SocraticGadfly: Time to list a second round of Substack blocks

May 08, 2026

Time to list a second round of Substack blocks

This is an update to a piece from last November, about many of my early blocks .

And was sparked by a February piece by The Dissident about the Washington Post claiming antisemitism is behind many Epstein files comments.

One guy posted this Josh Who nutter. I'm not sure if he's antisemitic as well as anti-Zionist, but Josh dude is a generally unhinged wingnut and conspiracy theorist, as his Shitter showed. (He's blocked there, too.) I didn't block the poster. 

One guy posted the already blocked Paolo Kirk. Looking at his feed, Paul Haeder reposts him WAY too much; other things he says has him approaching antisemitism, at least, even if not going as fully over the line as Kirk. That said, when I checked his reads and saw David Irving? That was it. (He also follows the laughable — and conspiracy theorizing — Rainer Shea, the tankie from The People's Republic of Humboldt County.) Ars longior, vita brevis, and bye.

Bill Shannon, spotted on a Dissident piece a few days later. Reads both Hanania and Rufo. And Sailer. Foams at the mouth over "Bolsheviks" and is also a possible COVID minimalist. Bye. 

Paul, a general nut. I would accept his libertarian reads, but Milkshake Andy Ngo and others? Pass.

Lynn2C, wingnut enough to call the ConservaDem who beat Joe Kent a "Leftist." 

Celina101, a Gen Z "commenter on culture" who doesn't publicly disclose being an "alt-white Gen Z commenter." 

Fi666, who liked a comment of mine on The Dissident? Antisemitic, not just anti-Zionist, and some sort of cultural Christianist/decline of the West type. I was suspicious with the "666." Reposting shit like "Vaclav Havel is owned by Big Jews" is a giveaway. They're British anti-immigrant alt-White types.

They're actually neo-Nazi with this:

Jews need to be burned alive. None of this Zyklon B tickbath disinfectant lie. Proper extermination this time. Otherwise we're all fucked.

And this:

I'm glad there's no censorship on here. Except several stacks I follow/ subscribe to were coming up with only a restricted message for a while and won't even load now. So far I've noticed NatSocToday, White Rabbit, and most recently Ava Wolfe. I see a theme here

Shit. Gee, what is "NatSocToday"?

The person posting the Vaclav Havel bullshit? Gemma O'Doherty. Irish traditionalist Catholic, probably of Opus Dei type if not further right. Talks about "Holohoax" so antisemitic. And, yes, Tim O'Neill, that's still in many conservative Catholics' roots. On their personal website and an alleged newspaper, talk about the "Great Reset." 

SF Bay Area Local is a generic Trumptard, but also a MAHA, a generic antivaxxer and other such things. They're also Zionist and Islamophobe. Reposts many name Zionists.

A lesser-name Zionist, but also hard-right, if not full Trumptard? Roy Ben-Tzvi

Richard Jaffee? Garden-variety Zionist liar. 

John B? General fucking "anti-woke" idiot. Drinks MAGAts Kool-Aid,

CG? Generic antivaxxer and generic genocidalist wingnut. 

Now, that all said? Substack's blocking system ain't that good.

One person claimed that the person blocked can still see you. Taint so, looking at people who have blocked me.

That said, the biggest problem is, contra both Shitter and Fuckbook, it's one-way. If someone has blocked me, I can't block them back. 

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