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You’re the best source of objective journalism to be found today! Thanks for enlightening us daily!

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Oh yay! I'm rounding up the 'best of' posts for my December newsletter, and will add this to the 2022 list. In the future, perhaps Substack can also do a year end "movers and shakers" type list, where you share the top 10 most subscribed newsletters in the network for that year?

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I LOVE Jade Rivera's new newsletter about cognitive diversity. Neurodiversity in K12 students is something we all need to know about in order to shape better educational options for our kids and the leaders of tomorrow.

https://jadeannriveraedd.substack.com/

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Wow! Thanks for this Resource! Will share immeadiately with my MANY MANY Educatior Friends in Several Countries: Sweden, Norway, USA, Bulgaria & Great Brittain!!.. Bless You!

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Yes please! Let me know how you like it. I have something coming out tomorrow that I think will explain a lot of what I'm after with this new substack.

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oh my goodness! Thank you, Manisha!

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My writer/comedian friend Nick Holland recently launched a Substack and his first post is about AI art. Love his writing style and perspective

https://open.substack.com/pub/newsflesh/p/the-ai-art-debate

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It’s really good! I saw them popping up but didn’t have the context so enjoyed reading.

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Shoutout to the Fifth Column podcast. Not a read but my best of 2022 https://open.substack.com/pub/wethefifth

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Thank you for the interesting fact based stories you offer. Merry Christmas to all

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I’m a big fan of Cafe Anne. Her recent post about two NYC bagel shops operating right next to each other was full of funny characters and I learned quite a lot about the bagel business too.

https://open.substack.com/pub/annekadet/p/spidey?utm_source=direct&r=1fqhx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Love Cafe Anne 🔥🔥🔥❤️

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Full disclosure: I'm the one who tipped her to the bagel story.

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Yes, Thanks Michael!!

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Really enjoy this list...especially the insightful and nuanced writing of @DanT.

Thought I'd share my most popular post of the year: an explanation why I will never, ever visit Channel Islands National Park: https://noonatthepark.substack.com/p/i-will-never-ever-visit

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The Reality of the Individual Life

by John Koethe

As one who thinks of poetry

As a way of talking to yourself,

I probably do too much explaining,

But that’s what talking to yourself is like:

The things you can’t explain to anyone

Are suddenly made clear to no one, as though

Nobody mattered but yourself. And it’s the same

For each of us, whether you’re listening to me or not:

An enveloping cloud of not-quite-language

Hovering on the verge of sense that puts you

At the center of a world that doesn’t quite get you,

But of which you’re part, a world in which

Each individual life is so completely ordinary

And at the same time so extraordinary it never ends

Until it does: each individual life eternity

In miniature; each life a world.

Yet here I am, lying on my bed

In the middle of the day, feeling the years

Tick by with nothing much to say about them,

As though I’m supposed to. That’s the point though,

Isn’t it? Without the sense of an individual self

Creating time and bounded by it, I wouldn’t be real,

I wouldn’t matter, nor would you, despite our

Sentiments and appetites and dreams. It’s how we

Differ from our animals, however much we love them —

Something you and I know, but Daisy, sleeping

At the foot of my bed, can’t know. Dream on, Daisy.

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I spend more time writing comments on others’ ‘stacks than writing posts. There is so much great writing on this platform.

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Thank you for curating great content that I might not have seen were it not for you. The diversity is mind-boggling. Amazing. Joining the Substack family has been the best single thing I've done this year. Here's to a great 2023 ... for all of us.

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Agreed. Amen. Love writing on Substack!

Michael Mohr

‘The Incompatibility of Being Alive’

https://reallife82.substack.com/

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When Princess Diana got to Buckingham Palace for the first time, she found Prince Charles Chasing, Gay Footmen around the Long Corridors; playing Grab the Gonads. The Head of Palace Security was openly Gay, and Diana promptly Sacked him. The Source for this gossip was one of the Palace Chefs.

Charles defended ,by letter , a Paedophile Scottish Bishop. Also He and Camilla have never had any Known Children; even though he "Knew" Camilla long before he met Diana ,and now they are King and Consort. He had William and Harry as an "Heir and a Spare" ; and Stopped when he had done his Duty.

When Harry met Meghan the UK Tabloids fell on Meghan like a Shoal of Piranha, because she was Coloured. Diana was murdered because she was in a Relationship with Dodi Fayed; a Cofee Coloured Egyptian.

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Appreciate the great year of curated reads & thank you for putting this together! It’s interesting that the top two (I know link guessing isn’t an exact science) haven’t posted since the summer. Not sure what that says about the challenges of writing a great newsletter (or if it says anything at all), but I found it curious because clearly those writers were getting a solid audience, at least on those pieces.

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I tend to spend time reading spiritual posts and commenting on them.Noone as of yet,has subscribed to my publication,"David's Newsletter."

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We have solutions to these problems if we want them. Transparency. Decentralization. And all of us collaborating back as problem solvers. https://joshketry.substack.com/p/worried-about-voter-fraud-lets-build

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