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haunted by the ghost of samuel langhorne clemens: sometimes creative, rarely fictional, unfashionably hopeful, hopefully practical, and unwaveringly invested in the common muppet.

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    Glenn Greenwald, Sunny Hostin, The View, Crumb Maidens, Tokens + Rape Apologia (opens the original)

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    These takes, right here, are rape apologia, and I’m seeing men (and their favorite crumb maidens) roll in it like catnip. I’m calling bullshit right now.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1190" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Ps1!,w_

  2. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    How to Seed Mass-Cooperation Using The Daisy Chain, Chapter 2 [Live Reading] (opens the original)

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    This is a live reading of Chapter 2 of The Daisy Chain: A Neighbor’s Guide to Mass-Cooperation, complete with typos I catch whilst reading. Also, like a turnip, I began the Q&A before the actual live reading. But hey— at least it’s human.<div c

  3. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    Chapter 2: How to Seed Mass-Cooperation with the Daisy Chain (opens the original)

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    At its core, The Daisy Chain is a heuristic, which (by definition) is a creative device that helps people think through challenges and solve problems. Heuristics take many forms, but they often rely on an easily remembered metaphor or compelling visual. The Daisy Chain relies on the image of a flower as a heuristic to help people imagine how to organize neighborhood hives.In the visual representation of The Daisy Chain (see below), the center of the of the flower represents a problem, or goal, n

  4. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    transgender is, indeed, for everybody (opens the original)

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    Summary: Transphobia has nothing to do with actual trans people— or fears of trans people. Regular ass people do not care one lick about other people’s experience of gender. It is politicians and their fascist backers who are using trans people as a wedge issue to rip apart the social fabric, and publicly debase and smear your neighbors, as a way to keep the rest of you in line and to control your bodily sovereignty. Because when you can police a person at the level of the body, it makes coerciv

  5. Issue · Sep 27, 2026

    Chapter 1: Where People Power Meets Flower Power [live reading and Q&A] (opens the original)

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    This is a live reading of Chapter 1, Where People Power Meets Flower Power, from The Daisy Chain: A Neighbor’s Guide to Mass-Cooperation. The zine is complete, and I’m releasing it to you, chapter by chapter. If you want to access the hyperlinked compendium of the The Daisy Chain, bookmark the link below. Scroll down to the Table of Contents, and you’ll see links to all the published chapters. I’m trying to put out a new chapter everyday. Stay tuned.I’m also publishing this zine on an independen

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