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What I'm Reading: 7-7-2024

Happy Pride Month!

It seems like only yesterday that we kicked off this year’s annual celebration of all things LGBTQIA$◎…ZΩ+🍆, and yet sadly we wake up today to find the month-long jubilee already drawing to a close. Time flies when you’re having fun. Aside from the usual…

a year ago · 50 likes · 35 comments · Apollo's Lyre

It is not good that man should be alone

“A lonely man always deduces one thing from the other and thinks everything to the worst.” -- Martin Luther This is a joint posting of Matthew Crawford (Archedelia) and Marilyn Simon (Submission). On June 8 of this year, we married at St. Margaret’s Anglican Church in Winnipeg, a city on the prairies of Canada. It was truly a joyful day. The wedding was of…

a year ago · 225 likes · 21 comments · Matthew B. Crawford

The Art of Liberty Foundation - Important News

Multiple US Presidents Have Admitted the US "Government" Is Run By Inter-Generational Organized Crime

I make the case in “Government” - The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! that the “Government” is run by inter-generational organized crime centered around banking and central banking. This organized crime cartel has been using fractional reserve banking to create money out of thin air…

a year ago · 120 likes · 23 comments · Etienne de la Boetie2

Awaken’s Substack

a year ago · 1 like · Awaken The Lions In Truth

Beyond the Visible

Unveiling the Hero You've Always Been

This entry is part of a series on “The Hero’s Journey from Trauma to Freedom”: Prologue: The Intentional Invitation. 1. Overcoming Past Patterns. 2. Meeting the Catalyst. 3. Crossing into the Unknown. 4. Rediscovering the Inner Landscape. 5. Meeting the Inner Child…

a year ago · 9 likes · Alex de Carvalho

Chas Holloway's Thinkopolis

Homer's Odyssey

Click to Play Audio Homer’s Odyssey by Chas Holloway Homer’s Illiad and Odyssey were the foundation of western civilization…

a year ago · 4 likes · 2 comments · Chas Holloway

Chas Holloway's Thinkopolis

Lotte Lenya & the Playwright

Click to Play Audio Lotte Lenya & the Playwright by Chas Holloway The American playwright, the German Expressionist…

a year ago · 4 likes · Chas Holloway

Chewsday Memes, Jul 2

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 · 99 likes · 5 comments · Rat

Monday Coffee Memes #6

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

a year ago · 45 likes · 9 comments · Rat

A Convict's Perspective

Free to be free

free·dom noun “the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint” Sitting in an interrogation room with my wrists shackled by a chain to my waist and ankles, I waited for the shift Lieutenant to come go through the motions with me. I'd already been in the Hole for a couple of weeks at this point and it was time to open…

a year ago · 298 likes · 72 comments · Coleman

Dad Memes By Popular Demand: Give 'em the Ole Razzle Dazzle

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 · 114 likes · 25 comments · Andrew | Dad Explains

Darin’s Substack

Wouldn't you know, It's An Aluminum Dream

More fun/cool cameras that have been through the shop. This, is the Kodak Medalist II. It is a beauty of a camera. While I do love Kodak cameras, this model really should not be thought of as a Kodak, or at least a “Traditional” Kodak. Why do I say that? Because this camera is everything all other Kodak’s are not…

a year ago · 19 likes · 4 comments · Darin

Valuing The Feminine

My friend Wes (substack) has some disagreements with my previous post where I advise men to like the feminine virtues of their women partners. Is This Just Gender Essentialism? This is just gender essentialism Eneasz Brodski, for some reason, makes it about gender and acts like all women are the same and into "girl stuff…

a year ago · 13 likes · 12 comments · Eneasz Brodski

DoG’s Substack

Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception (Part 16)

a year ago · 82 likes · 5 comments · DoG

Donn’s WYKKYD AMBITIONS

The Manatee of insanity

a year ago · 9 likes · 5 comments

What, to someone like me, is the Fourth of July?

I’m going to do something a bit different today. I tend to avoid getting too political because nurturing our children, keeping them safe, and promoting inclusion and acceptance shouldn’t be a political issue. But sometimes we have to pivot. In various stages of my life, I have aligned with both the left and the right. But these days I find myself feeling…

a year ago · 12 likes · 4 comments · Sunita

dpl’s Newsletter

Control Experiment - An Update by Jamie Andrews

We caught up with Jamie Andrews for an update on the control experiments he has been overseeing in respect of the Virological Methods. The first round of these experiments was carried out in the second half of last year with some of the results thereof recently being made public…

a year ago · 77 likes · 41 comments · dpl, Jamie Andrews, and Mia Breeze

dwtruthwarrior’s Substack

Honesty vs Cult Indoctrination (Drive with Dave)

Let’s go for a drive and think about the nature and power of honesty in a world easily swindled by lies…

a year ago · 30 likes · 2 comments · dwtruthwarrior

Of Pisco and Peru: Iquitos Pt. 11

“Uh... um, I’m pretty new at this.” “It’s just a vaporizer. I got some fresh balloons as well.” He carefully reaches over the mess and pulls up a large balloon with a stick figure stamp with a weird scowl. “Uhhh... I’m not sure how that works.” A smile. There’s something familiar about him, right up to the face. I always have trouble with faces…

a year ago · 14 likes · EpicGonzo

Rhododendron Retrospective

Welcome to Field Notes! Summertime. The season has settled in the South as a lethargic heat wave. Rain is an evaporated dream. Sultry air smothers me as I walk out of the door in the pre-dawn dark. The hours of the days grow long. Soil in the fields bakes hard and dusty under the unflinching sun. Withered grasses waver in a hint of a breeze. Cicad…

a year ago · 30 likes · 12 comments · Erik Hogan

How to Get a Cloud Out of a Tree

I was sitting on my porch this morning, feeding peanuts to the squirrels, when I looked up and noticed a small cloud stuck in the tree in my front yard. It was tangled in the top branches, I could see it was struggling, trying to break free to no avail…

a year ago · 6 likes · 2 comments · Frater Seamus

A Surreal Encounter on the Planet of True Being

A flower was growing out of her cheek, I thought that was odd, but not impossible. I stepped towards her and asked, “Do you have any idea what time the train is to arrive?” She looked at me as though I was a tiger after her baby, well, maybe not a tiger after her baby…

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

The Freedom Scale

Do You Like This Song? What Does It Mean?

We had a party here last night, and now we have a lot of cleaning to do. (I also might need to go hide some fireworks evidence.) We also have so much food still left over that our friends are going to have to come back today for round two! So I have to get ready for that as well. As a consequence, today’s post will go into less depth than most…

a year ago · 40 likes · 33 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

Four Definitions of the Word 'Anarchy'

One of my failings—one I suspect is shared by plenty of my fellow humans—is the occasional loss of perspective. No matter what is going on, there is always the possibility of losing track of the 36,000-foot view and just getting caught up in what is going on at that moment. The quintessential example is getting flustered by some little setback while for…

a year ago · 55 likes · 66 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

A Hackneyed Meme for a Hackneyed Idea

There is nothing wrong, per se, with Willie Wonka, Kermit, and the Salad-Eating Cat. They’re classics. But they have been done to death…just like the statist argument the meme addresses. No, for the love of crumbcake, this is not an argument to “elect better people…

a year ago · 80 likes · 144 comments · Christopher Cook

Whenere (it’s just a portmanteau of “when” and “where”) is an outgrowth of the Virj project. The originator and vision keeper is my longtime creative collaborator Karen Laur. I’ll interview her in a future post. In the meantime here’s how it looks from my point of view as a novelist and a nerd…

a year ago · 46 likes · 1 comment · Neal Stephenson

Hal Johnson Books

Dr. Seuss's conjoined characters

A canonical list of Dr. Seuss's conjoined characters: Additions welcome! I. Naturally conjoined •“Lads with the Siamese Beard” (PM (1941…

a year ago · 3 likes · Hal Johnson

Hal Johnson Books

A garland of quotations LXXIV

Beleeve, if you please, that the ruine of this Library will be more carefully marked in all Histories and Calendars, than the taking and sacking of Constantinople. •Gabriel Naudé, News from France, or a Description of the Library of Cardinall Mazarini…

a year ago · 2 likes · Hal Johnson

Hal Johnson Books

Truly Wordless Comic Panels

Thanks for reading Hal Johnson Books! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Samm Schwartz…

a year ago · 8 likes · Hal Johnson

I Am Here For It, Whatever It Is

Standing Out And Standing In

Standing Out And Standing InThanks for reading I Am Here For It, Whatever It Is! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. God. I love you. There you are. What am I gonna say? Words don’t do this justice, How will I relay? God. I had to go release it at the piano. It’s really huge today. Some days it’s distant and manag…

a year ago · 25 likes · 25 comments · What IS a name, really?

Intellectual Dissatisfaction

4th of July Meme Special

a year ago · 119 likes · 5 comments · Jeremy Mercier

Intellectual Dissatisfaction

SCOTUS rules former Presidents have total immunity from prosecution for official acts

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that Former Presidents have absolute immunity from prosecution for official acts. The foundation of their opinion is based in the Separation of Powers, and what makes an act of the Executive Branch official, or unofficial…

a year ago · 19 likes · 7 comments · Jeremy Mercier

Jesus and his Luciferian Trans Agenda

Listen carefully to this thought pulled from the psychic airwaves… it’s a common one. “This culture is sexualizing children which is why we strongly emphasis our six year old’s genitalia at home and expect the schools and government to do the same.”Thanks for reading James True! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work…

a year ago · 8 likes · 4 comments · James True

Kaizen and The Pursuit of Truth

Just a Quick Note on "Independence"

I sent this out last year, but just watched it again. Here is the quick post I made to Facebook and Notes here on Substack, but I have been heavily shadow banned on most platforms because of my message of individual freedom and sovereignty. The video posted in this blog is perhaps the most important message that every American can hear on this day, spec…

a year ago · 7 likes · 3 comments · Jake Jackson

Kaya's Self Liberation Portal

Slowing Down and Trusting in Divine Timing

a year ago · 11 likes · 5 comments · Kaya Marie

Tarot School No. 2.0

Welcome to our second Tarot School! I’m very glad that you are here with me, and I hope that you’ll jump right into the comments! I’ll post a spread today, and some questions that come to mind when looking at the cards within it. Specifically, we’ll focus on one single card, and its possible meaning when viewed in the context of its position within the …

a year ago · 5 likes · 10 comments · Cameron M. Bailey

Tarot School No. 2.1

So, let’s take a good look at our spread! Half of it anyway. We’ll begin with the cross portion. The 5 of Wands illustrates our querent’s current situation. I read it as conflict, and given that she’s asking about her current romantic relationship, conflict within that relationship. Conflict that is occurring…

a year ago · 7 likes · 2 comments · Cameron M. Bailey

Bound by the Past

The following essay first appeared in L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise number 602, dated 9 January 2011. In the time since then, many people have mentioned it to me in the context of feeling that it helped them get through a difficult time. We are, friends, coming to a difficult time. In some ways, the last 5 years have been such a time, and i…

a year ago · 16 likes · 2 comments · Jim Davidson

Imaginations are running wild

“How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.” ― Judy Garland Nothing is more beautiful than lies, or uglier than the truth. With a fictitious image in mind, we dress ourselves in the fanciest illusions to not only trick others but more importantly trick ourselves, creating narratives to …

a year ago · 44 likes · 12 comments · Theodore Atkinson

Make Pure Thy Heart

16 Things That Will Drastically Improve Your Well Being

What’s the one thing you can do right now? Take a deep breath and believe in yourself. The power to make a change is in your hands, so take that first step towards your dreams with confidence and determination. Nothing is linear? Life is a beautiful journey full of twists and turns. Embrace the unpredictability and flow with the rhythm of life. Every exp…

a year ago · 24 likes · 9 comments · Paolo Peralta

Matthew’s Substack

Nosferatu the Art-House.

The movie Nosferatu the Vampyre by Werner Herzog is, as I remembered it, and more than I remembered it, a stunning masterpiece. It's the story of Dracula, with the same names, generally, and everything (or, I mean, exclusively), but it's Dracula by an art-house film…

a year ago · 7 likes · 2 comments · Matthew Haviland

Matthew’s Substack

"You call yourself a []?" This was from the email, one of the many, I sent someone on a day (one day) in 2019. These emails would masquerade as ruining somebody else's life and instead ruin mine. These weren't the only things. I had gotten knocks on the door for sending similar texts and in one case phone messages, and obviously, this wasn't …

a year ago · 4 likes · Matthew Haviland

Matthew’s Substack

On the Best James Bond.

I was watching a YouTube compilation called "daniel craig being the best james bond for 6 minutes straight," and it was as advertised. Daniel Craig, who reminded me so much of my friend from the New Jersey days that I looked up his Wikipedia page seeing if he was Irish (my dad told me as a kid that Irish people were known for being very well-spoken, and…

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

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The Naked Emperor’s Newsletter

Now Biden's Poor Performance During the Debate with Trump is Being Blamed on Havana Syndrome

It has been obvious for a long time now that Biden is suffering from dementia. In February a special counsel’s report described his “memory as “hazy,” “fuzzy,” “faulty”, “poor” and having “significant limitations”. It noted that Biden could not recall defining milestones in his own life such as when his son Beau died or when he served as vice president…

a year ago · 95 likes · 58 comments · NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Nicholas’ Chronicles

It is December 11, 2021. Nicholas has been in the hospital for four days and has started to walk after the paralysis that affected his legs on December 7 due to endocarditis with sepsis. He is put under anesthesia, and a central venous catheter (CVC) is inserted, a tube for medications and blood samples that is placed in the neck and leads down towards …

a year ago · 103 likes · 59 comments · Bobbo Sundgren

Oblivious Witness

Why doesn’t sadness make me cry anymore?

When the going gets tough At six o’clock on Saturday morning, Mike and the boys and I were standing at the Singapore Airlines check-in counter at Beijing Capital International Airport, checking in for our final flight out of China. I watched as the check-in guy flicked through Mike’s and the boys’ passports and found their Ch…

a year ago · 14 likes · 16 comments · Michelle Neeling

The American Dream is Cursed

Along the side of the New Jersey Turnpike, where the Hackensack River delineates where Seacaucus ends and East Rutherford begins, a jumble of off-white walls and glass peeks through waving reeds as tall as men. It’s easy to miss, when you’re speeding along at 65+ miles per hour, intent on getting to (or away from) New York City as quickly as humanly pos…

a year ago · 32 likes · 5 comments · Meghan Boilard

On the Road of Bones

In Fiction we Side with those Fighting Tyranny

In Reality, the Masses Bend the Knee to Welcome in the Tyranny as “Safety”. One thing I noticed from the Covid-19 power grab was that the people only love truth and freedom in the movies. In reality, the masses long to be slaves to a master class. How is it that some of the most popular movies of our times depict the minority trying to overcome the fascism and tyranny of an oppressive enemy that wants to control and break the populace, yet in the real world, this is exactly what a great portion of society wants…

a year ago · 15 likes · 6 comments · The Bone Writer

On the Road of Bones

The State of Social Media in 2024

Maybe AI will be the death of social media. Maybe we’ll all figure out that the stream is just fucking stupid, when you can’t actually see the things you thought you would see in it. Maybe Zuck will reveal to the world that he’s an Alien Android sent to Earth to lay the way for a invasion force of aliens that will further subjugate humanity (as if we need more subjugating). Maybe we’ll all wake up one day and realize that any type of social media that is dependent on advertising, can NEVER be trusted. Or maybe we’ll all die while scrolling our screens of enslavement. So many “maybe’s”. So let’s break it down…

a year ago · 3 likes · The Bone Writer

Paul’s Substack

Why do we play hide and seek with happiness? Why is it the answer is always a another question away? Why is it we often seem lonely but happiness depends on another if only when the truth of the matter is: If we knew how to be happy we would be…

a year ago · 97 likes · 53 comments · Paul Wittenberger

Popular Rationalism

PREALITY: The Constructivist Confabulation of Reality Must End

In our contemporary world, the concept of reality has increasingly come under the influence of policies and narratives crafted by powerful entities. This constructivist view, where policies determine reality, reflects a shift toward what can be termed as "post-realism by the firehose." In this paradigm, reality is not an objective truth but a construct …

a year ago · 45 likes · 8 comments · James Lyons-Weiler

Strawberry Tree

Good time of day, humans! It’s the silly time of the week again, isn’t it? CWCID: inspired by the killjoys of Xitter who felt they needed to fact-check a silly meme…

a year ago · 61 likes · 20 comments · Rat

Rob Henderson's Newsletter

San Francisco meetup

a year ago · 57 likes · 5 comments · Rob Henderson

Screaming into the Void

Celebrating the Greatest Break-Up Letter in History

It’s another hot American summer, and that means another Fourth of July filled with explosions and drunk Americans. People from other countries tend to not understand the ‘obsession’ America has with its founding — but the story of America’s start is more than just a origin story in a Marvel movie. By signing the Declaration of Independence, the Foundin…

a year ago · 149 likes · 122 comments · SimulationCommander

Fall in love with silence

a year ago · 26 likes · 5 comments · Andō

Poetry Interlude Inspired By Cancer Season

I am so honoured to once again share this space with Trudi Nicola. Trudi and I were noticing how synchronous my “Sunrise Salutations” were with her own downloads and experiences. So, I invited her to share some of the beauty that these synchronicities were birthing in and through her here…

a year ago · 25 likes · 11 comments · Solarah and Trudi Nicola

SUNRISE SALUTATION #56: Everything Is Falling Back Into Place | Welcome Home Beautiful Galactic Beings

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 · 18 likes · 8 comments · Solarah

"THROWBACK THURSDAY"

A conversation with Demi Pietchell from “The Starfire Codes” inspired this “Throwback Thursday” series. We were comparing the readings we had published around the same dates to find common threads, themes, and messages. We were pleasantly surprised to see that even over a year ago, our messages were in close alignment…

a year ago · 14 likes · 1 comment · Solarah

WORD FOR YOUR WEEK With Solarah

Welcome to another week and a brand new month. In honour of the beautiful Cancerian energies we are immersed in, I chose to ask the beautiful dragons to guide us in their wisdom for the energies of the week ahead. I hope you enjoy what came through 🐉🐉🐉…

a year ago · 13 likes · 7 comments · Solarah

Declaration: A July 4th Conspiracy

Hope you have your tin-foil-hat at the ready… Two things to remember when considering ‘conspiracies’… - Not every single one has to be a dire, ‘they-are-trying-to-destroy-us-all’ theory - Sometimes, it is just fun to speculate. So… let’s have some fun…

a year ago · 49 likes · 17 comments · Stone Bryson

The EV Psyop, and How It Threatens Liberty

Note: This is a repost of an article I wrote in September of last year, back when I had far fewer subscribers; While it is an older piece, and market-prognosticators are starting to get bullish on lithium once again (perhaps due to its potential scarcity), the information found therein is still accurate…

a year ago · 66 likes · 26 comments · Stone Bryson

Once upon time, on the third planet in the Sol system, there was a species of cognitive inhabitants called ‘humans.’ These humans, throughout their evolution, captured their timeless cultures - and their sense of ‘identity’ - through the most powerful of traditions: Creating, honoring, and protecting their ‘legends…

a year ago · 37 likes · 13 comments · Stone Bryson

Susan’s Substack

Wish You Were Here

My son, Steven, passed away suddenly in April 2016. The recurring thoughts I had going through my mind at that time were all why questions. I was also experiencing shock and denial that he was really gone. I was tortured both by how my life was right then, and about not knowing why this happened to him…

a year ago · 9 likes · 1 comment · Susan Marie Mason

Picking Stones Chapter 1

Chapter 1 - Lost Like most things in life, I have no idea where to start. So, I figured a good place might be the day before my life was completely changed by a little white card with three letters printed on it. We’ll get to that later. For now, an apt place to begin would be at the office, the day before the story really starts. For your entertainment…

a year ago · 25 likes · 5 comments · John Mistretta

Thirteenth Strike Substack

Live Recorded Music Shouldn’t Exist: And Justice For Ya'll

I can’t think of anything more useless than recorded live music. Okay, it’s possible I can think of one or two things, but I’m trying to make a point, damn it! Whoever’s bright idea it was to begin recording live music, should be forced to listen to only recorded live music for the rest of their life, or eternity, whichever is longer. We all know only t…

a year ago · 4 likes · 2 comments · Braeden

TRANSFORM with Marianne Williamson

TULSI DESCRIBED IT, I EXPERIENCED IT, AND HERE WE ARE

The nation has been going through a collective panic attack since Biden’s debate with Trump last Thursday, but it’s an agita I’ve experienced for the last year and a half. The meltdown of the Biden c…

a year ago · 262 likes · 116 comments

Woman Awarded Nearly $700,000 After Being Fired For Refusing To Get Experimental COVID Injection

A Tennessee woman has been awarded nearly $700,000 after a jury found that her employer wrongfully terminated her for refusing to comply with the company's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Tanya Benton, a former research scientist at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee (BCBST), was awarded $687,000 damages, including $177,000 in back pay, $10,000 in compensatory …

a year ago · 35 likes · 8 comments · Megan Redshaw

Volt /and/ Fable

V&F Microfiction: "Collaboration"

This series (“Collaboration & Critique & Collision”) involves subject matter that may be disturbing to a casual reader. As such I have decided to make the content available only to paid subscribers. However I don’t want to limit access to my readership, so if you become a subscriber through this link you will receive your subscription free for the first year…

a year ago · 9 likes · 4 comments · Jack Backes

Witchcraft and Metaphysics with Jenna Newell Hiott

The Archetype and The Tarot: The Networker and King of Wands

Through the Networker archetype and the King of Wands, this week we’re being called to strengthen our communities’ connections. Can we help provide this Spirit of connection to ourselves and those around us? Welcome everyone! For an overview of what I’m doing here, please check out…

a year ago · 18 likes · 8 comments · Jenna Newell Hiott

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