So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

A few days before I flew to San Francisco to meet Adria, I posted a message on 4chan/b/ asking for anyone personally involved in her destruction to contact me. The message was deleted in less than a minute. I posted another request. That one vanished after a few...
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

It turned out that public shaming had once been a process. A book of Delaware laws I discovered at the Massachusetts Historical Society revealed that if Jonah had been found guilty of “lying or publishing false news” in the 1800s, he would have been “fined, placed in...
The Bullshit Machine

The Bullshit Machine

Here’s a tiny confession. I’m bored. Yes; I know. I’m a sinner. Go ahead. Burn me at the stake of your puritanical Calvinism; the righteously, thoroughly, well, boring idea that boredom itself is a moral defect; that a restless mind is the Devil’s sweatshop. There’s...
Tweet truth to power

Tweet truth to power

Tomorrow I’m doing my first ever screenprinting course, and with tongue lightly stuck in cheek, I’ve just done this Tweet Truth To Power design with a picture of a protesting young fella I tried to ‘Banksy’. Obviously once I unleash this bad...
How to use the new Twitter

How to use the new Twitter

There are already a lot of ‘new Twitter’ guides and helpful notes out there about all the changes Twitter’s been making recently, so I’m just going to summarise some of the most interesting bits, and link to the best guides I’ve found for...