Substack is my favourite social media platform, in that everyone has a place to express themselves freely or share their content or work with an audience, and everyone is able to choose who to follow based on their interests. If you are really passionate about a specific creator’s content, you can also subscribe to receive direct communication (e-newsletter’s) & notifications of when they’ve shared a new post or intend to go live. There are usually various tiers if you choose to subscribe to a creator’s content, and aside from the basic (free) subscription, you can choose to pay and get bonus content or features for supporting the creator. I like the way Substack works; It seems to be fair, easy to start using & I definitely think it’s the way forward in terms of sharing (social) media!

I’ve come onto the app looking to find writers in the topic areas that I’m interested in (tech mainly). The app is difficult and non-sensical to navigate. at the beginning, it just gave me a list of writers that I’ve never heard of to follow… which is just silly, because how am I supposed to choose anything when I’ve never heard of any of these writers. I can’t believe it doesn’t let you choose topic to follow, and then bring writers in from that. Then when I do go and select a bunch of writers (having to randomly selects based on what they’ve called themselves, hoping that they are good ones, because I have no reviews or anything to help me navigate that)… The only thing I’ve left in my inbox with is the crap that made me select at the beginning (some sort of rubbish editors picks). None of which I’m interested in. And all the writers that I just went and clicked on are not appearing in my inbox! Unbelievably frustrating. So massively inferior to Medium. I’m not sure why anyone would use this vs Medium. And no. I don’t work for Medium. I just hope someone at Substack reads this. Also, why am I not paying for membership? Perhaps if you guys had sensible membership subscriptions, you wouldn’t have to go to crowdfunding to raise $2 million.

You know (Polis) how I feel about A Good Year, and my singular inability to put words together in the way you have done and do is the very reason my own attempts at authorship have stalled, died and been buried in the cess pit of lost dreams. There are a few books I have read and enjoyed as much as your twelve days of Christmas folklore tale. They would be Christ Stopped At Eboli, The Name of the Rose, The Magus (although that was so long ago I may be misremembering), and just to prove I’m as shallow as a pond evaporating in the desert, DP Clarence’s The Paper Boys, which I galloped through with the alacrity of a frisky colt put out to grass. I have recently bought Disbanded Kingdom and will read that when it comes to the top of pile. And what a pile it is. I recently discovered a perfectly apt word, from those masters of apt words, the Japanese. It is Tsundoku - the phenomenon of acquiring books. Mine have become a fortress needing a literary Joshua to bring the walls tumbling down! Oh biblical bandsman come blow your horn!

Being a Brit I found out so much about your legal process the opinions of the right on the left and only one being truthful legal AF Substack is absolutely brilliant. That podcast it’s so informative Michael Poppa Karen Ben Dave Ehrenbug there so many Michael Cohen Glen Kirchner Katie Fang Dina it’s just you bring all the right people. I’ve been watching Midas touch for two years now found it by accident and I just hope you guys go on forever because the other media is just so corrupt so misinforming that I don’t know how you all take it in and sort out the truth from the lies I know we know better over here that’s why I don’t watch the news over here very big time. Keep on doing what you’re doing. So in 2026 Democrats will get house and Senate back and impeach Trump and prosecute all of the lawbreakers from his term.