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Our latest episode features the enigmatic and multi-instrumentalist badass James Murphy—the heart of LCD Soundsystem. Following their performance at Glastonbury 2024, we rediscovered the band and considered them our favourite of the whole festival. Check it out. #music #musician #lcdsoundsystem #podcast #substack #FediMusic #MastoMusic vibes.starlite-campbell.com/p/

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Trying not to have a screaming fit of rage over some of the progressive activist accounts with the largest social media followings, and therefore the largest platforms, who are *still * using (or linking to) substack, so that part of their readers' hard earned money ends up funding the Nazis they--the activists--are purportedly fighting against.

You cannot pretend, in fucking May 2025, to not know this, or that there aren't alternatives.

Pack Your Corporate Social Media Go Bag

If you use #Bluesky or #Substack have an escape plan!

As repeatedly demonstrated, corporate platforms are vulnerable. Will you be ready when they inevitably bend to data exploitation, political manipulation and censorship? Has it already started?

Have a plan to evacuate to Public Social Media. Create backup accounts on #Mastodon and #Ghost and use them as secondaries. Be prepared. Begin building your online presence free from corporate overlords.

Is Substack Just a Bunch of Echo Chambers?

I’m still trying to identify why I like Substack so much more than other social platforms. So navel gazing warning is in place.

One of the things that annoyed me with Substack is the fact that the various people writing on it do so for duplicates of themselves.


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#Substack #Theory #Opinion #Personal

I rarely swear.

I almost never swear.

But today in my head I let go a blistering tirade against SubStack. I subscribed to one feed ... ONE FEED ... and I've started to get unasked for, unwanted posts by other people.

Just. Go. Away.

If you use SubStack then know this ...

I'm unsubscribing from the unsolicited stuff I get, and there's a non-zero chance I will unsubscribe from your feed as well, because I'm too tired and too angry to bother working out how to be more nuanced.