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Oct 4, 2019

I was hoping that I could have some dignity in my life

Please enjoy the latest edition of my newsletter Welcome to Hell World which can be regularly found here. A lot of people ask where I get the art I use for Hell World and it’s usually from old out of copyright biology texts from like 1875 and I was just…

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I was hoping that I could have some dignity in my life
I was hoping that I could have some dignity in my life

15 min read


Mar 17, 2019

Decedent was inside the trench when the earth collapsed

It amounts to a grim sort of hypnotic poetry — Occasionally I post an issue of my newsletter Welcome to Hell World here. Here’s the latest. Subscribe here. Did you miss this paid-subscriber-only piece from earlier in the week because it’s a really good one. It’s about how a corporate lobbying group in West Virginia representing Dow Chemical, DuPont, Proctor…

News

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Decedent was inside the trench when the earth collapsed
Decedent was inside the trench when the earth collapsed
News

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Mar 7, 2019

So that nothing is wasted in nature

Every day I think about untwisting and untangling these strings I’m in Please enjoy the latest issue of my newsletter Welcome to Hell World which I post on here from time to time. Consider subscribing here. You’ll like it buddy. Ah fuck I gotta write this thing I guess so…

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So that nothing is wasted in nature
So that nothing is wasted in nature

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Feb 17, 2019

We have to hammer on the abusers in every way possible

They are the culprits and the problem. They are reckless criminals. Hello here’s a recent piece from my newsletter Welcome to Hell World please feel free to subscribe here. How much money would you need to go and kill someone? You wouldn’t even have to be there for it or…

Drugs

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We have to hammer on the abusers in every way possible
We have to hammer on the abusers in every way possible
Drugs

18 min read


Jan 26, 2019

There were a few people that didn’t support me but they kept it hidden

This is an excerpt of the latest issue of Welcome to Hell World please subscribe here. Everyone knows there’s a Dril tweet for everything that’s just how our brains are wired now but for me there’s one tweet that has become so reliable an illustration of how the centrist Democrat…

Transgender

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There were a few people that didn’t support me but they kept it hidden
There were a few people that didn’t support me but they kept it hidden
Transgender

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Jan 24, 2019

The end of media is already here

I wrote this in December of 2017 for the Nieman Lab future of media predictions and with the recent news about even more layoffs at digital media companies I thought I’d repost it here since it seems like it’s going pretty much as I guessed so far! …

Life

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The end of medis already here
The end of medis already here
Life

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Jan 21, 2019

It’s a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps

The latest subscriber-only Welcome to Hell World is here please feel free to purchase a subscription to read it. People like that think fairness is a synonym for justice but it’s not fairness is an impediment to justice a lot of the time. Fairness might be applying the law as it’s written about where and when people can drive onto a wildlife refuge to leave water behind but it’s not justice. Fairness might be treating people of different races equally in our personal interactions while ignoring systemic racism but it’s not justice. Fairness might be letting people who’ve amassed large fortunes keep their money because they worked for it after all but it’s not justice. Justice isn’t fair it’s just.

Politics

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It’s a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps
It’s a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps
Politics

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·Jan 18, 2019

The Body Shaming That Haunts Young Boys

The locker room talk we’re not discussing is how young men critique each other — The locker room at my gym is an anthropological world of wonders. Inside, you’ll find every type of body imaginable on display in its full glory. There are older sagging bodies, young and toned ones, and everything in between. In the adult world, men’s bodies go largely unremarked upon, age…

Eating Disorders

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The Body Shaming That Haunts Young Boys
The Body Shaming That Haunts Young Boys
Eating Disorders

7 min read


Nov 10, 2018

Please send me some money

I’ve been writing a newsletter called Hell World for a few months now. If you haven’t seen it please check it out here and you will like it because it is good and it will make you sad every day sorry about that. I also just began giving people the…

Life Lessons

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Please send me some money
Please send me some money
Life Lessons

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Aug 5, 2018

Subscribe to my new email newsletter please and thanks

I’m doing an email newsletter now. Subscribe here. More info below. I’ve decided to throw my large hat into the email newsletter thing for some reason. Well, for a couple of reasons: 1) Facebook has become an increasingly confounding and unreliable platform for writers to share their work, and as much as I’m still surprised to see it, there appear to be a non-zero number of people out there who are interested in regularly reading my bullshit. So one aspect of this…

Journalism

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Subscribe to my new email newsletter please and thanks
Subscribe to my new email newsletter please and thanks
Journalism

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