bad cats have slunk their way into FDA testimony and supreme court amicus briefs.
we’ve stood with our old friends and made new ones.
now more than ever, #TheFutureIsFeline.
and so the return of the of the "ah, wait, no way, you're kidding he didn't just say what I think he did kitty” continues…
bad cattitude hit 20k on saturday.
this is up from 10K a scant 3 months ago and testament to the rising power of a new medium that seeks to partner with creators rather than hamstring them and to enhance their signal instead of their suppression.
i continue to love this platform. this is home, a place where a felonious feline and the incorrigible humans that have let toxoplasmosis get the better of them can find community and do it our way.
because, after all, that’s what it’s supposed to be about, isn’t it?
LOVE you so much Gato, from the days on the blue bird mafiosi I have followed you, I witnessed your purge, I canceled Twitter over a year ago and never looked back. My patients have read you, my husband, my friends, we are a freedom force to be reckoned with. MASK FREE IN FLORIDA and FREE THE WORLD from viro-tyranny!!!
I'm taking my 19 y.o. on vacation to South Beach in a few weeks. It's been exhausting to keep her from getting the clot shots. So far, it's worked but this momma is tired. My hope is that she will see and experience freedom while in FL. I'm slowly getting her to think critically but her brain plays games with her because all her friends "are fine". SIGH... I can't wait to spend a week there with her.
Kirsch and Malone too. Eugyppius, Utobia, Jessica Rose, the Carpenter and the Walrus. Sorry guys, who did I miss? Yeadon do you have your own stack? He’s (Yeadon) been here laughing with us. Whoops missed Berenson!!!!! Sorry Mr Alex!!!
Thank you for creating my favorite home away from home and for introducing me to so many kindred cat-lovers. Here’s to continued toxoplasmosic contagion!
New subscriber here. Gratitude and love to you from Toronto, Ontario, where the passports and mandates have become one massive sunk cost fallacy. My husband kept sending me your newsletters to cheer me up when the lunacy was getting me down, and eventually I just decided to skip the middle man and subscribe myself. And I didn't even like cats before!
Let's turn 20,000 into 20,000,000. We can do this! The truth is addictive; once people find it, it spreads like wildfire. (Or kitty litter on a hardwood floor)
Funny thing. I'm not a social media user (have only just joined GETTR because of Dr. Malone). I myself was exiled from a webzine's commentariat for being, you know, honest in my (always framed as) opinions. (I've forgiven them in my heart. An independent site like that could be incinerated by an online mob and I was arousing a lot of ire 'cause without funny glasses I can't see crap as gold...)
I became aware of Substack because of Glenn Greenwald whose joining overcame my suspicions of new platforms claiming to be independent and bastions of unfettered discourse. And then I saw you'd moved here because they were trying to throttle your voice. (This is the value of wasting so much time every day on my darling laptop reading publicly-available Twitter threads. Quite a number of those herrings have the overpowering scent of truth but one needs persistence in sniffing them out...)
It's an honor to know you--even just merely virtually. You have my gratitude. Courage is so rare these days, and anger put to good purpose.
My son told me about you a long time ago... like last year I think... took me till a few weeks ago to subscribe myself... and I have told a few other friends too... tried to keep it off social media for fear of someone shutting you down, but part of me wants to shout all of what you do from the hilltops. Or at least from the top of my kitty tower. ;)
This is my sanity house, my kitty condo away from home. Love the research, the writing, the humor, and of course the cat graphics. Here's to the next 20K!
As I was reading yesterday, I was thinking (I can do both of those things at the same time like the others here) Your stack is the besssst. I am in love with your blog. Can that be a thing? 💋😻💋😻💋😻💋😻 Yes, I think so!
Senor Gato, yours is the first blog I look for every day! Thank you for bringing sanity and humor to an insane, miserable time. May this platform reach 100,000 by years’ end!
Felicidades, el gato! Your substack has helped me stay sane, even as people around me have gone completely bonkers! So glad to see more and more are discovering this forum!
“ i continue to love this platform. this is home, a place where a felonious feline and the incorrigible humans that have let toxoplasmosis get the better of them can find community and do it our way.”
Fascistbook and Twaddle started out that way. Just sayin’
Thank you so much for what you do. I have truly found a community here. Many of my friends are vaccinated. My husband and I were clear from the beginning that we would NOT EVER be vaccinated. Here I found like minded people that are fighting back every day. Often with a sense of humor. I want to be able to look forward to a future of hope not eternal darkness. Listening to the stories of others being strong helps me and my mental ability to cope with what we all face daily. Thank you all for sharing. Group therapy helps. I learn a lot here.
Same here. I spend a ridiculous part of my day reading all my substack and Telegram channels because it's my antidote to the insanity around me. It's great to know there are thousands of us.
Gato you've kept us sane - the prisoners in the UK.
Gato pals - send us good vibes, we're desperately trying to move to Florida or Texas this year. It's really hard getting sponsored for the work visa, but we have irons in the fire & have faith & hope 🙏🤞
Gato posts on the others, he advertised himself (well or are you a she? Oh well). I came. Laughter. Thanks to all of you who contributed and are continuing to post the LOLs.
Bad Cat, even if you *weren't* already a genius who is helping to steel the backbone and set the resolve of thousands, you would be worth reading just for that DJ kitty meme today. Priceless. Thank you for everything you put into this. 😽
I don't know what your twitter follower count looked like but many people who moved to new platforms found they vastly increase their amount of engagement even with a lot less followers.
Everyone interesting was getting completely suppressed by Twitter and should have left a long time ago.
Congratulations on reaching 20k and in such a short time. The irony is a few weeks ago my daughter who has never used substack; just Facebook, told me that even though I am subscribed to at least 7 different substacks there are probably no more than 20k total for all of them and it's just the same few people on all of them. I can't wait to tell her how wrong she is. I love your posts and look forward to them every day.❤👍
Coffeandcovid substack has over 50k subscribers and probably not everyone here even subscribes to that. 50 k people who get it is a friend group I want to have.
You have kept me from going crazy and I thank you for that. I love you and when I wake up in the morning and I don't see a few of your emails I freak out LOL You are my sanity. I can't thank you enough. Un abrazo desde la cárcel llamada Ontario.
LOVE you so much Gato, from the days on the blue bird mafiosi I have followed you, I witnessed your purge, I canceled Twitter over a year ago and never looked back. My patients have read you, my husband, my friends, we are a freedom force to be reckoned with. MASK FREE IN FLORIDA and FREE THE WORLD from viro-tyranny!!!
I'm taking my 19 y.o. on vacation to South Beach in a few weeks. It's been exhausting to keep her from getting the clot shots. So far, it's worked but this momma is tired. My hope is that she will see and experience freedom while in FL. I'm slowly getting her to think critically but her brain plays games with her because all her friends "are fine". SIGH... I can't wait to spend a week there with her.
I missed you when they banned you from Twitter. I'm glad to see you're back on Gettr and now here. Cheers!
I used to be allergic cats until I subscribed to el gato malo......
People are so grateful when they discover this site. I share it along with Mercola, Berenson and Childers sites.
Kirsch and Malone too. Eugyppius, Utobia, Jessica Rose, the Carpenter and the Walrus. Sorry guys, who did I miss? Yeadon do you have your own stack? He’s (Yeadon) been here laughing with us. Whoops missed Berenson!!!!! Sorry Mr Alex!!!
Felinitations, el gato!! 🎉💥🍾
Thank you for creating my favorite home away from home and for introducing me to so many kindred cat-lovers. Here’s to continued toxoplasmosic contagion!
Toxoplasmosic contagion nation!
We are over half way to having our own Feline Liechtenstein.
😹✊
"Felinitations" .... ooohhh!
New subscriber here. Gratitude and love to you from Toronto, Ontario, where the passports and mandates have become one massive sunk cost fallacy. My husband kept sending me your newsletters to cheer me up when the lunacy was getting me down, and eventually I just decided to skip the middle man and subscribe myself. And I didn't even like cats before!
Really happy for the milestone! Happy for all the readers who have found you! You are a blessing !
Let's turn 20,000 into 20,000,000. We can do this! The truth is addictive; once people find it, it spreads like wildfire. (Or kitty litter on a hardwood floor)
I was going to spend less time on my phone and then I discovered your page and through your page a bunch of other cool substack pages.
So that whole idea went out of the window. Totally worth it though.
Once covid is over I will pick up on it (probably because by then I will be senile).
Congrats Gato and thank you for sharing your feline curiosity. It's like 20,000 cats have been let out of the bag all at once.
Try herding all those cats ~ 🙀
We are unherdable and ungovernable.
Where’s the damn merch?
We want t-shirts!
Make your own. Use my avatar as an example.
This is a true grass roots movement.
I thought that said “France says NO VAX” sorry I was just hoping.....
2SG 2nd Smartest Guy in the World has advertised some really cool T-shirts and other "Do not Comply" merch:
https://open.substack.com/pub/2ndsmartestguyintheworld/p/new-2sg-t-shirts?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=ts037
And socks!
gonna be bootlegs soon enough if we can't get some official t-shirts
I keep looking on Etsy but nothing yet
There’s a bunch of I DO NOT CONSENT t’s but I haven’t seen a cat based one.
Gato Malo rules.
Funny thing. I'm not a social media user (have only just joined GETTR because of Dr. Malone). I myself was exiled from a webzine's commentariat for being, you know, honest in my (always framed as) opinions. (I've forgiven them in my heart. An independent site like that could be incinerated by an online mob and I was arousing a lot of ire 'cause without funny glasses I can't see crap as gold...)
I became aware of Substack because of Glenn Greenwald whose joining overcame my suspicions of new platforms claiming to be independent and bastions of unfettered discourse. And then I saw you'd moved here because they were trying to throttle your voice. (This is the value of wasting so much time every day on my darling laptop reading publicly-available Twitter threads. Quite a number of those herrings have the overpowering scent of truth but one needs persistence in sniffing them out...)
It's an honor to know you--even just merely virtually. You have my gratitude. Courage is so rare these days, and anger put to good purpose.
I wasn't really on Twitter but I joined Gettr because of Dr. M. I wonder how many ppl joined because of him?
He certainly seems to have put a match to the kindling...
Let's hope so. They started on our 5-11 year olds today. My heart is aching.
It's unkitty, your trajectory on the graph looks like the positivity rate of the double "vaxxed". Congrats and thanks for the amazing content.
Ha!
Your work is purrfect.
You are the badass kitty!
Felicidades, el gato, on 20k + subscribers! Your substack posts are always spot on. And I gotta say the cat memes are pretty hilarious.
My son told me about you a long time ago... like last year I think... took me till a few weeks ago to subscribe myself... and I have told a few other friends too... tried to keep it off social media for fear of someone shutting you down, but part of me wants to shout all of what you do from the hilltops. Or at least from the top of my kitty tower. ;)
Could someone shut the cat down? He's on Substack. Is he immune?
I don't know enough about Substack, but I wasn't taking any chances! ;)
Pure catnip for the rest of us every time you hit 'publish'. Thank you!
This is my sanity house, my kitty condo away from home. Love the research, the writing, the humor, and of course the cat graphics. Here's to the next 20K!
As I was reading yesterday, I was thinking (I can do both of those things at the same time like the others here) Your stack is the besssst. I am in love with your blog. Can that be a thing? 💋😻💋😻💋😻💋😻 Yes, I think so!
Congrats truth teller kitty cat, no amount of catnip can intoxicate you to the matrix!
Did you check those 20,000 members’ cards? There might be a poisonous mouse in there.
Unlike my vaxx card, my gato card is genuine.
This made me laugh out loud! Thanks! :)))
😂😂😂
Of course there is, mouse trolls can’t handle the truth.
I LLLOOOVVVEEE bad kitties💕💕💕
Senor Gato, yours is the first blog I look for every day! Thank you for bringing sanity and humor to an insane, miserable time. May this platform reach 100,000 by years’ end!
Felicidades, el gato! Your substack has helped me stay sane, even as people around me have gone completely bonkers! So glad to see more and more are discovering this forum!
“ i continue to love this platform. this is home, a place where a felonious feline and the incorrigible humans that have let toxoplasmosis get the better of them can find community and do it our way.”
Fascistbook and Twaddle started out that way. Just sayin’
Do you get to keep the mailing list?
yup.
if this is ever pulled apart, i'll just rebuild it the next day.
i have all the emails and all the content.
i'm not falling for that one again...
Smart kitty!
You're in my top 3 stacks - bad kitties rule! (Just ask my Marlin and Cuda...)
Congratulations! I love the site. I get both information and smiles. Win-win.
Thank you so much for what you do. I have truly found a community here. Many of my friends are vaccinated. My husband and I were clear from the beginning that we would NOT EVER be vaccinated. Here I found like minded people that are fighting back every day. Often with a sense of humor. I want to be able to look forward to a future of hope not eternal darkness. Listening to the stories of others being strong helps me and my mental ability to cope with what we all face daily. Thank you all for sharing. Group therapy helps. I learn a lot here.
Same here. I spend a ridiculous part of my day reading all my substack and Telegram channels because it's my antidote to the insanity around me. It's great to know there are thousands of us.
Well done. You paint a smile on this old dawg.
You have a well deserved following. I've enjoyed you on the twatter but this platform is way better. Thanks for your hard work.
Gato you've kept us sane - the prisoners in the UK.
Gato pals - send us good vibes, we're desperately trying to move to Florida or Texas this year. It's really hard getting sponsored for the work visa, but we have irons in the fire & have faith & hope 🙏🤞
This just in- FDA approves vaccine for cat scratch fever. 9 boosters required.
🙀🙀🙀
The cats I know are smart, they all said “I do not consent” and went straight to the litter box to show how they feel.....
Your content is invaluable!
You kitty are a joy.thank you.
Congratulations 👏🏻👏🏻🙀
Keep the kitty memes coming! 😆
I forget how I got here, either Kirsch or Berenson, but damn if it wasn’t the best recommendation ever.
SAME El Gato is my favorite
Gato posts on the others, he advertised himself (well or are you a she? Oh well). I came. Laughter. Thanks to all of you who contributed and are continuing to post the LOLs.
20,000? The Honorable Justice Sotomayor said 100,000...
Bad Cat, even if you *weren't* already a genius who is helping to steel the backbone and set the resolve of thousands, you would be worth reading just for that DJ kitty meme today. Priceless. Thank you for everything you put into this. 😽
I feel the same about the Eminem angle. 😆
Pawsome!
The meowing 20's! 🎉🍾🥂
Congrats, Bad Cat! I know whatever you're thrown from, you'll always land on your feet.
I don't know what your twitter follower count looked like but many people who moved to new platforms found they vastly increase their amount of engagement even with a lot less followers.
Everyone interesting was getting completely suppressed by Twitter and should have left a long time ago.
I just love it when kitty says "I am just a kitten"...... Creases me up and makes my day. Thank you, you Bad Cat.
Yes! gatito bueno is one of my favorite felines. (Would say my favorite, but my own gato Iggy is watching as I type.)
Cats are the best!!!!
What would we do without you? Our voice of sanity and forum of freedom!!! Toxoplasmosis for everyone!
I'd say "you the man", but...
Congrats mate.
Congratulations on reaching 20k and in such a short time. The irony is a few weeks ago my daughter who has never used substack; just Facebook, told me that even though I am subscribed to at least 7 different substacks there are probably no more than 20k total for all of them and it's just the same few people on all of them. I can't wait to tell her how wrong she is. I love your posts and look forward to them every day.❤👍
Coffeandcovid substack has over 50k subscribers and probably not everyone here even subscribes to that. 50 k people who get it is a friend group I want to have.
You have kept me from going crazy and I thank you for that. I love you and when I wake up in the morning and I don't see a few of your emails I freak out LOL You are my sanity. I can't thank you enough. Un abrazo desde la cárcel llamada Ontario.