The First Day of Summer

Uploaded 06/21/24

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Happy Summer! My hopes, wishes, and plans for the next 100 days.
Making a Blog and Social Media My plans for this blog, and why I don't like social media
100 Days of Anything Else... Because I can do... anything else...

Happy Summer!

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So, I was going to start this off with a huge rant, but I can't do that! It did get me in the writing mode, though. I feel a lot better about this summer than years past. I think it's because I have goals now and I can see a more beautiful world past all of this, you know?

Some people call me imaginative, a wishful thinker, a dreamer. I'd hope so... lol. I want this Summer to be great. I do have a lot of plans that I hope to achieve, and so I'm giving myself 100 days to do it. This Summer will probably be my most hardest working summer, but I'm going to make it fun, meaningful, and worthwhile.

My last few summers have been terrible. I know it's hot outside, too. We have a heat "wave" and it doesn't seem to be lettin' up no time soon. Sometimes, I worry if my old ass apartment's air conditioning can withstand this literal man made disasterous heating.

This summer is completely different. I have a purpose. I have dreams. I have scripts, and manifestations, and goals. And they *shall* be materialized in this reality. It's just what it is. I'm, obviously, not getting too in depth, I'm just feeling good that I feel good.

In this climate, it's very, very easy to be completely miserable. A few years ago, I always wondered what would happen if I ended up having to cancel everyone I listened to. Now, I realize it's more of a reality than I thought. I just find myself going irritated with the popular, top stuff. Mostly because one way or another, they are tied in the Entity's colonial project. They are on the payroll of an Entity supporter. They ARE supporters of the Entity. They're on the PAYROLL of the entity. Either way, It's been obvious. And I just found myself completely disillusioned with the entire thing. I see why celebrities drink and get all fucked up to cope -- not only is it still a fucking *job* but also, you can't even be yourself or have your own opinions. You *have* to work with Scuzzbot guys because that's the Bro Code. Because of their failures to find a dopaminergic response that isn't relegated to directly harming people, the Trickle Down Edgynomics continues.

Along with the fact that people regularly, REGULARLY say crazy shit that Ben Moosoliney said way back when ... I'm just not interested at all. On a lighter, more petty note, I find myself groaning seeing the Bushwick basic shit get popular. Stuff that my mutuals were wearing while broke and high waiting at Myrtle-Bushwick... like that's what celebrities are wearing NOW.

Rian Phin predicted this, though. Most of the cool, poor people were leaving and going to where they can get in, and everyone's scraping their plates that they already ATE off of (double entendre... kinda...) Pathetic ass literal Conservative Republicans are stealing what Arca did three years ago to appeal to the lowest common denominator gay.

It's what I call Fishing for Kuntpliments. Many of these people are in this heavy.

But then I'm like, I could complain about this all day or I could just ABANDON this all together and EXPAND my own taste buds, knowledge, wisdom, etc?

That's where this whole, 100 Days comes from. For the next 100 days, I'm only listening to stuff I haven't heard before. I'm only going to watch stuff that I haven't SEEN before. I am going to try things I haven't, do things I haven't, and completely get out of my comfort zone.

A few days ago, I finally configured my port forwarding for the seek, and now I have just been downloading random shit. Random albums. Samidzat dressed as Rare Soviet Funk. I have to stay away from the Top 40, any Western Celebrities, etc. The only one I'm probably going to listen for is Megan Thee Stallion, and that's it. I'm willing to listen to dead and old celebrities. Nobody currently out, though. Trying to go as underground as possible as far as everything goes but ...

I'm going to start Frasier as my first Show of the Now lol. Well hell, in a time of anti-intelligence, double down on it. I've been watching Family Guy and King of the Hill. The First episode of Frasier, I got spoiled in a MAJOR way and stopped watching it. I will try again.

I've also been downloading new books, random shit, all types of things. I just want to learn more. This 3H profection year is teaching me a lot about data, how to hold it, where to get it, and so much more. I really do find myself connecting more and more with people. So, why not majorly dial back most of my social media usage in favor of making my website nice and pretty? And I get to dive more into the internet, and take everyone with me! Yippee!

I still need to finalize my time audits, but I will also be looking into doing some b*g b*unty work! I don't think that IA is intelligent enough to detect bugs, and that's still a very valuable skill to have. So, that is one of my focuses.

And I think another focus is development. I want to make the world a better place and get paid for doing it. I think I can do that through making tools and software and widgets that can actually help people. I would love to just make honorware this summer and see where that takes me. I know I can't just crank out apps and software every week -- I sure can try, though.

I feel like if I'm constructive with my time, and I associate the pleasurable tingly feeling that I usually get w social media, with THIS? Then I'll hit my bench marks no problem. it will take a lot of awareness, accountability, and true honesty. But I'm ready.

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Making a Blog and Social Media

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So, if anyone's relatively familiar with uhh... I mean, anything going on with social media and the larger, more centralized part of the internet, then you have an idea of what the current theme is for this part of the blog. It's stuff that I, my mutuals, my mutuals mutuals, have talked about at length. I just have no desire to continue with the same habits. I've been like, soft launching getting off a LOT of stuff for a very, very, very long time it feels like. I just feel chained.

When I read about the interoperability costs in the book The Internet Con, it makes sense. I don't want to leave what makes social media great -- the social aspect! I can talk to myself on here, and I guess that's pretty fun, but not really. I mean, don't get me wrong, I make myself laugh a ton, but it's better to share those laughs with people you care about.

The art of the blog -- and as a consequence, the personal website -- isn't dead. If you are so inspired to put text onto the internet, there are so many means and ways of doing so.

It's just... getting to those that you care about. That's what matters. And honestly... I'm not really enthused about going to all these different places -- especially because a lot of them are now run by PE bigoted jackasses.

I decided that I am going to mostly post on this. And by mostly, I mean have a significant percentage of my public posting and time be on this very website. It's time for everyone to have one, anyway. Social media can get you a lot of money, but it can only go so far -- especially with the way things are going. I'm really disgusted by some of the things that I've seen.

As I've previously fucking predicted, people are feeling much more comfortable liking crazy shit > their algorithm changes *very fast* > you hear it in their rhetoric. This is by design.

Also, just by virtue of *going onto a website and generating value for a White Supremacist* by way of funny tweets, memes, etc... too much. Amongst other things. So, I need to be strategic about my usage of this stuff.

Idea Ponderment

I am going to make a microblogging section that only limits me to like, 280 characters. Because, I'm working with this *current* block as a HTML5 file with dreamweaver, and it's fairly easy to write with, so it shouldn't be too hard to implement.

I'm also going to have a weekly report-style thing posted every *Friday.* I will post it on Twitter too. It's an amalgamation of all my weekly posts. Instead of tweeting and going off, I'm just going to write about it. The only thing I'm going to post on twitter is CFs and links to my blog.

I want to slow down my reactions to things, especially on my phone. This is a very reactive culture, and I want to save that reactivity for when it matters. I feel like in my mars conjunct mercury brain, reaction is the same as action. At least, the dopamine feels that way. If we're going to think about it from that metaphysical, law of assumption-ish perspective, then if I want to REACT, I need to react as if I'm at the end, where everything already worked out. Christians call this "My god is bigger than this", and I'm sure there's flavors in many other religions.

I believe that by seeking to avoid social media and seeking to spend more of my time creating on #here instead of reacting on #there, obviously that'll be a net benefit. I should probably include wiggle room, though, or else I won't have much to talk about outside of work and stuff.

I think I will come back to Astrology again. I mostly saved my energy for the paid readings, but there's something to me that's really drawn to it. I'll include a part of that in my blog. I don't know what capacity, but I trust by the end of it, it'll be great.

100 Days of ~Anything Else~

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It feels like I'm handcrafting a new identity.

But yeah, after like 928388 months of Sptfy Algo Poisoning, I'm going to be listening to any and everything, looking at whatever, and consuming *differently* while also staying mindful of it, I guess.

I'm going for as rare and obscure as possible. Yes, to intentionally differentiate myself, but I want to just expand totally and completely outside of the centralized... everything, really, lol.

How I plan on Accomplishing This

I already ripped all my fav songs off Sptfy using SpotDL. It does give it shitty YouTube quality, but it's whatever. If I ever want to listen to anything, I gotta listen to *those.* This is to inspire me to branch out and maybe find new shit that I like. I *can* listen to new songs as much as I want, but if it's inhibiting me finding new songs -- I just gotta play it by ear. No pun intended. Well sorta kinda.

As far as TV, I don't ... really plan on watching much. I only decided Frasier because I haven't seen it before. I watch the Bootleg Adult Swim shit all the fucking time, though, so that's why I want to watch *new* stuff. Just new to me.

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