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"The fuckers burned the lot."
The KLF, Timothy Leary, and how our understanding of reality is fundamentally incomplete. Also, a magical guide to destroying capitalism.
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Against Forgiveness
In our scramble to make things feel okay again, we often ignore the way our wounds have changed us.
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Time is eternal, time is an illusion
Alan Moore, Carlo Rovelli, and John Higgs on the strangeness of time.
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How disasters can rebuild your faith in humanity
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A compulsive reader's guide to reading more
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You don't suck, your society is just failing you
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Where is mutual aid happening today?
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Be more biased!
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What does mutual aid look like in the real world?
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Integrity and "the last inch of us" in the fight against fascism
Lessons in politics from our last global flirtation with fascism, courtesy of Alan Moore.
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Imagination and the search for a better future
If something has to be imagined before it can be built, what does it mean that all of the futures we're imagining are bleak?
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Strange Magic: How art, language, and the imagination conspire to make magic
Also: the porous boundary between imagination and reality, why "magical thinking" happens, and how to sensibly use a Tarot deck.
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On the sanity of worshipping sock puppets
On madness, the place that the gods can be said to inarguably exist, and the value of praying to a sock puppet.
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"You could be a wondrous creature"
A new series from Better Strangers about fighting nihilism, believing in magic, and making art, told through the work of the acclaimed comics writer…
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Three of my most popular pieces, now free
The paywall keeps my shivering children warm at night, but you all deserve something free and I can get them some blankets.
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Mutual Aid 101: Articles and Resources
Everything all in one place! And in eBook form!
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