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Okay! Are we holding up? If you're reading this, you have survived two weeks of our American President-elect. Onwards.

I'm performing my latest show "Sardines (a comedy about death)" at The Elysian Theater in Los Angeles, November 24 at 9pm. You can get tickets here.

I have a new YouTube show

Taking the spirit of my last email to you, I've launched a bit of a ramble/rant broadcast coming to you every week. Here's the latest episode. Please subscribe if you are interested in more.

A reminder about my Patreon

​It's here. It's a good spot if you want to see behind the scenes diaries and some of my work in its raw form, and some early access to interviews. I have an hour-long conversation with Dropout's Sam Reich that I filmed last month that will be out shortly. Eventually I'll also add a bonus episode of the YouTube show and I want to start a book club as well.

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• This is a worthwhile read about reasonable ways you can help change the world.
• ​A delightful talk by Cabel Sasser at the last XOXO conference. The less you know, the better.
• ​I'm on Bluesky, come chat. And here's a well-compiled list of "starter kits" in tech issues.
• If you want to have your Bluesky ID be a custom domain, it's not too complicated (but you do need to know how to futz around with DNS records).
• I was on KTLA, a local Los Angeles television station, talking about Chris Grace As Scarlett Johansson. It was interesting being on an "old" media channel. It's a whole world to itself. I have no idea if it was effective or not.
• Highly recommend the BBC show Ludwig. You can use a VPN and watch it on iPlayer if you aren't in the UK.
• In a bit of an upset, I saw on Reddit a recent discussion where most people recommended YouTube Music as their preferred music provider. I already subscribe to YouTube Premium (I hate ads) so it's free, and the argument is that it has access to a whole bunch of tracks that aren't available but that someone has put on YouTube, often in video form. Don't know what to listen to? I recommend "Wildfires" by SAULT.
• Or, a Tiny Desk concert by The Magnetic Fields.