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Mike Crumplar

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Mike Crumplar writes Crumpstack, a personal blog at mcrumps.substack.com about writing and culture. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “My Own Dimes Square Fascist Humiliation Ritual”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-26, and you can follow it by feed.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2022–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link this blog as a counterpoint to Palladium and as a Dimes Square critique. The comments only share links, with no comment on the writing itself.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

A literary newsletter by Mike Crumplar.

Most-linked posts?

  1. My Own Dimes Square Fascist Humiliation Ritual
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. Here's some anti-Palladium then : https://mcrumps.substack.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “I don’t want to be an internet person”
  2. Submitted My Own Dimes Square Fascist Humiliation Ritual as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. https://mcrumps.substack.com/p/my-own-dimes-square-fascist-h...

    Comment linking /p/my-own-dimes-square-fascist-humiliation

    on “Ask HN: Best Essay in 2022”
  4. Submitted My Own Dimes Square Fascist Humiliation Ritual as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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