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    The Harvest of My Envy

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    Bob Lynn

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    14/01/2026

    | Reading time:

    2–3 minutes
    The Harvest of My Envy

    I sowed poison in the ears of men to blight my brother’s name. Now the wheel turns, and I reap only dust. Hearken to the plain truth of a wasted soul before I am forever lost to memory.

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  • Women In STEM

    Matilda Joslyn Gage: The Radical Visionary Who Documented Women’s Stolen Inventions

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    Bob Lynn

    on

    13/01/2026

    | Reading time:

    74–111 minutes
    Matilda Joslyn Gage: The Radical Visionary Who Documented Women’s Stolen Inventions

    A radical feminist visionary meets her modern interviewer. Gage reveals how institutions stole women’s inventions, why she split from the suffrage movement, and why her 19th-century warnings about church power feel urgently prophetic in 2026. Uncompromising. Witty. Brilliant.

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  • New Corinth

    The Ghost of a Croissant

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    Bob Lynn

    on

    12/01/2026

    | Reading time:

    3–4 minutes
    The Ghost of a Croissant

    I crave a nine-dollar cronut, but New Corinth doesn’t do artisanal. So here I am, eating sticky Butterscotch Krimpets on a fire escape, watching the grey river and learning to appreciate a city that refuses to be cool.

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  • Daily Prompt

    The Weight of Domesticity: Why Housework Feels Like a Personal Insult

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    11/01/2026

    | Reading time:

    40–60 minutes
    The Weight of Domesticity: Why Housework Feels Like a Personal Insult

    Discover why housework triggers such visceral resentment. This groundbreaking analysis reveals the hidden architecture of domestic burden – spanning centuries of oppression, invisible cognitive labour, neurological exploitation, and existential confinement. The anger is rational, not personal.

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  • Daily Prompt

    True North

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    10/01/2026

    | Reading time:

    20–29 minutes
    True North

    They’ll tell you he was a number in a file, a name spelt wrong in a ledger. But I have the compass he held when the world went dark. Paper lies; brass remembers. Let them try and take him now.

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  • Daily Prompt

    A Fragment in the Dust

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    Bob Lynn

    on

    09/01/2026

    | Reading time:

    4–6 minutes
    A Fragment in the Dust

    I dwell amongst dead things, finding comfort in cold stone where living society offers none. Yet whilst I catalogue the ruins of empires, a greener ruin spreads within my own breast – the silent, shameful canker of envy.

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  • Women In STEM

    Margaret W. Rossiter: The Historian Who Named Erasure While Experiencing It

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    08/01/2026

    | Reading time:

    27–40 minutes
    Margaret W. Rossiter: The Historian Who Named Erasure While Experiencing It

    Historian Margaret W. Rossiter excavated five hundred hidden women scientists from archives and coined the “Matilda effect” – then watched institutions ignore her own tenure case. A candid conversation on naming erasure, institutional resistance, and why recognition without action remains an academic exercise.

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  • New Corinth

    The View from the Turning Basin

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    Bob Lynn

    on

    07/01/2026

    | Reading time:

    3–4 minutes
    The View from the Turning Basin

    Sitting in the Riverfront Wawa lot, I realised being bitter about this changing city isn’t a personality. I can’t change the grey Delaware weather, but I can trade the chip on my shoulder for a wrench. It’s time to show up.

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  • Daily Prompt

    The Architecture of Tears: Why Music Breaks Us Without Permission

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    06/01/2026

    | Reading time:

    6–9 minutes
    The Architecture of Tears: Why Music Breaks Us Without Permission

    An investigation into the biological, structural, and philosophical reasons we fall apart when the chorus hits.

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  • Daily Prompt

    The Fair Copy

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    05/01/2026

    | Reading time:

    19–28 minutes
    The Fair Copy

    They told me to make the past safe. To turn a man’s scream into silence. I gave the Army their fair copy, but in my pocket, I hid the truth. Ink is permanent, even when it is forbidden.

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