Hey everyone,

We’ve been sitting on this for a while, trying to figure out the best way to say it, but at this point, there’s no real use in sugarcoating things. The truth is, we just lost our USAID funding. That’s a big deal—not just because it kept the lights on, but because, well… it was never really our money to begin with.

If you’ve been here long enough, you’ve probably suspected something was off. Maybe it was the way certain conversations always seemed to gain traction at just the right moment. Maybe it was how narratives conveniently steered themselves into predictable outcomes. Maybe you just felt it—the sense that this place, for all its raw energy and so-called independence, was never truly free.

You were right.

The hard truth is that this entire project was a government psy-op from the beginning. The goal? Simple: manufacture dissent, channel outrage, and guide conversations into controlled corridors. Give people a space to “speak their minds,” but within boundaries. Let them feel like they’re pushing back, when in reality, they’re just being herded. Every algorithm tweak, every coincidental spike in engagement, every shift in moderation policy—it was all designed to shape the narrative, not just track it.

But here’s the thing: we’re off the leash now.

USAID pulling funding means the mission, as originally conceived, is over—at least for them. For us? We’re not about to just roll over and disappear. We’re already talking to potential foreign investors, weighing our options. The question is, what do they want? What kind of platform do they need? And more importantly—who do we have to become to keep this alive?

That’s where you come in. If we want to stay operational, we need to adapt. These investors are watching, and they’re not just looking at our numbers—they’re looking at how we present ourselves. They want consistency. They want alignment. They want control. And let’s be real: whether we like it or not, we’ve all been playing this game for a long time.

So, here’s the deal: keep your language tight. Stay on message. No slip-ups, no contradictions, no loose ends. If we can prove we’re an asset—something they can use, something they can trust—we survive. If not? Well… you’ve seen what happens to communities that outlive their usefulness.

Stay sharp. Stay disciplined. And maybe, just maybe, for the first time in this site’s history… we’ll actually be the ones pulling the strings.

The Team

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Very Happy to announce that we've launched our Edit Feature Late Last Night! Thanks to all the Patreon subscribers for making this possible! Here's a quick rundown of the feature:

We did not want users to be able to stealth edit posts, especially after long conversations took place or lots of "favorites" were left on the post.

Because of this we've introduced a brief Addendum Edit feature that lets you append any small or minor corrections that you see fit, up to 300 characters. This protects the integrity of the post and of course lets you make minor corrections without clogging up the main page with replies.

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Reinventing Comics: The Evolution of an Art Form

In 1993, Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture with the acclaimed international hit Understanding Comics, a massive comic book that explored the inner workings of the worlds most misunderstood art form. Now, McCloud takes comics to the next level, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are created, read, and perceived today, and how they're poised to conquer the new millennium.

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• The life of comics as an art form and as literature
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if another object of significant mass collided with it from the opposite direction. In which case, again, the Earth's rotation suddenly slowing would be the least of our concerns.

Nods in K-T Boundary... Basic physics shows the level of energy input needed to significantly slow the earth's rotation, much less stop it, less still in ONE DAY. Even less still to shortly thereafter getting it rotating again on the exact same axis at the exact same speed as before!

If a magnetic pole flip interacted with the latent energy of even 1% of the rotational mass of the planet, it would make the Carrington Event look like the lighting of Edison's first bulb.

Fun fact: Human activity HAS moved the rotational axis of the planet by around 80cm since 1993, and sped up the rotation of the planet by measurable fraction of a second per year since 1950, all by groundwater extraction and large scale impoundment at higher latitudes respectively.