I 100% understand the need to keep the doors open and support things through advertising, and it seems that Stack Social does the heavy lifting of posting items and supplying advertorial copy.
But BoingBoing has always been more or less the spiritual successor of the Whole Earth Catalog, posting Cool Tools and Wonderful Things they’ve found. I feel like diluting that with crappy SkyMall castoffs peppered through the site pretending to be BB-recommended “cool tools” is a lousy way to make a few dollars and a real insult to readers. A Patreon would at least be an improvement.
