Leigh Murphy
Art By Leigh Murphy

www.artbyleighmurphy.com

Independent Fine Artist, Multiple Disciplines

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2024-06-25 17:33:01

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Shawn Ryan show number 105 with gen. Robert Spalding does hours on how TikTok is too important a tool for the CCP to allow it to be banned. I didn’t know until he said it in the interview that it’s not available in the ccp, and the home grown version of it had a 40 minute time limit for users. In a related note, that same episode does a detailed description of how Spalding is developing a private decentralized mini cell tower network with a 3 mile radius that can be minutely configured to the owner’s specs, including private connections to other systems.I don’t know enough about the nitty gritty details they discussed but it sounded interesting- even though this guy comes across as a military industrial complex wannabe. I’d like to hear your opinion on it with your telecommunications background.

2024-03-03 16:13:53

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Two relatives of mine died from pancreatic cancer and an hypothesis I have is that the increase in long term baseline stress levels plays a part in this. This might be a topic for a future TSP deep dive episode, seeing that any SHFT event or personal tragedy cannot help but majorly increase stress. Combine that with lousy food and it’s a prescription for disaster. I’m also a believer that long tern unrelieved stress is a key factor in succumbing to addictions- yet another thing that gets in the way of resilience to SHTF situations.

2024-02-22 14:47:30

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What I’m curious about is that acorn season in Florida was months ago and why did this “pop” up just recently?

2024-02-09 15:31:30

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Besides, if I had the chance to interview the worst possible human in power anywhere, I’d jump on it. (Providing that I would survive the experience) Not least because I would get firsthand accurate unfiltered info on their intents and be able to spread that info to everyone who might be able to counteract it.

2024-02-06 00:18:02

One thing you might not have learned in school, is that famines are not indiscriminate regarding those who starve to death. In modern times, nearly all famine events/locations still produced and even exported large amounts of food, just not to specific groups of people who were singled out for elimination by those in control. #note152r…xj3v

2024-02-05 21:52:01

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Yep, I consider feminists to be hypocrites until I see a woman riding on the back of a garbage truck slinging cans with the guys.

2024-01-30 16:09:27

Like many things, even more relevant today. #note1d7k…ljhy

2024-01-23 18:48:39

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Yikes. And my mind instantly started thinking up ideas for a handheld ballistic tangle net or something to foul its propellers before it gets lethally close. Mini flak shooter that has a longer range than a shotgun, especially if these are built to stand up to pellets at long distance. And a fold out blast shield for last resort…

2024-01-23 18:25:40

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Ours was the deluxe kind with a built in record turntable that played 33s and had adapters for 45s and 78s, along with an am/fm radio. It took up one entire wall in the living room and served as a buffet with the top closed. All tubes and it weighed several hundred pounds. I think my parents got it as a wedding present in the 60s.

2024-01-21 00:43:20

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His farm was super popular even before going on Rogan, and yet even with how busy he is he still had time to help a friend of mine with her flat tire when she visited there. It’s definitely worth the trip for a tour.

2024-01-15 23:19:15

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I figure that if I get to heaven then it will be all the animals I knew. If I go to hell then it will be all humans.

2024-01-15 23:14:45

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And finally the white stuff on the deck isn’t chicken poop.

2024-01-11 17:31:08

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To a woman it doesn’t. But I’m not a Chanel sort of chick. Yeah, I know there isn’t a lot of crossover in women pew pew fans and Chanel buyers, but couldn’t they find just one woman to demonstrate this and not make it look so gay? Even my gay dude friends wouldn’t buy this.

2024-01-11 16:31:33

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It’s a reminder to keep working on GTFO of my neighborhood since these people look nearly indistinguishable from the ones in the 5 points end of it. And more are arriving by the day since the big financial companies are pouring money into buying up places like the old Regency mall and other derelict commercial properties and building giant cookie cutter apartment blocks on them. Now where did I hear that strategy said before…..😎

2024-01-11 16:05:32

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That was my favorite Stooges episode ever. It had enough allegorical lessons and oblique commentary rolled up into the slapstick that it could not be made today. Few would understand it and many of those would try to ban it. Yes some women do like the Three Stooges, the smart ones anyway.

2024-01-11 15:45:28

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Reminds me of when I traded a painting to a Chinook helicopter pilot for a case of Yuengling and a photo of me on my motorcycle in the back of the helo.

2023-12-23 16:48:41

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But to the anti crowd, it won’t look weird at all, they are that ignorant.

2023-12-15 20:53:29

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I tell people who ask, that my paintings are not as much like photos as they think. I’m a lousy photographer. There’s all kinds of stuff I make up to build a good composition, I’m just good at hiding it.

2023-11-30 21:23:15

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Apparently the video has already been deleted. What was it?

2023-11-01 13:05:10

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Would it be worth a mini vacay to visit Bluffton to do some live episodes with him and do some in depth looks at the whole interactive community? Fwiw, gulf fishing isn’t far from there either….

2023-10-18 14:33:04

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Nah, a bag of cow shit can do more than nothing. It can grow stuff, like even shrooms that might do her a world of good if she ate a bunch.

2023-10-16 22:33:18

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I gave IG a few years to see if it would live up to the hype about being the best greatest thing for artists to sell their work. I gave up on it in 2019. Crazymaking and fruitless whilst wasting my time getting sucked into the game and feeling lousy afterwards. Never sold any art and didn’t drive any traffic to my website either.

2023-10-13 14:55:20

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If you can get selamectin or moxidectin without a vet (good luck with that, I’m still trying) it’s an effective topical treatment for mange and all other parasites

2023-10-13 14:52:31

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I think it depends on how easily you can lay hands on them. Looks like mange in the first photo. We used to use Demodex in a bath to treat that. Maybe now there is an Ivermectin product for it. “Mange by mail” has a protocol for adding a specific amount (.1 to .3 ml) of injectable ivermectin to meat bait that’s supposed to cure it. No surprise that any such use is not approved in the official description.

2023-10-09 18:05:44

He left out the important bit that anyone from communist countries knows about. Not only will your neighbors shun you and deny you aid out of fear of association, they and even your relatives will rat you out or even make up lies about you just for a little bit of extra handout from big brother and a tiny bit of temporary breathing room from the boot on their own necks. #note1843…9979

2023-10-09 17:50:00

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Doesn’t surprise. People who gain success with something they basically plagiarized, tend to overestimate their part in that success and seldom if ever build on or replicate it.

2023-10-03 23:11:42

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They say that there are far less women psychopaths than men, I say there are more than you’d think. They just get away with it more and their behavior is excused more often.

2023-09-28 02:41:27

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I don’t think it’s so much the age, it’ more like normalizing a ban on yet another traditional thing that supersedes the state.

2023-09-25 01:38:57

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My guess is Hotez ( I mean who doesn’t think that name and say Bubba Hotep in their mind?) is only saying that to salve what he thinks is anything left of his respectability and look like he’s being reasonable. He probably doesn’t believe there are very many of the vax injured.

2023-09-19 15:56:23

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I would add to clarify that I dig a guy who’s into old cars. I love the look of a dude wrenching on a sweet vintage truck or bike to make it run like a clock. I’m just not so into one who has one and does’t know how to look after it. For example, getting ready to go out in the aforementioned guy’s run down Mercedes and it had a flat tire. I find out to my dismay that I had to take off my nice shoes and get my dress dirty changing the tire since a grown ass man didn’t know how (and apparently could not afford to call a tow truck). Or said he didn’t. Didn’t matter. I was out. I don’t do the “f-able mommy substitute” thing.

2023-09-19 15:33:16

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It reminds me of “A History of Violence” with Viggo Mortensen. I agree that the tired trope of how villains are cast is insulting to our intelligence. At least such movies don’t fall into the pit of portraying men as incompetent buffoons, toxic predators like far too many do now. It’s as if there’s some sort of psyop training going on…
If I wrote a screenplay about a good honest hardworking non-western straight guy winning against a rich woke “Karen” using the might of the State to crush people, it would probably be a fun cathartic story but never get made into a movie. I’ll bet there already are such scripts.

2023-09-19 15:11:18

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Sometimes an artist creates like an alcoholic drinks- to fill a painful void and escape (temporarily) a terrifying darkness that threatens a lot of addicts. I do say that sometimes making art can be an addiction.I also agree that in such a case, it can be just as debilitating as any other addiction but in some ways that type of all consuming art creation can be passionate as well. Just not in a healthy way. I’ve seen such mass produced work as you describe, made like a factory. I think one of the defining factors of such work is that the reason for creating it is externalized, like to impress others and/or to market it. Even art churned out in the struggling void of addiction is still more relatable to me than “decor” “collectibles”, or status symbols that flood the market.

2023-09-17 20:33:10

I remember the alarming thing I would hear from people several times a day when I was doing outdoor art festivals. “I love your art and would love to buy it but we have all our money spent on our house right now.” This started happening about a year and a half before the Great Recession became too obvious for anyone to ignore anymore. People with real wealth tend not to fetishize the showy trappings- those things just naturally become part of their lives and they don’t think much on it. It took me far too long to decide not to date a guy who worshipped his run down older model (insert name of any expensive car here). It wasn’t me being shallow, I just finally figured out that his priorities were skewed to value it and other materialistic stuff he could not afford- over a real human being. Folks like that will throw you under the bus without blinking if it means getting more shiny stuff. Now I realize I’d rather live in a van down by the river (yay fish!) than spend one night in any of the fussy new overpriced, poorly built “people farms” or “human rabbit hutches” being built so fast around here. #priorities #exitthesystem #note1pqs…ms4u

2023-09-17 16:48:15

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Well said! I’m gonna quote this next time anyone says I need to make smaller and cheaper art to sell - and not once has anyone who said this ever bought any smaller and cheaper art that I made. No one has for that matter and I end up throwing all that “more affordable” crap on the burn pile out back.

2023-09-17 15:17:54

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Go to a local horse show, one that focuses on jumping, like a hunter/jumper show or a 3 day event. Learn a little bit about how to handle a horse without getting killed or looking ignorant. You will literally find dozens of ladies like her. Even better is this- I did such shows for years and you hardly ever see ANY guys. I’d sometimes see a husband or boyfriend dutifully doing support duty but that was rare. It’s not all dykes either. I saw very few of them. Your guy to gal ratio will never be better. You won’t see many club bimbos or e-girls there. But, the girls at a horse show won’t ever be as clean and well groomed as the chick here. You might have to accept that you’ll be second place to the horses in her life, but that’s the trade off. Happy hunting.

2023-09-15 20:08:51

When you hear “lets just agree to disagree” or “it’s now a time for healing” or let’s just move on” it’s basically an indicator of the guilty party trying to hide their bad faith actions. #note13m5…x6tk

2023-09-15 05:51:06

Here’s a surprised thanks to fellow Nostriches for the Giggle-Snorts I did while following the #penisbutter meme flood playing out. I can’t remember the last time I giggle-snort-giggled like that. Been way too long.

2023-09-13 21:43:03

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One thing that concerns me is after all this hoopla dies down and even politicians forget the details on how things go, they will try to use this as a precedent for more robust future bans, hoping people will just go along with it just as she tried to say in this clip. Every little bit of traction she gets with this, no matter how unconstitutional, will give future attempts more power to stick.

2023-09-13 14:34:50

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I just made my first batch of high octane potent potable out of persimmons and orange/tangerines I grew. It’s now my favorite use of persimmons but orange & persimmon jam is a favorite too

2023-09-13 14:31:04

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Tiny chicken side eye over in the corner makes it even better.

2023-09-13 00:57:36

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As if you’d need another reason to do your own- I got a big pack of drumsticks at Rowe’s the other day. Baked them off as I often do but I never saw chicken turn out like this before. Every leg oozed a lot of blood and it coagulated out the top, and a lot of those also had blood shot streaks through the meat. It was awful to think that those birds might not have been dead before being cut up. Even if not, it’s still gross to think that the extra weight paid for was un-drained blood.

2023-09-13 00:50:43

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It also might be possible for awhile to be a part of a fringe religious group that was big enough and had enough resources to stay off the radar- but as with the Waco thing, really risky if anyone has proclivities like that which would make it impossible for the feds to let go.

2023-09-13 00:46:50

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If you like that, you’d probably enjoy music by Antti Martikainen and by Two Steps From Hell. I call it soundtracks for speeding tickets.

2023-09-10 19:00:49

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I’ll apply that to my stacks of unused sketchbooks & journals. Sounds better than “lazy.”

2023-09-10 17:44:30

So, do any of y’all tech smarties know what really went on with the recent outage of CashApp/Square? There are folks I know who coached me to use CA to acquire Bitcoin so maybe that makes me a bit paranoid when something Bitcoin adjacent goes poof.

2023-09-09 20:28:46

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The whole album is good

2023-09-09 20:26:02

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Hydrate with electrolytes! Dehydration from vomiting and diarrhea is one thing that can do you in from food poisoning. If you can’t keep it down or in, you may want to consider going to acute care for IV rehydration.

2023-09-09 00:44:17

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I start by really listening to them. Some times that’s all they need is to be truly heard and seen. Sometimes it’s hard and doesn’t turn out so well but by and large it’s worth it.

2023-09-07 14:32:12

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If my experience is any indicator, problematic people from your past who have lost their hold on you, will say and do some really crazy things just to get a reaction out of you. Any reaction. Doesn’t matter how crazy they act or whether your reaction is positive or negative. It’s their sad way of trying to regain some sort of power over you even if it’s only in their minds. If I ever responded in even a small way, it was all the permission they thought they needed to worm their way back into wrecking my life. The only thing that has worked for me in such a situation is to ignore them and don’t respond or react in any way.

2023-09-07 03:12:41

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“Fringe” if you like the X Files genre.

2023-09-07 03:10:24

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I only know two Burners and they both seemed to have a great time. I don’t think the rain fazed them much since they are like some folks who attend a duck farm and have to be encouraged to go home no matter what happens.

2023-09-01 15:37:45

Really? More than half of the folks who I know grow and eat their own beef seeds are women. I’m noshing on some of the recent batch out of my dehydrator which is about 8lbs of beef jerky. I’m learning to cook & eat wheat I shoot- beef is still a big part of my diet. How accurate are the things people say in polls anyway? And, how accurate is the spin (rhetorical question here) put on data from said polls?
Like that meme says “those are rookie numbers.” #note1rnt…8v83

2023-08-31 04:23:46

Well, another hurricane’s gone through and I’m still here. Been lucky so far. Still got some big blows coming through now and then. I spent a long time just sitting on my porch swing with my coffee & letting the wind push the swing while it woo-ed through the screen door and watched the weather happen. Gonna drive around and spectate like all the folks that aren’t too scared to step outside, then the big cleanup begins. Lost count of how many hurricanes/tropical storms I’ve ridden out now but they’re all so different. That’s something few speak about. And all of them have been way different that what you see on tv- but most folks here on Nostr know how that is with most anything these days. MSM serves its own ends and reality isn’t so much a priority- if it ever was.

2023-08-30 00:17:51

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For the time being, check hands/feet/appendages since AI has a distinct problem with rendering them accurately- or leaves parts out completely. It seems to prioritize faces for points of interest and the farther away, the less accurate it is. For now.

2023-08-28 15:50:36

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Because they literally own their citizens. Suicide steals the value of your labor from them. The family of whoever commits suicide is held liable for paying the state back for the labor value lost.

2023-08-24 23:34:59

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Ye gads

2023-08-24 21:46:27

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Pardon the repeat of the same thing on MeWe but I got an answer to the question on meat slicers. Friend who lived in the restaurant world suggested a 12” rather than 10” blade if it’s going to be used a lot. First choice is to find a good big used commercial one from a restaurant sale, but for new, he said the Vevor brand is good. He suggested getting one with a built in blade sharpener and a spare blade is a good idea.

2023-08-24 00:47:38

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He lasted longer than the betting pool average predicted

2023-08-23 23:17:57

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So tidy! I just ran a batch of “orange blossom special” and bottled it this morning and it looks like my kitchen exploded with brewing mess.

2023-08-23 22:29:48

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I think there’s merit in considering this point even if it’s “uncomfortable” with the folks who are on the bootstrap/content entrepreneur bandwagon side. I can only get a good idea of such things from people I know in real life, and very few fit this trope of all it takes is grit and hard work. Yes it requires it, but that’s no guarantee. It’s not helpful that the overwhelming majority of those who give it their all and fail, self select out of the data because they simple are not visible. Unfortunately too many of the people I personally know, outright lie about their “success” because it’s nearly impossible to prove otherwise online. There’s a whole industry out there to buy influencer status. You can buy everything you need- followers, downloads, comments, views, shares, etc. Fewer than one quarter of one percent of YouTube creators make more than $50 a month. Not well known since you gotta dig for that sort of data. The few more successful folks I know enough about firsthand, have gotten a big step in content creatorship mainly by being early into their respective platforms and shoveling tons of content out there before even knowing if any of it will get a return. Jack’s said quite a bit about that. It’s not a popular point but luck definitely figures into it too.

2023-08-23 05:50:55

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I’d really like to figure out how to share photos of such things I make here- so far I think my devices are too old for the tech. As for selling them, I did do an experiment on putting some images of them on RedBubble to see if they would work. The quality is so-so for print on demand, but as you’d probably guess, not anywhere near as nice as the real thing. I do have some videos on my YouTube channel- Art By Leigh Murphy that shows some tours of a few of my handmade sketchbooks that I filled up. Ideally I’d like to make limited editions of the books. Each one I completed has a theme. “Acta Hortus” is one that took me 3 years and 398 illustrations to do. I have a video up that shows that one.

2023-08-22 02:28:31

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Love seeing stuff like this. I do my own binding of my journals and sketchbooks. I even do the marbled paper for covers and endpapers. While mine don’t take anywhere near as long to produce, they take way longer to fill up!

2023-08-16 18:06:07

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Love how he learned to speak American by watching old movies. Looks like the Russian version of Costco. Also, just like my time in France, their version of American crap food is way more expensive than anything else.

2023-08-16 17:49:03

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That bit about how middle aged women are in the fastest growing category doesn’t surprise me at all. I see a nauseating amount of such people thinking they can “spiritually commune” with their “fur babies” and no one bothers with socializing or training them. The animals are sacrificed on the altar of persistently naive human egos. They pay the price for the humans’(?) refusal to see being responsible for a living creature as anything more than happiness and rainbows. And Instagram photos with lots of likes.

2023-08-15 23:13:28

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Which I’d read his bio first. He might know something about some curious indigenous artifacts I had from that region

2023-08-15 23:07:18

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Nice!

2023-08-15 20:36:10

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Is there a possibility to arrange for the MSB to get ahold of a signed copy of his book when it comes out?

2023-08-15 19:20:30

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Did you mean Chode Light?

2023-08-15 13:46:08

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One thing of many that gives it away is how it can’t get the hang of appendages- hands, feet, claws, paws, hooves. Usually the images are so over the top busy and colorful that people seldom notice it

2023-08-14 22:06:21

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Are those really a silver gray or is it the light? If so, what breed?

2023-08-14 22:03:31

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Like I mentioned on Guy’s thread, the song reminded me of a protest ballad from the 60s that Guthrie or Seeger would have been proud of. Can you imagine the flap doodle that would erupt if CCRs “Fortunate Son” came out today?

2023-08-14 22:00:53

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Gives me hope. I had 17 mostly good, interesting years with my OTTB and still miss the old rascal. I keep thinking about riding again but the expense and my standards of what I want to do, along with how development around here has eaten up open land for riding- convinces me to postpone it.

2023-08-14 16:21:42

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I just listened to it and my impression was of a classic 60’s protest song that Guthrie or Seeger would have been proud of. You might think that it would be something that people on different ends might come together over, so obviously I see the msm arbiters of culture already attacking it like they did with Sound of Freedom.

2023-08-13 03:54:49

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At the risk of being a traitor to my surname/heritage, I concur.

2023-08-12 21:15:38

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Just please don’t pee in it like the billy goats do!

2023-08-11 18:49:46

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I like the older translation and also The Emperor’s Handbook version. It’s a thoughtful gift for anyone who is striking out on their own for the first time.

2023-08-11 18:30:40

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There are tragically REAMS of such similar events happening that we seldom hear about. I heard them since a (psycho enough to like her job) family member worked in “real estate acquisition” for the DOT. Sounds like the similar stories that got Alex Jones’ career started. I don’t think for a minute that all these events are accidents. In their eyes, it’s just an accident when it gets out into the news.

2023-08-09 21:12:03

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Remember that part of 1984 where it describes completely artificially generated pop music, all entertainment and news that wasn’t a direct edict from Big Brother? Yep. We’re there.

2023-08-09 21:01:11

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And time for fried soft shells!

2023-08-08 16:14:16

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Thanks for the reminder that it’s a great time to go crabbing.

2023-08-07 01:17:05

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Do you think that the crash will apply to the type of land that many TSP listeners are pursuing as a way to escape the mainstream, like raw rural land?

2023-08-05 16:33:51

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I’ve written it both ways. It depends on how your ability can meet your intent. Sometimes a tune pops into my head, sometimes a phrase or two gets it started.

2023-08-04 20:05:36

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Glad to see this!. I was just brainstorming with some fellow TSP listeners about the possibility of having an Above phone but expanded to be like a command center for everything to automate a homestead, “Ring” like camera/audio for security monitoring, automated feeders, electrical/water monitoring, remote activation of solar powered gates, etc - but not tied into anything centralized that could tap your data. Also, once something like that is established, it could be continuously updatable without having to buy a complete new device every few years like we have to now since you can only update so many times with old stuff and risk someone butting into your privacy every time.

2023-08-03 21:50:40

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And yet there are herds of such weirdos (many are outright liars) in the art world. At least she probably wasn’t lying and it helped kill her. I used to work for a vegetarian restaurant/caterer. I saw all manner of such kooks. Vegetarians, fruit-itarians, vegan macrobiotic fanatics, raw food fanatics, air-itarians (really, they tell you that they live only on the nutrients they breathe in and dumbasses believe them! And no one questioned why such a person is in a restaurant?)The more extreme their food fetish was, the sneakier they were about cheating when they’d wander into the kitchen. I never saw so many weak sickly people in one place in my life as when I worked there.
AFAIC, all of these food fetishes are a mental illness. Guys, keep that in mind when you dig the idea of banging the hot vegan chick.
I would bet money that there are numerous people in the Veg scene who are writing this off by saying that she just didn’t do it right. Same argument as with socialists- and that’s a big demographic overlap anyway.

2023-08-03 21:34:26

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One down…..

2023-08-03 21:32:35

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Another possible complication is how our modern world is disconnected to the actual making of things. I see it all the time in the art world. There’s a deep abiding resistance to paying someone who “just magically made something appear” with their own hands and brain. Will didn’t just go effortlessly pick his creations off the magical Code Tree. People don’t see the actual work and definitely don’t consider the years it took to be able to produce that work either. This is a topic that I’m still working on defining and exploring in my writing. In all manner of scenarios, people who would pay the asking price for an existing commodity without hesitation, often balk completely at paying a fair price for something created out of thin air and raw materials. You’re lucky if you get the price of your materials covered, often even that goes at a loss.

2023-08-02 21:55:04

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What’s up with the bit where he pretends to reach for a gun in his back pocket? Do none of these people understand that’s the fastest way to get shot? Even if this is CA? It’s epic to see him get pounded anyway.
That same thing happened the other night in the street near my house with a bunch of teen shits antagonizing a neighbor who I know for sure has a gun. They kept yelling insults and jumping around him while pulling at their shirts just like this idiot here. (The parents of one of those shits are the most obnoxious anti 2A in even this liberal area). Turns out none of them had a gun but they all had their phones out like they were ok with risking getting shot just to go viral. Fortunately this neighbor used extreme restraint protecting his family and property and no one died. But I’d have bought a ticket to see any of those boys get whopped like this.

2023-08-02 18:12:16

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What a great example of the essence of art - taking a mundane thing that few people notice and hold it up to people so they can see the marvel of simple things around them.

2023-07-30 21:06:03

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At this point I can only use my iPad to post but even it has glitches

2023-07-30 20:57:02

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Be prepared for it to be gone a long time. It took me 4 months to get my smell back- and I warn you that some stuff won’t smell the same once it comes back. For example, the smell of mint in my garden came across as a mix between gasoline and rotting flesh. That took a lot longer to get over but it does get better. For what it’s worth, the afternoon of the day I went swimming in a local mineral spring known for therapeutic qualities, my smell sense came back. Got any mineral springs nearby?

2023-07-30 20:49:17

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It might be worth doing a deep dive into discerning between “pity” and “compassion” I see charity all too often coming from pity which is a top down, usually disempowering action towards the recipient. Compassion on the other hand can definitely include tough love so to speak and tends to be more altruistic. Pity often extends suffering where compassion often touches on doing hard choices to lessen suffering. That’s where I got to on it.

2023-07-30 15:58:14

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You’re right, it is basically the same as fiat. It takes a coordinated conspiracy of artist(?), dealer/galleries, curators, art “experts” to certify that an artist’s work is valuable. Never mind that for decades, the actual preference and appreciation of regular people regarding art has been completely ignored. What we see here is nothing more than a decorative(?!) poker chip that gets traded amongst a select group of insanely rich people, in the hope of it becoming worth more every time it changes hands. That’s where the curators, critics, and gallerists come in, they reinforce the myth of what is good, time tested art even though it’s all bunk. Even worse is that the super rich KNOW it’s bunk and they see it as a status symbol of how much money they can throw/waste on it and the know the players in the system are ripping them off. It’s like showing off that they can easily shrug off such absurd sums. The easier they can do that, the more likely it will start the ball rolling on that artist’s work and the people involved end up making a fortune on a type of pyramid scheme.

2023-07-28 14:53:58

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Yes, so it doesn’t escape and suffer. Since alligators are cold blooded they are very hard to kill. They have a lot of residual nerve/muscle activity even after you sever the spinal cord as the law requires. Shooting with bow/airbow/harpoon only catches it. Then you have to finish it off with a point blank high caliber shot to the back of the head and then cut the spinal cord then ream out the brain with a tool to make sure it is dead even before taking it out of the water. Even still they are known to bite after all that.
Here’s hoping you have better luck next time and definitely post photos. Even what you do with the bounty. I just started learning about charcuterie and want to go hunting for wild hogs again if I can.

2023-07-28 02:01:44

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Nice! I got an 8ft alligator last year with an air bow. But FL game regulations say you have to tie the arrow to a line for gators. I’m guessing you might not want to do that with a wild boar…

2023-07-27 17:51:59

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Bring home the bacon! For real.

2023-07-27 17:51:10

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What is your armament of choice there? We can use the AR platforms here and they work exceptionally well for taking down multiple animals in a group. There’s a real over population problem here with wild boar and no bag limit.

2023-07-25 20:34:32

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New NOSTR channel- “OnlyNans” where you can see grandmothers teaching us to cook, garden, preserve food, fix things, practice sound economics, give life advice, stack sats, etc and zap the hell out of it.

2023-07-17 15:37:34

I was fortunate enough to get to meet and speak with Dr. Peterson shortly before he had his “health crisis” which many (and I think he did too) say was a nervous breakdown. Even then he was aware of much of the things he speaks out now, but I think he didn’t quite see how deep the chasm was. After his recovery I think that has a part of why he goes more into religious interpretation of some things. I would say from personal experience that having some sort of spiritual grounding to deal with the traumas and problematic parts of your life has merit.
Anyway, even back then I don’t think most people understood the situation he was in. I have never seen such extensive security forces in any public event as I saw at his talk. I don’t doubt for a minute that it was necessary. On my way into the theater, a protestor screamed “TRAITOR!” at me- presumably since I’m a woman.
During the first part of my life I was completely immersed in the art world. As Peterson has said many times, this woke shit has been going on for years before it hit mainstream. For too long I just accepted it as normal, shut up about what I truly understood, and tried to eke out a living. Then when the Great Recession happened, the illusion was just too much to accept when everything was falling apart in the real world. All around me artists were doubling down on fantasies of “making it” and selling out to the powers that be for the next crumbs of grant money. NO ONE can make a living off of grants. See how they describe the social ills injected into our minds. I’ve seen that happen for years in the art world. Artists who made art that was approved by the academic system, who can’t sell it to the public, desperate for “support”, will do pretty much anything for grant money-aka tax funds stolen from the public and private “nudge” money.
There doesn’t have to be some grand conspiracy. I’ve seen firsthand how a little bit of well placed “nudge money” starts a whole evil snowball rolling and people wonder how all this shit takes root.
BTW, back then I was involved at all levels of non-profit arts organizations. I know quite well about how they are used by govt. entities to accomplish things that would otherwise be compromising/unconstitutional for a bureaucracy to do it.
Just like the covaids did to so many people, the Great Recession made the stream of illusion run dry and I ran aground on the shores of reality. The last minute or so of this video explains precisely why since then I have cut ties with the art world/scene/industry. #grownostr #awakenotwoke #exitthesystem #note193m…vwjc

2023-07-15 04:30:05

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I’m still amazed at how few people noticed much less objected to how easily Instagram shut down selected political hashtags “for two weeks” preceding the presidential election, and then shut down all hashtags for at least that long during and after the election. And no one I know ever said anything about it. So of course it won’t surprise me that it will be sequentially worse than that or the Canada truckers’ protests.

2023-07-07 02:43:25

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I did a few batches of lacto fermented tomatoes and one ended up with a noticeably alcoholic twist. That got me to wanting to make tomato moonshine out of the next bunch I pick.