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some thoughts at the end about Cohost and what it's meant to me, but first, one more curated selection of the week's news for your edification and approval:




It's still a bit unreal to me that this will be my last weekly newsletter chost. I have loved posting here more than on any other social media site or blogging platform before, I think; things moved a little slower here, at a pace much more my speed. there always seemed to be space for thoughts, mine and others', to live and breathe and reach the people for whom they were meant. On other sites, work like mine rarely attracts much attention; here, many of you enthusiastically read, shared, and commented on it. It was easier to feel like my work mattered when so many chosties seemed to think so too. I didn't need numbers to keep this up, and I'm working on chasing those even less in the future.

I'm still working on what the next incarnation of this will be; a few folks said last week they'd like a true email newsletter version, and I'm becoming swayed. If I don't manage to get a signup form live this weekend, look for future updates on my site, SamanthaWrites.net / Samanthaistyping.neocities.org. I hope you'll join me there, but even if you don't, I really appreciate the support you've given me here. It has repeatedly reminded me why I love my career, and why I'll keep going -- hopefully for a long time to come.

as always, thank you all so, so much for reading tgirl journalism.


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in reply to @samanthaistyping's post:

Thank you for doing these! It's really sad and weird that this will be the last one on Cohost, and I don't know if it's fully sunk in for me yet.

I would be down for a true email newsletter. Another (not mutually exclusive) option might be an RSS feed? A decent number of folks (in my little corner of the site, at least) are making RSS feeds and setting up RSS readers to keep track of one another.