Hmm: What's @NoNamesLeftToUse Up To This Time?
Come on!
You can do it!
Just a few more!
Poooooooooooshuh!
I can see the head!
Congratulations!
Oh! Hello!
I didn't see you there!
My name is @NoNamesLeftToUse The Writer/Artist Himself and as you can see, I've been busy making a delivery.
I'd just like to thank you today for this wonderful opportunity.
I've been producing and presenting my work here exclusively on the STEEM blockchain for many months now, on and off. A few more months and it'll be a full three years.
This is a great land of opportunity we have here. Nowhere else could I present my work, however I see fit, without having my brand of creativity strangled to death by an editor or a publicist, a fucking PR manager or a panel of censors wearing wrinkly suits.
I love being able to do whatever the hell I want.
And I wouldn't have it any other way.
We live in a time now of power tripping fuckheads who find joy in deplatforming creators of opinion. People falling left and right. I don't necessarily agree with some of those opinions but I do respect the fact they are being treated like shit. People all over the planet are beginning to take notice as well. Scratching their heads wondering, just what kind of dictatorship are we in store for now?
It's nothing new though!
Artists and entertainers have been getting smacked around for decades!
"That rock and roll music is the music of the devil," they said, way back when.
What could be worse than someone being deplatformed?
What if every single follower of someone like Alex Jones was then to be considered part of a terrorist organization or gang after he got deplatformed?
You'd think that's crazy, correct? Imagine you're driving along and get pulled over because you have an Infowars sticker plastered on the back window of your car. That sticker, since all followers have been declared gang members, would be enough probable cause to search without a warrant. You wouldn't even be able to claim harassment because you're on the list.
Sounds crazy, right?
"That will never happen!"
You're wrong. It already happened.
All fans of the Insane Clown Posse, known as Juggalos, were labelled a gang by the USA's FBI. That happened way back in 2011.
Did you know that?
Newsflash from 2017!
There's your history lesson.
Don't let it be your future.
Have a nice day.
There are forces out there that are trying to suppress our freedoms. They work hard to do this. If they can do it with Infowars Alex Jones, who is next? It is a war with state run media, conditioning and political shaming. Yet many are awake and cannot be shamed. They have had the ah ha moment of truth and know the propaganda from what is real. If only six pack Joe did as well. Love the art work.
They tried to blame Marilyn Manson for what happened at Columbine. Like I said, artists and entertainers have been putting up with this bullshit for years. They put Lenny Bruce in jail because of his comedy routine. I think it's odd people are only noticing things now, after all these years of using artists as lab rats for this little experiment.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Some of my ancestors got outta there, moved to Canada, just in time. I'm a statistical anomaly. Shouldn't even be here today.
Many of us forget how lucky we are. Or unlucky for that matter.
It's always easier to recognize what's in the now. I'm lucky to be here, but I just caught myself feeling unlucky after considering how quiet it is here again and the seven hours I put into this post. So yeah, lucky but not so lucky, all at the same time.
I remember once my dad getting angry when I was a kid. He was not the type to get angry often.
He had painted a painting and was about half way through. His canvasses normally took between 150 and 300 hours of work. He had asked my mum what she thought of it as he often did, and she pointed something out and it triggered him and he went and washed the metre-wide canvas (acrylic paints) in the bathroom sink, destroying all the work done. He could have quite easily fixed it with a few brush strokes.
For whatever reason (I won't go into it here) he was emotionally charged and overreacted. Most of his life he would have never have acted that way and although disappointed when paintings didn't sell, he never stopped painting.
I remember in the early 90s it being particularly difficult to sell due to the recession but some of his best work came out of that period. There are paintings in the family collection that are among his best that he wouldn't let go of. It wasn't because he liked them so much even, it was that they were painted during the hardest times of his life.
You are lucky - Some people go their whole lives and never discover their art.
Thanks for that one. Felt my spirits lift a little there.
I'd be screwed if I had to wait for the paint to dry. I set nearly impossible deadlines for projects. That seven hours doesn't include writing this post, formatting; only the art. I work more like a graffiti artist. It has to be done before the sun comes up. As we speak I'm working on one I've been poking away at for quite a few days. Always more than one thing on the go. Then I have this life to live as well. Good or bad, lucky or unlucky; I choose to do this. Today's results are never enough to stop me. I've been in shittier situations. I've had worse days, I've had better days. I've rambled in a few responses as well.
Looks like something I would fight in a cave for some rare ore.
I don’t think a PR manger would last a day. You make them a nice drawing and they scream and leave.
I just can’t stand all the fucking political correctness. There trigger warnings for trigger warnings trigger my trigger warnings! Thankfully there is no pleasing them so they tend to go after their own group in the long run as it’s just not possible to keep up with all the bullshit that set someone off. Let alone the amount of crazy to remain till there just one crazy nutter at top. Than they slay the mad king and start all over again.
It's like people are just bored these days...
Sorry I don't have much of a response. It's so quiet around here and I think it's contagious.
That's why I've hope on over to Palnet. Feels like some life over here. It's at least some fun.
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I've noticed a few new folks visiting my place since I started up there, so that's good. It's still quiet though. For me. It's quiet for me. Since I came back I've hit the top 10 posts with the most comments five times I think. Today was really slow. Hopefully things pick up. A view counter would be so nice. At least then I'd know if people are looking. Maybe this post sucked really bad, and people were here, rolled their eyes, and left? How can I know? How can I improve?
Ya, I have that issue without something there giving me a clue. I was using engrave dapp for analytics but that only shows for views to those URLs so that does not solve anything either.
I been wanting to attract more traffic to my content in general even if it’s nonsteem traffic.
Many are starting to share their content on twitter these days as well. Not much of a click thought rate though. People just heart and retweet over there and that’s about it. Since you can see if it gets link clicks it kinda odd people heart stuff they don’t read other than the tweet part.
There also a weekly reddit thread where people are sharing there steem content.
I used to always push my work out to other places. Stumbleupon was a good one for me but they shut it down. There was a replacement for it, I tried it, and for some reason my links weren't approved. I can't remember what it was called though.
I'd have to hire someone to do social media stuff for me. I'm already working on tomorrows post. I'd never get anything done if I was on Discord and reddit, twitter, facebook, all that other shit.
Beware of offspring born with fangs! lol
Isn't she cute though!
Aren't all babies? lol
I've seen some ugly ones....
LOL!
You have seen some pretty interesting mothers. lol
Well that thing you delivered is terrifying, but I did enjoy all the dramatic pushing ;)
If we do not stand united, we will repeat history.. over and over again. It amazes me what some people will take before they start pushing back..
Awesome artwork btw!
Ever notice how repeating history is never tied to something good? With history being so full of mistakes, I wonder if we'll figure this shit out...
That is a good point. Do you think that is due to our history being so full of negativity, or is it that those things are what we focus on or remember?
There clearly have been amazing things happen, and those things have probably been repeated many times.. but maybe it’s because our tender human souls are more affected by the negativity, those things stick with us.. and therefore it’s what we remember and what we repeat.
The human condition is a crazy thing... I wonder what would happen if we made a conscious decision to focus on the positive things in history 🤔 would that change anything?
probably not... humans are crazy creatures.
Ok sorry about my ramblings! Have a good day 🙂
We all have that moment back in time we wish we could go back to and change a few things. I guess the best part about that is the lesson learned. None of us would be here today if Oog didn't watch his brother get eaten by that saber-toothed tiger. I guess we need that crap in our lives.
Naww look at the precious little bundle! Given the leading dialogue I'm assuming someone was attending that birth, they need to clean up the blood XD
I don't even know what to say about the rest of the post. I typed out a few attempts at responses, had my teenager playfully ask me what I was typing out so furiously (I was actually at a point where I was getting frustrated with my keyboard as it's a bit sticky and doesn't always put the letter I pressed on the screen so I was getting a bit heavy handed to make sure each letter came out which frustrated me even more as it slowed me down a lot) and then after each attempt I deleted everything. I've finally arrived at the point of remembering that I can rarely have coherent conversations about this kind of stuff and there's reasons I write long stories XD
Don't worry about it. I discovered after writing this and pointing those things out, I wasn't in much of a mood to talk about it further.
My question is how do you know it's a girl? :D
You are bold and to the point just like your Art. LOVE it!
Thank You for making people THINK and be entertained at the same time!
The boys have a tongue ... yeah, sure, that's how you tell.
It is very quiet here though. You are correct. Too many people juggling/pushing behind the scenes to grab what they can and then leave.
Too many options are too confusing here now.
choices are good for some but not the many.
Tokens that mean nothing that might mean something but you need to use THIS site in order to get them!!!
It's like being in a funhouse looking that the wall of mirrors seeing yourself shaped into what THEY want you to be.....
and I best stop before I wrote a post on your blog..
A lot of folks dumped those tokens too, so soon enough many will be scratching their heads, wondering why they're not earning. $2 was worth more to them on day one than $2000 down the road. So there's a lot of new things happening, and some of the same mistakes being made. Prediction: Some will be angry with the platform instead of themselves.
He looks tough and all, but I'm sure he's a sweet baby. He is probably mad because his ears are still under those birth fluids. Lift the babe up for god's sake.
He, is a girl. That's probably the most ridiculous art name I've come up with so far...
That looks like a reptilian! ... All the deplatformed should come to Steemit and help everyone grow here.
I'm not sure folks just showing up will encourage growth. I've seen plenty of established content producers come here and leave. People are paid to look away here. Content producers want to be seen and heard.... so.. yeah. There's more that needs to be done first to see actual growth.