Yeah, I have other subscriptions where I’m annoyed when they link out from email because I’d prefer to read in email. But if travel for the internet cat I get most of my news and opinion from.
SPECIAL REQUEST for GATO: would you be willing to write a piece targeted for the 18-24 year olds that are being bombarded with college mandates, or vax requirements for college sports and all manner of social events? I have an 18 and a 20 y.o. who barely open emails I send with stats and tables. They seem to want to avoid looking into the dark state of affairs, the fascist tendencies of our govt agencies. They want to avoid facing the grim reality. It's exhausting arguing about the dangers of these toxic jabs and making them stay unjabbed. SIGH... I know thousands of parents (from NO college mandates group on Telegram) and other groups who are on the same boat. We're fighting the many Hollywood celebrities, social media influencers, and state and CDC ads constantly touting the "safe and effective" lies. So far, I've managed to keep them unjected but I know many other parents are struggling. I hope you can produce an enticing essay for this group. This BORICUA momma THANKS you for all you do!!
yes, please do this. Longer piece. Then please distill into talking point bites that my daughter college student daughter and son can use in discussions. Remember, they have short attention spans, but for inquiring minds like my kiddos, a short piece with links may lead them to a longer piece. Help us El Gato Malo, you're our only hope! (Maybe not only, but funny cat memes mean gen Z more likely to read.)
Would love to send something compelling to my niece that she would read. If anyone is up to the task, Gato is! My sister is against her children getting the jab but has lost any veto power over the still somewhat immature 18 yo that has just departed for college. The 18 yo's response to my mild phone discussion with my sister was to say I was a conspiracy theorist. This is the herd response that is a spring-loaded in young people toward any argument against the narrative. Name calling avoids any responsibility to present a compelling counter argument. To me, the greatest tragedy is the risk that young people are taking with their current and **future** health without even hearing out the full picture before making this potentially life changing decision. I’m not capable of influencing my niece. Perhaps Gato's gift of the light but compelling touch can.
I'm fighting against "all my friends are vaxxed and fine". I've been able to get my (18 y.o.) track athlete's attention to some extent but he's not sold on the real cause of all these athletes collapsing or dying. At least he doesn't want to get jabbed. My 20 y.o. has been a never-ending battle but managed to talk her out of her Walgreens appt late last year. I'm emotionally spent. To this day, I do share compelling evidence of most recent studies (i.e. Dr. Naomi Wolf articles about stillbirths and spontaneous abortions, low sperm count/motility in Israel study, or Dr. Ryan Cole's interviews) but they don't care to read or watch. The radio, TV and smartphones still spew ads for these toxic jabs on a 24/7 basis. It's truly sickening. And all public colleges here in Oregon still post the falsehood of "safe and effective" justifying their ill-conceived Covid19 policies. I remember being that age and wanting to just enjoy life and the new freedoms of college life. The last thing they want is to be reminded of a horrible totalitarian global agenda that will sabotage their dreams. I totally get that. But I hope they realize soon enough that this is a WAR on humanity, on their future. I can only pray at this point and hope they will keep on listening to me until this house of cards of deception crumbles.
"All my friends are vaxxed and fine"....oh my! Exactly what my then 17 yo niece told her mom. I think there are many universal and parallel experiences in this realm. And following your thread regarding remembering your youth....another universal truth is that no young person wants to feel lectured to by a family member — even if it is from the best intentions. Paradoxically, they *may* accept or even welcome a facts and figures presentation from another "authority figure" — but rarely family. So I often wonder, if I had the opportunity, if a gentle interrogatory would be have some effect. "So, what do you think about....?" "What makes you say that?" "Do you think this person is lying? What would be their motivation? What do you think are alternative explanations? Have you ever considered risk? What would you do if...Donyou think there’s a harm in just waiting. Why?". My niece flat out told me that she loved to talk about herself. With the right approach, I don’t know if I could draw out her beliefs, thereby getting her to articulate in more detail and maybe even examine below the tissue thin surface of her belief structure. I’m probably just fooling myself that there might be a way inside that narrative fortress. But we can’t give up. And consider not trying to win the war of totalitarian global agenda all at once. Hopefully we old fogies can hold down the fort long enough for the kids to enjoy life while slowly being exposed to the reality of the world around them. They are still emerging from their protective childhood shell. My plan is to focus on a single battle: keep these young adults healthy and un jabbed so that they can enjoy life right now and hopefully join our greater battle once their feathers have dried off and begun to spread! I am with you in heart and spirit — don’t lose faith!
it was decades ago, but if an authority figure told me I HAD to do something, I refused. That didn't happen much back then,.
The minute they started requiring masks, social distancing, going only one direction down the grocery aisle, I immediately said NOPE! I wore a mask to get in the door, then let it slip... 🦝🐱
Thank you!!! I wouldn't have kept my sanity relatively intact had it not been for this group and a few others on Substack and Telegram.
I never tried to impose because I knew it could backfire. I pled constantly while sharing a few posts by vax-injured women in her age group.
The jist of my plea was: "If you died it would destroy me but that is not what I'm afraid of. My biggest fear is IF you end up with a painful vax injury that no one will be able to treat. Your friends will not be the ones helping you, taking you from doctor to doctor, nor providing the care that you may need. I will be the one seeing you in constant pain, suffering with you, and unable to help you. My fear is that you will spend the rest of your life in PAIN, with a debilitating condition that will keep from living life fully."
The day of the appt I told her that I would accompany her because she needed me in case she had a severe reaction that required medical attention. Thank God, all my pleas had the intended effect of making her pause. She cancelled the appt. A few days later, a dear momma friend offered a "piece of paper" that would free my beloved daughter from the unethical requirements for proof of drinking the poison.
My son was able to get a religious exemption from OSU his last year on campus, with no resistance. I was pleasantly surprised.
I wonder how much credit goes to hippies in Corvallis with longstanding anti-vaccine sentiment. Based on the fine print, although OSU Administrators touted the safety and efficacy of these unsafe and ineffective shots for everyone, they were clearly working hard to accommodate employees seeking exemptions.
I agree completely with you that Gato is the perfect cat to write up a summary for young adults. His libertarian appeal to self-government and personal responsibility is perhaps the best way to get college kids to step away from the needle.
Until then, I continue to recommend this piece by Joomi... Although it is encyclopedic, not a short read, the length is balanced by her calm delivery with links to calm people.
I'm not sure the hippies' attitudes have much to do with it. Last year, Hayward Field (spanking new track& field stadium @ Univ of Oregon, Eugene) had separate entrances (Unvaxxed, Vaxxed) for the Olympic trials. SMH. I know they all allow for non-medical exemptions (at lease that's what PSU calls them). My issue is that they still post the false narrative on their covid pages, and are discriminating against those students who get the exemptions. I know of student athletes that are forced to get tested frequently, and not allowed to travel with their team, etc. It's a de-facto caste system. Oregon is not as bad as California where religious exemption was eliminated a few years ago, but all public universities are following frau Brown's dictates. Thanks for the link!
Amusing yet terrifying. We took the first two jabs because we were duped (and I am angry). We got COVID and it was bad, but we were back to normal in five days. My neighbors are double vaxxed and double boosted. They don't understand why they are still very sick over two weeks later. Yeah, they are vaxxed and doing just fine. At least they haven't been hospitalized.,
This article could be helpful, it's about relationships and dating for generation Z - very well written and I think also interesting for younger people. https://www.commonsense.news/p/generation-swipe
Thanks for asking; I’d really like to stop the emails clogging up my inbox as I prefer to read online; much easier on the eyes. I get notifications of a new post on the app.😊
I had to actually unsubscribe from one prolific Substack writer-not because I didn’t agree w/him or didn’t like his writing, but up to 5+ emails a day with his stream-of-consciousness outrage (rightly so) was overwhelming my already too full inbox. I am already struggling with keeping too many emails…..
As someone else mentioned, you can turn off email notifications. It's nice that substack recently rearranged its web app, at least, to move the Notifications icon out from under the Account menu, so it's easier to notice.
In order to interact with the content -- to Like, or Comment -- one is redirected from the email back to the site anyway, so I voted for one email with a teaser (a wand toy??) and link included. Coordinated comments are a real benefit. Thanks for asking!
We don't. My post based on my Cats assumptions, because I asked, and there's a 50/50 chance it is a male cat and she's willing to take that bet. I believe it's time to ask the person that posted the original comment to verify my cats superior catillect, or not.
I'm just grateful for your writing, GM! My family has made a lot of changes in the last year - moving away from banks, growing our own food - and reading your messages (in whatever format!) keeps us strong on the path of ungovernability. Thank you so much 💕
Maybe disable comments on all but the last part if you post as several parts (I like to read the whole thing in email, but as others have said, I’m happy to read it any way you send it)
I will follow and read whatever you post and whatever format you post……you and your wonderful community have been a beacon of hope….LOVE BAD CATTITUDE!!!!!
I’m going to read what you write no matter the format. Make it easy for yourself. You do all of the heavy lifting here.
Same here - I always head to the actual post because I want to read the comments too!
My view also. I’ll read you no matter what.
Totally agree. Do what's easiest for you, but if you want one suggestion, please post more cat pictures.
Yeah!! Moar cat pics!! 😻😻😻😻
I agree with the original comment. I'll read regardless.
Fully agree with the sentiments expressed here.
Ditto
Ditto thAT!! Youuu 'da man, errr...cat, so whatever gets your 'purrrr' on...do that.!. ; ]
What Deb said.
I agree, please make it easy on yourself. Thank you
Same here!
Same!
Amen!!
Same.
Yes. Make it easy for the bad cat.
Yeah, I have other subscriptions where I’m annoyed when they link out from email because I’d prefer to read in email. But if travel for the internet cat I get most of my news and opinion from.
Same here
You are the top cat on the hill. You write it, we are going to likely read it..However it comes.
Agree, I am with Bob!
Love El Gato Malo any way you slice it😺
I'd take it through homing pigeon, even with the odds of getting the bird back from the cat.
In a perfect world only have comments in the final piece.
It can be confusing going back and forth.
Like you said, it stunts discussion.
I read in the app. I get notifications with a new post.
Me too
SPECIAL REQUEST for GATO: would you be willing to write a piece targeted for the 18-24 year olds that are being bombarded with college mandates, or vax requirements for college sports and all manner of social events? I have an 18 and a 20 y.o. who barely open emails I send with stats and tables. They seem to want to avoid looking into the dark state of affairs, the fascist tendencies of our govt agencies. They want to avoid facing the grim reality. It's exhausting arguing about the dangers of these toxic jabs and making them stay unjabbed. SIGH... I know thousands of parents (from NO college mandates group on Telegram) and other groups who are on the same boat. We're fighting the many Hollywood celebrities, social media influencers, and state and CDC ads constantly touting the "safe and effective" lies. So far, I've managed to keep them unjected but I know many other parents are struggling. I hope you can produce an enticing essay for this group. This BORICUA momma THANKS you for all you do!!
yes, please do this. Longer piece. Then please distill into talking point bites that my daughter college student daughter and son can use in discussions. Remember, they have short attention spans, but for inquiring minds like my kiddos, a short piece with links may lead them to a longer piece. Help us El Gato Malo, you're our only hope! (Maybe not only, but funny cat memes mean gen Z more likely to read.)
Would love to send something compelling to my niece that she would read. If anyone is up to the task, Gato is! My sister is against her children getting the jab but has lost any veto power over the still somewhat immature 18 yo that has just departed for college. The 18 yo's response to my mild phone discussion with my sister was to say I was a conspiracy theorist. This is the herd response that is a spring-loaded in young people toward any argument against the narrative. Name calling avoids any responsibility to present a compelling counter argument. To me, the greatest tragedy is the risk that young people are taking with their current and **future** health without even hearing out the full picture before making this potentially life changing decision. I’m not capable of influencing my niece. Perhaps Gato's gift of the light but compelling touch can.
I'm fighting against "all my friends are vaxxed and fine". I've been able to get my (18 y.o.) track athlete's attention to some extent but he's not sold on the real cause of all these athletes collapsing or dying. At least he doesn't want to get jabbed. My 20 y.o. has been a never-ending battle but managed to talk her out of her Walgreens appt late last year. I'm emotionally spent. To this day, I do share compelling evidence of most recent studies (i.e. Dr. Naomi Wolf articles about stillbirths and spontaneous abortions, low sperm count/motility in Israel study, or Dr. Ryan Cole's interviews) but they don't care to read or watch. The radio, TV and smartphones still spew ads for these toxic jabs on a 24/7 basis. It's truly sickening. And all public colleges here in Oregon still post the falsehood of "safe and effective" justifying their ill-conceived Covid19 policies. I remember being that age and wanting to just enjoy life and the new freedoms of college life. The last thing they want is to be reminded of a horrible totalitarian global agenda that will sabotage their dreams. I totally get that. But I hope they realize soon enough that this is a WAR on humanity, on their future. I can only pray at this point and hope they will keep on listening to me until this house of cards of deception crumbles.
"All my friends are vaxxed and fine"....oh my! Exactly what my then 17 yo niece told her mom. I think there are many universal and parallel experiences in this realm. And following your thread regarding remembering your youth....another universal truth is that no young person wants to feel lectured to by a family member — even if it is from the best intentions. Paradoxically, they *may* accept or even welcome a facts and figures presentation from another "authority figure" — but rarely family. So I often wonder, if I had the opportunity, if a gentle interrogatory would be have some effect. "So, what do you think about....?" "What makes you say that?" "Do you think this person is lying? What would be their motivation? What do you think are alternative explanations? Have you ever considered risk? What would you do if...Donyou think there’s a harm in just waiting. Why?". My niece flat out told me that she loved to talk about herself. With the right approach, I don’t know if I could draw out her beliefs, thereby getting her to articulate in more detail and maybe even examine below the tissue thin surface of her belief structure. I’m probably just fooling myself that there might be a way inside that narrative fortress. But we can’t give up. And consider not trying to win the war of totalitarian global agenda all at once. Hopefully we old fogies can hold down the fort long enough for the kids to enjoy life while slowly being exposed to the reality of the world around them. They are still emerging from their protective childhood shell. My plan is to focus on a single battle: keep these young adults healthy and un jabbed so that they can enjoy life right now and hopefully join our greater battle once their feathers have dried off and begun to spread! I am with you in heart and spirit — don’t lose faith!
it was decades ago, but if an authority figure told me I HAD to do something, I refused. That didn't happen much back then,.
The minute they started requiring masks, social distancing, going only one direction down the grocery aisle, I immediately said NOPE! I wore a mask to get in the door, then let it slip... 🦝🐱
Lol — A-men!
Thank you!!! I wouldn't have kept my sanity relatively intact had it not been for this group and a few others on Substack and Telegram.
I never tried to impose because I knew it could backfire. I pled constantly while sharing a few posts by vax-injured women in her age group.
The jist of my plea was: "If you died it would destroy me but that is not what I'm afraid of. My biggest fear is IF you end up with a painful vax injury that no one will be able to treat. Your friends will not be the ones helping you, taking you from doctor to doctor, nor providing the care that you may need. I will be the one seeing you in constant pain, suffering with you, and unable to help you. My fear is that you will spend the rest of your life in PAIN, with a debilitating condition that will keep from living life fully."
The day of the appt I told her that I would accompany her because she needed me in case she had a severe reaction that required medical attention. Thank God, all my pleas had the intended effect of making her pause. She cancelled the appt. A few days later, a dear momma friend offered a "piece of paper" that would free my beloved daughter from the unethical requirements for proof of drinking the poison.
My son was able to get a religious exemption from OSU his last year on campus, with no resistance. I was pleasantly surprised.
I wonder how much credit goes to hippies in Corvallis with longstanding anti-vaccine sentiment. Based on the fine print, although OSU Administrators touted the safety and efficacy of these unsafe and ineffective shots for everyone, they were clearly working hard to accommodate employees seeking exemptions.
I agree completely with you that Gato is the perfect cat to write up a summary for young adults. His libertarian appeal to self-government and personal responsibility is perhaps the best way to get college kids to step away from the needle.
Until then, I continue to recommend this piece by Joomi... Although it is encyclopedic, not a short read, the length is balanced by her calm delivery with links to calm people.
https://joomi.substack.com/p/i-was-deceived-about-covid-vaccine
I'm not sure the hippies' attitudes have much to do with it. Last year, Hayward Field (spanking new track& field stadium @ Univ of Oregon, Eugene) had separate entrances (Unvaxxed, Vaxxed) for the Olympic trials. SMH. I know they all allow for non-medical exemptions (at lease that's what PSU calls them). My issue is that they still post the false narrative on their covid pages, and are discriminating against those students who get the exemptions. I know of student athletes that are forced to get tested frequently, and not allowed to travel with their team, etc. It's a de-facto caste system. Oregon is not as bad as California where religious exemption was eliminated a few years ago, but all public universities are following frau Brown's dictates. Thanks for the link!
Amusing yet terrifying. We took the first two jabs because we were duped (and I am angry). We got COVID and it was bad, but we were back to normal in five days. My neighbors are double vaxxed and double boosted. They don't understand why they are still very sick over two weeks later. Yeah, they are vaxxed and doing just fine. At least they haven't been hospitalized.,
There's a meme going around that states:
all I'm saying is that if my dog got 3 rabies vaxxes in a year
and still got rabies, I'd be asking questions...
This article could be helpful, it's about relationships and dating for generation Z - very well written and I think also interesting for younger people. https://www.commonsense.news/p/generation-swipe
i always click the link from the email and read it in the stack
i do that too if it is in parts or incomplete. There are several stackers who do this
Thanks for asking; I’d really like to stop the emails clogging up my inbox as I prefer to read online; much easier on the eyes. I get notifications of a new post on the app.😊
I had to actually unsubscribe from one prolific Substack writer-not because I didn’t agree w/him or didn’t like his writing, but up to 5+ emails a day with his stream-of-consciousness outrage (rightly so) was overwhelming my already too full inbox. I am already struggling with keeping too many emails…..
Hmmm…Dr. Paul? He IS passionate!
I wasn’t going to name names…..😉
Yup, we all know who you're referring to 😂😂😂
Ditto, same person too. Oh well.
This gave me the idea to make a filter on Thunderbird to partition the mails I get from my substacks. I have so many it is overwhelming, lol.
You can turn off those notifications in substack if you don’t want them.
This. Oops. I guess I just did it to you, didn’t I? 😉
As someone else mentioned, you can turn off email notifications. It's nice that substack recently rearranged its web app, at least, to move the Notifications icon out from under the Account menu, so it's easier to notice.
There is an option in the app to disable emails (I assume for that very reason of clogging up the inbox)
Thanks; done!😄
I will check that! Thank you!
You can define a filter on your email client to put all substack email into one folder
Is there a way to not get the email notifications and just read via the app? I haven’t figured out how to do this…
In the iOS app, click on your profile, then settings. Under notifications there’s a toggle to pause email notifications.
Thank you!
In order to interact with the content -- to Like, or Comment -- one is redirected from the email back to the site anyway, so I voted for one email with a teaser (a wand toy??) and link included. Coordinated comments are a real benefit. Thanks for asking!
You can scratch messages in your litter box and I’m still going to read it.
Like a zen rock garden but with messages … and sand mines 😸
You could include a link at the bottom of the email to the substack to continue reading online.
all you have to do is click the title of article in the email and it takes you there immediately
Why does it take a male cat to point this out? :)
Tomsplaining... 😁
Do we know for sure it's a male cat?
We don't. My post based on my Cats assumptions, because I asked, and there's a 50/50 chance it is a male cat and she's willing to take that bet. I believe it's time to ask the person that posted the original comment to verify my cats superior catillect, or not.
And for those that don't realise that, send only a link in the body of the email
I'm just grateful for your writing, GM! My family has made a lot of changes in the last year - moving away from banks, growing our own food - and reading your messages (in whatever format!) keeps us strong on the path of ungovernability. Thank you so much 💕
Maybe disable comments on all but the last part if you post as several parts (I like to read the whole thing in email, but as others have said, I’m happy to read it any way you send it)
Suggestion to enable a good comment thread: break it up into 2 for sake of email but disable comments on part 1 - and remind subscribers of that
I voted ' I don't care'...not because I don't, but because however it is you do so, I'm going to claw my way to your post.
I'm wondering if I should get the app. Hmmm.
I will follow and read whatever you post and whatever format you post……you and your wonderful community have been a beacon of hope….LOVE BAD CATTITUDE!!!!!