🌟 What I'm Reading: 2-16-2025 🌟

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Feb 16, 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.

You’ll also find a weekly recap of SFC posts, including meme drops, daily readings, The Perplexicon, the latest editions of The Scroll and What I’m Watching, and more!

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

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What I'm Reading: 2-16-2025

Arktos Journal

A Scramble for Europe Is Now Inevitable

Ahnaf Ibn Qais argues that Vice President Vance’s Munich speech heralds the beginning of a New Dark Age for Europe & Europeans, one in which they play little to no role in international & domestic affairs & are instead at the mercy of foreign actors, state & substate…

10 months ago · 48 likes · 9 comments · Ahnaf Ibn Qais

Autism After Dark

Escaping the Hell of Functional Freeze

I sit in a broken recliner underneath a heated fuzzy blanket. Drab January sunlight reflects through bay windows, which no longer open because they’re missing a crank. I’ve asked our landlord to fix it several times and she just doesn’t…

10 months ago · 46 likes · 15 comments · Autism After Dark

Beneath the Pavement

The childfree are ungovernable

Recently, I discussed the rise of anti-natalist sentiment among younger generations, and why having children has been subverted into a moral dilemma. Today, I want to expand on some of those thoughts and explore an underappreciated reason governments and ruling classes are clamping down on reproduction laws and abortion rights while turning up the…

2 years ago · 2005 likes · 189 comments · Antonio Melonio

Bobby’s Journal

Chapter 73: The Cosmic Algorithm – Divine Timing, Infinite Alignment 🌌✨⏳

"There are no coincidences, only patterns we have yet to understand." Carl Jung…

10 months ago · 3 likes · Bobby Schlueter

The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon

Smokey Robinson

Tom Jones, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis, and then there was Smokey Robinson, a Motown/RB legend who began his Las Vegas career at the original MGM Grand Hotel before it changed to Bally’s Grand in the 80’s when I started performing there. At Bally’s, I met Smokey, who, unlike the other greats I’d worked with at there, was one of …

10 months ago · 36 likes · 9 comments · Charlotte Pendragon

Chas Holloway's Thinkopolis

Edvard Grieg

10 months ago · 6 likes · Chas Holloway

Chas Holloway's Thinkopolis

The Operational Definition

10 months ago · 6 likes · Chas Holloway

Chris Langan's Ultimate Reality

Why would Lab Rats in a Vast Dysgenics Experiment Badmouth Eugenics?

I was recently taken to task in a comments section on X for being a "eugenicist". The proper term would be “anti-dysgenicist”, which is something entirely different. But such important distinctions tend to be dismissed as mere semantic quibbles by those claiming the right to downbreed mankind to an intellectually degenerate, ethnically homogenized “Eurasian-negroid race of the future…

10 months ago · 87 likes · 30 comments · Chris Langan

Conspi-Rat

Monday Coffee Memes #21

Good time of day, coffee lovers…

10 months ago · 54 likes · 3 comments · Rat

Dad Explains

Would You Like Some Cheese With That Whine?

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it…

10 months ago · 25 likes · 2 comments

the dosage makes it so

Trashbags of Facts and Insipid Oceans

You Can Just Learn Things…

10 months ago · 24 likes · 3 comments · Dmitry

Ear Candy Update

Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)

For Bella…

10 months ago · 13 likes · 4 comments · Jason Thompson

Eurosiberia

Vance the Hammer

JD Vance enters Munich like a Viking berserker in the heart of the Carolingian Empire, a man from the land of strip malls and cornfields standing before the decaying architecture of European self-delusion. He does not ask for an audience with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, because why negotiate with a ghost? A specter, soon to be forgotten, entombed wit…

10 months ago · 215 likes · 39 comments · Constantin von Hoffmeister

The Farce Feed

REVEALED: "Big Balls" & the Deep State Plot to Derail USAID Audit

Washington, DC—In a clandestine meeting held in a dimly lit, smoke-filled room beneath the capital, the Deep State's top operatives convened to address a pressing concern. Tapped by President Trump t…

10 months ago · 20 likes · 9 comments · Kyle Kissinger (no relation)

The Freedom Scale

Can They Hide from What Doge Has Found?

Two entry/exit questions for today…

10 months ago · 101 likes · 35 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

Division and Pessimism Will Not Set Us Free

Winter is grinding on, especially for those of us in the north…

10 months ago · 37 likes · 40 comments · Christopher Cook

I Might Be Wrong

We’ve Been Divorced Ten Years. With the Benefit of Hindsight, I Now Realize: You WERE Moving My Shit

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2 years ago · 318 likes · 59 comments · Jeff Maurer

Intellectual Dissatisfaction

Friday Funnies

These memes are intended to make light of an increasingly tense political atmosphere. This publication receives submissions from the community, and the memes held within do not reflect the opinions of the publication…

10 months ago · 22 likes · Jeremy Mercier

The Library of Celaeno

Cinéma Médiocrité

Years ago, at another teaching job, I ran a club called the Museum Society. The term was meant in the broadest sense; we explored everything the muses had to offer, looking at philosophical themes in art, music, and (most accessibly to the kids) movies. Every week we would watch something and analyze it according to some conceptual category, and for t…

10 months ago · 87 likes · 67 comments · Librarian of Celaeno

The Library of Celaeno

The Looming Fascist Menace of Donald Trump

Whatever else you think about the left, you really have to admire their optimism. They are nothing if not hopeful about the future. No matter the current political climate, however much the dominant neoliberal regime relegates them to dull academic sinecures or theater-kid street antics, they never stop believing that the public is really on their side…

10 months ago · 270 likes · 83 comments · Librarian of Celaeno

Mack's Memo • Intuitive Public Radio

Full presence

In the comments on Molly Brawer’s wonderful post about the freedom to err…

10 months ago · 13 likes · 6 comments · IPR with Mack Morris

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Old Glory Club

It’s Not a Competency Crisis

By guest contributor Peter Thistle…

10 months ago · 166 likes · 28 comments · Old Glory Club and Peter Thistle

On the Road of Bones

The Anunnaki are HERE!!!

Last week I decided to take my mind off the real world and create art with Clip Studio Paint on my Surface Pro. I highly recommend it. I’ve had this software for around 10 years now, transferred between 3 different machines, and it still gets free updates from time-to-time. That’s how you do software. But I digress… So I sketched out the figures, inked them, and colored them in on different layers. Then I exported the complete picture…

10 months ago · 10 likes · 1 comment · The Bone Writer

Reina’s Substack

My Baby

I almost missed her call. I wasn't catching her message. She's been overtired and needing rest & playtime again. The past week she's been on the verge of obnoxious and beligerante. She's literally been having minor temper tantrums and I didn't even realize what she was up to. It's almost 9pm as I sit in the darkened room feeling the cool night air breez…

10 months ago · 15 likes · 5 comments · Blessed Warrior Reina

Sasha V's Sesquipedalian Soliloquies

Silliness

There is a time and a place for everything, but some people seem to be stuck in one “mode” for lack of a better word. They act as if they are pre-programmed, and will just keep doing the same thing no matter how much it doesn’t work, no matter how many people point out that it doesn’t work, no matter how many times they see for themselves that it doesn…

10 months ago · 4 likes · Sasha V

Simplicius's Garden of Knowledge

USAID's Demise Sparks Dizzying Acceleration Toward New Era

Trump’s team has been busy dismantling core load-bearing pillars of the unfathomable globalist superstructure which has slowly suffocated the planet for decades. The USAID saga has only been the most conspicuous of the moves, as it has wrenched loud outcries from the various ‘blob’ parties affected by the sudden power cuts…

10 months ago · 532 likes · 241 comments · Simplicius

The Stone Age

Written In Stone [02/14/2025]

Hello everyone, and happy Valentine’s Day…

10 months ago · 10 likes · 12 comments

The Tomb of Morgthorak

Is the FBI stalling the release of the JFK assassination files?

As I write this article, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have pushed the vote on Kash Patel - Trump’s pick to head the FBI - back to this week. Supposedly, he is to be voted on by the committee by Thursday. We shall see if that actually happens or if something comes up between now and then that stops his nomination…

10 months ago · 39 likes · 7 comments · Morgthorak the Undead

Unfolding the World

The Chocolate-Covered Satan

This post is long with many images. Your email provider may truncate it. If it does, read the original at http://jdanielsawyer.substack.com…

10 months ago · 51 likes · 9 comments · J. Daniel Sawyer

Unfolding the World

Surfing Badly For The Win

As I write this, I’m watching for the bear…

10 months ago · 28 likes · 2 comments · J. Daniel Sawyer

The Woes of Wendy McWaffle

A Portfolio Career: Case Study 'MJ'

Age 2-3: Violinist…

10 months ago · 9 likes · 3 comments · Wendy McWaffle

The Worst Years Ever: Conflict, Power, & Propaganda

Loach, Benn, Stone

From a baseline of zero last year, this Substack becomes a community of 317 subscribers - you guys are here at the start😊 It jumped by 100 this past month, following my articles on Bono and Gaza - which received 6,000+ views…

10 months ago · 9 likes · 2 comments · Dr. Matthew Alford

Write More with Simon K Jones

The benefits of writing a lot of words

It’s not unknown for this newsletter to go off on various tangents, but the central core is always in the name: Write More…

10 months ago · 61 likes · 21 comments · Simon K Jones

WritersBlot

Mystique of the 1970's

WritersBlot is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber…

10 months ago · 8 likes · 4 comments · sumwoman

Xero for Hire Productions

Faith, Politics, and the Trap You Don't See

You ever notice how some Christians treat good news like it’s a setup? Like the moment anything positive happens in the world, it must be a trap? A deception? A cruel joke before the inevitable disas…

10 months ago · 2 likes · Xeroforhire

xoxo Gossip Giancaspro

Who is your Muppet Big 3?

a year ago · 62 likes · 98 comments · Tara Giancaspro

Year of Living Anywhere by Ash Ambirge

Dear World: You Become a New Person by Choosing a New Problem

Welp, it happened. IT HAPPENED…

10 months ago · 36 likes · 14 comments · Ash Ambirge

Your Grandma's Substack

Familiarity Breeds Contentment

Let me just start this off by saying I’m sorry for my unannounced ghosting of you over the past two weeks. I realize I took an unannounced two week hiatus and I did so without so much as a “by your leave”. The reason for my long absence was unintentional at best and careless at worst. There were good reasons for my absence and let me enumerate them to y…

10 months ago · 4 likes · 2 comments · Andrew Beebe

YourLastLife

Atomic Habits - How To Consistently Win

Looking back at my life I notice a pattern. I have a history of starting something, doing it for a while, then giving up. Then I’d start something new, do it a while then give up…

10 months ago · 4 likes · 7 comments · YourLastLife

Zen Strength

The Best Color Light for Sleeping: A Biohacker's Simple Guide

After helping clients optimize their sleep environment, I've discovered a surprising truth…

10 months ago · 1 like · Jason Ryer

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