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Mar 17, 2024

A roundup of articles on Substack I found important / valuable, connect with each other and smash your predictable algorithm so you’re not in an echo chamber of the same 10 people all the time 😉

sunday memepool: universal truths

life can be unfair and consequences can seem disproportionate…

a year ago · 91 likes · 29 comments · el gato malo

the meanest sunday pool ever

hopefully you were all raised tough because if you can’t handle a little offensive humor…

a year ago · 98 likes · 26 comments · el gato malo

Choosing Joy in the Shattering

It was one of those days. The kind that called for curling up in bed and letting hours slip away. But instead of surrendering to that temptation, I dressed swiftly and prepared the boys for outdoor play. Seeking solace on the steps, Justice, one of my two-year-olds, approached me with chalk. With a forced smile, I nodded as he took my hand to his, leading me to a spot for chalk art. I followed him and quickly immersed myself in some creative magic…

a year ago · 5 likes · Josefina H. Sanders

Jacques Barzun: Reading is a Steady Extension of One's Life

“If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.” ― Jacques Barzun Jacques Barzun (1907–2012) was a French-born American historian, cultural critic, and educator. He was a versatile intellectual whose works spanned various fields, including history, cultural criticism, and education. While he is not primarily known as a literary fiction writer, his writings often incorporated literary themes and analyses…

a year ago · 102 likes · 1 comment · Poetic Outlaws

TDT: 'Mystery' Cancer-Spikes Observed In Young Adults

While I understand that correlation does not imply causation, and fully accept that coincidences are possible? I also do not trust coincidences… and this coincidence is very untrustworthy. Welcome to this edition of the Three-Dot Tablet [TDT], a weekly news-digest where I seek out the headlines others may not be covering (or not covering well), and - wi…

a year ago · 23 likes · 4 comments · Stone Bryson

Aether Pirates of the Matterium!

a year ago · 753 likes · 160 comments · clif high

The Healing Power of Water

Hi, I’m Sue and I write about the beauty and ingenuity of Nature, and how we can deepen our connection for our optimum health and wellbeing. Discover more Nature-inspired content on Spiral Leaf, Twitter and my video Nature Channel. Water is the essence of life. It flows and bends and swirls, moving effortlessly, encompassing all living things on this Earth and beyond. Water plays an essential role as every living being on Earth requires water to survive…

a year ago · 13 likes · 14 comments · Sue Cartwright

Vinay Prasad's Observations and Thoughts

What is happening to medical students?

I was sent a video this week from a presentation at the University of Chicago Medical School— my alma matter—given by the American Medical Association (AMA) president. In it, several students shout down the speaker. Let’s talk about it. To be clear: I am no fan of the AMA. I think many of their policies and lobbying are counterproductive. Second, I a…

a year ago · 454 likes · 325 comments · Vinay Prasad

Bliss And Blisters

The Big Pharma "Side Effects" Scam

I just watched an ad on TV that is normalizing “side effects.” An actor playing a doctor says that his job is to use chemistry to counter “side effects.” So he recommends some vitamins to do so. I don’t remember the vitamin company but it hardly matters. Many others will follow…

a year ago · 32 likes · 31 comments · Heather B

The Next 30 Trips

I have a love / hate relationship with the concept of perfection. I love the chase of perfection, when I can go deep into a task and spend as much time there as I’d like. Write and rewrite a post (or my book) a dozen times. Or tinker on a des…

a year ago · 2 likes · Ben Kellie

KaKa Soul Echoes

Submerged in Sorrow

Grief, an intangible force, has the power to tear our hearts apart and leave us in endless pain. Many believe that time can diminish grief, but in reality, time merely submerges grief deep within our souls. When we endure profound grief, it feels like a massive weight pressing on our hearts, unable to easily dissipate…

a year ago · 5 likes · 2 comments · KAKA LAM 嘉嘉 @iamkakalamkk

Intellectual Dissatisfaction

My soul yearns for even the slightest bit of warmth. As I traverse this frigid and unrelenting wasteland, hypothermia has nearly taken its course, rendering my senses dull and my heart frozen. The throbbing pressure in my extremities has long since passed, granting me some relief and comfort. But this comfort was deceitful, for its f…

a year ago · 18 likes · 12 comments · Jeremy Mercier

Changing The Channel

We Don't Need 'Self-Help,' We Need Support

Each time I look at the Publishers Weekly bestseller list, I am struck by how Americans are always seeking guidance on how to do the most basic human things: follow a healthy diet, exercise, have friends, or be happy. Yet, no matter how many of these books are printed and read, Americans still aren't happy, healthy, connected, or anything else that they keep reading about. I was once a great consumer of this genre, and I recently reflected on how much time I wasted trying to make my life work by nibbling around the edges of the problem…

a year ago · 326 likes · 38 comments · Kirsten Powers

Hacking Narcissism

How to close the door on bad relationships for good

This piece is part of a series for paid subscribers to share my experiences and learning that have contributed to Hacking Narcissism’s educational content and my worldview about the human condition and culture. Our stories, when read in good faith, can help us feel seen, less alone, more connected, restore empathy and humanity…

a year ago · 11 likes · 2 comments · Nathalie Martinek PhD

Joyce’s Place

If all the world be clad in gray, with shadows darkening their hue, if dreams and hopes would fall apart, then still, my love, there would be you Thanks for reading Joyce’s Place! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work…

a year ago · 49 likes · 36 comments · Joyce

The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon

Theater of the Macabre

Thanks for reading The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. “The most foolish mistake man often makes is believing that evil lurks only in the darkness. There is no safety in the sun. Only shadows fear the sun. And shadows are just the dark reflections of daylight. True evil is …

a year ago · 83 likes · 62 comments · Charlotte Pendragon

Reina’s Substack

Apparently I'm still in Hermit Mode, tho I thought that was over as of the other night when I finished up my last story. The following day I felt light & free, as I handled the issues which were plaguing my brain, knowing that I had made the correct decisions & then got confirmation from a channelled reading I listened to while walking to work…

a year ago · 23 likes · 27 comments · Blessed Warrior Reina

Derek’s Commentary

[This is part 1 of my paraphrase, with additions, of a document titled “Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars”. I don’t point to it as truth revealed, I use it here as a frame to dive deep into propaganda. Think of this: we are often distracted by our tell-a-vision…

a year ago · 1 like · 2 comments · Derek T

Derek’s Commentary

Part 2: The last key points of Part 1: Energy has limits on its storage (capacity), use (inertia and mass), and dissipation (friction & resistance). Other aspects of society and economy have similar structure: Economics; capital and sunk costs (capacity), production (conductance), use (dissipation & flow…

a year ago · 1 like · Derek T

A wrinkle in the “disorder” game

a year ago · 102 likes · 26 comments · Jon Rappoport

The latest bullshit mental disorder

a year ago · 150 likes · 48 comments · Jon Rappoport

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I've taken a good few of those suggestions for reading, thanks.

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Nathalie Martinek PhD

Thank you Tesstamona for including me in this list of great reads - some of which are new to my eyes. It's great to smash my status quo!

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