After ten thousand years of a balmy interglacial, during which humans learned to till the soil, smelt metal and write down their history, the next glacial period got started around the time of Christ, built gradually over two thousand years, and then was brought to an abrupt halt in 1960.

Technically, we've been in the same Ice Age for tens of millions of years, swinging between glacial periods (what most people think of as an Ice Age, with ice sheets over Canada and Northern Europe) and interglacial periods (with smaller polar ice caps, but still ice). In the 1970s, some feared that aerosol pollution would cause global cooling and plunge us back into another glacial period. They might have been right, if it weren't for those pesky industrialists. A glaciation is slow—"it would have taken about 30,000 years for anyone to really notice"—but the end of this one was anything but. Researchers at Columbia University studying the remnants of the Laurentide Ice Sheet on Baffin Island have established, by carbon dating the moss trapped under its ice, that it "shrank to its smallest size about 3,000 years ago, then started growing again about 2,000 years ago": The new research [argues] that the first renewed growth of an ice sheet equals the start of a glacial period, "marking the onset of the next glaciation." That period didn't last long, however. The ice cap reached its maximum extent around 1960, when summer warming caused a "negative mass balance, ice margin recession, and the termination of the next glaciation." Cumulative global CO₂ emissions between the start of the Industrial Revolution and 1960—so, enough to stave off a glaciation—were 308 billion tonnes. By 2024, the cumulative total had reached 1.85 trillion tonnes. The team expects the [Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island] to vanish within a few centuries. Without that icy foundation, it will be harder for new ice to build up. As a result, scientists can't say when (or where) the next glaciation might occur, especially while greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere remain high. ... "That will be the true very last remains of the Laurentide, disappearing for good. ... What has been an extremely natural and predictable phenomenon is now gone."

National party will be largest in parliament but ultimate shape of next government won’t be settled for some time

New Zealand could be facing a weeks-long wait to know the shape of its next government, after its nail-biting election failed to hand a decisive victory to either the incumbent rightwing coalition or opposition left bloc.

On preliminary results, the centre-right National party, led by the prime minister, Christopher Luxon, managed to secure enough seats to govern alongside its traditional coalition partners, the libertarian Act and populist New Zealand First parties.

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I’ve used the All Blacks throughout, but they’ll actually in white today.

Their kit will also feature a poppy for Armistice Day.

33 Tests: NZ 31 wins, two draws.

Draws: 0–0 (1964); 25–25 (1983).

Previous game: Scotland 17–25 NZ in 2025.

Scotland levelled at 17–17 before a late McKenzie try.

Last four margins: 8, 5, 8, 8 points.

Scotland: 10 Glasgow starters.

Russell winning cap 96; Beauden Barrett cap 148.

Will Jordan: six tries in three Nations Championship games.

NZ won all three July Nations Championship games.

Both teams second in their hemisphere standings entering round four.

Rennie replaced Townsend as Glasgow coach in 2017.

Former Scotland captain Mike Blair now coaches the All Blacks attack.

New Zealand wearing white, with black armbands.

Scotland still seeking their first-ever victory over NZ.

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Moscow used 172 drones and 36 ballistic missiles in attacks on electricity substations and bridge over the Dnipro

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of trying to “plunge Kyiv and the entire country into a blackout”, after a major attack overnight on energy infrastructure in the capital and a bridge over the Dnipro River.

Ukraine’s president said Moscow’s preparations for peace talks next week involved pummelling a city of millions with ballistic missiles.

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President spent weeks praising his favored candidates’ physiques, from their jawlines to their shoulders – but most of his hot guys lost

​It was either a last-ditch considered strategy to win votes, or the ramblings of an increasingly unhinged and increasingly amorous party leader.

Either way, it didn’t work.

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Architect of Trump’s far-right immigration agenda is now most powerful unelected figure in government – it suggests White House is moving to a war footing

Donald Trump just gave the middle finger to millions of American voters.

Any other president who suffered the kind of drubbing at the polls that Trump did this week might have felt at least a sliver of humility – and perhaps even an obligation to work with the new opposition in Congress.

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The ‘secretary of war’ and his shameful history are facing bipartisan scrutiny

Can you smell the schadenfreude in the air?

Watching some of the worst people in the world get their comeuppance this week has been deeply satisfying. And the show isn’t over yet. While the midterms have wrapped up, the blame game is only just getting started, with Republicans desperate to find scapegoats for their shellacking.

Arwa Mahadwi is a Guardian columnist

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FRANKFURT (ANP/AFP) - Reza Pahlavi, de zoon van de verdreven sjah van Iran, heeft zaterdag ondanks protesten een "Vrijheidsprijs" in ontvangst genomen in het Duitse Frankfurt. Hij werd door duizenden aanhangers toegejuicht, terwijl critici de feestelijkheden veroordeelden.

Pahlavi kreeg de prijs, die opgedragen was aan het Iraanse volk, van de Friedrich Naumann Foundation. Die is gelieerd aan de liberale politieke partij FDP. De partijafdelingen van de SPD en De Groenen in Frankfurt hadden het evenement geboycot. Volgens Sahar Sanaie, woordvoerster van de Vereniging van Duitsers en Iraniërs in de deelstaat Hessen, hebben ongeveer tweehonderd gevangenen in Iran een brief ondertekend waarin ze protesteren tegen het feit dat Pahlavi de prijs in ontvangst nam; ze zien hem als een symbool van een "dictatuur uit het verleden".

Sinds de met zwaar geweld neergeslagen burgerprotesten in het land en de Amerikaans-Israëlische bombardementen werpt Pahlavi zich op als redder en hoeder van de natie en het Iraanse volk.

CHRISTCHURCH (ANP/RTR/AFP) - De parlementsverkiezingen in Nieuw-Zeeland zijn uitgelopen op een nek-aan-nekrace. In voorlopige uitslagen hadden de conservatieve regeringspartij National Party en de linkse oppositiepartij Labour allebei ongeveer 29 procent van de kiezers achter zich. Het verschil bedroeg enkele duizenden stemmen.

Premier Christopher Luxon erkende dat de verkiezing nog "too close to call" is, maar liet zich alvast optimistisch uit over de uitslagen. "Het is bemoedigend om te zien dat National volgens de tot nu toe bekende cijfers opnieuw de grootste partij in het parlement is en dat wij een route hebben om de volgende regering te vormen."

Luxon kan niet zeker zijn van de winst, want stemmen uit het buitenland kunnen het verschil nog maken. Labourleider Chris Hipkins kwam dan ook met een vergelijkbare boodschap als zijn rivaal. "Vanavond heeft Nieuw-Zeeland gesproken", zei hij. "Het kan alleen wat langer duren voordat we precies weten wat u ons heeft willen zeggen."

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date stamped on slide October 1984

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date stamped on slide, November 1969

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Een overvaller (22) die er met een buit vandoor was gegaan heeft zichzelf versproken waar toevallig een agent bij stond. De man had eerder op de dag een schoonheidssalon overvallen.

Een overvaller (22) die er met een buit vandoor was gegaan heeft zichzelf versproken waar toevallig een agent bij stond. De man had eerder op de dag een schoonheidssalon overvallen.

Arutemu has added a photo to the pool:

Arutemu has added a photo to the pool:

Sergiy Galyonkin has added a photo to the pool:

The timber facade of the former Kurumasa Inn at the Historical Village of Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan. July 2026.

Today's links

• JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine's "Against Tech Oligarchy": Inventing a new labor playbook for a unique and powerful industry.
• Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
• Object permanence: EMI x Gnutella; ETCON photos; Piracy loss claims are "self-serving hyperbole"; Shareholder supremacy let Google conquer and enshittify the world; Cat causes kernel panic; HK erupts; National Guard x 1 weed plant; Enshittification of labor.
• Upcoming appearances: Kilkenny, Courtenay, Vancouver, Folkestone, Oxford, Sheffield, Virtual, Oxford, Santa Barbara, Montreal.
• Recent appearances: Where I've been.
• Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
• Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
• Colophon: All the rest.

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JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine's "Against Tech Oligarchy" (permalink)

JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine are veterans of a string of hard-fought unionization drives at tech workplaces that started with some astounding successes but ran up against ferocious resistance in the second Trump term; their book about tech labor, Against Tech Oligarchy, is a superb analysis of the challenges and potential for tech labor organizing:

https://againsttecholigarchy.com/

For decades, tech workers enjoyed extraordinary power, despite the fact that virtually no tech workers were in unions. That's because tech workers were both extremely valuable to their employers (each engineer hired by a Silicon Valley firm added about $1m to the company's bottom line) and extremely scarce.

This won tech workers very favorable working conditions, high compensation, and a great deal of control over their employers' products (because if a worker refused to work on a project, it was hard to find someone else to do the work). What's more, there has always been a sizable cohort of tech workers whose own lives were profoundly improved by access to digital networks and wanted more than anything to distribute those benefits to everyone else. I call these workers "Tron-pilled," because they fought for the user:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/11/obvious-terrible-ideas/#bayesian-terrorism

During the era of tech worker scarcity, few tech workers saw themselves as workers at all – rather, the tech worker's self-conception was as an entrepreneur in waiting, a temporarily embarrassed founder. Tech bosses played on this perception, promoting the idea of tech workers and managers as peers and/or family members. Tech CEOs affected hoodies and jeans and hosted company-wide meetings where they allowed engineers to pepper them with impertinent questions about the company's technical and commercial direction.

But scarcity-based power only lasts until supply catches up with demand. As the number of workers outstripped the number of jobs, bosses showed their true colors. That's what happened at Kickstarter, when one of the bosses forced out his co-founders and declared himself CEO and proceeded to override the decisions of the company's Trust and Safety team. This sparked one of tech's first unionization drives, and it was a bitter fight, with management pulling out every dirty tactic in the union-busting playbook:

https://kickstarterunited.org/oral-history/

The labor militancy at Kickstarter United wasn't an isolated incident. Workers at much bigger companies like Google and Microsoft had a long tradition of pushing back against management through internal channels, open letters, and, starting in 2018, mass walkouts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Google_walkouts

But post-Trump, bosses at these companies were much less willing to countenance dissent, and waves of vicious retaliation and reprisals radicalized many workers at these companies, driving them to more traditional, organized forms of labor activism. At the same time, workers at smaller, "mission-driven" shops like Bandcamp were inspired by the success of Kickstarter United and they started their own drives. All this attracted the interest of the "internationals" – big, established unions like the Communications Workers of America – who trained union organizers at all kinds of tech shops and started laying the groundwork for traditional union drives.

Most of Against Tech Oligarchy tells the story of these drives in a gripping you-are-there style (it helps that both of the authors are veterans of several of these campaigns). The stakes get much higher during the pandemic, of course, as tech comes to play a more central role in the lives of hundreds of millions of locked-down workers, and as the tech companies themselves went on uncontrolled hiring sprees, putting workers on the payroll without any duties or responsibilities, often just to ensure that a rival company couldn't hire them.

The pandemic also prompted many tech bosses to express far more worker-hostile sentiments than they'd ever let slip in public before. Fully remote workforces both frustrated tech bosses and also significantly reduced the opportunities for in-person labor organizing. All of this built to a series of rising crescendos, such as Musk's Twitter takeover and mass layoffs, and Israel's tech-fueled genocide in Gaza. Confrontations between tech workers and bosses grew more bitter and direct, even as solidarity between white-collar tech workers and their blue-collar peers (notably Amazon warehouse workers) increased.

If all Against Tech Oligarchy did was lay out the cut-and-thrust of these labor struggles during these momentous years, it would be worth the price of admission. But it's in the final chapters that the book really distinguishes itself, because it's here that the authors embark on a pitiless postmortem of their own failed campaigns and the failures of their peers and ask themselves what it will take to unionize tech workers.

They start with the observation that most American union organizing is built around maintaining "labor peace" (by swiftly moving to recognition and a contract) but that tech bosses are ready to wage "labor war" (through illegal union-busting and retaliation). A labor peace strategy avoids costly and dangerous risks to established unions, such as decertification of locals and expensive and bruising court battles. But for tech bosses, labor war pays off, because their workforce is transient, fragmented, and skeptical of the very idea that they are workers. They have little to no experience with unions and can barely imagine how a union might improve their working lives.

The traditional labor playbook calls for workers to quietly build their power, taking no overt action while conducting a series of personal, one-to-one conversations that contribute to an eventual quorum of workers that's large enough to win a unionization vote. This strategy is like building a bonfire, where the pieces of fuel are piled one atop the other, but not lit until the pile is done.

But in a tech shop where workers turn over frequently and work in isolated teams, often from home, this strategy fails. Workers who have been won to the union side leave or grow demoralized in their isolation. Reaching new workers is difficult, and since the whole union drive occurs in secret, new workers don't know to reach out to organizers in their shops.

For Tan and Redwine, this fact militates for a strategy that revives some of the pre-labor activism of tech workers, noisy public/private fights whenever product decisions and management conduct violates some mix of worker rights and workers' values. They see this as a way to build momentum within a shop, bringing workers off the sidelines and giving organizers chances to bring those workers into a sustained, structured labor drive.

Tan and Redwine see tech worker organizing as the frontrunners of an age of new labor militancy and labor war, of the sort that pre-dated the labor peace that arose after the passage of the National Labor Relations Act. That labor peace was the result of bosses learning that hardball tactics would be met with equally hardcore responses.

This is especially important for tech workers, whose strikes cannot inflict the same pain on their bosses as earlier industrial workers' strikes did. Digital systems are designed to operate themselves after their are built, so when the workers involved in those systems withdraw their labor, the systems continue to run, often for a very long time, before needing maintenance (this is also the lesson of Musk's mass layoffs at Twitter).

Tech bosses have metabolized this lesson, and they are increasingly willing to wage all-out war at the first sign of labor unrest, with waves of retaliatory firings. These bosses have figured out devilish tactics for constructive dismissal, like the CEO of Mapbox, who retaliated against union supporters by targeting them with "return to office" mandates that forced them to report in person to offices that were in distant states. This prompted many of these workers to quit, which spared Mapbox from even paying them a severance package.

Against this backdrop, strikes need to be seen not as a way to bring the business operations to a halt, but rather as a way to galvanize workers and bring them into the union drive. As New York Times Tech Guild organizer John Cruickshank put it, Action builds capacity for action.

This is the ethos of the Microsoft workers who have campaigned tirelessly to halt the company's participation in the genocide in Gaza. They barricaded themselves in executives' offices, livestreaming the confrontation; they disrupted Microsoft's livecast 50th anniversary celebration; and they paddled a flotilla of protest kayaks outside of top Microsoft executives' waterfront homes. All of this paid off, with Microsoft halting sales of its tools to a particularly notorious unit of the Israeli military who had been using the company's products to conduct surveillance in Gaza and the West Bank.

Tan and Redwine see these novel tactics as a rewilding of the labor movement, a return to the militant roots that led to the labor peace, but only after all-out labor war. They cite the 1934 Minneapolis truck drivers' strike, where workers invented the "flying picket" by swarming scab trucks far from the factory gates, defeating the trucks' police protection, which led to a general strike and a total victory for labor.

This is important historical context. The genteel business of getting everyone's cards signed and having the NLRB certify your union was the compromise bosses agreed to after they learned that the alternative was far worse for them. Today, it's not just bosses who've forgotten that lesson – many workers have, too. Against Tech Oligarchy aims to rekindle those old boilers and get the unstoppable labor train running again.

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Hey look at this (permalink)

• Text Watermarking https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/08/24/Text-Watermarking

• Every Past and Tomorrow: The Physical Landscape of AI https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stephenvoss/every-past-and-tomorrow-a-survey-of-virginia-data-centers

• Reflecting on Digital Rights Wins and Losses in Sacramento https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/reflecting-digital-rights-wins-and-losses-sacramento

• Join EFF to Celebrate the Life of Aaron Swartz https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/join-eff-celebrate-life-aaron-swartz

• Goodbye from Salon https://www.salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye-from-salon/

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Object permanence (permalink)

#25yrsago EMI will distribute music on Gnutella

#25yrsago Photos from O'Reilly P2P Con https://web.archive.org/web/20011124163254/http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/11/05/monday_photos.html

#20yrsago Aussie Institute of Criminology calls piracy losses “self-serving hyperbole” https://web.archive.org/web/20061208043648/http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20713160^15306^^nbv^,00.html

#20yrsago UK airport cop: gun-shaped shirt decoration is illegal https://memex.craphound.com/2006/11/07/uk-airport-cop-gun-shaped-shirt-decoration-is-illegal/

#15yrsago Bug report: “Simultaneous cat and external keyboard input causing kernel panic” https://web.archive.org/web/20120112020023/https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/3/110

#10yrsago Hong Kong erupts after Beijing refuses to allow dissident lawmakers to re-take oath https://globalvoices.org/2016/11/06/street-protests-as-beijing-preempts-hong-kong-courts-with-new-interpretation-of-basic-law/

#10yrsago “Massive scale” shut-down of polling places in districts known for suppressing Black voters https://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/11/04/voting-rights-protections-gutted-polling-places-shuttered-massive-scale

#10yrsago Donald Trump’s campaign takes away his right to tweet without supervision https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/us/politics/donald-trump-presidential-race.html?_r=1

#10yrsago National Guard helicopter, 7 cop cars sent to warrantlessly seize a single marijuana plant from an 81-year-old grandmother https://www.loweringthebar.net/2016/11/national-guard-one-plant.html

#5yrsago Bait and Switch https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/07/bait-and-switch/

#1yrago The enshittification of labor https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/07/postwar-social-contract/#a-defense-of-social-contracts

#1yrago The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/06/vertical-blinds/#invest-dont-acquire

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Upcoming appearances (permalink)

• Kilkenny (Kilkenomics), Nov 6-8
  https://kilkenomics.com/

• Courtenay: Enshittification (Sid Williams Theatre Society), Nov 10
  https://www.sidwilliamstheatre.com/events/cory-doctorow-talks-enshittification/

• Vancouver: BC Policy Solutions Gala, Nov 12
  https://bcpolicy.ca/gala/

• Folkestone Writers Festival, Nov 16
  https://www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/whats-on/cory-doctorow-the-internet-is-broken-now-what/

• Oxford: Ministry of the Future, Nov 23
  https://ministryforthefuture.co.uk/events.html

• Sheffield: Reverse Centaur at Juno Books, Nov 25
  https://www.outsavvy.com/event/40274/cory-doctorow-in-conversation

• Virtual: Enshittification, AI, and the Future of Technology (UBC Master of Educational Technology), Nov 28
  https://met.ubc.ca/2026/09/met-speaker-series-cory-doctorow-enshittification-ai-and-the-future-of-technology/

• Oxford: Bennett Oxford Symposium on Open Code in Science, Dec 9
  https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/events/2026-bennett-institute-symposium/

• Santa Barbara: UCSB Reads, Apr 29
  https://www.library.ucsb.edu/events-exhibitions/ucsb-reads-2027-presents-author-cory-doctorow

• Montreal: World Science Fiction Convention, Sep 2-6
  https://montreal2027.ca/en

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Recent appearances (permalink)

• Clint Eastwood (No Gods No Mayors)
  https://www.patreon.com/NoGodsNoMayors/posts/clint-eastwood-173008088

• Life After AI (Brain Bar)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPPa43-n0vI

• Terms of Service with Clare Duffy (CNN)
  https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/terms-of-service-with-clare-duffy/episodes/458ce968-af5d-11f0-b539-13ed2afe25f8

• AI, Work, and Power (Software Engineering Daily)
  AI, Work, and Power https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/podcasts/cory-doctorow-on-ai-work-and-power/

• AI, Corporate Power, and the Fight for Worker Control (Plutopia)
  https://plutopia.io/cory-doctorow-ai-corporate-power-and-the-fight-for-worker-control/

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Latest books (permalink)

• "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2026
  https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621568/thereversecentaursguidetolifeafterai/

• "Canny Valley": A limited edition collection of the collages I create for Pluralistic, self-published, September 2025 https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/04/illustrious/#chairman-bruce

• "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, October 7 2025
  https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

• "Picks and Shovels": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about the heroic era of the PC, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2025 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels).

• "The Bezzle": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about prison-tech and other grifts, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2024 (thebezzle.org).

• "The Lost Cause:" a solarpunk novel of hope in the climate emergency, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), November 2023 (http://lost-cause.org).

• "The Internet Con": A nonfiction book about interoperability and Big Tech (Verso) September 2023 (http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org). Signed copies at Book Soup (https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245).

• "Red Team Blues": "A grabby, compulsive thriller that will leave you knowing more about how the world works than you did before." Tor Books http://redteamblues.com.

• "Chokepoint Capitalism: How to Beat Big Tech, Tame Big Content, and Get Artists Paid, with Rebecca Giblin", on how to unrig the markets for creative labor, Beacon Press/Scribe 2022 https://chokepointcapitalism.com

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Upcoming books (permalink)

• "The Post-American Internet," a geopolitical sequel of sorts to Enshittification, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2027

• "Unauthorized Bread": a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, April 20, 2027

• "Enshittification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (the graphic novel), Firstsecond, 2027

• "The Memex Method," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2027

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Colophon (permalink)

Today's top sources:

Currently writing:

• “Once Is Enemy Action,” a science fiction novel about the origins of modern technofascism. Today's words: 532 (33976 total).

• "The Post-American Internet," a sequel to "Enshittification," about the better world the rest of us get to have now that Trump has torched America. Fourth draft completed. Submitted to editor.

• A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING

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