Hacker Blogs
Work in progress: 181,232 of 181,233 sites checked so far, more every week · updated 2 Nov 2026Missing a blog? Tell us

Top all-time · #11609

T

This is True

Personal blog · thisistrue.comculturepolitics

This is True is a personal blog at thisistrue.com about culture and politics. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.

Visit the blog
6mentions?
6HN people?
2008–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2008

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked as short items from the This is True newsletter, cited as parallels to other stories. The comments link them as examples and do not discuss the writing itself.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Social commentary using weird news as its vehicle. It's Thought-Provoking Entertainment designed to encourage more thinking in the world.

What Hacker News says?

  1. abbeyj · 2022-08-23
    It appears to be the same newsletter, just renamed: https://thisistrue.com/trademarked_out_of_a_title/

    Comment linking /trademarked_out_of_a_title/

    on “The best and worst of 1994 and predictions for '95”
  2. jackowayed · 2010-05-22

    Submitted Don't Talk to the Cops as a story · 124 points

    HN discussion
  3. brudgers · 2018-01-26
    Reminds me of "Don't talk to the cops": https://thisistrue.com/dont_talk_to_the_cops/

    Comment linking /dont_talk_to_the_cops/

    on “Hawaii "button pusher" refusing to cooperate with FCC, internal investigators”
  4. ivey · 2008-08-02

    Submitted Yahoo blocks 20,000 subscribers from one of the net's oldest email newsletters as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  5. Casseres · 2013-08-31
    Probably to PETA which then euthanizes them and throws the dead animals in other people's dumpsters. PETA was found guilty of littering because of this. They were not found guilty of animal cruelty because there was no law against euthanizing healthy animals which is what PETA was doing. Dr. Proctor later added in The Virginian-Pilot: "These were just kittens we were trying to find homes for. PETA said they would do…

    Comment linking /peta.html

    on “Where Do All The Craigslist Cats Go?”
  6. mkane848 · 2016-04-20

    Submitted Why I've Removed Google's Ads as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

Search all of HN for thisistrue.com

Linked by the same people?