what happens when a sidewalk fortune teller performs ego death on stage during an improv occult play?
one of the greatest disaster stories of our time!
New on The Ick: a story from @joetforhire.com that smashes the gas and doesn't let up
www.emilybynight.com/p/the-idiots...
If anyone can teach us about the real-world consequences of cancel culture, it's @lydialaurenson.bsky.social
For the season finale of The Ick, her essay brings down the house: www.emilybynight.com/p/how-i-got-...
Times of fragmentation call for a legible sense of order.
We’re pleased to introduce the 02025 issue of Pace Layers, Long Now’s annual print journal of long-term thinking. It explores the ancient past and distant future of the present moment.
A preview of what's inside ->
What cancel culture reveals and conceals about redemption
I lived at an anarchist commune for 3 years and learned a lot about “going viral”. Here's a story in three plagues.
Read my new piece in The Ick:
open.substack.com/pub/emilybyn...
The Long Now Foundation
Dispatches from the immune system of a failed utopia
"hot girls have tummy issues" is a funny meme, sure...but when you learn that 90% of women with IBS also have an eating disorder the meme seems morbidly twisted
Why do you hate the word "moist"? why do wet sounds like teeth-sucking, slurping, and swallowing evoke a sense of disgust and rage?
@jakee.bsky.social explains in dazzling detail on The Ick...
emilybynight.substack.com/p/the-moist-...
coming out today about having an eating disorder, and how this was related to/ caused by?/ exacerbated by my "tummy issues" aka IBS
