I’ve been bitching that Substack is a self-contained universe for its own writers.
Stop! I’m a writer inside another self-contained universe, which is quite a bit larger than Substack. Decided to look around the universe where I’m a participant and let it talk to me. WordPress is apparently trying to be more like a community, and their Reader is a fairly usable search tool. Within a few minutes I found one news aggregator that DOESN’T fall into the standard partisan crap. Needless to say it’s focused in Africa, where God lives now.
Carver:
Look about you.
Take hold of the things that are here.
Talk to them.
Let them talk to you.
Or his alternate version:
Start where you are.
Work with what you have.
Make something of it.
Never give up.
Polistra's Mill 