How to Survive a Protest
Preparing for military violence against citizen resistance
If We Could Talk to the Animals
“Can we keep him?” “No.” “But it’s a TALKING DOG!”
The Dog Days of Summer
An old dog, a new puppy, paralysis and growth
The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries
Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry
Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence
With the emergence of LLM “AI”, everyone will have to learn what many disabled people have always understood
Ideas in Conversation with Each Other
The long and the short of fiction writing
Breasts of Burden
Don’t get excited, there’s no titillation here
Learning to Uncurl
Can I reclaim any part of my youngest, happiest self?
A Necessary Grace
Learning to manage anger in the aftermath of abuse
Memory Is a Double-Edged Sword
Losing it still felt like cutting out my heart
Elon and Me
Identifying the autism-to-asshole pipeline
Big Talk
In which linguistics teaches me something surprising about people
Everything Old Is New Again
Including this newsletter, and me