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Other people might just not have your problems

I. When I was in college, I and my first girlfriend commiserated about how bad we both had been at monogamy.

10 hrs ago •

What your favorite finance writer says about you

Michael Lewis: You are a father of two.

Nov 20 •

Three novel ideas I won't write

Here are novel ideas I think are good but that I won’t write because they require background knowledge I don’t have and I don’t care about them that…

Nov 19 •

Contra Nadezhou Contra Some Guy's Date-Me Doc

X has been dunking on a perfectly innocuous guy who created a date-me doc.

Nov 18 •

Contra Lyman Stone on trans people being a western psychosis

Lyman Stone writes about trans people:

Nov 17 •

Scientific study on types of detransitioners

We know very, very little about detransition: how common it is, why people detransition, what traits predict that someone is going to detransition, or…

Nov 16 •

What's in my bag

The bad news is that I have been working on a longer and more detailed post, and I have some freelancing work to do, so I haven’t been able to write a…

Nov 15 •

Philosophical issues with transness are a symptom of dysphoria

Sometimes trans people have deep philosophical problems with transness.

Nov 14 •

Reject Hemingwayism

I can say, without fear of exaggeration, that Ernest Hemingway is the worst thing that happened to twentieth-century fiction.

Nov 13 •

Monastic vows of obedience as anti-drama measure

I have recently read Abuses in the Religious Life and the Path to Healing, which is a book about spiritual abuse authored by Dysmas de Lassus, the prior…

Nov 12 •

Recipe: Heartbreak Pie

I am presenting you with my recipe for Heartbreak Pie.

Nov 11 •

Disney stopped being about romance and started being about trauma

In the past decade or so, Disney/Pixar movies have undergone a really interesting change.

Nov 10 •

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