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[BONUS] Emer - issue 233 - 24th September, 2023

Emer

by Marlee Jane Ward


MJW: I wrote this recently for a reading with the theme 'monster erotica'. I left it to the last minute and sat down to write it the day of, thinking, "You're not going to get away with this procrastination this time." Especially as writing has been so hard for me for the past while.

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September 24, 2023
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nothing here but blueberry milk subscription models - issue 232 - 17th September, 2023

nothing here but blueberry milk subscription models

issue 232 - 17th September, 2023


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September 17, 2023
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nothing here but fungus shadow rule - issue 231 - 3rd September, 2023

nothing here but fungus shadow rule

issue 231 - 3rd September, 2023


CJW: Hello hello, and welcome to another edition of nothing here. I'm putting this together through a migraine haze, so let's get to it shall we.

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September 3, 2023
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nothing here but sriracha doomers - issue 230, 20th August, 2023

nothing here but sriracha doomers

issue 230, 20th August, 2023


CJW: Welcome back, or if it's your first time reading then thanks for joining us as we cover another two weeks of... all this.

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August 20, 2023
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[BONUS] Dashcam Confessional - issue 229 - 13th August, 2023

Dashcam Confessional

issue 229 - 13th August, 2023

by Corey J. White


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August 13, 2023
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nothing here but a lifehouse hangout - issue 228 - 6th August, 2023

nothing here but a lifehouse hangout

issue 228 - 6th August, 2023


CJW: Welcome to the latest edition. We're glad to have you, and hope life has been treating you kindly (or you've been finding the strength if and where it hasn't). 

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August 6, 2023
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nothing here but a dangerous and irrational toilet - issue 227 - 23rd July, 2023

nothing here but a dangerous and irrational toilet

issue 227 - 23rd July, 2023


CJW: Welcome back. Hope you're keeping your head above water, and taking the time to look out for yourself and those closest to you. Let's get to this fortnight's dispatch, shall we.

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July 23, 2023
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[BONUS] How an extremist hate group used lies to help SCOTUS deliver an unconstitutional attack on LGBTQ rights

[BONUS] How an extremist hate group used lies to help SCOTUS deliver an unconstitutional attack on LGBTQ rights

issue 226 - 17th July, 2023

by Dan Harvey

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July 17, 2023
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nothing here but post-anthropocene orcaism - issue 225 - 9th July, 2023

nothing here but post-anthropocene orcaism

issue 225 - 9th July, 2023


CJW: Good morning all. Hope you're doing well and finding some lightness in a world that can feel crushing at times.

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July 9, 2023
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nothing here but internet bad dreams - issue 224 - 25th June, 2023

nothing here but internet bad dreams

issue 224 - 25th June, 2023


CJW: Hello again. Long one today, so let's get right to it. 

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June 25, 2023
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[BONUS] All I wanna do is get high like the witch - issue 223 - June 18th, 2023

All I wanna do is get high like the witch

issue 223 - June 18th, 2023


Despite the appealing visuals and iconography of the sabbath or witches communing with demons disguised as goats, one of the most credible sources about that topic is Carlo Ginzburg’s Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath Book. The historian takes about 300 pages to show you that, according to documents that survived the passage of time, possibly there were no such things as night reunions in the forest, flying witches and groups organized as covens, but a few people who were getting high on mushrooms and ointments and seeing things.

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June 18, 2023
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nothing here but deep AI panic - issue 222 - 11th June, 2023

nothing here but deep AI panic

issue 222 - 11th June, 2023


CJW: Welcome back.

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June 11, 2023
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[BONUS] Disconnecting - issue 221 - 30th May, 2023

Disconnecting

issue 221 - 30th May, 2023


MJW: This year it is ten years since I joined twitter. I haven't been on there for much lately - I'd been dropping off for the past few years and at this point I haven't even had a scroll since the early days of the Elon take over.

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May 30, 2023
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nothing here but free dogs - issue 220 - 28th May, 2023

nothing here but free dogs

issue 220 - 28th May, 2023


CJW: Welcome back. Good to have you with us. I hope you're keeping your head above water, and reaching out to help others around you do the same. It's tough out there, and feels like it's only getting tougher. So look out for yourself and your loved one.

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May 28, 2023
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nothing here but a wealth of repression - issue 219 - 14th May, 2023

nothing here but a wealth of repression

issue 219 - 14th May, 2023


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May 14, 2023
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nothing here but ways of being chuck tingle - issue 218 - 30th April, 2023

nothing here but ways of being chuck tingle

issue 218 - 30th April, 2023


CJW: Welcome to another edition of nothing here. A long one today, so let's get to it.

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April 30, 2023
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[BONUS] - Experiments in Expectation 2: ChatGPT Hours - issue 217 - 23rd April, 2023

Experiments in Expectation 2 - ChatGPT Hours

issue 217 - 23rd April, 2023

Corey J. White

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April 23, 2023
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nothing here but a disappearing doomsday - issue 216 - 16th April, 2023

nothing here but a disappearing doomsday

issue 216 - 16th April, 2023


CJW: Welcome to another edition of nothing here. I hope 2023 is treating you well. Let’s get to it.

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April 16, 2023
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nothing here but horny ghost fusion - issue 215 - 2nd April, 2023

nothing here but horny ghost fusion

issue 215 - 2nd April, 2023


CJW: Welcome back, or if it’s your first time here, welcome welcome, and we hope you stick around. We’ve got a lot to share, so let’s get to it. 

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April 2, 2023
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#ACAB UK edition - issue 214 - 29th March, 2023

#ACAB UK edition

issue 214 - 29th March, 2023

by Dan Harvey


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March 29, 2023
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nothing here but whale song psy-ops - issue 213 - 19th March, 2023

nothing here but whale song psy-ops

issue 213 - 19th March, 2023


CJW: Welcome to another NH dispatch. As usual, we've got plenty to share from all across the internet. Let's begin, shall we?

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March 19, 2023
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nothing here but a four-day workweek in the tainted city - issue 212 - 5th March, 2023

nothing here but a four-day workweek in the tainted city

issue 212 - 5th March, 2023


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March 5, 2023
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[BONUS] Women artists and spirituality: from subversion to subterfuge? - issue 211 - 1st March, 2023

Women artists and spirituality: from subversion to subterfuge?

issue 211 - 1st March, 2023

by Lidia Zuin


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March 1, 2023
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nothing here but lossy simulations - issue 210 - 19th February, 2023

nothing here but lossy simulations

issue 210 - 19th February, 2023


CJW: Welcome again to another issue of nothing here. This time around we're heavy on the geopolitics (history continues apace) and general injustice. That's unlike us, I know.

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February 19, 2023
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nothing here but tripping roulette - issue 209 - 5th February, 2023

nothing here but tripping roulette

issue 209 - 5th February, 2023


CJW: Welcome to another edition of nothing here. Eclectic mix today, but then again, aren't they usually?

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February 5, 2023
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[BONUS] Bleak Books Are For Bleak Girls - issue 208 - 31st January, 2023

Bleak Books Are For Bleak Girls

issue 208 - 31st January, 2023

by Marlee Jane Ward


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January 31, 2023
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nothing here but the unbearable lightness of e-girls - issue 207 - 22nd January, 2023

nothing here but the unbearable lightness of e-girls

issue 207 - 22nd January, 2023


CJW: Welcome friends, to another dispatch. I hope 2023 is treating you kindly so far, and continues to do so. Personally, I’m feeling good about the outline I’ve put together for the sequel to a novella I wrote last year. Book 1 is with my editor, so let’s hope he likes it enough to buy it.

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January 22, 2023
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nothing here but our contaminated futures - issue 206 - 8th January, 2023

nothing here but our contaminated futures

issue 206 - 8th January, 2022


CJW: Happy New Year, and thanks for joining us again. Whatever holiday/s you might celebrate at the end of the year, I hope they were joyous and restorative. Last week we shared a NYE bonus - Strange Days: Happy New Millennium, on Kathryn Bigelow’s 1995 film.

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January 8, 2023
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[BONUS] Strange Days: Happy New Millennium - issue 205 - 1st January, 2023

Strange Days: Happy New Millennium

issue 205 - 1st January, 2023


CJW: Welcome to a special bonus issue of nothing here. Instead of a Christmas movie, we decided to mix things up a little and present a New Year’s Eve movie - Kathryn Bigelow’s 1995 sci-fi movie Strange Days.

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January 1, 2023
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nothing here but 2022 in the rearview - issue 204 - 25th December, 2022

nothing here but 2022 in the rearview

issue 204 - 25th December, 2022


CJW: I liked closing out last year with a retrospective issue, so I thought we’d do that again! Welcome, and thank you for joining us for another year of tracking the oddities that are life in the now.

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December 25, 2022
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[BONUS] I am still alive - issue 203 - 18th December, 2022

I Am Still Alive

I’ve been asked in a lot of different contexts whether I studied writing at university. The thing is, I did and I didn’t. There was no Bachelor of Creative Writing at my university when I attended it, there was however a Bachelor of Writing, but in order to get the credits to graduate with that degree I would have had to do more classes on journalism and various other topics I had no interest in. So instead, I did a Bachelor of Communication, largely because I’m a huge fuck-up and as a degree it was broad enough that a lot of classes I’d already done would count toward it. So, as well as a large focus on writing, I also did classes on film and some on digital media, digital art, and visual art (as well as a marketing class that I flunked because I stopped going after the cut-off date where you could pull out of the class. (See above RE: fuck-up.)

For my main project in that visual art class, I put together a series of photographs of my eyeball when I woke up. At the time I was working at a supermarket, supporting myself through uni by stocking shelves and what-not. Most of my shifts started at 5am, sorting out the shelf “facing” before the store opened at 8am. Needless to say, the eyes featured in my photos were often red and bleary – one morning I wasn’t even able to open it properly for the photo.

It was an anti-capitalist piece of art, obviously (I have been on my bullshit for a very long time), commenting on what we are forced to do to our bodies and lives by a system that relies on our exhaustion for its endless growth1.

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December 18, 2022
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nothing here but quantum pollution - issue 202 - 11th December, 2022

nothing here but quantum pollution

issue 202 - 11th December, 2022


CJW: Bit of an odd one this issue as Dan is off (COVID has taken another NH scalp), and I’m in the process of figuring out how I want to relate with/through this newsletter. Last fortnight’s retrospective made me realise that I wasn’t enjoying my more recent approach to newslettering - reading too much because I felt I had to, regardless of whether I wanted to or not. Covering topics that are important but don’t actually spark interest in me.

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December 11, 2022
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nothing here but painted skulls and Femi-queer commons - issue 201 - 27th November, 2022

nothing here but painted skulls and Femi-queer commons

issue 201 - 27th November, 2022


CJW: Welcome welcome. To go along with the 200th issue historical recap we decided to ask newsletter OG Austin to come back for this issue to share some bits and pieces. It’s an eclectic one, and I’m sure everyone will find something here to spark the ol’ neurons.

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#201
November 27, 2022
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[BONUS] nothing here but a double-century - issue 200 - 27th November, 2022

[BONUS] nothing here but a double-century

issue 200 - 27th November, 2022


CJW: With issue 200* it seemed like a time to pause and look back at what we’ve done, so you’re getting this unlocked bonus issue covering the history of the newsletter to date, and the next real issue back-to-back. I hope you enjoy going over this retrospective as much as I enjoyed diving into the archives and remembering it.

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November 27, 2022
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[BONUS] Starlinked Neo-Nazis - issue 199 - 20th November, 2022

Starlinked Neo-Nazis

issue 199 - 20th November, 2022

By Dan Harvey


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November 21, 2022
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nothing here but horrible costs - issue 198 - 13th November, 2022

nothing here but horrible costs

issue 198 - 13th November, 2022


CJW: Hey and welcome to another edition of nothing here. Let’s get straight to it, but first a word for our sponsors (possibly you) - if you like what we do and are able to support us, you’ve got a couple of options:

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#198
November 13, 2022
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issue 197 - nothing here but luxury surveillance - 30th October, 2022

nothing here but luxury surveillance

issue 197 - 30th October, 2022


CJW: Welcome to another edition of nothing here.

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October 30, 2022
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[BONUS] Time to die: Is Lula finally replacing Bolsonaro in Brazilian presidency?

Time to die: Is Lula finally replacing Bolsonaro in Brazilian presidency?

issue 196 - 23rd October, 2022


LZ: While Halloween is not traditionally celebrated in Brazil, this year’s October is a very spooky one for us. That’s because we’re running major elections where new deputies, senators, and the president are changing. After four years of Bolsonaro and his evangelical minions, we finally see the light at the end of the tunnel as Lula comes back to the rally. But who are all these people?

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October 23, 2022
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nothing here but acute cybersickness - issue 195 - 16th October, 2022

nothing here but acute cybersickness

issue 195 - 16th October, 2022


CJW: I’m exhausted. Mostly over this cold I’ve been battling for a week+, but still not past the fatigue. Still, we’ve got plenty here worth sharing. As ever, if you are in a position where you’re able to support us, you’ve got a couple of options:

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#195
October 16, 2022
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nothing here but sorely-needed maintenance - issue 194 - 2nd October, 2022

nothing here but sorely-needed maintenance

issue 194 - 2nd October, 2022


CJW: Welcome to another edition of nothing here. Times are getting tougher and money is tighter, but if you like what we do and are in a position where you’re able to support us, you’ve got a couple of options:

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#194
October 2, 2022
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[BONUS] The Nosebleed - issue 193 - 25th September, 2022

MJW: I’m slowly working on a memoir about my six years working at the Dungeon. Here’s a little excerpt for you to enjoy, it’s called The Nosebleed and has a trigger warning for blood.

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The dude’s nose starts bleeding a few minutes after I’ve pissed into his mouth and I go and ask the receptionist if my ADHD meds are likely to come out in my piss and if Vyvanse can make your nose bleed. She isn’t sure. I don’t know why I’d never thought of this before. If it does come out in my piss, that means I’m pissing pharmaceutical speed and anti-psychotics. That kind of whizz could be dangerous. Or valuable.

                I give him a tissue and and he’s like, sorry and I’m like why? but I don’t say that and leave him to staunch his nosebleed in the big spa tub. I kick off my heels in the hallway and go upstairs, open my laptop and look up if meds come out in urine.

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September 25, 2022
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nothing here but dead Queen Loab - issue 192 - 18th September, 2022

nothing here but dead Queen Loab

issue 192 - 18th September, 2022


CJW: Welcome to another edition of nothing here.

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September 18, 2022
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nothing here but odourless empire blues - issue 191 - 4th September, 2022

nothing here but odourless empire blues

issue 191 - 4th September, 2022


CJW: Welcome back, and thanks for joining us for another issue. If you like what we do and want to support us, there are a couple of paid subscription options:

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September 4, 2022
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The Hummingbird and Other Musings

The Hummingbird

If you’ve not read Pretty Deadly, I highly recommend it. Written by Kelly Sue DeConnick, it’s a horror western wrapped up in mythology and questions of death, with beautiful art by Emma Ríos.

The story is narrated (after a fashion) by a butterfly and an undead rabbit – not dissimilar to the somewhat hyperactive robot narrators of Jodorowsky’s The Metabarons – with each issue beginning with a related story, aside, or lesson being told between the two non-human characters.

The below comes from Volume One, Issue Five (click to enlarge):

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August 28, 2022
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nothing here but a monkeypox trainwreck - issue 189 - 21st August, 2022

nothing here but a monkeypox trainwreck

issue 189 - 21st August, 2022


CJW: Welcome welcome. I've been wrestling with Buttondown for about half an hour, so let's get right to it, shall wel.

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#189
August 21, 2022
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nothing here but the tyranny of monsters - issue 188 - 7th August, 2022

nothing here but the tyranny of monsters

issue 188 - 7th August, 2022


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August 7, 2022
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[UNLOCKED] Britain is Burning - issue 187 - 31st July, 2022

CJW: This bonus was originally going to be a chunk of last week's newsletter, but as it grew unwieldy, we decided to save it for a bonus, which also gave Dan some time to expand on it a little.

I decided to send it out to the full list with a reminder that you can support us to get all of these bonuses as they drop. They're always pretty varied in content and form, so you never quite know what you're going to get. That's half the fun though.

  • $5 monthly subscription.
  • $50 annual subscription.

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July 31, 2022
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nothing here but deep time maintenance - issue 186 - 24th July, 2022

nothing here but deep time maintenance

issue 186 - 24th July, 2022


CJW: Let’s get right into it - as ever there is so much to share.

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July 24, 2022
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nothing here but biological war - issue 185 - 10th July, 2022

nothing here but biological war

issue 185 - 10th July, 2022


CJW: Welcome to another edition of nothing here. This issue is MKY’s final one with us as he wants to focus more on his own writing. It’s been great having him on-board over the years, but I completely understand the need to focus on your own work. You can still find him at https://www.patreon.com/m1k3y or working out while listening to deep-dive geopolitical podcasts.

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#185
July 10, 2022
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[UNLOCKED] Revenge - DCH - issue 184 - 3rd July, 2022

Revenge

issue 184 - 3rd July, 2022

by Dan C. Harvey


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July 3, 2022
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