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Ruth Gaskovski's avatar

Thanks so much for including my Substack map on your weekly roundup! My son was delighted to have his cartography doodle featured (and said if only he had known it would be shared, he would have added way more detail) :) Would love to see some creative Substack maps of other readers and writers!

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Leah Tharin's avatar

What a lovely surprise, thank you so much for featuring me. Big moment for me to get noticed by the Substack gods.

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MC's avatar

Saw the article you wrote. It was sad but I liked reading you were able to recover from the lows you experienced.

Thanks for sharing your story!

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Kate Stone Lombardi's avatar

My month-old newsletter, "Inside Out" documents my experience of teaching journalism and memoir to incarcerated men. Here's a link to last week's class on journalism ethics. Thanks for taking a look! https://substack.com/home/post/p-141926986?r=16n09&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Mark Braund's avatar

Hi, I'm relatively new here with my Substack Progress and Survival. This week I veered away from my usual politics and economics with a piece about our 15 year old cocker spaniel who sadly died recently. She was a great dog and her story deserves a wider audience, I think. A couple of great pics too. Thanks.

https://open.substack.com/pub/markbraund/p/a-dogs-life

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Leyla Kazim's avatar

Thanks so much for the shout-out guys! The raffle fundraiser is currently on £1422, we have just 6 days to get it to £2000. Can we do it..? Lovely people who wish to support can buy a ticket here for the chance to win an annual subscription to one of 53 Substack bestsellers: https://leylakazim.substack.com/p/practical-action-raffle A ticket costs just £3/$3/€3 (global entry) and there are discounted ticket bundles (buy tickets, get a bunch of tickets free = increased chances of winning!) Thank you!

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ashlyn's avatar

❤️❤️

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ashlyn's avatar

Thank you for the lovely words and shout out

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Perzen Patel's avatar

So great to see Food regularly featured in your round ups now. I’d like to share over of my own posts on Indian food mostly because it’s a bit hatke (Hindi for off beat):

https://open.substack.com/pub/perzen/p/derek-sivers?r=5w0x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Writing this and emailing it to Derek helped me Meet him in person which is likely one of the best conversations I’ve had in 2023!

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darren harley's avatar

thanks for sending these Reads, Hannah 🙏🏼

i'd like to put my latest post (re: digital heroin & iGen) on your radar --> https://opentochange.substack.com/p/digital-heroin-part-3-igen

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Felicity Spector's avatar

Thank you so much! I am humbled to meet such resilient and determined people here in Ukraine

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Jess Delfino's avatar

Fascinating about the Pass The Castle game. I’ll take a go as a caretaker! PS If anyone likes to read about comedy, check out my insider comedy newsletter, Museletter.

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Richard Donnelly's avatar

“Too many people writing have nothing interesting to say and no interesting way in which to say it.” My high school English teacher told us she could teach us to write, but she can't make us interesting.

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Richard Flohil's avatar

"Got a Substack post to recommend?" Damn right I do! MINE...and before you run away, let me ask you a quick question. How many (nearly) 90-year-olds are writing about their personal experiences with people as diverse as k.d. lang and Louis Armstrong? Or Ray Charles and Billy Connolly? Or Miles Davis and Nana Mouskouri? I called it "Stories from the Edge of Music" 'cause that's where I've been for almost 60 years. Can't sing, can't play an instrument, and dance like pregnant elephant. But I hear, see, laugh and cry about the music and the artists I've been privileged to be involved with. OK, shameless self-promotion over. Thanks for reading...

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Daniel Swersky's avatar

I'd recommend Timeless Leadership by Joe Ballou for awesome insights about leadership and an all around great read!

https://joeballou.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profile

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Joe Ballou's avatar

Thanks Danny!

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St Stephen's avatar

Reeks of numbing Insignificance (with a touch of Woke and Ukroprop) when there's so much of real profundity and importance to choose from: Mattias Desmet, Denis Rancourt, C.J. Hopkins, Big Serge...

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e.pierce's avatar

Mehdi Hasan is pure garbage. Corrupt. Hypocritical. Liar. Racist. Presumably a sociopath/narcissist.

The good news: substack continues to be a free speech zone, even for despicable pieces of human garbage.

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David Clyne's avatar

So I am a subscriber to one writer on Substack, but after reading more about this platform I’m having doubts about remaining as part of the Substack community. Specifically, I’m concerned about the easy voice it provides to hate speech and misinformation. For now, I’m not dropping out, but am hopeful that this policy will soon be changed.

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e.pierce's avatar

Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn discuss blatant lies from the totalitarian AI machines developed by the "left":

https://www.racket.news/p/transcript-america-this-week-episode-695

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e.pierce's avatar

An example of the ORWELLIAN practices of the Democratic Party establishment to destroy free speech:

https://reason.com/2023/04/20/matti-taibbi-stacey-plaskett-jail-time-twitter-files-perjury/

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e.pierce's avatar

MAKE ORWELL FICTION AGAIN

There is no "policy".

Substack has clarified their position several times in response to hysteria from the "woke" "left" and various corrupt "leftist" media organizations.

Specific cases of "hate speech" and "misinformation" will be evaluated on a case by case basis to separate the vast number of BLATANT LIES about "hate speech" and "misinformation" made by the "left" (including the S0r0z Tr0ll Farm) from reality.

If you are opposed to "hate speech" and "misinformation", stop the CENSORSHIP INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX and REGIME PROPAGANDA that is being run out of the Biden White House and the Democratic Party establishment.

Substack has advised subscribers that they can manage much of the content they view by blocking writers they don't like, rather than demanding that the entire platform conform to their particular, individual ideologies.

Unfortunately there are a lot of people on the "left" that suffer from mental dysfunction and bizarre, authoritarian and totalitarian personalities, and that want to see free speech destroyed.

See the #twitterfiles for many examples of "leftist" authoritarianism and govt censorship that violates free speech.

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e.pierce's avatar

Even leftist "hate speech" ("wokeism" or whatever) is allowed, so you probably don't need a safe space unless you can't tolerate other ideas.

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