Refuse Dystopia

Refuse Dystopia

What is 'Hobbitmaxing' anyway?

I may have accidentally started a trend.

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Charles McBryde
May 10, 2026
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Reading my last five or so newsletters left me depressed this week.

They were all so dark!

Expressions of frustrations of indignation and rage of a kind at times worthy and at others, self-indulgent.

Sure, my friend died, the world kind of went to shit, and I’ve spent most of the year suffering from various ailments because I have the constitution of an…

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