Sarah Giffrow
@sarahgiffrow.bsky.social
Website designer/dev, Benevolent Overlord of @UpsweptCreative.bsky.social
I write about online marketing for bleeding hearts at theradicalmarketer.com.
BIPOC small business owner, costumed weirdo, barbell enthusiast, parent, roller derby ref. She/her.
I write about online marketing for bleeding hearts at theradicalmarketer.com.
BIPOC small business owner, costumed weirdo, barbell enthusiast, parent, roller derby ref. She/her.
What’s the point to LinkedIn newsletters? Well, don’t shut down your Beehiiv accounts or anything, but if you spend much time on LinkedIn, it could be worth playing with.
If you’re sick of having your content throttled by picky social media algorithms, LinkedIn Newsletters are worth trying out.
More here: https://www.theradicalmarketer.com/what-you-should-know-about-linkedin-newsletters/
More here: https://www.theradicalmarketer.com/what-you-should-know-about-linkedin-newsletters/
February 18, 2026 at 5:41 AM
What’s the point to LinkedIn newsletters? Well, don’t shut down your Beehiiv accounts or anything, but if you spend much time on LinkedIn, it could be worth playing with.
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
February 17, 2026 at 11:41 AM
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
Okay, who wants to pay their invoices today so I can get all the cookies from these kids and trans Girl Scouts
It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️
Troop 6000
www.girlscoutsnyc.org
February 15, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Okay, who wants to pay their invoices today so I can get all the cookies from these kids and trans Girl Scouts
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get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
February 13, 2026 at 10:28 PM
get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
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Happy Valentine's Day
February 14, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Happy Valentine's Day
I AM DEVASTATED 😭
Sheridan Fruit Co. In #Portland, Oregon, to Close After 110 Years stumptownsavings.com/p/portland-o...
Sheridan Fruit Co. In Portland, Oregon, to Close After 110 Years
Sheridan Fruit Company is closing after 110 years in Portland, Oregon. Get final hours, closure details, and a look back at this local food landmark.
stumptownsavings.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:06 PM
I AM DEVASTATED 😭
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This is an incredible photo.
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
February 12, 2026 at 2:49 PM
This is an incredible photo.
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That's 100% why I created leavesubstack.com -- got tired of re-hashing the points; wanted to make a simple 1-pager.
You Should Probably Leave Substack
You should probably leave Substack. Here’s why and how.
leavesubstack.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:54 AM
That's 100% why I created leavesubstack.com -- got tired of re-hashing the points; wanted to make a simple 1-pager.
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feels like i should re-post this every few weeks
NEW: Substack founders finally respond to Substackers Against Nazis. They say Nazis publishing and earning money on their platform is fine with them.
Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...
Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...
February 12, 2026 at 4:17 AM
feels like i should re-post this every few weeks
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They’ll no longer need to wear masks once we know their identities.
Small European Website Is Exposing US Immigration Agents via @theguardian.com ⬇️
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Small European Website Is Exposing US Immigration Agents via @theguardian.com ⬇️
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE List: the small European website exposing US immigration agents
Netherlands-based site uses public information and tips to reveal identities of agents involved in crackdowns across US
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:27 AM
They’ll no longer need to wear masks once we know their identities.
Small European Website Is Exposing US Immigration Agents via @theguardian.com ⬇️
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Small European Website Is Exposing US Immigration Agents via @theguardian.com ⬇️
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
I’ve had this conversation with coders—they feel like there’s an axe hanging over their heads, while I’m over here on the front-end and creative side feeling, if anything, *more* confident that I cannot be replaced
My friends who are in tech are getting destroyed by AI.
My friends who are established writers are like "bring it, Claude, I'll have your ass hanging on a flagpole by morning."
Just anecdotal, but still.
My friends who are established writers are like "bring it, Claude, I'll have your ass hanging on a flagpole by morning."
Just anecdotal, but still.
a lot of "AI hype" discourse makes more sense when you realize that a lot of initial LLM/GenAI hype envisioned replacing artists and PhDs, and its actual impacts have been much greater on coders and other tech workers
creatives/experts see "AI" as underperforming hype, techies see it overperforming
creatives/experts see "AI" as underperforming hype, techies see it overperforming
February 11, 2026 at 9:18 PM
I’ve had this conversation with coders—they feel like there’s an axe hanging over their heads, while I’m over here on the front-end and creative side feeling, if anything, *more* confident that I cannot be replaced
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NEW: Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, a 36-year-old LA protester, spent six months in jail accused of assaulting a federal officer with a *cloth hat.*
A judge tossed out the DOJ’s case, accusing govt of acting in “bad faith” and engaging in “prosecutorial harassment“ that could “chill lawful protest”
A judge tossed out the DOJ’s case, accusing govt of acting in “bad faith” and engaging in “prosecutorial harassment“ that could “chill lawful protest”
Case dismissed against LA protester accused of assaulting federal officer with cloth hat
Judge says US government acted in ‘bad faith’ in case of Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, 36, who spent six months in jail
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:40 AM
NEW: Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, a 36-year-old LA protester, spent six months in jail accused of assaulting a federal officer with a *cloth hat.*
A judge tossed out the DOJ’s case, accusing govt of acting in “bad faith” and engaging in “prosecutorial harassment“ that could “chill lawful protest”
A judge tossed out the DOJ’s case, accusing govt of acting in “bad faith” and engaging in “prosecutorial harassment“ that could “chill lawful protest”
How do we keep promoting ourselves when our neighbors are suffering, and bad news happens daily? I shared a few things that have helped me with it.
When doing something feels bad, but doing nothing feels worse, what should guide our choices in our online marketing?
More here: https://www.theradicalmarketer.com/how-do-we-do-marketing-when-everything-is-terrible/
More here: https://www.theradicalmarketer.com/how-do-we-do-marketing-when-everything-is-terrible/
February 10, 2026 at 5:33 PM
How do we keep promoting ourselves when our neighbors are suffering, and bad news happens daily? I shared a few things that have helped me with it.
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With Ring, American consumers built the surveillance dragnet. Ring's Super Bowl ad, which highlighted a feature to find lost dogs, showed Ring is still, again, and always will be in the business of leveraging its network of luxury surveillance consumers www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:45 PM
With Ring, American consumers built the surveillance dragnet. Ring's Super Bowl ad, which highlighted a feature to find lost dogs, showed Ring is still, again, and always will be in the business of leveraging its network of luxury surveillance consumers www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
I love that:
A) all of the roller derby community is just so danged proud of Erin Jackson, and
B) I have seen her in ads for multiple companies after watching just a few hours of Olympics coverage—girl is getting PAID and I am very here for it!
A) all of the roller derby community is just so danged proud of Erin Jackson, and
B) I have seen her in ads for multiple companies after watching just a few hours of Olympics coverage—girl is getting PAID and I am very here for it!
February 10, 2026 at 4:06 AM
I love that:
A) all of the roller derby community is just so danged proud of Erin Jackson, and
B) I have seen her in ads for multiple companies after watching just a few hours of Olympics coverage—girl is getting PAID and I am very here for it!
A) all of the roller derby community is just so danged proud of Erin Jackson, and
B) I have seen her in ads for multiple companies after watching just a few hours of Olympics coverage—girl is getting PAID and I am very here for it!
I have several in this thread 😆
Does anyone else have an MST3K line they use regularly, even if it makes no sense out of context?
Because I have both "That'll keep your panfish down for a while." and "Come come, boys, we must confound Jerry at every turn!" from MST3K the movie alone.
Because I have both "That'll keep your panfish down for a while." and "Come come, boys, we must confound Jerry at every turn!" from MST3K the movie alone.
February 9, 2026 at 9:54 PM
I have several in this thread 😆
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The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
They're Coming for Our Daughters
The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures
jessica.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:22 PM
The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
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time to remind everybody that the Super Bowl halftime show only exists in this grandiose fashion because a tv show called "In Living Color" stole the ratings from the NFL; the execs notoriously said, "get me Michael Jackson's agent" and thus began all the pomp
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘We stole the Super Bowl audience’: how In Living Color pulled off the greatest heist in US TV history
Turning Point USA is plotting its own half-time broadcast in defiance of Bad Bunny – but one of TV’s Blackest shows already perfected the alt-cast in 1992
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:40 AM
time to remind everybody that the Super Bowl halftime show only exists in this grandiose fashion because a tv show called "In Living Color" stole the ratings from the NFL; the execs notoriously said, "get me Michael Jackson's agent" and thus began all the pomp
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
VC, founder, dumbass
February 9, 2026 at 5:09 AM
I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.
The best time to quit Substack is a year ago. The second best time is today.
If you still have a Substack: WTF is wrong with you?
Article on The Guardian — from yesterday.
"Within two hours of subscribing to NatSocToday for the purposes of this investigation, the Substack algorithm directed the Guardian’s account to 21 other profiles featuring similar content."
Article on The Guardian — from yesterday.
"Within two hours of subscribing to NatSocToday for the purposes of this investigation, the Substack algorithm directed the Guardian’s account to 21 other profiles featuring similar content."
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:54 AM
The best time to quit Substack is a year ago. The second best time is today.
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I'm getting out of the hospital today and I could use some help, if you're able. Even taking the time to check it out or share means more than I can say.
gofund.me/1c96e422c
gofund.me/1c96e422c
Donate to Help Paul Allor Afford Life-Saving Insulin and Meds, organized by Paul Allor
My name is Paul, and I'm a comic book writer who has worked on some of … Paul Allor needs your support for Help Paul Allor Afford Life-Saving Insulin and Meds
gofund.me
February 8, 2026 at 6:41 PM
I'm getting out of the hospital today and I could use some help, if you're able. Even taking the time to check it out or share means more than I can say.
gofund.me/1c96e422c
gofund.me/1c96e422c