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The Daily Whatever, July 1: Lost Connections and Chaos Edition

From disrespectful tenants, to janky internet connections, to Pride, what a mess!

By Dana DuBois, Lawrence Winnerman, Füsun Aydın, Wendy The Druid ‍‍, and Brandon EllrichJuly 1, 2025 · 1 min read

There are days that we speak eloquently about many things, and days like today where nothing seems to go quite right.

Thanks for putting up with the craziness today, friends! We appreciate you, and always look forward to having a conversation with you—even when everything seems to be going wrong.

Thank you Char Sundust, Peter William Murphy, Margaret Williams, MS, ACC, Cat, John Pearce, and many others for tuning into my live video with Brandon Ellrich, Wendy🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈, Füsun Aydın, and Lawrence Winnerman!

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Dana DuBois

The memoirist

Dana DuBois is a memoirist and Gen X word nerd based in the Pacific Northwest. She founded I Write Out Loud, her Substack publication, where she writes across a range of subjects; parenting, music and pop culture, relationships, and feminism are her favorites. She co-hosts The Daily Whatever Show. Em dashes, Oxford commas, and well-placed semicolons make her heart happy. All stories by Dana

Lawrence Winnerman

The science fiction writer

Lawrence Winnerman is a science fiction writer in Fort Wayne, Indiana. After twenty-five years leading technology programs at Amazon and Microsoft, he was chief operating officer of Blue Amp Media. In his Substack publication, The Hinge & The Near Field, he writes about AI and democracy and is serializing his novel Light Shines Through. He co-hosts The Daily Whatever Show. All stories by Lawrence