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just a well-read peasant
The common cormorant or shag
Lays eggs inside a paper bag.
The reason you will see no doubt
It is to keep the lightning out.
But what these unobservant birds
Have never noticed is that herds
Of wandering bears may come with buns
And steal the bags to hold the crumbs.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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The Book Tour
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.

Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
So we'll be extracting gold teeth now
This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country

A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings
November 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...
1962: What Was Britain Like Before the Apocalypse? | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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October 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Bit of a frugal #crispsandwichday this year, sorry
October 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
October 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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It hasn't been online for many years, so for today's newsletter I reposted my Big Bang Theory "spec." Tell your friends. kalebhorton.ghost.io/the-end-resu...
The End Result of My Herculean Big Bang Theory Spec
Author’s Note: This is the first newsletter where I’m reposting a piece I wrote that’s no longer hosted on the internet. My archive is pretty solid because I always figured this would happen eventuall...
kalebhorton.ghost.io
July 12, 2024 at 1:21 AM
12 stouts of Christmas tickets booked
September 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
he's stuck on the roof again and they can't get him down, they need a bigger net
August 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Hey there pal, wouldn't it be a shame if it was your process that got picked as the deadlock victim?
August 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
when you post into the void, the void posts back
August 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Elias Vance
August 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Games Workshop's new logo. Yes, you hate it, because you have no idea about GW's logos for the first ten years of its existence. Which looked like this:
July 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Scotland has given so many wonderful gifts to the world
July 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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October 23, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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A new direct action group calling itself 'Yvette Cooper' claims to have targeted Time Logistics for providing transport in Britain for Israel's Elbit Systems. Its message to the government on social media says, "if you want to ban Palestine Action, you'll have to proscribe Yvette Cooper too"
July 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Watching How Much Wood Would A Woodchuck Chuck, the Herzog doc on cattle auctioneers. They spend their lives getting into tense situations. Can't help but wonder what would happen when one of these guys crashes both vocally and psychologically.
June 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
If you've been sickened by the posts shared from the Ballymena Reaction Group (still live and co-ordinating violence on Facebook), remember that Britain First have been actively organising there since 2018. This is what happens when we fail to give fascists the reception they deserve.
June 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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if you like collage or make collage, please take a look at my little project rubblemag.org. I would love it if you would participate! please share to anyone who might be interested.

here is the kinds of thing you can see, and be part of (ps the fade function is the neatest part)
April 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I like my eggs like I like my plans: best laid
June 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Gotta get me one of those bidet ice buckets
June 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Always thought they were cowboys who went hunting, but what if instead they're people who hunt cowboys? youtu.be/IhM_HXDEa10?...
MATING CALLS - COWBOY HUNTERS [LYRIC VIDEO]
YouTube video by Cowboy Hunters
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May 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Really wish I could use Google without being exposed to search suggestions such as "michael bay skibidi toilet". Oh well, you have too now, kinda makes me feel a bit better.
May 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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In these dark times, it’s great to come together and find something we can all take joy in.
May 17, 2025 at 2:15 AM