🌟 What I'm Reading: 3-16-2025 🌟

A Weekly Roundup Highlight Reel of What I Have Been Reading and a Weekly Recap

Mar 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: 3-16-2025

1020 Thoughts

Of Trans And Trojan Horses

I’d like to introduce a new Substack term, or at least I think it’s new…

9 months ago · 12 likes · 17 comments · Brett Richards

A Lily Bit

A Tinfoil Hat Won’t Shield You from Reality

TL;DR: Your tinfoil hat’s useless against the real story. Today’s mess is mainly born from dumb, repeated rules, not single evil geniuses. It’s not that easy. History’s littered with paranoid flops and forged hate bombs people still drool over, while mass formation turns crowds into eerie, synced swarms—no secret handshakes required. The true villain? A cold, mechanistic ideology driving us into a surveillance-soaked technocracy. Conspiracy rants won’t rescue you—they just leave you smug, blind, and ripe for mockery, undermining the real, grounded criticism you could be leveling…

9 months ago · 62 likes · 5 comments · Lily

Bonds of Prometheus

Psychological profile of the ruling class

The ruling class is comprised of individuals currently in institutional positions of perceived, and therefore actual power. They merely happen to possess the means to shape public perception, to define the illusion of monetary value, to impose money-supply monopolies, and to violently enforce regulations, whether using a dictatorship, monarchy, or the s…

10 months ago · 58 likes · 31 comments · Sotiris Rex

Bros Krynn’s Newsletter

Analyzing the Greatest Horror Novel - Dracula by Bram Stoker - Harnessing Northern Courage: Jonathan's Great Escape from the Demon's Tower!

If you want to support us you can buy…

9 months ago · 19 likes · 12 comments · The Brothers Krynn

The Bunkum Manifesto

Five (5) LOL Memes This Week

I'm not a memelord; I don't seek out memes. But I don't shun them either, so they find me. And some of them do brighten my week; humor is absolutely essential for navigating our very interesting times…

9 months ago · 3 likes · The Chief Bunkum

Cartoons Hate Her

Many Such Takes: JD Vance Edits, Womanly Man Cave, Anora, Steak N Shake

Welcome to Many Such Takes! For those unfamiliar, this is a free weekly segment (I also do lots of other stuff!) For Many Such Takes, I stay up to date with the latest and most chaotic Twitter (and now BlueSky) discourse so you don’t have to. If you see yourself featured here and you don’t like it, simply send me a Substack message and I will happily re…

9 months ago · 112 likes · 57 comments · Cartoons Hate Her

Castalia

Dear Friends…

9 months ago · 9 likes · 1 comment · Ishmael Wallace

The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon

Ramentic Retreat? Or Just Noodling Around?

9 months ago · 31 likes · 10 comments · Charlotte Pendragon

Chas Holloway's Thinkopolis

The Martin Guitar

9 months ago · 3 likes · Chas Holloway

The Common Centrist’s Substack

I Feel It Coming: The Weeknd ft Daft Punk

Hey guys…

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9 months ago · 8 likes · 9 comments · The Common Centrist

Community Gold

If this does not move you, you are probably dead!

Two Choices…

10 months ago · 2327 likes · 202 comments · Bob Neville

Conspi-Rat

Chewsday Memes, Mar 11

Good time of day, humans…

9 months ago · 77 likes · 1 comment · Rat

The Cosmic Mirror

Break the Mask, Bleed the Spark

Hey, cosmic rebels. We’ve clawed past Lead’s heavy grip and waded through Dissolution’s murky currents. Now, Mortification crashes in, raw and unapologetic. The collapse is the breaking point that gives birth to something new. Picture it: the ancient bones of a dead star crumbling to dust, only to ignite a nebula’s glow. That’s Mortification destruction…

9 months ago · 4 likes · Goddess Renell

Dad Explains

Happy Little Cages

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else…

9 months ago · 51 likes · 10 comments

Disaffected Newsletter

Don't Forget

I’ll be republishing some of my articles from the time of the alleged pandemic. The forgetting of recent history is already happening, and it’s not acceptable. This era was just yesterday. It was so extreme, so anti-human, so un-American, that it cannot be forgotten…

9 months ago · 111 likes · 39 comments · Josh Slocum

Eltoro Market Insights

#10 Weekly Update - 5000 Gold price? - Market Correction Intensifies

Hi and welcome back for a Quant data driven analysis. [Full Disclaimer…

9 months ago · 25 likes · Harry Colt

Emeth

Influencing Those Around Us

This essay is an expansion of a comment left the other day, in a discussion of good and evil…

9 months ago · 15 likes · 9 comments · Cameron M. Bailey

THE FAMILY WE KEEP | by Deborah T. Hewitt

I Me Mine

“No one's frightened of playing it…

2 years ago · 35 likes · 42 comments · Deborah T. Hewitt

Field Notes

Wabi Sabi Stoic Photography I

Welcome to Field Notes…

9 months ago · 24 likes · 17 comments · Erik Hogan

The Freedom Scale

Was Karl Marx an Actual Satanist?

He had a favorite line, always, from Mephistopheles…

9 months ago · 64 likes · 86 comments · Christopher Cook

Gallows Humor Magazine

Memes for the Team

Hipsterer Than Thou Dept…

9 months ago · 113 likes · 6 comments · Gallows Humor Magazine

Good Humor

My Dating Profile

Just a post, hubby. Love ya, babe…

9 months ago · 55 likes · 59 comments · Good Humor by CK Steefel

Hacking Narcissism

Why bringing your whole self to work is a bad idea

I have been very lucky to feature on several therapist podcasts so far this year. While I’m not a therapist, I am a practitioner of many of the relational and therapeutic skills necessary to support people to sense make, have epiphanies, and make beneficial, methodical, planned changes as a coach, facilitator, mediator, reflective practice supervisor, a…

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9 months ago · 31 likes · 18 comments · Nathalie Martinek PhD

i3utm’s Anarcho-Stack

The Daily Anarcho-Stack. ChurchStack Vol 2.: Why I am a Gnostic Christian.

It has been almost 20 years since I have delved into Gnosticism. It feels strange to say that but I have not regretted my decision to do so. I had some dancing around historical Christianity between 2000 and 2003 but only in terms of Orthodoxy. Getting a book from a friend on the History of Christianity in 2000. Seeing the Dead Sea Scrolls physically in 2003. And questioning why Christianity had so many Schisms in its history…

9 months ago · 5 likes · i3utm

Ken’s Substack

Staycations

Coming up on what will be a year after running my last train and beginning my “permanent” staycation on March 13th, it brought back those days when life was simple and, at least from my standpoint, had few if any worries…

9 months ago · 10 likes · 3 comments · Ken Macko

Kent’s Substack

The Piano Has Been Drinking

9 months ago · 70 likes · 17 comments · Kent Peterson

L5 News

Why

“Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a most honest and most wise judge, was in the habit of asking time and again in lawsuits: ‘to whom might it be for a benefit?’" ~ Cicero, Pro Roscio Amerino, 80 years Before Christ…

9 months ago · 20 likes · 4 comments · Jim Davidson

The Library of Celaeno

It Will Never Be Cool to Have Kids

[Note: whenever I post anything about having kids I always include the caveat that, while I think children are the greatest blessing, I don’t judge people for not having them, even if my humor gives that impression. There are plenty of circumstances thst result in childlessness which aren’t related to the social trends I mention and deplore…

9 months ago · 254 likes · 96 comments · Librarian of Celaeno

Mercuria

Hypercognizance & The Thought-Frequency Continuum

The Missing Key to Sustained Cognitive Mastery…

9 months ago · 15 likes · 7 comments · Alan Scheurman

Midnight in the Laptop of Good and Evil

WHAT HAPPENED…

Like so many of us, photojournalist Diana Mara Henry sees our 21st century America’s many good intentions gone bad. She was there in the ‘70s and ‘80s documenting the passion and purpose of an activi…

9 months ago · 23 likes · 9 comments · Mike McCormick

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The Nurse Rhymes

Time Marches On

Welcome back to the latest installment of the Pen Pal Archives! Do you remember what life was like before the internet? We sure do! Join us as we channel our younger selves and fondly recall life on either side of the pond in the 1980’s…

9 months ago · 19 likes · 18 comments · Kristin Swan and Trudi Nicola

On the Road of Bones

Leave It All Behind

Is it running away from your problems if you sometimes feel like running off into the woods and leaving it all behind…

9 months ago · 7 likes · The Bone Writer

On the Road of Bones

Rambling Streams of Thought

Coffee in the morning. Walking the dogs around the circle in the afternoon. Reading a good Hunter S. Thompson book. Watching a controversial show that you can’t look away from. Listening to music that purges the demons inside. I don’t ask for much. Apparently… To live is to be under constant scrutiny from all of those around you. I don’t have time for that. I’m not sorry to say that if I don’t live up to the standards, in the heads of the people around the way, that’s just too damn bad. This is me, you can deal or walk. Individuality makes quite a few people walk when they can’t break you, c'est la vie…

9 months ago · 9 likes · 1 comment · The Bone Writer

Paul’s Substack

THE COOKOUT

My brother was always known to be a bit of a backwoods chef. Living in the country, our mother was always "letting us loose" in the kitchen to experiment and try our hand at cooking different things. My brother always seemed to have a better handle on spices and cooking from scratch…

9 months ago · 15 likes · 3 comments · Paul McCutchen

Poetic Outlaws

Happy Birthday, Jack Kerouac!

“Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream…

9 months ago · 355 likes · 47 comments · Poetic Outlaws

Quandary Magazine

The Fortress on the Lake

Editor’s Introduction…

9 months ago · 10 likes · 10 comments · Cole Noble and The Mighty Humanzee

Sapiential Newsletter

Superficial Diversity

When you get asked about diversity people typically think about individuals with different backgrounds. Mixing different points of view over how to solve a particular problem or with different perspectives on what they'd like to see happen. This is especially true with a lot of non-profit groups or similar organizations that try and find people with dif…

9 months ago · 5 likes · Chris Hall

Sasha V's Sesquipedalian Soliloquies

The Bore

As a direct follow-up to my last article, today I’m going to rant about another type of personality I can’t stand. Now, you might think of the old meme, “I hate lazy people,” followed by “why, we didn’t even do anything.” It’s the same with boring people. In both cases, they can make nuisances of themselves by injecting their behaviour into areas whe…

9 months ago · 12 likes · 3 comments · Sasha V

Sasha V's Sesquipedalian Soliloquies

Changes

*Sigh* I was going to write an article about the various reasons that Russians and Americans are natural allies, but then I stumbled across an awful, awful book that doesn’t need to exist. Fucking boomers, I swear. I kid, I kid (mostly…

9 months ago · 12 likes · 2 comments · Sasha V

Stoic Street Smarts

I Grew Up Next to a Crackhouse

9 months ago · 31 likes · 8 comments · Ed Latimore

The Stone Age

Mercury Goes Retro

This has been snipped from a segment posted in the March 1 edition of Written In Stone, the weekly newsletter for paid Members; due to this (and the fact it’s so short), it is a Web-Only Drop…

9 months ago · 15 likes · 6 comments · Stone Bryson

Susan’s Substack

Cosmic Cowgirl

I’m a cosmic cowgirl from Arizona, USA, planet earth. My retirement years have me flying around in my cosmic egg spaceship making deliveries. I work for an artificially intelligent gazillionare that created a blue pill and wafer protocol for saving souls in faraway galaxies. Their bellies are empty and they all have headaches as I put my cosmic egg spac…

a year ago · 7 likes · Mason, Storyteller

Visual Liquid

No More Rain: the sudden exit of Neo-Soul pioneer Ms. Angie Stone

Hold up. We just lost Roberta Flack and mean to tell me, heavens above, Angie is gone too…

9 months ago · 7 likes · Tess McCarthy

9 months ago · 2 likes · Chris Youngblood

WEEKLY RECAP

Channeled Messages

What We Think, We Create. What We Feel, We Attract. What We Imagine, Be Become.

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🌟 What I'm Reading: 3-16-2025 🌟

A Weekly Roundup Highlight Reel of What I Have Been Reading and a Weekly Recap

The Starfire Codes produces an audience-supported publication with a stellar podcast, consciousness-expanding daily spiritual content, and well-researched articles on forbidden but crucial topics.

This is what we do full time. Thank you for all of the ways you support The Starfire Codes! It means the universe to us. 🌟

What I'm Reading: 3-16-2025

Click here to find out more about booking a personal divination reading….

WEEKLY RECAP

What We Think, We Create. What We Feel, We Attract. What We Imagine, Be Become.

Just Be Yourself. Let People See The Real, Imperfect, Flawed, Quirky, Weird, Beautiful, And Magical Person That You Are

The Madness Of Love Is The Greatest Of Heaven's Blessings

Bringing in New Waves Of Love

You Can Rise Up From Anything

I Hope You See How Far You Have Come

Imperfect People Create Perfect Relationships With Honesty

MEME DROP #301: When You’re Just Chilling In Your Shoe

MEME DROP #302: You’re About To Overcome Something You’ve Been Dealing With.

MEME DROP #303: Congratulations.

MEME DROP #304: Old Energy Is Clearing. New Energy Is Entering.

The Perplexicon

Podcast Guest Appearances

THE SCROLL: From Here To Eternity

What I'm Watching: This Odd Mindset Shift Cured My Procrastination Forever

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