First, to piss off the haters: No, we are not dead. Second, neither is the blog. It's merely paused. Third, no, we're not back yet either.
Additionally, we've made a lot of progress on alternative arrangements. And some other fronts. Huzzah.
But in flicking by here and doing a quick peruse, the lowest numbers sit around 2K visits/day. The average is several times more than that, most days, equaling what Gulag reported when we were contributing 1-4 posts/day, for a decade-plus. The peak interest was Christmas Week this past year, with multiple days at 50k+ visits/day(!), when a lot of folks were doom-scrolling the net, and the exact kind of daily numbers the Gulag's monkeys NEVER allowed to show up on our view count when we were contributing regularly.
Our conclusion is that, surprising us not a whit, Gulag continues to fornicate our daily view/visit count, only letting their efforts lapse when we're not showing up on some shit-minion's daily Black-Pilled Blogs To Fuck With List.
Which means we can probably take their reported views, and at minimum, assume that post-Trump, there should be a zero behind them, if the actual views were removed from the official Gulag Fuck With This Guy's Blog list. We're sure any number of folks, especially those on our right column Blog List, fall under a similar situation. IOW, we see you're still f**king with things, Gulag, but you're not fooling anyone. (We have literally been online and watched the count cycle backwards, in real time, like on Election Night 2024. They're that ham-fisted. For another touch point, the view count of this post shows 6 views in the seven minutes since it dropped. The blog's view count shows 2400 additional visits in the same time frame. IOW, people are visiting the blog, but not, y'know, reading the posts. Kind of like getting Playboy, but not opening it, like people did. Riiiiight. Said No One Ever. How To Tell Me Gulag Is F**king With Your Blog, Without Telling Me Gulag Is F**king With Your Blog.)
Which means we're winning, and it's still giving them a huge dose of redass, even when we're too busy to add anything.
This warms the cockles of our cold, green amphibious heart no end. Keep sticking it to the bastards. We shall return to the fray anon. And we humbly thank what is obviously an interested reader base in our current prolonged absence. You're not alone out there, people, even on shitty days in challenging times.
It's just that certain of TPTB want you to think you're alone. Take heart. You are not any such thing.
See you soon, we hope.
Best Wishes,
-A.
