Wild full circle who could have guessed history rhymes great Scott

Notably, as of 2015, about $45 billion (with a b!) in funding for reconstruction projects in Afghanistan could not even be accounted for

Not that this is the answer. It’s not. But in the absence of a caring government one can abort a pregnancy by taking mugwort to induce menstruation. It grows everywhere. Even in Texas. It’s a plant. This should go without saying, but it’s free.

Building on this concept: public spaces often don’t have a transaction cost, and the American psyche does not know how to value something otherwise. Even defining something as ‘free’ roots the value in transaction.

Red pilled enough by the high quality of life in Europe to become a poster

What Anne Boyer said!!!

With sentences like this, it's entirely reasonable that people don't want to have jobs anymore.

A few months ago, I was visiting family in Florida (where I grew up) and a friend who works in health care there told me she got this weird memo about trans kids, and how science says it's bad. She showed it to me. So I started clicking the links 1/ vice.com/en/article/m7g…

if she’s your girl then why are her works in conversation with mine

(not sure if I should post here???? or mastadon? Or fb? but) Every time I read Dirt I discover some new, informed articulation of a thing that bothers me and this is both sad and satisfying dirt.substack.com/p/dirt-the-fla…

Turning on Netflix already feels like I’m in a hole staring up at a ceiling painted to look like the sky, but I suppose it can get worse.

Waiting room.

Wrote another thing on substack…a cultural analysis that is somehow about rockstar work culture in the 2010s and overconfidence in the 2020s. open.substack.com/pub/srhhnry/p/…

now that every writer's been forced to pivot to a one-man-show newsletter, every post is like 'i wrote about Anora (2024), the end of the USSR, vladimir putin, child labor laws, Alf, and the postmodernism of fredric jameson ❤️'

killing the group chat for three days by ranting about how the Dems don’t have any ideas big enough to counter a soviet style return to spheres of influence politics through anti-globalization imperialism

A beloved favorite, the em dash, unusable in the current climate