Malin - Grievances, etc.

Three highland cows with big horns in a grassy field. The sea is in the background.

Cows are here.

I have new neighbors*, and they are cows. Their job seems to be to eat and hang out and get a lot of attention. How disgustingly human of me to call that a job! I am told they used to be in this field all the time, but this is

a light blue and orange book, presumably a journal, sits on a wooden table that is for some reason strewn with leaves.

Let me know in the comments below!

As you might have noticed, this newsletter is not a substack. There was a moment when people were caring that substack was platforming some pretty bad people, and in that moment, I was just starting out, so I signed up for Ghost instead. (Mildly fun story about that in my

Irish Sea coastline with lots of rocks and Howth in the distance. A footpath in the foreground.

You're fiddling. Rome is burning and you're fiddling.

I am trying to delete my TikTok. I told you a few posts ago that I'm off of it, so it makes sense to just delete my account now, but I can't log in to do it, so I'm stuck until it becomes less

New Year

Well, well, well, if it isn't the blog I said I'd write in every two weeks. Happy New Year. Or just New Year, to steal a joke. Every time I start one of these drafts, I have the inexplicable urge to write "damn, daniel."

My Favorites of 2025

Here are my favorites of the year! They might not have been released this year, but they were new to me, and we're all about me here. My Favorite Album Cameron Winter's Heavy Metal. I played this album the most I think, and the apps couldn&

A Dublin city street with a big sign across it that says "Winter in Dublin."

This newsletter is costing me money.

My last entry for this newsletter was in January, and my life is different now, as I bet yours is too. I don't live in the U.S., I don't have that job, and I don't think there is a fire season where I

Orangeish gray smoke clouds cover most of the sky above a city street intersection.

The Year So Far

I started the year worried about H5N1 (bird flu). It's not transmitting human to human yet, as far as we know, but it was sounding like it could get there soon. On the advice of a prepper subreddit, I started slowly building out my stocks of non-perishables and

I'm still the same person??

In my last post, I told you all to look forward to more than one entry this month because I'd be a new person, but it's just going to be one post on the final day of the month once again. I'm still me.

More Meta Navel-Gazing

Gang, maybe my whole deal is meta navel-gazing. My goal for this newsletter was to post at least once a month, and here we are on May 31st, late, Pacific Time. I initially thought I might use this space to write about current events if you can believe it, but

A really tall photograph of a bee sticking its head into a honeycomb. Maybe too tall for this space actually.

Why are you doing this? A question no one has asked me.

I have been trying to start a newsletter for a while now. About a year ago I asked my Instagram followers what they’d like to see me write about in case someone had a really good idea that had never occurred to me. Maybe I had forgotten that I