Do I know what the bloody hell is happening with Twitter right now? No. I have absolutely no idea. A quality I share with Elon Musk, at least.
Nonetheless, even if talk of life rafts is a little overblown, I’d rather be overblown than risk losing a whole network of people who might actually be interested in what I have to say over here. So, while it’s not properly set up yet, and won’t be launched for a month or so, you can sign up for the brand new Dirty Feed newsletter here:
A few notes, then.
- This will probably be monthly to start with. We’ll see how it goes. I’m certainly not intending to fill your inbox every week.
- Rather than including the actual articles in the newsletter, it’ll mainly just be links to stuff here, with a short introduction each month. Think how Tom Scott does his newsletter. I don’t really want to change how this site works entirely; I just want it to be easier for people to be notified of articles here.
- I’m not planning on much stuff unique to the newsletter at first, but that might change later on. We’ll see.
- It will include a short “elsewhere on the net” section linking to a few other things I enjoyed that month. I can’t make it the focus of the newsletter – I don’t have time – but I think it’d be a nice thing to do for creators and readers alike.
- This newsletter is completely separate to the per-post email subscriptions I launched a couple of months ago. Those will email you immediately when I update the site; the newsletter will be a more curated monthly thing. If you’re not sure which you want, I’d suggest the newsletter. (If really you want to hear from me more than once a month, you know.)
As for this place: yes indeed, we’re perilously close to pretend blogging at the moment. I’m busy with a major project outside Dirty Feed, but I’ll hope to get back to things around here before the end of the month.
After all, can you cope without knowing the location OB dates for Series 3 of Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em for much longer? Well, can you?