Post No. 3,425 - Some (hopefully) interesting reading / viewing / listening

I recently found the following interesting and/or useful, and am posting them here in case anyone else does as well. 

 

• “In Conversation with Tim Kaney”   https://youtu.be/dJ510oG_CxQ   “Tim is not a newcomer to BTS and we did a film about his experience. In this conversation we catch up on Tim's story and how this experience has evolved for him into something meaning and important.”   The discussions on interactions with animals and those who have just died were particularly interesting for me.   

• “When the Stars wink at you, wink back”   https://breakingthesilenceproject.com/2026/04/06/when-the-stars-wink-at-you-wink-back/   Excellent thoughts on disclosure - including that the current violence in the world will prevent it   I used this as the starting point for “Post No. 3,424 - The disclosure distraction”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2026/04/post-no-3424-disclosure-distraction.html , which also included a SubStack article from “The Sentinel” which raised questions about well known people, organisations, and acts in the disclosure world that was reposted by the BTS team the next day   

• “First Scientific Confirmation of Consciousness in a Tiny Fish”   https://youtu.be/Drbl5udwk9I   The commentary about these fish testing the properties of the mirror was particularly interesting   

• “The Subtle Test People Use to See If They Can Walk All Over You”   https://youtu.be/MeKGfhfyb4o   

• “This is What Benevolent Sexism Really Looks Like”   https://youtu.be/mSWj8IM05H0   “They are smart, articulate, and highly educated. They are also the Manosphere's ultimate defense.   Louise Perry, Dr. Sarah Hill, and Erica Komisar are selling a very specific message to modern women: You are unhappy because you are too free.   In this deep dive, I am exposing how these three "female experts" provide the intellectual framework for the Manosphere. We’re breaking down how they repackage submission as "safety," biological essentialism as “wellness”, and professional guilt as “motherly love”.   We are deconstructing Benevolent Sexism—the dangerous psychological trap that treats women as precious creatures who need protection, rather than equal human beings who need respect.”   I (and others) refer to this as toxic femininity. The discussions by the presenter in this are eloquent, informative, and very useful   

• “The Manosphere: Reboot”   https://clementinef.substack.com/p/the-manosphere-reboot   “Inspired by Soraya Chemaly’s recent piece on men’s cultivated ignorance (and the fact women have been writing about the violence of ‘the manosphere’ for years without receiving the same cultural attention given to male-helmed documentaries), I’m sharing a complete chapter (fittingly titled ‘The Manosphere’) from my 2018 book, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship.”   

• “Human Are Still Evolving and In Some Really Bizarre Ways - YouTube”   https://youtu.be/5J6ZEUKmSl0    

 

 

• “A Historian Spent 30 Years Interviewing Nazis. He Identified 12 Warning Signs of Fascism. All 12 Are Present in Tr_mp's America Right Now.”   https://mitchthelawyer.substack.com/p/a-historian-spent-30-years-interviewing   “The evidence is not opinion. It is public record. And it demands your attention before November.”   This is US-based and focused, but the points identified by Laurence  Rees in “The N_z_ Mind: Twelve Warnings from History” (pub. Penguin, 2025, ISBN 9781405974745;  Kobo,  Barnes & Noble,  Amazon) are worth considering everywhere    

• “Can Paper Stop Tyrants?”   by public resistance historian Tad Stoermer   https://youtu.be/Qzu5riIu4QM   People have to act on conventions/constitutions/etc    

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider: 

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

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