# wrote off to the idler in a vain attempt to drum up some views mail at idler.co.uk subject: news about imaginary pastime 'republic of bob' dear idler wotcha! i'm a perpetually skint uk based working class conceptual artist i'm writing to inform your excellent magazine of ''republic of bob: an imaginary alternative internet pastime' https://publish.obsidian.md/republicofbob/ the idea is simply to pretend it exists if you could mention this in your next issue it would cheer me up no end as i'm forever on the lookout for any eyeballs on my work most sincerely robert what (hashtag antiwork) update: so much for that the idler auto-replied with a form letter // republic of bob