WHY I QUIT USING BLOCKCHAINS

SEVEN YEARS OF DISAPPEARING UP OUR  OWN ARSES

After seven years of posting on blockchain platforms, I threw in the towel.  I started out on Steemit back in August 2016 after Jeff Berwick did a drunken rant saying Steemit and Bitcoin were the future.

For all his faults he was right about Bitcoin and I owe him one for that awesome tip! I went on to do very well on BTC (twice). But I lost interest in Steemit after learning more about it's origins, and also seeing how things played out on that platform, but what the hell, it started me on an interesting path.

Was that a Freemason shirt Jeff?

A path of posting on Steemit, then Hive, then Flote, then Bastyon, and finally Blurt , but the same pattern always repeated - they all got gradually more boring until they disappeared up their own arses...

I have been using two main online identities for 25 years now - SIFT and FROT. But when the CIA were setting up Steemit in early 2016 they reserved almost all the best one syllable four letter names for themselves (although they missed FROT for some reason). So when I set up my first account, SIFT was gone and I already suspected that there was some sort of deep state Satanic psyop going on there, so I called my account SIFT666.

And that did help me take off on STEEMIT to some extent because there were quite a few whales who dug that Satanic stuff, and maybe thought I did too

At my SIFT666 Steemit peak (late 2016, early 2017) I had about 2000 followers, my posts were earning between US$5 and US$400 a pop, and they sometimes had more than 100 replies with all sorts of images and links. It was very entertaining at times!

But all good things must end, and Steemit totally imploded so I switched over to Hive, by then having a lot more inside knowledge, and bought up a large holding very cheap. Later I sold it before Hive also imploded up it's own arse, and soon after that I was blacklisted for posting anti "vax", and anti germ theory information at the start of the Covidhoax.

These days Steemit is a Chinese owned joke filled with Korean shitposts. If anyone is looking for Asian entertainment I recommend Ali Express where you can see stuff like 75 thousand listings for dildos all written in Chinglish.

https://www.aliexpress.com

Steemit is now a total waste of space where insiders fling money at their own alt accounts for posting pictures of the bowl of noodles they just ate... So it's an Asian version of Hive really!

HIVE still has the best front end of all time - PEAKD, which is brilliant, but the insider cabal, the corruption, the relentless downvoting and the censorship makes the platform an unusable lemon. I hope the insiders are proud of themselves, for destroying what could have been a great blogging platform.

FLOTE and BASTYON both followed slightly different downward trajectories, based more around bad decisions, bad design, lack of vision, and incompetence, rather than obvious corruption, but ultimately they too ended up as dead end platforms with no prospects.

Which finally brought me to BLURT. Why was I even considering posting on it at all? Because I started thinking it might be the only blockchain blogging platform with any chance of ever recovering. And even then only on the BLURTLATAM front end - https://blurtlatam.intinte.org 

But no, that went down the tubes as well. It's main strength was no downvoting, but that feature wasn't enough by itself, and Blurt tokens ended up worthless.

And that is why I gave up on blockchains.

First and foremost, I think the elephant in the room with all these blockchain platforms is that earning rewards from blogging just leads to endless suck whale dick for a dollar "safe posts". And along with that it leads to whales controlling the content by removing the rewards, and also to a bunch of tame insider puppets posting endless variations of the same posts to get their rewards.

I have since concluded that blogging is best done for my own entertainment, so these days I really don't expect to get rewarded for it, and I have the comments turned off, and try to ignore the lack of hits. 

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DOES GOOGLE CONTROL THE INTERNET?

Back in 2006 when I first started blogging on a new self hosted website set up in April it was a real buzz to watch the traffic increasing almost exponentially each month for the first eight months. Later on I was a bit surprised to see it decline for the first time in 2008 (my first run in with Google), but after that for the next seven years the traffic was pretty constant, mostly slowly increasing, as you might expect with the content also slowly increasing.

Late in 2015 I did a huge upgrade to the site and really got things sorted out. The results soon became evident with rapid growth in 2016 and by 2017 the site was pumping – it got over 4 million page hits that year! But in 2018 the decline began. A lot of my posts already included content about “germ theory” “vaccinations” and “globalists” and I hadn’t even started talking about the “covidhoax” at that point.

In 2019 I was discussing pandemics, eugenics, and a lot of the other Agenda 2030 evil doings. I have no idea when the big decline in traffic really started because oddly my stats for 2019 are identical to 2018. Almost as if they have been replaced... 

But it’s fair to say my site was black listed by Google. The search engine hits from Google have been incredibly low ever since, with the main search engine hits now coming from Yandex and Duckduckgo.

Yandex is a Russian search engine and web portal

Just how much effect on the site traffic does a Google shadow ban have? Well, check this out – my hits in 2022 for the full year were the lowest ever, lower than my hits for 2006 were in just eight months. And the site content in 2006 was only about 60 pages. In 2022 it was more than 600 pages. I have estimated the hits for 2023 based on the first seven months of the year and they do seem to be very slowly increasing. This is mainly due to more people using search engines other that deep state Google. So yes, I’d say Google do control the internet to a huge extent.

Bandwith use and page hits to www.frot.co.nz 2006-2023

This post really sums up what has happened to the internet - https://realitybloger.wordpress.com/ 

"It’s very difficult to explain just what shadow-banning is, but you certainly recognize it when you suddenly find your digital persona and works gazing out from within those digitally enforced shadows. When one cannot even pull up one’s own website in any of the popular search engines" 

And yes, right here on Blogger could be where Google decide to crank up their censorship next - that is why I'm doing a lot of backups and double posts - and my next plan is to see if I can start pulling back some of the missing traffic!

And a lot of other people are being censored online as well...

For example, discussion of The Deepopulation Agender is now banned on Blogger. Will this platform get like Fakebook where everyone has to misspell everything that is banned?

https://merylnass.substack.com/p/google-took-down-my-post-on-depopulation

 

 

ART IS WHAT YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH

Was Andy Warhol a total asshole and part of the illuminati game?

 Some people certainly think he was, but I used to have a soft spot for his wonky looking art so was blinded to all this… This review on the other hand is no holds bared scathing about him:

“He was such a super asshole. It’s all about attitude – I guess if you just look at the art and don’t know anything about him then the art, in and of itself, could be considered beautiful – but then you find out about him, and it’s hard to still like his art – because then I can see the taunting fuck you message he is sending off – if he had had an attitude of care about the images instead of being a total vampire – he basically sucked the life out of things and then spat them back out as a Polaroid.

He funded a lot of very sick people getting hooked on dope for 15 min of fame in the factory – he fed on weak people’s weaknesses – he did not uplift them – but instead he added more sickness to sickness – and surely he didn’t know any better – but Andy Warhol is like the iconic human version of what Facebook is now – YUCK. He had no aspirations to uplift or grow or be better, instead he reveled in sickness and made more of it…

Yes, the art has a certain beauty but the multiple nature of it is what makes me cringe… I was taught in art school to see beauty in everything including common artifacts of society- like a toaster or a watering can or a fork knife spoon – even a Campbell’s soup can- but he took it that one step further and debased the image- and the did the same with humans-

What did he contribute to society? It’s like Madonna-who took the last vestiges of goodness and sexed it up- laying the groundwork for all that we have now… they both took the dregs and made them into fake diamonds…I just detest Andy Warhol so much that it’s impossible for me to really enjoy his work…”

I both agree and disagree at the same time which is optimal

Basically I think most popular culture is manipulated to some extent by agencies like the Tavistock institute or programs like MK Ultra.

But having said that, most of my favourite music, movies, and art, are part of that social programming. So I can’t dismiss it all because the intentions behind it may have been bad, because it’s my inspiration. I think the internet was set up by the Ddep state for evil intent but I use it every day..

Andy Warhol seems to me to have been a very original thinker with some fairly severe personality disorders.

I think he was an “Asset” (a creator manipulated and used by agencies) rather than another talentless puppet put in place by the agencies and lifted to popularity (like all modern pop stars) or a shill (like Alex Jones)

So I see his art as being original and it resonates with me – sometimes I do a picture and only afterwards realise his influence – like this one:

 

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“ART IS WHAT YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH”

Andy Warhol (Aug 6, 1928 – Feb 22, 1987)

Campbell’s Soup Cans (32 Canvases)
Andy Warhol / 1962 / Synthetic polymer paint on canvas/
/ 20″ x 16″
Museum of Modern Art

“Why do people think artists are special? It’s just another job.”
Philosophy of Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1975

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That’s one of my favorite things to say. So what.”

“If you want to know about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.” –Andy Warhol
Andy, My true Story 3, Gretchen Berg, Los Angeles Free Press (17 March 1967)

 

Yoko, Andy, and John

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

 

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.”

“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”

“Sometimes the little times you don’t think are anything while they’re happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.”

Warhol & Brillo Boxes At Stable Gallery

“I’ve never met a person I couldn’t call a beauty.”

“I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.”

“I’m confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if your name’s in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it’s your news and they’re taking it and selling it as their product. But then they always say that they’re helping you, and that’s true too, but still, if people didn’t give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn’t have any news. So I guess you should pay each other. But I haven’t figured it out fully yet.”
Quote from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: (From A to B and Back Again), 1975

“I thought that young people had more problems than old people, and I hoped I could last until I was older so I wouldn’t have all those problems. Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems and that everybody who looked old had old problems. The “old” problems to me looked easier to take than the “young” problems. So I decided to go gray so nobody would know now old I was and I would look younger to them than how old they thought I was. I would gain a lot by going gray: (1) I would have old problems, which were easier to take than young problems, (2) everyone would be impressed by how young I looked, and (3) I would be relieved of the responsibility of acting young—I could occasionally lapse into eccentricity or senility and no one would think anything of it because of my gray hair. When you’ve got gray hair, every move you make seems “young” and “spry,” instead of just being normally active. It’s like you’re getting a new talent. So I dyed my hair gray when I was about twenty-three or twenty-four.”
Quote from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: (From A to B and Back Again), 1975

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”

“I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.”

“You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.”

“I’m not afraid to die; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground with Nico

Andy Warhol photographing Muhammed Ali

Warhol and Basquiat

Andy Warhol (Aug 6, 1928 – Feb 22, 1987)

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Hair or Art? How Andy Warhol used Wigs to Craft his Enigmatic Image

Mention the name Andy Warhol and most people would instantly think of his painting of a Campbell’s Tomato Soup can, his portrait of Marilyn Monroe, or his prediction that everyone would enjoy 15 minutes of fame.

Some might mention his unruly hair—without realizing it was a wig. And yet, the website hairisforpulling.blogspot.com suggests that the silver-grey wig made the renowned pop artist what he was. In effect, it gave him his brand.

Pop artist Andy Warhol eating cereal and looking at his mother Julia, prob. at her home. (Photo by Ken Heyman/Woodfin Camp/Woodfin Camp/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

The wig (or, more accurately wigs—it seems he built up quite a collection of them) was not so much about style as image. Warhol believed that the wig gave him a personality of “otherness.”

Warhol (1929-87) began wearing wigs in the 1950s when he started going bald. According to hairisforpulling.blogspot.com, he started with a mouse-brown creation, moved through several shades of blond, and eventually settled on silver grey. His theory was simple: if you looked old all the time, no one would know how old you were.

Portrait of the American artist Andy Warhol at his exhibition dedicated to Black transvestites in the US. Ferrara, November 1975

The wigs may have been about more than vanity. It has been proposed that there was more to Warhol’s wig-wearing than hiding a bald patch or defining an image.

The site suggests Warhol had deep insecurities arising from his religious upbringing and his homosexuality. He also wanted to find a balance between appearing less gay to achieve commercial success, while at the same time appearing attractive to other men.

Andy Warhol

There is a suggestion that the artist was anxious to hide other issues as well. Visitors to his apartment said that he often greeted them wearing masks to hide skin problems. So it does appear there was more to wearing the wig than met the eye.

Despite all this, Warhol didn’t wear the wigs with any great care. They were generally placed randomly and with his remaining dark hair sticking out underneath.

(Photo by Francois LOCHON/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Most of the wigs seem to have been made in New York, and had the label “HAIRPIECE, Original by Paul.” It appears they were made with hair imported from Italy.

Although he wore wigs for many years, it was only in 1985 that Warhol’s worst nightmare came true when his wig was snatched clean off his head. UPI.com recounts that a woman made her bid for 15 minutes of fame by grabbing the hairpiece at a New York book-signing.

The Andy Warhol Museum

In his own words, quoted on Warholstars.org : “I don’t know what held me back from pushing her over the balcony. She was so pretty and well-dressed.

I guess I called her a bitch or something and asked how she could do it. But it’s okay, I don’t care—if a picture gets published, it does. There were so many people with cameras.

Warhol (left) and Tennessee Williams (right) talking on the SS France, 1967.

Maybe it’ll be on the cover of Details, I don’t know… It was so shocking. It hurt. Physically… And I had just gotten another magic crystal which is supposed to protect me and keep things like this from happening…”

Despite that, Warhol was apparently relatively unfazed by the incident and continued signing copies of his book America! after pulling up his parka hood. There is no report of the culprit being apprehended, so it appears she made good her escape.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/01/04/warhols-wigs/

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WHAT IS A QUICKIE?

 According to Wikipedia, a QUICKIE is sexual intercourse that a couple may engage in when the time available is minimal. The quickie may arise from a spontaneous sexual desire by the parties, or be a regular or planned arrangement.

 

 "Because of the limit on available time, foreplay would generally be skipped; the woman may not have enough time to lubricate naturally. In a planned encounter, the partners may dress in a manner that reduces the time needed for undressing. For example, the woman may wear a wide skirt or a front closing dress and open crotch lingerie, thongs to be pushed aside or no underwear, especially pantyhose. The man may dispense with a jacket and belt. A quickie between a heterosexual couple may generally satisfy only the man's sexual desire"

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quickie_(sexual_act)

 But that is not what I'm talking about here on this blog. (I never realised Wikipedia were such a bunch of perverts)

 

  QUICKIE is also a designer and retailer of high end wheel chairs based in Phoenix, Arizona USA.

https://www.quickie-wheelchairs.com

  But that is not what I'm talking about here on this post either.

 Collins Dictionary has the exact meaning I was looking for:

 

"A quickie is something that only takes a very short time"

 

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/quickie

 

 The reason I was considering using it as a tag is because some of my posts are not really blog posts, they are just one or two pictures and a line or two of text. Any post tagged "quickie" is what might also sometimes be called a "shitpost" or a "tweet". It's something I just quickly threw out there because it caught my eye. 

But then I changed my mind and decided to go with the "siftings" tag instead.

This post has four images and several lines of text, so it NEITHER A QUICKIE NOR A SIFTINGS. But you definitely need to get fully undressed to properly appreciate it...