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Community Was Always the Point
Somewhere along the way, we started treating it like collateral damage.
Courtney M 🇨🇦
Courtney M
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8 Things That Are Not the Same Thing
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The Substack Vortex: Year One
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Time For Life, E8 - Channeling Your Inner Peace
- What 2025 Looked Like from Inside My Browser Tabs
A Year in Open Processes, Background Noise, and Emotional RAM
- Axon & Flock Safety: The Quiet Expansion of Real-Time Surveillance Infrastructure
A systems-level look at two key real-time surveillance providers in North America.
- An Open Letter to My Nervous System
Proposing a gentle ceasefire until January.
- Opinion: World War 3 Doesn’t Look Like the Wars We Remember
On information warfare, Ukraine, and why this moment feels different
- The EU Has Frozen Russian Assets via Article 122 - What That Actually Means
We’ve all heard the great news this week about the EU immobilising (freezing) Russian assets to support Ukraine.
- Coffee And Tea With Lev And Dean
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Democracy, systems, business operations, and everything in between.
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- Community Was Always the Point
Somewhere along the way, we started treating it like collateral damage.
- Trivial Pursuits of the 80's
A recording from Courtney M 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 and The Rebel Crone (Shālah)'s live video
- 8 Things That Are Not the Same Thing
Critical thinking tips for surviving online communities (mostly) intact.
- The Substack Vortex: Year One
Like many questionable life decisions, my Substack journey started with curiosity and a single click. One year later, I apparently live here.
- Time For Life, E8 - Channeling Your Inner Peace
A recording from Courtney 🇨🇦 and Sick of this Shit Publications's live video
- What 2025 Looked Like from Inside My Browser Tabs
A Year in Open Processes, Background Noise, and Emotional RAM
- Axon & Flock Safety: The Quiet Expansion of Real-Time Surveillance Infrastructure
A systems-level look at two key real-time surveillance providers in North America.
- An Open Letter to My Nervous System
Proposing a gentle ceasefire until January.
- Opinion: World War 3 Doesn’t Look Like the Wars We Remember
On information warfare, Ukraine, and why this moment feels different
- The EU Has Frozen Russian Assets via Article 122 - What That Actually Means
We’ve all heard the great news this week about the EU immobilising (freezing) Russian assets to support Ukraine.
- Coffee And Tea With Lev And Dean
A recording from Courtney 🇨🇦 and Lev Parnas's live video
- A Letter To Our American Friends
With Love, from Canada
- Substack Alternatives... Just In Case
Exploring ways to keep our amazing community alive if Substack suddenly ceases to be an option.
- Creator Ops: Thinking Like a Business (Without Selling Out)
Creator Operations ~ Phase 1: Mindset (Chapter 4)
- 5 Roadblocks That Slow Indie Creators Down (and How to Clear Them)
Creator Operations ~ Phase 1: Mindset (Chapter 3)
- The Corporate Playbook for Creators: What’s Worth Borrowing (and What to Leave Behind)
Creator Operations ~ Phase 1: Mindset (Chapter 2)
- Spot the Scam: Staying Safe on Substack and Beyond
A practical guide for creators and community members
- Important Lessons Big Companies Can Learn from Indie Creator Communities
Creator Operations ~ Phase 1: Mindset (Chapter 1)
- Creator Operations Series Overview
Turning Chaos into Cadence for Independent Creators.
- Substack Ownership
Who really owns Substack? Mystery solved... sort of.
- Mental Reset: 4 Things to Distract from the Chaos
Images and situations from the past week that served to jolt me out of my self-induced doom spiral.
- Nightmare Fuel: Epstein's Birthday Cartoon
This illustration by an unknown artist is full of little details, and each one feels darker than the last.
- This Canada Day Will Be Extra Awesome
The Freedumb Convoy thought they could co-opt our flag for their MAGA fuckery. For a while, they were right, and it pissed me off.
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Democracy, systems, business operations, and everything in between.