430: South Pacific, ordinary abundance, big houses
Plus Boris and Carrie's Pink Pony time
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429: Catching predators, leaving academia
"Sometimes the fake names become real."
428: Midwest data centers and homegrown fantasists
"that’s the kind of thing we’d remember"
What I Read in July 2026
Well, this is embarrassing.
427: Rupert Lowe, tactical absent-mindedness and the Rosenberg Boys
a postapocalyptic hellscape of sclerotic socialism
426: Elizabeth Bennet's Odyssey, AI friends, Victoria Wood
"Her average message to Chat was seven hundred and thirty words long"
Now That's What I Call ... Me at The Atlantic
Celebrating seven years with seven of with my favourite pieces.
The Bluestocking 425: Hysteria and the unicontext
"whose engagement ring ‘opens up to a tiny comb’"
The Bluestocking 424: Ozempic desire, rural suburbia, Economic Gary
"the Amish consistently compare their language unfavorably to standard German"
The Bluestocking 423: Escher's Arcadia
Patagonian trains and rigid Victorian moralists
What I Read In June 2026
The imperial power of Zuck, Trump and the wellness industry, plus momfluencers, wellness and rigid Victorian moralists.