I’ve been pondering the myriad ways that the Internet and social media sites hijack people’s brains for the dopamine hits of likes, loves, retweets, hugs, comments, traffick, and money.
The internet, when allowed to be free, is amazing. When a group of intelligent people get onto a topic and use it to investigate and collaborate, there is absolutely nothing like it.
This is what they can't tolerate.
So yes, ultimately I think they will bring it down.
Substack has been incredible for all of the thoughtful insightful voices so I'd hate to see it go. I back up my email lists regularly and try to best I can to have contingency plans, but there isn't one if it just goes away wholesale...
I have noticed over the last 6 months to a year that technology is becoming increasingly more difficult to use. I notice more software failures, login failures, connectivity issues, etc. Adobe ceases to work for a period of time. Websites updates for services I’ve used for years aren’t working as reliably. Changes intended to protect user information require me to be chained to my phone in order to use my laptop computer.
A couple of months ago I realized that we have now reached a point where the internet is making tasks more difficult and time consuming rather than easier and less time consuming.
Try accumulating your tax documents as a married person. Husband and wife have certain items they must login to obtain. Back when everything was mailed there was a central location to received documents, the physical mailbox. Now we have a dozen logins and user IDs.
For work and home I have over 400 sites I access with user ids and passwords. Travel websites, utilities, software, insurance, shopping, vendor accounts etc.
You make a great point Kelly and it is absolutely true. My husband basically doesn't use the Internet he has a smartphone with a facebook messenger app but that's for calling me. I interact with all of these sites and they have all become more complicated and difficult to use. Windows is constantly trying to upgrade my laptop and no longer lets me opt out of it. None of the upgrades ever make things work better I just feel grateful if they don't make things worse. They can take remote control of your computer and none of your data is safe. It's all starting to feel like a laborious trap
No kidding. My husband signs up for all that crap. I understand none of it. If (when) he is not here or is not able to function, I will be helpless. I do not even operate a cell phone. I cannot operate our tell-a-vision. I cannot figure out the radio in our car. I am screwed. But all are, because all are hooked up to this evil thing. This IOT. Just where they want us.
Kind of like my smoker sister said—smokers will have the power of fire and light someday. 💪😁. Tech Luddites will have another kind of power. Us oldies will remember a world without—surely there will be value in that.
It’s all going to go down in a steaming pile of feces. It has to. Because of complexity, criminal (government cartel) or Tower of Babel style. I tell my hubby that money in vanguard isn’t ours. It’s subject to one phone call or digital log in. Period.
Then, show that every single person in the planet should be suing Pfizer for deliberately injecting an undisclosed carcinogenic monkey virus (SV40) into the cell nucleus of the clueless biohacked, as officially recognized by Health Canada !!!
If he doesn’t like the topic, I’d show this video (all you need is 10 secs in the middle, who doesn’t have 10 seconds for you):
(caveat about the beginning: pot destroys your brain + “Raises Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke”)
9/11: two "planes", yet the third tower (WTC7) imploded, free falling on its footprint like in a controlled demolition. It was out of reach, and all 7 World Trade Center towers needed to be rebuilt, not the closer towers not belonging to World Trade Center... and the “owner” took an insurance policy for the WTC against terrorism, just months before, when no one was taking them … he didn’t show up for work precisely on 9/11 … just as his 2 grown up siblings (they never skipped work before). The inside information about the FUTURE 9/11 event helped masons make trillions by shorting the stock exchange: the records were deleted by the SEC so they wouldn't be prosecuted !!!
Please watch all of this! Your life depends on it, because there's a plan to murder 95% of the global population by 2050… written on the masonic Georgia guide-stones: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 … ”:
- J6: The false flag operation of the fake riot was planned, incited and guided by FBI agents, who broke into the Capitol !!! The same mason-plot was copy-pasted to disband the insurrection against the stolen elections in Brazil! All intel agencies (CIA, FBI, NSA) were founded by masons and are run by them for their own nefarious goals.
- At least since the 90s, vaccines are weaponized to reduce the population, for example:
1. Adding hCG to infertilize women: lab detected in 30 countries
2. Overpassing the FDA 10 ng limit to human DNA “contamination” by 2000%, thus causing neuro-damage (autism, asperger, tics, dyslexia in 29% of kids, etc.) and childhood cancer epidemic (n.b. leukemia, non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas)
- Their main source of power apart from sin-empowered demons? NOT a coincidence that the USA left dollar convertibility to gold in 1971, precisely triggering the exponential government deficit coupled with the trade deficit and inflation.
This is the Achilles’ heel of all nations: masonic and satanic secret societies counterfeit paper money and launder trillions with which they buy Banks, seats in the Federal Reserve (the only private run Central Bank in the world), political careers and parties, puppeticians, listed corporations, media, healthcare corporations and organizations, universities, foundations, judges, etc.:
1. Create an easy system for real money: private currencies/warrants based on real assets, goods, services, etc. (gold, corn, oil, distance/volume/weight transportation, labor human hour/minute, etc.)
2. Ban legal tender. Let the free markets decide which real-currencies/valuables/warrants they prefer to trade with
3. Ban paper-backed currencies (unlike real-backed ones of point 1.)
4. Enforce a Legal Banking Reserve of 100% of deposits (so banks don't create money based on air) and therefore there's no excuse for a Central Bank, because there would be no risk of bank-runs since all their loans are fully backed with deposits
President John Quincy Adams: “Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.”
If you are a mason or know a mason, ask him to ask his 33° master to put in writing and sign it, who is "the great architect" and that he is not Lucifer. If he refuses, then he’ll know who he is really serving, Satan: tell him to get out of masonry NOW. Sooner or later he’ll be required to trample on a cross to get to a higher degree.
Confessions of a former mason (Serge Abad-Gallardo):
I do not have a clue. I don't think it is possible to wake up anyone anymore...they will never wake up if they haven't by now. Most are just hoping life will go on the way it seems to now.
What can we do? If we march in the streets we will be thrown in jail (like J6) to rot.
They pretty much have us cornered...unless you can move out of the Western democracies and thrive...some of us are too old to start over.
Of course, there will. After all, there’s all those solar storms that could cause all kinds of power issues and communications problems and it is likely to reach the solar surge peaks right around, say, the end of October this year? Hmmm 🤔
I've noticed lots of issues over the past few months with logging into sites and endless captcha phrases that cannot be passed. Having to change VPN location multiple times. I think many mainstream sites are testing out VPN throttling technology - for example, I could not access Bangkok Post on several occasions in 2024 to date, same for my friends - unless VPN is off. For the very few channels I still watch on YouTube, they seem to be throttled or buffer and crash when I use a VPN. I've found a workaround for all these issues that so far works, is to use a VPN + "New private window with TOR" on Brave browser.
Also, it is worth moving all 2FA (two factor authentication) away from centralised apps like google authenticator / Microsoft authenticator - it is often misleading with websites whereby when enabling 2FA the prompt says "Get google authenticator code" - you can actually use *any* authenticator. The *opensource app called "andOTP" is good for android phones. The best option is to buy a physical Yubi key to use with all your 2FA - then no reliance on apps crashing, or phone and laptop not time-synced due to different VPNs used etc.
Substack has been weird lately, even before the message appeared on my dashboard "we are updating our database and subscriber counts may be inaccurate" - I've had the sub count go up and down by several counts each day. When I turned on paid subs last year, nobody could sign up, Substack never replied to me, Stripe said no issues their end...after I re-did KYC (even though it said I had passed) by changing from Thailand address and bank account to UK correspondence address and bank account - paid subs then worked (after 3 weeks in limbo), but all the pledges I'd had and people patiently trying to go paid, vanished.
Also, the like button seems glitchy - when I like posts, it double clicks it for me, un-liking it, and takes several delicate attempts to like the post and make it stick (no, not an issue with my mouse etc).
I'm going to start liking some substack posts and paying conscious attention to whether I see the heart roll back on my side. I know on twitter I saw that happen I even took a short video of it happening and posted it on substack in 2022 or so. I don't know what to do about it if it is happening but knowledge helps...
Amy, I am a suspended user on twitter, but could get in for a certain number of minutes to look (can't like cant post, etc.)...I clicked on a twitter thread provided in a substack, and accidently clicked it close, and when I went into history to re-open, it told me an administrator (I use a chromebook) turned off twitter.
Weird.
PS...I miss (and am homesick) for the old Internet...before facebook, before videos etc...It really seemed that it was a Wild West, and I liked it.
My organization went full Microsoft, so most of us are constantly logging in on our assigned devices, two-factor authenticating everything, to death. Certain sites are censored (for example, "Russia Today" is unreachable, but it can be reached behind a VPN, using my organization's Wi-Fi...). I also operate behind a VPN at home.
From a reader's standpoint, difficulties with substack seem to be technical issues. IMHO, their software, or maybe their hardware isn't keeping up with their rapidly increasing number of users. Usually, when I open an article I immediately reopen it in a browser just to avoid the glitchiness.
That has worked best for me thus far too. I went to get some lunch with my husband and only had his phone on me. It won't open substack at all from there...
How do you do that? It’s my preferred use, but many don’t have the option In the upper right hand corner anymore. The share button? It’s getting very stupid. I HATE the app.
When I open an article in the substack app, I have a share icon in the lower right corner. Touching that gives me several options. I touch the one that says "more" and then one of my options is my browser (I use Brave). Touching that opens the article in Brave. This is on a Samsung S10. I hope this helps.
IMHO, Substack really needs to overhaul their app, and maybe invest in more hardware. Half the time when I try to access an article in my email, it doesn't even open the right article, so I have to back up and try again. 🤪
I overload for sure. I’m at a critical point right now. I flew over the last few days. OMG. The kabuki security theater is insane. You had to use a separate bin for this and that, devices. Coats, bags. Stand with feet apart, arms up IN SURRENDER. Wands because I have a prosthesis. Plus they didn’t go thru the machines in order, so too many people standing waiting for their bins to come through which required US to pick up empties and flog them over to the empty pile. My whole day spent from transportation, tsa, arriving early, grumpy agents, walking miles to gates, waiting for flights to go or land, picking up luggage that they just had to gate check, and I was already checked in. All this for a 1 hr. 55 minute flight. PLUS—somewhere in that vast airport, planes were disgorging unvetted, unvaxxed, unscreened illegal immigrants into my country. While I am treated like the criminal I will soon be considered as, because of my white rural rage. And a Christian to boot.
I think I’ved done that. That little compass thingy up in the right top address bar has to be clicked to go to the web page on the browser. This all used to be easier but with everything, people need to justify their jobs, which requires messing with good stuff until they are dead in the water for normal users.
People do need to justify their jobs. I've often pondered how much of the economy would be left if they hadn't rolled out the biomedical security screening state. Not that many.
With the unvetted illegals I've often wondered who are they? I mean the border security who is letting these people in? What are they told is the procedure? Are they kept stupid about what is going on or are they on the take to shut up about it? Couldn't we find a whistleblower somewhere who explains this process? I've wondered similar things about the border crossings of the NGO people and the ultra ultra rich.
Part of my reason for discarding the idea of a southern border run for my husband is that I am well aware that there are plenty of laws on the books to prosecute us fully. They just choose not to use them on this flow of illegals. But how is it being done?
Good questions. I read this morning that biometric images are being taken of people without passports getting on the immigrant flights but was a surprise to those getting these flights ready, or so I got from the article. I had to stand in front of a camera at JFK on Wednesday even with my Real ID and such. I’m sure it was checking my biometric image from my Real ID. Hey, I got to leave my shoes on at 75. I had a tsa agent order me once to remove my casted arm from a sling the day after surgery. It was a painful process on my part because of the haste inferred to do it. I told her as much. We are in a strange dimension now.
well said Amy! I'm starting to feel like I feel dirty after participating in social media these days. The internet has been created by individuals and corps with a low level of consciousness. They tricked us (with our permission) into thinking it was a gathering place to share our art, our thoughts and build community but really it's just a place for them to steal our personal info, make us feel deficient and be advertised to. I remember the old Adjusters magazine slogan "the product is you" and for me this sums it up.
Maybe it is a good thing...they are forcing us to go back to mimeo machines and face to face. God knows I need it, but there is no one in my state (some exceptions but it is blue) I want to commune with. They all drank the kool aid.
Maybe much as I hate to do it, I will die away from the state I was born in.
We ARE the product. Produced at our earliest age. Produced in the government schools. I have been reading at cooking/homesteading/home making blogs for a while and here of late I see they have all been captured and have all become uniform in every way. I even suspect they are written by AI because they are so uniform. Everything is captured.
Between the time clinton did not have sexual relations with that woman and obama threatened to fundamentally transform my country, I had to upgrade my guarded optimism to realistic cynicism. The obiden criminal cartel has less than a year to irrevocably control public discourse, and it’s fighting like hell for that. I believe we’ll spend 2025 investigating how candidates can “win” where ballots exceed registered voters. Amy, you’re doing exactly what all of us should be doing right now: pointing out the weirdness, asking the big questions, insisting on transparency, and being a happy warrior—emphasis on warrior.
I've been involuntarily unsubscribed from one substack noncompliant with The Agenda. signed back up and was immediately unsubscribed again. resubscribed and it appeared to stick that time.
the author had no idea what happened but had seen their subscriber count drop
Agreed. Substack has been, perhaps necessarily, been in on the larger game since the beginning. Perhaps simply to be allowed to exist, and of course to be a magnet for such a trove of information from many deemed dissidents. I am glad I wrote down your address in my address book when I did.
ps the thing I have noticed is that my computer sound is repeatedly being turned off this last week or so, a ridiculous number of times.
Writing down addresses in a physical location is extremely important to do! If these devices start going wanky on everything people might need to track each other down the old fashoned ways. Nothing is off the table at this point...
Substack is acting weird, especially after having to get the updated app. I hate it. But wasn’t crazy about it from the beginning) I like doing it with my browser. I changed my email and resubscribed to stacks on it, after unsubscribing on the previous email. I get all likes and comments on my own comments (I’m not an author) ON MY OLD EMAIL, and on the new one I’m continually asked to re-sign in but allows only the old one. I’ve contacted substack twice, but no resolution. I have a few paid but I have no idea what this is doing with that. Substack will be comprised at some point. Maybe already.
The internet, when allowed to be free, is amazing. When a group of intelligent people get onto a topic and use it to investigate and collaborate, there is absolutely nothing like it.
This is what they can't tolerate.
So yes, ultimately I think they will bring it down.
Substack has been incredible for all of the thoughtful insightful voices so I'd hate to see it go. I back up my email lists regularly and try to best I can to have contingency plans, but there isn't one if it just goes away wholesale...
I have noticed over the last 6 months to a year that technology is becoming increasingly more difficult to use. I notice more software failures, login failures, connectivity issues, etc. Adobe ceases to work for a period of time. Websites updates for services I’ve used for years aren’t working as reliably. Changes intended to protect user information require me to be chained to my phone in order to use my laptop computer.
A couple of months ago I realized that we have now reached a point where the internet is making tasks more difficult and time consuming rather than easier and less time consuming.
Try accumulating your tax documents as a married person. Husband and wife have certain items they must login to obtain. Back when everything was mailed there was a central location to received documents, the physical mailbox. Now we have a dozen logins and user IDs.
For work and home I have over 400 sites I access with user ids and passwords. Travel websites, utilities, software, insurance, shopping, vendor accounts etc.
It’s now just maddening.
You make a great point Kelly and it is absolutely true. My husband basically doesn't use the Internet he has a smartphone with a facebook messenger app but that's for calling me. I interact with all of these sites and they have all become more complicated and difficult to use. Windows is constantly trying to upgrade my laptop and no longer lets me opt out of it. None of the upgrades ever make things work better I just feel grateful if they don't make things worse. They can take remote control of your computer and none of your data is safe. It's all starting to feel like a laborious trap
Go over to majorgeeks and download sledgehammer. It's a script that let's you block annoying automatic updates from just about anywhere.
Thanks for the tip!
No kidding. My husband signs up for all that crap. I understand none of it. If (when) he is not here or is not able to function, I will be helpless. I do not even operate a cell phone. I cannot operate our tell-a-vision. I cannot figure out the radio in our car. I am screwed. But all are, because all are hooked up to this evil thing. This IOT. Just where they want us.
Kind of like my smoker sister said—smokers will have the power of fire and light someday. 💪😁. Tech Luddites will have another kind of power. Us oldies will remember a world without—surely there will be value in that.
Yup...and we gotta print them on our own printer and our own ink. Shoving more hidden costs onto us...or work, like those self check outs.
We see it. We know it is going on.
I hate it all.
It’s all going to go down in a steaming pile of feces. It has to. Because of complexity, criminal (government cartel) or Tower of Babel style. I tell my hubby that money in vanguard isn’t ours. It’s subject to one phone call or digital log in. Period.
“Geopolitical instability makes a catastrophic cyber event likely in the next two years” — Jeremy Jurgens, WEF Annual Meeting, 2023
So they've already announced their plans for an internet blackout, they blame it on anonymous "hackers", but it's them.
They will reset it requiring government ID and full censorship after the May 2024 WHO PLANdemic Treaty. No vaccines: no working ID
What’s your best way to wake-up those who don’t want to open their eyes?
Please share your most effective wake-up strategies.
The more the awakened, the sooner this nightmare will be over!
If the person doesn’t want to discuss injections, then food is a good start:
Why is food poisoning legal?
How Rumsfeld forced the approval of Aspartame.
Artificial sweeteners, MSG, PFAS, Glyphosate ... go organic!
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/why-is-food-poisoning-legal
Then I’d follow with "Are you opened to see if the actual data matches your opinion?"
Then I start showing some of the shortcomings of the Pharma industry:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/system-failure-ai-exposes-zero-government
Then, show that every single person in the planet should be suing Pfizer for deliberately injecting an undisclosed carcinogenic monkey virus (SV40) into the cell nucleus of the clueless biohacked, as officially recognized by Health Canada !!!
If he doesn’t like the topic, I’d show this video (all you need is 10 secs in the middle, who doesn’t have 10 seconds for you):
https://odysee.com/@ImpossiblyWackedOutWorld:f/WTC-7-Free-Falling:8
(caveat about the beginning: pot destroys your brain + “Raises Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke”)
9/11: two "planes", yet the third tower (WTC7) imploded, free falling on its footprint like in a controlled demolition. It was out of reach, and all 7 World Trade Center towers needed to be rebuilt, not the closer towers not belonging to World Trade Center... and the “owner” took an insurance policy for the WTC against terrorism, just months before, when no one was taking them … he didn’t show up for work precisely on 9/11 … just as his 2 grown up siblings (they never skipped work before). The inside information about the FUTURE 9/11 event helped masons make trillions by shorting the stock exchange: the records were deleted by the SEC so they wouldn't be prosecuted !!!
Watch amazing short and more evidence here:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/911-2-planes-3-towers
Please watch all of this! Your life depends on it, because there's a plan to murder 95% of the global population by 2050… written on the masonic Georgia guide-stones: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 … ”:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depopulation-or-extermination
- J6: The false flag operation of the fake riot was planned, incited and guided by FBI agents, who broke into the Capitol !!! The same mason-plot was copy-pasted to disband the insurrection against the stolen elections in Brazil! All intel agencies (CIA, FBI, NSA) were founded by masons and are run by them for their own nefarious goals.
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/j6-what-you-need-to-know
It's such a mason manual that they organized the same J6 play in Brazil when it was proven that the voting machines owned by mason Soros, were rigged:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-2020-american-coup
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/dominion-over-us
- At least since the 90s, vaccines are weaponized to reduce the population, for example:
1. Adding hCG to infertilize women: lab detected in 30 countries
2. Overpassing the FDA 10 ng limit to human DNA “contamination” by 2000%, thus causing neuro-damage (autism, asperger, tics, dyslexia in 29% of kids, etc.) and childhood cancer epidemic (n.b. leukemia, non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas)
Check soundchoice.org or videos at bottom after this page:
100 wake-up videos:
(don't miss the 1st one, 10 min at 2x, an amazing tool to start a discussion):
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/wake-up-videos
- COVID was designed as a primer for even more lethal COVID haccines:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-real-covid-timeline
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/not-vaccine-not-gene-therapy-just
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/what-do-bioweapons-have-to-do-with
- You’ll go nowhere and you’ll be happy:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/2050-youll-go-nowhere-and-youll-be
- It's genocide for depopulation:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depop-vaccines-no-myth
- Their main source of power apart from sin-empowered demons? NOT a coincidence that the USA left dollar convertibility to gold in 1971, precisely triggering the exponential government deficit coupled with the trade deficit and inflation.
This is the Achilles’ heel of all nations: masonic and satanic secret societies counterfeit paper money and launder trillions with which they buy Banks, seats in the Federal Reserve (the only private run Central Bank in the world), political careers and parties, puppeticians, listed corporations, media, healthcare corporations and organizations, universities, foundations, judges, etc.:
Depopulation or EXTERMINATION? (finest quotes):
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depopulation-or-extermination
Confessions of illuminati, David Rockefeller (finest quotes):
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/david-rockefeller-illuminati
Ex illuminati Ronald Bernard: how the world REALLY works
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/confessions-of-illuminati-ronald
The way out of this mess:
1. Create an easy system for real money: private currencies/warrants based on real assets, goods, services, etc. (gold, corn, oil, distance/volume/weight transportation, labor human hour/minute, etc.)
2. Ban legal tender. Let the free markets decide which real-currencies/valuables/warrants they prefer to trade with
3. Ban paper-backed currencies (unlike real-backed ones of point 1.)
4. Enforce a Legal Banking Reserve of 100% of deposits (so banks don't create money based on air) and therefore there's no excuse for a Central Bank, because there would be no risk of bank-runs since all their loans are fully backed with deposits
Anything else you might think of?
Now, are you really ready for this?:
The full PLAN exposed:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-plan-revealed
16 laws we need to exit Prison Planet
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/laws-to-exit-planet-prison
President John Quincy Adams: “Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.”
If you are a mason or know a mason, ask him to ask his 33° master to put in writing and sign it, who is "the great architect" and that he is not Lucifer. If he refuses, then he’ll know who he is really serving, Satan: tell him to get out of masonry NOW. Sooner or later he’ll be required to trample on a cross to get to a higher degree.
Confessions of a former mason (Serge Abad-Gallardo):
https://www.ncregister.com/interview/confessions-of-a-former-freemason-officer-converted-to-catholicism
Confession of 33rd degree master mason - Masons worship deities/demons
https://rumble.com/v294ksc-words-from-33rd-degree-master-mason-rare-video-masons-worship-all-sorts-of-.html
Masonry's Satanic Connection
https://odysee.com/@HiddenTruths:c/Masonry's-Satanic-Connection:4
Masonry's Satanic Doctrine | From Their Own Books
https://rumble.com/v2wg24a-masonrys-satanic-doctrine-from-their-own-books.html
Do Freemasons Worship Lucifer？ Evidence They Don't Want You To See
https://odysee.com/@John_4-14:a/Do-Freemasons-Worship-Lucifer%EF%BC%9F-Evidence-They-Don't-Want-You-To-See-%EF%BD%9C-Hidden-Agendas---Walter-Veith:0
Satanic Ritual Abuse and Secret Societies [1995] [VHS]
https://odysee.com/@thisworldworks:1/satanic-ritual-abuse-and-secret-societies-1995:3
Satanic Pedophilia Torture and Blood - Dark Satanic Secrets Revealed
https://odysee.com/@Gmail.com:52/822821884_Satanic-Pedophilia-Torture-and-Blood---Dark-Satanic-Secrets-Revealed:4
UNITED NATIONS LUCIFER AND THE LUCIFER TRUST
https://odysee.com/@dynosarus:c/UNITED-NATIONS-LUCIFER-AND-THE-LUCIFER-TRUST:4
Freemasonry: 100% incompatible with Christ
https://rumble.com/vs9mxb-heres-why-christianity-is-totally-incapatable-with-freemasonry.html
I do not have a clue. I don't think it is possible to wake up anyone anymore...they will never wake up if they haven't by now. Most are just hoping life will go on the way it seems to now.
What can we do? If we march in the streets we will be thrown in jail (like J6) to rot.
They pretty much have us cornered...unless you can move out of the Western democracies and thrive...some of us are too old to start over.
There are many things we could do to get out of the corner:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/laws-to-exit-planet-prison
Of course, there will. After all, there’s all those solar storms that could cause all kinds of power issues and communications problems and it is likely to reach the solar surge peaks right around, say, the end of October this year? Hmmm 🤔
Google's subtle manipulations are as powerful as their blatant ones, and according to one specialist, can sway tens of millions of voters in, say, a presidential election... https://eccentrik.substack.com/p/technocracy-takeover-googles-ephemeral
I've noticed lots of issues over the past few months with logging into sites and endless captcha phrases that cannot be passed. Having to change VPN location multiple times. I think many mainstream sites are testing out VPN throttling technology - for example, I could not access Bangkok Post on several occasions in 2024 to date, same for my friends - unless VPN is off. For the very few channels I still watch on YouTube, they seem to be throttled or buffer and crash when I use a VPN. I've found a workaround for all these issues that so far works, is to use a VPN + "New private window with TOR" on Brave browser.
Also, it is worth moving all 2FA (two factor authentication) away from centralised apps like google authenticator / Microsoft authenticator - it is often misleading with websites whereby when enabling 2FA the prompt says "Get google authenticator code" - you can actually use *any* authenticator. The *opensource app called "andOTP" is good for android phones. The best option is to buy a physical Yubi key to use with all your 2FA - then no reliance on apps crashing, or phone and laptop not time-synced due to different VPNs used etc.
Substack has been weird lately, even before the message appeared on my dashboard "we are updating our database and subscriber counts may be inaccurate" - I've had the sub count go up and down by several counts each day. When I turned on paid subs last year, nobody could sign up, Substack never replied to me, Stripe said no issues their end...after I re-did KYC (even though it said I had passed) by changing from Thailand address and bank account to UK correspondence address and bank account - paid subs then worked (after 3 weeks in limbo), but all the pledges I'd had and people patiently trying to go paid, vanished.
Also, the like button seems glitchy - when I like posts, it double clicks it for me, un-liking it, and takes several delicate attempts to like the post and make it stick (no, not an issue with my mouse etc).
I'm going to start liking some substack posts and paying conscious attention to whether I see the heart roll back on my side. I know on twitter I saw that happen I even took a short video of it happening and posted it on substack in 2022 or so. I don't know what to do about it if it is happening but knowledge helps...
Amy, I am a suspended user on twitter, but could get in for a certain number of minutes to look (can't like cant post, etc.)...I clicked on a twitter thread provided in a substack, and accidently clicked it close, and when I went into history to re-open, it told me an administrator (I use a chromebook) turned off twitter.
Weird.
PS...I miss (and am homesick) for the old Internet...before facebook, before videos etc...It really seemed that it was a Wild West, and I liked it.
It feels like jail now.
Jail is the correct way of thinking about it. It's like everyone lured us in here and now they want to put us in these little silos
My organization went full Microsoft, so most of us are constantly logging in on our assigned devices, two-factor authenticating everything, to death. Certain sites are censored (for example, "Russia Today" is unreachable, but it can be reached behind a VPN, using my organization's Wi-Fi...). I also operate behind a VPN at home.
From a reader's standpoint, difficulties with substack seem to be technical issues. IMHO, their software, or maybe their hardware isn't keeping up with their rapidly increasing number of users. Usually, when I open an article I immediately reopen it in a browser just to avoid the glitchiness.
That has worked best for me thus far too. I went to get some lunch with my husband and only had his phone on me. It won't open substack at all from there...
How do you do that? It’s my preferred use, but many don’t have the option In the upper right hand corner anymore. The share button? It’s getting very stupid. I HATE the app.
When I open an article in the substack app, I have a share icon in the lower right corner. Touching that gives me several options. I touch the one that says "more" and then one of my options is my browser (I use Brave). Touching that opens the article in Brave. This is on a Samsung S10. I hope this helps.
IMHO, Substack really needs to overhaul their app, and maybe invest in more hardware. Half the time when I try to access an article in my email, it doesn't even open the right article, so I have to back up and try again. 🤪
It's app overload for me. It's gotten to the point you can barely do anything on the web on a phone without downloading some app or other...
I overload for sure. I’m at a critical point right now. I flew over the last few days. OMG. The kabuki security theater is insane. You had to use a separate bin for this and that, devices. Coats, bags. Stand with feet apart, arms up IN SURRENDER. Wands because I have a prosthesis. Plus they didn’t go thru the machines in order, so too many people standing waiting for their bins to come through which required US to pick up empties and flog them over to the empty pile. My whole day spent from transportation, tsa, arriving early, grumpy agents, walking miles to gates, waiting for flights to go or land, picking up luggage that they just had to gate check, and I was already checked in. All this for a 1 hr. 55 minute flight. PLUS—somewhere in that vast airport, planes were disgorging unvetted, unvaxxed, unscreened illegal immigrants into my country. While I am treated like the criminal I will soon be considered as, because of my white rural rage. And a Christian to boot.
I think I’ved done that. That little compass thingy up in the right top address bar has to be clicked to go to the web page on the browser. This all used to be easier but with everything, people need to justify their jobs, which requires messing with good stuff until they are dead in the water for normal users.
People do need to justify their jobs. I've often pondered how much of the economy would be left if they hadn't rolled out the biomedical security screening state. Not that many.
With the unvetted illegals I've often wondered who are they? I mean the border security who is letting these people in? What are they told is the procedure? Are they kept stupid about what is going on or are they on the take to shut up about it? Couldn't we find a whistleblower somewhere who explains this process? I've wondered similar things about the border crossings of the NGO people and the ultra ultra rich.
Part of my reason for discarding the idea of a southern border run for my husband is that I am well aware that there are plenty of laws on the books to prosecute us fully. They just choose not to use them on this flow of illegals. But how is it being done?
Good questions. I read this morning that biometric images are being taken of people without passports getting on the immigrant flights but was a surprise to those getting these flights ready, or so I got from the article. I had to stand in front of a camera at JFK on Wednesday even with my Real ID and such. I’m sure it was checking my biometric image from my Real ID. Hey, I got to leave my shoes on at 75. I had a tsa agent order me once to remove my casted arm from a sling the day after surgery. It was a painful process on my part because of the haste inferred to do it. I told her as much. We are in a strange dimension now.
well said Amy! I'm starting to feel like I feel dirty after participating in social media these days. The internet has been created by individuals and corps with a low level of consciousness. They tricked us (with our permission) into thinking it was a gathering place to share our art, our thoughts and build community but really it's just a place for them to steal our personal info, make us feel deficient and be advertised to. I remember the old Adjusters magazine slogan "the product is you" and for me this sums it up.
Maybe it is a good thing...they are forcing us to go back to mimeo machines and face to face. God knows I need it, but there is no one in my state (some exceptions but it is blue) I want to commune with. They all drank the kool aid.
Maybe much as I hate to do it, I will die away from the state I was born in.
We ARE the product. Produced at our earliest age. Produced in the government schools. I have been reading at cooking/homesteading/home making blogs for a while and here of late I see they have all been captured and have all become uniform in every way. I even suspect they are written by AI because they are so uniform. Everything is captured.
Oh ugh.
Between the time clinton did not have sexual relations with that woman and obama threatened to fundamentally transform my country, I had to upgrade my guarded optimism to realistic cynicism. The obiden criminal cartel has less than a year to irrevocably control public discourse, and it’s fighting like hell for that. I believe we’ll spend 2025 investigating how candidates can “win” where ballots exceed registered voters. Amy, you’re doing exactly what all of us should be doing right now: pointing out the weirdness, asking the big questions, insisting on transparency, and being a happy warrior—emphasis on warrior.
Even Substack. Bummer.
I just added a heart. It's a 9 at this moment.
I've been involuntarily unsubscribed from one substack noncompliant with The Agenda. signed back up and was immediately unsubscribed again. resubscribed and it appeared to stick that time.
the author had no idea what happened but had seen their subscriber count drop
I have multiple substacks I read that I became unsubscribed to at some point. Sometimes though I had not read them in awhile...
Agreed. Substack has been, perhaps necessarily, been in on the larger game since the beginning. Perhaps simply to be allowed to exist, and of course to be a magnet for such a trove of information from many deemed dissidents. I am glad I wrote down your address in my address book when I did.
ps the thing I have noticed is that my computer sound is repeatedly being turned off this last week or so, a ridiculous number of times.
Writing down addresses in a physical location is extremely important to do! If these devices start going wanky on everything people might need to track each other down the old fashoned ways. Nothing is off the table at this point...
I've been doing that, hoping that the post isn't heavily dependent on the internet!
Substack is acting weird, especially after having to get the updated app. I hate it. But wasn’t crazy about it from the beginning) I like doing it with my browser. I changed my email and resubscribed to stacks on it, after unsubscribing on the previous email. I get all likes and comments on my own comments (I’m not an author) ON MY OLD EMAIL, and on the new one I’m continually asked to re-sign in but allows only the old one. I’ve contacted substack twice, but no resolution. I have a few paid but I have no idea what this is doing with that. Substack will be comprised at some point. Maybe already.