Hello all!
I’m in the throes of getting used to working more than occasional hours again, but in the brief spare time I have, it’s becoming more and more distressing to read about what’s being allowed by the owners of this platform, Substack. I’m not going to link to all the various reporting outlets; but the gist is that the owners of Substack are very happily profiting from centring more and more actual, literal Nazi voices here. This was first revealed early last year, when they reportedly refused to censor increasingly prominent Nazi newsletters. It has come to the fore most recently when the app mistakenly pushed out an update to a prominent Nazi newsletter to many, many users who were not subscribers. If you want to read the most recent update, Engadget wrote a piece about it. And this article on Techdirt does a fantastic job summarizing the state of things.
Since most of you read this blog via email anyway, little of the technical details about how this website works will interest you. While the world is full of unescapable evils due to the way modern technology and supply chains and *gestures vaguely* everything else seems to inextricably wrapped up together, however, I bask in little moments of control when I can decide to not let the Obvious Nazis have something of mine. So I am going to be (soon) shifting things over to a new web host.
You’re hopefully already asking yourself, “ok, how does this affect me?” The answer is that, Lord willing and the creek don’t rise, you won’t be affected at all. When I make a new post on the new site, my hope and prayer is that it arrives in your inbox just the same. It will look a bit different, and may be from a different email address, but it’s still going to be from me.
Sadly it does mean, for those of you who enjoy the ease of liking or commenting on posts over here, that you will have to use some other account to do so on the new site (I’m not sure yet which, exactly). Honestly, it means some of you won’t go to that amount of effort, and look—I understand. I’m just happy you’re reading at all. And if you’d rather email me a comment, or text me a heart emoji, or wink knowingly at a cloud, well, that’s fine with me too.