I like Richard Herring. Someone sent me a joke from him (Epitaph for the human race "At least we owned the libs.") looking like it was lifted from Twitter. I was a bit incensed he was still using it, but turns out he's not it was just an old joke. So I saw he's got a Substack (which I understand some people say is problematic) which signposts his Bluesky account. Look, I've spoken about Bluesky a lot. It's not for me. For a lot of different reasons I've been very vocal about. But I've mellowed a bit and for jobbing comedians who need a commercial'ish social platform, I recognise it's the best alternative to Twitter or Insta/Meta (although ironically not dissimilar to the point he makes in this blog about Starmer being the best alternative to the Tories). Anyway there's not much point to this but I continue to like Richard Herring and found this blog a bit interesting. Do we still say blog? Is this a blog? Am I a blog?

Twitter Marks the Spot - Richard Herring's Substack

https://richardherring.substack.com/p/twitter-marks-the-spot

Twitter Marks the Spot

Warming Up

Richard Herring's Substack
@TheBreadmonkey Warming Up is definitely a blog. It’s the bloggiest of blogs, born in the Blogtimes.
@TheBreadmonkey Warming Up is such a Peak Blog blog that you used to be able to buy books collecting it, because people were so into blogs that they wanted to hold and touch the blogposts and own them and imprison them in their bedrooms.
@Nickiquote @TheBreadmonkey Last time I was in hospital for a few days someone bought me a book of someone’s collected newspaper columns from over the years.
@BenCotterill @TheBreadmonkey I’ve had a few of those kinds of books by Jonathan Meades, Clive James and Charlie Brooker.
@Nickiquote @TheBreadmonkey That’s it. I think it was a Charlie Brooker one.