CivWiki Newsletter for August 18, 2026

Hello and happy Tuesday from the Pacific Northwest!

Hello all, nice to see you again.

For those who don’t even know what this is, the CivWiki newsletter is (was?) a “newsletter” I used to run between 2022 and 2024/2025. With 130+ newsletters under my belt, it sometimes boasted epically long reads diving into current affairs and light analysis while providing an overview of the week’s activity on Reddit and Discord. While unrelated, Did you know that on desktop, there is a progress bar to make the read more palatable?

I have sort of been inspired by the news boom that’s happened recently to make a new one, but there are other external factors to explain why I’m back as well, which I’ll explain later. Honestly, part of me was writing again was solely to make the title “An Open Letter” joke anyway.

This newsletter contains information from July 15 all the way to roughly up until August 15 (with one exception). Are we ready to get to the news?

Featured

Featured Image

This edition’s featured image is a view of Mount Augusta’s colony in Zorweth. Even though this picture was taken less than a month from release, it still has a very expansive territory withing the country’s crater. While it doesn’t have its signature canals or voter tree yet, you can find the Mount Augusta flag hiding somewhere in there! Another great render from Jasonbord!

Featured Article

Norlund’s iteration on CivRealms was a constitutional monarchy constructed around 13 various cantons and territories representing various player groups across the server. Notably the most historically significant of their iterations, the country previous played in CivEx and TheRealmsMC. Early in its history was a constitutional crises and several secessions, however its primary significance came following the New World colonization, with the Northern War starting after Norlund’s takeover of colonies from Blackwater, who then allied with Yggdrasil to invade the country. They eventually reached an agreement, and became founding members of the Northern Defensive Pact. They eventually played a major part during the Great War of the server.

With its various territories, Norlund had many Civ groups under its umbrella. Although its capital canton Kannin was its population hub, it also hosted Tawa, known for its Great Tower; Veria, who had previously been on many servers prior to CivRealms and had its own unique governmental system; and the Vatican, with the cathedral of Saint Lucia being marked as a national monument. The country was one of the primary nations that were mentioned to newfriends, owing to its unique variety of both playstyles and build styles that made the country easy to be welcomed. While Norlund today has a CivMC iteration and influenced Acadia in CivUniverse, its alumni have played major roles in many countries across CivMC.

This week’s featured image is the town of Veria within Norlund. I didn’t pick Kannin only because this one looked the best out of the three I provided, sorry!

This Month In…

• 2022: The Generic War occurred, with several raids from Rhode Island occurring during this time.
• 2023: The Imperial Federation Secession Crisis occurred after an attempted coup d’etat and political party breakaway from its government.
• 2024: Pavia and Griffin announced they would be merging into one country; this would later form the basis of the Lyrean Commonwealth.
• 2025: The ASN-Lotus War kicked off, following rising tensions between Lotus members, Volterra, Kallos and later ASN.

The News

A little frog statue (that was worldgenned!) within a deep canyon on Zorweth (cr: limpoporeal)

One thing I’m going to do “differently” is to cut down on longer writeups, so a remnant of the “top 10” format will return for the “big stories”, where I’m at least going to limit those to a few paragraphs, and not going too deep into too many things.

A Whole New World

Although Zorweth launched at the end of June, its launch had a major impact on Civ affairs going into July. Zorweth was an attempt to do a server expansion without influencing the primary world at first. A number of nations created various coalitions to colonize the world together, usually aligned with their historical alliances (for example Pavia with their former Elysian Pact, Icenia & Yoahtl with the old ASN, etc.)

Many folks playing will know that one of the major blockers for inter-shard travel (besides the initial /pioneer rush) is “Research”, which challenges players on Main to finish a series of Factory runs in order for any player to transit between then — many players are aware that Stage 2 is taking a very long time, where it’s barely a quarter of the way through at the time of writing (~3k/12k runs needed)

Although I don’t have particular evidence for this fact, it seems many players who chose to pioneer have not particularly take a part in a Civ start of the world before — which is typically very grind-heavy to set up the necessary infrastructure, even more so in Zorweth where it is even trickier due to its mechanics. Posts continued up to my research cutoff that have complained about the slow research and grind needed to get materials, but some have had genuine appreciation.

Backlash got bad enough that zenron_, one of the newest admins, rolled back a “controversial” change that actually reduced Research quota, since that the change would reduce the amount of players that could get cosmetics; however the slow incentive to research in Main has considerably slowed research, making the lack of connection and participation in Zorweth even more agonizing. However, there is some culture arising naturally within the shard, such as its own newsletter from CivMini spokesperson DutchCringe.

You’ve Got Mail!

Night falls on the new Central Library of Azora. (cr: OldEraStory)

An Open Letter to the CivMC Administration

ReplacementDry774

What's Inside?

On July 23, u/ReplacementDry774 posted a long essay that criticized the CivMC administration for its handling of player culture on Civ, framed as an open letter.

• Among its many points was alleging that CivMC has been preventing the playstyle of other ideologies. Some of its arguments criticized the sweeping punishments for “racism” and “extremism” were creating a more toxic environment for Civ.
  • This point in particular received considerable backlash. The most upvoted comment from MagickPonch responded saying it was better not having to worry about these kinds of things as an average player and that the community feels a lot better without it. Many of the following comments continued the same sentiment.
• What I personally think was a more valid criticism was that the moderation standards were too broad and ill-defined.
• Outside of this, the post also discussed unfair treatment, the association banlist and admin intervention in wars. The post mostly focused on the direct consequences of these actions, but comments did note that many of these incidents seemed mis-characterized. Actions that stemmed from these concerns (such as the end of the Generic War) have still are hot-topic discussions to this day.
• It is worth noting many comments agreeing on the post were either banned or otherwise outcast from the CivMC community for reasons previously described. The reaction from other alternative Civ servers had messages that also expressed disdain for the CivMC community around this time.

While I could write a significant amount of followups on criticism here, (ed. note: Just simply looking at the history of civgen is enough), I’d rather not get into this. You could deep dive on this issue into any number of possible angles, and while I personally believe some points can be valid, a number of these are not. You’ll also see the “Memes” section later on that a number of shitposts followed which criticized this post.

Published responses obviously still occurred, notably the Civ Standard’s back-and-forth coverage here, but I won’t pretend to know everything regarding this conflict. I have mostly laid out the argument and general criticism of said argument, but dive into the posts to continue if you so choose.

Non-CivMC servers

The Theater Plaza on Dunespire, on EdenMC (cr: JimYTheBuilder/LeddInShed)

What happens when you let 6500 players run a server?

TTastic

A peek from the non-CivMC side of Civ

Tangentially related to the previous conversation is that a number of new servers have, for lack of a better word, a higher market share of Civ players to challenge the mainline CivMC. Let’s just get a quick read of what’s going on.

• CivMC still remains the top dog mainline, even four years(!) after its release. Interestingly, at the time of writing, it’s only about 80 days away from overtaking CivClassic as the longest-lasting iteration. It still maintains a solid lead as the Civ server with the most players, scoring a good 120 at peak.
• EdenMC, while does not particularly regard itself as a Civ server, most folks on Civ understand it as such. (ed. note: We had a long discussion about this on CivWiki, but we ultimately included it on our list.) Recently, I saw a big post that had 21k updoots on r/gaming. While CivMC still consistently beats Eden on player counts, Eden’s playercounts consistently scoring upper 20s on late nights does feel pretty good, and it’s fostered a solid community out there and seems like a healthy 2nd place.
• CivNodes is a newer player in the space, by the same dev team that launched CivRev and CitadelPvP (but not CivPVP, which is distinctly different). However, the playerbase isn’t anything to scoff at yet, it has been receiving traction. CivNodes has recently been advertising as well, including this one on r/minecraft (ed. note: which fell to the classic failure of “don’t explicitly advertise your server on r/Minecraft”).
• Civ+ has always been in the conversation for a while, and despite its recent release, and a devoted fanbase and wiki editing spree there isn’t a whole lot of traffic from what I know? It is more of a passion project that hosts players, but I think that does make a more passionate community, for better or for worse. (Interestingly, it technically has lasted longer than CivMC, if you counted its continuous beta.)
• There is also FortressMC, however I haven’t had time to really explore this server as much.

Many newcomers (not from personal experience) will often find “Civ” servers from events and YouTube videos like Ish’s and commonly come here, so it is really funny seeing a noticeable spike after every video that has “1000 v 1 PLAYERS IN the BIGGEST civilization server in Minecraft”.

Most readers do know this newsletter as pretty much the “CivMC” newsletter, and that’s because it’s where I have the most knowledge of its history & players. However, I am rooting for the success of Civ servers as an entire genre, because I think this genre is an incredibly unique MMO. (ed. note: After all, that’s why I came back right?)

Vacation Time!

A cyberpunk-esque opening in the middle of Montefiore, Cortesia Del Mar (cr: me).

Tales from Cortesia Del Mar's Evil Evil Insider

Oko

Can't I take a vacation?

On July 25, Yodabird made a post announcing that following a supposed sabotage, Cortesia Del Mar is now open to visitors again following an impressive effort to reclaim all internal discords, NameLayer groups, and reinforced blocks. In doing so, they had claimed that Oko had ceased all contact following their resignation from the government, and were deemed pearl on sight. While this effort was certainly impressive, a number of comments were a bit skeptical of this effort, noting that Oko had been an upstanding member of the community.

Later that week on the 29th, Oko then made a post in response, and claimed that they had been avoiding contacting CDM following their resignation. One of their points was regarding a disagreement over “the…early preparation of a large [20-ring] Cortesian vault [where] it occurred to me how frustrating this hobby had become”. It was also notable 4 other Cortesians left at seemingly the same time.

Oko had pointed out that they gave their phone number to CDM in the past, but nobody attempted to call. (Yodabird explicitly mentioned they only attempted to contact through Discord.) Oko arranged for a proper transfer of the assets they owned with Icenia, but also harbored no malintent and found it puzzling being deemed pearl-on-sight. Many comments were critical of CDM over a disagreement on vault construction, especially one as large as was accused in the post, along with the rash decisions made during this time.

This kind of behavior interestingly does not seem new. I recently stumbled on a post from OreStraya regarding CDM claims overlapping within Nara being overblown, completely unrelated to this drama but tangentially related to his meme post.

Content Boom

Normally, I would put this as part of “Cool Content”, but I think there is a wealth of such good video content recently that I think it is worth separating into its own section, as well as providing some positivity into this writeup.

The Greatest Minecraft Civilization Experiment You've Never Heard Of

BananaBlu, Not90, et al.

Is this clickbait?

A Generic™ Start | A Brief History of CivMC | 2022

Lokilog

Wow, this is generic!

A couple of videos have come out recently that have gotten a lot of traction within the Civ community. Interestingly these videos both chose to cover the exact same thing, the Generic War, which dominated 2022 Civ geopolitics. That being said, I think there is merit to both of these videos and they both present the war very well.

• BananaBlu’s video (top) has way more events and context if you are looking for a more interesting historical and event-by-event deep dive into the war. The storytelling & scripts are top-notch, not to mention the animation, player & map graphics within it. I have actually seen some newfriends get recruited as a part of this video, and I have a feeling this video might be a slow burner on YouTube.

• While Lokilog’s was also good and does a good job setting up the server history, he has told me he relied on my newsletters for research which I feel is only good enough as Wikipedia; however the presentation is also amazing, the heavily inspired Jon Bois/BobbyBroccoli Google Maps style is still a great way of visualizing history across the server.

As CivMC is also having a trailer competition, I’m really interested to see what kinds of talent everyone on Civ has been hiding, because recently the videos are so interesting.

To Catch an Alter (on CivMC) | CloudGucci

grant.wellson

Real investigative journalism type shi

[CIVMC] Alt Veteran Reacts to 'To Catch an Alter'

MissionQajar

Me when I react to your reaction

While we’re on the topic of creating videos, I have to also give a bigger shoutout to this pair of videos, the first of which weaves an incredible, well investigated exposé on finding an alt from both Zorweth and Main; while the production is not as particularly impressive as the previous two, the narration and the story just kept me glued to the screen for this one somehow.

Interestingly there is also a reaction video from MissionQajar which is also interesting in itself as well analyzing how this all came down as well as offering some critiques, but at the end of the day I’m genuinely impressed that he’s impressed.

Since this is news as well, Exyria also responded condemning the actions of Kali & Milevsky, stating that they did not know of their history following their entry after the Ravencrest/Paradis war.

The Advocate's July Issue

Bronnakus, et al.

Including QuantonBiscuit Interview I chose not to cover

And while we’re on the topic of journalism, it is worth noting a number of newspapers have also sprouted up or revived within the past month, vastly increasing the amount of news coverage across the server. This is including but not limited to, The Civ Standard, The Diamond Chronicler, The Advocate, the aforementioned Zorweth-specific Schizo Post, and the Yoahtl Times. What’s really nice is that the level of quality has noticeably increased in the past year from what I see, and for the most part worth reading.

Being the only news outlet on CivMC for years at a time, I think it is very nice much more localized sources are out here, (ed. note: and honestly, allows me to outsource my job a little bit!)

Around the Server

Outside the mountain entrance to Zirakdum in the Lyrean Commonwealth, (cr: Walleyefish)

As usual, this section is for quick rundowns of Reddit posts and other notable announcements. I will also remark that this section is looking at posts from July 15 to August 15. However, I won’t pretend this section is exhaustive; I likely will have gaps as I am not looking at Discord announcements as closely anymore (nor am I not really covering any changes in heads of state, unless particularly drastic). Reddit’s always a much more effective means to get your voice out, where the community isn’t as fragmented.

Substantial News

• Over 200 brews were leaked following a post on Reddit by lalibo, enraging a number of brewers who both depended on and enjoyed discovering these recipes. Although there was no particular expressed motivation (especially considering lalibo has since quit), bounties had been set as a result of his post. Some brewers expressed some positivity following this release, hoping that this would not deter new brewers from entering the space.
• Azuziii was pearled by BritishWanderer in Pavia following a dispute on pricing and bans in mid-August. Azuziii has had a history of not following general economic etiquette on the server, which resulted in a large bounty being put out prior to this point. After a number of Pavian officials sold through all its inventory, Azuziii had secretly blacklisted a number of Pavian officials. Azuziii was later released but banned from exchanges and released.
  • Azuziii would later be pearled August 17 by the Okkinok Mercenary Group (OMG) within Zirakdum. While their pearl has been passed off to JeyHey, the bounty of upwards of 4k diamonds was not been entirely fulfilled. Icarus asked for the pearl but was rebuffed, and a small conflict occurred in Nara as JeyHey fled there initially for safety, before temporary settlement was reached.
• An upstart sect called the Jundgara Liberation Front attempted to forcibly take land from the Temporal Empire in early August, however they were quickly pearled; their sentence is being set while the leader, Ro_Por_Go has expressed remorse for their actions.
• Following the Open Letter, Icenian president ChrisChrispie’s account was banned by Reddit after creating a satirical post that criticized the Open Letter. (ed. note: I can no longer find the post with the content unremoved.)
• Aleria was raided by Vestara in early August, although it has been suspected that it was because of their Melonist beliefs, the raiders are still at large.
• A coup d’etat occurred in Aequoris-Ashin in late July after dictatorship-like rule from 8donis within the country forced regular citizens of the country to take action.

Other Happenings

• Exyria announced ThereWalker would replace butter_villager as the “Right Hand of the Empress”, the number two position in the country. (Courtesy of the Advocate)
• The International Hockey League announced Season 2 of the IHL, following a very successful Season 1, hoping to expand the slate of nations, find new sponsors, and an create an international cup, among other proposed changes.
• The Knucklebones League Season 2 is traveling across the server, most recently the fifth of 29 weeks traveling to Woolhaven.
• After a tight race with four primary candidates, PureMaster was elected as the latest chancellor of the Lyrean Commonwealth; additionally Amber205 was elected as the newest Duke of the country.
• Monument Bank opened up public API access to its bank services for the first time, after significant development efforts.
  • Additionally, Aequoris and Voldi are receiving new Monument Bank branches.
• Meanwhile, Starboard announced the acquisition of Lyrean Rail, along with a restructure of stock to incentivize more active investment from the ETF’s management team, which included a 10:1 stock split.
• Gabon and Westmore has introduced a web UI to show their vast stock to be sold, with a wide variety of options.
• The World Football Federation Association announced its creation hoping to create a Civ-wide football league off the heels of the IRL World Cup
• The Commonwealth launched a new government structure in mid-July, along with a new body into its House of Commons in early August.

Metagame Highlights

Besides the things I mentioned above…

• Who is most well-adjusted on Civ? Perhaps nobody (including me).
• If someone famous joined the server, I think we would do the same thing as what we did with Joyfuul one year ago. (ed. note: Oh my god, it’s been one year since Joyfuul joined the server…)
• SQOpenSpellbook published the results of the second Great People of Civ poll, inspired by the Sid Meier’s games, including a rendering of the first ones
• I legitimately did not know Palantir was going to be what “Snitches” were called.
• CivPVP has also introduced a trailer competition like CivMC, giving a cash prize of $25 to advertise their second map.
• I do think it is worth calling out whether this server/genre can be toxic. Obviously, this newsletter doesn’t always put Civ in particularly the best light, but I do personally try to put a lot more positive news where I can. That being said, let’s move on to the fun stuff…

The Fun Stuff

The docks at Brunsvik, Salerno (cr: luminous15)

This section is always for primarily highlighting non-news stuff that gets less coverage, mainly builds pictures, great Civ content like videos & art, and everyone’s favorite memes section which is always busy.

Builds & Photography

Here are the pictures I used for this week’s editions:

• Literally the picture for this section, the docks at Brunsvik, Salerno created by luminous15
• Already glazed this enough, but Jasonbord’s renders of MtA never get old)
• Zirakdum in the Lyrean Commonwealth), I personally think this is what Dalgon should have been (cr: Walleyefish)
• While I admit it was hard finding good Eden builds in the public discord, this one of the opera house was really good from Dunespire’s JimYTheBuilder and LeddInShed.
• Caldora used to be nothing more than a little newfriend town in Pavia but I am very glad that in the months I’ve been away, it has grown to be much more and look genuinely amazing, the picture looks great thanks to CaptainAxe5.
• I have a soft spot for weirdly colored roofs that integrate within their build style very well, so I have to commend the new Azora library to showing off something that works really well from OldEraStory.
• I wanted to get a picture of Zorweth that wasn’t previously seen, so I have to really appreciate this deep canyon on Zorweth along with a nice little frog to boot from limpoporeal
• I do find it impressive how much got changed with Montefiore when I last visited the country nearly a year ago

Here are some other highlights I found:

• The pale forest looks really good on Zorweth
• Meanwhile this area of untouched nature looks really beautiful from the lens of CapybaraLove90
• I never admitted Dubrovnik in TE was in “slums” but I know I am a sucker for colorful row house palettes
• I’ve seen this in person located outside of Zirakdum/Cape Cocoa but I don’t know what it actually is. But the color palette and winding streets make this a joy to look at from Pikachu17Tim
• Aurilles in Melvera does look quite striking from the sea with both the lighthouse and castle overlooking the city below, thanks to nullDorito for this one

Cool Content

Here are some of the most recent trailers, incidental or deliberate, created specifically for CivMC not highlighted above:

• The Quest for Soup
• I would consider this a really good video for someone returning to Civ
• I guess this Wii Sports Resort parody is technically a trailer, so I think I have to put it here
• I don’t think this particular trailer has much to do with Civ but it is at least well photographed
• Civilization Minecraft? More like Civilization Minecraft

Otherwise, here are a number of other things I found really cool:

• It is crazy how much NullDorito has designed in the year he’s been here, some of the most iconic logos on Civ has been designed by him
• I do like the quality of this map of the Meridiem Entente from lolle0, but I also find it quite funny how good the map is, but the key is created by hand in MSPaint
• It is rare that we get a real “analysis” post but AzureMC’s post is super indepth on the impact of wind charges in Civ
• I didn’t know Dr_Bacon_Hair did pixel art but it is very high quality and detailed, their portfolio is very good
• I have to commend the effort put into this art depicting a raid in Apoland from Varbo
• Ok, this is an awesome recreation of an IRL painting in a Civ context, this is actually pretty well done from _Excalibur

Memes

Icenia’s international underground train station looking straight out of 1960s architecture. (cr: me)

• While I always appreciate a good CivMC slander from MtFuji, let alone the 10th, is it bad I noticed this has the same react pics as before? (ed. note: The only reason I noticed is I pride and treasure the entry influenced by me in Slander 7)
• Have we maybe considered research is a waste of time?
• Why did Shadno get nominated for Great Artist, are we blind??
• I didn’t know that Civ raps are still in vogue… especially one against Soren. I guess nothing has changed in a year…
• An Open Letter to the CivMC Administration:
  • …please let me change my username
  • …please let me be racist
  • …please let me send you a letter, maybe
  • …please decrypt this letter
  • …please open this letter
  • …please… oh nvm hope you’re having a nice day
  • …please figure out this is a letter
  • …please consider this consideration
  • …please accept this Trojan Horse, nothing will go wrong at all
  • …please don’t tell us a traumatizing story
• DO NOT ⛔ APPROACH 🚶 TOONTASKER, WHATEVER YOU DO
• A couple of poems to ChrisChrispie, Joldi, and Frank the Frog
• Me when my lymph nodes become too big
• “it’s a feature not a bug”
• Definitely not vault scientists coping (ed. note: this is actually a pretty good Backrooms edit from Trubactor)
• This “Gang Shi”… “thing” is borderline good content (along with this one), but the edit is so bad it belongs here
• This is a nearly 3 minute meme on Zorweth entry for Apollos…
• Did you know that my return to your return post is a piece of paper that says nothing?
• Danzilona newfriends jumping into a vault? That’s just every newfriend
• We all know Gantoe_ is running for mayor in MtA as always, but the real question was Gantoe the MtA bone collector?
• A message from the “Wipe a Nation” horse

Non-Civ Content

This section is just filled with completely unrelated things that have nothing to do with Civ. Oldfriends may wonder why this section was ever here as a regular staple. I previously included this because writing these can be really stressful and/or boring, and this is a respite for me to keep myself entertained.

• white girl dj music for the boys — this is my current soundtrack as I’m writing this
• This is a 15-year-old mime of Hit Me Baby One More Time and it is now living rent-free in my head
• How fortunes change in one year, because I am rooting for the Red Sox, after they catapulted themselves from last place and into the last wild card for the playoffs, so I’m really happy for them (if the Mariners can improve then maybe I will have hope for them.)
• SpeedyJustice has created a new discord specifically for Civ friends on games that aren’t Civ — and where you shouldn’t be discussing Civ at all!
• I think I’ve been to Brunswick, Maine before…

Additionally, a shoutout to Gearhouse in Seattle that powered me through a final draft.

Poll of the Week

A view of Caldora, Pavia. You know I gotta put in my boy Pavia! (cr: CaptainAxe5)

This section was dreamed up as an interactive section, and was always a staple of the newsletter since its introduction. Normally, the results of the previous poll would have been placed here, prior to the place where you respond. However, the only question I previously asked in October 2025 was a nation census, which would have been pretty inaccurate (and also past my data retention policy).

You don’t have to submit anything if you don’t want to, however my general policy is that all answers are anonymous (it makes it easier that way.)

What’s Going On?

Commonwealth’s capitol during the CW-Azora friendship day.

For long-time readers, you may be wondering why there even is another newsletter in the first place, 10 months after the previous one, (even after I was famously publicly complaining about it for a number of months).

Part of it is to be able to flex some creative muscle that I used to have, but no longer utilize as much as part of my IRL work. For a long, long time the newsletter was my way to express this. But after I’ve taken a self-imposed hiatus from Civ, I sort of wanted to prove to myself I can do something relatively creative again. (The recent trend of new or revived newspapers certainly helps, though).

But one thing should be clear: this has never been an AI project, and purposely so — I feel like the personal aspect of this newsletter has been one major piece of why this is successful. These are all human words I’ve written, and folks know I make typo mistakes on writeups often. I don’t want to fall into the Hank Green loop of “I want to make too much stuff and I’m convinced it is possible”, because then that becomes a crutch for AI to write this newsletter. I’ve already admitted I can’t do everything, but I know that AI cannot be part of the equation of a newsletter.

Honestly, I got so frustrated last night trying to fix something on this website, I tried to use AI to fix an issue and battled it for 3 hours instead. Maybe, just maybe I thought “hey, maybe if I actually thought for myself, I wouldn’t have been stuck chasing rabbits”.

Now, I am not committing to any schedule, and there are no promises of another newsletter, but this was also to prove to myself that if I can do this, I can still work in a creative capacity. Maybe this is a one-off and you won’t see me on Civ again, but I wanted to at least prove to myself I was still capable of doing this all this time.

I think that’s all I have to say though. Usually this last section is just a brain dump of thoughts and I am glad people can appreciate reading through my rambling of random thoughts. I know this institution has had a major impact on Civ news, let alone Civ for a long time, and over the months since I’ve gone, I deeply appreciate all the kindness even months after the newsletter “ended”. You don’t appreciate what you’ve left behind until you’re gone.

While I haven’t been running ads, if you’re interested in sending me a blank check or just donations, I can accept them at HS-NEWS in Monument Bank. If you care about sending me IRL money (like some folks have expressed in the past) — I wouldn’t, go send it to a cause that’s actually worth it.

Until the next one(?), you can always find me…

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