Wandering the realms of half-baked blogs on Substack in search of things to read, I eventually realized that one of the first things I wanted to know about a blog was that it wasn’t woke. Without this reassurance, there is no way I will read your blog.
Now there is a skill you can develop from scrolling through posts with unfamiliar titles. Mastering this skill means that, before long, you can usually get a good idea of whether a blog is woke. But I want to make things easy and straightforward for all of my readers here at Things To Read, so:
This is Not a Woke Blog.
No virtue signalling, no “current year,” no social-justice-warrior-adjacent postmodernism at Things to Read. If you’re not happy about this, no problem: you can go find some safe space to shiver in. Or if you’re feeling brave, you can try posting an argument or a complaint right here; I welcome comments from anybody who is civil and writes reasonably well. But good luck trying to convince me your wokeness makes any sense.
That is all. Enjoy!
The original title of this piece, which remained uncorrected for over a month, was "This is Blog is Not Woke." This is problem is editing. How is solve? :p
What are those red things on the pie? They don't look like apples.