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

Career Advice for Cats and Foxes

We’re asking ourselves the wrong questions