PinnedGareth Johnson·Nov 11, 2025A Brief History of Veterans Day or: How “The War to End All Wars” Became “20% Off Mattresses”Act I: Europe Decides to Have the Worst Group Project in History (1914–1918)A response icon3A response icon3
Gareth Johnson·Feb 21More People Have Cell Phones Than ToiletsA meditation on humanity’s priorities, in which we chose “candy crush” over “not dying of cholera”
Gareth Johnson·Feb 21The Lost Colony of Roanoke Left a Note and We Ignored It for 436 Years437 years of the greatest unsolved mystery in American history, and the answer was literally carved into wood the whole timeA response icon1A response icon1
Gareth Johnson·Feb 16The Death Cult We Call President’s Day: A History of Mourning Corpses with Mattress SalesWe need to talk about how America handles death.
Gareth Johnson·Feb 16The Identity You Never Got to Choose: Understanding Foreclosed IdentityYou’re not carrying depression. You’re carrying someone else’s story about who you should be.
Gareth Johnson·Feb 11What Fascism Actually Is, Because Apparently We Need to Go Over This AgainLook, nobody wants to be the guy at the party explaining fascism. It’s like being the dude who corners you near the bathroom at a bar and…
Gareth Johnson·Feb 11The Voynich Manuscript: Six Hundred Years of Nobody Knowing What the Hell They’re Looking AtThe world’s most expensive book nobody can read, and what it says about us that we can’t stop trying.
Gareth Johnson·Feb 10Cold Glory and Beautiful Decay: A Mostly True History of the Winter OlympicsOn mountains that have been trying to kill us since before we had the audacity to ski them
Gareth Johnson·Feb 9The Perfect Heist Was Foiled By a Half-Eaten Salami Sandwich and I Can’t Stop LaughingOr: How to Bypass 100 Million Possible Combinations But Not Basic Trash Disposal
