2026-03-11 02:44:00
I discovered BearBlog last week and I'm impressed with this platform. It's simple, organized, and clean. It's filled with interesting posts and blogs. I'm loving to discover new blogs. Since last Friday, I've been spending a lot of time reading blogs and editing my theme.
I was using Blogger, but when I saw this platform, I immediately created an account and started transferring my posts here. I didn't have much there, so it was easy. I wasn't satisfied with Blogger for several reasons, but mainly because it belongs to Google.
I think the biggest advantage of BearBlog is how easy it is to find new blogs. On Blogger, it's much more difficult. There are many interesting blogs out there, but most of them aren’t being updated anymore. Here we have the discovery feed that shows the most recent posts and also the most popular ones, so you end up discovering active blogs very easily. Updating the discovery page is my new hobby.
The lack of a comment section is also a great idea. The fact that you have to stop to write an email or create a reply post filters out half, or maybe more than half, of the people who would comment nonsense on your post and saves you from reading nonsense in other people's posts as well.
Simplicity is what I like most about bearblog. It's awful when I visit a page that has buttons everywhere. I ask myself, Where am I supposed to look at? How nice it is to enter a blog that the main focus is the text.
2026-03-11 00:57:05
I have no problem with dogs. from a distance.
Living in the Midwest US means that most people love their big ass wolf-dogs and they treat them like children. Not liking dogs is abnormal here.
Last month I learned I was allergic to them. It was my first time spending more than 1 hour in a room with them. My throat was closing up.
My manager had invited our team to her house for a valentines day thing. She has two dogs, both big as hell. I fear them. They can smell fear. I was fine until she opened the gate to let them into the dining room. Where we were sitting.
"Oh they're friendly!"
Not to me. And I am not trying to be friends with them. I'm trying to eat my pink, heart-shaped cookies.
If you're having new guests over, it's curtesy to ask them if you can bring them into the room. Especially because people can be allergic. But also because I do not want to eat my v-day cookies while a dog is licking my hand. I don't want him to lick me at all actually.
Do you like when people sneeze on you, Ms. Manager? That's what a dog licking me feels like. Saliva on me. Same with cats, except they tend to avoid you if you're a stranger. Dogs will jump on you. And smell your labia...No thanks I'm saving that for marriage.
The people who argue with me are the same people who can't seem to understand that humans are diverse when it comes to opinions on animals. It's like an extreme vegan who can't comprehend that I will not stop eating eggs because they don't eat eggs.
At the end of the day it's a culture difference. Hygiene culture is a thing. In my world, (large) furry pets should not be anywhere near the kitchen counters, or dining table when food is being prepped or served. I know you can't always prevent it, but training and/or pet gates will solve that issue.
My cookies had dog hair. I'm never going to her house again.
2026-03-11 00:05:00
As I'm sure no small number of you are aware, Proton recently was asked to turn over information on someone the US government wanted. I unfortunately recently signed up for their paid service and now feel like I've been had just a little by their promises. While they never fully violated their claims, I should have done more reading between the lines and also actually worked on checking to see if their protections extended properly to non-swiss citizens.
This does bring me to whole new line of thought, why am I as a human, not able to sign up for something in a way that is guaranteed to be fully anonymous and just use it most of the time? I feel like that's one of the truest perks of being online is that you can be anonymous and not have to worry that if you signed in using an account tied to X email that you're now being tracked on services A, B and C even though there's no account you made on those sites. I think that end of day I should be able to just fully not be monitored online without my express consent at ALL times, not out of a desire to do evil or to commit a crime, I just do not understand how we got to the point where the assumption should be that every single thing you've ever typed is in a big file somewhere on a server owned by one of the least scrupulous billionaires out there.
Remember to thank your Town Manager for a job well done!
2026-03-10 23:05:00
Well, my last post managed to apparently strike a chord with my fellow bloggers. Becoming my most successful blog of all time as of writing this. So, I first wanna thank everyone who showed their support. I don't put a lot of stake on how well a blog performs. I don't wanna come off as a clout chaser, but I'm just surprised the post did as well as it did and just want to give my appreciation to all of you who read my post. Seeing the Trending feed, it seems like several people have been feeling my same sentiment.
That all being said, let this post serve as a sequel to the previous post, as I think there is more to further analyze as there was more that I've found in the last 16 hours that gave me a chuckle with my friends in the discord server.
Let me first start off by saying: while I don't think people are harassing Suliman's replier, I want to make it very clear that I do NOT support directly harassing people. Don't go sending death threats, or replying in their guestbook, or flooding their inbox. It just makes you look bad. It's why I never directly link to people I'm criticizing. Either bring up your concerns to moderation (which I'm sure they are fully aware of considering it's hard to ignore several posts about this subject on the front page of trending) or point and laugh from a distance on your own blog. I prefer the latter, I like reading what y'all have to say (even though I'm absolutely ass at checking Discover). The only "harm" I advocate for is the harm to their fragile egos. If you make a reply, don't link directly to their blog. Just treat on an IYKYK basis.
Let me make another thing clear: people replying to someone/writing a blog article that critiques your points especially without directly linking to that person is not harassment. Stop being a little bitch. If her directly linking to and criticizing Suliman's post isn't harassment, then mine especially isn't. If you don't want to accept the risk of get bashed online, don't post your opinions in a public medium.
Anyway, with that long intro, lets dive in.
For reference, this post is basically a sequel/spinoff to my last post, so any mention of the self-proclaimed contrarian I will just refer to them as The Replier. Do not bother going to their blog and giving them the attention their parents so clearly never gave them. I killed my braincells reading some of the shit on their site so you don't have to.
I've noticed this sort of behavior from conservatives for years. It's this sort of persecution complex. Even when they dominate mainstream media and political office, they seem to have the impression that everyone is out to get them (not wrong per se, but it's more like get them off our platforms and out of office than lynch them. That's what conservatives have done historically).
It echoes the same sentiment of Christian persecution complex, where people were writing fan fiction on social media about being put in jail for believing in Jesus or whatever.
Hardline conservatives I guess are correct in the fact that most of the world dislikes them. Conservatism both in history and in our modern contemporary, is reactionary and regressive. It makes literal difference if they are a democrat or a republican, small-c conservative acts and reacts the same way. Satanic Panic, a moral panic sparked by conservative parents. Slavery, conservatives. Jim Crowe, conservatives. Red-Lining, conservatives. "All/Blue Lives Matter", a reactionary response to oppose the Black Lives Matter protests which was started by white supremacist groups who are, you guessed it, conservatives. Strangling foreign economies so they are beholden to neoliberal policies and American Imperialism, conservatives. Trickle-down economics, proposed by Reagan and Thatcher that is largely to blame for why you can't afford rent or food, conservatives. All the fucking wars we've been in and continue to shoehorn ourselves into. You get the picture. If you need any more examples, open up a history book.
After the Replier had made some pathetic attempts at trying to get under my skin by leaving snarky comments that I didn't care to read (thanks Kami for deleting those, that probably would have been up for a lot longer as I tend to go a couple weeks before checking my guestbook). My friends in the discord server had made some jokes in the private discord server about some of the lunacy that was happening in the Replier's own guestbook. Which gave me an absolute fucking chuckle.
I want to point out that one person, most likely correctly, pointed out that based on the Replier's "Thank You" post, they might be a clout chaser. They laid out their comment pretty succinctly, but apparently the Replier has the reading comprehension of a hamster huffing gasoline with their reply of "I'm not sure what you mean?", seemed pretty clear to me dude. The person also called out the fact the Replier claimed she was leaving bear, but then decided to stay "out of spite". Sure, Jan.
Another reply was talking about how they were a "closeted right-winger". Which gave me a good knee-slapper of a laugh. These dudes are basically using queer terminology to identify themselves. You do you, Queen. It adds evidence to my point that "centrists" basically are right wingers that know how unpopular their views are. Grow some balls.
One thing I noticed that is common in right-wing circles is how they all refer to themselves as Free Thinkers. Which is just pure fucking cope. It's like people who refer to themselves as "funny", if you have to tell people explicitly, you probably aren't. It's a trend I've noticed where "Free Thinker" only gets applied to people that appeal to their confirmation bias. Never once do these people call their opponents Free Thinkers. It reads like pure fucking Copium. Just because you hold a minority opinion doesn't make you correct.
I don't refer to anyone as a #freethinker, I think everyone thinks they are a free thinker. However, we are all products of our surroundings and environment, subject to biases, herd mentality, etc. We're human, it's normal. It's only when you are able to recognize that weakness in yourself and routinely challenge it. This was how I pulled myself out of the alt-right pipeline that had a deathgrip on so many in my demographic. It was actually interesting seeing the youtuber JimmyTheGiant go through a similar transition that I did, before aligning himself as a Democratic Socialist.
It's the so called "free thinkers" that are so scared of opposing viewpoints they try and villainize College as some "liberal pipeline" (despite the fact these people tend to be dropouts or have never been to a college that wasn't also a religious institution) or they pull their kid out to homeschool them. I guess it's easier to protect you kid from the "woke mind virus" if you seclude them from their diverse peers and make it easier to indoctrinate your own points of view on them.
This is what cults do. If you look at how Jehovah's Witnesses act, they demand their members cut ties with anyone who isn't also a jehovah's witness. You might be a window-licker and think "wElL tHaT's WhAt LiBs Do!!!". What you fail to see is that one is a hierarchical structure (institution to congregation), demanding top-down compliance, the other is peer-to-peer basis on free association.
It's just all so fascinating.
I found one person in the Replier's guestbook, who I'm assuming was trying to wax poetically, but it just came across so nonsensical. I guess oxygen deprivation from having your head wedged up your own ass will do that.
It seems apparent that the Replier, at least on the surface, relishing in their new found infamy that will last in the zeitgeist of bearblog for the length of a tiktok trend. I'm happy you've found other midwits that share the same shit-pile as you, all 15 of them (assuming you didn't use the ol' safari in private window trick to boost your upvotes).
It's a telltale sign of someone with a fragile sense of self worth where they ask people to create better insults for them, as if they are worth that kind of effort. Not to kink shame, but you might want to explore that humiliation fetish you've got going on there.
If you're reading this Replier, as I'm sure you probably are (though I doubt you'll actually comprehend anything I've actually said). Enjoy your flash-in-the-pan moment of clout that I and my friends helped give you.
If you find yourself wanting to leave another snarky entry in my guestbook, or email me directly. See below a jpeg of a penny, feel free to print it out, tear it up, and shove it up your candy ass. You will then find a close approximation to the value at which I hold your opinion.
For the rest of my readers that aren't missing critical parts of their frontal lobe, this is gonna be the last political post I make for a little bit. I don't wanna be a bear blog drama slop blog. I'll probably write a blog article about my vinyl collection or something. I just felt inclined to rhetorically dropkick someone bashing my friends. Turns out y'all really liked that. Hope y'all have a good day!
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Had the house to myself last night while my wife, daughter, and MIL were out on a little trip. Spent a lot of it just kinda chilling, playing music, and playing some Skyrim. Slept like shit, I'm so used to my wife being next me that it feels eerie when nobody is there.
2026-03-10 22:00:00
WhatsApp claims it uses end-to-end encryption to secure the content of your chats. You might interpret this as implying that WhatsApp does not know who you contact through its app, but they do. Only the content is encrypted, not the fact that you contacted someone. Morever, the name of group chats are not end-to-end encrypted. Worse still, WhatsApp actively polices this information.
How do I know? I’ve experienced this first hand by being member of a group chat where one of the members decided to rename an existing (5+ years) group (15 members) to Condolences register for Ali Khamenei. The group was banned on the same day.
I am not here to defend or attack the taste in humor of others: de gustibus non est disputandum. What I am here to defend is the privacy of everyone, as the lowest common denominator applies. In this specific case, the actions of one group member resulted in the banning of a group and, in all likelihood, the inclusion of everyones phone number on some (hopefully only internal) grey list kept by WhatsApp. In the best case scenario, this information will only be shared with the relevant authorities upon their explicit request.
Any intentional holes in end-to-end encryption which are only there to facilitate monetization can and will be used for other purposes. Even if you believe you have no need for privacy for your own actions, guilt by association might only be around the corner. If you can, use Signal.
2026-03-10 21:51:00
English is not my native language, but I will do my very best. I am bored with my blogosphere and social media. I need something new and a break and a place where I can write on my own, without thinking about other people. Nobody in particular. Just write and read.
I just want to write down my experiences and whatever comes to mind.