BACK ON FACEBOOK

 It's the 1st of June today so my month of no blogging, and not posting on Facebook is up!

I must admit, to feed my social media addictions, I did have a quick scroll through my Facebook feed from time to time in May, but didn't do any posts myself.

And I also had a quick look at my other old haunts, but the blockchain platforms Steemit, Hive, Bastyon, and Blurt all show no signs of recovery, and are actually even more deserted and lame than when I previously checked them last year. Blockchains looked like the future of social media around 2017, but they have all proven to be complete failures.

 In fact they now look far worse than the mainstream platforms they were going to replace. Blurt for example looks utterly tragic...

Several friends have been recommending Instagram, so I had another go at using it. Instagram is owned by Facebook, so they could easily make it work more like FB, but it has three big problems that FB doesn't have. None of them are difficult to fix, so I'm sure they have their own devious reasons for leaving it as is.

Firstly it can't be set to show a chronological feed, so you only see what their algorithms want you to see. That pretty much kills any platform for me. 

Secondly, you can't repost other people’s content, and that combined with the lack of active users, makes it a slow moving ghost-town with a boring feed. Yes I realise I'm following over 20x as many people on FB as on Instagram, but I had a look around and was struggling to find interesting content.

Which brings me to the third big problem - a total lack of engagement, most people on Instagram seldom seem to post or comment. They mostly don't even hit like on anything. So it's all as dead as dodo.

I did 52 quick posts, and managed to build up an massive audience of 13 disinterested followers, but no, it really is a pretty hopeless platform, so I wasn't inspired to continue using it.

And then there is X/Twitter. I've never had a good relationship with Twatter, in fact they deleted my original account back in 2015. But because I wanted to see some specific content in 2019 I set up a new account, and by a lucky a fluke called my account "X". But I still didn't like the platform then and have never really used it since. This year I was again wanting to see some specific content so ended up trying it again.

Twitter, like Instagram, also has three big problems, at least it does for me. It too has no chronological feed. Yes it can be set to chronological in the app, but not when viewed in a browser, which is what I want to do. And in the app it's wall to wall advertising. Unless you pay them!

Talking about paying them, they not only want $ to verify your account (lots of $ and they keep going on about it, because Elon Musk is really short of cash) they even want $ just to let you edit your posts.

And the third biggie is that in my opinion the entire platform is a badly designed confusing mess. I can't easily see what I want to see, and I find it totally frustrating to use. It's a complete chaos zone.

So even if some of the people I subscribe to on YouTube say "follow me on X for all my latest posts", I can't be bothered looking at that mess, so when push comes to shove I will just give it all a miss.

FACEBOOK IS THE ONLY ONE FOR ME

All the mainstream social media platforms are deep state mind programming psyops, so if I'm going to be sucked into the enemies mindfuck it had better be a damn good platform.

Which essentially leaves only Facebook, the exact same conclusion I came to last year. At times, particularly NZ 6pm to 9pm, when it's a relatively high portion of real people posting, rather than mostly AI generated crap, my feed is actually pretty entertaining to scroll through.

VIDEOS SUCK

All social media, as well as being designed to program everyone's minds, is also designed to waste as much time as possible. And a key tactic for doing that is to constantly distract everyone with videos. Occasionally one of them is interesting, but the vast majority are just more time wasting distractions.

So from now on, as I'm scrolling down my FB timeline, I'm going to completely ignore all the video posts. I already mostly do that anyway, but I want to consciously make it a habit, to not only not click on them, but to not even look at the posts at all. If it's a video, I’ll simply be scrolling past it as fast as I can.

I'm on FB to see a bunch of good content as rapidly as possible. Videos don't work in with that aim, because they are eating up valuable minutes out of a 15 min FB session, so I'll totally cut them all out.

FACEBOOK CENSORSHIP

Since "President" Trump was selected, FB have backed off their censorship to some extent. Many things that were getting my accounts restricted or suspended in 2024 are now not a problem.

But the censorship is very unpredictable, and from time to time I still get account restrictions, which are generally one month of being unable to use groups. I'm an admin for a couple of groups, and also an active member of several others, so having to switch over to a back up account to use groups for a month is a total pain in the arse.

The sort of content that FB is censoring is not obscenity (that is mostly fine) or even exposing "vaccines" or the Covidhoax (that is no longer a problem, and the AI now doesn't give a toss if you say viruses don't exist or that all vaccines are death jabs), but just try discussing BLACKC0CK, or LARRY PINK, or anything to do with ISRAHELL or the JUICE, and you are playing with fire.

As a work around, from June 1st my Greg Anderson account is going to be fairly well behaved. If in doubt I'll ask Tom Anderson to post any potentially "offensive" content, because Tom doesn't give a toss if he has account restrictions.

AFTER A MONTH OFF

Having a month off, whether it's from social media, or blogging, or both, always seems to help me to get things in perspective. It's not like I've come up with any revolutionary insights, in fact I just came to the exact same conclusions that I usually do, but sometimes a reminder is helpful.

THINK SMALL

Back when I was posting on my old www.frot.co.nz WordPress blog, and getting up to 2000 hits a day at it's peak in 2017-2018, it seemed worthwhile to do copy and paste posts, sharing other people's content that I really thought deserved to be viewed far and wide.

But these days with this www.sift.co.nz blog only getting about 300 hits a day, any contribution I might make to the dispersal of good content is a bit of a drop in the ocean. So this blog is primarily just about getting my thoughts in order and keeping my hand in. 

 

If my primary audience is not 2000 rabid conspiracy freaks, but only little old me and a bunch of AI bots, there is not much point behaving like some kind of arbiter of good taste and dispenser of "truth". Rather, as I keep trying to remind myself, I might as well just post whatever I feel like and have a good time.

 IT'S TOO LATE TO WORRY NOW

At the start of the Covidhoax back in early 2020, I was going hard out trying to tell everyone it was all bullshit. It was, but we live in a different world now, in some ways more aware, but in other ways even more fake than ever. I'm tempted to replace outing the Covidhoax with exposing the Climatehoax for example, but I think these globalist psyops all sort of have to play out now, because the current systems are collapsing, for better or for worse.

If there was one thing I have learned over the past five years it's that normies are clueless retards, and they will believe whatever bullshit they are told by the deep state controlled media, rather than research any contrarian opinions. So if I still keep posting that sort of stuff myself, it's really more about getting things off my chest, than because I genuinely believe this vast train wreck can be prevented now.

For better or for worse, the shit has already hit the fan, and I don't really think that can be reversed now. The final outcome may not be what the globalists think it will be, but their evil plan is already in motion.

LIGHTEN UP

If worrying is futile, fear never helps anything, and mind programmed normies are incapable of learning, we are probably better off to have a few LOLS...

A MONTH OFF

Today is April 30th, the last day of the forth month of this year. Holy crap that went fast, 1/3 of the year has whizzed past already. I have a huge stack of things that I really need to concentrate on doing, and writing blog posts is probably not the highest priority.

So I'm going to stop blogging for the month of May, and reduce all my other internet use as well, like using Facebook or watching podcasts, while I focus on getting some other jobs done.

From today I'll just note down any blog ideas I have and leave things online as they are for a month.

 And like blogging, thinking is not only dangerous, it's time consuming as well, so I'll have a month off doing both, and see how many "real" jobs I can get done.

A QUARTER OF A YEAR

A lot has happened this year, or at least it appears to have happened (but most of it is probably fake) and three months has seemingly gone by in the blink of an eye.

Here is a fake picture of the moon to signify something to do with quarters, or moons, or fake narratives, or something else meaningful:

The end of a month, and especially the end of a quarter of a year, seems like a good time to make changes, and today I feel like making some of them those.

Despite posting all sorts of things online, I usually try to avoid posting much personal information. I mostly stopped using my "real name" online back in 2021, because it was becoming increasingly clear during the covid hoax that anonymity would be a valuable asset in a mind controlled society. So this is about as personal as I get.

It wouldn't take Sherlock Holmes (another fictional character) to track down my real identity, but there is really no point making these things too easy for the ruling clowns. They are not really the "ruling elite", which is one of the grandiose terms they like to refer to themselves as, in reality they are a sad inbred cult of mentally ill perverts.

It's time for me to stop obsessing over the mass deception. In 2023 I mostly stopped looking at all social media, but I did continue using Facebook, because it can be quite entertaining sometimes, and being pretty much my only source of updates about popular mainstream narratives, it's the main thing that keeps me vaguely up to speed when I need to converse with normies about any of that crap.

Recently I've done a couple of posts saying that after a quarter of a century (another quarter) of posting about "conspiracies" online, I couldn't be arsed anymore, and it was time to pass on the baton, leaving exposing that stuff to others. 

So it was a bit of a surprise when one of the very few people I recommend and follow online, Jason Christoff, just said basically the same thing in an interview this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv16VtziynA

It is well worth seeing this interview. In it one of the things he is saying is that all the narratives we are being told are fake. As I previously grasped the extent of that, and realised just how few people are able to avoid being mind programmed, it slowly dawned on me that there is no point taking it all too seriously. 

Yes a bunch of satanic globalists really do seem to be controlling everything, and things are fairly fucked up. A massive crash is probably inevitable now. But going on about it all the time, is playing into their hands by assisting with their fudporn and doom and gloom mind programing.

I sort of get the contradiction but struggle with it sometimes. We are watching a giant circus show and nothing is what it seems. Almost all the things we have been told are lies, and nearly all the people telling us these things (on both "sides") are controlled puppets. There are very few exceptions, and I'm probably not one of them. 

I'm focusing too much of my attention on what is going wrong, and I have been for a long time. I need to let go and move on. So I'm going to have a crack at shifting my mental focus to things that are Positive, Inspiring, Necessary, or Entertaining (PINE). 

This is not the first time I've tried this, but if at first, you don't succeed, try again"

That is why I'm aiming to let go of a bunch of things, simplify where I can, and not take it all too seriously.

New Zealand is pretty messed up at the moment, but it's still an awesome place.

An overcast geoengineered day in sunny Wellington, New Zealand

WELLINGTON WAS BUSY ONCE

Old photos of Wellington always strike me with just how busy it was - now the streets seem deserted, apart from all the single lane traffic jams, with empty bike lines everywhere

Riddiford Street Newtown, Wellington 1974.

 

Cuba Street, Wellington 1960

 

Remembering Ian Curtis

 Yesterday I posted a link to a Joy Division playing their song "Transmission" on a friends Facebook timeline - I described it as "The tightest performance of all time" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dBt3mJtgJc

Later that day I was passing through Newtown, past the Ian Curtis memorial. I took a snapshot from the bus.

That monument has been there for most of my life, and it's one of the few monuments that have always really meant something to me. I'm always a bit stunned when people don't know who Ian Curtis was.

 

 

Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division

It even looks like something classic, beyond its time or place of origin even as it was a clear product of both -- one of Peter Saville's earliest and best designs, a transcription of a signal showing a star going nova, on a black embossed sleeve. If that were all Unknown Pleasures was, it wouldn't be discussed so much, but the ten songs inside, quite simply, are stone-cold landmarks, the whole album a monument to passion, energy, and cathartic despair.

The quantum leap from the earliest thrashy singles to Unknown Pleasures can be heard through every note, with Martin Hannett's deservedly famous production -- emphasizing space in the most revelatory way since the dawn of dub -- as much a hallmark as the music itself. Songs fade in behind furtive noises of motion and activity, glass breaks with the force and clarity of doom, and minimal keyboard lines add to an air of looming disaster -- something, somehow, seems to wait or lurk beyond the edge of hearing.

But even though this is Hannett's album as much as anyone's, the songs and performances are the true key. Bernard Sumner redefined heavy metal sludge as chilling feedback fear and explosive energy, Peter Hook's instantly recognizable bass work was at once warm and forbidding, and Stephen Morris' drumming smacked through the speakers above all else. Ian Curtis synthesizes and purifies every last impulse, his voice shot through with the desire first and foremost to connect, only connect -- as "Candidate" plaintively states, "I tried to get to you/You treat me like this."

Pick any song: the nervous death dance of "She's Lost Control"; the harrowing call for release "New Dawn Fades," all four members in perfect sync; the romance in hell of "Shadowplay"; "Insight" and its nervous drive toward some sort of apocalypse. All visceral, all emotional, all theatrical, all perfect -- one of the best albums ever.