Online subscriptions

A VPN might do the trick. I have heard ads on podcasts saying a VPN is a way to get by local restrictions on Netflix.

 

I think it’s my billing address connected to the credit card, or the credit card itself.

I should just get an American friend to gift me a subscription and pay them - that’s easiest now that I think about it.

 

Post and Times, although I suppose those could go because it seems like every library up here offers free access to one or the other. I did move to cancel both last year and as a result got half off from the Post and 75 percent off from the Times.

Globe and Herald because my mom is still a delivery customer and never uses her web access, although even she is starting to have second thoughts with the papers not showing up.

I did have The Athletic at $1 a month, but I just didn’t read it enough to justify it.

And I forgot, the Belfast Telegraph (US$3/month) so I can keep tabs on what’s happening across the pond.

 

Local newspaper (which is a Gannett publication and is terrible), an NYT that I need to cancel (just don't read it, is a big luxury), The Athletic (for work), ESPN+ (to watch sports, written content is a bonus)

 

She has the Disney+ bundle to watch Mandalorian and other stuff, so I guess that too.

We get Peacock thrown in because we have Comcast.

 

SF Chronicle, mostly for the Sporting Green, but when a good feature, political or news story catches my eye, I'll click it, and the Santa Cruz Sentinel, for local news and sports. I also get the dead tree edition of the latter, but the deadline is so effing early Friday night football doesn't hit print until Sunday.

 

Local paper, which is free since I work there. Print and online.

The Seattle Times, online and the Sunday print edition. The latter is still a very good read.

 

I have The Athletic, The Atlantic (probably my favorite), the NYT, and TV-wise, Paramount+ (for the Star Trek shows) and Discovery+ (for nature, documentaries and various other things I periodically like to watch). I had TIME magazine, the LAT, the OC Register and The New Yorker until recently, and am debating whether to re-start each/any of them up again.

 

Three local papers and WaPo.

 

The local city magazine, where I was once an angry intern. No newspapers, unless the digital subscription I get through work counts -- but I don't live in the coverage area. I still pay too much for a cable/internet/phone package, so no streaming subscriptions... yet.

 

If we're including streaming, I pay for Apple, Hulu and Peacock (the second two with discounted rates), get Prime through my Amazon account, HBO Max through my cable subscription and have access to a Netflix account.
I watch a couple things on each platform and could probably get by without any of them. On the other hand, I'd drop cable and just stream if I didn't want to watch Dodgers games.

 

I went down the Texas Monthly rabbit hole last night and realized this Pennsylvanian still has to get his first subscription in a while.

I think it's consistently the best longform out there.

I know I've mentioned it before, but this piece from 16 years ago tore at my heart and is one of the finest pieces of longform I have ever read.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/still-life/