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Wrote about Heated Rivalry (god help me) and why therapeutic language has displaced critical appraisal. Link below!

Wrote about Mark Fisher and Spotify Wrapped—link below + merry Christmas!

@fowlinghantod This in the New Statesman and The Goon Squad by Daniel Kolitz in Harper’s newstatesman.com/politics/2025/…

Compiling something for my substack. Please reply with your favorite essays or short stories published this year!

@CHRISF0GLE Hey

@daniel_lefferts So so excited about this book

Feels major

Runner’s high but make it a pill or put it in juice or something I dunno

Wrote about drinking and addiction and why narratives are important even when they're distortions—feat. Joan Didion, Michael Deagler and Leslie Jamison and some real confessional shit from me. Link below

Liz Truss TV is just as demented as I was hoping. It’s like she’s being advised by a team of mad sycophantic chatbots cheering her on as she lays waste to the singed remains of her reputation

@katherineveritt Yeah it’s fascinating—wrote about this recently: open.substack.com/pub/stefanrhys…

‘Her’ is an entirely new film in 2025. While in 2013 I saw the AI as an independent & disembodied being, the rewatch led me to view the AI as just a narcissistic projection of Phoenix’s desires. Truly sobering that so many ppl are living in this exact *psychotic* state today. 😮‍💨

Very funny to me that New York magazine are writing about Milton Keynes like it’s at the vanguard of modernity nymag.com/intelligencer/…

@CHRISF0GLE Nah I think under 30 or even under 35 is notably young still!

Nothing makes me happier than a new magazine subscription!!!

This is really really great btw

@CHRISF0GLE On the cusp I reckon. Have you read Perfection?

@lisandrhoe Will do!

Writing something on what Mark Fisher would’ve made of Spotify Wrapped—where could I pitch such a thing??

@lisandrhoe Yeah exactly that but it also fucks with the idea of time and the future in a way. Like everything is retrospective now. That’s the angle I’m going for anyway!

@lisandrhoe Oh really?? Haha