Paid-members only It took a surge in traffic deaths to change How the Netherlands became the model for cycling infrastructure
Negotiating our survival Today we've got another striking and meditative essay by Michael Brown on the similarities between paranoid survivalists he met living out in the Arizona desert and the AI-brained tech ubermensch. Brown previously wrote for Hell World about his experience of putting his life back together after years
Paid-members only The colony doesn't grieve them I woke up early enough yesterday to see the bees clocking in for work at the flower bed next to my porch and after a few minutes this doofus bumblebee showed up late. You could tell it was flying a little embarrassed about it too. Literally bumbling. It was Labor
Eight minute mile This essay was previously for paid subscribers only. Consider signing up! 50% off one year It was gross and humid already when I woke up and stepped outside onto the porch and walked directly into yet another spider web that they had set up at eyeball level for me. With
Paid-members only There is a countdown in the other direction too My wife said my sister was texting her to tell me to call her back so that wasn’t great right off the bat. You wouldn’t imagine she was doing that to tell me something urgently good. I can’t even think of an example of something that is
Paid-members only Everyone in this book is a human being I'm sorry I know about the world being bad but it's still so funny to me that he hit em with the ol' switcheroo. He knocked out a caterer and stole his bow tie lol. Doing the Jack Tripper two dates in one night gag
Paid-members only I felt cleaner and more contented working at the landfill It's the 8th anniversary of Hell World this week! What a run (?) I sincerely couldn't have done it without all of you. Thank you so much. Consider a paid subscription if you can to help us keep paying great writers. Today Cole Nowicki writes from Canada
Blizzard of Lies/ Who goes transphobe? Blizzard of Lies by Dave Wedge and Sandy Ernest Allen on Who goes transphobe?
Blizzard of Lies Karen Read, John O'Keefe, and the Shocking Unsolved Murder in Cop Town, USA by Dave Wedge
Who goes transphobe? Please pay for the things you read. 50% off one year of Hell World by Sandy Ernest Allen It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go transphobe. By now, I think
We have to starve the fucker People seem to be debating the efficacy of Covid-era policies again this week for some reason. I don't plug my Lockdown in Hell World book as much as the others because people didn't seem to want to read about Covid while it was still peak
Paid-members only There has never been a better time in human history to be stupid Alright that's enough Odyssey. Let's skip ahead to the next fucking thing. Unless you didn't read this piece yet then fine go do that but afterwards we're done. Today Gareth Watkins returns to write about what a great time it is to
A level of hubris: The Odyssey / Reagan Youth Zack Budryk on The Odyssey and Lauren Napier on Reagan Youth
Paid-members only You can’t outrun the wind My entire world has the AI piss filter on it. It looks like a damn Coldplay song out there. No not Clocks. For today's feature Rax King joins us again to write about the band Crass and the long simmering tensions in punk music between the art-educated
Paid-members only We are governed by serial killers On the occasion of the passing of my esteemed colleague from across the aisle
