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On Fucked Up Friday this morning I talked about the little hardware keys I’ve been telling everyone I love to buy, and my inbox did something it almost never does on a Friday. It filled up with people asking for the instructions.
So here t...
If you are lucky enough to have grandkids one day, they might ask you when World War Three started. You’ll pause, and ponder, and maybe scratch your head and think…when was it, exactly? You’ll mumble something about the Iran War, or Russia...
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On July 15, 2019, I turned a 2-slide PowerPoint deck into a PDF and sent it to The Stranger. The first slide was a flag. The second was everything I could think of to say about it: the specification, the colors in RGB and hex, the reasoning...
What’s happening in Irkutsk—and what can we responsibly conclude when reliable information is scarce? In this October 7 morning update, Lawrence Winnerman examines reports of a possible laboratory incident at Russia’s Anti-Plague Institute,...
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Gay sci-fi author writing The Hinge & The Near Field—essays on how democracy bends, fiction on where it lands. Now: Rewiring the Republic—43 repairs, mild to wild. Co-host, The Daily Whatever Show. Gay AF 🏳️🌈
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