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the substack formerly known as "sicker/sickest" (2019-2021) evolved into the tragically-named placeholder "porochistatimes (2022-2025) "chertopert" feels like we're getting hotter; it is one of those feral/playful Persian words for "nonsense."

Newsletter · By Porochista Khakpour · Official site

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  1. Issue · Sep 20, 2026

    On princess cake & porridge that is “just fine” (opens the original)

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    Hello from fake autumn or whatever we must call the period post-Labor-Day before the third week or so of Sept when autumn officially establishes itself. It is my favorite season and I plan to be extra annoying about that.I’ve been doing just fine for once and meaning it. Nothing catastrophic has happened, nothing magnificent, everything has just been stable. But in a good way not a dull way. For me, the uneventful usually is a good thing.I felt compelled to share some things that have made me so

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