I finally got around to enabling reader payments on my Substack, which involved creating a Stripe account (Hobson’s Choice apparently) and linking it to my bank account. Five of the 8 pledges were converted to actual payments, 1 was blocked and two are in limbo marked ‘incomplete’. The fee for receiving these payments is something like 12% of the gross payment. Nice work if you can get it Stripe/Substack. The Stripe dashboard is a nightmare to navigate and very confusing; numbers all over the place which are difficult to understand where they come from.
Then there’s Substack itself. They are telling me that I got 9 subscribers from my post on the Newquay beached fin whale, 6 of them paid, with an estimated gross annual income of $580. Wow. How did that happen? Turns out that five of those paid subscribers which that single post apparently generated are the pledges made from ages ago which have been converted to paid subscriptions! So they’re double-counting payments. Isn’t that what you call ‘creative accounting’ Substack?
Anyway, not impressed. Hopefully, the experience of researching, writing, publishing articles and then very gratefully receiving welcome donations from appreciate readers gets better as time goes on. And I’m not in the best of moods anyway today because the globalist shill lies in the media are really getting to me and try as hard as I might, I can never compete with those lies by exposing the truth here in my own little corner of Substack, banned even from Twitter/X and thus the possibility of promoting my work there to a wider audience.
Well, we all each have a unique MAC address for each phone, each computer, and data processing horsepower is cheap, so they already know who we are and where we are.... they only lack the will to register everyone and decide if we are worthy to participate on the internet. .
.
I once got banned from Google as I hacked their algorithms and posted web pages on their first 20 pages of that particular key word. The first 200 items listed were mine. Just showing off to some friends. They only banned my MAC address so I just mover to another server and behaved myself. Proof of concept stuff. Well, showing off... I did not do it for money. Childish.
.
They can do it whenever they wish... No-one will stop them.
.
Remember when William the Bastard became William the Conqueror and invaded Britain? 1066 with fewer than 10,000 men. and they spoke French in the British Court for 350 years. No one stopped him. I doubt if anyone will stop this invasion either so we will just have to make the best of it and look for opportunities as men and women have for thousands of years.
.
Survival of the fittest and all that.
.
Not the strongest, nor the fastest, maybe the smartest and we will always have the "Body and Spirt, Mind and Will, wildcards to play.
.
Some of us will always find our way home.
.
Jaime, are you considering offering swag like ‘stop a windmill save a whale’ tee shirts? 😉