I am technically challenged when being offered new stuff – that is, and I think this is common – I fear change. I am going to continue to write on this blog, but I now have a Substack counterpart:
https://marktokarski.substack.com/
I am also on Twitter now, or X:
@MarkTokars6086
I ask now that any people who are interested in following me on either of those forums do so now.
I plan to do more with Substack than just regurgitate blog posts, but for now that is as far as I have progressed. My next step is to get comfortable with Zoom, and then self-promote using that medium. After that I want to bring in people to interview. Dave Klausler has already enthusiastically volunteered, telling me he’d be a boring interview. It reminds me of 1997 when I sat my mother and dad down to interview them on cassette tape. Mom especially did not think she would have much to offer. Fourteen single-spaced pages later, she had done a marvelous interview that I have since forwarded to all her relatives still with us.
But for now, baby steps. Go to Substack and X and sign up to follow. It will be much appreciated.
MT
Piece of Mindful 
Well good luck with these ventures, I’ll try to start following the substack and see how their comments work.. has to be better than wordpress I guess.
One minor issue with substack many have raised, and I agree, it seems to be a bit of a free speech corral.. get all the cool kids conglomerated in one place and keep an eye on em, haha.. not that wordpress is a small platform or anything but it sort of feels like not the current next big thing, which is nice in its way. But eh what can you do, probably doesn’t make much difference one way or another.
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I was asked by Substack to contribute .5%, 1% or 1.5% of any money I might make to fight climate change. I opted for 0%. And anyway, 1.5% x 0 = 0 anyway.
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At least the amount you wanted to contribute to climate change was optional. When I flew back from overseas into Newark, NJ in early 2022 all the credit card charging stations, at every store and restaurant, were charging an extra 3% for “COVID related sanitation” to keep the stations germ free. I call that the “mordita”, or “backsheesh” or “Sopranos New Jersey fund”. But that only occurs in “foreign” nations like parts of Asia or North Africa, we have no CORRUPTION in America!
bak·sheesh
[bakˈSHēSH]
noun
(in parts of Asia and North Africa) a small sum of money given as a tip, bribe, or charitable donation:”the children smiled back and asked for baksheesh”
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I just noticed the end of the quote. What a bunch of miserable misanthropes write stuff like this, children asking for a bribe. Absolutely ridiculous, children don’t ask for bribes, ass-hole government officials do for chrissakes.
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