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Anonymous Redditor hunched over a laptop in a cluttered room, flannel shirt and sports cap visible, embodying the unnamed online source now cited as authority.

Trusted source. Unknown name. Unknown experience. Laptop crumbs speak for themselves.

The Rise of the Anonymous Redditor: A Modern Authority Figure?

1/7/26 philmaggitti blog, Redditor44 Views

Journalism used to rely on sources before the rise of the anonymous Redditor. Those sources had credentials. They had expertise. They occasionally returned phone calls.… Read More

Ten 2026 New Year's Resolutions guaranteed not to last until February, featuring an image of a man sitting in his underwear on a bare hardwood floor eating a slice of pizza and watching a large screen TV.

I will throw away every object in my house that does not spark joy.

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Ten 2026 New Year’s Resolutions Guaranteed Not to Last Until February

12/31/25 philmaggitti blog, top ten lists49 Views

We stand in the kitchen on New Year’s Eve, smelling like cheap champagne and regret, promising the universe that we will suddenly stop being the disasters… Read More

Cartoon image of a bucket reading from a list symbolizing satirical life advice in Buck-It List 4.0.

Before you kick the bucket.

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The Buck-It List 4.0, Satirical Life Advice

12/2/25 philmaggitti blog128 Views

Ten more things you should quit doing while not going gently into that good night. Satirical Life Advice for seniors. If you have already renounced… Read More

A dog rides in a car with his head out the rear passenger window, eyes closed and ears pinned by the breeze, capturing the joyful sensory overload behind Why Does My Dog Hang His Head Out the Car Window.

Because enlightenment travels at 45 miles per hour.

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The Astonishing Truth: Why Does My Dog Hang His Head Out the Car Window?

11/13/25 philmaggitti blog, dog137 Views

Veterinary science insists there is “no definitive explanation” for “Why Does My Dog Hang His Head Out the Car Window?” That is the polite scientific… Read More

Vintage-style editorial cartoon illustrating the concept of fair game, showing distressed people being metaphorically hunted by photographers, critics, and online mobs in a sepia-toned ink drawing.

When everyone is a hunter, everyone becomes the hunted.

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Fair Game: The Sport of Being Hunted

10/21/25 philmaggitti blog133 Views

There was a time when “fair game” meant exactly that–something you could shoot legally without a game warden lecturing you about ethics. Deer, pheasants, and… Read More

Editorial illustration for Preparing for Your 65th High School Reunion. A navy blazer hangs like ceremonial armor, with a glowing name tag. Below, grooming items—shaving brush, razor, cologne, comb—are arranged like sacred tools. On the right, a cocktail glass, pain reliever bottle, and flickering candle suggest ritual preparation. Background evokes a mythic school gymnasium with textured beige tones and faint echoes of banners.

Name tag’s glowing, blazer’s pressed—time to outlive the competition.

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Remembrance and Reckoning: Preparing for a High School Reunion, #65

10/11/25 philmaggitti blog141 Views

Let us not pretend that your high school reunion is only about nostalgia, especially if it is the sixty-fifth reunion and you went to an… Read More

Stuck in an elevator with his eight-year-old conscience: a weary man in a wrinkled suit clutching coffee and a leaking briefcase faces his younger self holding a rubber dinosaur beside half-open doors revealing cosmic filing cabinets labeled ‘Unfulfilled Dreams.

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Stuck in an Elevator with My Eight-year-old Self

10/7/25 philmaggitti blog144 Views

There are elevators that simply malfunction, and there are elevators that malfunction in ways that make you question every decision you have ever made. When… Read More

A satirical illustration of a woman microdosing regret as part of a wellness ritual. She sits at a table with a melancholic expression, holding a tiny capsule between her fingers. On the table are a sad-faced pill bottle, a mug, and two slices of avocado toast.

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Microdosing Regret: The Latest Wellness Grift

9/26/25 philmaggitti blog174 Views

In the ever-expanding buffet of bourgeois self-improvement, where kombucha is considered a personality and breathwork is somehow a career, the latest delicacy is microdosing regret.… Read More