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29 May - 7 June 2023

Jun 7, 2023

I am having another Twitter space tonight to talk about everything I have written lately. Henceforth, these link posts will appear on the same day that I hold an evening Twitter space. Hopefully I can make it a regular Wednesday combo. We will also work in a regular Wednesday Substack Notes thread as well, starting right after this is published. Warning, this annotated link post ends in actual genocide.

On Monday 29 May, Memorial Day, I wrote about memories.

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The Cost Of The Memory And The Labor Of Remembering It

It is Memorial Day. One week ago, I was flying home from the memorial service for an American bomber pilot who was unidentified from 1943 to 2022. In my post describing that service and the long-delayed funeral of an American hero, I said that the real work of remembering can finally begin…

4 months ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

I also made a point about Jeffrey Epstein and the art of damage.

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The Grooming Is The Grift

We learned last week that Microsoft monopolist Bill Gates had an affair with a Russian bridge player. Furthermore, we learned that this consensual affair was, according to Gates himself, the only leverage that Jeffrey Epstein had on him, and that he, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, is innocent of ever flying on Epstein’s jet or visiting his islan…

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On Tuesday, I wrote another piece about the American Civil Liberties Union losing the plot on women’s rights.

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The ACLU Makes Our Prisons Forget Everything They Know About Autogynephilia

Jermaine Gibson, a man who identifies as a “transgender woman” named Cyntara, allegedly harassed and assaulted a female prisoner at New Jersey’s Edna Mahan Correctional Facilty For Women during April. In an interview with Reduxx, inmate Shakira Reed says “I was attacked because I didn’t want to have sex with him…

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On Wednesday, I published a review of Loyalty House by Jessie Childs. It is for paying subscribers only, but it will unlock for free subscribers in three weeks.

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Loyalty, Divided: The Doomed Resistance Of A Cavalier Stronghold In The English Civil War

NEW POLICY. Book reviews will now be available for paying subscribers four weeks before free subscribers get to see them. Past book reviews will remain free. If I have to read more than a book in order to write an essay, it will stay behind the paywall…

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On Thursday last week, I had something to say about the new Glamour. Glossy self-harm celebrations will look really, really bad in retrospect.

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The Bearded Lady Is Pregnant Now

That is not an actual beard. There is barely peach fuzz on that jawline. Call it a metaphorical beard, because this is not even the P.T. Barnum bearded lady beard. This is a self-harming woman. Her jagged mastectomy scars speak to her dysphoria, which is somehow not triggered by pregnancy, only pronouns…

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I took Friday off to put together some research on the state of the long-range war in Ukraine and Russia. I published the results on Saturday, free to read.

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What To Talk About When We Talk About Ukraine Shooting Stuff At Russia

The USSR made over 150 of these jet-powered drones fifty years ago. Ukraine inherited some number of them for being so close to NATO in the Cold War. The Ukrianian Air Force (UAF) lost one of these during an apparent recon mission into Russia just recently…

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It’s been a busy news cycle, so on Sunday 4 June I wrote about the expanding situtation in Belgorod Oblast and its sandblasting effect on pretensions in Moscow.

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Ukraine Expands Their Hybrid War In Russia

”The Russian Volunteer Corps and the Freedom of Russia Legion said they had captured Russian soldiers in Belgorod Oblast and wanted a meeting with the local governor,” Ukrainska Pravda reports. In a video released by the mysterious new combatants, they instruct the Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov how to approach them safely at a local church to recover thei…

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Then I wanted subscribers to this website to know about a new historical subject I have taken an interest in exploring further. Astrology is not so interesting to me, but this particular astrologer is. Expect more about William Lilly, subscriber-exclusive at the Ink.

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William Lilly, Astrologer to Parliament

William Lilly was “unremarkable” in appearance, according to author Jessie Childs. “He had dark shoulder-length hair, a moustache and slightly river-blasted cheeks.” Lilly was in his 40s at the height of the English Civil War, when he began publishing almanacs of horoscopes. These “sold well to an anxious public,” Childs writes. England’s troubles were …

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On Monday I asked the question on everybody’s mind these days: what pronouns did Lucy the Australopithecus prefer?

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We Will Award $10,000,000 For A Nonbinary Specimen Of Australopithecus

The human animal evolved ~230,000 years ago with a life cycle, just like every other animal has a life cycle. Part of the human life cycle is adolescence. No one enjoys adolescence. It is awkward, dangerous, and full of terrors. It has always been that way…

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Then I made a musical announcement.

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The Official Anthem Of The Osborne Republic

Listen now (4 min) | Is “Show and Hell” by Séance Fiction. You are not required to salute. Participation in the mosh pit is also voluntary, though encouraged. Here are the lyrics, ©2007 Evan Clayton, who is a mensch. Every single day of my life I have worked to better myself…

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Tuesday was a writing day. This morning, Wednesday 7 June 2023, I published a history of Nazi camp doctor Josef Mengele and his most bizarre experiments on the bodies of children. This article is paywalled. It will be available in one week for free subscribers to The Distance.

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Josef Mengele, Pediatric Transition Pioneer

Josef Mengele “liked the smell of the crematoria.” To him, it was the scent of progress. In her memoir Echoes from Auschwitz, Eva Mozes Kor tells the story of her incredible survival, along with a twin sister Miriam, at the hands of the infamous camp doctor. “Even today, none of us really knows what was done to us,” Kor wrote in 1995. Her allegations include grisly experimental sex changes on children…

4 months ago · 4 likes · Matt Osborne

I also published my research paper on the 1965 Indonesian genocide, the cultural context of the killings, and how it all fits within the secret history of the Cold War: decolonization, US withdrawal from Vietnam, and the palingenesis of homicidal Latin American despotisms.

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Headhunting Sukarno: The Cold War Murder of an Impossible Country

An academic consensus of English-language historiography now assigns responsibility for the mass killings of 1965-66 to the Indonesian army and Suharto with critical aid from western powers which then sought to replicate their success in other countries. This paper contextualizes the politicide 1965-66 of 500,000-1.5 million people within an emerging historical definition of the word “genocide” as a state or nation destroying some part of itself, with gendered performance of violence and deliberate creation of palingenetic renewal myths being a characteristic of that process. Prevalent in the Indonesian case, headhunting and decapitation neatly contain as symbol the discursive construction of a new nation, an Indonesia free of feminists and leftists…

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