Persona Non Propria

Persona Non Propria

worked stiff

a personal essay from an unemployed person

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Clancy Steadwell
Sep 06, 2026
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First, I would like you to consider my story here may not be true, then believe it anyway.

For as long as I have been back on the Internet in the form of a Substack persona donning the mustachioed cowl of Clancy Steadwell, I’ve been of the mindset we should cast doubt on the veracity of what’s presented to us on the Internet. Too often we take what see s…

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