BLOGGING IN 2025

 A year ago when I stopped posting on my old self hosted WordPress www.frot.co.nz blog, I called my last post "THE END OF AN ERA" and after eight years of posting on that blog it certainly felt like it.

My Sift Blogger blog this year has been a shorter term experiment. I started out the year by saying I would post whatever and whenever, but soon became totally anal and ended up doing a blog post of some sort every day for the entire year. 

 That really was a bit excessive for a blog that only got about 100 hits a day, especially when I suspect most of those hits are bots of some sort anyway.

For 2025 I was considering quitting doing blog posts altogether, and to only post new pages from time to time. But I must admit to being a bit addicted to posting something every day, even if it's a bit crap. 

So I've set up a new Blogger blog for 2025 and am going to pretty much carry on just the same. Possibly one day I might set up another self hosted website with a bigger menu and more pages, but in the shorter term I'll just keep things simple and continue using Blogger because it's quick and easy.

MOVING ON

 A new year is always a good time for making changes and I have decided to start over again for 2025 with a new Blogger blog using a slightly more modern theme. But not too modern, because I think most blog themes look totally lame. In fact I'm completely repulsed by the style of most "modern" blogs.

 

After a quick look around I concluded that all the more fashionable up to date themes SUCK! I realise I'm a bit old school, but to me they all look "Lame and Gay" as Eric Cartman would probably say. 

They are mostly bright white backgrounds with a distracting magazine like tiled style and plenty of adverts. I want a simple dark look with basic menus, no distractions.

 

Once the new blog is set up I'll point the www.sift.co.nz URL at it, and this 2024 blog will become another archive. The hits on this blog are so low I'm starting to wonder what is going on with it, and the theme is now starting to have some issues, so rather than trying to sort it out, I think it's probably time for a fresh start. 

 

I'm aiming for something less limp looking...

 

 

WHY I LIKE ODYSEE

This was really good to see, and another reason why I'm a fan of the Odysee platform:

 

Dear friends of Odysee,

Starting today, we're removing all ads.

We don't need ads to make money as a platform and we are confident in the development of our own new monetisation programs that will help creators earn a living and at the same time keep Odysee alive.

Ultimately, sacrificing the overall user experience to make a few bucks isn't worth it to us and nor is it even sustainable for a platform that wishes to make something truly open and creatively free.

As we take this decision, one thing is certain to us, media platforms (even ones that market themselves as 'free-speech') typically devolve into advertising companies and end up becoming beholden to their paymasters. It's been that way for centuries and is never going to change.

As we see YouTube become more aggressive with their ad deployment and 'Free Speech' platforms try to build their own ad businesses it's apparent to us that we're building a model for Odysee that will keep it sustainable not only financially, but in its ability to provide an incorruptible user experience.

Our approach may be considered niche or unconventional, that's fine by us. Odysee will be used by the world on terms that are agreeable to its users, and we know our users don't like ads.

Best,

Founder & Creator, Chief Executive Officer.

Julian Chandra

https://odysee.com/@Odysee:8/nomoreads:f

https://odysee.com/@MrE:c/Allman-Olympics-2024-Logic:7

OVER TWO HOURS A DAY

 Ever wondered how much time we are wasting on social media? This is a pretty good summary page - https://www.demandsage.com/average-time-spent-on-social.../

The average amount of time per person in New Zealand is 2 hours 4 mins each day - we are ranked #8= in the world for this achievement - WTF?...

 

I WANTED TO BE WORSHIPED

 Back around a decade ago I had clearer ideas of what I wanted online, and why I was blogging. I stated my primary goals definitively...

"I want to be worshiped like an angry black man with a huge penis"

An archive of my original Sift blog

 

 But after that, doubts started to creep in and I lost sight of my goals...

"Is it worthwhile for me to write stuff? I am uncertain as to whether I can write any entertaining shit anymore, as at this point I am something of a boring old fart with little sense of humour or wit whose writing is so crap a previous version of me would have used it as inspiration as to how not to write"

I still want to change aspects of the world that are bollocks, by helping to expose these things, thereby shifting the tides of perception. We are all only small cogs in a huge machine, but we can still make an annoying high pitched noise that makes the machine sound totally fucked.

SIFT ARCHIVE PAGE

Being a bit of a completionist, for some reason I wanted to copy the content from my original Sift Blogger blog from over a decade ago, and add it all as a single page to this blog. Some of it still amuses me and this entire blog is primarily for my own amusement so why not? The all old SIFT archive page.

 

Somewhere around 2009 to 2013 I used to have a blog on Blogger. That blog was the inspiration for this new 2024 version. I'm not certain what the exact time span of the original was because the dates on the posts all seem to have disappeared. The most recent post was about the abomination that was Windows 8 and that came out in 2013 so I guessed the date from that.

 

Around that time I was posting on quite a few platforms and Blogger was certainly not my number one daily driver. I just used to do some occasional short posts on it. Apart from one post when I first set up this new blog in 2023 I never posted on that old blog after 2013, so after a decade away I was actually quite surprised that Google hadn't deleted it all. 

 

 

 

But some of the content certainly doesn't amuse Google's AI, so this is not quite all of it, only what Google will let me re-post. Back in the old days internet censorship wasn't as full on and the old blog seems to still be all online here.

MY 2024 BLOGGER EXPERIMENT

 At the start of 2024 I switched over from blogging on Wordpress.org and using my own server space on www.frot.co.nz to using the Blogger platform because I was totally over the ever increasing complexity of using WordPress, and the hits on my old blog had dropped by more than 90%. 

It used to be worth the extra effort back when I was getting hundreds of thousands of hits, but these days, now that everything I post is grey-listed to oblivion, I can't be arsed jumping through hoops, and I wanted to go back to the simplicity that I used to enjoy back in 2014.

 

Using Blogger this year has been good, as I can just about post content with my eyes closed, and even after 10 years of not using it, everything was exactly where I remembered, and it all worked well. I hate Google, but I like their Blogger platform

 But there are three problems I really have to address now...

1. Blogger is owned by Google, and Google are evil deep state data spies and globalist scum. I am using their platform, so they are having their evil way with my content, and also there could well be some unspoken line in the sand that I may one day cross, that will cause them to totally blacklist my blog, or even shut it down all together. This is my enemies space, so by using it I am arguably a hypocritical sell out.

2. The hit count is terrible. Despite pretty much posting something every day all year, this blog has had very little traffic. Only about 100 hits a day, and not only is that amount not increasing, but every time it gets up above about 150 hits a day it seems to then drop back down to about 50. I suspect that is because searches for my content just don't come up with any results linking to this blog. 

My old Wordpress blog is certainly grey listed to some extent, and the hits are pretty crap on that blog too these days, but at least the search results are a bit better for content on my old blog.

3. There is no longer any capacity to put anchor points on pages. Apparently Google removed that feature at some point. It doesn't matter for blog posts, but for longer pages, a menu is often needed. I'd like to add more pages with longer content in the future, because most of my posts are fairly short, but without an index long pages may not be very useful.

Nevertheless, in 2025 I'm planning to continue using Blogger because it's simple to use and makes posting on line easy and fun like it used to be in the early days. 

But this is by no means an endorsement of Blogger, I keep backups of everything in case they shut my blog down, and I'm not expecting much in the way of hits. This little blog is for my own amusement, I've given up any illusions of changing the world!

MY DECEMBER MONTHLY CHALLENGE

The start of a new month is always the best time to try a monthly challenge. And this is the last month of 2024. Next month will be the start of a new year, and I'm really not sure if I'm up for attempting this one as a new years resolution. To tell the truth I think I might be struggling with this after about two days. 

Last year I decided to quit all social media for a month and did actually manage to do that. Afterwards I went back to using Facebook, but permanently quit all the others, so that worked pretty well. 

For the past quarter of a century I've been digging into various rabbit holes online, and doing my best to convince as many people as possible that the narratives are all false. Not just the "mainstream" narratives, almost everything we are told, is fake. From both sides. Yes there are some bits of truth here and there, but they are like bait on a hook.

At this point I have an urge to rattle off a bunch of examples. But for once I won't do that, because this is my monthly challenge. I'm going to stop posting about all the fake narratives this month and leave that stuff for other people to talk about. This is a multi level game, and we are all being played, including me...

I came up with an acronym, PINE: Positive, Inspiring, Necessary, Entertaining - and for the rest of this month I'm going to aim to make all my online posting (and thinking too, as much as possible) PINE. 

Let's see how this goes!

IS BLUESKY INCLUSIVE ENOUGH?

 Some friends suggested I set up an account on Bluesky and see how long it takes them to ban me - So out of curiosity I did set up an account - Frot007 - so far no problems - I know I could easily get banned really fast but I wanted to suss it out first, so have been very restrained. It sounds deranged, sort of a safe space for offended woketards! - https://bsky.app/profile/frot007.bsky.social

After watching this video, the target everyone wants to beat is 3 mins to be banned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS8zux0T7Og

But is Bluesky GAY enough? 

After having a quick look around I'd say it's up there with Mastodon where I only lasted 15 mins before being banned. It's all pretty terrible content - the platform works OK and signing up is easy, but it's a libtard echo chamber. I'm sort of interested to see how long it stays popular for - will hatred of Trump sustain it's growth?

 

 

I'VE ADDED AN ABOUT PAGE TO THIS BLOG

 And it even includes a contact email!

ABOUT

 Using the internet while displaying any sort of real identity online is a bit like walking down the street stark naked. I'd rather be completely anon, but I've been online for more than a quarter of a century and have revealed more than I can ever really take back now. But that is not to say I have to make things easy for "them" (the "government", or the deep state, or spammers, or stalkers) to track me down.

Until last week this blog has never had any sort of contact details on it, and I was going to leave it that way. But one of the other blogs I follow had added a link to my old www.frot.co.nz blog, which didn't work because of a typo. Being a bit of a completionist I wanted to let them know, but it was difficult to find a contact email on their blog. Eventually I did find a contact and emailed them.

Engagement used to be a big part of blogging, and back when I was posting on blockchains like Steemit, Hive (PeakD), Blurt, Flote, and Bastyon, I used to sometimes get hundreds of comments and I tried to reply to most of them.  These days I have all comments turned off and pretty much just ignore everyone. But the experience of trying to find a contact email on someone elses's blog made me grudgingly admit that it might be a good thing to include a one on this blog.

I've had a lot of problems with spam in the past so don't want to include an actual link, but I figure if I just put an image of an email address that comes to me (but not my daily driver) that should do the job. So here it is - just type out the address in this image:

GREAT SITES THAT LOOK A BIT CRAP

 There seems to be an unwritten rule that if you have a huge website with masses of amazing "conspiracy" content going right back to the 90's, you have to leave the site looking like it did in 1998 and never update it's appearance or organise it properly. Here are some classic examples of must see sites that look like something the cat dragged in:

BIG LIES

 

WHALE

 

MILES MATHIS

 

EDUCATE YOURSELF

 

 

 ANCIENT CELTIC NEW ZEALAND

 NUKE LIES

 

THE MORE I LEARN THE LESS I KNOW

Reading some of my old blog posts, five years ago I seemed to know all sorts of things that I'm not so certain of now. While I did make quite a few accurate predictions back then, I probably wouldn't have anticipated that I'd end up knowing less in the future than I did then.

And watching some podcasts lately I've come to the conclusion that the longer they drag on for, the less worthwhile stuff is actually said. Podcasts used to typically be about 15 to 45 minutes long which is plenty long enough. But now, some of them are going on for several hours. If someone can't say their piece in under an hour they are wasting everyone's time.

Like a bunch of fat whales queuing up at McDonald's for a big feed of shit, most of what we are getting served online is not doing us any good. It's time for a better diet!

 

Here is a 26 minute podcast/audio where Amazing Polly totally nails it:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/El273OzH8zXf/

 Although I later came to the realisation that "Amazing Polly" was a shill, when I watched this podcast I thought it was great to see someone online expressing this poibt - what she says here is something I often feel myself, and I get the feeling she was for real in this one, because I recognize the tone of her voice!

Although personally I don't trust Jim Carrey an inch, and I think "The Truman Show" was the illuminati doing one of their reveals (she doesn't mention that part).

Another one of my wild speculations is that Jim Carrey was playing a CGI version of Joe Biden