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[AE.Personal, AE.ADHD] On the pill.
October 11, 2021
There's a bit of received wisdom around the area of cures and other medical treatments that suggests that the more complaints a supposed "miracle cure"...
[AE.Personal] ADHDevelopments
October 6, 2021
A bit of personal news that I hope will lead to some professional progress... I have received an ADHD diagnosis and am waiting on meds. I see this as the...
[AE.Personal] The pipes, the pipes are calling...
September 22, 2021
So, the repair work I've mentioned is finished. It wound up being spread over last Friday, this Monday, and Tuesday. It took longer than we had expected, but...
[AE.Personal] Down with the sickness.
September 16, 2021
Hey, all. So, I made it through a week of daily newsletter updates, and then got a decent start on this week... and then it fell apart. Mostly because I fell...
[AE.Politics] On Amy Coney Barrett and the political theater of the absurd
September 13, 2021
There's a lot of chatter on Twitter today about Amy Coney Barrett's recent remarks on the Supreme Court and partisanship. Most of the headlines I've seen run...
[AE.Politics] Hey, Aren't You The Pail From Palin Around?
September 11, 2021
I have very mixed feelings about writing this because I would love little more than to write off Sarah Palin as a relic of the past, a political non-entity...
[AE.Personal] A reminder from my body.
September 9, 2021
Today I have been reminded that regardless of what I do to improve my sleep routine, my work routine, or my other daily and nightly routines, the body I live...
[AE.News] Butler, Scuttled
September 8, 2021
So, The Guardian recently published an interview with venerable feminist scholar Judith Butler that was edited after the fact, redacting an entire answer...
[AE.Personal] The Gentle Art of Not Hustling
September 7, 2021
So I mentioned yesterday at the outset that I've been working on some new work/life balance and productivity hacks, which I elaborated on a bit over on...
[AE.Politics] Trump's Labors Lost
September 6, 2021
Hey, what's up, subscribers? It's been a minute. I've been working on some work-life balance stuff, working on building a daily work routine that I can slot...
[AE.Politics] Bad legal arguments, or stumping for sedition?
August 9, 2021
So last week I read a thread by attorney Mike Dunford (@questauthority) on Twitter, about legal sanctions in one of the Krakenesque lawsuits regarding last...
[AE.Personal] One weird trick for defeating the Twitter algorithm.
July 27, 2021
I've said this on Twitter a few times, but the nature of Twitter is that things get lost on it, even before and without any algorithmic manipulation. It's so...
[AE.Politics] Lies, Big Lies, and Loyalty Tests
July 26, 2021
There’s a quote from George Orwell, from (what else?) 1984, that people love to quote in relation to Donald Trump: The Party told you to reject the evidence...
[AE.Personal] The Root of Our Problems
July 23, 2021
Hey. So, last you heard from me on here, we were having contractors in to look at our basement; most recent a plumber to check out a shady-looking drain...
[AE.Recommendations] Debugging tools... FOR A HOUSE?
July 19, 2021
I had quite a few people express interest in what products I’d found useful for home pest control, so this letter will include Amazon affiliate links for and...
[AE.Mailbag, AE.Meta] Plates, Pokemon, Pronouns, Policies
July 17, 2021
Hello, lovely readers and all the ships at sea! Tonight I'm going to try a new feature here at the Erin Endeavor, the reader mailbag. In lieu of a comment...
[AE.Personal, AE.Family, AE.Humor] Wisdom from my Father
July 16, 2021
So I saw my dad today, which was the first time I'd seen him or any blood relative of mine in two years. He drove out to see us on a little cross-country...
[AE.Personal] Bugs in the Basement
July 15, 2021
I often feel a little exposed talking about issues in my real life, because of my long experience both with people engaging in weird parasocial relationships...
[AE.Personal AE.Disability]
July 12, 2021
I did not at all get into the bullet journal trend even at the height of its hype, not for any reason of claimed discernment but simply because it was not...
[AE.Meta] Tag, you're it! (NB: Contains tags list.)
July 12, 2021
Hello subscribers and all the ships at sea! I've got a little housekeeping for the newsletter here, a little bit of what the kids call meta, in this sense...
The Mind is a Pokemon
July 9, 2021
There's a convention in some kinds of RPG-type video games where characters can learn different skills or moves but only have a relatively low limit on how...
Notes from a transitional period.
July 8, 2021
So, the move to Buttondown is now finished. Mostly finished. There’s some things like pictures not loading that I’m going to see if they can be fixed, as the...
Not All The Insurrectionists Were Tourists... Some of Them Worked There
July 6, 2021
So the line of defense referenced in the tweet might sound familiar, as it's been used by Trump and the Department of Justice both under his crony and his...
Testing, testing...is this thing on?
July 6, 2021
No, really, is it? Hello, and welcome to the first tentative installment of the all-new Erin Endeavor, now powered by Buttondown.Email. I had intended to...
Seeing The Magic Doughnut
June 23, 2021
First things first: if you missed Monday’s announcement, the Erin Endeavor is moving homes from Substack to Buttondown. If you are currently subscribed at...
We're Moving!
June 21, 2021
So, I mentioned in one of my more recent updates that I’m looking to relocate my newsletter off of Substack, in light of some high-profile business decisions...
Context Clues in the Era of #MeToo
May 7, 2021
I have a message for our nation’s journalists, and not to be overly melodramatic, but it’s very important that they receive and understand it. Like,...
Liz Cheney Committed The Only Crime Republicans Care About
May 5, 2021
First, by way of foreword, I’d like to apologize for having left this newsletter fallow for so long. I was just finding my way back into the groove of...
Naomi Wolf on Tucker Carlson: We Must Be Free To Agree
February 23, 2021
Perennial embarrassment Naomi Wolf, most famous for having been factchecked in real-time on the basic premise of her already published book during a radio...
Just a quick check-in.
February 22, 2021
I feel weird and self-conscious about making personal check-in posts on here, for a few reasons. One is that I figure most people who subscribe to my...
In Search of a Just World
February 8, 2021
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably heard of the Just-World Hypothesis, but for anyone who hasn’t — or needs a refresher — it’s the fallacious tendency...
What We Carry With Us, What We Leave Behind
January 21, 2021
In evolutionary biology, a maladaptation is a trait that makes survival in the current environment harder. Such maladaptive traits are often the result of...
A Concession to Reality
January 8, 2021
Yesterday, Donald Trump gave what is likely the closest thing to a concession speech he will ever give, and under the only circumstances in which he would...
As The Smoke Clears
January 7, 2021
Well. I find myself today in the position of not really knowing what to say, but knowing that things must be said. I do make a point to remind people, from...
Wake Me When November Ends
January 5, 2021
Tomorrow is January 6th, the day when a joint session of Congress comes together and performs what is largely a perfunctory, ceremonial formality of...
The Headsman's Axe Always Finds A Spine
December 16, 2020
Mitch McConnell broke with Trump in a major way yesterday, speaking from the Senate floor in comments addressed to Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris, he...
The GOP Knows Trump Lost
December 15, 2020
A story broke yesterday in The Hill with the headline “Senate GOP warns Biden against picking Sally Yates as attorney general”. A key detail within the...
Kraken, Where Is Thy Sting?
December 7, 2020
In the wake of the dismissal from the bench (roughly the judicial equivalent of a gunslinger firing from the hip) of the Georgia Kraken lawsuit the tinfoil...
When All You Have Is A Hammer, Everything Looks Like A Scorecard
November 30, 2020
Lately I’ve been following a lot of lawyers on Twitter so I can read their tweet-throughs of the various post-election legal cases and filings by Team Trump...
The Daylight Discourse
November 24, 2020
It's been said that character is what you do in the dark. It's also been said that sunlight is the best disinfectant. I have some doubts about the broad...
The View From Twitter Exile
November 12, 2020
Last night my boyfriend Jack noticed I was scrolling Twitter, to his surprise. "You're still on Twitter even while you're banned from Twitter?" he exclaimed....
2019, a Review In Tweets
November 11, 2020
Late last year, I started doing a compilation of some of my best (mostly humorous) tweets that I made in 2019. For one reason or another, I never actually...
Where There Isn't Smoke, There's A Liar
November 11, 2020
James O'Keefe is in the news again over a dueling set of claims about a USPS "whistleblower" who claimed to have witnessed fraud and then may or may not have...
One Rogue: A Waywards Tory
November 10, 2020
As I said last night on Twitter, there is nothing inevitable about Trump's slow-rolling coup attempts and while I don't think we need to give into despair...
Well, It's Happened...
November 10, 2020
Please do not go yell at Twitter on my behalf; I have been playing with fire in the wake of the election and I admit that part of it was curiosity of what it...
Meanwhile, on Fox...
November 5, 2020
One of my dirty secrets — well, not really dirty and not actually a secret — is that despite making a substantial portion of my income these past few years...
The American Presidency: As Seen On TV!
November 3, 2020
So of course it’s come down to this. Jonathan Swan @jonathanvswanPresident Trump has told confidants he'll declare victory on Tuesday night if it looks like...
One day more!
November 2, 2020
Well. Here we are. Tomorrow is Election Day in the United States, which in this case simply means the last day to vote. If you can vote, I hope you have. If...
Trump's Magic Words are the Best Words
October 23, 2020
One trait of Trump’s that was well-attested in both the 60 Minutes interview footage he released yesterday and last night’s debate was his deep and abiding...
Quick Hit: Trump's Closing Argument is "All I Need Is You"
October 19, 2020
With poll after poll showing bad news for the Trump campaign, debate (or dueling timeslot) disasters, and story after story of bad news for the incumbent,...
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