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This is a paper I wrote for my first semester of undergrad in 2018. I actually wanted to expand it into a thesis about the economics of online platforms (business people say...
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Updated a zine I wrote last year during the pro-Palestine student protests. Printout on Itch. 1. Current Day In April 2024, hundreds of students at Columbia University began...
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Digital version of my pamphlet on Itch! Investigating the historical context and legacy of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, written to proselytize radical liberalism right before...
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Digital version of my eight-fold zine on Itch which itself is an abridged version of my webpage Talking Trans! 1. The Trans Question Over the past few years, trans people went...
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I’ve gotten comments from people asking questions that I thought would be nicer to answer in longer form! Thank y’all so much for your interest and responses :) Question 1:...
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Finally published the 'dry' version of CINCO! Table-Talk Odyssey on Itch! If you're seeing this here then you probably know what its deal is, but essentially: this is my home...Linked by the ring
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I wanted to keep making mini versions of Capital volumes because it'd be fun, besides hopefully being useful for others to get a conversational grasp on Marx's critique. Like,...
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HTML version of my eight-fold zine outlining a more cohesive feminist politics. This one is actually very new; I wrote it both to synthesize what I had been reading and...
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HTML version of my eight-fold zine summarizing Lenin's Imperialism, which I also just put on Itch! 1. Monopolization A capital is an investment of money in the production of...
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An HTML version of the eight-fold zine I just put on Itch, summarizing Volume I of Marx's Capital for our generation's brainrotted minds. I also previously posted a longer...
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I left my Switch at home so I've been borrowing my partner's to play her copy of Shadows Over Loathing, a silly quirky goofy point-and-click RPG in the lineage of the...Linked by the ring
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I've been struggling with how I kinda really hate game design. No matter if I play things or run things or design things, the number one thing I hate is cruft masquerading as...
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There's a cliché quote often falsely attributed to Oscar Wilde: "Everything is about sex, except sex, which is about power." Thankfully, this isn't a boomer's Facebook page, so...
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Talia Bhatt wrote a really good essay called “The Third Sex”, about how the third-sexing of individuals who display male-to-female cross-sex behavior/characteristics marks them...
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I was reading the so-called ‘Blue Book’, a cheeky nickname for Fight the Constitution, a collection of essays published by Cosmonaut, the magazine of the Marxist Unity Group, a...
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Consider this a late entry to Prismatic Warren’s (look, we need to distinguish the blog and the guy) cleric blogwagon. Or don’t. I meant to write something for it because I...
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While writing my review of Leslie Feinberg’s Transgender Warriors, I sketched a model of patriarchal ideology and society. It can be read top-to-bottom as a model of...
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I read Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg around December 2023, and I’ve vaguely gestured towards having opinions about that book in the two years since. I didn’t write a...
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This is based on two recipes on Damn Delicious and Cafe Delites that were relatively quick and easy but I felt like didn't taste enough. My partner asked me lately whether I...
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I'm working on aggregating the posts on this blog into a big book so I can eventually delete it for my personal safety, considering the state of our world. There were some...Linked by the ring
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With respect to my last blog, I want to clarify: I am not a medical student. I know many medical students, but I'm not one. I'm just nosy and vengeful. Either you know me, or...
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Before I say anything else, I want everyone to know that Joshua E. Lewis is a terrible human being who (allegedly):Got dropped from his med school for cheating on his exams...
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Happy Holidays! It's funny writing this after having de-emphasized my presence here over the past year as I had intended. The thing is, having a blog is nice to vomit one's...
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I've been working in a pride org at work to advocate for a better understanding of health benefits for trans people and more representative, humane language for trans people in...
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Thank y'all so much for y'all's interest in the last one! Will respond when I can, just preparing for a (nice) busy week and weekend :) in any case, yep... they're back! Been...
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Procedure? I hardly know her! Harharharharhar. Travel, exploration, combat. That's what we're talking about. Wait, what's this? DISCLAIMER The author wrote this article out of...Linked by the ring
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Okay so basically last Friday I was going to post about play procedures—the basic bitch shit for travel, exploration, and combat—but then I was like busy with nice real life...
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Oh yeah, I forgot I was doing this! Here's some gorgeous art by Norn Noszka to start. :) Last time, I talked about the UX side of your character's inventory. This time, I'm...
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Taking a break from my home game because real life has gotten a little crazy (later edit: unrelated to the election results!). What better time to blog about tabletop games...
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Finally! I've been wanting to write about this for a while, but I've struggled with deciding whether or not I had anything worthwhile to say. Then, I realized, when do I ever...