So I've been sick.

Very, very sick.

As a result, I've gotten some friends to fill in my slack for a few weeks while I catch up on life and work. This week, I got Scarlet to talk about Magic and vampires.

Good news, the next chapter of Beautiful Night is done, but it's being released when the whole side story it's tied to can come out in full with it. Estimated final count, 40K words, currently half complete. Less good news.

THREE.

I HAVE FORGOTTEN THREE OF THESE UPDATES.

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This week's article is on why Australia should secede from the Commonwealth.

Let's leave Britain Johnny-no-friends.

This week's article actually has a podcast component. If you've never heard me speak before, well, now's your chance! This week I don't cover what I think the meaning of life is, but I do cover what I think it means to choose to live.

Here's a question I ask you: Would you rather be paralyzed completely from the neck down, or dead? Why? No right answers, just your choice of wrong one.

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In 1969, a young black man was assassinated by the FBI for the crime of providing breakfast to poor inner-city children. This is that story.

Also, the second time I get to use that cover image. Reduce, reuse and recycle your content, folks.

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This week's article is about that one time the CIA overthrew the Australian government, and Queensland ended up a fascist police state.

I had fun with this one.

Probably the best article I've written so far: If you stood in the office of the man who just paid $60 for an orb of raw water, you could watch a teenager get gunned down for wearing the wrong colours in the wrong neighbourhood.

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The feminist movement has been hugely important and beneficial for women over the last few decades, and seriously changed how we view gender roles. But men haven't had a similarly empowering movement in that timeframe. What is the impact of that, and how is it hurting everybody?

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This is definitely one of the best articles I've written so far, or at least one of the coollest.

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What does the building of the first modern sewer have to do with some of our most important lessons in medicine? First in a series of historical articles that will explain my love affair with the Industrial era.

I made a thing I hope you enjoy the thing:

This one has an unwitting special guest at the end, it seems.

A look into why discrimination against black people and poor people blur together at the seams, and just how badly being low-income affects development.

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This week's article on how Black Mirror compromised its philosophy in the last season, and exactly why that previous philosophy was so successful

To those who don't click through:

It’s at this point that I’d like to advertise a new feature of commission I’m offering.

$8 an hour, and I’ll watchanything, anything you make me.

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Link here. Content warning: Discussion of pretty awful stuff, photographs of violence.

My favourite articles tend to be the ones that tear into my old, or even recent, beliefs. There's probably something Catholic penance-y about the whole thing.

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So, first thing's first:

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I wrote an article about editing, how to get better at it, and how to be a nice guy while doing it.

I am very proud of it, and I hope you will all enjoy it.

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New article on my philosophy on planning, how I approach it, and why I recommend it.

At the time this was written, Marvel's Black Panther was the most highly reviewed movie in history, according to Rotten Tomatoes. Which is surprising, because if you stop to think about it, it's actually a really not-good movie.

I've been linked this article twice now, with a "Can you BELIEVE feminism??!". The author is reputable, her credentials solid, but the article itself is inflammatory nonsense littered with hashtags.

It ends with this paragraph, after all:

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Let's lob the proverbial grenade through the door and get this over with, ey?