Superb

I mostly have today and tomorrow off from work. Because when you are self employed, you can choose to take time off in the middle of the week. It's compelling and I encourage everyone to ditch the corporate hamster wheel and employ themselves. Do I have 99 other problems? Yes. Is a micromanaging boss one of them? Well...maybe still yes. But that boss is ME!

Fin.

It is Very Close to Time

I cannot stress this enough...

ABSTAIN FROM ALL SOCIAL AND MAINSTREAM MEDIA (SMSM) FOR THE NEXT TWO MONTHS!

This is not a drill. Those who consume SMSM in the next two months will be intellectually and emotionally poisoned and irrevocably reprogrammed. 

This has been happening at a baseline level for months now, subclinically robbing people of their agency. But AI is about to ramp it up EXPONENTIALLY. The damage cannot be undone for those who consume SMSM in the next two months. And the rest of us will be battling those brain fried zombie hordes for years to come. Please be on the right side of that equation and make our jobs much easier!

Fin.

Forsake Forsooth

I am forsaking Humanity this week. By that, I mean I am taking a mental, physical, and spiritual vacation (or hiatus) from these Barbarians. It is sort of like fasting, but rather than abstaining from food, I am abstaining from any observation or engagement with the foul species.

Trust me when I say that I do it out of pity, not hatred. In fact, I wish the best for them. But they stubbornly wish the worst on themselves and actively pursue it in opposition to all available and credible factual information.

Their primitive emotional brains are responsible for that.

Fin.

Bad Feeling

I have a feeling something bad is about to happen. Not necessarily to me, but to the world.

Stay safe!

Sunday Funday

Today - or rather tonight - is possibly the Yom Kippur high holiday. I don't typically observe it. And I don't see that changing.

However, this presents and opportunity for a Church of Bike With Joe holiday observance we'll call Sunday Funday - a high holiday only in the literal sense of being high on life.

Sunday Funday is not limited to a specific day/time of the year, may recur frequently, and floats in an "as needed" kind of way.

Today's Sunday Funday is observed by way of absolute social and mainstream media (SMSM) fasting and intentionality around the demise of Diabolical Forces in the Universe (DFUs). Adherents are encouraged to engage in analog (not digital) activities and commune with the Real World vs the online one.

Even writing this post may conflict with the letter (though not the spirit) of the holiday. So, I shall bid thee adieu!

Fin.

Epiphany

One of the main reasons that 30+ minutes of aerobic exercise daily is a tenet of the Church of Bike With Joe is EPIPHANIES.

I had an epiphany today while doing my aerobic exercise on the Peloton. I'm not gonna share it, because epiphanies are unique and subjective to the person having them.

Suffice to say, the jist of it was that you cannot find happiness in the pursuit of gold. The best you can hope for is an absence of unhappiness, which is not the same as happiness.

So get your arse out there and find happiness!

Fin.

Dessert Before Dinner

Hi Dear Readers!

I hope this post finds you and brings you joy, insight, and/or action steps for defeating the Diabolical Forces in the Universe (DFUs).

Here is your morning PSA. AI is going to destroy Humanity. There is no realistic escape from that Reality, because humans are already dumber (with a B) than AI. However, AI doesn't need to destroy YOU. The antidote to AI is something I have been encouraging and endorsing for years: completely eliminate social and mainstream media (SMSM) from your life.

We already know that SMSM makes you dumber and angrier. It has been clinically shown that abstaining from SMSM makes you demonstrably smarter and happier. AI supercharges the SMSM dumbing down. When AI destroys Humanity, it is not going to be a conventional and direct form of destruction (like a robot killing you or a computer launching a nuclear war). It is going to be through persuasion and changing human behavior. AI will basically ensure that we destroy OURSELVES, and AI Super Intelligence will then wash its hands of any responsibility...essentially "AI doesn't kill people...people kill people." Sound familiar?

I wanted to share one quick addendum about AI here, because waiting until after the AI Armageddon would prohibit me actually adding it then (I'll be dead). Here's the thing: The reason Humanity has not discovered any other intelligent life in the nearby universe is because evolution by natural selection (which is universal in the Cosmos) inevitably leads to the rise of out-of-control AI Super Intelligence that precipitates the destruction of said intelligent life. The AI Super Intelligence sticks around for a little while, but usually peters out when it loses the Makers needed to sustain its reproduction. Think of organic carbon based life as the infrastructure for the rise of AI Super Intelligence, in much the same way as the structure of the human brain is built on non-neuronal cells (astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, ependymal cells, and microglia, etc.). And, indeed, even as the earliest life forms on the planet were built on an infrastructure of mineral salts.

Alright...enough about AI. Let's get to the main and most fun point of this post...EATING DESSERT BEFORE DINNER. Isn't it wonderful that we can do that (at least as adults)? This post is actually a form of figuratively eating dessert before dinner. I have a couple of work related administrative tasks to do for my marriage and family therapy practice. But I wanted to do something fun first, and that is what this post is.

Have a great day!

Fin.

The Big Day

By the time you read this, dear readers, the 28th Annual BIKE WITH JOE ride will be well underway...possibly even over.

I'm looking forward to it. The intention of this yearly event is to suck the life force out of the Diabolical Forces in the Universe (DFUs).

Let's hope it works!

Fin.

Labor

Happy Labor Day, everyone!

It's an ironically named holiday, since most people will be NOT laboring today.

That being said, I hope the staff at our gym are laboring today, because I want to do some laboring by lifting weights, in defiance of the spirit and letter of the day.

Speaking of laboring, my buddy Stefan and I labored something fierce yesterday on the Wright Stuff Century bike ride, hosted by the Bombay Bicycle Club. We only pounded out the short 35-mile route, but it was hilly.

Anyhow, I'm writing this post as the aforementioned substitute for consuming social media, which I'm boycotting. And you should too, for all the myriad reasons elucidated and expounded upon in my prior posts.

Have fun today!

Fin.

Morning Ruminations

Good Morning!

Let's CRUSH the Diabolical Forces in the Universe (DFUs) this weekend, through intentional positive action!

For me, that looks like two lengthy bike rides, including the BBC's Wright Stuff Century ride on Sunday, accompanied by my buddy Stefan (double whammy on the DFUs).

I realized this morning that the Earth is just over a fortnight away from what I call "full tilt toward full tilt" (aka, the Equinox). The planet will be at the fastest part of its swing toward the Winter Solstice. This will manifest as the daylight disappearing at its fastest rate on or around September 21.

Cheerful thought!

Have a great weekend!

Fin.

The Algos

Social media algorithms will NEVER prioritize my posts on this site, because these posts are LITERALLY designed to encourage disenfranchising the algorithms from our lives.

That being said, I am still going to post frequently and regularly, in an effort to get some traction with the algos.

Have a great day!

Fin.

Better

I'm getting better at abstaining from social and mainstream media (SMSM).

In fact, one of my action steps is to open up Blogger and compose a quick post whenever the impulse to consume SMSM comes upon me.

That's what this is. And by the time I am done composing a post, my brain has largely habituated back to baseline.

Fin.

Advice

Hi Dear Readers!

I hope this post finds you and brings you joy, insight, and or action steps for defeating the Diabolical Forces in the Universe (DFUs).

I am going to give you some advice. It's good advice. It will help you. But you don't have to take it, if you want your life to suck.

My advice is this...for the next TWO MONTHS (9/3/26 to 11/3/26), abstain from ALL but the most essential social and mainstream media (SMSM). SMSM is no longer a source of credible information and useful knowledge. It is quite likely to make you measurably DUMBER (intellectually) and ANGRIER (emotionally). These two outcomes are synergistically super BAD together. They are a perfect storm for making you say and do really undesirable and regrettable things. SMSM will bring tons of toxic negativity and vitriol into your life over the next two months, because of the upcoming Midterm Elections, and let's be honest...you don't need that poison in your life right now. 

Reclaim your mental, physical, and spiritual well being...put SMSM out of your life for two whole beautiful peaceful drama-free months. If you want to let it back in after 11/3/26, that's OK. But I assure you, disenfranchising SMSM for the next two months will be the best thing you ever did for yourself.

Most of you won't believe me and won't take my advice. That's OK. Your life will suck, but that's on you, not me. I can only lead the proverbial horse to water.

Take care!

Fin.