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Monica Hughes PhD
Jun 27, 2022
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If you’re not following the magnificently funny Sage Hana, you should be:

Sage’s Newsletter
Boeing-24: A Cryptic Short Story
Senator Blank was outraged. 34-planes had come down in the last year. Several brave engineer whistleblowers had come forwards. The problem centered on the Fisher-Price rivets and welds…
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a year ago · 59 likes · 108 comments · Sage Hana

A commenter who frequently shows up there, Hoosier Yeti, is an endless source of amusement as well:

Likewise, another piece from Matthew Aldred at Build Back Better:

Build Back Better
Cripping Incest Discourse(s)
It’s been years since I did any social “science” at university (33 to be exact). I can’t say I’m nostalgic for the Marxism etc., but I thought I would see how things have “progressed” lately: In this article, I chart the ableist presuppositions associated with the incest taboo. Specifically, I interrogate two ways in which incest is deployed as a parti…
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a year ago · 3 likes · 1 comment · Mathew Aldred

Finally, I can’t remember if I’ve linked the Good Citizen before, but this is my favorite piece so far (and the creative satire pieces are without doubt my favorite writing there):

The Good Citizen
Gospel of The Ukrainian Borg
“The purpose of the Internet was not to liberate information for society, but to isolate individuals into controlled information monopolies so their ideas, behaviors and beliefs could be easily merged into one psychological energy weapon for the aims of a global technocracy…
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2 years ago · 57 likes · 42 comments · Good Citizen

I find that I need hefty doses of good music and sardonic wit to get through these times.

How about you?

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charles
Jun 27, 2022

Sage Hana is not only brilliantly witty, she cuts through weasel behavior better than anybody.

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Don
Jun 27, 2022

I found your substack looking into cancer info for my sister in law who just passed a couple of days ago. Too late to help her, but you provided valuable info. Then I linked to your suggestions about whom to follow and found some interesting authors. All of this is a roundabout way of saying thanks and keep the recommendations coming!

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