The Sorensen Monologues

Nonsense Encounters Per Hour Rise Dramatically

Over the past year I’ve been struck by the frequency with which I encounter conspiratorial, false, or downright threatening messages throughout the day. I initially began calling them NEPDs — Nonsense Encounters Per Day. For the strip, I switched to NEPHs because you can actually pronounce that acronym. I’m not even talking about the headlines, necessarily — just ordinary life interrupted by a “Whoa, that’s odd!” moment over and over again. 

A while ago, the US government’s Covid website was switched to a ludicrous list of conspiracy theories. So there’s that, too. 

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