For reasons too boring to go into here, I was searching for the origin of a particular phrase when I came across this amazing work of fiction from 2013:

http://www.defenestrationmag.net/2013/04/you-non-miraculous-son-of-a-bitch-by-eirik-gumeny/

Sadly, the author, Eirik Gumeny, "tried Mastodon and kind of hated it?" (question mark in original), but he does have a substack, which is a thing that people do:

https://notaviking.substack.com

I know next to nothing about him other than that he's a freelance writer in New Mexico, and he wrote a delightfully amusing story set there in 2013.

#blog