Strategic Resistance: Mass Demonstration
Why organized nationwide rallies are an excellent use of your time and energy right now
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The War on Empathy
Resisting bully billionaires with guerrilla kindness
How to Survive 2025 (part one)
We are all preppers now
Gender X
A middle-aged reappraisal of the whole damned idea
“Weird” Might Save America
A wordsmith’s take on why, and how you too can help
Preparing for the Next Market Crash
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble
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
Career Advice for Cats and Foxes
We’re asking ourselves the wrong questions
Liberals are in the majority
on most US social and policy issues
Toward a Spiral of Sound
Changing people’s opinions is hard. There’s a better way.