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  1. If I want to browse articles, essays and thought pieces on various topics, ideally in one place, what's a good alternative to Substack?

    A lot of people publish there but I don't agree with their opinion on censorship and protection of audiences.

    (pls share)
    #PlatformAdvice #essays

  2. If I want to browse articles, essays and thought pieces on various topics, ideally in one place, what's a good alternative to Substack?

    A lot of people publish there but I don't agree with their opinion on censorship and protection of audiences.

    (pls share)
    #PlatformAdvice #essays

  3. If I want to browse articles, essays and thought pieces on various topics, ideally in one place, what's a good alternative to Substack?

    A lot of people publish there but I don't agree with their opinion on censorship and protection of audiences.

    (pls share)
    #PlatformAdvice #essays

  4. If I want to browse articles, essays and thought pieces on various topics, ideally in one place, what's a good alternative to Substack?

    A lot of people publish there but I don't agree with their opinion on censorship and protection of audiences.

    (pls share)
    #PlatformAdvice #essays

  5. The Self

    A bicycle isn't its wheels. It isn't the frame, the chain, the person pedaling, or the road. Take any one away and you don't have a broken bicycle but something that was never a bicycle to begin with. We point at things and say that's 'it'. That's the self. That's what's real. But every time you reach for the thing itself, you find it's made entirely of other things, which are made of other things and somewhere in that regression you either panic or you start to find it funny. The self […]

    ridiculousbharath.wordpress.co

  6. The Self

    A bicycle isn't its wheels. It isn't the frame, the chain, the person pedaling, or the road. Take any one away and you don't have a broken bicycle but something that was never a bicycle to begin with. We point at things and say that's 'it'. That's the self. That's what's real. But every time you reach for the thing itself, you find it's made entirely of other things, which are made of other things and somewhere in that regression you either panic or you start to find it funny. The self […]

    ridiculousbharath.wordpress.co

  7. The Self

    A bicycle isn't its wheels. It isn't the frame, the chain, the person pedaling, or the road. Take any one away and you don't have a broken bicycle but something that was never a bicycle to begin with. We point at things and say that's 'it'. That's the self. That's what's real. But every time you reach for the thing itself, you find it's made entirely of other things, which are made of other things and somewhere in that regression you either panic or you start to find it funny. The self […]

    ridiculousbharath.wordpress.co

  8. The Self

    A bicycle isn't its wheels. It isn't the frame, the chain, the person pedaling, or the road. Take any one away and you don't have a broken bicycle but something that was never a bicycle to begin with. We point at things and say that's 'it'. That's the self. That's what's real. But every time you reach for the thing itself, you find it's made entirely of other things, which are made of other things and somewhere in that regression you either panic or you start to find it funny. The self […]

    ridiculousbharath.wordpress.co

  9. The Self

    A bicycle isn't its wheels. It isn't the frame, the chain, the person pedaling, or the road. Take any one away and you don't have a broken bicycle but something that was never a bicycle to begin with. We point at things and say that's 'it'. That's the self. That's what's real. But every time you reach for the thing itself, you find it's made entirely of other things, which are made of other things and somewhere in that regression you either panic or you start to find it funny. The self […]

    ridiculousbharath.wordpress.co

  10. Delighted to announce my first collection essays, about life in southern New Hampshire, through Bauhan Publishing. Thank you for reading. It’s the best thing we can to do for ourselves these days. amazon.com/author/jarviscoffin #writing #essays #newhampshire

  11. Delighted to announce my first collection essays, about life in southern New Hampshire, through Bauhan Publishing. Thank you for reading. It’s the best thing we can to do for ourselves these days. amazon.com/author/jarviscoffin #writing #essays #newhampshire

  12. Delighted to announce my first collection essays, about life in southern New Hampshire, through Bauhan Publishing. Thank you for reading. It’s the best thing we can to do for ourselves these days. amazon.com/author/jarviscoffin #writing #essays #newhampshire

  13. "I was certain secret doors existed in real life, and spent a lot of time looking for them." Today, Longreads has an excerpt from "Make Believe" by Mac Barnett, the US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Don't miss it! longreads.com/2026/05/05/mac-b #literature #books #reading #libraries #essays #picturebooks #kids #adults #longreads

  14. "I was certain secret doors existed in real life, and spent a lot of time looking for them." Today, Longreads has an excerpt from "Make Believe" by Mac Barnett, the US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Don't miss it! longreads.com/2026/05/05/mac-b #literature #books #reading #libraries #essays #picturebooks #kids #adults #longreads

  15. "I was certain secret doors existed in real life, and spent a lot of time looking for them." Today, Longreads has an excerpt from "Make Believe" by Mac Barnett, the US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Don't miss it! longreads.com/2026/05/05/mac-b #literature #books #reading #libraries #essays #picturebooks #kids #adults #longreads

  16. "I was certain secret doors existed in real life, and spent a lot of time looking for them." Today, Longreads has an excerpt from "Make Believe" by Mac Barnett, the US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Don't miss it! longreads.com/2026/05/05/mac-b #literature #books #reading #libraries #essays #picturebooks #kids #adults #longreads

  17. "I was certain secret doors existed in real life, and spent a lot of time looking for them." Today, Longreads has an excerpt from "Make Believe" by Mac Barnett, the US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Don't miss it! longreads.com/2026/05/05/mac-b #literature #books #reading #libraries #essays #picturebooks #kids #adults #longreads

  18. @ratika Could depend on how you write them. I'm writing nearly only non-fiction. #Essays or #features can be a medium of telling stories, of getting a 'painting' of your ideas. There's 'narrative non-fiction', often used e.g. in #natureWriting. A great writer like Robert McFarlane writes fascinating stuff about the Underworlds or rivers, you can't stop reading, it's positive. But you become aware of the problems and people trying to find solutions. It's the storytelling that helps.

  19. @ratika Could depend on how you write them. I'm writing nearly only non-fiction. #Essays or #features can be a medium of telling stories, of getting a 'painting' of your ideas. There's 'narrative non-fiction', often used e.g. in #natureWriting. A great writer like Robert McFarlane writes fascinating stuff about the Underworlds or rivers, you can't stop reading, it's positive. But you become aware of the problems and people trying to find solutions. It's the storytelling that helps.

  20. @ratika Could depend on how you write them. I'm writing nearly only non-fiction. #Essays or #features can be a medium of telling stories, of getting a 'painting' of your ideas. There's 'narrative non-fiction', often used e.g. in #natureWriting. A great writer like Robert McFarlane writes fascinating stuff about the Underworlds or rivers, you can't stop reading, it's positive. But you become aware of the problems and people trying to find solutions. It's the storytelling that helps.

  21. @ratika Could depend on how you write them. I'm writing nearly only non-fiction. #Essays or #features can be a medium of telling stories, of getting a 'painting' of your ideas. There's 'narrative non-fiction', often used e.g. in #natureWriting. A great writer like Robert McFarlane writes fascinating stuff about the Underworlds or rivers, you can't stop reading, it's positive. But you become aware of the problems and people trying to find solutions. It's the storytelling that helps.

  22. @ratika Could depend on how you write them. I'm writing nearly only non-fiction. #Essays or #features can be a medium of telling stories, of getting a 'painting' of your ideas. There's 'narrative non-fiction', often used e.g. in #natureWriting. A great writer like Robert McFarlane writes fascinating stuff about the Underworlds or rivers, you can't stop reading, it's positive. But you become aware of the problems and people trying to find solutions. It's the storytelling that helps.

  23. The Moon Before Mars: Why returning to the moon makes more sense than rushing off to Mars. #Essays concerning our #Future on the #Moon.
    books2read.com/b/bWkXOq

  24. "I want to examine a different aspect of #Israel’s genocidal onslaught on #Gaza: its significance as a ‘world event’, an epochal turning point that also serves to reveal, and so to signify, the nature of the times. I aim to do so in a register that will range between the political, the social, the philosophical and the personal."

    #NancyFraser on the epochal significance of the #GazaGenocide

    newleftreview.org/issues/ii158
    #Palestine #politics #philosophy #essays

  25. "I want to examine a different aspect of #Israel’s genocidal onslaught on #Gaza: its significance as a ‘world event’, an epochal turning point that also serves to reveal, and so to signify, the nature of the times. I aim to do so in a register that will range between the political, the social, the philosophical and the personal."

    #NancyFraser on the epochal significance of the #GazaGenocide

    newleftreview.org/issues/ii158
    #Palestine #politics #philosophy #essays

  26. "I want to examine a different aspect of #Israel’s genocidal onslaught on #Gaza: its significance as a ‘world event’, an epochal turning point that also serves to reveal, and so to signify, the nature of the times. I aim to do so in a register that will range between the political, the social, the philosophical and the personal."

    #NancyFraser on the epochal significance of the #GazaGenocide

    newleftreview.org/issues/ii158
    #Palestine #politics #philosophy #essays

  27. "I want to examine a different aspect of #Israel’s genocidal onslaught on #Gaza: its significance as a ‘world event’, an epochal turning point that also serves to reveal, and so to signify, the nature of the times. I aim to do so in a register that will range between the political, the social, the philosophical and the personal."

    #NancyFraser on the epochal significance of the #GazaGenocide

    newleftreview.org/issues/ii158
    #Palestine #politics #philosophy #essays

  28. "I want to examine a different aspect of #Israel’s genocidal onslaught on #Gaza: its significance as a ‘world event’, an epochal turning point that also serves to reveal, and so to signify, the nature of the times. I aim to do so in a register that will range between the political, the social, the philosophical and the personal."

    #NancyFraser on the epochal significance of the #GazaGenocide

    newleftreview.org/issues/ii158
    #Palestine #politics #philosophy #essays

  29. 👆 “Signs & Wonders” is one of 47 pieces of Morgan’s prose – journalism, book & theatre reviews, essays & lectures, drama & radio scripts, forewords & afterwords – collected in EDWIN MORGAN: IN TOUCH WITH LANGUAGE, ed. John Coyle & James McGonigal

    8/14

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #essays #EdwinMorgan

  30. 👆 “Signs & Wonders” is one of 47 pieces of Morgan’s prose – journalism, book & theatre reviews, essays & lectures, drama & radio scripts, forewords & afterwords – collected in EDWIN MORGAN: IN TOUCH WITH LANGUAGE, ed. John Coyle & James McGonigal

    8/14

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #essays #EdwinMorgan

  31. 👆 “Signs & Wonders” is one of 47 pieces of Morgan’s prose – journalism, book & theatre reviews, essays & lectures, drama & radio scripts, forewords & afterwords – collected in EDWIN MORGAN: IN TOUCH WITH LANGUAGE, ed. John Coyle & James McGonigal

    8/14

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #essays #EdwinMorgan

  32. 👆 “Signs & Wonders” is one of 47 pieces of Morgan’s prose – journalism, book & theatre reviews, essays & lectures, drama & radio scripts, forewords & afterwords – collected in EDWIN MORGAN: IN TOUCH WITH LANGUAGE, ed. John Coyle & James McGonigal

    8/14

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #essays #EdwinMorgan

  33. 👆 “Signs & Wonders” is one of 47 pieces of Morgan’s prose – journalism, book & theatre reviews, essays & lectures, drama & radio scripts, forewords & afterwords – collected in EDWIN MORGAN: IN TOUCH WITH LANGUAGE, ed. John Coyle & James McGonigal

    8/14

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #essays #EdwinMorgan

  34. In the latest edition of our Top 5:

    —Death traps (The Believer)
    —Derring-do detectives (The New York Review of Books)
    —Drivel inspection (The Drift))
    —Deforestation? Not in my back yard! (In These Times)
    —Dissonance appreciation (The New Yorker)

    longreads.com/2026/04/24/the-t

    #longreads #top5 #reading #writing #essays

  35. In the latest edition of our Top 5:

    —Death traps (The Believer)
    —Derring-do detectives (The New York Review of Books)
    —Drivel inspection (The Drift))
    —Deforestation? Not in my back yard! (In These Times)
    —Dissonance appreciation (The New Yorker)

    longreads.com/2026/04/24/the-t

    #longreads #top5 #reading #writing #essays

  36. In the latest edition of our Top 5:

    —Death traps (The Believer)
    —Derring-do detectives (The New York Review of Books)
    —Drivel inspection (The Drift))
    —Deforestation? Not in my back yard! (In These Times)
    —Dissonance appreciation (The New Yorker)

    longreads.com/2026/04/24/the-t

    #longreads #top5 #reading #writing #essays

  37. In the latest edition of our Top 5:

    —Death traps (The Believer)
    —Derring-do detectives (The New York Review of Books)
    —Drivel inspection (The Drift))
    —Deforestation? Not in my back yard! (In These Times)
    —Dissonance appreciation (The New Yorker)

    longreads.com/2026/04/24/the-t

    #longreads #top5 #reading #writing #essays

  38. In the latest edition of our Top 5:

    —Death traps (The Believer)
    —Derring-do detectives (The New York Review of Books)
    —Drivel inspection (The Drift))
    —Deforestation? Not in my back yard! (In These Times)
    —Dissonance appreciation (The New Yorker)

    longreads.com/2026/04/24/the-t

    #longreads #top5 #reading #writing #essays