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Recent posts

• The local reporter who took the government to court twice · 02/11/2026
• "For all things, including crisis, there should be a season” · 31/10/2026
• “You just need to pretend to be an important person” · 24/10/2026
• “Age is a social construct; you can accept it or reject it” · 17/10/2026
• “When you’re at rock bottom, the only way to go is up” · 10/10/2026
• "Kids his age are just better at making friends. They haven’t learned to be weird about it." · 03/10/2026
• “In nature, the poison and the remedy are often found side by side” · 26/09/2026
• “I liked imagining us listening to the same song at the same time. It was the only piece of connection I had left.” · 19/09/2026
• Does TV actually suck now? · 14/09/2026
• “You know which gazelle gets eaten by the lion? The one that strays from the pack.” · 12/09/2026
• Shea Serrano never intended to become a writer. He built a cult following as one anyway. · 10/09/2026
• “A teacher’s job, he told us, was to arm children with tools against loneliness” · 05/09/2026
• Dolly Parton knew there was room for fun in brilliance · 30/08/2026
• “Nice people are wonderful, but you can’t build a life on being liked” · 29/08/2026
• “Slowing down sounds admirable until you realize that most of slowness is just being bored and alone in your thoughts and rituals” · 22/08/2026
• “At some point in the future, something that is currently considered a high-level skill will be the baseline for everyone” · 15/08/2026
• “It was 5 hours into the trip when I realized my hostess might be annoyed. 33 hours when I thought she hated me. 55 hours when I knew she would never speak to me again.” · 08/08/2026
• An author’s $2 million book deal was pulled over suspected AI use. Where does publishing go from here? · 06/08/2026
• “The old-media era of journalists really wanted to be powerful. And I think now it’s about being interesting.” · 04/08/2026
• “You can’t transform the world unless you can understand it, and you can’t understand the world unless you can measure it” · 01/08/2026