For the Weekend Warriors, Weirdos & Whackjobs - Issue #123
What’s your ideal Friday? Oh, mine? Well, wake up at tight 7am, brew a peppermint tea, then an espresso, and settle in with my favourite email from Bullshit Hunting, of course.
Another retrospective as we reach back into the archives to blow the dust off some of your favourites. This week, everyone got to peek back into A Free OSINT Lesson: Why RUMINT is the Unsung Hero of Intelligence Gathering. Before there were datasets, there were stories. And before there were analysts, there were people passing along what they’d heard. This article explores when the rumour mill is the appropriate place to be.
Hitting inboxes for those who throw us some monthly change, Kennedy takes us on an adventure from massage therapy to crisis communications with, For once, this shouldn’t be an email. When you have an emotional investment in your business, you want to defend it. But sometimes, the best way forward is simply to pause and listen. Coming to everyone next week.
Also for paid subscribers was High Spirits Volume 12. We’ll be honest, not our best but certainly not our worst! In our return, we bring you warranted complaints with the legal process and report writing, and some stories of unexplained Leprechaun-style creatures and weird road tales. We’re moving over to a bi-weekly schedule to ensure higher quality content.
What Kennedy Recommends
Alright, this one might be niche, but let’s go for it.
Last year, I was wandering through Shakespeare and Company, the famed Paris bookstore that I only knew as the bookstore Ethan Hawke has his reading in the beginning of Before Sunset.
While there, I picked up three books, one of which was No Modernism Without Lesbians. It quickly became a favourite.
No Modernism Without Lesbians by Diana Souhami is an engaging exploration of how lesbian relationships were central to the development of modernist art and literature in the early 20th century. Souhami reframes modernism as something deeply shaped by queer networks, partnerships, and creative collaborations. The women central to the story were not just participants in modernism but architects of it. It’s both a literary history and a kind of corrective.
Available wherever you buy books!
Alright, that’s all, folks.
Take care of yourselves. Get some rest.
Best,
Your Bullshit Hunting Crew