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As MAGA is collecting scalps for wrongthink, the easiest thing to do is bury your head, but that just gives the blade a clean angle to the back of your…
Sep 18 • 
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August 2025

Breaking Omerta
The way we talk about parenting fucks us up
Aug 25 • 
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Notes from the Velvet Cage
We don’t want reality. We want the sweet hum of being told we're right.
Aug 12 • 
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Content discontent
Please engage with this high-effort, low-metric creative asset.
Aug 6 • 
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And you may find yourself...
...living in a democracy that no longer believes in itself
Aug 1 • 
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July 2025

A funny thing happened on the way to a revision
Change happens slowly and often imperceptibly when the change acts on you
Jul 29 • 
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Margin Notes and Mercy
There's no such thing as solitary art
Jul 22 • 
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OTR, Take 63: Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
The Nostalgia Loop
Jul 19 • 
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Wrapped In a Flag & Carrying a Cross
On the fiction of the return
Jul 17 • 
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My Little Biological Weapon
On loving someone who could kill you
Jul 14 • 
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Ep 28 - Heart Animals and Finite Things
Listen now | Amy lost her cat Roy two weeks before we recorded this episode.
Jul 7 • 
Owen McGrann
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June 2025

The Most Beautiful Sunrise I Will Never See
Sometimes I lie awake in wonder that I, a self-referential, recursive consciousness, exist at all.
Jun 3 • 
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