5k Subs Milestone: Thank You, And What's In Store

Some big updates for the blog.

Greetings all, I wanted to mark the milestone of reaching 5,000+ subscribers and give a big thanks to all of my supporters who made it happen, and a few blog updates.

So firstly:

Thank you!

Your support means a lot, and the meteoric rise of the blog was very unexpected. As many of you have pointed out and sent to me in messages and emails, our reports here have appeared on a variety of larger syndicated networks. We’ve been featured everywhere from Larry Johnson’s Sonar21, to Mark Wauck’s ‘Meaning in History’, to Alexander Mercouris’ Podcast, and even the front page of The Gateway Pundit, and probably others I’m not aware of. And it’s all thanks to many of you more prolific readers and regulars of all those other top sites, who continue to share my work there. I see many of you famous ‘regulars’ from the Saker comments section, MoonofAlabama, and many others, and it’s like seeing familiar old friends in the corner pub. It makes the world feel smaller, and more connected—in a good way.

As many of you now know, or have figured out, I am in fact Nightvision from TheSaker blog. So for those of you who’ve found me here, I’m glad to have you back as readers. Oddly enough, when I started this blog I hadn’t yet known that Saker was planning on closing his, and it was on one hand a strange bit of synchronicity, as a reader aptly put it—when one door closes, another opens.

However, I do think it’s more than simple serendipity or magical ‘coincidence’. In fact, it seems the same culminating critical mass and crisis point of the SMO led to both. In Saker’s case the ‘point of no return’ of the situation appears to have led to his decision, and in my case the sense of great coming escalations led me to open the blog because I sensed another voice would soon be necessary to help distill the chaos-field of information/disinformation.

Of course, that’s not a slight on Saker; he put in decades of invaluable work to this field. And to see it all come to naught with the type of lunatic, eschatologically self-destructive escalations currently developing would be enough to dismay anyone into hanging up the gloves.

p.s. you can still find the Nightvision archives here. However, they appear to have all the media/attachment/photos stripped. I have the full copies backed up and do plan to upload them as archives either here or somewhere else in the future. But for now, if anyone wanted to reference just the text versions, they’re still at that Saker link.

edit: wayback machine seems to have the un-altered archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20220704125400/https://thesaker.is/tag/nightvision/

Not to toot our horn, but to this day this one particular article remains essential reading, as no one else has covered the important Moskva flagship sinking with the depth that we have—nor to this day does anyone else appear to truly understand what happened to the cruiser, which we already revealed long ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20220707112421/https://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-11/

Operation: Full-time

The other big announcement is, because of the overwhelming success of the blog thus far, thanks to your patronage, I’m making an attempt to transition full-time into doing this. As many of you know, I run not only the Bitchute channel where I have uploaded over 8000 videos to date since the start of the SMO—yes this equals to over 20 per day, 365 days a year, with full commentary, etc. But also a backup Odysee channel and now recently a Twitter as well.

To manage all of these while also writing long-form, on a consistent basis here and doing my other bread-winning side-hustles is not possible. I could write more sporadically here, but I want to commit to as regimented a schedule as possible, with the same regularity of articles and reports I’ve managed to maintain so far. The goal is to be able to consistently release at least one publication per day, be it Sitrep or longer, researched works—at least for the foreseeable future.

So I’ve opened up the payments and many of you have already massively supported with paid Pledges, to which I’m eternally grateful. But to fully transition to doing this fulltime would require more. That’s not to put pressure on anyone, as I’m already more than happy with the Pledgers thus far—however it’s merely a soft call for anyone who might’ve been on the fence, that I would greatly appreciate the financial support so I can truly commit to this full-time.

And with that said, I’m also now opening a Tipjar by way of BuyMeACoffee.com - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Simplicius

This is for those who understandably don’t want to commit to the standard monthly payment scheme built into Substack. If you wish to just ‘tip’ me once, or from time to time, or on the basis of merit for an article you particularly enjoyed, then you can do so via this link: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Simplicius

Future

I’m currently outlining some plans for the future of this blog, which includes expanding it into other topics/genres as well. I have many other things to say which are adjacent to, or overlapping with political/geopolitics/military. So I plan to slowly start rolling out some testing feeler articles that revolve around such topics as futurism/transhumanism/contemporary-thought/technology, etc.—particularly things more off-kilter, and maybe experimental. But worry not, this here will still be the priority—I simply plan to experiment with other related thoughts from time to time.

In fact, I’ve started a new subdomain which is still under the umbrella of my main account here, but it allows me to keep the two separate while also redesigning the ‘style/look’ of the page:

I believe that all current subscribers will already be auto-subscribed (if I choose the option) onto any publication sent from that subdomain, however if you’d like to subscribe to it just in case, then feel free to do so. There’ll be something coming there very soon and it will be …interesting.

I’m also open to ideas, particularly requests from paid/Pledged members, so feel free to message/email me ideas/requests you might have.

Also, speaking of Pledged members, I do intend to somehow reward you, but have to think of some perks. The standard method Substack gives us, as you know, is by ‘paywalling’ an article. But I don’t want to paywall the mainstay Sitreps/analysis ones, as those are meant for the largest reach possible to spread pertinent info. But I will come up with something in the near future which will be for paid members only. I just want to do it in the least intrusive and ‘aggressive’ a way as possible, as I myself have sometimes experienced a feeling of almost being insulted when unceremoniously slapped with a paywall for some juicy content tantalizingly dangled in front of me in click-bait fashion. I don’t want to do it in this way.

So, once again, thank you to all for making it the success it’s been so far, and here’s to more—cheers!

and p.s. stay tuned for a new indepth article in a few hours from now…

p.p.s. feel free to leave improvement suggestions in the comments of this post. i.e. what could be better about the blog. For instance, something about the way it was ordering the comments by ‘popularity’ bothered me so I changed the system to be ordered chronologically, which feels easier. Let me know if that works better or not.

Also, I’ve just discovered there’s a ‘report comments’ feature. The growth of readers means sometimes I miss comments, so if there’s a particularly noisome troll or agent-provocateur, please report their comment and I will receive it ‘to be dealt wit’. Unfortunately growth invariably means attracting paid shills, saboteurs, and destabilization agents.

Thank you from the both of us!
Simplicius and Nightvision