Substack – I knew little of it until this week other than it was some place online where Dominic Cummings posted endless screeds about the civil service blob – so avoided it. Conspiracy theory central, no doubt.
But it began appearing on my radar, so very early one morning (about 2.30), in a bout of insomnia, I visited the site and got quite hooked.
I am always looking for good sources of content online, in the belief that it doesn’t just have to be (apart from TheAfterword), just a howling wasteland of inanity, bombast and misinformation. For a while, I thought Bluesky might be a good place to focus. But maybe I loaded up too quickly with too many feeds – it seems to be very close to the windscreen of every passing attention-grabbing headline and news item. Trump thrives on this sort of constant shitshow, and it’s no good for sanity, dopamiine replenishment or contemplation of serious ideas.
Substack seems a bit more measured. Rather that short gobbets of text/comment, writers produce longform content. Has anyone else tried it?
