🌟 What I'm Reading: 2-9-2025 🌟

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Feb 09, 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: 2-9-2025

Beyond the Visible

Sovereignty in Relationships

Have you ever been in a relationship that cracked you wide open? Maybe it lifted you to heights you didn’t know existed—or dropped you into depths you didn’t think you’d survive. Relationships are like that. They teach us in ways nothing else can…

a year ago · 7 likes · Alex de Carvalho

Cameron M. Bailey

Getting Screwed

It’s no secret that my wife and I are bar people. I’ve written about that before. We like bars because there aren’t any kids jumping, screaming, making nuances out of themselves, and because we tend to like bar food…

a year ago · 14 likes · 8 comments · Cameron M. Bailey

Cameron M. Bailey

Moving Fast And Breaking Things

Facebook’s old internal motto, seemingly coined by Zuckerberg himself seems to broadly reflect the Silicon Valley ethos as a whole…

a year ago · 12 likes · 3 comments · Cameron M. Bailey

The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon

Who Is Andrei Kozlenok?

“One of the greatest lootings of Mother Russia since the end of the Cold War happened in 1993: a corrupt Russian bureaucrat and his young protégé concocted a scheme to help the Kremlin extort billions from the De Beers diamond cartel while secretly siphoning $180 million in raw diamonds from the Russian State Treasury to purchase luxury properties, cars…

a year ago · 34 likes · 15 comments · Charlotte Pendragon

Dad Memes By Popular Demand: A Wise Man Farts With Confidence

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

a year ago · 127 likes · 11 comments

Disaffected Newsletter

Disco Interlude

In summer 1993 I was sitting in the back of Michael’s Toyota Tercel, stuck on the George Washington bridge, having to pee so bad I was considering getting out and pissing over the railing. Dirty New York fuckers probly woulda liked it…

a year ago · 55 likes · 39 comments · Josh Slocum

Disaffected Newsletter

The dream of the 90s is dead-good

What I’m about to write is without rancor, and has no intent to ridicule or belittle. I mean this without value or character judgment…

a year ago · 165 likes · 29 comments · Josh Slocum

The Freedom Scale

Is Duck Duck Go Regime-Compliant Now?

Given the recent attempt to use “bird flu” to resurrect the ghost of covid (and as an excuse to murder 150 million chickens), I think it is appropriate to start off #MemeMonday with a little reminder of what they did during covid. (Plus a few more good memes…

a year ago · 112 likes · 140 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

The Left's Racket Is So Much Worse Than We Knew

Back in 2009 and 2010, we learned where the money went in the Obama/Democrats’ 2009 “Stimulus.” It went to public employee unions. It went to state and local governments. It went to Chrysler dealerships that had donated money to Democrats, but not to Republicans…

a year ago · 179 likes · 112 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

Why Did the Hong Kong Police Subscribe to Me?

I have gotten a lot of new subscribers lately, which is lovely. Welcome…

a year ago · 62 likes · 76 comments · Christopher Cook

How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

How To Take COVID White Pills

Comrades: COVID was a bitter black pill that turned into a white pill…

a year ago · 195 likes · 72 comments · Yuri Bezmenov

The New Coke Revisited

When I’m behind the wheel, no road trip is complete without a country-fried steak from Cracker Barrel, preferably served with turnip greens and fried okra. I’ve become a total sucker for their wholesome nostalgic Americana vibe, being marooned on the Upper West Side so much of the year. One of my very favorite George Jones albums was even an exclusive t…

a year ago · 44 likes · 14 comments · The Ivy Exile

Josh Tatter Has Thoughts

Deadwood, Dakota Territory, late 1800’s…

a year ago · 14 likes · 4 comments · Josh Tatter

“Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.” ~ Tom Hodgkinson, diligently professional idler, Anno Domini 2004, The Idle Art of Idleness…

a year ago · 7 likes · 1 comment · Jim Davidson

The Library of Celaeno

The Koala: A Creature for Our Time

The koala is an arboreal mammal native to Australia, one of that island nation’s most iconic fauna. Though commonly called a ‘koala bear,’ it is not closely related to ursines, nor indeed is it even a placental mammal, but rather a marsupial like the kangaroo, giving live birth to an almost larval offspring which then nurses in a pouch until maturity. …

3 years ago · 87 likes · 12 comments · Librarian of Celaeno

The Library of Celaeno

On Being a Ring-Giver

Of Scyld's great son in the lands of the Danemen…

a year ago · 121 likes · 25 comments · Librarian of Celaeno

Marilix’s Substack

Today I quit my job. I didn't quit because the job was too hard. I quit because I no longer resonate with the energy in that space. To be in a toxic environment with a limited “reward” for the illusion of security…It was like selling my soul for the bare minimum. It was like telling my higher self that our divine time is worth “X”, while innerstanding t…

a year ago · 7 likes · 3 comments · Marilix

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River’s Ramblings

The End Of The World

We are in the point in time called the Apocalypse. Obviously, it’s not the end of the world. The word comes from the Greek apocalyptein: apo (away from) and kalyptein (covering) – "to uncover or to reveal." The Apocalypse is the great revealing of what has been occulted. It's the time where Hidden Truth begins to surface. It is the time of awakening, bu…

a year ago · 7 likes · River Laurie

Written In Stone [02/07/2025]

Hello everyone! Welcome to this edition of Written In Stone [WIS] - the newsletter written just for you, the paid Members. Sent and posted every week no later than Friday, each drop has a variety of tidbits which can include personal musings, news bites, or whatever else is striking my fancy at the moment of publication…

a year ago · 5 likes · 1 comment

Susan’s Substack

For Anyone Who Cares

I buried every one of my worst memories for 67 years…

a year ago · 8 likes · Mason, Storyteller/Idea Maker

The Power of Bad Art

When I was an undergraduate in college, I had a sociology professor who was obsessed with Jackson Pollock. She dedicated about three lectures to him. We watched his documentary. If I’m not mistaken, I think we wrote a paper on the guy. It was interesting, for a little bit. However, all I could think of was that she was se…

a year ago · 16 likes · 10 comments · Melissa Mistretta

The Whirl Of ReOrientation

Perspective Agents: Unleashing Strategic Innovation with Boyd's OODA Loop & McLuhan's Insights with Chris Perry

What if embracing intellectual innovation could transform your organization's strategic advantage? Get ready to uncover the complexities of John Boyd's OODA “loop” sketch and its revolutionary impact on leadership and innovation. With the profound insights of…

a year ago · 6 likes · Mark McGrath

19. Working For A Living

Driving home at the end of the last day of building a house, I was uncomfortably aware that I was on my own again for the foreseeable future. There was never money in the bank to tide things over. The bank was my wife’s job. Insuring a positive balance was mine. I call myself a house carpenter, and I was a house carpenter as much as anyone could be, but…

a year ago · 58 likes · 24 comments · Working Man

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Discussion about this post

Cameron M. Bailey

Thank you for including me along with so many great writers!

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Charlotte Pendragon

Thank you Demi for Including my work, I'm always honored! 🫡♥️

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