🌟 What I'm Reading: 1-21-2024 🌟

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Jan 21, 2024

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What I'm Reading: 1-21-2024

Alicen Grey

We used to build cathedrals. What happened to us?

I’m sad. No, I’m not just sad. I lament. I grieve. Why do I lament and grieve? Because humanity has become retarded. Not just retarded, but voluntarily retarded. And no, I don’t mean that in an “offensive, dated” way. It’s not an insult. It’s an observation…

2 years ago · 26 likes · 7 comments · Alicen Grey

All-Source Intelligence Fusion

Anomaly detection firm tied to numerous former CIA officials affiliated with Beacon Global accidentally published its confidential data brokerage and persona management agreements

2024-01-15, 11:47 p.m. EST: The article was updated to note that former acting CIA director Michael Morell’s “Intelligence Matters” podcast was re…

2 years ago · 40 likes · Jack Poulson

Assurance of Victory

Diluting the Solipsism

“Tow trucks aren't allowed inside Baalim Stadium," said the turnstile attendant, a finger generously inserted inside his nostril. "Excuse me?" asked Mr. Sniffles. "We don't have appropriate seating for tow trucks," the turnstile attendant explained, praying for death…

2 years ago · Dyce Jacob

Bros Krynn’s Newsletter

An analysis on the song "A woman worth fighting for"

I’ve always liked to read a good adventure fantasy story, with a young hero going forth and slaying dragons, overthrowing tyrants, and conquering evil mages, and to save the princess in distress who needs a hero. Never doubting that you’d crack at the tail end of the race. Most boys would find that shameful, even if they would end up freezing…

2 years ago · 20 likes · 27 comments · The Brothers Krynn

Bros Krynn’s Newsletter

The Last Samurai: Nathan Algren - Tom Cruise's Best Performance

In the West there are few movies that at the time of 2003 served to better introduce a western audience to the Samurai as a concept, and few actors better selected for the starring role than Tom Cruise. This movie took a great many inspirations; one was the Tale of the Red Knight from Arthuriana, and another was the historical Jules Brunet (who really d…

2 years ago · 42 likes · 29 comments · The Brothers Krynn

The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon

Monday Words of Nourishment

2 years ago · 74 likes · 45 comments · Charlotte Pendragon

The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon

The World of Stunt Illusions Part 3

“I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself? It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder…

2 years ago · 59 likes · 37 comments · Charlotte Pendragon

Chas Holloway's Thinkopolis

Cotten Picken'

Click to Play Audio Cotten Pickin’ by Chas Holloway The First Lady of American Folk music…

2 years ago · 35 likes · Chas Holloway

Chas Holloway's Thinkopolis

Hate Speech

Click to Play Audio Hate Speech! by Chas Holloway Watch for the escalation…

2 years ago · 32 likes · 1 comment · Chas Holloway

Conspi-Rat

Chewsday Memes, Jan 16

Good time of day, humans! This is a small rat’s nest of memes I’ve snatched lately (mostly from Xitterverse) – some serious, some not so much. Contains multiple raccoons, a possum and a dog. Enjoy…

2 years ago · 49 likes · 8 comments · Rat

Contemplations on the Tree of Woe

Why Immigrants Don't Need to Vote to Matter

It is widely understood that the number of seats each state has in the House of Representatives is based on the state’s population as determined by the decennial U.S. Census, and that the number of House seats determines the number of Electors each state can appoint to the Electoral College…

2 years ago · 45 likes · 5 comments · Tree of Woe

A Convict's Perspective

Death After Prison

For or almost three hours his lifeless body sat slumped against his still running car. Though his killers had long since fled, the scavengers had not. Under an inner-city street light they picked his pockets, ransacked his Ford Focus and had even been so macabre as to steal the pizzas he had been there to deliver. With dead eyes his bullet riddled corps…

2 years ago · 25 likes · 7 comments · Coleman

A Convict's Perspective

An Elk Amongst The Wolves

Elk’s eyes reactively glanced to the door as it closed shut behind him. I imagine that must've been the most frightening sound he'd ever heard. More than gunfire, more than screams, more than threats. *click…. You're trapped in here now. The man who closed it placed himself between Elk and the only way out of that room as the others inside rose from their …

2 years ago · 76 likes · 33 comments · Coleman

A Convict's Perspective

The Hole

The ‘Hole’ is a prison concept that has become a matter of common knowledge even in decent society. Everyone knows what the Hole is yet no one knows what it is at all. Given that I'm a 'suffering can be a good thing' kind of guy, I feel that it may do well to share one of my experiences there. Let me tell you about one time in particular and how I found…

3 years ago · 28 likes · 7 comments · Coleman

A Convict's Perspective

Kill Gen X

2 years ago · 75 likes · 36 comments · Coleman

A Convict's Perspective

Our Little Buddy

“Trick or treat,” Carl said full of energy to the dumbfounded man standing before him. This man looked at Carl, an old, gray bearded inmate in his late 50’s, standing outside his cell door. Wearing dozens of empty instant coffee bags sewn together to fit like a hooded poncho as his coffee costume. He didn't respond quickly enough…

2 years ago · 87 likes · 30 comments · Coleman

A Convict's Perspective

Waffle Housing Around

“Order up! hash browns: smothered, covered, chunk, diced, pepper, capped, topped, and county! Holler back!” The waitress said to me over the counter. I swear this customer only wanted this just to hear me call the order back. “Aam nae repeatin' aw ay 'at ye bludy witch…

2 years ago · 77 likes · 43 comments · Coleman

Dad Explains

Rise Above Those Who Hurt You

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. Marcus AureliusDad Explains is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The Sweet Revenge of Living Well In the quiet corners of our lives, nestled between the echoes of laughter and the hum of everyday routines, resi…

2 years ago · 32 likes · 11 comments · Andrew | Dad Explains

Denis’s Substack

There Was No Pandemic

This is radical. The essay is based on my May 17, 2023 testimony for the National Citizens Inquiry (NCI) in Ottawa, Canada, my 894-page book of exhibits in support of that testimony, and our continued research.Thanks for reading Denis’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work…

3 years ago · 427 likes · 154 comments · Denis Rancourt

didion for doomscrollers

how to avoid the friendship trap

Picture this: you want to see an old friend from your UChicago days, so you text them something along the lines of “Let’s get a beer soon!” and wait for a reply. They eventually respond, and you agree to meet at Dalva, a cocktail bar you like, in two weeks. You forget about it for a few days. The day comes, and you’re exhausted from fighting Microsoft…

2 years ago · 43 likes · 10 comments · Rachdele

Due Diligence and Art

How to Fake Pandemics in 4 Easy Steps

Who here still believes covid was a real viral pandemic? Or even an epidemic? Welcome! We don’t judge! Actually we do - you are an idiot if after 4 years of this charade you still believe that was an epidemic. The data is clear that there was none, US Government/Trump announced “public health emergency” based on about 40 cases in China without any sig…

2 years ago · 473 likes · 411 comments · Sasha Latypova

e-girl esoterica

A Partial Explanation of Zoomer Girl Derangement

i. How strange. It stained her skirt: Red shame. How utterly unremarkable. No stark transformation. But her mother, she spoke in a whisper. Told her not to tell her father Her skirt, smuggled into the laundry. Illicit. Like the thing she’d become A woman, she murmured to her dolls…

2 years ago · 320 likes · 136 comments · zinnia

Emeth

Florida Water

We’ve talked here on Emeth, a few times, about incense. From those discussions, I think that almost all of us agree that a high quality incense can add something special and sacred to our Masonic meetings. But, we’ve also heard why it isn’t a good solution for some Lodges. How some Masons have health issues that are made worse by it, how others are sensi…

2 years ago · 10 likes · 30 comments · Cameron M. Bailey

Evolutionshift

It is the decade, not the year.

In January, most media serve up stories about what the new year might bring. This is valid but doubles down on the flawed perception that years are significant measurements of time when things stop and start. It is the human perception of time – with the new year being the opportunity to course correct lives “in the new year”- as the major trends and …

2 years ago · 27 likes · David Houle

Extra Muros

In Praise of Period Pieces

My lifelong fascination with British history owes much the costume dramas of the sixties and seventies of the last century. Thus, Anne of a Thousand Days started the lad that used to be me on the reign of Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scots on the Elizabeth…

2 years ago · 15 likes · 3 comments · Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Extra Muros

Start with the Big Words

The young brain absorbs whatever knowledge it encounters, building a stock of fact and fancy that will serve it well during the long winter of adulthood. The grownup mind discriminates. Before it devotes precious gray matter to a new bit of information, it takes pains to ensure that it is useful…

2 years ago · 13 likes · 8 comments · Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Farce Feed

College Debate to Take Place in Actual Echo Chamber

A prestigious Ivy League University debate club has decided to take their intellectual sparring to a whole new level – literally. The club recently announced that all future debates will be held in a…

2 years ago · 16 likes · 11 comments · Kyle Kissinger (no relation)

The Farce Feed

Diversity Hire Pilots Trained on Pilotwings 64

In another move towards diversity, Letisha Airhard, a young female African American pilot, was recently hired as part of a new JetBlue affirmative action program. However, it was soon revealed that h…

2 years ago · 9 likes · 11 comments · Kyle Kissinger (no relation)

Focus and Simplicity

Break the dependency

Buy this and you’ll be happy. Travel here and you’ll be happy. Achieve this and you’ll be happy. Reach this milestone and you’ll be happy. The problem isn’t the stuff, the traveling, the accomplishments, or the milestones. A good life doesn’t require living in a hut and never doing anything. And if you force asceticism without the mental work, you’ll just b…

2 years ago · 13 likes · 1 comment · Sebastian

The Freedom Scale

The Day I Stopped Being an Atheist

I believe in God. I was not raised that way, however. I had to come to it myself. Back in December, Max Borders wrote a piece documenting some of the reasons why he is no longer an atheist. It occurred to me then that it might be interesting to share my story. (Naturally, Christmas and other things intervened, so I am only getting around to it now…

2 years ago · 121 likes · 174 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

Down Went the Oppressor

I would like to thank the people who upgraded to become Supporting Members yesterday. This is my full time gig, and I can’t do it without you. As you can see, I do my best to make sure every conversation happens. Thank you so much for recognizing the effort that goes into that. I promise I will make it…

2 years ago · 21 likes · 7 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

If We Try to Leave, Will They Let Us Go?

Us and them. I love the song, but hate the phrase. I don’t particularly enjoy dividing people up into binary categories. Nonetheless, doing so does serve a valuable purpose—categorization and pattern recognition help us understand the world. For the purposes of this article, then, allow me to define the US and the THEM…

2 years ago · 76 likes · 182 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

My Ideological Journey: From Left to Right and Beyond, Part 1

An old friend occasionally needles me for the fact that my political views have evolved over the decades we have known each other, whereas his have remained largely unchanged. The needling includes a value judgement: my friend’s path has been ideologically consistent (good), whereas mine has been a journey of mercurial inconsistency (bad…

3 years ago · 5 likes · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

My Ideological Journey: From Left to Right and Beyond, Part 2

I cannot continue to do this without support, so thank you very much to my paid subscribers. If you have not yet upgraded, please consider doing so, and I will keep doing my best for you! We began yesterday with a question, prompted by the teasing of an old friend: what is better—to retain an ideology established in youth or to find one’s way to something new…

3 years ago · 7 likes · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

My Ideological Journey: From Left to Right and Beyond, Part 3

Thank you very much to my paid subscribers, new and old. I cannot do this without you. If you have not yet upgraded, please consider doing so, and I will keep doing my best for you. The story so far: I escaped the left-wingery of my childhood—deprogramming and deconstructing my world-view over a period of a few years…

3 years ago · 6 likes · 6 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

My Ideological Journey: From Left to Right and Beyond, Part 4

Here is the final installment. Thank you to everyone who upgraded their subscriptions to read this, and to support my work. It means a great deal to me. We will be going back to more free content next week. Questioning and escaping the left. A time in the desert and safe haven under the big tent…

3 years ago · 4 likes · 15 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

WE Run Bartertown?

Normalcy bias: “a psychological phenomenon in which people have a tendency to underestimate the likelihood or impact of a disaster or other crisis.” On a day to day basis, the practical manifestation of normalcy bias is to believe that tomorrow will be like today—that things will stay “normal.” The opposite is called…

2 years ago · 21 likes · 99 comments · Christopher Cook

From Brain to Mind

Brain Computer Interface Update

I’ve been posting on three companies, which I believe are closest to commercializing clinically useful brain computer interface (BCI) technology. Neuralink: Since buying Twitter, Elon Musk has become public enemy number one. While our governmental Inspector Clouseaus are chasing after his monkey woes (or as the good inspector would say, minkeys), he’s la…

2 years ago · 15 likes · 5 comments · Marc Arginteanu

GIRLS

Risk-Aversion Is Killing Romance

New research shows that Gen Z are more risk-averse than previous generations. Apparently we perceive more dangers in life, are more likely to see situations as “black and white”, and see spaces as either safe or dangerous. Of course this isn’t surprising. I get tired of the whole snowflake trope being tacked onto everyo…

2 years ago · 777 likes · 152 comments · Freya India

Godparticle

Gen X

2 years ago · 19 likes · 2 comments · Godparticle

How to Survive An Existential Crisis

The Guilt of Feeling Joy

Perhaps it sounds like a strange thing to say, but I’ve been feeling a lot of guilt whenever I’ve felt even the smallest amount of joy lately. What right do I have to feel happiness, even a little bit when there is so much pain and suffering in the world? What right do I have to joy when I am still grieving the loss …

2 years ago · 105 likes · 18 comments · Nikita Gill

I Am Here For It, Whatever It Is

AI Extravaganza Number Three

I told you my next post would be “all-human” stuff, no AI. Well, I lied. Many apologies. (Oh, PS, this may be too long for email.)Thanks for reading I Am Here For It, Whatever It Is! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. I decided to throw this together tonight. I will be focusing on my “all-human” post throughout the week, interm…

2 years ago · 18 likes · 20 comments · What IS a name, really?

Kaya’s Substack

The Cliche Manifestation Ideology in the New Age is Only a Half Truth Most of the Time.

It’s way too oversimplified to think that one completely controls their entire reality with their thoughts. People love the idea of, “mind over matter”, but the mind is active through the central nervous system, which is in a constant feedback loop with the various parts of the physical body. Since most thoughts and beliefs have undercurrents of feeling…

2 years ago · 3 likes · Kaya Marie

Kimbra’s Substack

Witnessing the Dissonance

Well, isn’t that just like you. To plant me firmly on the ground with all my convictions in tact and access to all those holy surfaces — close and glowing. Swaying and touching and feeling alive without trying. I sensed it was illusion — the taste of perfection and alignment for days on end…

2 years ago · 47 likes · 8 comments · Kimbra

Kingsley L. Dennis's All-in-One

Unpredictable (2024)

Friends, As I sit here today, I was thinking about how we may experience this coming year, for it is going to be quite a ride. Many of us may feel like we are heading into the centre of a storm. Yet ... sometimes the centre is where we can find the calmest spot. Being 'in the storm' is not the danger - it's being…

2 years ago · 2 likes · Kingsley L. Dennis

KTAWK

Antiquarian Hebdomadal - Index Edition

Glorious, voluminous and stupendous news, fellow word-nerds. Thanks to Jenny Homan and Ben Woestenburg, we now have access to a new and overflowing reservoir of old and strange words from the English language. (Many of you may have already known, but it's new to me…

2 years ago · 7 likes · 5 comments · Antila H. Belist

KTAWK

Walter Memes

John Noble is being used in many memes lately, mostly his really scowly pics from LotR. This post is here to counter all that negativity by fighting fire with fire. Or in this case, fighting Denethor with Walter Bishop from Fringe. John Noble has so many good quotes from Walter’s character…

2 years ago · 10 likes · 6 comments · Antila H. Belist

L5 News

The Path Behind

“Believe me when I say that we have a difficult time ahead of us. But if we are to be prepared for it, we must first shed our fear of it. I stand here before you now truthfully unafraid. Why? Because I believe something you do not? No. I stand here without fear because I remember. I remember that I am not here because of the path that lies before me b…

2 years ago · 7 likes · 6 comments · Jim Davidson

Lamp Post in the Marsh

Fairyland

2 years ago · 36 likes · 7 comments · Daniel W. Davison

Leo’s Newsletter

Elections? Who needs elections? Klaus Schwab, speaking at WEF meeting in Davos, says AI will soon make elections obsolete

World Economic Forum founder and chairman Klaus Schwab showed his true evil Nazi colors today at Davos, saying people the world over will soon no longer need to bother holding “elections” because voters could easily be replaced by artificial intelligence…

2 years ago · 63 likes · 28 comments · Leo Hohmann

Liberty Magazine

Introducing Liberty Magazine. A news/cultural organization dedicated to truth and integrity!

2 years ago · 10 likes · 4 comments · Samara

A Lily Bit

How to Make Covid-19 "Appear Like a Small Disturbance"

The World Economic Forum (WEF), representing Western financial elites, played a pivotal role in instigating the March 11, 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, which contributed to a global upheaval in economic and social stability. Additionally, it actively supported the introduction of the Covid-19 vaccine in November 2020, a move that has been widely reported to h…

2 years ago · 46 likes · 5 comments · Lily

Lisa Strbac - homeopathy uncensored

Contagion...a homeopath's perspective

I want to kick this off by sharing with you a piece of writing that I include at the end of my ‘Intro to homeopathic detox’ course. I have triggered quite a few people in the past who have thought that me sharing an image of an alleged virus means I subscribe to the germ theory narrative. To set the record straight, I do not. I personally feel dis-ease …

2 years ago · 23 likes · 24 comments · Lisa Strbac

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Memento Mori Alchemy

KINDRED SOULS - Harmonizing of the Human Soul - Beinsa Douno

This text was written in Bulgarian. This is the English Translation of: **Twin Souls – Excerpts from Peter Deunov's Conversations about Kindred Souls…

2 years ago · 20 likes · 5 comments · Tesstamona

Memento Mori Alchemy

Revolution without HEALING is a Recipe for Disaster

There is a lot of information here: From ancient numerology on the 8 year energy, astrological aspects and a window we’re now in, to a few words from Yuri Bezmenov and some of my own warnings regarding not getting too caught up with the herd… and that addicting thing called…

2 years ago · 25 likes · 12 comments · Tesstamona

Memento Mori Alchemy

Tattooed Souls and Esoteric Art

I am alive at night. During the day I am someone else. I am exhausted and would give anything to make it all stop. But even more I would give, to make it all come alive…

2 years ago · 21 likes · 25 comments · Tesstamona

The Metaphor

Oops, we’re all still pagans

Months ago, I wrote a Twitter thread about Milton’s Lucifer. It went a bit viral. God, it made me feel weird and exposed. When I’m getting coffee, walking, talking to a friend… it’s out there. Roaming the earth, infecting people’s heads with my half-baked curiosity…

2 years ago · 53 likes · 23 comments · Taylor Foreman

motheRucker

Techno Shieldmaiden

“Though not a 'dry nurse' in temper, she was also not really a soldier or 'Amazon', but like many brave women was capable of great military gallantry at a crisis.” -From The Letters of J.R.R Tolkien “But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For…

2 years ago · 74 likes · 32 comments · Bridgette

The Neo-Ciceronian Times

Ready for It to Get Spicy?

If you’ve been paying attention to the news this week, you’re aware that matters on our southern border have finally came to a head. The trend for years, decades really, has been for the federal government to turn a blind eye to massive numbers of illegal immigrants coming across our border, making a mockery out of enforcement of the relevant laws and o…

2 years ago · 148 likes · 92 comments · Theophilus Chilton

The Partisan

Yippie Memento Mori, Motherfucker

Depending on who you ask, along with numerous factors I could never totally account for should the need arise, I’m roughly one month away from death at all times. You see, I’m a Type 1 diabetic. Without regular insulin injections, I have nothing to look forward to but a painful end. I know this, intimately, because I am one of the extraordinarily unl…

2 years ago · 85 likes · 35 comments · Phisto Sobanii

Patrick.net Memes

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2 years ago · 67 likes · 9 comments · patrick.net/memes

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2 years ago · 56 likes · 7 comments · patrick.net/memes

Peter and Ginger Breggin Exposing the Global Predators

The FDA's sham support of poisoning the American public

2 years ago · 115 likes · 20 comments · Dr. Peter and Ginger Breggin

Political Ponerology

The Psychopathic God

The annoying thing about stereotypes is that they exist for a reason. I may not think of myself often as a typical Canuck, but every once in a while I will say or do something that is undeniably “Canadian,” to the amusement of my not-Canadian friends. Whether it’s the compulsion to say “sowrry” at almost entir…

2 years ago · 40 likes · 25 comments · Harrison Koehli

Political Ponerology

Tyranny and the Anankastic Mind

The following article is a guest submission dealing with a topic Lobaczewski mentions only a couple of times in his works: anankastia, or anankastic personality disorder. All Lobaczewski says is that this is one of the ponerogenic personality disorders and that they are “silent despots” who are difficult to …

2 years ago · 47 likes · 36 comments · Harrison Koehli

Postcards from the Abyss

My narrative is everything

Several months ago, in October 2023, the conflict erupted between Israel and Gaza when Hamas entered Israeli territory, killing over 1300 people and kidnapping others as hostages. Some of the hostages were young children. In a number of major cities around the world posters emerged of the missing children. These were positioned in prominent places by tho…

2 years ago · 43 likes · 29 comments · Spaceman Spiff

Postcards from the Abyss

The purpose of life is a glorious death

Death comes to us all. Most fear it and virtually everyone avoids discussing their own end despite knowing it must arrive one day. This is understandable. Who wants to dwell on the end? It feels morbid. That kind of thing is just for the suicidal, those who welcome death…

2 years ago · 27 likes · 26 comments · Spaceman Spiff

Post Post Modern

The end of an era is a time to begin.

As I sit to write this post, I can see a bright orange glow gradually introduce itself to the waking sky. The SUN. For just the second time in months I can actually see the sun well enough to watch it as it rises. I know, I know- big deal, right…

2 years ago · 38 likes · 49 comments · Jacqueline Rendell

Post Post Modern

I have an exciting idea

Last evening, as I was enjoying a soak in the tub (which happens to be where I do my best thinking) I received the idea to launch a new podcast. Oh, the wisdom of water. It truly does have things to say if we choose to listen. I digress… the podcast…

2 years ago · 36 likes · 55 comments · Jacqueline Rendell

RadioFarSide’s Teletype

Blowfish Gambit Revisited

The last column set off some interesting discussions across the Netterverse, with the primary sentiment I received being, “I hope you’re right.” Honestly, I have no idea if I am right, but I have some solid reasons to trust my instincts, not the least of which is my experience with marketing…

2 years ago · 8 likes · 29 comments · Radio Far Side

Ribbonfarm Studio

The Permaweird

This essay is part of the Protocol Narratives series I’ve used the word permaweird for a few years now, mainly in my Great Weirding series, but in some other writing as well. It is my modest entry in the ongoing contest to name the present, which Adam Tooze’s term…

3 years ago · 110 likes · Venkatesh Rao

Rushkoff

The Once and Future Pig

Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s Hybrid is an interspecies opera that takes us on a journey from today’s cutting-edge genetic engineering to the origins of pig domestication ten millennia ago, and then back to the wild boars still inhabiting our forests. It’s an intimate and sometimes heartbreaking account of the interspecies relationship at the heart of the sci…

2 years ago · 4 likes · 1 comment · Douglas Rushkoff

Sapito’s Substack

Magic beyond Malta

Source: https://images7.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED808/594934b9dc341.jpeg So last time I left you all hanging on the side of a cliff, where the craziest part of that weekend was about to start. Now I’m a bit later than I had planned to write this following chapter. Integration has been a bit rough on my side. A lot of stuff has been moving through from…

2 years ago · 4 likes · Sapito De La Foresta

The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Zoomorphic Superhero: The First Figurative Artwork

From Chapter 2, FUTURE STATES Lion Man represents an important conceptual development: a human artist reflecting on humanity and creating art that served as a mirror of self-reflection. Lion Man is the earliest known, documented figurative artwork. It predates the animal paintings of Chauvet Caves by a few thousand years and was found in the Hohlenstein-Stadel Cave in Germany. The…

2 years ago · 9 likes · 5 comments · Michael Newberry

Solarah Speaks

DAILY ALKHEMY: Alchemising War Wounds, As The Sun And Pluto Meet At Zero Degrees Aquarius

You may begin to feel forward momentum where things have been feeling a little stuck. This may begin in small ways, and the perceived smallness of the event or movement may bring up fears that nothing is really changing. This is likely more of a thought connected to past disappointments, than it is a fact based upon present reality…

2 years ago · 36 likes · 5 comments · Solarah

Solarah Speaks

TEA FOR TODAY: What Herbs I'm Blending And Why

I haven’t shared this side of me much on Substack, but I am both qualified in Western Herbal Medicine and as a Naturopathic Chef. In 2017, I returned to university to pursue a clinical degree in Western Herbal Medicine in order to support a dream I had of owning an apothecary type café, where all my offerings were health supportive and infused with medi…

2 years ago · 20 likes · 8 comments · Solarah

Solarah Speaks

WEEKEND ALKHEMY: Love Is In The Air As We Welcome In A New Chapter In Earth's Story

As the Sun enters Aquarius at zero degrees, the Moon also enters Gemini, and the two luminaries of our sky come into collaboration and agreement. A tone is beng set for what is to come. The cards of Aquarius and Gemini in the tarot are The Fool and The Star, and The Magician and The Lovers respectively. The zero degree mark of the Air signs is represente…

2 years ago · 22 likes · 3 comments · Solarah

Solarah Speaks

WEEKLY ALKHEMY: Preparing For The Next Portal Into The Aquarian Age

It feels like major chakra upgrades are on the cards for the week ahead. This may be manifesting in your reality as new activations, or the fine tuning of previous ones. It would seem that the chakras most damaged by generational trauma and karmic family stories are the ones that will be getting the most attention on a personal level…

2 years ago · 31 likes · 2 comments · Solarah

SpyTalk

Of Green Berets & Secret CIA Missions

James Stejskal spent 23 years in the U.S. Army, much of it in top secret Green Beret cover assignments, before shifting to the CIA, where spent the next 13 years operating in the spy-world wilds as a case officer under non-official cover. In retirement today he’s a prolific author of political-military thrillers, his latest being…

2 years ago · 38 likes · Jeff Stein

Stella Assange - The Fight to Save my Husband

Audio and Transcript: Craig Murray on Demystifying Diplomacy and Espionage

Last Wednesday, we released the video of the first part of my conversation with Craig Murray. Below is the audio podcast and transcript. In this episode of my podcast, “A Conversation with Stella Assange”, I sit down with author and human rights activist Craig Murray. In part one of this two part conversation, we discuss how greater awareness around Jul…

2 years ago · 21 likes · 4 comments · Stella Assange

The Stone Age

Seeking 'Home'

I do not normally post something so quickly after a previous offering, preferring to wait at least a couple of days before hitting your inbox again. However, since I plan to drop a full story on Tuesday night - and due to this being a shorter, poetry post - I figured I could sneak it in, and that you might forgive me for so doing…

2 years ago · 38 likes · 35 comments · Stone Bryson

The Stone Age

The Taiwan Question

The presidential election in Taiwan was held last Saturday, and ‘the people’ chose the wrong guy. Well, ‘wrong,’ as far as mainland China’s communist government is concerned, anyhow. To the rest of the world, however? The election of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate, Lai Ching-te…

2 years ago · 20 likes · 10 comments · Stone Bryson

The Stone Age

Texas Stirs 'Fort Sumter' Energy [TDT: 02.02]

Welcome to this edition of the Three-Dot Tablet [TDT], a weekly news-journal where I seek out the headlines others may not be covering (or not covering well), and - with a healthy dose of passion, common sense, and brevity - provide raw, unfiltered commentary…

2 years ago · 37 likes · 29 comments · Stone Bryson

The Stone Age

'Third-Party' attempt faces relentless attacks [TDT: 02.03]

Welcome to this edition of the Three-Dot Tablet [TDT], a weekly news-journal where I seek out the headlines others may not be covering (or not covering well), that I may research them to provide - with healthy doses of passion, common sense, and brevity - raw, unfiltered commentary…

2 years ago · 8 likes · 1 comment · Stone Bryson

Toxic Lit

Dopamine Somersault Blackout

The following story is published in Hobart Pulp with a picture of my ugly mug. I’m republishing here with a cooler pic… Online bullet chess can be beautiful when it hurts you so much that you accept your powerlessness without resistance. Resistance is what makes the pain unbearable. Acceptance allows you to transcend. For this reason, hitting myself, as …

2 years ago · 8 likes · 2 comments · Ray Downs

Uncensored

YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TERAHERTZ

Hope and Tivan have made a video which explains Covid and how it relates to electro-magnetic frequencies used by the Internet of Things even the Internet of Bodies. Check it out, engage your brain and share this information everywhere please! https://rumble.com/v30bdje-great-reset-technology-explained.-how-they-connect-humans-to-the-internet-t.html…

2 years ago · 82 likes · 30 comments · Frances Leader

Underthrow

God, Perhaps

Let heaven exist, though my own place be in hell. Let me be tortured and battered and annihilated, but let there be one instant, one creature, wherein thy enormous Library may find its justification. —Borges, from “The Library of Babel” Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the exis…

2 years ago · 16 likes · 10 comments · Max Borders

The Upheaval

The Rise of the Right-Wing Progressives

A few months ago the prominent tech investor Marc Andreessen released a lengthy “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” that caused a big stir on certain segments of the internet. It’s a full-throated hymn glorifying technology, progress, and boundless growth, while castigating what it portrays as the demoralization, enervation, and…

2 years ago · 405 likes · 74 comments · N.S. Lyons

The Victory Palace Poetry Stack

There's no internet at the beach tonight...

There’s no internet at the beach tonight. Only the waves of the lake that lap and shuffle against the shoreline, the motions other bodies trail through the sand, and other celestial bodies through the sky. A boy tests matter throwing stone after stone into the water that echoes from the shore, and ripple to the unknown. I don’t know what to do wit…

2 years ago · 31 likes · 24 comments · Victory Palace

The Wailing Banshee

BENT COPPERS & FREQUENCY SHIT... a taster of what's to come!

Yes Tony you are correct. I believe the first antennas that we know of in the ‘public sector’ went up at the end of the 1970’s onwards. Hastings, a town in East Sussex UK where my parents moved to once my father had retired from the RAF in 1969 (I was born in 65 the last of 6 kids), I believe was the first experimental hive for all this shit in the UK. …

2 years ago · 39 likes · 21 comments · Christina Gerrard

Welcome to Absurdistan

Child Rape in Hollywood. How Much Can You Handle?

How much do you know about yachting? Or the private rape rooms at Disney parties? Or how music stars like Dua Lipo are groomed for years, then sprung into stardom? Did you know there were underground tunnels from the Playboy Mansion to the homes of major stars and producers? Want to see a picture…

2 years ago · 266 likes · 133 comments · elizabeth nickson

Wires and Words

Car Seat Headrest - The Gun Song

What can I say? I’m a sucker for forlorn, emotive love songs. It helps if they’re a little weird…

2 years ago · 1 like · Gene

Witchcraft and Metaphysics with Jenna Newell Hiott

The Archetype and The Tarot: The Mentor and Four of Swords

Welcome everyone! For an overview of what I’m doing here, please check out this post all about it. THANK YOU to all my subscribers! My heart and soul are filled with gratitude for your presence here. I LOVE this community that we are building! (If you’d like to support this work by making a one-time donation…

2 years ago · 29 likes · 24 comments · Jenna Newell Hiott

Witchcraft and Metaphysics with Jenna Newell Hiott

A Psychopomp Introduction

Welcome to Witchcraft & Metaphysics! I’m so glad you’re here! 🤗 Thank you to all the new subscribers who jumped on board this week. You help make this community a safe and engaging haven for all those interested in magic. To find out more about what we’re doing here, you can check out this…

2 years ago · 23 likes · 10 comments · Jenna Newell Hiott

Work Futures

Resilience and Hope

The recent grounding of all flights in the U.S. because of a failure in the Federal Aviation Administration’s 30-year-old Notice to Air Missions system (NOTAM) is destined to be a textbook example of non-resilient systems design. FAA investigators reported…

2 years ago · 6 likes · 2 comments · Stowe Boyd

🌻 A Year of Mental Health

A Couch Can Make You Happy

New here? Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I have a new post on mental health and purposeful productivity. If you like it, please pass it on to others! 💚…

2 years ago · 132 likes · 154 comments · Chris Guillebeau

The Zombie Apocalypse Is Here

Conspiracy Theorists, Gatekeepers and...

The phrase ‘conspiracy theorist’ is a label used to stop people from listening to someone. The word ‘gatekeeper’ is another label used to stop people from listening to someone. (Thought… Did the same people who popularized the term ‘conspiracy theorist’ also popularize the term ‘gatekeeper’ for the same reason? Who knows who to trust these days…

2 years ago · 10 likes · 9 comments · Dottoressa2902

The Starfire Codes by Demi Pietchell

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