How we use other people's work — and how to make us stop.
Every relayed item on this site carries three things: the original headline, the author's name, and a link to the publisher's own page. Summaries are written here, in our words. We do not republish full text and we do not reproduce anyone's lede. Our artwork is original. Where a card shows a story photo, it is the image the publisher attached to that story, loaded from the publisher's own server, credited on the card, and serving as a link to the source — never rehosted here, and dropped on request, same day.
If you write for one of the channels we relay and you would rather we didn't, say so and we will remove you. No form, no argument, no waiting period.
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01Headline, byline, link
The publisher's headline verbatim, the writer's name, and a canonical link out. Never an excerpt of their prose.
02Summaries are ours
One or two sentences, written here. If you can get the story without clicking, we've written too much.
03Art is ours, photos are credited
House artwork is original to this masthead. A story photo is the publisher's own image for that story, hot-loaded from their server, credited on the card, and removed on request.
04Social posts are embedded
Official platform embeds only — never screenshots, which reproduce the underlying work.
05Opt out on request
Any writer or publisher can have their feed pulled by email, same day.
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