🌟 What I'm Reading: 4-28-2024 🌟

A Weekly Roundup Highlight Reel of What I Have Been Reading

Apr 28, 2024

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What I'm Reading: 4-28-2024

Bros Krynn’s Newsletter

The Old Code: The right can never die, If one man still recalls.

The Right can never die if one man still recalls is a great phrase, and a great ideal. The notion that righteousness is something that can never truly perish from this world is an ideal that gets harder and harder to believe in with every passing day. Always this has been the way of the world; brutality and savagery reigns, and sinfulness is easy with v…

2 years ago · 24 likes · 15 comments · The Brothers Krynn

The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon

Beyond The Ring Is Magic

Thanks for reading The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. “ In the future clearing stands a boxer And a fighter by his trade And he carries the reminders Of every glove that laid him down…

2 years ago · 74 likes · 37 comments

Chas Holloway's Thinkopolis

The Creatorians

The Creatorians by Chas Holloway Unknown to surface dwellers, they hold up the world…

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2 years ago · 7 likes · 1 comment · Chas Holloway

Chas Holloway's Thinkopolis

The Speakeasy Era

The Speakeasy Era by Chas Holloway Special Note! People have been telling me that Thinkopolis, which has Been an audio production, needs to have a video component. The thing is, Thinkopolis episode have an abstract quality — and turning them into mini documentaries destroys that. So I’ve been experimenting with “ambient” video tracks — something interesti…

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2 years ago · 3 likes · Chas Holloway

Conspi-Rat

Chewsday Memes, Apr 23

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. Enjoy…

2 years ago · 84 likes · 8 comments · Rat

Continued New Beginnings

The Heartbeats & Energy Poets Department

After every yoga class, as I lay on my mat looking up or eyes closed with soothing music playing and my instructor coming around with a lavender cool cloth to be put on my forehead...I tap my heart with my right hand 3 times, mouthing the words "thank you, thank you, thank you." I do this for many reasons. Most of all, I think in that moment just how fa…

2 years ago · 5 likes · Matthew Johnson

A Convict's Perspective

Felony Dating

Back in the mid-90’s, my someday-wife was coming into the city to visit a couple of friends and agreed that we could all hang out while she was there. As always, I wanted to impress her. Being about 15 at the time kinda limited my options though. With this in mind, I suggested a place where we could get together and was pumped that she was willing…

2 years ago · 158 likes · 83 comments · Coleman

Cosmographia

As above, so below

Welcome to Cosmographia. This is the first edition of Manūscriptum — a new series where we’ll take a look back at some of history’s most beautiful documents. For the full map of Cosmographia posts, see here…

2 years ago · 85 likes · 12 comments · M. E. Rothwell

Dad Explains

A Gentle Push

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. Robin WilliamsDad Explains is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Encourage There is inconceivable power in encouragement and undeniable benefits in embracing truth and taking small, steady steps forward. …

2 years ago · 37 likes · 9 comments · Andrew | Dad Explains

DoG’s Substack

Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception (Part 6)

2 years ago · 110 likes · 4 comments · DoG

The Downshift

Is disability theology becoming my special interest?

I am autistic. Autism is a disability. I have a disability. I’ve been contemplating these sentences since getting my diagnosis—rearranging the words, turning them over in my mind, considering how I experience each phrase. Adding and removing the word “therefore” when the mood strikes me…

2 years ago · 9 likes · 11 comments · Sunita

Epic Gonzo

Of Pisco and Peru: Iquitos

“So, es you giving up on your South American Dream?” Auntie M’s whispering out of the side of her mouth, standing next to me in this small museum housed in an original, German-built, turn of the 20th Century riverboat, complete with wood-burning steam engine room…

2 years ago · 17 likes · EpicGonzo

Flow State

Bond

Good morning. It’s Friday so we’re listening to something more upbeat. Today we’re listening to Bond, a British/Australian electric string quartet. The group – originally Haylie Ecker (violin), Eos Co…

2 years ago · 16 likes · 1 comment · Flow State

The Forgotten Facts

The Forgotten Facts Of Adidas

The song “My Adidas” still rings loud inside my head today…"My Adidas walk through concert doors and roam all over coliseum floors.” Throughout grade school and high school, Run-DMC helped me through a lot of life at that stage. They were tougher than leather and always on point with the lyrics in any type of weather. They are also the reason I wanted…

2 years ago · 10 likes · 7 comments · Tom Brown

Frater Seamus

God and the Angels Talk to Me. They're Probably Talking to You Too.

God and the angels only ever speak to me in whispers. Utterances so low you are not sure if it is your imagination or the real thing. God speaks to me in coincidences, synchronicities and subtle intuitions. There is no grand voice. No loud and clear message…

2 years ago · 17 likes · 6 comments · Frater Seamus

The Freedom Corner with PeterSweden

HUGE: The WHO is BACKING DOWN on the pandemic treaty

Have you heard about the WHO pandemic treaty? They have been working on a treaty which would threaten free speech and national sovereignty. If it went through, it would essentially mean that they could CENSOR speech that the WHO deemed to be misinformation. They could also force countries to vaccin…

2 years ago · 592 likes · 12 comments · Peter Imanuelsen

The Freedom Scale

How Many of These Conspiracy Theories Do You Believe?

I have a jumble of thoughts on today’s track—“I Told You So” by Conspiracy Music Guru (video below). I will try to make them make sense. Back in February, we looked at another of Conspiracy Music Guru’s songs—a truly badass takedown of BigPharma. The majority of you FreedomScalers will recognize and agree with the charges Conspiracy Music Guru levels aga…

2 years ago · 63 likes · 66 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

Looking for the Real Oppressors? Look Higher.

Every time I go to FreedomFest—the yearly gathering of libertarians, anarchists, conservatives, and other lovers of liberty—I feel like a kid in a freedom-themed candy store. Do I watch the big speakers on the big stage? Cruise the exhibition hall? Go to the fascinating breakout sessions? Check in on the Anthem Film Festival? So many choices…

2 years ago · 39 likes · 16 comments · Christopher Cook

Goatfury Writes

The First Bugs

Let’s talk about the first bugs today. You’re probably already thinking about two different meanings for the word bug: one is all about six-legged critters (possibly also eight-legged, depending on how you define it), and the other is about some kind of error in a computer process or program…

2 years ago · 29 likes · 19 comments · Andrew Smith

Goatfury Writes

Go Surf

When I was growing up, my family was fortunate to have a computer. This alone may sound odd to folks who have grown up with a tablet or smartphone in their hands at all times, but the 1980s saw a slow and gradual expansion of computers in homes. People didn’t really understand their wide-ranging utility, and both hardware and software were pretty user-unfriendly. To run programs, you had to understand at least a tiny bit of code yourself—at least the very basic C prompts from MS DOS, just to run programs (even games). You needed to load the program from an audio cassette tape, just like the kind on which you’d create a mixtape…

2 years ago · 32 likes · 35 comments · Andrew Smith

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…

2 years ago · 44 likes · Jeremy Mercier

Joyce’s Place

Timelines

We lived in different timelines and our worlds were miles apart, we lived our lives, we worked and dreamed, were strangers at the start. Our timelines crossed, we met, and loved. And for a while it felt as though ‘t was sheer eternity, while this, our world, we held. And then your timeline moved away, diverging from m…

2 years ago · 80 likes · 40 comments · Joyce

Joyce’s Place

What Remains

A huge Thank You to Stone Bryson and Duane Toops for reading and edititing this essay, and to Duane Toops for the beautiful collages Not for the first time, I’ve been inspired by what other authors wrote. Demi Pietchell, The Starfire Codes, had another Meme drop in which old buildings featured, and Charlotte Pendragon made several references to the fi…

2 years ago · 53 likes · 41 comments · Joyce

Kathleen Devanney's Newsletter

Pretend Time is Over

My kindergarten teacher - Mrs. Schumacher - used something she called Pretend Time as a means of keeping her class in order. A carrot you could say, dangled in front of her flock of five year olds, maybe more accurately a deal: behave (especially outside the class room, where it really counted) and in exchange we might earn a minute of unbridled imaginat…

2 years ago · 62 likes · 68 comments · Kathleen

Kaya's Self Liberation Portal

Deciphering Compassionate Action from "Idiot Compassion" in the New Age

Kaya's Self Liberation Portal is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Sometime in the not so distant future humanity will look back at our mental health system, our medical system, at current expressions of our religious, cultural and political institutions and find them ut…

2 years ago · 14 likes · 4 comments · Kaya Marie

The Last Sage

Passes through the systems of Hell

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” ― Dante Alighieri We live in a world of good words in desperate need of good works. Good words are promises that often make us feel good, filling our heads with vivid m…

2 years ago · 40 likes · 9 comments · Theodore Atkinson

The Library of Celaeno

The Universal Empire and Its Discontents

I am a regular reader of Arktos Journal and of all Substacks they generate by far the largest number of subscriptions for me. I doubt they need me to say they do good work, and that the essays they publish are necessary reading for those in dissident right spaces. I am in particular a great fan of…

2 years ago · 89 likes · 35 comments · Librarian of Celaeno

Lighthouse

It can’t be helped

It can’t be helped You look outside and see it’s a sunny day. Your mood is perfect, you just had your coffee and waffles, and high energy is zipping through you.Lighthouse is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber…

2 years ago · 66 likes · 37 comments · Alexander Semenyuk

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NEVERMORE MEDIA

FEMALE ORGASM: THE GREATEST SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY OF THE 20TH CENTURY?

[T]he human female is capable of constant sexual arousal. She is physically able to make love every day of her adult life. She can copulate during pregnancy, and she can resume sexual activity shortly after having a child. She can make love whenever she pleases…

2 years ago · 14 likes · NEVERMORE MEDIA

Observations on the Way

Counterfeit Connection

Connection is vital to human health. We are a species that has survived primarily because we have lived, worked, and cooperated in tribes. Together we have helped protect, defend, feed one another, and pass on valuable knowledge from generation to generation that has not only helped us survive but thrive…

2 years ago · 5 likes · 9 comments · April Novoa

On the Road of Bones

The 2 Me's and the Nexus Point

There are 2 of me. One that is “pre” and one that is “post”. I’m fairly certain this line in the space/time continuum holds true for many living people (in the US, at least) at the time of the nexus collapse. “What the fuck are you talking about? It sounds like you’ve gone off the tracks and knocked your bloody head on the cement in crazy town…

2 years ago · 10 likes · 7 comments · The Bone Writer

On the Road of Bones

The Curse of Immortality (3)

Read Chapter 2 of The Curse of Immortality HERE I awoke in a daze. Groggy, cotton mouth, and generally rundown. The week had been a chore to survive. My senses were too heightened and it led to sensory overload. By the time the Friday workday had come to an end, I rushed out of the building and drove home with the intention of locking myself in my apartment and hiding away from everyone and everything. I just wanted to sleep. Forever if that was my current option. Alas…

2 years ago · 4 likes · 1 comment · The Bone Writer

Post Post Modern

There's no such thing as 'someday'.

I attended my very first Landmark seminar in 2002. For those of you who have never heard of Landmark, the simplest way for me to describe it is as a highly effective training modality and set of courses designed to break people free from the ‘matrix of their minds’ and out of their programmed way of existing in the world…

2 years ago · 5 likes · 3 comments · Jacqueline Rendell

Reina’s Substack

Have U Ever Danced with Demons to Reclaim Your Soul??

As I sit for a minute, pen in hand; thoughts swirl with contentment & joy as realization sets in that I am healing. I've been on this journey, many lifetimes already; but today I see, feel, taste, smell, & hear progress beyond what I imagined possible even just a short time ago. I have always known I came to earth to help others, to heal others; but …

2 years ago · 55 likes · 20 comments · Blessed Warrior Reina

Restoration, with Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Moral Argument For Open Borders, and Why It’s So Very Bad

I will occasionally be indulging in deep dives into political philosophy or policy. These dives will diverge from the news cycle, and they may not be interesting to everyone. However, I think it’s essential not just to win elections, but to win philosophical arguments. The latter tends to lead to the former, at least to some degree…

2 years ago · 85 likes · 2 comments · Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Art Companion, Chapter 28, Triangulation: When Guessing Fails

Note: This chapter was a transcript from my YouTube video…

2 years ago · 14 likes · 7 comments · Michael Newberry

The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Hôtel Le Royal Deauville

That summer of 1975, Chris Lewis, my USC teammate, and I (him 19, me 18) played the minor pro tennis tour in Europe. We played in France, Denmark, Holland, and Germany. We had Eurorail Passes, sometimes sitting in first class and, if the train was full, sometimes sitting on the floor by the toilets. When I had free time, I would visit archaeological sites and museums…

2 years ago · 23 likes · 18 comments · Michael Newberry

Solarah Speaks

DAILY ALKHEMY: Dancing In The Flames Of Destruction Is One Of The Most Effective Ways To Truly Be Set Free | Phoenix Codes Loading....

Full moons always dredge up those deep emotional energies hidden in the depths of our unconscious and subconscious. As such, it is always a wonderful time to do deep emotional purging and clearing from previous chapters of shadow work. When the moon is at Her brightest, we can no longer hide from certain truths that have been needing our attention, but meeting our repression and denial. When the moon is at Her fullest, we are able to see more clearly the patterns, pitfalls, and effects of our previous choices - for as long as we want to, and are therfore standing in our raw truth…

2 years ago · 15 likes · Solarah

Solarah Speaks

DAILY ALKHEMY: It's Always Been You! YOU Are The "Salt Of The Earth" And The True Commodities Upon Which Our Value Systems Are Founded

Tomorrow’s Full Moon is setting the tone for the closure many have been waiting on to play out materially. As we continue to hone in on our worth and value, the fake value systems of the old world will continue to disintegrate. It has always been you - you are the true value system and the reason for why it exists. You, and all of the organic life on this planet, are the true “salt of the Earth,” and the true commodities upon which our value systems are founded…

2 years ago · 16 likes · 1 comment · Solarah

Solarah Speaks

DAILY ALKHEMY: Ritual Is A Powerful Way To Unfuck Yourself Of All The Programs That Have Been Built By Way Of Unconscious Repetition

Everything we do ritually to have an effect on our realities builds, or alters, our energy fields on all planes. The choice to adhere to a daily affirmation practice, for example, shifts our mental settings- what and how we think about ourselves. This, in turn, has an effect on our emotional settings- how we start to…

2 years ago · 14 likes · 2 comments · Solarah

Solarah Speaks

WEEKEND ALKHEMY: Mars In Aries Is Bringing Back The Energetic Protections We Need To No Longer Be Harvested

2 years ago · 7 likes · 1 comment · Solarah

Solarah Speaks

WORD FOR YOUR WEEK With Solarah

The focus on the quality of the company we keep, and allow access to our value, continues. We are learning powerful lessons on how true community forms as an extension of the full strength power of each member. The false matrix encouraged the belittlement of many for the aggrandising of a few. This is what our social enterprises and community anatomy ref…

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2 years ago · 33 likes · 2 comments · Solarah

Sol Luckman Uncensored Updates & Uploads

😜 The Memeing of Life

Sol Luckman Should I post another meme Would that make you pay attention Or just distract you From your unreal situation Should I post what you want me to Or post what you truly need Some real novelty in your feed To untie you from your post Should I fit in a programmed niche…

2 years ago · 9 likes · 6 comments · Sol Luckman

The Stone Age

TDT: Net Neutrality: Protective, Or Just A Government Power-Grab?

Net neutrality is one of those sticky-wickets about which a myriad of opinions and interpretations exist, but where there is very little consensus on what it actually means. It is almost as if it is designed to be confusing deliberately, which usually means there is something nefarious about it…

2 years ago · 20 likes · 12 comments

The Stone Age

When Power and Prophecy Collide

The anniversary of a grim moment in recent American history occurred this last Thursday; about it, barely a whisper was to be heard. Well, there were a few whispers, but all with the usual application of the ‘elitist’ doctoring our media outlets adore; when it comes to indoctrination we love to focus on alleged ‘cult leaders,’ though the masses should st…

2 years ago · 53 likes · 47 comments · Stone Bryson

Thinking Man

Community Comments - With Gratitude

Thinking Man has reached some big milestones this month. It’s actually remarkable how much can change in a short time when you’ve set your mind to something. The beginning of April was when John Mistretta and I really decided to “get serious” on Substack—put all our eggs in one basket and really try to make this thing grow. We never could have dreamed of the results…

2 years ago · 26 likes · 21 comments · Melissa Petrie

Thinking Man

Nonconformist on Fulton Street

The gust of hot air felt somehow cool as the train rumbled into the subway platform. I heard the loud clanking of wheels against tracks as two fluorescent lighting tubes directly over my head flickered on and off three times, just like they always did when the train passed underneath them…

2 years ago · 22 likes · 22 comments · Melissa Petrie

This Changes Everything

Is the dystopian reality we live in real?

I started this Substack to explore all the reasons why it is important that we know that “viruses” do not exist. And the more I contemplate this, the more reasons there are. It may seem strange or even exaggerated to say that the issue of virus nonexistence is a key to unlocking human freedom, but I think it is. It is that important…

2 years ago · 28 likes · 43 comments · Betsy

Underthrow

The Temple and the Brothel

The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels…

2 years ago · 8 likes · Max Borders

Welcome to Absurdistan

They Are The Dark; We Are the Light

This is the fourth in a dredging operation. I am not asking you to take this on board as gospel. I just want you to consider it, and over the next weeks and months, see what comes to you as evidence or corroboration. I’m working towards a meta-theory, rather than presenting you with something I can prove in court. However, this is hardly speculative, I have a lot of validating evidence, but I am rigorous. I need things locked down before I assert them as fact. Out there in the wildlands of the internet, millions of people, educated and not, ‘believe’ what I am presenting and they are in full opposition. Any politician looking for a way forward would be wise to look at this theory because he would immediately gain an active base. Which is why I think it’s worth considering…

2 years ago · 98 likes · 39 comments · elizabeth nickson

Witchcraft and Metaphysics with Jenna Newell Hiott

The Archetype and The Tarot: The Gem and The Empress

Through the Gem and The Empress, this week we’re being called to draw our inner treasure into our awareness. Can we excavate our Gem from the sediment of our lives? Welcome everyone! For an overview of what I’m doing here, please check out this post all about it…

2 years ago · 21 likes · 27 comments · Jenna Newell Hiott

Charlotte Pendragon

Demi, Sunday round-up is my go to for finding reads! Thank you so much for sharing it, and including my work among so many talented writers. Sending you much love and bless you! ✨💜✨

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Theodore Atkinson

Another great list! Thanks again for including me (◕‿◕)

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