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For about a year, I did nothing.

Apr 1

The way that the human brain works, strong opinions like mine can lead to political breakdown, financial collapse and even death 💀

May 13

This week: NHS hype, tree mentors, burner email and online poker...

Feb 5, 2021

Or: Nothing propinks like cycle touring.

Jun 10

Surfing is exactly like snowboarding, except you’re being chased by an avalanche.

Mar 25

You might meet today with ‘inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men’. Maybe they’re suffering from a twisted omohyoid.

Mar 11

‘I want to see what is going on,’ he said. ‘So many great events are happening, and I’m not there to see them. I’m learning nothing here that will do me…

Feb 25

It's electromagnetic (metaphorically speaking)

Jun 24

Are you emboldened to hit CALL instead of SEND? Do you more often swipe right to answer instead of left to reject? Have you learned to love again the…

Feb 18

Under the very silly tour guidance of The Tim Traveller, where else, of all the entrepots, bordellos and gin-joints of the world, would we end up but…

Mar 4

Today was the fifteenth anniversary of the #1984Symposium, convened by Documentally to celebrate Eric Blair’s birthday.

Jun 25, 2021

Adventure today is not man versus wilderness. Adventure today is so much more complex and covers every imaginable subgenre of human experience.

Feb 4

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