Update: Don’t Call it a Comeback

NinaIllingworth May 14, 2019November 17, 2022 Blogspot, Can't You Read, censorship, Don't Call it a Comeback, links, Media Madness, my writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, personal, Q and A, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Site Updates, site upgrades, Tumblr

Editor’s Note: I’ve been too burnt out/exhausted to write for a long time and I’ve got a lot to say, but this article is objectively bullsh*t and thus I’m going to try to keep it as short as possible.

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Starting with the elephant in the room – obviously, I have been away for a very long time; you can read more about it here if you like. Unfortunately, because we live in a rapidly deteriorating dystopia, the very act of missing eleven weeks worth of writing means that I have failed to comment on countless important stories (that I would normally write about here) except on my Twitter feed. As a result, I’m likely going to be forced into a number of posts like the one I’m hoping to publish later today: short bursts of analysis about multiple topics designed to establish my baseline position on a variety of issues. Naturally, the issues I’m going to focus on are the ones I don’t think are going away (cough: fascism, Pig Empire aggression towards Iran, the 2020 Democratic Party Nomination contest) and thus I’ll be able to extrapolate on these starting points eventually – it’s just going to take us a little while to catch up to that point.

I should also point out that my unwanted sabbatical from writing happened to occur at a time when I already have four or five articles anywhere between half and two thirds completed in my drafts folder; although I’m not going to prioritize these pieces, I probably will publish them at some point, once I manage to get back into the flow of things. In particular, I have articles about convicted billionaire teen rapist Jeff Epstein and the concept of “inverted totalitarianism” that I’d be heartbroken about simply turfing into the bin because I got sad and tired one long February afternoon ago.

In the meantime, I should note that I have in fact already been back in the writer’s lab and producing publishable work since the beginning of May. You can find my most recent articles on my Patreon Blog, Can’t You Read on Tumblr, and the all new Media Madness blog I started this month.

Why so many different websites? Well you can read more about it here, but the essential gist of it is that by spreading my writing across multiple platforms, I seem to leave myself slightly less vulnerable to online censorship and the “dimming” of socialist/left wing independent media among search engines – after all, if Goggle decides that “ninaillingworth.com” doesn’t exist in terms of its search rankings, nobody but you and I are going to care. If by contrast they decide to start fading Patreon, Tumblr and Blogspot sites supported by other massive internet corporations, there will be hell to pay.

Please be reminded that you can always get all the links to everything I’ve written on my backup Twitter account or the NinaDotCom Facebook page. Alternately, you can just wait around for our quasi-monthly Odds and Ends posts, which recap all of my offsite writing over a listed time period in one convenient, if not particularly timely, place – the next one is going to be a doozy.

Finally, I should mention that after harassing my domain provider, I’ve managed to get some necessary upgrades installed – namely, a PHP upgrade and an SSL certificate that now means ninaillingworth.com is accessed securely through https. Both changes should go a long way to speeding up the performance of the site, particularly on web phones. I apologize for the delay in getting this done, but I had been lead to believe those upgrades automatically occurred when I purchased the domain hosting and it wasn’t until a regular reader informed me otherwise that I realized what was going on. Things should be much, much faster now.

– Nina Illingworth