Plus I'm told it's his birthday today! So it would be rude not to subscribe.

Today we're launching the BACK INDIE MEDIA DRIVE. It's all cool and fun to like, read, watch indie media, but how about funding it with your cash money? That's what we're banding together to do. All through September. Fund indie media: projectc.biz/backindiemedia

Sometimes, the news makes me sad. And when it does, I read Greg's takes about the world @chortle.blog, and I laugh. Did you know that Greg & I teamed up with 30 indie pubs to raise money and keep media independent? Laugh www.chortle.blog/p/its-me-a-b... Then subscribe www.chortle.blog/subscribe

@adriennemareebrown.bsky.social once said: “We have the technology to know more about what’s happening in the world, but we have not yet built the spiritual technology to be able to handle all that knowing.”

Journalism used to feel exciting and radical. Now it’s owned by billionaires, at the mercy of tech bros, chasing dying ad revenue or plain disappearing.