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A late night niche culture newsletter by @fakeadamcecil.bsky.social. Sent most Tuesdays at 11 pm eastern. “Offbeat, often delightful.” - one satisfied subscriber www.nightwater.email

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Night Water @nightwater.email · 26/02/2026
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Day Soda has lost its fizz
Paid-only content on Night Water is over
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 09/10/2025
How does a fiction podcast make money? www.nightwater.email/local-files-...
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Introducing Local Files Club
A digital label for audio fiction
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 10/09/2025
Update on the iPod click wheel games collection — every single game has now been found and archived! arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
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All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity
Finding working copies of the last few titles was an “especially cursed” journey.
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 27/08/2025
Thank you to The Ringer for linking to Night Water and boosting our domain authority. 🙏 www.theringer.com/2025/08/20/p...
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Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes—Please
Human writers have always used the em dash. In fact, it’s the most human punctuation mark there is.
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 06/08/2025
Night Water endorses this message: leavesubstack.com
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You Should Probably Leave Substack
You should probably leave Substack. Here’s why and how.
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 06/08/2025
If you're using ActivityPub, you can follow the Night Water Ghost site directly: @posts@nightwater.email
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 30/07/2025
Scrubs Power Hour is BACK with roughly 58 minutes of selections from season two — featuring Colin Hay, Nelly, The Coral, and more great artists, PLUS trivia and commentary and even a few callers. www.nightwater.email/scrubs-power-hour-02/
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 26/07/2025
A brand new episode of Scrubs Power Hour is coming Tuesday. Subscribe to the Night Water YouTube channel to hear it first: www.youtube.com/@NightWater
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Night Water
A refreshing, late night podcast to quench your thirst. Published sporadically as part of the Night Water newsletter.
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ceej @ceej.online · 16/07/2025
water left in a glass overnight tastes bad because it gets haunted
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 11/07/2025
Pokémon Sleep is two years old this week, but IMO, it's still a snoozefest: www.nightwater.email/pokemon-slee...
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Pokémon Sleep is a snoozefest
Plus: a mini-review of the Pokémon Go Plus+
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 09/07/2025
DID YOU KNOW? The Cheesecake Factory is the only restaurant with a higher rating on Goodreads (4.36 stars) than Yelp (2.5 stars). www.nightwater.email/cheesecake-f...
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The Cheesecake Factory Menu, Reviewed
guest post by Sami Boghos
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 08/07/2025
🫡 www.nightwater.email/em-dash-ai/
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You can take my em dashes from my cold, dead hands
Are em dashes really a telltale sign of AI writing?
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 07/07/2025
If you like Night Water, you might also enjoy... TimeMachiner! TimeMachiner brings you fascinating technology, culture, and nostalgia articles & analysis from forgotten corners of the internet. No Delorean needed, just an email inbox. timemachiner.io
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TimeMachiner // Presented by Aaron Crocco
TimeMachiner brings you tech, culture, and nostalgia articles and analysis from forgotten corners of the internet. It's written and published by Aaron Crocco.
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 04/07/2025
Yes, I’m several weeks late. That’s not stopping me from celebrating National Sausage Roll Day. www.nightwater.email/national-sau...
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National Sausage Roll Day
Let's celebrate the only way we know how
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 03/07/2025
Thinking back to a late night vibe, one year on...
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Late Night Vibes: Wimbledon Queue Edition
All you have to do for tickets is wait in line—overnight.
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 02/07/2025
Did you HAVE to buy a copy of The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald with a small ice cream cone or Diet Coke? No one really knows. www.nightwater.email/the-wacky-ad...
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A wacky good time with Ronald McDonald
Plus: I violate the Internet Privacy Act of 1995
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 30/06/2025
Heading to Wimbledon this year? Skip the free radios—bring your own receiver instead.
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The naked truth about the SoundDec DualTone radio
Plus: Raw Dog
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 27/06/2025
28 Years Later? What about Austin Powers 4 Now?
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The clock is ticking for an Austin Powers legacy sequel
An open letter to Michael Myers and Jay Roach
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 25/06/2025
Nothing says summer like eating a proper bagel outside in the sun.
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3 London bagels I ate this month, ranked
The search for the perfect New York-style bagel in London
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 25/06/2025
NEW on Night Water: It’s never too late to celebrate National Sausage Roll Day. www.nightwater.email/national-sau...
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National Sausage Roll Day
Let's celebrate the only way we know how
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 15/06/2025
making a soap out of my night water
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 03/06/2025
www.nightwater.email/em-dash-ai/
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You can take my em dashes from my cold, dead hands
Are em dashes really a telltale sign of AI writing?
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田中志/のぞみ @nozomitanaka.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
毎日タイタニックを描き続けた10年 www.nightwater.email/titanic-eve... 最高だな
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10 years of drawing the Titanic every day
3654 days after they started, an anonymous artist looks back at ten years of Titanic drawings
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iced pumpkin spice lat-grey 🪐 @greynovemberx.swifties.social · 18/05/2025
hi! i'm making a playlist of songs from my bloomfs, so please send me suggestions for it! 💙 (also, how CUTE is this photo?? i found it on this article: www.nightwater.email/bluesky-swif...)
The cover for my Spotify "bloomfs 💙" playlist featuring the Bluesky logo in white over a pastel pink and blue, very Lover-coded sky
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 30/05/2025
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You can take my em dashes from my cold, dead hands
Are em dashes really a telltale sign of AI writing?
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 28/05/2025
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 22/05/2025
A new video game asks the question: what would happen if the Titanic rose from the bottom of the ocean, gained sentience, and sought out revenge against the iceberg that sank it?
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Never let go of your thirst for revenge
Titanic Re-Christened: Maiden Vengeance puts you in control of a shipwreck with bloodlust
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 20/05/2025
Media literacy is so important. www.nightwater.email/monster-grov...
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The Monster at The End of This Book ending explained
Five decades later, the ending of The Monster at The End of This Book continues to vex readers
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 15/05/2025
MEAT CULTURE has secretly begun construction on a new Happy Meal toy item even more powerful than the first dreaded Pokémon Card promotion...
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Pokémon: The Return of Meat Culture
You don't know the power of the meat side.
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 14/05/2025
New for Day Soda subscribers: we are big in Japan and extremely irregular. Those two things are unconnected.
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Day Soda #21: Big in Japan
Plus: we're irregular!
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Adam Cecil @fakeadamcecil.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The smartest thing I did this year was write about the AI em-dash controversy for @nightwater.email. Traffic springs eternal. www.nightwater.email/em-dash-ai/
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You can take my em dashes from my cold, dead hands
Are em dashes really a telltale sign of AI writing?
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 07/04/2025
Substack has launched a TikTok-like feed of scrolling videos, which helps your newsletter... how? Here's my take: prep an exit strategy, pronto.
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You need a Substack exit strategy
Substack's new social network is another brick in the wall. Don't get caught on the wrong side.
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 07/04/2025
March 25 - top 5 most visited articles on Night Water: 5️⃣ Every vegan thing I ate at Greggs this month, ranked 4️⃣ Meet the developer saving the iPod’s click wheel games 3️⃣ We need to talk about bedside water carafes 2️⃣ You can take my em dashes from my cold, dead hands 1️⃣ It’s time to bring back HitClips
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 05/04/2025
With the clocks moving back and forth, there's never been a better time to re-share this crucial question: How do cats know what time it is?
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How do cats know what time it is?
And more questions from the Night Water mailbag
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 04/04/2025
👀 Brand new Night Water podcast this week — you can listen on the web, in your favorite app, or over on YouTube. All the links you need are righ there:
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Night Water | Take a surreal road trip with DOG FM
Oliver Chapman and Phoebe Eccles join the Night Water podcast to discuss their new field recording / music / poetry mash-up album, DOG FM, out now from Penultimate Press.Go buy DOG FM on Bandcamp, ...
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 03/04/2025
What space on the internet do you have to truly call your own?
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Pixel's Podcast List
What space do you have on the internet that you can truly call your own?
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 03/04/2025
www.nightwater.email/substack-exi...
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You need a Substack exit strategy
Substack's new social network is another brick in the wall. Don't get caught on the wrong side.
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 03/04/2025
New on Night Water this week: Tune in to DOG FM, a surreal, cryptic new audio piece that combines field recording, music, and poetry.
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DOG FM is a cryptic dream committed to tape
Oliver Chapman and Phoebe Eccles discuss their new field recording / music / poetry mash-up album
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 02/04/2025
Oliver Chapman and Phoebe Eccles join the Night Water podcast to discuss their new field recording / music / poetry mash-up album, DOG FM:
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DOG FM is a cryptic dream committed to tape
Oliver Chapman and Phoebe Eccles discuss their new field recording / music / poetry mash-up album
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 01/04/2025
Scrubs Power Hour #01 is now available to listen to on YouTube, in case that is preferable to MixCloud in whatever way.
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Scrubs Power Hour #01: Selections from Season One
Scrubs Power Hour is the only internet radio show dedicated to playing music from the TV show Scrubs and telling you which episode and scene it played in. To...
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 28/03/2025
When Trump comes for Substack hosting so many "Marxist activist" newsletters, it'll be interesting to see if they defend themselves with the same vigor they used in protecting the Nazis, antivaxxers, antisemites, and transphobes on their platform.
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 27/03/2025
(AD) Believe it or not, Night Water isn't the only newsletter out there. Fill up your inbox with the best of the best, starting with this curated list from our friends at Refind:
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 26/03/2025
What's the ugliest meal you've ever eaten?
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Day Soda #19: One ugly vegan
I tackle the Ugly Vegan x Temple of Seitan collaborative burger
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 24/03/2025
How do you decide who deserves a $6 pack of limited-edition soda with a 2.8 star rating on Google? Does anyone deserve that?
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An otherworldly trip to Coca-Cola’s Dreamworld
guest post by Peter Scobas
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 21/03/2025
Coming up this month on the podcast: an interview with Oliver Chapman and Phoebe Eccles, the creators of DOG FM, a new experimental field recording / music / poetry project. Get a head start on your peers by listening to DOG FM on Bandcamp now:
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DOG FM, by Oliver Chapman & Phoebe Eccles
2 track album
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 20/03/2025
Love to look at my analytics and see Slack as a referrer to this article on Internet Time. Yes, yes. Radicalize your coworkers. 😈
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It's internet time to bring back .beats
Night Water is coming to you tonight @166.beats
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 19/03/2025
NEW Day Soda for paying subscribers — a review of the Temple Ugly burger from Temple of Seitan here in London.
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Day Soda #19: One ugly vegan
I tackle the Ugly Vegan x Temple of Seitan collaborative burger
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Adam Cecil @fakeadamcecil.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
this isn’t unique to Newsom — I also saw a 10-point net drop in favorability among my friends when I launched my podcast
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Night Water @nightwater.email · 12/03/2025
The only internet radio show dedicated to the music of Scrubs — one hour of selections from season one:
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Scrubs Power Hour: Selections from Season One
Featuring hits from David Gray, Nil Lara, Cheap Trick, and more
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