David Farrier
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WEBWORM / FLIGHTLESS BIRD / DARK TOURIST / TICKLED / MISTER ORGAN
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feels like an AI assisted listicle to me. god, AI sucks
#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
December 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
feels like an AI assisted listicle to me. god, AI sucks
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Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
fuxk this apple upsate
December 24, 2025 at 7:37 AM
fuxk this apple upsate
one of many things that made me go "oh no" in regards to substack: when they decided to scream the praises of bari weiss 1 year ago. weiss would go on to sell the free press for $150 million, and become editor-in-chief at cbs where she would bury stories about americans being sent to overseas gulags
December 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
one of many things that made me go "oh no" in regards to substack: when they decided to scream the praises of bari weiss 1 year ago. weiss would go on to sell the free press for $150 million, and become editor-in-chief at cbs where she would bury stories about americans being sent to overseas gulags
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The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.
December 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.
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if you've enjoyed webworm this year, and know someone else who might like a subscription, you can gift someone a full webworm sub for christmas.
(thanks for supporting my weird little project over the last 5 years! and feel free to RT):
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December 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
if you've enjoyed webworm this year, and know someone else who might like a subscription, you can gift someone a full webworm sub for christmas.
(thanks for supporting my weird little project over the last 5 years! and feel free to RT):
www.webworm.co/gift-subscri...
(thanks for supporting my weird little project over the last 5 years! and feel free to RT):
www.webworm.co/gift-subscri...
if you've enjoyed webworm this year, and know someone else who might like a subscription, you can gift someone a full webworm sub for christmas.
(thanks for supporting my weird little project over the last 5 years! and feel free to RT):
www.webworm.co/gift-subscri...
(thanks for supporting my weird little project over the last 5 years! and feel free to RT):
www.webworm.co/gift-subscri...
Give a Gift Subscription
David Farrier's weird investigations, quirks & oddities delivered direct to your inbox!
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December 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
if you've enjoyed webworm this year, and know someone else who might like a subscription, you can gift someone a full webworm sub for christmas.
(thanks for supporting my weird little project over the last 5 years! and feel free to RT):
www.webworm.co/gift-subscri...
(thanks for supporting my weird little project over the last 5 years! and feel free to RT):
www.webworm.co/gift-subscri...
streisand effect
The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
YouTube video by eoin higgins
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
streisand effect
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Only a matter of time until a UC Berkeley law professor writes a memo justifying torture, a brave Vanity Fair writer gets tortured to say whether it hurts, and we have a national discussion about whether certain people should be tortured for our safety.
December 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Only a matter of time until a UC Berkeley law professor writes a memo justifying torture, a brave Vanity Fair writer gets tortured to say whether it hurts, and we have a national discussion about whether certain people should be tortured for our safety.
going on a little trip... www.webworm.co/byeamerica/
Bye Bye, America (For Now)
Join me as I embark for NZ - and figure out if America will let me back in!
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December 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
going on a little trip... www.webworm.co/byeamerica/
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
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Here is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Here is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues in full:
this sweet man walks around with a cart and tools, planting flowers and trees and shrubs, wishing everyone "happy halloween" year-round - and then the city removes them. i find this joyful and sad and all sorts of things
December 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
this sweet man walks around with a cart and tools, planting flowers and trees and shrubs, wishing everyone "happy halloween" year-round - and then the city removes them. i find this joyful and sad and all sorts of things
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I continue to no understand how these things are allowed at all. There are SO MANY edge cases they're unable to handle, and their failure mode is disruptive at best, and sometimes outright dangerous.
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
missionlocal.org
December 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I continue to no understand how these things are allowed at all. There are SO MANY edge cases they're unable to handle, and their failure mode is disruptive at best, and sometimes outright dangerous.
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earlier this year i posted a photo of a dead deer, & it was the maddest social media has ever gotten at me. i wrote about that experience. it was paywalled (as really who cares) - but i liked how this piece turned out, so dropped the paywall as the year rounds out: www.webworm.co/deathofadeer/
The Death of a Deer
"I am over the creepy behaviour at this point."
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December 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
earlier this year i posted a photo of a dead deer, & it was the maddest social media has ever gotten at me. i wrote about that experience. it was paywalled (as really who cares) - but i liked how this piece turned out, so dropped the paywall as the year rounds out: www.webworm.co/deathofadeer/
earlier this year i posted a photo of a dead deer, & it was the maddest social media has ever gotten at me. i wrote about that experience. it was paywalled (as really who cares) - but i liked how this piece turned out, so dropped the paywall as the year rounds out: www.webworm.co/deathofadeer/
The Death of a Deer
"I am over the creepy behaviour at this point."
www.webworm.co
December 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
earlier this year i posted a photo of a dead deer, & it was the maddest social media has ever gotten at me. i wrote about that experience. it was paywalled (as really who cares) - but i liked how this piece turned out, so dropped the paywall as the year rounds out: www.webworm.co/deathofadeer/
thanks flightless bird listeners x
December 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM
thanks flightless bird listeners x
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Congressional investigation now.
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
bit.ly
December 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Congressional investigation now.
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the story of doug highlights how easily people can exploit crowdfunding sites like @gofundme.com to raise money for a fun, international trip. it also highlights how newsrooms fail to do basic checks, and how @gofundme really doesn't seem to care: www.webworm.co/bewareofdoug/
Beware of Doug
Doug Ruch of Dying To Serve says he has terminal cancer, but David Farrier's Webworm finds zero proof & a history of dodgy fundraisers and schemes.
www.webworm.co
December 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
the story of doug highlights how easily people can exploit crowdfunding sites like @gofundme.com to raise money for a fun, international trip. it also highlights how newsrooms fail to do basic checks, and how @gofundme really doesn't seem to care: www.webworm.co/bewareofdoug/
the story of doug highlights how easily people can exploit crowdfunding sites like @gofundme.com to raise money for a fun, international trip. it also highlights how newsrooms fail to do basic checks, and how @gofundme really doesn't seem to care: www.webworm.co/bewareofdoug/
Beware of Doug
Doug Ruch of Dying To Serve says he has terminal cancer, but David Farrier's Webworm finds zero proof & a history of dodgy fundraisers and schemes.
www.webworm.co
December 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
the story of doug highlights how easily people can exploit crowdfunding sites like @gofundme.com to raise money for a fun, international trip. it also highlights how newsrooms fail to do basic checks, and how @gofundme really doesn't seem to care: www.webworm.co/bewareofdoug/
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The Epstein Files, everybody!
December 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The Epstein Files, everybody!
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Extremely obvious combing through this who is redacted and why. It's Epstein, Maxwell, a lot of Bill Clinton, maybe Michael Jackson (?) and basically nobody else. Everybody else's head is in a black rectangle. In practice, they didn't release shit.
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Extremely obvious combing through this who is redacted and why. It's Epstein, Maxwell, a lot of Bill Clinton, maybe Michael Jackson (?) and basically nobody else. Everybody else's head is in a black rectangle. In practice, they didn't release shit.
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NYT columnist David Brooks wrote an op-ed a few weeks ago titled, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out,” lamenting people are too focused on the Epstein scandal + saying "the QAnon mentality has taken over."
Today he appeared in 4 photos from the Epstein dump. Welp! www.huffpost.com/entry/david-...
Today he appeared in 4 photos from the Epstein dump. Welp! www.huffpost.com/entry/david-...
David Brooks Said ‘Count Me Out’ Of Epstein Story, Then Wound Up In Epstein Photos
There's no indication The New York Times columnist did anything wrong. But wow, the timing of his column and the photo dump is unfortunate!
www.huffpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
NYT columnist David Brooks wrote an op-ed a few weeks ago titled, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out,” lamenting people are too focused on the Epstein scandal + saying "the QAnon mentality has taken over."
Today he appeared in 4 photos from the Epstein dump. Welp! www.huffpost.com/entry/david-...
Today he appeared in 4 photos from the Epstein dump. Welp! www.huffpost.com/entry/david-...
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Any article observing that the AI bubble is about to burst *but then suggesting AI is too important to our financial systems to be allowed to fail* is missing the point. Generative AI is a massive fraud and a brain drain on humanity, even leaving theft and resource issues aside.
December 19, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Any article observing that the AI bubble is about to burst *but then suggesting AI is too important to our financial systems to be allowed to fail* is missing the point. Generative AI is a massive fraud and a brain drain on humanity, even leaving theft and resource issues aside.
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a few doug updates, including him cozying up to the GoFundMe CEO in australia at a GoFundMe event in october: www.webworm.co/bewareofdoug/
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
a few doug updates, including him cozying up to the GoFundMe CEO in australia at a GoFundMe event in october: www.webworm.co/bewareofdoug/