🌟 What I'm Reading: 5-18-2025 🌟

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

May 18, 2025

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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!

Sending my love,
Demi 🌟

What I'm Reading: 5-18-2025

A Shadow of Yew

Greer

You probably don't know, never heard of Greer…

6 months ago · 14 likes · 5 comments · Mike Kay

Autumn Lives Here

A New Addition to the Family

I hate turning the corner and seeing our dirty old apartment building. Not that it’s any different than the other apartment buildings on our street, faded and standing shoulder to shoulder like drunks holding each other up. I beg Mom to call and request a place further from Sunset Boulevard, somewhere quiet, for her own sake. She always says she’ll call…

7 months ago · 13 likes · Jennifer Morrow

Bros Krynn’s Newsletter

The Greatest Scene depicting the Power of Self-Actualization in all of Modern Literature - The Birth of Sting - The First Great Tolkien Epic - Analyzing the Greatest Fairy-Story Ever Written

Christening the Sword…

7 months ago · 20 likes · 8 comments · The Brothers Krynn

The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon

The Iconic Showgirl

I remember standing in the wings and watching her as the curtain went up and she would blow me a kiss and my world would be right! "There's No Business Like Show Business…

6 months ago · 56 likes · 27 comments · Charlotte Pendragon

Chas Holloway's Thinkopolis

James Clerk Maxwell

6 months ago · 8 likes · Chas Holloway

christopher sexton

i don’t write poems. i write orgasms for god.

i write because it’s how i remember…

6 months ago · 65 likes · 1 comment · christopher sexton

The Cosmic Mirror

When All You Need Is Calm Waters

Movement and urgency fill the air, signaling it’s time to take action and progress. Anticipate important news about proposals, plans, or connections that may arise soon. The deer represents love, divinity, and the path of unconditional love, offering safety, strength, and protection. They remind us of the importance of staying calm, seeking inner peace…

6 months ago · 8 likes · 2 comments · Goddess Renell

Cultural Crossroads

2. Rootless Without the Strength of Friendship

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6 months ago · 2 likes · April Larson Assi

Dad Explains

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6 months ago · 97 likes · 1 comment · Andrew | Dad Explains

Daily Brainworms

James 0'Keefe's Discovery is Coming, but wait, there's more!

The subtle hints in recent events and tidbits we are being shown are clues to a puzzle, one that we all had some sort of idea about but it has never been proven, yet…

6 months ago · 11 likes · 10 comments · Bronson Archer

The Freedom Scale

Episcopal Church: Helping White Refugees Violates 'Racial Justice'

Why is it that villains so often think they're heroes…

7 months ago · 65 likes · 56 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

Say It Like You Meme It

Memes are an excellent form of communication. We have to do more than meme, but memes are an important part of any balanced diet…

7 months ago · 115 likes · 32 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

Stop Caring What Other People Think

Someone recently asked me, "How did we ever get to this place…

6 months ago · 38 likes · 53 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

Stop Trying to Be One of the BeautifulPeople™

I hate trigger warnings, but I will issue one here…

6 months ago · 40 likes · 53 comments · Christopher Cook

Gene’s AI Mail

🎪The Poker Player Who Infiltrated Elon's Inner Circle

Man is a frivolous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it. - Dostoevsky…

a year ago · 17 likes · 2 comments · Gene GMB

INCHSTONES

Motherhood in Survival Mode

There’s a line I keep coming back to, one that speaks the truth so many moms of profoundly autistic kiddos carry silently…

6 months ago · 23 likes · 7 comments · Profound Autism Mom | Sarah

The Library of Celaeno

The Cassowary: Trad of the Jungle

Autistic Reddit atheists will tell you, whether you invite them to or not, that ackshully Noah wasn’t real and didn’t save all the animals on the ark. After all, they scoff, where are the dinosaurs? A moment’s refection will serve to dispense with this line of reasoning, as dinosaurs are still very much with us, simply in a more human-accommodating, p…

a year ago · 218 likes · 53 comments · Librarian of Celaeno

Lies are Unbekoming

Rethinking Supplements: Nature's Electrical Elements

In the early 20th century, as biochemistry ascended to dominate medical thought, the living body was recast as a chemical factory, its health reducible to isolated compounds like vitamins or hormones. This reductionist paradigm, which I once accepted, promised precision but often obscured the body’s integrated wisdom. Dr. Thomas Cowan’s New Biology, as …

7 months ago · 80 likes · 10 comments · Unbekoming

The Little Courtyard

Childbirth emasculates toxic masculinity

I have never felt so impotent as the day my son was born. There I was, sitting around for twelve hours, essentially twiddling my thumbs in our living room like it was any old Thursday—a really nice one actually, for January, super sunny, gosh what a gorgeous day, might even start to warm up out there, good thing I picked up mango popsicles on my way hom…

7 months ago · 397 likes · 64 comments · Andrew Forsthoefel

Mack's Memo • Intuitive Public Radio

Signal Boosts Requested: Power the Intuitive Network

Since the power went out at our location in Pittsburgh on 29 April 2025, a series of intensified emergencies has radically depleted our already very limited resources…

7 months ago · 6 likes · IPR with Mack Morris

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On the Road of Bones

Surfacing

Current Mood (We’ll see if it holds. Crossing my fingers…

6 months ago · 6 likes · The Bone Writer

Postcards from the Abyss

Keep on moving

I found the above image on a meme drop by The Starfire Codes…

6 months ago · 7 likes · 1 comment · Spaceman Spiff

Productive Flourishing

Why You Really Don't Have a Time Management Problem

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities…

12 years ago · 11 likes · 1 comment · Charlie Gilkey

Reina’s Substack

Learn About the Battle

There's been a subject which Spirit has been nudging me to write about for a lil bit. I can tell U off rip, there's a good chunk of people who will probably find this offensive. However those that do are also going to be the very same who will look for a reason to be offended every day of their lives in any situation, cuz they don't know how to just be …

6 months ago · 8 likes · Blessed Warrior Reina

Secret History Of The World

Ancient Portals

Many ancient cultures speak of portals to other worlds and gateways to star systems where their “creators” reside. Conventional wisdom suggests that these tales are merely myths and legends. However, recently declassified FBI files indicate that beings from other dimensions and planets have visited Earth. Additionally…

8 months ago · 2 likes · Secret History Of The World

Star In Bloom

Bridges, Not Barriers

In the last few months I’ve been sitting with this thought, why have we made differences a dealbreaker? Why has disagreement become a reason to disconnect? Whether it’s politics, religion, culture, or lifestyle…

6 months ago · 3 likes · 1 comment · Tara Deacon

Still Not a Robot

Stacks, Statutes, and Symbolism

This past week, I found myself in Washington, D.C. for a privacy and security law conference. This was the kind of conference where acronyms like CCPA, GDPR, FTC, and CIPA fly as freely as opinions, and the stakes for safeguarding personal data grow higher with every passing year. After three days of panels, workshops, and highly informative presentations that had me madly typing notes to take back to my colleagues, I gave myself Saturday to do something equally meaningful but far less frenetic: I visited the Library of Congress…

7 months ago · 4 likes · Alia Luria

Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

How the Stoics Defined Anger

Our two main sources for Stoic theory are the chapter on Zeno in Diogenes Laertius’ Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers and a the sections on Stoicism in the Anthology of Johannes Stobaeus, which is believed to draw upon an earlier work summarizing doctrines by the philosopher Areus Didymos. First, I’ll look at the central definition of anger gi…

7 months ago · 43 likes · Donald J. Robertson

The Stone Age

A Stunning Choice

Note: I had not planned on writing about the Pope-situation again, as I am not (nor ever have been) Catholic. However, this choice, in this moment, is driving me to revisit the topic one more time. With that noted, barring a major event it is unlikely you will see another article from me on this subject, at least not anytime soon…

6 months ago · 25 likes · 7 comments · Stone Bryson

The Stone Age

The Baconist Directive

I have been hearing good things about starting a cult for years now, and since I ever endeavor to embrace ‘good things?’ I have decided to give it a go…

6 months ago · 30 likes · 26 comments · Stone Bryson

The Stone Age

The Musk Paradox

I remember back in 2015, when then-Candidate Donald Trump was running for his first term as President, being astonished by what unfolded. We had seen the occasional bout of vile mudslinging in the past (the campaigns against Michael Dukakis in 1988 and Sarah Palin 20 years later come to mind), but 2015 had a very different vibe…

8 months ago · 63 likes · 32 comments · Stone Bryson

The Stone Age

Written In Stone [03/28/2025]

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…

8 months ago · 8 likes · 8 comments

The Stone Age

Written In Stone [05/17/2025]

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, each drop has a variety of tidbits. These can include personal musings, news-bites, random observations, or whatever else is striking my fancy at the moment of publication…

6 months ago · 6 likes · 5 comments · Stone Bryson

Wild Becoming

Sex Makes the Mother

7 months ago · 71 likes · 12 comments · Amanda Verdery

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🌟 What I'm Reading: 5-18-2025 🌟

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: 5-18-2025

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WEEKLY RECAP

Feeling Safe In Someone's Energy Is A Whole Different Level Of Intimacy

Without My Darkness, I Wouldn't Know My Light

You Are A Swirling Vortex Of Limitless Potential Who Is Here To Shake Things Up And Create Something The Universe Has Never Seen

In Pursuit Of Magic

Surround Yourself With Humans Who Create Their Lives

You Didn't Go Through All Of That For Nothing

Be So Happy That You Forget How To Be Sad

Busy Making Magic

MEME DROP #337: You Swerve To Avoid A Squirrel. Unknown To You, The Squirrel Pledges A Life Debt To You.

MEME DROP #338: Bored At Work?

MEME DROP #339: Do Not Beg Tyrants To Change. Do Not Ask Psychopaths To Care. Do Not Expect The Soulless To Act Like They Have One.

MEME DROP #340: I Know You’re Tired

The Perplexicon

Podcast Guest Appearances

THE SCROLL: The Brutalist Babygirl Nosferatu From Ground Zero

What I'm Watching: Long Dead Gods

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