Princess (xe/xem)Oct 18
Reading Cory Doctorow’s The Bezzle and then learning the 998 tattoos and Viking gang within the LA Sheriff’s Department are not fictional is very scary. https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/los-angeles-sheriff-gangs-cliques-subgroups #acab #LASheriffsDepartment #998 #policeGangs #LosAngeles #VikingsGang #Lynwood #TheBezzle #CoryDoctorow @pluralistic
Gangs? Cliques? Subgroups? Call Them What You Will — There've Been 18 (Yes, 18) In The LA Sheriff's Department

The report identified 11 "deputy gangs" and seven "subgroups." Some have tattoos, hand signals, and rituals that are similar to a criminal street gang, it said.

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Show threadAJCxZ0Aug 26, 2025

No longer looking forward, but back as the Internet's Wil Wheaton did it again for @pluralistic's second Martin Hench book, "The Bezzle". It's exactly what a good sequel should be: the same, but more and better.

As for the inevitable savage beating of the protagonist of whom we've become fond, that sadistic author does not disappoint.

I'm already flinching for "Picks and Shovels".

https://craphound.com/category/bezzle/

#CoryDoctorow #WilWheaton #MartinHench #TheBezzle #Audiobook

David MasonJul 24, 2025

I really enjoyed #RedTeamBlues by @pluralistic so picked up #TheBezzle from the #library

Can't wait to dig in!

#CoryDoctorow #Bookstodon #NowReading #Books #PenroseTriangle

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Announcing the Picks and Shovels book tour

https://craphound.com/novels/redteamblues/2025/02/06/announcing-the-picks-and-shovels-book-tour/

#RedTeamBlues #TheBezzle #News

Announcing the Picks and Shovels book tour | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

MopsiJan 21, 2025

My wife just bought #TheBezzle for me, after I kept telling her about all the interesting things that @pluralistic keeps writing about!

First Doctorow novel, I'm excited!

My wife is great 😊

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Picks and Shovels Chapter One

https://craphound.com/overclocked/2025/01/10/picks-and-shovels-chapter-one/

#SomeoneComestoTown,SomeoneLeavesTown #DownandOutIntheMagicKingdom #EasternStandardTribe #RedTeamBlues #Overclocked #TheBezzle #Podcast #News

Picks and Shovels Chapter One | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

Stephen Rees Dec 8, 2024

I have just finished reading cory doctorow's @pluralistic "the bezel" In the acknowledgments he says that the greatest boon an author can receive is an honest reaction from one reader to another.

I strongly recommend that you read it. The library files it under fiction and while technically that might be reasonable this book positively hums with realism. I began to wonder if Cory indulges in some of the activities so carefully described here. But the book is not just about 1/2

#thebezzle

Gabriel Viso CarreraNov 4, 2024
Bought @pluralistic‘s #TheBezzle naturally DRM-free and at a local bookstore in Sydney. How cool is that.
Shaun DyerOct 12, 2024
Last night I stayed up late to finish #TheBezzle by @pluralistic I couldn’t put out down it’s brilliant, like if John Grisham had been an accountant not a lawyer. I can’t wait for the last in the series.
ask DNAJun 24, 2024

Took a #sickday today to catch up on #sleep and #reading.

#coffee #book #thebezzle @pluralistic