When you amplify a demographic, you amplify its worldview. On Notes, that worldview is unmistakable: neo-Victorian moralising in the language of neutral observation.
CrueltyA FIELD REPORT FROM BELOW THE ALGORITHM
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Substack markets itself as the anti-platform:
no algorithm, no noise, no distortion — just writers and readers in a civilised public square.
But spend ten minutes in Notes and you quickly realise the square is not a square at all.
It’s a curated veranda occupied almost entirely by a very specific demographic:
middle-class, American, comfortable, insulated — and loudly convinced their anecdotal experience is a universal truth.
The problem with platforms like X and Substack Notes is that they encourage you to perform. You write a comment hoping for likes. Discord is different. It’s a chat. It’s a messy, real, flowing conversation. It’s the difference between giving a speech and sitting in a pub.
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Art of FACELESS | artoffaceless.com | February 2026 We have withdrawn our image portfolios from Threads and Instagram, some from Tumblr, Mastodon, and Bluesky too (that were linked to Pinterest specifically). This is not a temporary measure. It is a considered response to a systemic failure in how social platforms are currently classifying creative work — and a refusal to have 14 years of documented creative practice misrepresented by automated systems that cannot distinguish between generated
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March 1st. St David's Day. Cardiff goes to Athens. While the rest of Wales is pinning Daffodils to their lapels and singing in the rain, we're doing something significantly weirder. The Hollow Circuit Book One — Official 2nd Edition — drops on Kindle. March 1st, 2026. From Athens. Specifically from somewhere in The Plaka. Maybe. Alt.Cardiff2026: ZINE GLITCH The new poster-format folding zine is here — bilingual, baby — English and Greek, because Alt.Cardiff2026 isn't staying in Alt.Cardiff
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