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Thanks for the insight into the mind of manic posters on social media. Where typically I would get annoyed to read every thought a serial poster has, especially as it dominates a young feed with little followers, I can now better empathize with their need for validation and scroll past the mundane thoughts.

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you need to get Lauren a bigger suitcase🤣🤣😉

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Bring it on. All the tips, all the subs, all the readers. I am on a mission.

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I got some tips posts in my archives

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I meant to end that w/ a "too!" without - that part it seems weird

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Reminds me of that line: “We’ve got lumps of it”

https://youtu.be/Bie7d1k2mf8

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You got em, I get em!😎

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I’d like to hear more about how the freeze or fart dichotomy evolved in nature please

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Been thinking dot about this and will explain it all, a la Clarissa, in an upcoming post

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I'll say this about Notes: it's liberating to have the freedom to do goofy stuff here. I don't post on "normie" social media, so I don't get a chance to play anymore, and I really miss that aspect of social media... the ability to be uninhibited, to goof off and play.

That feeling went away around 2016 and has been nowhere to be seen since then, but I have a sense of that "safe goofing" feeling.

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That's perfectly put! A place for safe goofing

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FOMOOOCAMSHWCL!!! So much good stuff here. That we're all eating gummies, and I love everyone, and everyone loves everyone will stay with me. Can't think of a better ethos.

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Hell ya

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LIES

LIES LIES LIES

okay fine, I'll read it.

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Sowden - it

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as a writer/musician who is Not Built For Instagram And Trying To Make Instagram Work (Yes I Capitalized The Articles Too), there's aspects of Substack and Notes that feel *exactly* like psychedelic-love AWP-Twitter. everyone has a much larger attention span and care to offer, so far. just people out here interacting thoughtfully and with a bit of wry humor and self-conscious responsibility. I'm hoping Notes will be as described here, a place for ppl to connect and learn new things.

I'm going to continue to ask about Indigenous, anti-racist, and decolonizing Substack, and where that is, if you can point the way, friends.

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Let us not follow the insanity that is ElonMuskism by renaming Substack. @HammishMcKenzie

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Lol

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Lightly taps their attention

This is a gentle way to describe what we’re trying to do on the internet, and I’m here for it.

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100%,

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Hasn't Notes already peaked?

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So. What exactly is PB&B?

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August 20, 2023
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Idk not seeing much of that in my feed. To each their own!

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