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Leaving Substack years ago derailed what was left of my scraped together career. It was also the right thing to do. Sometimes that’s how it goes. (I’m working on scraping together another career. Please hold.)

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

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— kottke.org (@kottke.org) April 13, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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