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26AUG24 / sicknote

Bleurgh.

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General

26 Aug 2024

less restructuring than expected

Rowing-machine revelations and dental discoveries.

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General 🙜 Social Theory

23 Aug 2024

the real content of all online politics is the internet itself

Telegram Sam: he’s my main man. Whether it calls itself the Right or the Left, the real content of all online politics is the internet itself, and the arc of online politics always bends towards a bunch of strangers who spend their entire lives on the computer demanding that you publicly denounce your friends. Sam…

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General 🙜 Politics 🙜 Writing

22 Aug 2024

plot as instinct

I know that I should probably be adding my voice to the chorus of Very Concerned People being Very Concerned about the popularity of conspiracy theories, but somehow I’m just not that worried—not least, perhaps, because I went through a period of being very into them myself, through the late Nineties and into the early…

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General 🙜 Politics 🙜 Social Theory

20 Aug 2024

privateer highwaymen (or: Postnord’s licensed grift)

Fucking Postnord and their fucking grift.

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General

19 Aug 2024

26AUG24 / sicknote

less restructuring than expected

the real content of all online politics is the internet itself

plot as instinct

privateer highwaymen (or: Postnord’s licensed grift)

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