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Note: Yes I use em-dashes when I write, and no this is not AI. There are three kinds of startups. I have worked at all three — feel free to guess which is which. First, hype-driven startups. It may sound bad, but this is the kind VCs...
Last year, I tried the first of Benjamin Stevenson's Ernest Cunningham novels after some initial skepticism, but Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone (2022) sold me on Benjamin's hilarious, classically-styled meta whodunits and...
From my novel Evertype. Illustration by Trent Reker.
I started my day checking the headlines on news sites and saw an interesting title that caught my eye because it's about CSS. These posts are generally interesting because it'll mean I learn some new CSS tricks. The posts I've read are...
On 4 July 1857, the Dead Rabbits raided a Bowery Boys clubhouse and kicked off two days of gang warfare in Lower Manhattan. Around 1,000 fighters. Eight confirmed dead. The police ran away.
Meg Walls (left) and Anna Marks Pryce (right) in Lulla at the Omnibus Theatre. Photo: Lidia Crisafulli Lulla, presumably short for lullabies, which weave through this play, centres on 16-year-old Marin (Anna Marks Pryce), a queer...
Remember when my friend Duncan Newmarch was Stuck in the 80s? Well, he’s back, with a new show for the weekend. Or is a show from four decades ago? Or is it both?
Toronto consists of enclaves. All right, and parks. Enclaves are areas inhabited by minorities. There are a hundred and five minorities in Toronto, and new ones are being created all the time. Surrounded by invisible lines, walls and...
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and...
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the...
Hog Lowe Pike- an intriguing name for an intriguing place. The humpback hill sits high on the surrounding moorland and despite its modest size, it is a prominent landmark easily seen by travellers on the Grane Road. The earliest evidence...
It’s a lovely summer morning at Catcott level crossing and halt as the 9.05am Evercreech Junction to Highbridge service rumbles pastSwanky Syd is on gate duty today, covering for crossing keeper Dafne Dando, who’s off to Highbridge...
Tangled is a Github competitor built on top of atproto. The company behind it is a Finnish startup, situated in Finland, with all servers and data held in the EU. They have taken VC money, but at least conceptually the fact that it's...
Probably his most famous work, but I didn’t enjoy it as much as the critics do. It sounds insane to criticise hemingway’s writing but I found his stacatto sentences offputting e.g: I wanted to go to Austria without war. I wanted to go to...
Tammy Roe was absolutely certain that the whole country was celebrating her birthday. She lived up the street from us on South Bend’s south side in a neighborhood the families called Rabbit Hill. 31 children had been born along our...