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ExcessDeathsAU's avatar

Just beware that all these posts go out as emails. Substack is for long-form article journalism and people may get annoyed with all the 'tweet emails' and unsubscribe. Notes is a much better feature to use like Twitter.

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Abi Roberts's avatar

Ah, ok! Thank you. I’ll use threads intermittently as I would get fucking annoyed if I got multiple emails a day!!

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TheJules's avatar

Oooh I like Sweets 🍭

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Sara's avatar

Me too! ⭐️

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Nathan's avatar

Stacks?

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Toma's avatar

SuX?

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Abi Roberts's avatar

Ooh I say, steady on 😁

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Lesley's avatar

Matron!

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TheJules's avatar

Subs is what we used to pay at Brownies 😀

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Abi Roberts's avatar

Oh God yeah, I remember 😄

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Trudi's avatar

Did you wear one of those brown bobble hats? I’ve a photo of me in mine somewhere.

I promise that I’ll do my best …..🤣

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TheJules's avatar

Yeah, brown knitted hat with a pom pom on top.

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Christian Thomas's avatar

Thought you might enjoy this quote I just heard in a half hour hit-piece video (fully justified) on Elon Musk: "Twitter: Once a flawed but functional Town Square; now the social media equivalent of a Blockbuster that has been taken over by flea-infested racoons."

Apart from the slight to racoons, who I think are lovely, I thought it was brilliant! 😂🤣😂 The full video, which is very comprehensive in its demolition, can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y40RU5Nx6U

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Dmitri X's avatar

Anything that makes you good, Abi.

"Краткость - сестра таланта" А. П. Чехов...Apparently.

E-mail notifications is a good point by ExcessDeathsAU. The possible way around this - to make a rule in e-mail client to move all notification e-mails from Abi's substack to a different folder, so they will not fill the inbox fast. This is helpfull in any case for a favorite writer as it would help to do not miss them among tens or hundreds others.

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Christian Thomas's avatar

Substack stuffs up your Inbox anyway, and I suspect that it's the Likes and Replies that are more the culprit than the actual articles. Whatever the case, it's way too much already and I know it's far worse for the "content creators" even though I'm not one, so far.

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JayJay7's avatar

Abi, I would call this new genre "Subs" or "Stacks", I like them equally.

Much love to you and all the Abi Fam, you are the greatest.

Love and kisses

Jane xxx

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IFW69 💪❤️'s avatar

'We ain't X'

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Christine Taylor's avatar

Stickers. Like knackers🤪

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Elizabeth's avatar

How about "subsweets"?

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