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Disgruntlings reminds me that I had a scuba instructor who would tell people he was gruntled whenever he was in a good mood. His name was Bill, he had long hair, and he ate lots of Snickers bars.

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Yeah, it's gotten weird over there in Medium land.

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Oct 22, 2021Liked by Kristi

Medium? Oh yeah! That was a thing, once. It somehow imploded after they had this strange contest which wasn’t actually a contest. They dug up some random, gave her a shit tonne of money for a first time piece then watched long time writers fight each other in the Complaining Wars. It went on for ages until people either bored themselves to death or forgot to breathe in between complaints, or just wandered off to greener, more fertile and rewarding pastures elsewhere…. 😛

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Subscribed to Disgruntlings :) Unsubscribed to Written by Kristi. LOL. (I did not realize that this substack newsletter is for your Medium posts where I am reading yours.)

and yes #boos for Medium now.

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Yeah, I heard about that MWC thing, but had actually jumped ship before that (see why here: https://medium.com/eclectic-notes/i-abandoned-medium-and-this-is-why-d671d00824dc?source=friends_link&sk=8961e117b1e7a8d9b4d8694abdcb3996 ) . Will follow your new newsletter here on substack. I am very happy to be publishing here, now.

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Oct 21, 2021Liked by Kristi

Well...I enjoy being a sheep if it means continuing to follow you. And baa baa medium!

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Wait. What? What did I miss this time while ignoring Medium?

"go through hundreds of stories to remove the sign-up link for this newsletter."

For real? WTF is THAT about? (glad I have ways of staying in on your work!)

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Stay in touch. I don't know where to go with my writing so I'm still publishing on Medium.com but it's such a CF

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Definitely a shit load of drama.

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Hi Kristi-I take it your not writing anymore on your newsletter. Dang, I'm a newbie and was hoping to learn from you. Take care, God Bless!

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