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Watching the News: An Exit Interview

Breaking up with breaking news

Jan 15 • Patrick Eades

How to Grow an Online Audience Without Resorting to OnlyFans

By resort to, I mean celebrate the wonderfulness of the human body and it's oblique capacity for side hustling

Dec 18, 2025 • Patrick Eades

A Letter to Expecting Parents From Your Future Child, Name (Hopefully) [Redacted]

Please read, my life depends on it

Dec 4, 2025 • Patrick Eades

The Search for a Literary Agent

For the Force is a powerful ally.

Nov 20, 2025 • Patrick Eades

I Was Viciously Attacked in the Groin. Now, I Must Party.

How to celebrate your vasectomy like it's 1999, when you still had an intact vas deferens

Nov 6, 2025 • Patrick Eades

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