Serial satirical sketches in the style of the BOFH and Stainless Steel Rat, following a sardonic sysadmin who sabotages clueless users, management, and AI-generated corporate nonsense. Readers get comic workplace fiction about IT life, with occasional references to Nix and system administration.
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A Substack of comic literary and historical writing, including modernized retellings of classics like Lucian's Dialogues of the Gods, rankings of oddities such as London livery company mottos, and curated archival finds like children's Rorschach responses. Readers get witty, erudite essays and humor pieces, with occasional housekeeping notes about subscription pricing.
A personal essay newsletter by a freelance writer whose work appears in outlets like The New York Times, Esquire and The Guardian. Each issue is a funny, observational piece of creative nonfiction about home life, family, aging and daily rituals.
A personal newsletter by a prostate cancer patient and former professional chef, mixing reflections on illness and medical absurdity with dry, darkly funny essays on cooking, Canada and daily life. Readers get a wry first-person voice, occasional recipes and observations on how people respond to a cancer diagnosis.
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