Deeply upsetting to have had this sent to me not once, but twice in the last 24 hours...the mortifying ordeal of being known 🥲

As someone who loves a date that signifies a new start - a fresh page - having Tamil New Year offer me a consistent restart on April the 14th has been a comfort blanket for my entire life. A chance to take a second to reset, reflect and look at how the first 104 days of the year have treated me.

Since March the 13th - the day that Netflix's Adolescence was released - we've seen a 67% growth in the search interest for red pilled, and an almost comically large 960% growth in the search interest for the word incel (the pictured graph)* 📈

In the increasingly worrying absence of a lottery win to absolve me of the responsibility of email management, and as the quiet assurance that i'll be discovered as a singer of a punk rock band that was foundational to the first few decades of my life wanes...