🌟 What I'm Reading: 6-1-2025 🌟

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

Jun 01, 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: 6-1-2025

Bren's Buzz

I Don't Feel Sixty

Saying “age is a state of mind” is just what old people do when they realize they don’t look or feel anything like what they thought their grandparents did at this same age. Is this a lie we tell ourselves to feel better or is there some truth to it? Comeonman!! Is 60 even old anymore?! Well, my meme-ory ain’t so hot, but these laughs are scorching…

8 months ago · 42 likes · 43 comments · Cori Bren

The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon

Neverland

Photo taken at Glacier Bay, Alaska aboard the TSS Fairsea in about 1978…

8 months ago · 49 likes · 26 comments · Charlotte Pendragon

Craving Ratio

After the Afterthon MEMEs

Greetings Earth Frens! Ratio here…

8 months ago · 52 likes · 7 comments · Craving Ratio

Craving Ratio

Devout Paradoxy MEMEs

Greetings Earth Frens! Ratio here…

8 months ago · 35 likes · 7 comments · Craving Ratio

Cultural Courage

No Safety Net, No Internet: Jefferson's Laptop

This is not crazy. Thomas Jefferson had a laptop. And I’m not crazy for including this topic in the category of No Safety Net, No Internet. I write the No Internet columns primarily about life away from the digital mills by focusing on outdoor excursions, diving into things on a whim while out and about and how family time builds a foundation and treasu…

8 months ago · 9 likes · 5 comments · The Mighty Humanzee

Cyber Herm3tica (EN)

A cyber-hermetical journey through monetary technology

Ever since I started writing Cyber Hermetica back in 2021, monetary technology has been a recurring thread. It had to be. After all, this project exists to explore the convergence of technology and humanity—to ask the real questions…

8 months ago · 7 likes · Matte 𐀏

Dr. Paul

Covert Narcissism is Best Served Cold, With Dr Nathalie Martinek

Thank you The Starfire Codes, Jeremy, Geraldine A. V. Hughes, and many others for tuning into my live video with Nathalie Martinek PhD! Join me for my next live video in the app…

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8 months ago · 18 likes · 1 comment · Dr. Paul and Nathalie Martinek PhD

Feast Mode

How Italy Taught the World to Cook With Fresh Nothing

Want to know a juicy secret? I’ve been feeding a family of three on about $120 a week—and we’re eating incredibly well. Real protein, fresh seasonal produce, mostly organic. Not because I’m some coupon wizard or living off-grid with goats, but because I started paying attention. To what’s in season. To what’s in my pantry already. To what actually fuels…

8 months ago · 5 likes · Kaitlynn Rivera

THE FAMILY WE KEEP

June Is Here

“If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?” - Kabir…

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8 months ago · 15 likes · 6 comments · Deborah T. Hewitt

The Freedom Scale

I Didn't Meme to Make You Laugh

Everyone has a different kind of sense of humor. So here’s a little something for everyone. (Language warning…

8 months ago · 278 likes · 37 comments · Christopher Cook

The Health Ranger's newsletter

Your oat milk has a secret ingredient - Lab tests confirm what’s really inside

A recent investigation by CWC Labs, an independent laboratory founded by food scientist Mike Adams, has uncovered that nearly all major commercial oat milk brands use calcium carbonate—essentially ground-up chalk—to enhance their product’s whiteness and creaminess. While the lab confirmed that lead and aluminum levels in these products were within safe …

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8 months ago · 29 likes · Mike Adams

INCHSTONES

When They Haven’t Quite Outgrown Being Cute: A Caregiver’s Reflection

We haven’t quite “outgrown being cute” yet…

8 months ago · 18 likes · 5 comments · Profound Autism Mom | Sarah

Make Pure Thy Heart

Inward Growth; 12 ways to reinvigorate yourself and live life anew

A republish for new pure heart subscribers ❤️…

8 months ago · 25 likes · 2 comments · Paolo Peralta

MrX

Everything we believe is a lie

On a scale of 1-10, how true is this statement? "Everything we believe is a lie…

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8 months ago · 3 likes · MrX

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Reina’s Substack

Improving with Forward Progress

This past week has been a blur of sorts but at the same time so many events have stuck with me crystal clear. Between packing & moving, myself simultaneously with my farm family it's been a whirlwind of energy and exhaustion stacked into a huge cyclone which finally culminated as of this Rising. It's currently 2:08pm & I'm quietly sitting in the bed of …

8 months ago · 8 likes · 3 comments · Blessed Warrior Reina

Star In Bloom

Walking in the Dark: My Journey With PTSD

Some pain hides in shadows, behind closed doors, under the skin… When the walls inside me cracked, everything came pouring out and I was swallowed by a darkness I never saw coming…

8 months ago · 16 likes · 11 comments · Tara Deacon

Star In Bloom

When Strangers Aren’t Strange

(A conversation with a fellow substacker got me thinking about the meaning of a stranger… you can check out his work https://www.substack.com/@bradleyramsey he was commenting on one of my peices and he said he “might just be a stranger” that sentence really inspired me to write about this…

8 months ago · 16 likes · 5 comments · Tara Deacon

The Stone Age

Penny For Your Thoughts

Whether we realize it or not, last week the United States took its first official step toward destroying our physical currency. It was a baby step, to be certain, and a rather unsteady one… but a step, nonetheless…

8 months ago · 39 likes · 38 comments · Stone Bryson

The Stone Age

Written In Stone [05/31/2025]

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…

8 months ago · 9 likes · 3 comments · Stone Bryson

The Taoist Corner

The Art of Silently Crafting Lasting Influence

9 months ago · 9 likes · 5 comments · Patrick B. Stewart

TDT

Technofeudalism, Surveillance Capitalism, and Disciplinary Power

Do you ever wonder how the economy works when we don’t really make things anymore? Most of the biggest economic actors don’t own factories… They have server rooms… As David Mitchel said; “we used to make steel”, so what gives…

8 months ago · 19 likes · 3 comments · TDT

UNVEIL THE WORLD

The Invisible Part of Man

“The greatest difficulty for the physicalist is the idea of invisible worlds. To him all existence must be objectively perceptible to everybody, be susceptible of scientific exploration. Whatever is not visible physical matter does not exist for him…

8 months ago · 5 likes · Peter J. Birch

WEEKLY RECAP

Channeled Messages

Meme Drops

Craving Ratio

MEME WARS Episode IV - A New Cope

Greetings Earth Frens! Ratio here…

8 months ago · 67 likes · 13 comments · Craving Ratio and The Starfire Codes

The Perplexicon

Podcast Guest Appearances

Cultural Courage

OZFest Voices: Demi From the Starfire Codes

Every Saturday, coffee in hand I eagerly hit Substack and check my inbox for the latest edition of the Scroll. The Scroll a fantastic compilation of conversations, memes, Notes and Articles collected on a daily basis by the ever fantastic Demi of the Starfire Codes. I am honored to have Demi Pietchell, publisher of the Starfire Codes, join OZFest Voices…

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8 months ago · 12 likes · 7 comments · The Mighty Humanzee

The Scroll

What I’m Watching

Special thanks to Blessed Warrior Reina, Charlotte Pendragon, Christopher Cook, Cori Bren, Craving Ratio, Deborah T. Hewitt, Dr. Paul, Kaitlynn Rivera, Matte 𐀏, Mike Adams, MrX, Nathalie Martinek PhD, Paolo Peralta, Patrick B. Stewart, Profound Autism Mom | Sarah, Stone Bryson, Tara Deacon, TDT, andThe Mighty Humanzee.

Deborah T. Hewitt

Jun 2, 2025

Demi! I left for the day yesterday (6/1) and I am so grateful to see this. Thank you for sharing my work. Nothing like rounding up the troops to get some help after so long in the dark. I am still not seeing you here and I have pulled many tickets. I think I will write to my subscribers about what's happening because I went in and saw I am unsubscribed to a few newsletters I never unsubscribed to and there are a few good friends that I know would probably not unsubscribe to me. It's a mess. Hope you have a great week. Sending you much love always. oxox

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Nathalie Martinek PhD

Jun 1, 2025

Another fantastic roundup! Thank you for including Dr Paul and I and for listening live to our chat!

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