Al's Thoughts and Zines is moving to Buttondown!
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Hello! If you’re reading this, it means this newsletter has ceased updating on Substack and will instead be updating on Buttondown, which you can subscribe to right here! If you’re already subscribed to this blog, no worries, your email was exported to this new platform and you will continue receiving updates from me, just hosted on Buttondown instead. If you haven’t subscribed but found this page, I highly recommend subscribing on Buttondown instead. It’s completely free and you can find an archive of all the posts I made here on Substack through Buttondown’s archives. Very grateful that this platform made it very easy and very painless to move everything over. Hopefully I can get adjusted to it and continue delivering zines, lists, and essays I’m proud of.
So why am I moving away from Substack? Well, unfortunately, Substack has boldly decided to proclaim to their entire userbase that they stand by local transphobic diaper-wearing power drunk nazi dipshit Elon Musk and have promised to never kick nazis off of their platform because they believe in the sanctity of “free speech”. Because according to them, everyone deserves a platform, and that includes literal fascists who oppress and threaten the well-being of minorities. Substack has had shitty moderation for most of its existence, but now that we’re in the midst of a new Trump presidency where the bastard is already attempting to create a dictatorship and eradication of immigrants and trans people, with dipshits like Elon Musk by his side giving him power that he didn’t have the first go around, having a platform stand by that is dangerous and irresponsible. Frankly I don’t care enough about this platform to keep it going, so I’m migrating over to Buttondown and continuing my work there.
The first post on Buttondown will be The Best Songs Of 2024! I’m pretty close to finishing it, so subscribe so you can get a notification when it goes live! I’ll see you over there. Death to fascism, fuck Elon Musk, trans people will persist, and fuck Substack.
With love,
Al