I now have 3,530 Substack "subscribers." As I pointed out in a recent story about my first six months as a Substacker, hardly any of my subscibers are from my own town. I bet I have maybe 12 Facebook followers (out of 1500-plus) who also subscribe to my Substack newsletter. I think if my links to my Substack posts weren't spiked by the algorithms or if I could post about everything I'm writing about (articles I would like more of my friends to see), I might now have 4,530 Substack subscribers. Some of those subscribers would be "paid." So Facebook, arguably, is conspiring to harm my means of making a living. I wonder in the future if someone doesn't file a lawsuit against this company on these grounds. Kind of like Alex Berenson did against Twitter.
Okay, we have a winner - Congratulations, Neil Pryke! I think it took Neil 10 seconds to crack the code.
The good news is you get world-wide acclaim from 3,530 Bill Rice, Jr. Substack subscribers. The bad news is I don’t have any super neat prizes like trips to Hawaii or even a gift card.However, I you are interested, I can offer any one of these prizes:
1) E-mail me a favorite photo with your own caption … and I can publish it in a future dispatch!
2) Write your own column/essay on any topic and I’ll publish it as a guest column. Who knows? Your column, unlike my own, might change the world. Please keep your column to under 1200 words. I know few of my own columns stick to this rule, but another one of my favorite maxims is: “Do as I say; not as I do.”
3) I actually have a 7-year-old son, Pickle Jack McCoy, who is well onto his way to becoming a legendary figure. I could get Pickle Jack to autograph a signed photo (suitable for framing) and mail this to you. Here’s the photo you’d get. (Pickle Jack now knows how to sign his name.)
4) None of the above. It’s okay to decline your prize options. I know tax reasons might apply. Regardless, thanks for playing.
Thanks to everyone who might share this post via Facebook or Substack. Who knows? Maybe it will go viral and Neil really will become world famous. Also, other people can come up with their own coded Facebook posts.
Right now, 103 are paid - a little less than 3 percent. My goal is to get the ratio of paid up to 5 percent. That's the magic "sustainability" metric for me. If I could build up to 20,000 subscribers with 5 percent paid that would be 1,000 paid subscribers a year. I agree, this is THE metric for Substack authors and for the Substack Company itself. Basically, the 1-in-20 who can support Substackers' work with a paid subscription are keeping this platform and these excellent writers going. Of course, all the unpaid subscribers are helping us challenge a few false narrative as well. It's a giant team effort.
Agreed with that and I'm happy to pay for content from writers who resonate with me and I'm lucky to be able to share funds this way and I know we need good writers and I'm happy to pay them for their effort.
Myself, I write for the love of it and to share the way I feel, so I hope SubStack doesn't place writers such as myself into a lower category per the desires of profit!
It must be a delicate balance and I think the SubStack creators are listening to input and I suspect they might be listening to folks such as myself a bit more being that I have put some money behind my sentiment!
So, for those of us who love the keyboard we know. We know about so many codes and we know others are out there who share sentiment together one way or the other and ideas have a tendency to resonate when they make good sense and no code needed for that because it is natural - sort of like "Mutual Aid".
They say that substack is a home for writers, but doesn't that mean it is essentially for readers?
And shouldn't the "content with merit" be the sole judgment of each individual reader? (After all, we don't want to let groups such as "society" and "State" and "self-appointed-elites-with-self-inflated-credentials-and-egos-to-match" decide, read censor, for us.)
And, therefore, it is for each reader to choose to reward.
Now, I keep upping my "reward" budget, and never enough to keep up with my beloved writers, so I give what i have to give of time and comment, in my mind killing 2 (two) birds, one selfish and one not quite so, with one little pebble.
It is frustrating, as you well write with your perfect "I ponder the future as well," but rewarding too, like those "contradictory" A and NOT A cases that are both true at the same time.
Edit: Thank you, M. Buffalo.
Edit the 2nd: I put scare quotes around contradictory.
Thanks to Christine Hudson for friending me on Facebook and then sharing my post with the exact intro language I suggested. .... From what I gather, every post that goes viral starts with one share. We're off and running on Phase 2 of this "experiment/project!"
It's not just Covid topics Facebook heavily censors. They seem to censor every poster who disagrees with any authorized narrative. Here is an example from Zero Hedge today of how the company censored esteemed investigative journalist Seymour Hersch, who has been writing about the possibility America was responsible for blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline.
Basically, Facebook works for the government or blocks any dissenting stories or opinions the government doesn't like.
One of my mottos is (if we want to change bogus narratives) we need to fish where the fish are. Facebook has billions of "fish." I also want to start another writing venture in the future and I'll need local people to support that. The easiest way to reach local people is ... on Facebook. So I'd actually like to still be able to reach these 1500 friends.
One thing I didn't mention in today's article is that Facebook, like Twitter now does, seems to shadow ban Substack links. So I don't even bother posting my Covid Substack stories there any more. However, I have posted a couple of non-Covid stories at Substack ... and the last two of these didn't get any reads. So I also want to embarrass Facebook into not censoring Substack links. Or at least let more people know that this company IS doing this.
Facebook's owners and employees are sharks. The people who use it to post pictures of their kids or tell us that one of their relatives just passed away are decent, good people, I think. There's not just enough of them who have thought seriously enough about what's really happening in our world right now. A few more of them might go down that path ... if they could be exposed to more writers like yours truly!
One largely accepted assumption is that all the brilliant (and potentially influential) commentators are on Twitter. This is a false assumption. Facebook actually reaches a thousand times more citizens and thus has more potential to perhaps change false assumptions.
Plenty of these people (who don’t live in the D.C. area or New York) are plenty smart and follow Covid issues closely. They too can make astute observations or pick up on things the experts would prefer no one brings up. Facebook actually has a better “share” function and a much-better Reader Comment Section. Everyone can make a comment that anyone can see. Also, you can express yourself with more than a couple of sentences … You can post all the supporting links you want to ... At least, theoretically.
For these reasons, Facebook also had to be heavily censored. And was heavily censored, even more so than Twitter and the rest. For example, “someone” at Facebook didn’t want me making a bunch of bold and contrarian posts on Covid topics - because they knew any of these could have “gone viral” and started to change the way every-day people might think.
That is, the censorship efforts on Facebook are far more important than most people probably realize.
Well if it gives you any consolation, let me provide a list of place I've been banned - it hurts to type this.
1. Common Dreams - you got to be kidding....
2. Kitco - I swear in the days back around 2008 we had some amazing discussions there, but then I got banned.
3. Craig Murray's place - and to think the guy sent me a personal e-mail but his handlers banned my ass even though I care about Julian Assange's fate as well - I really care about that.
4. Moon of Alabama - fuck me - I couldn't believe it when I got banned there - it set me off and I posted an article on my SubStack about that and these censors, let me just say, they got another thing coming.
5. I can't remember but I'm sure there are many more.
~~~
Now, as a show of respect, let me share a place where I was never banned and the lady here - her Papa was the one directly orchestrating operation Paperclip, so that goes to show you some of us have been posting on the internet for a long time. Out of respect for Elaine even though I don't agree with her on many things nowadays back around 2006, 2007, and 2008 and beyond than, we had some tremendous discourse at her place and she is tough as nails and I respect her.
Here's what Facebook is really telling its members: "Yes, we will let you stay on our platform and post those photos of your family, and look at all those cute photos of your friends ... and get updates about your friends' lives (who has recently passed away, etc) ... if you agree to not post anything that challenges the authorized narrative ... and we get to determine what's authorized and what's not authorized."
So it's a (not-so-subtle) form of coercion, which is a synonym for "control."
I need to re-read Watership Down. I read it in sixth grade and it still remains one of my favorite all-time novels. I've forgotten the significance of the "shining wire."
'What is interesting is that the warren is unnatural not because the rabbits themselves are evil, but because they force themselves to live an existence that rabbits should not live. Although they have no enemies, they are surrounded by death, and they live knowing that they might die at any moment, caught in a snare that they know is there. Bigwig is lucky to survive the snare, as most rabbits are surely killed by the farmer once caught. The man feeds them only to fatten them up before killing them, and he only kills a few at a time because he does not need any more.'
“Again, I do not want to speculate as to the authorship of that article,” Doyle says. “But I will point out one thing which I do find just a little bit curious… You might be interested to note that if you take every fourth letter of every sentence, it actually spells out the phrase, ‘Titania McGrath wrote this, you gullible hacks.’”
So my idea was not original. I hope more people start stealing this idea and working coded or secret messages into the posts that do get past the censors.
Don't feed the beast. Any proprietary mass communication mechanism will fall prey to this one way or another. Use the phone, email, face-to-face. Diversify your platforms (as you have done here). The only reason they are in a position to do this is eyeballs and free content from users anyway. The internet in the 90s was not like this precisely because it was not centralized.
I get that argument, which definitely makes sense in many respects. Why keep trying to use a media platform that censors you, slanders you and is aligned with Evil forces? But I'm just trying to reach as many folks as I can. With this post and project, I'm trying to embarrass Facebook and make more of the people who use it often think about what Zuckerberg and his army of censors are actually doing. Facebook could be a great tool. It was once. As I have written before, if it hadn't have censored truthful Covid commentary, it could have saved countless lives. As far as I am concerned, Facebook has a lot of figurative blood on those algorithms.
Your idea *was* original in the same sense that Leibnitz derived the calculus concurrently with Newton.
It *is* a great idea, but panacea, really. The ultimate solution is Populism demanding an Amendment that proscribes the public censors once and for all. (Well, in theory...)
Since that effort will probably take lifetimes, let's make our panaceas so popular the Statists notice, which changes the panacea to mighty thorn. Talk about fun!
Better idea is to give the censor no heed and communicate in place where code is not even needed. Because who has time to "get past the censors" when one is just trying to make a living.
Two days ago , I posted the FDA’s new “revolving door” guidelines on COVID vaccines.... with no editorial comment. Back on restriction. Substack’s numbers must be exploding. That’s encouraging.
Yep. Thank God for Substack. As I noted in another recent article, I went from a couple hundred people reading my "shadow-banned" Facebook posts ... to half a million people reading my articles on Substack. So thank you, Mr. Zuckerberg!
Those "town square" people 50 and older are actually the people "our side" needs to reach and get them to reconsider a few things. I've always thought that the censorship of contrarians like myself on Facebook was just as important as the censorship of Twitter, where all the "opinion makers" opine. Actually, there are tons of every-day Janes and Joes who could change conventional wisdom ... if their posts weren't blocked ... or if they weren't afraid to write what they really think.
I hit you with a like but I don't like that at all ... but am not surprised. I did note my "likes" for my Facebook post haven't gone up by one since I posted my Substack story. And I haven't received one "friend request" via Substack readers yet. I think I will end up proving one of my points.
Now this is where the rubber meets the road and there is so much evidence already....only question left is what Lady Libra has in mind when she dishes out justice deserved!
Per my perspective there are some monopolies on "free thought" whose day in the Sun is rapidly coming to an end and then they will get to meet Lady Libra and her minions and let me tell you in the cave of wealth and death they care not a twit about what you possess.
Many dimwits enter the cave cocky and then they die there at the hands of Lady Libra and her minions and Lady Libra is the holder of the scales, so don't dismiss this metaphoric text because there is more to it than meets the eye, but only the discerning reader is given a glimpse of Lady Libra and her motivations. At the end of the day, she holds the scales and Justice Must be Served - there is no other option assuming the species desires to survive.
Even if it will all be meaningless at beast and dangerous at Worcestershire's?
Think of the oppression automation systems as well as the paradigms, minds, and predictable reactions of their attached human drones and slaves as the ultimate captcha puzzle.
For instance you could make it a goal to make some form of art, the more regularly and hilarious the better, from which a natural human can easily absorb the meaning yet the fools, slaves, and robots just miss what otherwise aught to be obvious. Oblivious and obvious can off tin be olive the shame thong.
Understanding the ever evolving triggers of the system and persistently challenging it is a massive open world online role playing game with millions of players. The Boatrawker is a master at this, and the presence of his content on YooooTUB speaks to the game and the art.
Now "Never Miss Chendure" from the same is a great and fresh case in point. Though my reaction to "Jabbin" with legends of Unholy Mount Prion is about the hardest laugh I've had in a lung, Tim.
You're already well on your way.
About those shy ants they said you had to trust...
... So other people have been doing the same thing for a while? This is what we are coming to. In the future, we'll all have to "write in code" to get our real message out.
I am cutting back on my paid accounts as I have too many to stay current on all the wonderful content but I plan to stay with you! You are in my Top 10!
By the way, I dropped Facebook except for six followers (my children and spouse). They can stick their filthy Zuckerbucks where the sun don't shine
Thanks very much, Dennis. I'm actually going to write a piece pretty soon, mentioning how I understand that some people need to cut back on subs to save $ somewhere. My goal is to be in the "top 10" group where some subscribers keep paying. I wonder how much an average person is paying for Substack subscriptions. Compare that figure to how much they paid 30 years ago subscribing to local newspapers and their favorite magazines. My family used to subscribe to two newspapers, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, TV guide and Reader's Digest, among other mags - off and on. In today's money, that's at least $75 month in subscriptions. I don't think most people subscribe to print magazines anymore. So I want to be in the group of Substackers that gets that ... $75/month!
I now have 3,530 Substack "subscribers." As I pointed out in a recent story about my first six months as a Substacker, hardly any of my subscibers are from my own town. I bet I have maybe 12 Facebook followers (out of 1500-plus) who also subscribe to my Substack newsletter. I think if my links to my Substack posts weren't spiked by the algorithms or if I could post about everything I'm writing about (articles I would like more of my friends to see), I might now have 4,530 Substack subscribers. Some of those subscribers would be "paid." So Facebook, arguably, is conspiring to harm my means of making a living. I wonder in the future if someone doesn't file a lawsuit against this company on these grounds. Kind of like Alex Berenson did against Twitter.
That is why DV Draino sued
Okay, we have a winner - Congratulations, Neil Pryke! I think it took Neil 10 seconds to crack the code.
The good news is you get world-wide acclaim from 3,530 Bill Rice, Jr. Substack subscribers. The bad news is I don’t have any super neat prizes like trips to Hawaii or even a gift card.However, I you are interested, I can offer any one of these prizes:
1) E-mail me a favorite photo with your own caption … and I can publish it in a future dispatch!
2) Write your own column/essay on any topic and I’ll publish it as a guest column. Who knows? Your column, unlike my own, might change the world. Please keep your column to under 1200 words. I know few of my own columns stick to this rule, but another one of my favorite maxims is: “Do as I say; not as I do.”
3) I actually have a 7-year-old son, Pickle Jack McCoy, who is well onto his way to becoming a legendary figure. I could get Pickle Jack to autograph a signed photo (suitable for framing) and mail this to you. Here’s the photo you’d get. (Pickle Jack now knows how to sign his name.)
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/the-legend-of-pickle-jack-mccoy
4) None of the above. It’s okay to decline your prize options. I know tax reasons might apply. Regardless, thanks for playing.
Thanks to everyone who might share this post via Facebook or Substack. Who knows? Maybe it will go viral and Neil really will become world famous. Also, other people can come up with their own coded Facebook posts.
"I know tax reasons might apply."
You rock, M. Rice!
If you don't mind me inquiring out of the 3530 how many pay for content?
This is not "code" but it is a very important question as those who created the SubStack venue ponder the future. I ponder the future as well.
Respectfully,
BK
ps - I don't need subscriptions, but writing is not my life, and I firmly concur that writers should be compensated for providing content with merit.
Right now, 103 are paid - a little less than 3 percent. My goal is to get the ratio of paid up to 5 percent. That's the magic "sustainability" metric for me. If I could build up to 20,000 subscribers with 5 percent paid that would be 1,000 paid subscribers a year. I agree, this is THE metric for Substack authors and for the Substack Company itself. Basically, the 1-in-20 who can support Substackers' work with a paid subscription are keeping this platform and these excellent writers going. Of course, all the unpaid subscribers are helping us challenge a few false narrative as well. It's a giant team effort.
Agreed with that and I'm happy to pay for content from writers who resonate with me and I'm lucky to be able to share funds this way and I know we need good writers and I'm happy to pay them for their effort.
Myself, I write for the love of it and to share the way I feel, so I hope SubStack doesn't place writers such as myself into a lower category per the desires of profit!
It must be a delicate balance and I think the SubStack creators are listening to input and I suspect they might be listening to folks such as myself a bit more being that I have put some money behind my sentiment!
So, for those of us who love the keyboard we know. We know about so many codes and we know others are out there who share sentiment together one way or the other and ideas have a tendency to resonate when they make good sense and no code needed for that because it is natural - sort of like "Mutual Aid".
Thanks Bill.
Best to you.
Ken
I am the reader, not the writer.
They say that substack is a home for writers, but doesn't that mean it is essentially for readers?
And shouldn't the "content with merit" be the sole judgment of each individual reader? (After all, we don't want to let groups such as "society" and "State" and "self-appointed-elites-with-self-inflated-credentials-and-egos-to-match" decide, read censor, for us.)
And, therefore, it is for each reader to choose to reward.
Now, I keep upping my "reward" budget, and never enough to keep up with my beloved writers, so I give what i have to give of time and comment, in my mind killing 2 (two) birds, one selfish and one not quite so, with one little pebble.
It is frustrating, as you well write with your perfect "I ponder the future as well," but rewarding too, like those "contradictory" A and NOT A cases that are both true at the same time.
Edit: Thank you, M. Buffalo.
Edit the 2nd: I put scare quotes around contradictory.
Damn that sucks!
Next time make the code harder.....
ha, ha...
Ken
Thanks to Christine Hudson for friending me on Facebook and then sharing my post with the exact intro language I suggested. .... From what I gather, every post that goes viral starts with one share. We're off and running on Phase 2 of this "experiment/project!"
It's not just Covid topics Facebook heavily censors. They seem to censor every poster who disagrees with any authorized narrative. Here is an example from Zero Hedge today of how the company censored esteemed investigative journalist Seymour Hersch, who has been writing about the possibility America was responsible for blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline.
Basically, Facebook works for the government or blocks any dissenting stories or opinions the government doesn't like.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/facebook-censors-seymour-hershs-article-about-us-involvement-nord-stream-pipeline-attack
Why do support that which you claim persecution?
One of my mottos is (if we want to change bogus narratives) we need to fish where the fish are. Facebook has billions of "fish." I also want to start another writing venture in the future and I'll need local people to support that. The easiest way to reach local people is ... on Facebook. So I'd actually like to still be able to reach these 1500 friends.
One thing I didn't mention in today's article is that Facebook, like Twitter now does, seems to shadow ban Substack links. So I don't even bother posting my Covid Substack stories there any more. However, I have posted a couple of non-Covid stories at Substack ... and the last two of these didn't get any reads. So I also want to embarrass Facebook into not censoring Substack links. Or at least let more people know that this company IS doing this.
The fish you speak of are sharks.
You are feeding your predators.
Facebook's owners and employees are sharks. The people who use it to post pictures of their kids or tell us that one of their relatives just passed away are decent, good people, I think. There's not just enough of them who have thought seriously enough about what's really happening in our world right now. A few more of them might go down that path ... if they could be exposed to more writers like yours truly!
Fools
One largely accepted assumption is that all the brilliant (and potentially influential) commentators are on Twitter. This is a false assumption. Facebook actually reaches a thousand times more citizens and thus has more potential to perhaps change false assumptions.
Plenty of these people (who don’t live in the D.C. area or New York) are plenty smart and follow Covid issues closely. They too can make astute observations or pick up on things the experts would prefer no one brings up. Facebook actually has a better “share” function and a much-better Reader Comment Section. Everyone can make a comment that anyone can see. Also, you can express yourself with more than a couple of sentences … You can post all the supporting links you want to ... At least, theoretically.
For these reasons, Facebook also had to be heavily censored. And was heavily censored, even more so than Twitter and the rest. For example, “someone” at Facebook didn’t want me making a bunch of bold and contrarian posts on Covid topics - because they knew any of these could have “gone viral” and started to change the way every-day people might think.
That is, the censorship efforts on Facebook are far more important than most people probably realize.
Well if it gives you any consolation, let me provide a list of place I've been banned - it hurts to type this.
1. Common Dreams - you got to be kidding....
2. Kitco - I swear in the days back around 2008 we had some amazing discussions there, but then I got banned.
3. Craig Murray's place - and to think the guy sent me a personal e-mail but his handlers banned my ass even though I care about Julian Assange's fate as well - I really care about that.
4. Moon of Alabama - fuck me - I couldn't believe it when I got banned there - it set me off and I posted an article on my SubStack about that and these censors, let me just say, they got another thing coming.
5. I can't remember but I'm sure there are many more.
~~~
Now, as a show of respect, let me share a place where I was never banned and the lady here - her Papa was the one directly orchestrating operation Paperclip, so that goes to show you some of us have been posting on the internet for a long time. Out of respect for Elaine even though I don't agree with her on many things nowadays back around 2006, 2007, and 2008 and beyond than, we had some tremendous discourse at her place and she is tough as nails and I respect her.
https://emsnews.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/gnome-rescue-plan-now-costs-over-seven-trillion/
If you dig back far enough there is SO much info at the ready that those who think they can censor others must realize - they have lost already.
Keep it going and share your message, and if it resonates others will notice.
BK
Here's what Facebook is really telling its members: "Yes, we will let you stay on our platform and post those photos of your family, and look at all those cute photos of your friends ... and get updates about your friends' lives (who has recently passed away, etc) ... if you agree to not post anything that challenges the authorized narrative ... and we get to determine what's authorized and what's not authorized."
So it's a (not-so-subtle) form of coercion, which is a synonym for "control."
I always think of the bit of Watership Down about "the shining wire". You can actually look that up on Wikipedia.
I need to re-read Watership Down. I read it in sixth grade and it still remains one of my favorite all-time novels. I've forgotten the significance of the "shining wire."
'What is interesting is that the warren is unnatural not because the rabbits themselves are evil, but because they force themselves to live an existence that rabbits should not live. Although they have no enemies, they are surrounded by death, and they live knowing that they might die at any moment, caught in a snare that they know is there. Bigwig is lucky to survive the snare, as most rabbits are surely killed by the farmer once caught. The man feeds them only to fatten them up before killing them, and he only kills a few at a time because he does not need any more.'
From https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/watership/section4/
IOW willful denial of unknown danger in return for a comfortable life.
I read Watership Down as a teenager in 1973, and this is the one part of it that stuck with me through all these years.
From Over Here: FACEBOOK CENSORS ME
Neil is the winner! I'll post your prize options in a few minutes. That took about 10 seconds?
SubStack readers are out of the norm when it comes to solving code I reckon.
SubStack readers are smart!
Got it also; clever clever
Damn - that sucks!
This is the same trick Andrew Doyle used, only he did it to prove authenticity, rather than to hide a message:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/mar/10/titania-mcgrath-woke-is-no-joke
“Again, I do not want to speculate as to the authorship of that article,” Doyle says. “But I will point out one thing which I do find just a little bit curious… You might be interested to note that if you take every fourth letter of every sentence, it actually spells out the phrase, ‘Titania McGrath wrote this, you gullible hacks.’”
So my idea was not original. I hope more people start stealing this idea and working coded or secret messages into the posts that do get past the censors.
Don't feed the beast. Any proprietary mass communication mechanism will fall prey to this one way or another. Use the phone, email, face-to-face. Diversify your platforms (as you have done here). The only reason they are in a position to do this is eyeballs and free content from users anyway. The internet in the 90s was not like this precisely because it was not centralized.
I get that argument, which definitely makes sense in many respects. Why keep trying to use a media platform that censors you, slanders you and is aligned with Evil forces? But I'm just trying to reach as many folks as I can. With this post and project, I'm trying to embarrass Facebook and make more of the people who use it often think about what Zuckerberg and his army of censors are actually doing. Facebook could be a great tool. It was once. As I have written before, if it hadn't have censored truthful Covid commentary, it could have saved countless lives. As far as I am concerned, Facebook has a lot of figurative blood on those algorithms.
Your idea *was* original in the same sense that Leibnitz derived the calculus concurrently with Newton.
It *is* a great idea, but panacea, really. The ultimate solution is Populism demanding an Amendment that proscribes the public censors once and for all. (Well, in theory...)
Since that effort will probably take lifetimes, let's make our panaceas so popular the Statists notice, which changes the panacea to mighty thorn. Talk about fun!
Better idea is to give the censor no heed and communicate in place where code is not even needed. Because who has time to "get past the censors" when one is just trying to make a living.
Bill Rice Jr : 1
Facebook Algorithms:0
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Two days ago , I posted the FDA’s new “revolving door” guidelines on COVID vaccines.... with no editorial comment. Back on restriction. Substack’s numbers must be exploding. That’s encouraging.
Yep. Thank God for Substack. As I noted in another recent article, I went from a couple hundred people reading my "shadow-banned" Facebook posts ... to half a million people reading my articles on Substack. So thank you, Mr. Zuckerberg!
Adults use facebook?
Yes, more over the age of 50... FB was rejected by the youngsters a decade ago.
Those "town square" people 50 and older are actually the people "our side" needs to reach and get them to reconsider a few things. I've always thought that the censorship of contrarians like myself on Facebook was just as important as the censorship of Twitter, where all the "opinion makers" opine. Actually, there are tons of every-day Janes and Joes who could change conventional wisdom ... if their posts weren't blocked ... or if they weren't afraid to write what they really think.
They used to but then FB, meta it is called now, became a sort of monopoly on ideas and that is the pathway direct to hell.
I love that! Totally going on the Atkins diet now!
Well, I searched for you on Facebook to friend you. Interestingly, I couldn't find you. Facebook strikes again.
I hit you with a like but I don't like that at all ... but am not surprised. I did note my "likes" for my Facebook post haven't gone up by one since I posted my Substack story. And I haven't received one "friend request" via Substack readers yet. I think I will end up proving one of my points.
Now this is where the rubber meets the road and there is so much evidence already....only question left is what Lady Libra has in mind when she dishes out justice deserved!
Per my perspective there are some monopolies on "free thought" whose day in the Sun is rapidly coming to an end and then they will get to meet Lady Libra and her minions and let me tell you in the cave of wealth and death they care not a twit about what you possess.
Many dimwits enter the cave cocky and then they die there at the hands of Lady Libra and her minions and Lady Libra is the holder of the scales, so don't dismiss this metaphoric text because there is more to it than meets the eye, but only the discerning reader is given a glimpse of Lady Libra and her motivations. At the end of the day, she holds the scales and Justice Must be Served - there is no other option assuming the species desires to survive.
Same here
So FarceBrook Sin Sirs Ye. Eh hey hey.
Would you like to play a game?
Even if you can't win?
Even if it will all be meaningless at beast and dangerous at Worcestershire's?
Think of the oppression automation systems as well as the paradigms, minds, and predictable reactions of their attached human drones and slaves as the ultimate captcha puzzle.
For instance you could make it a goal to make some form of art, the more regularly and hilarious the better, from which a natural human can easily absorb the meaning yet the fools, slaves, and robots just miss what otherwise aught to be obvious. Oblivious and obvious can off tin be olive the shame thong.
Understanding the ever evolving triggers of the system and persistently challenging it is a massive open world online role playing game with millions of players. The Boatrawker is a master at this, and the presence of his content on YooooTUB speaks to the game and the art.
Now "Never Miss Chendure" from the same is a great and fresh case in point. Though my reaction to "Jabbin" with legends of Unholy Mount Prion is about the hardest laugh I've had in a lung, Tim.
You're already well on your way.
About those shy ants they said you had to trust...
Lost it some have.
Loving it others are learning to.
... So other people have been doing the same thing for a while? This is what we are coming to. In the future, we'll all have to "write in code" to get our real message out.
Since before the beginning. It has always been show and for all intense in porpoises seams as dough it always whale bee.
What is fiction fur in stance boot the greatest tool humans have ever had to tail truths that otherwise could never be expressed?
Or as I say: Telling the truth ain't for sissies.
Bill,
I am cutting back on my paid accounts as I have too many to stay current on all the wonderful content but I plan to stay with you! You are in my Top 10!
By the way, I dropped Facebook except for six followers (my children and spouse). They can stick their filthy Zuckerbucks where the sun don't shine
Thanks very much, Dennis. I'm actually going to write a piece pretty soon, mentioning how I understand that some people need to cut back on subs to save $ somewhere. My goal is to be in the "top 10" group where some subscribers keep paying. I wonder how much an average person is paying for Substack subscriptions. Compare that figure to how much they paid 30 years ago subscribing to local newspapers and their favorite magazines. My family used to subscribe to two newspapers, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, TV guide and Reader's Digest, among other mags - off and on. In today's money, that's at least $75 month in subscriptions. I don't think most people subscribe to print magazines anymore. So I want to be in the group of Substackers that gets that ... $75/month!
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