  #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/literary-death-match/
*  #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/
*  #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
*  #PDX: Enshittification at Powell's, Oct 21
https://www.powells.com/events/cory-doctorow-10-21-25
*  #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
https://www.clarionwest.org/event/2025-deep-dives-cory-doctorow/
*  #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
https://www.showpass.com/2025-festival-39/
*  #Montreal: Montreal Attention Forum keynote, Oct 24
https://www.attentionconferences.com/conferences/2025-forum
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Upcoming appearances:
*  #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-10-16/cory-doctorow-enshittification
*  #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/literary-death-match/
*  #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/
*  #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
*  #PDX: Enshittification at Powell's, Oct 21
https://www.powells.com/events/cory-doctorow-10-21-25
*  #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
https://www.clarionwest.org/event/2025-deep-dives-cory-doctorow/
*  #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
https://www.showpass.com/2025-festival-39/
*  #Montreal: Montreal Attention Forum keynote, Oct 24
https://www.attentionconferences.com/conferences/2025-forum
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