🌟 What I'm Reading: 7-21-2024 🌟

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Jul 21, 2024

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What I'm Reading: 7-21-2024

Weekly Roundup! Volume 5 (7/19/24)

Greetings, and welcome to the latest (annual?) installment of Weekly Roundup! That’s right: it’s back by popular demand, baby! Don’t worry: it’s the good kind of roundup, not the bad kind of Roundup™. Yes, I’m keeping that joke in here for the Time Being…

a year ago · 22 likes · 9 comments · Apollo's Lyre

Arthur Firstenberg

CALIFORNIANS WIN, ASTRONOMERS LOSE

Last Friday, July 12, 2024, a 3-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit gave the green light to SpaceX to keep on destroying our night sky and filling our atmosphere with metallic dust and toxic chemicals. On December 29, 2022, the International Dark-Sky Association, representing astronomers all over the world, had appealed the deci…

a year ago · 64 likes · 22 comments · Arthur Firstenberg

The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon

Simple Song of Freedom

Last weekend's events left me with a serious earworm, causing me to pause publishing my article about Dean Martin until next week. The inspiring song playing in my head was a great prompt for what I'm writing about this week, considering last week’s assault, which not only left families losing loved ones but also left a nation in confusion and fear. But…

a year ago · 69 likes · 38 comments · Charlotte Pendragon

Chas Holloway's Thinkopolis

Stealing the Mona Lisa

Click to Play Audio Stealing the Mona Lisa by Chas Holloway Here’s something you didn’t know about the most famous painting in the world…

a year ago · 3 likes · Chas Holloway

Chewsday Memes, Jul 16

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 · 109 likes · 10 comments · Rat

Monday Coffee Memes #7

Good time of day, coffee lovers! We’ve amassed a new pot…

a year ago · 83 likes · 7 comments · Rat

A Convict's Perspective

crim·i·nal /ˈkrimənl,ˈkrimn(ə)l/ noun a person who has committed a crime. Seems simple enough. Who couldn't wrap their head around that? Turns out solving the crime problem is as simple as tossing us in prison and then (checks notes)....... Oh that's right, you can't cure an illness with a Kleenex. And just like that tissue, prison can only be utilized afte…

a year ago · 210 likes · 59 comments · Coleman

The Cosmic Mirror

Charting Stars With Your Heart's GPS

In life's intricate maze, where decisions often seem like winding paths wrapped in doubt, a guiding light within us is softly radiating with the essence of truth. This light is our heart, the compass of our instincts, leading us through uncertainties and into clarity. Trusting your heart means embracing your innermost feelings, heeding the subtle nudges…

a year ago · 9 likes · 3 comments · Goddess Renell

Dad Memes By Popular Demand: Fighting Flightless Birds

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 · 118 likes · 11 comments

Dad's Three Global Rules

It is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect them. - Jordan B. Peterson This is a message to my children I am hoping may be a helpful guide to anyone else who may need it. I am not overestimating the reach of this Substack but I do believe anything put out in a way anyone can access it has the chance to make some impact, wheth…

a year ago · 28 likes · 5 comments · Andrew | Dad Explains

DoG’s Substack

Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception (Part 18)

a year ago · 111 likes · 10 comments · DoG

DoG’s Substack

Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception (Part 19)

a year ago · 115 likes · 12 comments · DoG

Due Diligence and Art

Thank God it's Friday!

Dear Readers, I had some posts scheduled for this weekend, but I am moving them to later dates, because there’s going to be a lot of political bruhaha, Biden will bow out of the race, Kamala… Jill.. Newsome… whatever. I have a headache just thinking about the social media political BS. You will be distracted on purpose. I hope you realize this and I s…

a year ago · 355 likes · 148 comments · Sasha Latypova

Dwina’s Substack

IRISH WRITERS, FOLKS AND FAERIES

IRISH WRITERS, FOLKS AND FAERIES. CARLETON, YEATS and TRIBES OF FAERY CATS. William Butler Yeats, whose stories, poetry and weaving of words have entranced millions all over the globe, had his own cache of Inspirers and Muses in Ireland. He read all of Carleton’s works, edited a selection of his short stories…

2 years ago · 28 likes · 35 comments · Dwina Murphy-Gibb

Eminent Americans

The Greatest Trick the Elite Ever Pulled

In the fall of 1993 Shamus Rahman Khan, now a professor of sociology at Princeton, arrived as a freshman at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. The American-born son of immigrants from Ireland and Pakistan, Khan was a modest outlier at St. Paul’s. He’d grown up with money—Dad was a successful surgeon—but it was subu…

a year ago · 73 likes · 17 comments · Daniel Oppenheimer

Of Pisco and Peru: Iquitos Pt. 14

The dwarf’s doll eyes, lifeless yet omnipresent, stare at me, judging like some sort of grand inquisitor from the beyond. Vicious and guilty thoughts swirl as tropical rains pummel from outside. Liquidating does sound like as good a plan as any. Let nature’s brutality and sweet, savage time wash away all sins. With a splat in the bog…

a year ago · 6 likes · 4 comments · EpicGonzo

The King's Dick

It’s a good name for a cafe, isn’t it? The King’s Dick. If I ever see a place called John’s Cafe, I know it’s not gonna be good. Cafes have to have weird fucking names. If it’s called Gobknobbers, I know it’s gonna be good. I generally don’t buy coffee out. I drink…

a year ago · 27 likes · 11 comments · Frank T Bird

The Freedom Scale

Trump Shooting Engineered to Foment Civil War?

Some people are sure they know what happened on Saturday, but as far as I can tell, all we have are theories. Indeed, as I noted in Notes yesterday, all we might ever have are theories: Just like with JFK, we have a lot of data points, but no one (other than those directly involved) can know for sure who was really behind these events, and why they did w…

a year ago · 263 likes · 203 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

Well, the FBI Can't Search Me on LinkedIn Anymore

I have finally fully deleted my LinkedIn account. Here’s the backstory: First, the FBI Searched Me on LinkedIn: You may have read, and even commented on, my article on Thursday in which I posed the question When Is Violence Justified in Response to Totalitarianism…

a year ago · 53 likes · 28 comments · Christopher Cook

Gallows Humor Magazine

Weekly News Massacre!

Operation Warp Grift Tom MacDonald, everyone’s favorite antiwoke carnival geek, set a new grift record on Monday, releasing the assassination-themed track “You Missed” less than 48 hours after the attempted Trumpicide in Butler, PA. Fans complain that the song is hastily thrown together, but we’ll let you decide. Raps MacDonald: “I would not shoot Trump …

a year ago · 59 likes · 8 comments · Gallows Humor Magazine

Hacking Narcissism

How empathy loss erodes your humanity

Thank you for spreading the word about this newsletter and for your continuing support of my work. Your paid subscription enables me to dedicate more time to develop practical content to improve how we each navigate this world, beginning with ourselves in relationships with others. If you resonate with and value my work, please consider a monthly or annual paid…

2 years ago · 50 likes · 11 comments · Nathalie Martinek PhD

Intellectual Dissatisfaction

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…

a year ago · 51 likes · 1 comment · Jeremy Mercier

Intellectual Dissatisfaction

We fight wars with memes, not bullets

As I woke up from a midday nap with my 8 month old, I saw two text messages on my notifications. One from someone I consider a friend and mentor that stated, “Holy Shit! Did you see?” And one from another friend that said, “BRO! Trump will now become president because of that assassination attempt…

a year ago · 66 likes · 2 comments · Jeremy Mercier

Too Much I dream of a dusty restaurant a wooden building with rusty nails holding up canvas. You are there, pacing looking for a booth or a place to set your worries down. Sand is filling up our shoes as we hunt for comfort in food. Gritty, brittle annoyance begins to fill our very souls, the irritation building towar…

a year ago · 47 likes · 18 comments · Mike Speriosu

Did accused Trump shooter appear in a BlackRock commercial??

a year ago · 149 likes · 55 comments · Jon Rappoport

Kaya's Self Liberation Portal

Raising My Fist at the Universe

Wow! It’s been a crazy couple weeks huh?! The underlying energies have been WILD to navigate, not to mention all that is playing out on the world stage. I’ve been purposefully staying out of the political conversation on Substack. I have a clear channel here for a certain thread of my work, but I do pay attention and shit has been craaaazy…

a year ago · 7 likes · Kaya Marie

The Hardest Search In All Of Tarot

I hate to admit it, but I’m in my mid 50’s now. And while I don’t remember the exact year, I know that I bought my first Tarot decks, and books explaining them, sometime between my 18th and 20th Birthday or so. I do remember purchasing that first deck (two decks actually) as if it was yesterday…

a year ago · 4 likes · Cameron M. Bailey

Tarot School No. 2.3

When we started this series, I asked a number of questions, specifically about the Page of Cups that is, in this spread, crowning our querent and her question. In other words, as I see it, the Page of Cups in this position symbolizes our querent’s thoughts about the current situation. Her highest, conscious thoughts…

a year ago · 4 likes · Cameron M. Bailey

Mack's Memo • Intuitive Public Radio

Day 275 (part two)

This is the second post of a set. Click here to read the first one. This is a groovy report — certainly, groovy rapport. I will continue…

a year ago · 2 likes · IPR with Mack Morris

Mack's Memo • Intuitive Public Radio

Day 275 (part three)

Have you read parts one and two? Okay, cool. Now part three! Oh, blessed rapport! Our report continues…

a year ago · 1 like · IPR with Mack Morris

Mack's Memo • Intuitive Public Radio

What Happened When We Found Demi Pietchell • And soon, this Intuitive Public TV Simultistream

Demi Pietchell — divine créatrice of The Starfire Codes — joins us on Monday's live Intuitive Public TV Simultistream broadcast at 1 PM Eastern, 15 July 2024. Yes, do come. We've been seeking out the energetic…

a year ago · 15 likes · IPR with Mack Morris

Margaret Anna Alice Through the Looking Glass

Dissident Dialogues: Meredith Miller (Q&As #1–4)

Nearly a year and a half in the making, this spellbinding and spell-breaking Dissident Dialogue with Meredith Miller is a master class in narcissistic abuse, psychological manipulation, mass control, propaganda, spiritual explorations, healing, and resilience. It contains life-saving and sanity-restoring information that can help you navigate both perso…

2 years ago · 124 likes · 36 comments · Margaret Anna Alice and Meredith Miller

Margaret Anna Alice Through the Looking Glass

Memes by Themes #12: Apocaloptimism

💰 DON’T MISS THE FREEDOM SALE! 🔥 To the free subscribers who are here to enjoy your Memes by Themes sampler plate, this is the time to subscribe! Now through the end of July, get 20-percent off your first year. That means you can gorge yourself on my…

a year ago · 91 likes · 9 comments · Margaret Anna Alice

Matthew’s Substack

Zerkalo, by Andrei Tarkovsky (which is one of those semi-[?]autobiographical films that shows a poster of the director's previous work in the movie, in this case one named after his name, Andrei Rublev, a great movie, always—four hours of greatness), also called…

a year ago · 5 likes · 7 comments · Matthew Haviland

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On the Road of Bones

This, That, and The Other (Evil Amazon, VP for Little Tech, Substacks for ALL)

Prime Day (Day 1 Sales) $7.7 Billion spent on day 1 of Prime Day 2024. Brick & Mortar retail are circling the drain while mass online shopping breaks records, even though delivery has gotten worse and worse. The digital age of “staying in” really seems to be a thing. Mass anti-social behavior on a global scale. Why shop out there, when you can just shop in your device. Your order might be late but hey… It’s on the way…

a year ago · 17 likes · 2 comments · The Bone Writer

On the Road of Bones

The YouTube Creator Mentality

Google/YouTube has made a new rule that firearm channels are being hit with retroactively. In-Video sponsors are now no longer allowed. It’s not illegal and not illegal for any other channel to do in-video sponsors but Google/YouTube has a vendetta against guns because Google/YouTube are cucks of the Democrat Party and the anti-gun movement. Most gun channels are already not allowed to get advertising revenue (there are of course, exceptions), so cutting out in-video sponsors is meant to hurt them all the more…

a year ago · 7 likes · 1 comment · The Bone Writer

The Peach Monologues

Dish Stack: Pear and Pepper Jack T-Burger

Thank you for joining me for another Tuesday Dish Stack! Smash that heart Comment below Restack and share for your tribe Dish Stacks are intentional meal descriptions and recipes curated by yours truly, The Purple Peach, for you to access the true energetics of the tasty ingredients we all love. These energetics can help us reconnect with our families, our dining rooms and, most importantly, our individual power over our health and wealth. This…

a year ago · 7 likes · 2 comments · The Purple Peach

Puppy Down: A Lord Birthday Publication

How to Be a Real Man: Eat at Panera

Do you want to be a real man? Eat at Panera Bread. Do it. Why? You don’t need a sandwich that is fresh. You’re a man. You need a sandwich that was made at the tail-end of the Kennedy administration. Flavor is “ham ghost.” As you’re eating it you wonder if the police know about this…

a year ago · 31 likes · 3 comments · Lord Birthday

Puppy Down: A Lord Birthday Publication

Stories Are Boring, Read My Fables Instead

Let’s be honest: stories are boring. They are so terrible and so boring, especially when they are good. We have too many of them. We can barely keep up. There are too many characters. So much plot. So much talking. Events. Twists. Turns. More talking. Character development. A car blows up. Somebody cries. Deception. A dog is running around. Somebody fal…

2 years ago · 55 likes · 4 comments · Lord Birthday

Internal Monologue

This claim has been floated around the internets a lot, see e.g. Here's What It's Like To Not Have An Internal Monologue. As far as I can tell, in most cases it can be traced back to this study: Ren X, Wang T, Jarrold C. Individual Differences in Frequency of Inner Speech: Differential Relations with Cognitive and Non-cognitive Factors…

2 years ago · 7 likes · 1 comment

Reina’s Substack

Today has felt a lil strange to say the least. I had a few dollars, when I left shelter this a.m. after having to bare witness to the umpteenth fight this week, to go do all my wash. I decided to treat myself to a real cup of coffee, even tho it's $2 for a colada (which is about a 3-4oz cup of str8 espresso- or “Cuban coffee” if U are a local), before c…

a year ago · 23 likes · 7 comments · Blessed Warrior Reina

Rounding the Earth Newsletter

Russell Brand, Part 3: To Leave or Become the System

I am fully aware that some readers aren’t sure this story relates to the pandemic, or the crazy events of the world. I can assure you that it does. This third article completes a buildup, but it will be the second half of the story in which a lot of new relationships will be revealed, and some very serious questions asked. I believe the payoff will be enormous for those who get there…

2 years ago · 78 likes · 15 comments · Mathew Crawford

The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Almost Prophetic, Kathy Griffin's Trump Head

It is rare in our contemporary postmodern culture that its representatives get a smack down. But that is what happened with the Tyler Shields' photoshoot with Kathy Griffin holding a realistically-rendered decapitated head of Donald Trump. Massive public and professional fallout ensued, and no one was going to let it go because it was "art." This event finally enraged a public that for decades was so desensitized you could fling shit at them from a stage, as performance artist G. G. Allin did, and they would either take it or ignore it…

a year ago · 43 likes · 18 comments · Michael Newberry

KARMIC FAMILY CHRONICLES: When The Designated "Scapegoat" Is On The Verge Of Getting Completely Free....

I am writing you tonight as more of a moonlight musing than a sunrise salutation. I will resume “Sunrise Salutations” tomorrow. It is 3am as I type, and while I would usually have gone to bed many hours ago, I got dragged into an altercation with my mother…

a year ago · 41 likes · 30 comments · Solarah

SUNRISE SALUTATION #66: You Are Protected In What Is Coming Next | Time For The "Wizards of Oz" To Take Several Seats

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…

a year ago · 41 likes · 17 comments · Solarah

SUNRISE SALUTATION #67: When Mother Doesn't "Know Best" | Re-programming Our Nervous Systems Into Cycles That Promote Our Peace And Ability To Thrive | Clearing Out Imbalanced Survival Mode Settings

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…

a year ago · 17 likes · 5 comments · Solarah

SUNRISE SALUTATION #69: These Last Battles Of The "Old World" Will Be Won By The Pure Of Heart

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…

a year ago · 23 likes · 8 comments · Solarah

If Only In My Mind

Yes, I do have a sappy side… well, I did at one point, anyhow. Lyrical verse, from 2009… If Only In My Mind I look into those eyes of yours and I know there's something more, the roads that I've been traveling - the chaos of before, the mist that chokes my sight and sound…

a year ago · 52 likes · 44 comments · Stone Bryson

The Home Front Anyone who has read more than a couple of my articles has undoubtedly ascertained I am a big advocate for ‘living local;’ I see it as the true ‘Natural’ way to live, and thus the path to a Natural Life. As such, I support being invested…

a year ago · 49 likes · 11 comments · Stone Bryson

TDT: Chinese Influence Over American Agriculture Continues

I abhor the notion of any genetically-engineered foods - of any kind, from any source - and I trust not the transnational companies engaging this ‘industry.’ Still, if they are going to drive us down this path anyhow, it is criminal that our government agencies are favoring Chinese companies over American-based firms…

a year ago · 33 likes · 28 comments · Stone Bryson

How does one write responsibly about harrowing events, especially when they are the kind of events which are experienced collectively? That is the question that has been bouncing around in my brain since yesterday evening. The assassination attempt of President Donald J. Trump is without question one of those events, the kind of moment for which much of…

a year ago · 100 likes · 49 comments · Stone Bryson

The Gun's Always Loaded, The Horse Always Kicks

I was going to make this a paid-only post because in some ways it feels like quite a personal thing to write about, but then I felt like I was being mean to other people who subscribe and can’t afford a paid subscription, so it’s free. But every paid subscription does help me write more stuff like this. And if you take out a full annual one, I’ll send y…

a year ago · 529 likes · 184 comments · Tom Cox

Witchcraft and Metaphysics with Jenna Newell Hiott

The Archetype and The Tarot: The Monastic and Six of Wands

Through the Monastic and Six of Wands, this week we’re being called towards disciplined devotion. Can we trust ourselves to put our calling into practice? Welcome everyone! For an overview of what I’m doing here, please check out this post all about it…

a year ago · 32 likes · 22 comments · Jenna Newell Hiott

You may ask yourself, "How did I get here?"

To My Brothers and Sisters: a Plea for Unity

As my subscribers know, I rarely publish original content. Mostly, because I do not have the time to invest. This, however, is something I feel as an increasing concern... a burden, if you will.Thanks for reading You may ask yourself, "How did I get here?"! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work…

a year ago · 36 likes · 17 comments · leithian

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