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Crash Override by Zoë Quinn
The day I picked up Zoë Quinn’s Crash Override: How GamerGate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate, something happened on the internet. A professional kick boxer (who I will not name), said some disparaging remarks about depression. It resulted in backlash, but he didn’t back down. Doubling down Continue reading
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“I’ve got too many answers to find”
I’ve got too many questions in my mind I’ve got too many answers to find Can I give up all I’ve imagined? Am I imagical enough for this to happen? Because I like you, I like you, I like you And like can lead to like like and like like can lead to love As Continue reading
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“A man had a son who was an anvil.”
Let me tell you something about my mother. She has intuition. She successfully predicted the sex of all three of her kids – all boys. She successfully predicted the sex of all six of her grandchildren – we’re still on the fence whether she really predicted the first. So when I announced that Jyg was pregnant Continue reading
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“A Brand New Scent for Modern Men Invented by Cartoons”
Charles Simic wrote about the absurdities of society in The World Doesn’t End. I wonder what he would think about the world now. When one of the greatest powers in human history has decided that pizza is now a vegetable. In which we help the rich and tax the poor. In which we ship our Continue reading
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“I hear they drown their young in bathtubs.”
First dream: I don’t know if I’m a reporter or a detective, but I’m working a case, investigating a missing children boom. I think it stemmed from my Twitter rants about the Westboro Baptists protesting that nine-year-old girl’s funeral. It was grainy, my dreams usually are – which only proves I watch way Continue reading
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