HeyJaredRiantly, or with Laughter
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Read This If You’re Curious Where My Pancreas Has Gone (opens the original)
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This past weekend, I was in New York visiting family. And while they asked for the verbal thumbs-up of “You good?” to which I could answer, “I’m stable,” it was odd to realize that I managed to leave there after a good handful of days without a thorough conversation toward the effect of my survival. And here I am, writing now, trying to discern if I wished they’d have asked me about my pancreas. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!H7MV!,f_au
‘N Things: Writing, Substack, and the Resistance to Platformification (opens the original)
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“I need another portal into your thoughts,” Ally texts me when I talk about how aware I am that I have not been writing here frequently. I send two texts in that conversation that effectively say, I got bored of the writer who composed Substack articles; I think it is clear that I was lying. Though when I composed these texts, I don’t believe I knew the lie—instead, as the sentences have fermented in my mind, I have realized two things: that my life is much too composed around transactional, rew
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