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2026 1

  1. <tap><tap>is this thing still on?

2024 10

  1. How to Write Real Good Words, According to Stephen King
  2. “How’s the Typhoon?”
  3. Enshittification, Explained With Hotdogs
  4. Net Neutrality Returns to America. What's the Big Deal?
  5. "Fun Fact: 1000% More of Something is 11 x Something"
  6. When Does Religion Start Being Art?
  7. Billionaire, Billionaire, What Do You Steal?
  8. What if Trump Taught Little Kids About the World? It Might Look Something Like This
  9. Three Years Mimicking Eric Carle for a Parody Nobody Asked For
  10. How Google Killed the Blogger

2023 54

  1. Can You Solve the 'Simple' Two Door Riddle From Labyrinth?
  2. The World’s Littlest Skyscraper is Hilarious (And a Giant Scam on the Rich)
  3. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Attack Drone
  4. We’re All Living in Potemkin Village
  5. The Twelve Days of Unfettered Capitalism
  6. 4 Powerful People Who Died While Cheating on Their Spouses
  7. 'Twas the Night Before WWIII
  8. 3 Super Powers That Actually Exist in Real Life
  9. A 600-Year-Old Scientific Mystery and a Never Ending Battle of Egos
  10. I Just Sold My 500th Book. If I Was Allowed to Advertise It I’d Be Rich
  11. Only 12% of People Think This is 'a' Penguin
  12. I Saw a UFO and Cried
  13. Do Women Really Have Fewer Partners Than Men?
  14. This Man Was Rescued in a One in a Million Chance, But What They Discovered Was Truly Horrifying
  15. 11 Proven Strategies to Ensure Your Adult Children Never "Overstay" Their Welcome
  16. Batten Down the Hatches! I'm in the 1st Typhoon in 4 Years in Taiwan
  17. The Tragic Downfall of National Geographic
  18. It's Dragon Boat Festival Here in Taiwan! (With Pictures)
  19. Breaking Echo Chambers One Vodka at a Time
  20. Is MSG Actually Bad For You? The Crazy Story Behind the Fifth Taste
  21. Scientists Found Out How to Tell If Someone is Lying With 100% Accuracy
  22. This Man Traded Fame and Fortune to Help Save Thousands of Children
  23. How Much Do Billionaires Value a Stranger’s Life?
  24. Who Is the Craziest Person in This Room?
  25. On Vasectomies: A Whole Different Ball Game
  26. Most Lottery Winners Go Broke, Right?
  27. Rage Is Good for Business
  28. Did Abraham Lincoln Really Speak to the Ghost of His Child?
  29. Why Do We Laugh?
  30. A Complete Noob's Guide to AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)
  31. Stealing From Banks, Underwater Mailboxes, and a Millionaire for 5 Months
  32. The Potato Paradox: A Perplexing Puzzle of Proportional Perspective
  33. Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?
  34. Doctors Said She Wasn't the Mother of Her Own Children
  35. Clowns Laying Eggs, No One Dies Alone, and Johnny Stalin
  36. Who's Saving What Exactly? All About Daylight Savings Time
  37. The Crazy Domino Effect in the 90s That Led to Obama Becoming President
  38. Are You Afraid of Clowns?
  39. Winters in Mumbai
  40. Let's Network! A Pryor Thoughts Update
  41. What's in a Shoe?
  42. What Does It Feel Like to Be Illiterate?
  43. This Fascinating Inventor Blew Away His Competition
  44. The Woman Behind the Apollo 13 Miracle: The Incredible Engineer Who Saved the Crew
  45. Six Wacky Things $6 Can Buy You in the Modern Age
  46. How a Parent's Worst Nightmare Spawned a Literary Classic and Sold Over 80,000,000 Copies
  47. Why Are Online Recipes Always So Damn Long-Winded?
  48. Drink Up! Here's a Tasty Bit of History
  49. How My Friends Gamble to Stay Healthy
  50. Two Secret Tax Loopholes the Rich Use to Save Billions
  51. The Untold Story of a Music Royalty's Tragic End
  52. Illegally Rich: The Scandalous Story of a Presidential Ancestor's Rise to Power
  53. A Little Inspiration for Your Goals This Year
  54. The Surprising Lessons My Favorite Card Game Taught Me About Modern Capitalism

2022 64

  1. Why Your Boss is an Absolute Moron
  2. I'm Falling in Love with AI
  3. Artificial Intelligence Stole My Job
  4. A Final Message From My Father
  5. These Two-Sentence Horror Stories Might Just Shiver Your Timbers
  6. Exploring the Seven Natural Wonders of the World
  7. Why You'd Make an Amazing CEO
  8. I Inadvertently Ate Some Spit
  9. We Were All "Special"
  10. The Legend of Stingy Jack
  11. The Greatest Invention in History
  12. Money Doesn't Win Elections in the U.S.
  13. How to Predict the Future (Seriously)
  14. Five Things That Have Tried to Kill Me in the Last Two Weeks
  15. 7 Somewhat Amusing Things You Didn’t Know About the British Royalty
  16. Just What is Balut? The Controversial Philippine Street Food
  17. A Short Tale of a Kitty in Taiwan
  18. Listening to Music Can Actually Hurt Your Writing
  19. The Insane Libertarian Floating City That Never Came to Be
  20. Why Silver Medal Winners Are Always So Upset
  21. Why Everyone Should Apologize to You, the Night Owl, for Saving Humanity
  22. Pryor Week #14:Name games, Grunting Worms, Tigger, and Trees
  23. 5 Famous Historical Misconceptions to Impress Your Friends With in an Annoying Fashion
  24. Over 1,000 PhDs Got This Basic Logic Question Wrong - Even After Being Shown the Answer
  25. The World's Littlest Skyscraper
  26. Guinea Pigs - It's What's for Dinner
  27. Pryor Week #13: There was a firefight!
  28. Pryor Week #12: Moonshots, Stonehenge, and Stray cats
  29. Over 90% of People Get This Simple Logic Test Wrong
  30. The Pryor Week #11: Accidental legislation, Morgan Freeman's earrings, and $2.9 million down the toilet
  31. Learn better by...teaching?
  32. I Artificially Made This
  33. Let me show you the ins and outs!
  34. This Was the Most Boring Day in History, Statistically
  35. Can You Guess Who Wrote This Beautifully Somber Poetry?
  36. Have you ever felt *this* awkward?
  37. The Psychologically Addicting Nature of Blogging
  38. What happens when you track every aspect of your life in a database for almost 3 years?
  39. Everything You Wanted to Know About Elon Musk's Twitter Buyout
  40. The Pryor Week #10: Burning iron, living at Disney, and walking through Uranus
  41. What if we're all narcissists?
  42. Thread: What's your favorite podcast?
  43. The Pryor Week #9: Corona and Pregnancy Tests
  44. The Pryor Week #8: Où est mon bicyclette?
  45. The Pryor Week #7: Something Uplifting
  46. The Man Likely Behind QAnon is Now Running for Congress and I Weep for Our Future
  47. The Pryor Week #6: Opium beer, Kidnappings, and Calories
  48. (Humor) 5 Great Examples of Legitimate Political Discourse From History
  49. Can a Clean Toilet Seat Help Predict the Next Election?
  50. The Top 40 Substack Newsletters by Organic Traffic
  51. The Pryor Week #5: Frankenstein, Satire, and Hot Sauce
  52. Ask Me Anything About Living in Taiwan!
  53. The Ultra-Rich Practice These 8 Things Every Day. Do You?
  54. The Pryor Week #4: Beer protein powder and feelings
  55. The Pryor Week #3: Hustling to the Top
  56. Give Me $500 or the World Will End. Trust Me.
  57. 3 Famous Awards With Incredibly Dark Origin Stories
  58. The Pryor Week #2: Quantity vs Quality vs Rocks vs Paper
  59. The Story Behind Two $300 Million Pizzas is a Lesson in Humility for Us All
  60. Abortion Was Far From Illegal in the Past
  61. The Pryor Week #1
  62. The Hilarious Last Words of 10 Famous People from History
  63. When Insurance Fraud is Profitable for Society
  64. A list of things I'd like to achieve in 2022

2021 40

  1. The Most Fun and Interesting Facts I Learned in 2021
  2. A Short Way to Say Happy New Year!
  3. I'm Going to Steal Something for Christmas
  4. The Unsolved Story of My Home’s Mystery Pooper
  5. I Have a Particular Set of Skills (That Involve a Butcher's Knife)
  6. "Please stop smiling sir, you're scaring the children."
  7. I Lived With a Serial Killer for 10 Years and Didn’t Know it
  8. The line between lying and embellishing is jumbledlkafdhgk
  9. How often do weird things find you?
  10. On Going Viral
  11. Solopreneuring is a wacky ride
  12. She stole my photo
  13. Something hilariously awesome happened this week
  14. I literally love lazy camping
  15. McDonalds is disgusting
  16. The Really Fun Thing About Writing
  17. Did you get your microchip yet?
  18. Birthdays and names
  19. The Naming Results Are In!
  20. I Could Use Your Advice
  21. How to help Spotify ruin your sleep forever
  22. We Need More Negativity in Our Lives
  23. A Secret I've Learned About This Journey
  24. Fighting fire with hellfire
  25. Do You Thank the Rich When They Donate Billions?
  26. The Terminator Finally Rises
  27. No Strings Attached?
  28. Hunting down murderers, false history, and fake billions
  29. John Cena is a dick
  30. It's Getting Weird Here in Taiwan
  31. Are you typically an ahole or a nicehole to yourself every day?
  32. Do you follow the Gospels of Republican Jesus?
  33. What's your privacy worth to you?
  34. What percent of you is sugar?
  35. Do you practice safe idea sex?
  36. Are you not distracted?
  37. Are you a communist?
  38. The News is About to Change
  39. Can you actually predict the future? Here's one proven way
  40. You should laugh more

2020 11

  1. I Win Christmas! But here's a gift for you anyways.
  2. A deer in my headlights
  3. Life, Camera, Action by JJ Pryor
  4. Life, Camera, Action by JJ Pryor
  5. Life, Camera, Action by JJ Pryor
  6. Life, Camera, Action by JJ Pryor
  7. The News Media has been pissing me off
  8. Weekly...err Monthly Roundup
  9. Weekly Roundup #2
  10. JJ Pryor's Roundup
  11. JJ Pryor's First Weekly Musings