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You Bullied Me! Plus Walter Ong
Happy “Hump Day” folks,
Real thought digest today. The bar-that’s-a-cafe-during-the-day that I camp out in made me a cocktail — amaro, Bailey’s, whiskey, and then I added some orange peel to bring it all together — so you’re getting genuin...
I Am Begging You to Bully Me
Short one today.
First, been reflecting some older writing—
from March 2025, Internet Overexposure Syndrome
from October 2022, We’ve ALWAYS Used the Internet to Self-Diagnose Plus Maybe Those Guys Who Just Retweet Anime Girls Really Are...
With Yumeshipping, Your Heart Has to Be in It or What’s the Point?
case study #24
Azy takes Alastor from Hazbin Hotel everywhere — a figure, a plush, some piece of merchandise with his image. But he also knows that Alastor isn’t real. This isn’t a discovery waiting to happen at the end of this interview....
The Sexual Revolution of the Imagination
Good afternoon, Deeists —
In case you missed it, paid subscribers received two interesting conversations in their inboxes last week, one with religious studies scholar Jeffrey Kripal and another with CUFOS head Mark Rodeghier:
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Will UFO Research Always Be a Sideshow?
a conversation with mark rodeghier
During the summer of 2025, I began reporting an article about how UFO research had changed since the 2017 New York Times story, which revealed that the Pentagon had secretly funded a program to investigat...
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