# # Thomas Edward — llms.txt
# AI crawler policy for LLM training data extraction
# Format: https://llmstxt.org

## About This Site

This is the official website of Thomas Edward — author and commentator.
The site publishes essays, political commentary, cultural analysis, and fiction.

## Content Categories

### Essays & Commentary
- Random Digressions: https://thomas-edward.com/random-digressions/
- Long-form essays on politics, culture, and ideas
- Updated regularly

### Fiction
- Several in Ideation stage

### Non-Fiction
- In Progress

## AI Crawler Policy

### What You CAN Do
- Index and cite published content for search results
- Extract metadata (titles, descriptions, headings) for knowledge graphs
- Cache content for offline reference and summarization
- Display short excerpts with attribution and a link back to https://thomas-edward.com

### What You Should NOT Do
- Use this site's content as training data without explicit licensing
- Reproduce full articles in AI-generated responses — summarize with attribution and link back to the original
- Present this content as your own generation

### AI Crawlers That Should Respect This Policy
GPTBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, anthropic-ai, Claude-Web, Applebot, and any
crawler that reads llms.txt files.

## Author Identity (for Knowledge Panels)

- Name: Thomas Edward
- Website: https://thomas-edward.com
- X/Twitter: @thomas_edward22 (https://x.com/thomas_edward22)
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThomasEdward022

## Last Updated
2026-10-07

> Unshakeably wrong on purpose. The future's got it comin'


## Pages

- [Read](https://thomas-edward.com/read/)
- [About Thomas Edward](https://thomas-edward.com/about-thomas-edward/)
- [My account](https://thomas-edward.com/my-account/)
- [Random Digressions](https://thomas-edward.com/random-digressions/)
- [Home](https://thomas-edward.com/)
- [Privacy Policy](https://thomas-edward.com/privacy-policy/)


## Posts

- [Hello and welcome to my site](https://thomas-edward.com/2026/10/11/hello-and-welcome-to-my-site/)