🌟 What I'm Reading: 6-23-2024 🌟

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Jun 23, 2024

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What I'm Reading: 6-23-2024

Movie Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

To celebrate Guardians of the Galaxy 3 finally hitting Disney+ today, I have to decided to equally finally release my long-awaited review of the film. One upside of this review growing far more expansive than I had ever imagined is that it gave me time to come down from the post-theater high, and that was good because what I’m about to say may shock you…

2 years ago · 16 likes · 17 comments · Apollo's Lyre

Awakening Minds by Brendan Murphy (formerly Truthiverse)

SpaceX Aims to Ruin Night Sky

By Arthur Firstenberg INTERNATIONAL DARK SKY ASSOCIATION vs. FCC AND SPACEX On December 29, 2022, the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) sued the U.S. Federal Communications Commission over its decision to approve SpaceX’s application for up to 30,000 more low-orbit satellites, in addition to the 12,000 already approved and in process of filling our s…

a year ago · 11 likes · Brendan D. Murphy Official

listening in spirals

look at it this way, dear one it’s not a sentence; it’s a sentence. — but one in an epic poem. a single fragment, a facet of knowing, one perspective opens another, and another yet. everflowing fractals borne of eyes pulsing closed and opening. ••• a poetic perspective…

a year ago · 22 likes · 8 comments · faye boam

Why I Am A Pagan

WHY I AM A PAGAN Recently, when I’ve had conversations about god, I’ve had the funny feeling that whomever I’m talking to means something very different with the term than I do. In the modern West, when people talk about god, they seem to have in mind a single all-encompassing deity, and the ‘existence of god’ is understood as an either/or proposition…

a year ago · 39 likes · 29 comments · Sam Kahn

The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon

Rhinestones and Dreams

This week, I discussed the first show in Las Vegas, which made an impression on me. It started when I was five when my parents visited the Tropicana Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in 1959. Little did I know when I was five years old, in the future, I would be working with these gorgeous showgirls from the Follies Bergère show. Next week, I will elaborate…

a year ago · 50 likes · 16 comments · Charlotte Pendragon

Chas Holloway's Thinkopolis

Click to Play Audio Hypatia by Chas Holloway The first great woman mathematician in history…

a year ago · 4 likes · 5 comments · Chas Holloway

Chronicles of Change

cooking dinner at 6AM

When I woke up Friday morning, I knew something was different. The way I was bopping and weaving throughout my morning resulted in me cooking a full dinner from scratch before 8 AM. Are you the type to set up your coffee pot before bed so it’s just the press of a button in the morning or start to finish in the morning? It depends on my mood the night be…

a year ago · 29 likes · 8 comments · Jacquie Verbal

Chewsday Memes, Jun 18

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…

a year ago · 131 likes · 12 comments · Rat

Monday Coffee Memes #5

Good time of day, coffee lovers! The drip intensifies! We’ve amassed a new pot in just one week…

a year ago · 47 likes · 4 comments · Rat

A Convict's Perspective

How To Be A Vigilante

Let's be real, our opinion on law enforcement ain't what it used to be. The average person doesn't feel as safe as they once had. I'm not here to get into good or bad cops, my point leans more towards how they've been hamstrung. Not so long ago the police knew their neighborhoods and the people in them and were able to do what they needed to do to prote…

a year ago · 203 likes · 227 comments · Coleman

Creative on Purpose

Engaging the Field

a year ago · 9 likes · 4 comments · Scott Perry

Cultural Crossroads

Safety to Suspense

Previously: Arriving in Beirut via Paris was a whirlwind, a frantic rush through Charles de Gaulle Airport that mirrored the chaotic energy awaiting me. The moment I stepped off the plane, the vibrant yet tumultuous spirit of Beirut hit me—a sensory overload of new scents, bustling crowds, and an undercurrent of anticipation. This trip was more than a ho…

a year ago · 5 likes · 1 comment · April Larson Assi

Dad Memes By Popular Demand: Giddy Up, Sparkle Farts!

Dad Explains is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Let’s have some fun! I’m on the bandwagon and presenting an eclectic mix of memes. None of which I created. All of which I may have giggled at or thought useful…

a year ago · 108 likes · 15 comments · Andrew | Dad Explains

There's a Problem With the Maps

Hubris and science are incompatible. Douglas PrestonDad Explains is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Maps and Ledges Special thanks to Coleman for his Note leading to this thought process that I’m hoping will make some sense. Keep in mind, this is all coming together as I’m typi…

a year ago · 31 likes · 6 comments · Andrew | Dad Explains

Dee’s Substack

Does saving more lives lead to overpopulation?

a year ago · 69 likes · 39 comments · Dee Dee

Safe, seen, heard, and loved

I’ve seen a lot of social posts and articles lately about the merits of gentle parenting. I’ve seen people write about abandoning the parenting style, I’ve seen critics describe it as negligent or even unbiblical. I’m not even sure I want to call this a debate, though. From both critics and proponents, I continue to encounter broad statements made about…

a year ago · 8 likes · 15 comments · Sunita

DoG’s Substack

Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception (Part 14)

Speaking of which…

a year ago · 104 likes · 9 comments · DoG

dwtruthwarrior’s Substack

We Are Being Subverted

Living in the West in 1983, Bezmenov gave a lecture in which he explained “Psychological Warfare, Subversion, and the Control of Society.” It begins: Subversion refers to a process by which the values and principles of an established system are contradicted or reversed in an attempt to sabotage the existing social order and its structures of power, autho…

a year ago · 29 likes · 2 comments · dwtruthwarrior

Ear Candy Update

Counting Crows - Rain King

Once upon a time, dear reader, we had guitar-pop bands roaming the music landscape who could jingle jangle their way through beautifully hummable melodies and sing-a-long choruses that slapped smiles on faces from Liverpool to L.A. The golden and foundational era for these delightful six-string serenades was the 1960s, and I think that’s beyond contesta…

a year ago · 20 likes · 7 comments · Jason Thompson

Good morning. It’s Friday so we’re listening to something more upbeat. Today we’re listening to µ-Ziq, an electronic music project from Englishman Mike Paradinas. We first recommended his music a litt…

a year ago · 17 likes · 4 comments · Flow State

Crucifixion of a Gaian Christ

If it was up to you would you make it stop? Would you look the other way while old money stuffed into new suits crucify the world like a Gaian Christ? Or would you throw caution to the wind and become more than a frightened child. . . Take it on the chin…

a year ago · 6 likes · 1 comment · Frater Seamus

The Freedom Scale

Gut-Punch Story: Little Girl Forced to Take 'Happy Patch'

Today’s #FreedomShorts entry is called REGULATION. This is the third time I have watched it since it came out five years ago…and each time I watch it, I feel sadder, and angrier, than the previous time. And if I know you guys at all, I know that most of you will feel the same…

a year ago · 91 likes · 124 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

March Through the Valley of Death. Fear No One.

In Declaring Your Independence, Step Zero, I reminded you all just how freaky our situation is: So here we are, living in what we have long referred to as a “free country.” And perhaps it is still freer than other places, but here in 2023, how free do you feel, really…

a year ago · 70 likes · 35 comments · Christopher Cook

From Brain to Mind

Sunday Brain Workout

“I’m too busy,” is no excuse. Everyone can find 5 extra minutes. Art appreciation Viewing the Mona Lisa is good for your brain. So is admiring the dinosaur (even if it looks more like a big bug) that your kindergarten age daughter hung askew on the refrigerator. Humans have been creating art for 40,000 years. Scientists have reported that viewing artisti…

a year ago · 15 likes · 7 comments · Marc Arginteanu

Goatfury Writes

The Hardest Question

When I was a kid, there were loads of things I didn’t know. In fact, there were so many things that I not only didn’t know, but also had very little prospect of figuring out, that I’d have to compartmentalize those questions into a category of “maybe I’ll know one day” or “this would take years to find out…

a year ago · 33 likes · 26 comments · Andrew Smith

Goatfury Writes

Imagine you’re an ambitious 19th century prospector living in the still-adolescent United States. You’re interested in the California Gold Rush, but not in the way most prospectors are: you don’t want to move to the west coast to hunt for tiny chunks of gold in some river. Instead, you’re interested in pursuing a different type of financial reward entirely…

a year ago · 28 likes · 13 comments · Andrew Smith

Hal Johnson Books

A garland of quotations LXV

(If you live in the Tristate Area so-called, come see me this Saturday, May 4, 12–5, at a Creepy Pop-Up Market in the Conti Building, 415 Howe Ave, Shelton, Conn. I’ll do (free) sketches, sign books, chat amiably, all that you desire. Details, such as they are…

2 years ago · 2 likes · Hal Johnson

Kaya's Self Liberation Portal

Surrendering into the Core of the Universal Heart of Hearts

a year ago · 18 likes · 7 comments · Kaya Marie

Margaret Anna Alice Through the Looking Glass

Dialogues with Defeatists: Round 1

As exasperating as defeatists can be, I have them to thank for inspiring Against Defeatism: The Apocaloptimist Manifesto. The seeds of that post were first born back in 2022, when a defeatist dropped an atomic black pill in a comment thread. Below is that dialogue as well as several subsequent exchanges with other defeatists, who helped me understand the…

a year ago · 14 likes · 16 comments · Margaret Anna Alice

Margaret Anna Alice Through the Looking Glass

Dissident Dialogues: Meredith Miller (Q&As #10–12)

This is the triumphant conclusion of my mind-opening and heart-healing conversation with Meredith Miller. We discuss mappers and packers (two different types of thinkers); revenge versus justice; Mussolini’s fate; corporativismo rebranded as “public-private partnership”; how to defeat petty tyrants; warrior wisdom; kintsugi; resilience; and post-traumat…

a year ago · 59 likes · 23 comments · Margaret Anna Alice and Meredith Miller

Margaret Anna Alice Through the Looking Glass

Eulogy for the COVID Kapos (Video Clip: Margaret Anna Alice on Doc Malik Podcast)

I recently posted a clip of me reading Mistakes Were NOT Made from Doc Ahmad Malik’s upcoming Honest Health podcast: This second sneak peek features my reading of Eulogy for the COVID Kapos along with some introductory and concluding commentary. Ahmad previously delivered his own…

a year ago · 95 likes · 12 comments · Margaret Anna Alice and Doc Malik

Matthew’s Substack

Scared into Shutting Up.

In prison, in the second one, I was sticking up for a guy who was really kind of annoying, himself. And he would end up being, as most of them would, at least kind of an antagonist, to me. But for a while, he was my friend. Anyway, the guy that I was sticking up for him…

a year ago · 2 likes · Matthew Haviland

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On the Road of Bones

This, That, and The Other (Luddite for Life, Religious Convos, and Annoying Sales Edition)

I am a closet Luddite. There, I’ve said it. That wasn’t so hard (being anonymous on the web and all). This is true. I have been a closet Luddite for well over 2 decades. I can already hear your first question before it rolls off your tongue, “How have you worked in the technology field for over 2 decades if you are a Luddite…

a year ago · 8 likes · 7 comments · The Bone Writer

The Neo-Feudal Review

A dissident history of the Trump campaign and presidency (Part 3)

This is Part 3 of 3 of a series looking back at the campaign and presidency of Donald Trump from a dissident perspective. Part 1 dealt with the Trump 2015-2016 campaign, Part 2 looked at Trump’s presidency, and here we will review COVID and the 2020 election…

a year ago · 46 likes · 28 comments · Neoliberal Feudalism

New World Humor

Famous Artworks Retitled By The World Economic Forum

As part of its global ‘Art Reset’ program, the World Economic Forum has renamed some of history’s most iconic paintings and sculptures! What are your favorite masterpieces called now? Get up-to-date with the latest changes: . . . . . . . . . . . The Useless Eater…

a year ago · 30 likes · 2 comments · Noel Spangler

The Pen and Sword Journal

Incorporating WABI 侘 - SABI 寂 into Training and Creativity

This article continues from "WABI 侘 - SABI 寂 - Don't Complicate Your Life and Challenges." Hello, dear readers and friends. In the first part, we discussed that Wabi-Sabi is about enjoying the simplicity of things, detaching from the artificial hustle of city life, and reconnecting with the pulsation of nature. It’s also about embracing our imperfections, learning to live with them without anxiety or perfectionism, and more…

a year ago · 16 likes · 4 comments · Martial X

Post Post Modern

Brilliance & Beauty #2

Our attention is our power. We are what we ingest and think about. And goodness knows there’s enough crap ‘junk food’ out there vying for our attention. It’s a warrior-level skill to withstand the pull to join the misery of the company, to remain steadfast and focused on dreaming, creating, and building what comes next by applying the power of our imagin…

a year ago · 16 likes · 14 comments · Jacqueline Rendell

Proton Magic & Co.

Proton Goes to the Virus Circus🎪

My jaunt to the circus began when Kevin Johnson asked for my opinion on a comment by Geoff Pain PhD on the sagehana substack claiming this paper showed that "coronavirus was first fully characterized outside of China when it arrived close to where I live [in Australia]”. I jumped at a chance to prove the no-virus people wrong but ended up at a 5-ring circus…

a year ago · 59 likes · 124 comments · Proton Magic

AYAHUASCA GUMMIES

The gummy has arguably become the preferred drug delivery method for our current age of convenience. While the cavalier rebellion of snorting a white line will never go out of style, powders in plastic bags are cumbersome, trashy, and prone to messy accidents. Vapes can be equally embarrassing—the exhalation of giant vape clouds turning the private act of drug consumption into a self-consciously public exhibition. Popping a gummy, on the other hand, exudes casual discretion: a quick flick of the wrist, and you barely even notice it happened. Put them on a silver platter, and these trembling little squares of colorful gelatin even start to resemble hors d’oeuvres…

a year ago · 19 likes · Michelle Lhooq

Reina’s Substack

I started writing this poem lil by lil last week, but amongst all the other 3D things it took a back seat. This week has started off a lot less wet and dreary, and for this I am thankful. Tho honestly hiding from the bug menu & torrential downpours has left me in a state of fumbling to get back in my groove, not really sure I've been there since well before the move. I’m still feeling happy & confident, tho there are points where it feels a lil too turbulent. I want to be back in that unshakable, Unfuckwithable Energy. And Yes I am working towards it Daily…

a year ago · 24 likes · 2 comments · Blessed Warrior Reina

Love and Magick are Our Best Hope

As I explained in my last few posts, I’m taking a bit of a hiatus this summer to focus on a couple of larger projects and also to “reset” my creative circadian rhythm after having succumbed to the implied pace of these platforms. It has given me the time to delve deeply into thre…

a year ago · 52 likes · 3 comments · Douglas Rushkoff

Sapito’s Substack

Cycles of death and rebirth

Kind of a foreword, writing this blog was more meant for myself. It’s a bit all over the place and with proofreading I come to understand that there are still elements that need to fall in their place. So it might be that you experience a couple of jumps from one thing into another and overlapping in timelines. This basically helps me to find some more c…

a year ago · 12 likes · 6 comments · Sapito De La Foresta

Service and Sacrifice

Don't Get to The Chopper

If you want to help support the newsletter so more people learn about issues military members and Veterans face, feel free to do some of the following. Share these articles with friends and family Open new articles (even if you skim them) to increase the engagement for the algorithm…

2 years ago · 15 likes · 14 comments · Justin Welikson

The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Memoir: Chapter 12, Coffee Pot Bayou and The Pink House

155 Coffee Pot Bayou Sunset, 2003, pastel. View from my studio. In 2003, my sister Janet (Janny), the tennis player, lived in Saint Petersburg, FL, with her husband, Ralph. Across the street was a small pink house on Coffee Pot Bayou. The owner had recently died at 103. My sister had bought it, and it was sitting empty. If I could rent it, that would be an inspired move from my wonderful Turkish house in Greece…

a year ago · 21 likes · 8 comments · Michael Newberry

It Is Never Too Late To Rise Into Your Wholeness And Purpose | How To Undo The Effects On Your Timelines Made By "Mistakes" Or "Wrong" Choices

Today’s “Daily ALKHEMY” is inspired by one of my beautiful clients, who I had a consultation with yesterday - you know who you are. May today’s article benefit those who are going through similar issues, and may you know you are never alone in your struggle…

a year ago · 27 likes · 3 comments · Solarah

KARMIC FAMILY CHRONICLES: On “Soul Murder” And How My Narcissistic Family Dynamic Opened Me Up To Suicidal Ideation As A Child

I am taking a break from writing yet another energy report, to instead share with you an excerpt from a longer piece I am still writing about the many ways I was exploited by my family of origin. The topics I write about may be triggering for those of you who have undergone family or narcissistic abuse. Please read with discretion and discernment…

a year ago · 50 likes · 31 comments · Solarah

SUNRISE SALUTATION #42: Solstice Greetings | Devine Mother And Dragon Heart Alignments 🐉

Thank you for being here today, and a very warm welcome to my newest readers and subscribers. I can’t begin to tell you how happy I am to have you here. I am blown away by the fact that my words mean something to you, and I hope I shine that little bit of light resonance in your day when you need it most. Thank you for helping me to live and bloom in my …

a year ago · 30 likes · 9 comments · Solarah

SUNRISE SALUTATION #44: Finding Our Way Back Home To The True Integrity Of Our Hearts

Thank you for being here today, and a very warm welcome to my newest readers and subscribers. I can’t begin to tell you how happy I am to have you here. I am blown away by the fact that my words mean something to you, and I hope I shine that little bit of light resonance in your day when you need it most. Thank you for helping me to live and bloom in my …

a year ago · 18 likes · 6 comments · Solarah

Still in the Storm

We Are Wonderfully Made

Welcome to another Still in the Storm Substack post. Today’s post could be best looked at as the introduction to a larger topic, that of how God uses His creation or nature to reveal spiritual reality to us. At first glance, the human body doesn’t seem like much to look at…

a year ago · 52 likes · 24 comments · Mike Donio

Regular readers of The Stone Age know I have catalogued many instances of the Agenda-driven Globalists attacking natural living; truthfully, it has become a passion of mine. As part of that I believe natural foods - bestowed to us by hard-work and Providence - are a vital component to Temporal life, for they strengthen our connection to the Divine, our …

a year ago · 23 likes · 6 comments · Stone Bryson

For your consideration; facts that have been fact-checked by a fact-checker who is just as credible as those others checking facts. Meaning… me. So prepare to dazzle your friends and baffle your enemies, with these insanely awesome tidbits of truth. Trigger warning: I provide no trigger-warnings…

a year ago · 91 likes · 60 comments · Stone Bryson

Written In Stone [06/20/2024]

Hello everyone, and welcome back to another edition of Written In Stone. This is the newsletter for you, the paid Members, sent every week between Tuesday and Thursday. Each mailing includes site updates, personal musings, plus much more. So let’s get to it…

a year ago · 7 likes · 11 comments

Susan’s Substack

The Love of Violent Killing

Our leaders have a passion for violent deaths. Never their own. Yours, theirs, and mine. That is why it’s important to feel the shock when you see a video of a politician autographing a shell to be dropped on the heads of children. And the message written on the “bomb” is something evil glorifying genocide. You can look it up if you want to read her word…

a year ago · 4 likes · 2 comments · Susan Marie Mason

In September 2022, I finished the first draft of a novel called Picking Stones. It was the hardest thing I had ever done and the first time I ever saw a project through to the finish line—or so I thought. The idea for this book came to me during the fall of 2020 on a Saturda…

a year ago · 24 likes · 10 comments · John Mistretta

Quantum-munity Comments

So, it’s been a long month. The school year’s wrapping up, our apartment is hot as Hell. It’s eight o’clock at night, and of course, I’ve waited until the last possible second to put together a Community Comments post. Naturally, I decided to tackle some light, breezy subject m…

a year ago · 15 likes · 5 comments · Melissa Petrie

Such Were the Joys

This is the third chapter of my book Breaking Big Brother, which will be published in installments here on Thinking Man. To read from the beginning, click here. We’ve come a decent way in our Orwellian journey. Climbed the first hill, jumped over the first hurdle. Choose whatever metaphor you’d like. We know why George Orwell was interested in politics, …

a year ago · 33 likes · 7 comments · Melissa Petrie

A Writing Pledge From Me To Me For The Future

The more I write, the more I appreciate the precision of language. I never disliked editing but it was only when I had got eight or nine books under my belt that I began to truly love it. Since then that l…

a year ago · 212 likes · 62 comments · Tom Cox

Marcus Aurelius' 9 Rules for Life

Next Monday will be our final installment of this read-along. In July, we’ll begin with the Nicomachean Ethics. Be sure to grab a copy before then — I prefer the edition published by the University of Chicago. Read-along posts are always free, but if you want to support my work you can become a paying subscriber…

a year ago · 17 likes · 1 comment · Jared Henderson

Welcome to Absurdistan

"Climate Change" is a $100 Trillion Wealth Transfer from the Poor to the Rich

Predator or Prey? This is the last in a series explaining our current unstable financial environment. Our economies have turned to conservation and de-development, which has been unrealistically financialized. The fix is easy. Walk this back. Because the moral stink will follow us for 100 years…

a year ago · 291 likes · 93 comments · elizabeth nickson

Welcome to Absurdistan

Cowering before Carbon

This week and next I am running 3-5 minutes reads that pick apart the reason for the failing economy for the bottom 70%. As Dr. Peter St. Onge says, the bottom 9 rungs on the ladder have been knocked out. These essays describe why, and how, if fixed, the economy will soar. I am taking ten days off the cortisol carousel, because the next six months are going to be busy. And awesome. And pivotal in world history. Back on Saturday, the 14th…

a year ago · 207 likes · 59 comments · elizabeth nickson

Witchcraft and Metaphysics with Jenna Newell Hiott

The Archetype and The Tarot: The Service Provider and Knight of Cups

Through the Service Provider and Knight of Cups, this week we’re being called to get into the practical side of service work. Can we find a way to balance our emotions with what needs to be done? Welcome everyone! For an overview of what I’m doing here, please check out…

a year ago · 17 likes · 8 comments · Jenna Newell Hiott

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