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09. Hybrid, Rocks, Stars (opens the original)
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Hi there. Welcome to Active Faults.I presume many of you have seen the shitshow that was Hyrox Beijing—pun very much intended. To put it mildly, a contestant experienced bowel incontinence during the competition, proceeded to continue finishing the sets, soiled the equipment and won. The internet is rightly contesting the fairness of such a win, especially since the performances of other contestants have been grossly undermined by the incident. Meanwhile, Hyrox Official is trying to reframe the
08. chat, is this chic? (opens the original)
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Hi there. Welcome to Active Faults.Recently I scrolled past a mirror selfie of Jisoo from BLACKPINK in her sparsely furnished home that looks more like a warehouse. The painting behind her is an original by Lee Ufan, priced at 1.3 billion won or 1 million dollars, featuring an orange…blob. This tweet speaks for all of us:<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wP2t!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.ama
Canon Compliant 03: Dare-to-Die Warrior (opens the original)
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Hi there. Welcome to Canon Compliant, the fan interview segment of Active Faults.Active Faults is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</
07. Stims (opens the original)
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Hi there. Welcome to Active Faults.Picture a doorway rubbing shoulders with a T4 milk tea shop and a Pakistani bank branch on a busy London high street. The entrance is unmarked. The buzzer has no instructions or labels that could indicate what it houses. You realise this is a co-working space of some sort, with weird touches of graffiti on the walls to dampen the corporate dread. A completely unnecessary, eerily spacious industrial lift takes you up three stories. Then, down an unevenly lit hal
2026 Idea Dump (opens the original)
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AF just went on its annual summer break in June, and I spent the most glorious two weeks up north for some much needed, off-the-grid time. One of those weekends I completed a mountain skills course in the Dark Peaks, scrambling up cloughs and gulleys, scraping my palm against the gritstones, stinging nettles and heather fields. We learnt this navigation technique called “aiming off”, where in order to hit your target, you should counterintuitively walk towards something slightly askew from it. E
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