RULES OF BLOGGING

HOW BLOGGING SHOULD BE DONE

 Like most blogging old timers I had a bunch of rules in my head about how blogging "should" be done - what makes a real blog. Rules can be help us maintain our standards, but they can also just become a collection of unquestioned assumptions that are no longer working for us, and which we need to move on from. 

Our enemies ("the powers that shouldn't be") don't play to any set of rules that we would recognize, and times are now changing probably faster than at any point in history. So this year I've been trying to let go of some of my long held rules/assumptions, certainly including those applying to blogging.

Here are six of my old school blogging rules that I've mostly ditched on this new blog:

A REAL BLOG SHOULD BE SELF HOSTED ON WORDPRESS.ORG

 WordPress is getting endlessly more complex, and I wonder now if the whole WordPress platform is yet another deep state psyop, because let's face it, with over 455 million sites, or over 30% of all websites currently online using WordPress, it's highly unlikely that it isn't.

So I've gone back to using Blogger, and Blogger is owned by Google. But ultimately, Google seem to have censored the entire internet, and Blogger is easy to use and convenient. If my posts are going to get barely any traffic, I might as well use a convenient deep state platform (Blogger) rather than an inconvenient deep state platform (WordPress)

 https://sift666.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-end-of-era.html

 

A BLOG SHOULD HAVE A CONSISTENT NUMBER OF POSTS

Some bloggers do a post every day, while some only do one each month, but all blogs should stick within those extremes. More than one post a day is not OK, and less than one post a month is also not OK. Says who?. 

So far this year I've been doing about 40 posts a month, mostly very short ones or updates of my old posts. But that could easily change, to more or less, if I feel so inclined. If for example I do a short post about Flouride each day in July for Fluoride Free month, that would be 31 extra posts next month.

LINKS TO EACH BLOG POST SHOULD BE SHARED ON SOCIAL MEDIA

A real blogger promotes their content by sharing it on a range of popular social media platforms, in order to generate an audience. This year I have given up using all social media platforms apart from Facebook, so I'm not doing that. All social media platforms, and indeed the entire internet, are controlled to some extent by the deep state using their AI. 

I'm not doing blog posts as a paid job, really it's all for my own entertainment. Blogging is my muse (an imaginary being or force that gives someone ideas and helps them to write, paint, or make music). If other people read what I post that is great, but I'm not going to spend hours promoting my posts on platforms I mostly don't even use. (I do share some of my posts on my Facebook account)

 THE URL OF EACH POST SHOULD MATCH IT'S TITLE

I have edited the title or changed the publishing date of so many of the posts on this blog, that less than half of them would match up. Too bad, what sort of anal geek even looks at that stuff anyway? (Yes, I must admit I did used to do that...)

Never mind, if anyone types in www.sift.co.nz they will see something, but if they use the Google search engine to find my content, they probably won't see much.

 

THE MEASURE OF A BLOG IS IT'S POPULARITY

It was my plan at the start of the year to ditch the HIT COUNTER and give up looking at how many hits my blog got. I must admit I struggled with that, and ended up putting it back on. But as with all traffic on the internet, it is mostly just the artificial flows of the deep states AI, and has very little to do with content quality or real viewers.

This blog is still only getting about 100 hits a day, which is fairly insignificant, while my old blog used to get 2000 hits a day back in 2018 before it was black listed, which certainly sounds a lot better, but ultimately, who cares? Only me, nobody else gives a toss, and it all works better when I don't really care either.

 

 

A BLOG POST MUST CONTAIN BOTH TEXT AND IMAGES

 

  There is certainly some truth to that, it's the fundamental difference between a blog post and a tweet, but on a Blogger blog where everything is displayed as one long stream of posts, the old idea that any given blog post must be a complete entity in itself becomes sort of redundant. A picture tells a thousand words, and sometimes a meme tells a lot more than that. 

 

Sometimes I just want to post one image, and no, that isn't a real blog post, but it's my blog, for my entertainment, so some of my posts might just be one image (or a bunch of images) with no text at all. So be it. 

SWINGING BOTH WAYS

 We have both sorts of weather in Wellington NZ - Before and After!

RANDOM IMAGES #23

 

 

 

 

31 MILLION FREE EBOOKS

Anne's Archive is an amazing resource with over 31 million free ebooks online. It is described as the largest truly open library in human history. All their code and data are completely open source, and the way the site is set up pretty much side steps all issues of copyright (they are only sharing download links rather than the books themselves).

It has 31,603,758 books, and 99,900,496 papers in the database, all available to download. These include a lot of conspiracy books, some of which are heavily censored and hard to find.

I have been asked how it all works so here are some basic instructions showing how to download eBooks:

First go to the Anna's Archive website and enter the author or title you are looking for in the search box - https://annas-archive.org/

The results of your search will rapidly appear - now if you want to filter by format tick PDF & EPUB in the file types on the left

After you select the book you want, click on one of the two "slow download" options - If you are new to the site you won't be a paid subscriber but these will still both work fine. Don't get carried away, you can only do about two downloads at a time from each one of the options.

 

There are daily limits on how many books you can download, I'm not sure what they are, (maybe 10?) because I'm not the only one downloading books on one internet connection. But when you do too many  downloads the site stops working. Leave it a a day and try again. Anne's Archive is certainly not the only site to find eBooks, just the easiest on to use. This website describes a bunch of other ebook download alternative sites

Next, remember to hit the "Download now" link to start the book downloading

Save your eBooks in a folder (don't change or rename this folder once you start using them on your eBook reader or your books will disappear from the reader & you will have to add them again) - I edit the names of the new books before adding them to my eBook reader because the file names of eBooks downloaded through Anne's Archive tend to be very long.

On my Windows PC I use Calibre eBook reader which can be downloaded here

I was trying to keep things simple for people new to eBooks and tested some other more basic eBook readers such as Ice Cream reader, but I prefer having all the features of Calibre (which is free anyway) - it's slightly more complex at first but it does everything I want.

For reading books on an Android tablet or phone I use the Read Era app which is really good. It's not set up for all the more complex text editing stuff that Calibre can do, but is great for displaying and reading your eBook collections. Although its not designed for PC use, it apparently can be installed on a windows PC - I'm about to try doing that and instructions for installing it on a Widows PC are here

 

Having access to 31 million eBooks is pretty amazing, and before you know it, you can have your own vast library.

 

HOW TO GET A BETTER FACEBOOK FEED

It wasn't until I tried looking at my Facebook feed on my tablet that I realised just what a bunch of crap most people see when they look at Facebook. And that wasn't even using the mobile version! I never look at the internet using a phone but apparently 98% of Facebook users are doing just that.

STEP 1 - Use a computer or laptop, not a mobile phone or tablet.

Usually I look at Facebook on my PC or laptop, either using Windows 7 (Yes I still use Windows 7, but this will work on Win 10 as well) or Linux (I use Linux Zorin or Mint but this would be the same on any distro). It won't work on Android, and I don't know about Apple or Windows 11 because I've never used them.

STEP 2 - Add the Facebook Purity app (aka Fluff Busting Purity or FBP) to your browser - (this doesn't override Facebook's default settings as fully as it used to, and won't lock FB into a chronological feed anymore, but never mind, see step 3). This can get rid of a lot of crap. I go into settings and hide all the right and left sidebar links as well as turning off pretty much everything.

 https://www.fbpurity.com/

https://www.frot.co.nz/design/computing/use-f-b-purity-app-to-make-fb-usable/

STEP 3 - Get a chronological feed - This is the most essential thing to do with Facebook really, otherwise it is unusable. It's pretty easy to do, but you sometimes have to reset it because FB keeps trying to force your feed back to their controlled algorithm. 

Click on the nine little dots icon in the top right to open the Menu, then select "Feeds"

 STEP 4 - Use a good browser. It's all quite beyond me how this stuff works, but oddly I find Firefox is hopeless for viewing Facebook, while the Firefox fork Waterfox works best. Vivaldi or Brave both work OK as well. (I never use Chrome because I think it sucks, so I'm not sure how well that runs with FB)

For use on Windows or Linux I highly recommend the Waterfox browser. It's not widely used, but it's really good browser - like a faster version of Firefox with better privacy.

STEP 5 - Ad Blockers. I always use five ad blockers which is probably complete overkill, but they all seem to get along happily together so why not? I'm not really using them for Facebook in particular, they are there to block all advertising. It's probably not really possible to block all the advertising on FB, but I certainly see a lot less "sponsored posts" on my computer than on my tablet. Sometimes I go to the trouble of blocking particular advertisers, but mostly I just ignore them.

The five free ad blockers I use are Adblock Plus, Adblocker for YouTube, Adblocker Ultimate, AdGuard Adblocker, and uBlock Origin

I don't know which of these ad blockers is best so I just install all five of them - when it comes to ads I figure more blocking is better! This review on Techradar ranks uBlock Origin as #1 so I gave it a picture.

THE FINAL SOLUTION - Delete all the numpties. Find like minded friends, and bin any woketards. The days of signing up for Facebook using your real name and linking up with all your relatives and old friends is really over in this day and age in my opinion. I know a lot of people are still into that, but if you have been trying expose the globalist narratives, you probably have learned the shortcomings of that approach over the past five years in particular.

If you exclusively stick to being friends with people who can tell the difference between shit and chewed dates, a FB feed can be surprisingly good. Personally, I have given up arguing with anyone online, and just let any remaining tards of any kind block or unfriend me.

THE FLAT EARTH CON – BOLLOCKS 101

IS “FLAT EARTH” A WHOLE NEW LEVEL OF MORONIC PSYOP?

For most of my life, I’ve been saying things like “everything you believe is complete bollocks”, and I’ve gotten kind of used to being one of the only ones saying it.

So this flat earth story is a new experience and I am quite enjoying it. As a child I traveled with my parents on a trip around the globe, I remember looking down out of the plane window as we passed over oceans and ice. And we traveled between places that wouldn’t have worked out so well if the earth was a flat disc.

As a teenager one of the things I studied at university was Geography – admittedly, like all university subjects it glossed over a few things, such as the fact that oil is not actually a fossil fuel, but is abiotic, but that will have to be another post! – https://www.frot.co.nz/design/sift/peak-oil/

One of the areas that we mostly did cover pretty well in Geography was the physical structure of the planet. There are said to be many millions of planets and one thing they all have in common is that they are all spheres. They are not flat discs like dinner plates.

There is also another theory that the moon is actually a hollow alien made construct like a death-star. Some people say that idea is bollocks, and I agree, but compared to the flat earth story it sounds pretty reasonable.

There is a story that back in the 60’s the Americans sent men to the moon, and that is complete bollocks too, but many people seem to believe it. Not as many believe it in Russia, but it is still a very popular story in America.

A lot of people flying around the globe in planes have taken photos, and what the photos seem to show is a spherical planet just like all of the others. 

Admittedly the photos may all be fake, but at this point they seem more realistic than the pictures of a blue and green dinner plate with all the oceans pouring of the edge like a waterfall (or not, as the artist may choose).

When I said "the artist", the artist I really meant was David Dees (not Prince). I am a big fan of his work and it was mainly him that originally brought the flat earth con to my attention. Because he was right into it.

While I think David Dees was perceptive, open-minded, and the real deal, as well as being one of my favourite artists, I think in this case he was unfortunately doing work for the very people he was usually exposing, so what is the real purpose of this flat earth story? Basically to undermine the credibility of a bunch of other conspiracy theories, which unlike the fake mainstream news are actually the true bits.

This “religious” site is a good example, because along with a bunch of crap about flat earth, they also talk about the moon landing being fake – how better to undermine the credibility of  any questions to the official party line than by linking flat earth theory to fake moon landing?

https://christianflatearthministry.org/2017/11/04/fake-moon-landing/

This pattern of connecting the truth to utter crap has long been one of the favourite tactics of mind control organizations like the CIA.

For once I find myself in full agreement with the majority opinion about something (although I suspect many sheeple may disagree with me about the moon landing being fake), but what the hell, I’m quite enjoying being a conservative, mainstream, old fart on the flat earth issue.

So in summary, what I’m saying here is that BOTH the moon landing and flat earth are total bollocks…