🌟 What I'm Reading: 1-26-2025 🌟

A Weekly Roundup Highlight Reel of What I Have Been Reading

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Jan 26, 2025

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PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF WHAT I'M READING

I post a weekly roundup of some of the highlights of what I’ve been reading… including many thoughtful, valuable, and intriguing perspectives that I could not otherwise post.

I hope that you find this list to be useful, inspiring, interesting, and informative!

Sending my love,
Demi 🌟

What I'm Reading: 1-26-2025

Animation Obsessive

Totoro Before Totoro

Welcome! Glad you could join us for another Sunday edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter — our first of 2025…

3 months ago · 160 likes · 16 comments · Animation Obsessive Staff

Saved by the Devil

What would you do if you were saved by the person you despise most in the world…

3 months ago · 18 likes · 12 comments · Apollo's Lyre

Cameron M. Bailey

Undoubtedly the automobile killed the proper hat. Because there is nothing suitable to do with the hat once one is inside the car…

3 months ago · 23 likes · 18 comments · Cameron M. Bailey

The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon

Eternal Watch: Grateful Magic Joy From A Mountaintop

In the late September sky, when the sun hangs over the equator, it casts a golden glow over everything it touches, perfectly balancing day and night across Earth. This balanced position radiates a unique quality of light that feels warm and soft as the sun descends toward winter. I remember the sunlight filtered through the trees, producing intricate pa…

3 months ago · 32 likes · 11 comments · Charlotte Pendragon

Chas Holloway's Thinkopolis

Michael Faraday

3 months ago · 3 likes · Chas Holloway

Dad Memes By Popular Demand: Spice Up Your Panic Attack

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3 months ago · 108 likes · 17 comments

Elon Musk appoints Donald Trump as Commander-in-Chief

MAR-A-LAGO, Fla. — Tesla founder Elon Musk announced on Monday that Donald Trump will serve as commander-in-chief for the next four years, describing the decision as a “logical step forward for democracy—or at least what’s left of it after we’re done…

3 months ago · 17 likes · 7 comments · Clay Beyersdorfer

The Most Delicious and Easy Meat and Cabbage Pie Recipe

I have a very good friend who lives in Finland. She's not Finnish and finds it quite difficult to fit in with the local community because of the language, some cultural differences and the general coldness of both the weather and Finnish customs. We had a little Zoom meeting the other day and she told me how this simple recipe helped her on her way to b…

3 months ago · 28 likes · 2 comments · Sophie

Elon Musk Launches Controversial New X Logo

In yet another headline-grabbing move, tech mogul Elon Musk unveiled a controversial new logo for X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. The design, which has already sparked global outrage, features a composite of Musk’s own image performing a hand gesture that many have likened to a Nazi salute. The logo—an “X” formed by four flipped and mirrored copies of Musk’s torso and extended arm—has been described by critics as “insensitive,” “outrageous,” and “peak Elon…

3 months ago · 18 likes · 2 comments · Kyle Kissinger (no relation)

Angels and Demons or Dark and Light Energy?

People tend to think of angels and demons in biblical terms, the believers see them as genuine spiritual beings and the non believers see them as religious fictions…

3 months ago · 16 likes · Frater Seamus

The Freedom Scale

…But at Least Mannequins Have N*pples Now

A couple of Christmases ago, I was shopping at a mall and started noticing something: about 75% of the mannequins throughout the mall had nipples…

3 months ago · 65 likes · 47 comments · Christopher Cook

Fresh off the Stack

Sauces for the week

I am a sauce girl through and through which means that most of my meals involve some sort of sauce or ‘moistening element’ if you will (sorry for the phrasing). So in the interest of saving time during the week, I like to prep my sauces ahead for use on a variety of meals. The sauce lineup recently has been a…

3 months ago · 6 likes · Raquel Ravivo

Hal Johnson Books

Blvd. of Blood: Table of Contents

Book I: The Pawns Assemble…

4 months ago · 3 likes · Hal Johnson

Building freedom

“Qui custodiet ipsos custodes.” ~ Juvenal, circa Anno Domini 120, Satire VI…

3 months ago · 5 likes · 2 comments · Jim Davidson

“I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” ~ Saint Paul, 2nd epistle to Timothy, chapter 1…

3 months ago · 13 likes · 1 comment · Jim Davidson

The Library of Celaeno

The Apsu Sea of The Real

In this essay I will attempt to synthesize from a broad range of cultural inputs, past and present, to advance some ideas about the immediate future now coming into being.. The last few years have borne witness to great deviations from what many presumed would be inevitabilities, so of course I write what follows in a spirit of humility. Nonetheless, …

3 months ago · 81 likes · 31 comments · Librarian of Celaeno

The Library of Celaeno

Worthwhile Lives for Sensitive Young Men

I was very grateful for the opportunity to speak with Johann Kurtz and Dave Greene the other day and for the chance to hear their views expounded more directly, as well as to elaborate on my own. Johann Kurtz has offered an afterword and I thought I might do so as well. These are very much the sorts of conversations we should be having on the right, and with things evolving…

3 months ago · 165 likes · 40 comments · Librarian of Celaeno

Margaret Anna Alice Through the Looking Glass

Memes by Themes #15: Politicians

Every Inauguration Day, one segment of the public welds its hopes to the incoming president/cabinet/party/team while the opposing segment gnashes its teeth and wails at the Hitler-Mao-Fascist-Communist-Reich-Gulag that’s going to bring about the end of the world…

3 months ago · 169 likes · 6 comments · Margaret Anna Alice

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On the Road of Bones

This, That, and The Other (Zen/Chaos Edition)

3 months ago · 10 likes · 6 comments · The Bone Writer

Post Post Modern

happy to be here

In the spirit of sharing my creative song-writing process, I thought I'd share what I've been working on this evening. I have a gig coming on Sunday with a bunch of song-writers and I'm determined to have something new to play. It makes a gig much more exciting for me…

3 months ago · 23 likes · 20 comments · Jacqueline Rendell

Post Post Modern

this immortal coil

Hello, my lovely ones…

3 months ago · 34 likes · 30 comments · Jacqueline Rendell

Sapiential Newsletter

DEI May Not Be Dead Yet

A torrent of executive orders by President Trump upon taking office had many of his supporters joyous. Even some that were skeptical of him tended to take a fairly positive take on the initial appearances of his second term. In some respects this should have been an easy part for almost anyone. Trump dealt with a number of the issues that had been the m…

3 months ago · 6 likes · 4 comments · Chris Hall

The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Soulscape 34, Aphrodite by Praxiteles

All art should come with a warning label because, for good or bad, when we saturate ourselves in an artwork, the artwork acts as a beacon, pulling us into the universe it portrays. Art, by its nature, is goal-directed, whether or not the artist recognizes it. Like philosophy, which offers insights into human nature and solutions to problems, or medicine, which heals and does no harm, art’s purpose is tied to human evolution…

3 months ago · 13 likes · 4 comments · Michael Newberry

Steamy Mystical Musings

Unplugging in the Digital Age

Reclaim your S P A C E ! ! …

3 months ago · 6 likes · 2 comments · Audra White and Kadesha Powell

Power Of The People

If you would have asked me last week - of even a couple of days ago - whether the upcoming TikTok ban (scheduled to go into effect January 19) was going to come to fruition or not, I would have said “Yes, I believe it will;” I already said as much three weeks ago…

3 months ago · 54 likes · 20 comments · Stone Bryson

Traditions of Conflict

Traditional Methods of Black Magic

Competition is embedded in social living, as individuals seek to control and monopolize access to scarce resources—status, partners, material goods. Across societies, there are a variety of means one may use to overcome a competitor. Derogating an adversary…

3 months ago · 28 likes · 2 comments · William Buckner

Unorthodox Opinions

Urgency Is A Red Flag

A special thank you to Nathalie Martinek PhD for her insights from Hacking Narcissism, and our private discussions. The links in this article lead to her body of work, which I highly recommend. You can also contact her for personal coaching…

3 months ago · 15 likes · Kate Wand

The Whirl Of ReOrientation

Challenging Narratives with The Starfire Codes: Consciousness, Media Manipulation, and Ancient Mysteries with Demi Pietchell

What if everything you thought you knew about history, science, and media was just one version of the truth? Demi Pietchell, the creative mind behind The Starfire Codes , joins us to unpack a range of controversial topics. From being de-platformed on Twitter for discussing graphene in vaccines to exploring how comedians like Jimmy Dore and JP Sears are shaking up the med…

3 months ago · 4 likes · 1 comment · Mark McGrath

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Thank you, Demi! Some very interesting reads in here!

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Charlotte Pendragon

I appreciate being included in your round up today Demi, among so many wonderful writers! 💖💖💖

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