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.

A simple Cost and Benefit Analysis

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 have received some pushback on my thesis that boycotting all social and mainstream media (SMSM) is a good idea for improving mental, physical, and spiritual wellness. I want to reiterate that I am not saying it is an ABSOLUTE GOOD idea. I am saying it is the LESSER of two evils...a RELATIVE GOOD. I would love it if SMSM were informative, positive, motivational, and non-addictive. But it is none of those things and is increasingly the opposite of those things. It now contains more misinformation than information. It is ridiculously negative and rife with toxic grievance that leaves you feeling empty and angry and devoid of joy. It discourages civic action by substituting it with the aforementioned aggrieved negativity (whining on social media has become the ONLY form of action people take on important civic and social issues). And if you need proof that it is more addictive than heroin or nicotine, just try quitting it for a couple of weeks, or even a couple of days. QED.

So, this is a simple cost and benefit analysis. There may have been a time when the benefits of SMSM outweighed the cost. But that time is long gone. You are now better off avoiding it completely. For one thing, it keeps DFUs largely out of your life, which by itself is a wellness advantage. It also denies the Corporate Overlords of SMSM your attention and money. Recall, the reason SMSM is free for you to use is because YOU ARE NOT THE CUSTOMER; YOU ARE THE PRODUCT. The customers of SMSM are advertisers who pay for your time, attention, and eyeballs to increase their profits. If you have any doubt about this, ask yourself why there is so much advertising on SMSM? If it were not profitable, why would companies advertise? Boycotting SMSM is a form of civic action, as you are reclaiming the commodity that is your attention and time, and you are impacting (albeit minimally) the bottom lines of big, exploitative corporations (you are very gently "sticking it to THE MAN").

Once you free yourself from SMSM, you become significantly/relatively smarter and happier (though, in absolute terms, you will still be of average intelligence and moderate mood...an improvement only in that it is a return to your baseline from a much worse off state...). This is why boycotting SMSM is a massively positive improvement in your wellness environment, akin to quitting nicotine, alcohol, and/or drugs. Add to that a healthy plant based diet and daily aerobic exercise and you will find yourself almost unstoppable, physically, mentally, and spiritually.

In quasi-related news, there will be a GENERAL STRIKE across America and the World on May Day (5/1/26). I encourage you all to participate and here is the info: maydaystrong.org.

I will be participating by avoiding SMSM (obviously), purchasing NOTHING, and closing my marriage and family therapy business for the day. Actively, I will be enjoying time with friends and family, hosting a bike ride, and generally chilling TF out.

Hugs!

Fin.

Fantastic

Hi Dear Readers!

I hope this blog post finds you and brings you joy, insight, and/or action steps for defeating the Diabolical Forces in the Universe (DFUs). Things have been going pretty well on that front, which tells me you are all upping your game on the actions steps. For my part, I have been boycotting social and mainstream media (SMSM) with nearly 100% efficacy and the results speak for themselves. I am smarter and happier than I can remember being in quite a long while, due to completely disenfranchising the DFUs from my digital life. I have been instead focusing on curated non-mainstream media (such as podcasts) and reading more audiobooks (on the Libby app).

And my analog life is fantastic too. I get outside and take the dogs for a walk pretty much daily, unless the weather is super bad (95% of the time, it does not reach that level of awfulness). My marriage counseling practice is thriving. I manage to squeeze in a 30+ minute Peloton workout most days (excepting our tropical vacation a few weeks ago and when I was sick with RSV - I still worked out during that, but man did my lungs BURN! Probably not the smartest thing to do...). I am getting very close to my fitness goals and I am almost to the point where DFU-destroying intention is optimized. The DFU's should start feeling that in the next couple weeks.

Fin.

The DFUs Are Taking a Beating

Hi Dear Readers!

I hope this blog post finds you and brings you joy, insight, and/or action steps for defeating the Diabolical Forces in the Universe (DFUs). I guess my pep rally post a few weeks ago was motivational for some of you, because the DFUs are taking a hefty beating lately. That warms my cockles. Good work!

I am still a bit discouraged by how few people are boycotting and disenfranchising social and mainstream media (SMSM) though, since these are currently some of the most toxic things that humanity has ever encountered, due to AI's involvement. SMSM makes you measurable dumber and angrier [SOURCE].

If the metric is DIABOLICAL EVIL, then SMSM scores very high. Empirically speaking, one almost has to admire SMSM's insidiousness. It simultaneously poisons and reprograms your mind while stimulating the pleasure centers of the brain that prevent you from realizing what TF is happening to you (in fact, you even feel paradoxically good about your misery!). It's like the "cocaine rats" in those old experiments that predated animal cruelty laws. These rats would drink the cocaine water vs the un-cocaine water until they died, oblivious that they were poisoning themselves because they felt SO GOOD!

Fin.

Fun

Hi Dear Readers!

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

I am about to intentionally target some DFUs by hopping on the Peloton bike trainer for about an hour, followed by some DFU-obliterating rock-n-roll music practice, before rounding out the day with some decluttering of the basement.

I fasted completely from toxic social and mainstream media (SMSM) yesterday, and my battery is fully recharged as a result. I plan to continue fasting from SMSM for the remainder of the weekend. You can think of SMSM as like air pollution...except it is mind pollution.

That's about all I had for today.

Fin.

Mondays Are Holy

Hi Readers!

I trust you are well and I hope this blog post finds you and brings you happiness.

The holy day for Judaism is on Saturday. The holy day for Christianity is on Sunday (and sometimes alternatively Wednesday, for unknown reasons). The holy day for the Church of Bike With Joe is on Monday. You may be asking, "Why is the holy day for the Church of BWJ on Monday?" I am very glad that you asked.

The short answer is because a main purpose of the Church of BWJ is to undermine and disenfranchise the Diabolical Forces in the Universe (DFUs). This is sometimes referred to, in the vernacular, as "sticking it to The Man." The Man, in this case, comprises multiple people and entities, including but not limited to Corporate America and its mouthpiece(s) - social and mainstream media (SMSM). If you've been following along, you know that SMSM is considered anathema to the Church of BWJ, which is why abstinence from this toxic entity is enshrined as one of the three Tenets of the Church of BWJ, along with the other two: daily aerobic exercise and adherence to a plant based way of eating. But I digress. Corporate America enslaves workers to a Monday through Friday work week. One way that the Church of BWJ encourages people to disenfranchise Corporate America ("stick it to The Man") is to take a sabbath on Mondays. Because, dammit, you deserve a goddam three-day f**kin' weekend. Am I right?

Some of my readers may know, and others may not, that I used to be a minion of Corporate America (aka, a corporate cube drone). It was a narrative that did not fit me well, and that's why I eventually "fired" Corporate America and became a self-employed marriage and family therapist. I don't see my therapy clients on Mondays, typically, unless it's unavoidable and benefits my clients. I "take 'er easy," as the Dudeists say (The Church of BWJ is an offshoot of Dudeism).

Anyway, I'd like to elaborate further with you today, but I've got things to go do. I am planning to exercise later today and there is talk of a GUPPY EFFECT rock-n-roll super duo rehearsal this afternoon.

Fin.

Positivity

Hi Readers!

I hope this blog post finds you and brings you some joy and positivity.

Have you noticed how much negativity is in the world right now? If so, it's probably because you are consuming social and mainstream media (SMSM), where (possibly quite fortuitously) most of the negativity in the world currently resides. Because, I'll be perfectly honest with you, the world is actually not as negative as the SMSM Algo (collectively) would have you believe. In many ways, the world is actually quite a positive place, if you know where to look [SOURCE] (or not look, as the case may be).

That's not to say there are not Diabolical Forces in the Universe (DFUs) actively working on both increasing negativity in the world and convincing you that there is more negativity in the world than there actually is. The DFUs need you to believe that the world is dangerous, that this danger is perpetrated by "the other," and that only the SMSM Overlords (Corporate Media and its underwriting Corporate Advertisers) can save you from these dangerous and nefarious perps (whoever they are!). That's all entirely BS. But the more you consume SMSM, the more this BS pervades your mind and erodes your happiness and critical thinking abilities (also sometimes called Rabbit Holing, in the vernacular). 

I'm not sure why the DFUs collectively thought depositing most of the world's negativity in SMSM was a good idea. However, my guess is that once they realized how potently addictive SMSM was, it made sense to harness this addiction to draw as many victims as possible into SMSM (you may be old enough to remember how tobacco companies did the same thing in the 1950s and 1960s, using addiction to compel millions of people to buy their products and - in so doing - sign their own death warrants. SMSM is the death warrant of the 21st century, although this latter death is a much more insidious mental and spiritual decay that robs your soul of happiness, joy, and positivity - like the Dementors in Harry Potter films.

All is not lost, however. The Achilles Heel of the DFUs is that they have, in fact, put all (or most) of their diabolical eggs into one proverbial basket (or two baskets, if you arbitrarily separate social media from mainstream media...but no one actually does that anymore...they have "blended" into basically one and the same thing), and that basket(s) is SMSM. The reason I said above that this is possibly quite fortuitous is that this gives us an OUT from the negativity and soul-death purveyed by the DFUs. You have probably heard the term "safe space," often associated with the controversial term "woke." Because most of the world's negativity (by some estimates, 80%+ of it) is now housed within the SMSM domain, most of the physical and emotional space OUTSIDE of SMSM is effectively "safe" from negativity (the residual 20% of negativity not captured by SMSM comprises real world things like road rage, property taxes, douchebag bosses, divorce/breakups, narcissists, losing a loved one, chronic illnesses, TSA at the airport, and that kind of thing...which happen actually pretty rarely and infrequently in the real world outside of SMSM...and these real negatives are sometimes quite avoidable). 

The DFUs do not want you to dwell in this safe space outside of SMSM too much, because if you do, you will be immune to their persuasion (to fear/hate "the other" and buy products that the DFUs tell you will assuage your anxiety) and begin to obtain quite a lot of happiness and positivity. If you need any objective proof of this thesis, consider how "anti-woke" the DFUs are. They are constantly deriding "wokeness" as weakness and a threat to your life and to the world and to your kids and blah blah blah. In fact, wokeness is actually the safest cognitive and emotional space for most people, which is why the DFUs hate it so much. Not only that, but most of the rest of the world outside of SMSM is WOKE! 

The DFUs do have a plan in 2025 to begin a scorched earth invasion and cleansing of the woke domain outside of SMSM, in an effort to herd as many people as possible into what they describe as the "safe" space of SMSM, but that is their great deception. This attack on wokeness begins in earnest on 1/20/25, which is why I have urged and encouraged my readers to get woke and purge SMSM from their lives prior to that date, ideally at least three weeks prior to that date, which is the amount of time that Science has determined it takes to fully detoxify and detach from SMSM (it can be as little as two weeks for those who already follow the other two Tenets of the Church of Bike With Joe - daily aerobic exercise and a vegan diet).

You might be asking, "Why should I leave the SMSM domain and embrace the Woke domain, if the Woke domain will be the target of the DFUs unbridled and unyielding assault in 2025?" It's an excellent question. The only answer I have is that the Woke domain is on the right side of positivity, happiness, success, and other touchy feely things like that (aka, Salvation). Additionally, the Woke domain needs an Army of Resistance to the DFUs. And while owning that resistance is totally NOT mandatory or even your responsibility, forfeiting your eternal happiness and positivity in favor of negativity, fear, and hate is not an acceptable alternative for many. However, it is always your CHOICE. If you choose SMSM over the Woke domain, then you are choosing fear/hate/negativity/vitriol/turmoil over happiness/joy/love/positivity/peace. If SMSM has already decayed your mental, physical, and spiritual well-being, then all of the above will sound like conspiratorial nonsense to you. If so, I am very sorry, and also this blog post is not for you. My emotional labor is intended for those seeking positivity, happiness, joy, and those sorts of things. Not you? Totally fine.

Anyway, my time is up. I need to go make and eat some breakfast. Then I will see some marriage and family therapy clients today, followed by some exercise.

Fin.

Social and Mainstream Media Fasting

Hi Readers! 

I hope this post finds you and brings you some joy.

Do you know what billionaires and Corporate America despise more than anything else? I'll tell you. It's NOT having you as a customer.

We need to start boycotting Corporate America and transition to a national General Strike for at least the next two years. It's a win-win. You save money and Corporate America loses money. Until Corporate America gets its s**t together, we need to strongly persuade it to do so with our dollars (or lack thereof).

Now, you may think this is a fool's errand and a futile task. However, I assure you that is not the point. This benefits you whether it harms Corporate America or not. That being said, it does not take much to have an impact on Corporate America's bottom line.

The quickest and most efficient way to expedite the General Strike is to break your addiction to social and mainstream media (SMSM) and quit using it. Corporate America's profits are significantly correlated with people's SMSM use. SMSM poisons you mind and soul, and destroys both your productivity and critical thinking ability, softening you to Corporate America's persuasive advertising messaging to consume more of their useless shite. SMSM makes you dumb, angry, and scared. It's literally worse than any drug in its destructive capacity and addictive qualities.

If you think that sounds far fetched, let's do a thought experiment. How difficult would it be for you to abstain from SMSM for a week? If you think it would be easy, I challenge you to try. Prove me wrong. "I can quit it any time" is not sufficient. Actually quit it. If you can't...that's addiction and exactly what Corporate America wants, just like the tobacco industry wanted smokers addicted to cigarettes before their diabolical plot was exposed by science.

If you need any further proof or persuasion that quitting SMSM is necessary for your well being, WATCH THIS.

Fin.