Well, well, well.
It’s been just over a year since I dipped my toe into the SubStack pond with my first piece on the 27th of October 2021. I’ve decided to be a woman for the day and so, naturally, I have chosen a pink banner to match the nail polish and the lippy. Day 1 of girlhood, day 370 of SubStackhood.
Thanks so much for joining me for the ride. I know I’m probably the world’s worst at replying to comments, but I have read them all.
I started writing primarily to prevent myself from going completely doolally over the tragically insane response to covid. So much frustration and anger and sadness was building up, I needed some way to let go of it. If I could also touch a few people, maybe help to change a few minds along the way, then that would be a blessing indeed.
I was truly delighted and a bit astonished when I reached 100 subscribers - and a little humbled. I’m now at 994 - a slow but fairly steady growth over the year - and I’m truly thankful and honoured that you’ve lent me your time every so often to read my words.
I write mostly about things that are, in my view, dumb and dangerous. The response to covid, the rise of CRT and other ‘critical’ theories, gender ideology, censorship and the rising authoritarianism of governments (particularly with regard to the control of information). These are all things that can be categorized as dumb, or dangerous, or both.
If there are other topics you’d like me to cast my jaundiced eye over, then let me know in the comments. I have been thinking about Climate Change™ as a possibility - not so much the science behind it (that would take me at least 6 months of serious work to get to any half-reasonable understanding I think) but the proposed ‘solutions’ which definitely seem both dumb and dangerous.
Anyway - I wish us all a better year ahead in which we slowly creep back to some measure of sanity. It’s probably just going to get worse, but we can, at least, hope for the best.
Delighted to hear that your lazer-like wit shall be turned on to the third leg of the triumvirate of stupidity: after Covid and CRT/ transgenderidentitarianism, Net Zero is ripe for a skewering.
You are hilarious. I will never forget the expression Batshit Bonkers Boulevard that you used to describe where we're at in this colossal debacle. It made me laugh out loud and I need as many laughs as possible these days. Cheers and Happy Anniversary.