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Nissa Tolton

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    • Salt Island DiariesShunned by Victorian society at every turn, these women build a society of their own
    • Good-Bye HarajukuLove, speed, capitalism, and post-truth
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    • Titcomb’s LettersVery particular advice to young people, from 1858 onward.
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  • Blog
    • Dreaming
    • LGBTQ
    • Philosophy
    • Political
    • Surveillance
    • Technology
  • Books
    • Salt Island DiariesShunned by Victorian society at every turn, these women build a society of their own
    • Good-Bye HarajukuLove, speed, capitalism, and post-truth
    • Principle of FlocksHistorical romance, time-travel, and the metaverse
    • Titcomb’s LettersVery particular advice to young people, from 1858 onward.
  • Short Fiction
    • Audiobooks
    • Scripts
    • Humor
    • Poetry

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Victoriana
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Victoriana

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 8 July 202320 July 2023

My 19th century book collection is slowly migrating to Victoriana. These are out-of-copyright books that are free to download or read on your device.

The Social Order of Abortion Restrictions
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The Social Order of Abortion Restrictions

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 23 April 202324 April 2023

Abortion restrictions cannot be about morality; there are too many contradictions in that presentation. So what are they about?

Social order.

The Presumption of Dreaming
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  • Dreaming

The Presumption of Dreaming

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 22 October 202224 April 2023

I have long suspected that waking reality is a kind of dream. The truth of the matter is irrelevant.

Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen’s 1851 painting Sleeping Sisters.
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Old-fashioned Warmth

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 17 October 202230 June 2023

Faced with high inflation and war, one might begin to consider situation-appropriate lifestyle changes. In terms of saving energy, there is much we can do. Our ancestors worked out all the heating accommodations we need.

Gaslighting
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Gaslighting

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 7 October 202222 January 2023

Only crazy people think it’s happening and only bad people want to end it.

Side-Posting
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Side-Posting

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 9 August 20229 August 2022

If no one posts on alternative platforms because others are not posting, the result is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Hay Fever
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Hay Fever

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 8 July 20228 July 2022

Beat hay fever with immunonutrition

Management of Similarity: Blame
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Management of Similarity: Blame

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 10 January 202230 July 2022

To forgive is to condemn

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  • Historical

How to Use a Victorian-Era Furnace

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 30 November 202121 October 2022

Chimneys are strange objects. Most people believe they know how chimneys work, until they try to use one.

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  • Capitalism
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Management of Similarity Moment

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 17 November 202118 November 2021

Management of similarity is hard, precisely because we prefer to believe in ‘right and wrong.’

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