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Lesbian Bar Mask Mandates (opens the original)
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Everyone sent me the story. It was built for me in a lab. It broke in the Boston Globe:<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="466" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hUrB!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progre
The Rise of the Anti-Cancel Culture Influencer (opens the original)
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Over the past year, I’ve done a series of interviews with people about their experience of cancel culture. I have talked to people who make content about cancel culture as a way of exploring its impacts, with people who have suffered material and emotional damages as a result of smear campaigns, and with people who were swept up in feeling intensely about someone they did not even know. I have talked to people who had no other option to warn people about someone’s bad behavior but to post on the
Capitalism Is Killing Us (opens the original)
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It is a strange dissonance, one of many I suspect driving us all insane: that we can see, smell, taste, feel the world deteriorating while the powers that be continue selling us their slop, and we’ll still drink that garbage anyways. Climate anxiety has for decades cast a shadow over those of us lucky enough to think of this and not have felt it immediately, on our shores or on our unshaded streets. To be blessed to have a normalcy, or something like it, and relegate just a part of your brain to
Climb A Big Building For What? (opens the original)
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A few years ago I wrote an angry screed about Instagram Influencer Dude With Sign, which, maybe predictably, ended with him blocking me on Twitter. I, like many denizens of the web, love to choose a Side Character through which to funnel my (justified) rage at the way things are in the world. This follows in the tried and true contemporary condition of conflating what I see most in the feed with the mechanisms of power. A niche and unimportant figure who has no capacity to materially change anyt
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