my manifesto (*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ꕤ*.ﾟ

These are snippets from my 2025 August manifesto written in various Paneras and Barnes & Nobles across the Greater NYC Metropolitan Area.

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I grew up in the northeast and have always had a soft spot for the older industries here. The first modern oil wells were drilled in Western Pennsylvania in 1859 above a shale formation that itself later supported A…