Sarah A. Hoyt's Blog, page 45

When The Psyops Breaks

I read somewhere that Obama had authorized our three letter agencies to run psy-ops on American soil.

If true — I’m not sure how one does that precisely, or why no one made a big stink about it at the time — that is not an admission they’ve got more powerful, but that they’ve got weak enough to need to use the apparatus of state for their gaslighting.

Because the gaslighting was going on before. Just more efficiently. Things like, oh, remember when they convinced the world that Ford,...

Some of These Memes Are Banned in Great Britain!

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The State of the writer

This past week was scheduled for over six months for a visit by my assistant, who lives across the country. We were going to go over several ongoing editing projects, better handled in person, firm up a schedule for the rest of the year, as I’ve been merrily forgetting/running over deadlines at such a speed she can’t keep up with me, and arrange for her to coordinate a website design/shop design with my web person.

For this purpose, she was going to stay in our basement guest room for a w...

Silence In the Fields

I was thinking of the place I grew up which doesn’t exist in any meaningful way, except as geographical location. Every field has been built over with stack a prole apartment buildings; every farm is now a park or a plaza. Highways have obliterated most of the streets and alleys; the people who live there are not the people I knew, and when I walk down the street I might as well be in a completely foreign land which I’ve never before seen.

The assumption from the much higher population de...

Shock

I realized with a shock a week ago that the anniversary of the October 7 attack on Israel is now less than 2 months away. This startled me and shocked me, because in my mental map, it happened yesterday.

It took looking back carefully to see the months and months of anti-semitic attacks all over the nation, the ridiculous pro-Palestine demonstrations trying to swell up to the level of Buy Large Mansions, the various losses of mind over technical Supreme Court decisions, then the growing i...

AR Maintenance 101 by David Bock

AR Maintenance 101 by David Bock

Guns are fairly intricate mechanisms. While they can go long periods with minimal maintenance and no issues, it’s a good idea to know how to maintain them beyond a simple cleaning.

Since the AR family of rifles is probably the most popular semi-automatic rifle in the country right now, I’d like to discuss some of the malfunction causes and solutions that the average owner can take care of at home.

The heart of the AR is its gas system, commonly referred ...

Step By Step By Step

How do you eat an elephant?

A bite at a time.

A journey of a thousand miles, yadda, yadda, yadda….

It’s trite, and you heard it a thousand time. But you know what? It’s true.

All of us — particularly those of us with ADD and of a depressive bend — become paralyzed by a task that’s too big and complex for our brains. You’re not alone.

But when you’re facing a vast quantity of yarn, all snarled together, if you keep trying to find the tip. So you cut it at a convenient place, st...

It’s Meme Time!

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Scary Fast

One of the drivers of how scary everything feels is that we’re in an era of catastrophic innovation.

And I know as I type this that half of you are going to go “but from covered wagon to airplanes! Wasn’t that faster?”

Yes, in a way, but we’re talking about different areas of change. (As well as the fact that change builds on change.)

First let’s establish the rate of change humans are good for. It’s very slow, and measured in the pace of a human life. The new generation might expan...

Bye Bye Blue

*Sorry about the lateness. There were wedding dress fittings, and I was only person available to go with. Threw entire day off. Also Havelock cat is ill which ate the rest. – SAH*

The blue model is collapsing all over the world.

We’re calling it the blue model after the American colors. And no, you don’t need to tell me that the left manipulated those because post fall of the USSR they thought calling themselves reds was too on the nose.

Or perhaps because they tend to think in patt...