quick housekeeping and a question

of stripes and bluebirds

first, the housekeeping:

stripe, the payment processor for substack is making a mess of bad cattitude renewals as they cross over the 1 year mark and the anniversary of many annual and founder’s subscriptions renew.

they seem to have seen a bolus of charges, gotten worried, and held up payment dues to some sort of fraud algo.

this is likely affecting many subscriptions and i am working with them to resolve it. no action is required on your part and we should have this sorted out in a day or 2.

how stripe cannot know what a substack is by now seems a bit puzzling, but what can you do?

thanks for your patience.

second, a question that will help me understand how to best disseminate content.

i know many of you also follow me on twitter, but also that many do not and prefer to avoid casa del bluebird.

i can certainly respect both positions but would like to understand just how the size of the groups breaks down and if it’s worth re-posting some short form twitter content here.

please let me know

and, for no particular reason, here’s a fun fact that i just learned to actually be true:

explains quite a lot about the last 3 years, no?