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one day, the internet will forget us (but that day is not today)
June 5, 2021
Howdy friend, thanks for opening! This week’s entry is about an internet that does not forget, former journalists, and a couple of gay things. Hope you find...
queens only
May 31, 2021
Howdy friends, thanks for opening! Here be this week's obsessions. A day late, because I wanted to include the final results of this weekend's biggest event...
side step,
May 23, 2021
Hey friends, how’s your weekend going? This letter is a bit about a summer more than two decades ago, a bit about village witches. Hope you enjoy and find...
building it so they will come
May 16, 2021
Hey friends, thanks for opening! This week, we’re talking about the heat, gay commercials, and geriatric millennials. Hope you find something useful here. -K...
work it / worth it
May 9, 2021
Hey friend, thanks for opening! In this letter we're talking about questioning productivity, how to do nothing, and working with the pandemic's newest...
narcissists
May 2, 2021
Hey there, thanks for opening! This week we're talking about being proud of your wins, spotting narcissists, and leadership. Hope you find something useful...
change the world
April 25, 2021
Hello friend, thanks for opening! In this letter, we're talking about community pantries, journalism, and that magical space where you think you could change...
birthday interlude
April 19, 2021
Hello friend, thanks for opening! Got a bit busy this weekend because of C's birthday celeb, so this letter is coming to you after all that. Hope your...
flex
April 10, 2021
Hello friend, thanks for opening! This whole Buttondown interface takes some getting used to, so I hope you forgive the lapses :) This week we're talking...
We rise
April 4, 2021
Manila, 4 April - There's an Easter pun to be made somewhere, about a common thing that Jesus and the country's COVID-19 case count share, but it gets less...
fools
April 2, 2021
Manila, 28 March—Remember what insanity means? It’s doing the same thing over and over, but expecting different results. So yeah, last week I noted ‘record-...
all-time high
March 21, 2021
Manila, 21 March—7,999 [1]. Not a Lazada item on sale, but the number of new COVID cases registered yesterday, March 20. How we are posting new record-highs...
losing a whole year
March 14, 2021
Manila, 14 March—I spent the past week in a fog, it seems. It was surreal. I’m not a person who easily forgets, and yet a handful of things felt like they...
half the sky
March 8, 2021
Manila, 8 March—Happy International Women’s Day! It seems a bit rote, to start off with this greeting, but it must be noted that throughout this pandemic,...
happy almost-niversary, *CQ!
March 1, 2021
Manila, 1 March—I hope you guys are checking on your bread expiry dates because once upon a time, when we still lived together, my sister and I had to do a...
i care a lot (2021)
February 22, 2021
Manila, 22 February—In the new Netflix film “I Care A Lot”, Rosamund Pike cons seniors out of their homes and auctions off their properties, claiming “legal...
a world without (news on) Facebook
February 20, 2021
Manila, 20 February—If you’re reading this, chances are you did not get referred here by Facebook. And that’s OK. I’m not a big fan of the platform, though I...
OK let's go: Year of the Ox
February 13, 2021
Manila, 13 February—Happy Lunar New Year greetings! Last year was actually our year, if you’re a Rat like me, and gah. What a year—certainly something the...
accumulation
February 8, 2021
Manila, 8 February—This letter comes late as we’d been moving over the weekend—our Q1 project for this year (last year’s Q1 project was our Korea trip1). The...
frustration season
January 31, 2021
Manila, 31 January—Did any of you get wind of the GameStop shenanigans early enough? Or at least, enough to perhaps take advantage of what’s happening? Well,...
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