Six Years in the Making

The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories, and poems, both ancient and modern, suitable for boys and girls of from six to sixteen years of age. The boy or girl who becomes familiar with the charming tales and poems […]

https://voxday.net/2025/10/27/six-years-in-the-making/

"This has always felt like the ur-North Korea story to me, because it has a little bit of everything. First of all, it’s delightfully madcap — they KIDNAPPED RANDOM PEOPLE on BEACHES using SUBMARINES and they did it for DECADES. Second, it’s full of bizarre irony. The North Koreans got away with this scot-free until, in a gesture of goodwill and altruism designed to improve relations with Japan, they fessed up and tried to make things right…at which point everything blew up in their faces and had the exact opposite effect."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-145626997#:~:text=This%20has%20always,exact%20opposite%20effect.

"The Mercers would beg Bannon to come back if reach and power was their intent, but ratings are not the primary goal - pushing West Coast Straussian Zionism is."

https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/the-battle-for-influence-why-some

Some good advice in the vein of why following conventional writing guidelines aren't always the answer.

"[W]hen you sand down every odd phrase, risky word, and deviation from the rules, you erase your fingerprint. And in so doing, you turn art into content."

https://brianniemeier.substack.com/p/how-to-revise-without-butchering

"Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) traces its origins to 19531, began to take shape in the 1970s, was touched upon in Blair’s 1991 article in Marxism Today, and gained momentum through Agenda 21. However, it took a scandal of epic proportions for it to gain major traction. And that disaster occoured in December, 2001, with the largest bankcuptcy in American history at the time: Enron."

https://open.substack.com/pub/escapekey/p/the-enron-code-of-ethics?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

"I find the most effective way to get a chatterbox of either sex to slow their roll long enough to let me get a word in, if I feel there is any need for one, is to simply stare at them while they’re talking and refrain from making any noise at all. No “mm hmm”, no “yeah okay”, none of those little conversational encouragements that provide more fuel for the extended and repetitive replay. Even the most loquacious chatterbox seems to find a complete lack of response to be disconcerting enough to make them realize what they’re doing.

"So control your tongue. Not only because it’s annoying, unattractive, and low-status, but because people can only keep three things at a time in their minds anyhow. Which, of course, is why it is absolutely pointless to say anything that involves more than three total concepts at a time."

https://open.substack.com/pub/sigmagame/p/how-to-be-unattractive?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

"Burroughs Wellcome took evolution’s most successful virus—one that survived by being harmless—and made it mean something it never meant. The absurdity is almost incomprehensible. People lose more sleep over herpes than HPV, which actually causes cancer. They panic more about cold sores than chlamydia, which can make you infertile. Ask any doctor off the record—they’re exhausted by it. They spend more time managing herpes anxiety than treating actual symptoms."

https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathanreidstack/p/the-herpes-lie?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

The updated American Regional Cuisine Map. Cleaner Colors, More Visuals, 9 new regions + U.S. Territories V 5.3 [OC]

https://redd.it/1o6ge3d
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The Dancing Nurses of Covid-19

I never understood what purpose those stupid dancing nurse videos were supposed to serve, nor did I realize how prevalent they were since I wasn’t on Twitter, Tik-tok, or Facebook. But since I was personally acquainted with two nurses during that time, I was aware that they were nonsense and that real nurses working in […]

https://voxday.net/2025/10/27/the-dancing-nurses-of-covid-19/

Steve Bannon: “Well he’s gonna get a third term. Trump is gonna be president in ‘28 and people ought to just get accommodated with that. At the appropriate time we’ll lay out what the plan is, but there’s a plan and President Trump will be the president in ‘28.”

"Google AI explains the consequences of Judge Jones’s decision: “The intelligent design (ID) movement is no longer a prominent force due to its significant legal and scientific setbacks, most notably the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District court case in 2005. This ruling found that ID is a form of religious creationism, not a scientific theory, and therefore its teaching in public school science classes is unconstitutional.” The “scientific setbacks” included ad hominem attacks and losing one’s job for questioning Mr. Darwin."
https://jackcashill.substack.com/p/how-the-aclu-silenced-the-evolution?post_id=177287131&r=lp6h7&utm_source=substack#:~:text=Google%20AI%20explains,questioning%20Mr.%20Darwin.

🇬🇧 An English suffragette handing out pamphlets, 1910s

"Physics has long insisted that electromagnetism springs from one paradoxical entity, a photon which somehow simultaneously combines the mutually contradictory properties of non-localized wave and localized particle. My research reveals a simpler truth: two distinct actors share the stage, first fields that move as a wave, the other an energy flow that traces definite paths and appears as particles at the smallest scales. My Fields & Energy model follows from an understanding of electromagnetic theory, yet looks suspiciously like the long neglected pilot-wave interpretation of quantum mechanics. Fields guide energy."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-176177352#:~:text=Physics%20has%20long,Fields%20guide%20energy.

Map of the kingdom of Armenia in 70 BC
https://redd.it/1o4k24z
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Odessa is Next

Col McGregor observes the significance of the recent Russian crossing of the Dnieper River. The Russians have crossed the Dnieper River. They already have special operations forces and agents on the ground outside of Odessa. They’re now putting together a bridgehead on the west side of the Dnieper River. For all intents and purposes, it’s […]

https://voxday.net/2025/10/26/odessa-is-next/