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The Goh-Feinberg Theory suggests a parallel between individual modes of human happiness and phases of technological development.

(The Goh-Feinberg Theory is entirely fictional. I made it up for the short story SNOW FALLS ON NYCTROPOLIS but I feel like I might be on to something.)

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February 5, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Unfortunately it’s impossible to have more than one competent vizier. Vizier competence is a fixed number, equally divided among all viziers present

Two viziers are comic sidekicks, the recommended maximum. Any more become bumbling henchmen. One vizier is cunning but will always plot against you
January 28, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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Can’t believe he said this, seems somewhat disrespectful
January 13, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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Wildlife tracking tips. A wintry comic from last year.
January 12, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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yeah go ahead and laugh at me for owning a sword. i'm sure it's going to be real funny when i'm pledging it to someone amazing and you don't have shit
December 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering*

ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin

DETECTIVE:

ME: are you getting apricot notes
December 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Pornhub has released the top most searched terms in the United States and every state searched “industrial crane lifting a dark and dripping shape from an unquiet sea” bc America is going through it,
December 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Another comic from this past year. Sometimes I'm in awe about how incredibly small birds can be.
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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I've often thought that the best revenge for all this fashy misery would be affordable social housing, workers rights, a functional health service, sustainable energy and all the other good stuff they apparently hate. But I do keep glancing thoughtfully at lampposts.
With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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every book can be improved by including an illustrated map at the start

your book only takes place in one house? ok give me a floorplan
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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I used to have a terrible phobia that I was being followed by a clown but now I can look back and laugh.
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Hey kiddo, can't sleep? I know you're scared by these uncertain times. For $7 a month, gain access to unlimited Dad. Tuck-ins, reassurance, daily Dad games.
October 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Any job can be a dream job if you have nightmares about work
October 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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New Constitution just dropped
September 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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joining the war on autism on the side of autism
September 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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The pilot just got on the intercom and said "Death is just a door"
September 20, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Trans rights are human rights, but the bad news is people also hate human rights.
September 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.

As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.

End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
September 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM