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Thursday, March 19, 2026

The Truth Is All There Is...



Everything else is an attempt to obscure it. 


The pleroma is not the true pleroma.


I was never really a pirate (one who copies software illegally), and not a pirate courier, the one who uploads uncracked software to servers where hackers break the copy protection, nor was I the one who download cracked software to redistribute it to other servers.


I was a coder of graphics demos, whose work got noticed by the membership of an Elite crew part of a legendary hacker group, and I was recruited (in the 1980s) purely for intros/demos, though I advocated both on my own, and on behalf of said legendary group for student pricing and free student versions of application software, so that low income students (like me at that time) could afford and acquire software education. Most low income students could barely afford a computer, never mind the a package like Autocad which in the late 1980s early 1990s held a price of many thousands of dollars. This was before student and educational pricing existed.


Generally, the only copied software I've ever been in possession of is that which came with the used computers I've purchased, and often went with the same computer when I sold it to someone else. Occasionally, if I needed a software that I'd purchased and lost or damaged the original copy, I'd download the disks or much later, the iso file to replace my installation media while still retaining my software license. So technically speaking, I was never really a pirate, but more an advocate of affordable pricing for students.


I am still an honorary member of said group, though rarely if ever communicate with others online in relation to this affiliation. Too many organized community crime networks spying on citizens illegally who would take that information and somehow try to profit by it, or use it maliciously and most citizens likely know exactly what I'm talking about. In the very building of my residence, just such an illegal surveillance network exists operated by people affiliated with organized crime, who use it most likely to protect their scheduled crack cocaine shipments into the building, and their sex trafficking network, things of their activity they regularly try to burden me with, while stealing the credit for my writing and work. They also do the same thing in connection with some homeless shelters, where they give people at those shelters the credit for my writing and work, while burdening me with their weight and then often harassing me about it to make it very heavy.


Thankfully, I do not reside in a homeless shelter nor do I work for the homeless shelter system, as it would probably be very difficult with all of the predatory groups operating at that level currently, never mind the ones coordinating to stalk people both offline and online who like the one in my building, have ties to organized crime that they use to stalk and harass their victims. 


Secondly, with regard to my love interest being Southeast Asian? There are people who knew me once upon a time who believed that my attraction to Southeast Asian women was because I was trying to take over the identity of a friend of mine (one whose name is John Penny). He was friends with a Japanese woman at one time, and so the membership of this stalking cult (who are most likely Tom Cruise obsessed fans) assumed that my attraction to Southeast Asian women was the result of my attempt to steal his identity, which it never was. 


I've always felt a strong attraction towards Southeast Asian women for as long as I can remember, and developed good friendships with a few when I was very young, though obviously friendships that preserved our innocence and even protected it. As I got older in life, I noticed more and more of an effort to steer me away from such friendships and force me in other directions, and that was most likely related to the presence of a collection of high control religious groups in my proximity who manipulated many aspects of my life right up until my late thirties without my knowing, including cutting off my income when I joined the military (QOR, a Canadian Reserve Airborne Regiment) hence my never finishing training or getting my jump wings. Cutting off and limiting my income when I joined martial arts the first time (hence my never continuing with that particular martial art until much later in my life). Similar manipulations occurred throughout my life every time I made a choice that went against the grain of their religions. They attempted to steer my interest away from European and Southeast Asian women, by introducing me to members of their approved cultures for my relationships, with their likely trying to herd me into their religious circle to live by their rules about intermingling. 


They still try force me over to the "brown" side or the "tan" side of the fence, which basically means that they attempt to enforce relationships that include only Africans or Caribbeans, despite my having being a Welsh descended person of light skin (their motivations are based upon skin colour and forcing me to be with someone on that basis rather than on the basis of the choice of my potential partner and I). 


They also often attempt to create the impression of my being "brown" or "tan" within that regard in order to replace my identity to replace my culture, so that I become a fuel source for them and nobody else (yep, they're a brown racist group alright). A very racist ideology that manipulate and interfere in their target's lives. This is the same ideology that attempts to steal my content and credit it to other people that have nothing to do with its creation.


Many of the people who seemingly came into my life via serendipity, were plants by the members of these religions, who were pruning me for membership amongst their numbers. Obviously at some point I took steps to distance myself from them, which was met with varied results, including their having stalked my older Chinese girlfriend for nearly four months unbeknownst to me back in 2006 (we parted ways for her protection), and then the same thing in 2010 when they stalked my Korean girlfriend at that time. 


Between those relationships, they attempted to create the impression that I used prostitutes and was involved in crack cocaine and other narcotics, as a means to discredit me and likely to prevent me from settling into a relationship with someone European or Southeast Asian as I stated and there seems to have been collusion from people I once trusted towards these ends, including attempts to associate me with cocaine or crack cocaine. In other words, trying to paint a very different picture of my being than is factual and most often in a way that it was destructive to my life and career (which it definitely was). I suspect a racist religion of some form (trying to force me in the "brown" direction), and possibly those who practice eugenics as well.


So, that's the truth and history of my situation while I'm working on growing and expanding Shhhh! Digital Media.


This predatory ideology are the source of most of my woes and the motivation for many of my rant posts. They're also the group that most often attempt to radicalize me towards anger or hostile reactions, as if they're addicted to it. I'm disgusted by women attracted to guys like that, especially those that believe that what they're doing is "craft" alchemy or something of that nature. Yay, what I've always wanted to be: a mean, knuckle dragging moron. Daddy, when I grow up can I be a mean, knuckle dragging moron? 


I prefer being intelligent, and being able to summon a fierce and potentially devastating willpower when I need it that is a force to be reckoned with, but never using it recklessly.


They likely attempted to swap my identity with that of my 350lbs neighbour, whose name is Marty. Apparently he's a Hell's Angel or has family that are Hell's Angels, and the abusive ideology in the building often swaps his identity and mine (though they do that between myself and many other people as well). So, I'm not Irish (Marty's Irish), and I'm not 350lbs, though I'd never make fun of anyone over their health issues or their weight. I'm about 175lbs and 6 feet tall, and fairly fit for my age.


Regardless, after years of being forced to carry the weight of "brown" via a cult that operates via colour symbolism of brown black (brown secrets), I'm dumping it all as its not mine and never was. 


Apparently that's the nature of this cult. To force that kind of weight upon someone and then to make it very heavy for them. However, it isn't mine anymore and never really was. Lets just put it where everyone has access to it and see where that goes when everyone else knows their secrets.


I'm still Canadian and living in Canada. I've never lived anywhere else.






Wednesday, March 18, 2026

The Hand That Feeds: Weaponized Suggestion Feeds


 

Biomagnetism And Hormones


First of all, I am not possessed by anyone or being remotely controlled either. I never was and never will be not to mention I am not a member of any religion or ideology that believes such nonsense. Abusive ideological groups have a number of ways to manipulate people that are all based upon smoke and mirrors, with the most aggressive and secretive of them being people who've practiced attuning their biomagnetic field in such a way that it can have both positive and negative effects upon another person's nervous system and homeostasis. Homeostasis refers to the balance of hormonal chemistry in a person's body that affects their mood and cognition. How a person perceives the world around them, and if that chemistry is out of whack, it can skew a person's perception of the world, and make them vulnerable to reaction or even fight or flight syndrome. 


I've been writing about this kind of thing for years and have invested countless hours researching and investigating it, though most of my posts including this knowledge have been deleted by me as that information often appeared in one of the rants I chose to delete. However, there is a good record of it in my Butterfly Dragon storyline of The Two Butterflies (which was written by me while operating under the fav.inbox@gmail.com account which is my personal email). There are predatory groups that exist that actually use biomagnetism as a method to attack their enemies and of those groups, there's an even smaller percentage who utilize these methods while under the influence of narcotics such as crack cocaine or methamphetamine to do so. What that translates to is that being attacked in that manner would affect the hormones in your body so that your hormonal balance was similar to that of someone under the influence of such narcotics. The members of these cults that are aware of this refer to it as "blue" or being "blue", and when someone is under that influence, it has become a means to write off anything they reveal about the people attacking them. Its a method of silencing whistle blowers with regard to this activity and its the social architecture of complete morons and idiots bent on destroying society rather than helping it or enlightening others.


The reference to the colour blue comes from the way that Police and criminal investigators use to determine the likelihood of a substance being cocaine, which shows up and glows blue while placed under ultraviolet light. Hence, Blue is word that is used to describe a form of mania that arises when people who use crack cocaine and are part of an ideological group who practice collective biomagnetism as a means to affect and attack others, direct such an attack against a person in their awareness and who lives relatively near them. In the communities where this is commonplace, that is generally how they refer to it, and they use these methods to manufacture and silence whistleblowers by discrediting them.


Online Connection


Given my recent rant, I just wanted to share some insight that might help make others aware of just how much their perception and perspective can be skewed by online sources that offer a computer suggested feed of content (most all of which is often not made by the service itself but its users), and how that content can be commandeered to twist your perception of things and even manipulate how and what you perceive of content producers, and others such as celebrities that appear in many of the media formats you receive that way.


This can be wielded psychologically against you by malicious parties, some of whom might be part of ideological groups acting against your interests, either for personal reasons, or simply out of their own malice and that some of these groups can have members who are employed in system admin positions at such online services, and who can manipulate or affect the logic that is employed to select the suggested content per user, for specific users. People that might be subject to and targeted by this activity definitely include influencers, but could also be directed more generally at a wider audience. Hence, insiders working at such companies can commandeer the suggested content feed that users receive, and use it to both positive or negative results that target the user of that feed, both personally using personal information about them (especially their secrets), and psychologically. The ideological groups that do this are very systematic and employ coordinated techniques to achieve this.


This sort of thing is a far cry from being verbally harassed by groups in person, which takes a lot of strength and resilience to withstand the negative effects of such treatment, but it is traceable and there's evidence, so most people who take part in such activity tend to do it discretely and on the occasions where they step over that line, that leaves an audit trail for criminal investigators, though given the fact that it is so common these days, it is highly unlikely that investigators will ever be able to handle individual cases in a timely manner. Its very clear cut and difficult to disprove as well which works in the advantage of a victim of this activity, however, your hostile reactions to it can be used in the same way by people harassing you, so be mindful. It takes a different kind of strength to deal with hostility of that nature, and most of the people who attack others in that way are cowardly and of little honour or respect for peace and human life.


Suggested Content Feed


Celebrities are rarely directly involved in how their content and appearances are used. Their images, and the video clips in which they're present, are numerous and used by just as many different sources and to different ends, and this is the same or similar with influencers, and others who are visible online and well known. Their image can be used in numerous ways and they are never fully aware of all of the places that it ends up or a part of the artificial narrative that can be created using their image.


Enter: the suggested content feed. Several online content sources such as YouTube (perhaps the most notable) present their content to the users via a feed of suggestions based upon what they're viewed that is of interest to them. The more you watch a particular kind of video, the more you'll get suggestions of videos like that, as well as other videos that are frequently watched by those who like the same kind of videos. This is added to an algorithm that choose content based upon your analytics data from other sources (such as your web browsing activity), and after all of these factors are taken into consideration (along with an AI evaluated and a random element), your content is suggested to you in a feed format that can be scrolled through to see new suggestions. To most users, this feed will seem to be random and related generally to their interests according to the specifications I gave above, but for some, it might have more specific contexts, that seems to target personal aspects about their life.


In such a case, there can generally be two possibilities when that occurs. The first and most convenient way to write it off, is that its an observation selection effect or anthropic bias. The reason that it stands out to you is because your mind is purposely sensitive to extrapolating meaning that is specific to you, from seemingly random content, meaning that you'll have a bias that sometimes can reach and over extend itself towards an implied meaning you're deriving from the content feed, though there is a statistical limit to how often this sort of analysis can be employed to explain such a phenomenon, before it exceeds statistical probability.


The second possibility is that an ideological group has members employed at the online service that you're using, who are twisting the selection algorithm as a means to purposely turn screws in your head, and that is not beyond the realm of possibility, and in all likelihood in many cases, especially those involving popular influencers and those who attract a lot of attention online, is very reasonable to assume that sort of thing might be happening when one notices an inordinate amount of coincidences in the suggestion feed that seem to be sculpting a targeted message towards you. This can both be used to positive and negative effect. However, once you're aware of this, it loses its power over you exponentially.


My concern though is for younger and older people, who don't understand how the underlying technology can be commandeered to achieve such a thing, and hence who can be manipulated and twisted to the point of emotional trauma and the risk of other forms of harmful manipulation that might lead to self harm. 


In the news more and more often, there have been reports of people employed at such services who have after extensive investigations been found to be accessing and sharing their users' information with others online and outside of their workplace. There have also been instances found where this sort of manipulation has been detected in the news feeds of celebrities and politicians and this was one of the  aspects with regard to cases directed against Facebook (which employs a suggested content feed), where it appeared that this sort of technology could be used to influence United States (and presumably those of other countries') voters. I'm telling you this as a Canadian by the way, and the concern was that this sort of technology can be used to manipulate voters without their even knowing, and it could happen anywhere. The same principle applies for any suggested content feed, and ideological groups looking to manipulate certain people are behind much of this activity, and that is becoming more and more apparent as investigations uncover such activity.


To finish the human part of this article, I'd like to emphasize the fact that this is most certainly already happening and in the hands of malicious ideologies and that this might be behind the recent risks that have been discussed in the news and via other online sources. Our awareness of this possibility serves to insulate us from it.


Once again, this same activity could be used to silence whistleblowers and dissenters who expose activities like what I'm experiencing whereby there are groups that take the credit for my content, while disregarding my identity and existence (as if I'm a ghost). And that aspect seems to be very criminal and very real to the point of corruption and the organized crime and ideology protecting it.


I will continue this article with an editorial that was produced by AI according to my specifications, as the AI was able to research and compile a complete article with research citations backing up many of the claims I'm making and indicating the fact that legally, we're still in infancy when it comes to dealing with such problems.



An article by Perplexity AI and Brian Joseph Johns

When Insiders Weaponize the Algorithm: The Hidden Hands Behind Your Feed


Algorithmic feeds are powerful amplifiers, but the deepest danger is not the code itself; it is how determined insiders and outside recruiters can bend that code toward quiet, targeted psychological operations against unsuspecting users. The same systems that can help people discover useful content can, in the wrong hands, become precision tools for harassment, radicalization, or the erasure of inconvenient voices.


Modern platforms already know that ranking algorithms can shift what we believe and prioritize. A recent field experiment on X (formerly Twitter) showed that turning on its algorithmic “For You” feed increased the share of conservative political content people saw and nudged their policy priorities in a more conservative direction over just seven weeks. Large election‑period experiments on Facebook and Instagram similarly show that small changes in how content is ordered can substantially change what political information users encounter, even when their formal party identity does not flip overnight. These are platform‑sanctioned experiments, run at scale, that demonstrate a hard truth: whoever controls the knobs on the feed controls the flow of political reality for millions of people.


Crucially, this influence does not require editing anyone’s vote or hacking a database; it only requires shifting the probabilities of what appears at the top of the screen. By quietly boosting posts from some actors and demoting others, a feed can make certain movements feel energetic and ubiquitous while their opponents look marginal, toxic, or strangely absent. Users experience this not as “manipulation,” but as “what my friends are talking about” or “what’s trending now,” never seeing the counterfactual world where different choices were made.


Security research is increasingly blunt about insider threats: real organizations are seeing employees approached or recruited by outside attackers, not just for money but for political or ideological motives. Surveys of security professionals report that a significant fraction have seen employees contacted to assist in attacks, including ransomware and data exfiltration, and guidance from national cyber agencies explicitly notes that malicious insiders may knowingly abuse their access to cause harm. Insider‑threat frameworks now talk about skills, motives, and opportunities: a technically capable employee who believes the platform is morally corrupt or politically dangerous suddenly looks like a prime candidate for quiet sabotage or “course correction.”


We already have concrete examples of staff abusing privileged tools on major platforms. Facebook, for example, has investigated an employee accused of using internal admin systems to stalk women, exploiting data he could see but ordinary users could not. Security case‑studies describe administrators who used elevated access to spy on colleagues, steal sensitive information, or retaliate against perceived enemies. These incidents are often treated as isolated misconduct, but they prove a structural point: once someone is inside the perimeter with the right privileges, the difference between “routine work” and “targeted abuse” is often just intent.


Combine what we know, and a disturbing, yet technically mundane, scenario emerges. An ideological group decides that the most efficient “psychological operation” is not mass propaganda from the outside, but subtle control from the inside. Instead of just buying ads or running troll farms, it encourages or plants sympathizers into the trust‑and‑safety, data science, or recommender‑engineering teams of one or more platforms. These are precisely the roles that can adjust ranking parameters, define “quality,” tweak toxicity thresholds, and create or override internal labels that determine which posts are boosted, throttled, or flagged.


From there, the operation does not need a cartoonishly obvious “ban my enemies” button. It only needs to re‑weight certain engagement signals or topic scores so that content from rival figures is slightly more likely to be shown in hostile contexts, or more likely to be buried below emotionally charged replies. It can quietly add or adjust internal tags that mark specific communities, hashtags, or domains as “borderline,” “low quality,” or “safety sensitive,” making their posts less likely to reach the top of feeds or to be recommended to new audiences. And it can tune the friend‑ or page‑recommendation system so that people loosely adjacent to the group’s ideology are steered into ever denser networks of allied accounts, while critics are surrounded by content that makes them look unhinged, hateful, or irrelevant.


To the everyday user – or even to a popular influencer – this does not look like an “attack.” It looks like a slow, inexplicable shift: old followers stop seeing their posts, replies become more hostile, growth stalls, and their ideological opponents seem strangely boosted by the algorithm. Targets may suspect shadow‑banning, but without access to internal logs and parameter histories, they cannot prove that a particular human hand nudged the dials.


The danger for ordinary users is not just large‑scale political steering; it is micro‑targeted harm. Because modern recommendation systems rely on detailed behavioral profiles and graph data, an insider with the right access can quietly focus tampering on specific individuals or small clusters (for example, women activists, minority journalists, whistleblowers) by adjusting how often their content is shown and to whom. They can focus on vulnerable users who are already under stress, by promoting more extreme, self‑harming, or rage‑inducing material into their feeds, exploiting known patterns where variable rewards and sensational content keep people hooked. They can target social bridges – those users who connect different communities – by making them appear more volatile or less trustworthy, thereby fraying the edges where dialogue might otherwise cross ideological lines.


None of this requires breaking the recommendation engine; it only requires repurposing it. Algorithmic systems that are good at maximizing engagement and keeping people on the platform are, by design, good at finding what will grab a specific person’s attention or anxiety. In a health‑oriented context, this could mean nudging users toward more exercise videos; in a malicious context, it could mean surfacing more humiliation, outrage, or fear for a chosen set of names.


It is tempting to say “algorithms are to blame,” but that lets human decision‑makers off the hook. The same research that shows feeds can sway political attitudes and behaviors also shows that these systems are adjustable: we can turn features on and off, tighten or loosen ranking rules, and offer non‑profiling alternatives. Regulatory studies in Europe note that platforms often choose manipulative defaults and overwhelming interfaces, not because they must, but because these designs maximize growth and data extraction. That is a business decision, not a technological inevitability.


Insider‑threat research reaches a parallel conclusion: technology provides the means, but motives and oversight determine whether those means are used responsibly. Organizations that treat political neutrality and feed integrity as afterthoughts, or that centralize immense power in small, poorly monitored teams, are effectively trusting that no one with strong ideological commitments will ever abuse their role. That is not a security model; it is wishful thinking.


In other words, recommendation engines are scalpels: they can heal or harm with great precision. The risk is not the existence of the scalpel, but the absence of safeguards on who wields it, under what supervision, and with what accountability when things go wrong.


If we take the possibility of ideological insider psyops seriously, several responses become obvious. Platforms need to treat feed‑ranking logic and internal override tools as critical infrastructure, with strong access controls, four‑eyes changes, and auditable logs for every parameter tweak that can affect political or sensitive content. External researchers and regulators need more visibility into how ranking systems behave around elections and other high‑stakes events, including independent experiments like those already done on X, Facebook, and Instagram. Users deserve meaningful options: genuinely accessible non‑profiling feeds, clear labels when content is boosted or throttled, and explanations of why they are seeing particular posts.


None of these measures will eliminate the risk that a motivated insider might try to twist the system to hurt enemies or advance a cause. But they make it harder to act in total secrecy and easier to detect patterns that deviate from declared policies. They also shift the narrative away from blaming “the algorithm” and toward examining the people and institutions that design, deploy, and oversee these tools.


The technology, in other words, is a mirror: it reflects the incentives and ethics of those who control it. The real danger is not that feeds can be manipulated, but that we continue to build systems where such manipulation is easy, profitable, and largely invisible – and then feign surprise when bad actors step through the door we left open.

Citations:




Very Happy About EU News...

I just wanted to put up a quick post to say that I'm ecstatic about the news of Canada joining the EU. 

That is completely awesome and just makes sense!

Great job Mark and fellow Canadians!

My rant about being harassed still stands, but this news goes a long way to lifting my spirits.

The timing of the harassment attack was probably geared toward the ends of drawing ire and negativity from me, while everyone else was likely celebrating. I can't stress enough how abusive and aggressive such harassment has been, while at the same time being participated in or ignored by the community. I feel really betrayed and will take measures to deal with that. It was probably done simply because I made an attempt to reconnect with my Facebook account, where most of my family and some of my friends are, though blue and brown are the furthest things from my state of being, except where it means independence, work, business, intelligence, strength, science and medicine. I think I've made it clear where my boundaries stand, especially in that last post.

Regardless, I'll be taking time to enjoy this news soon with a proper celebration.

I'll be back again on Friday with more new content.

Brian Joseph Johns

No blue team or brown team for me.

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Shhhh! Digital Media Presents: Grand Tapestry of Moments 04 - The Other Side (Edited and small update Wednesday March 11, 2026 20:00 EST)






Chapters
  1. The Campbell Paradox
  2. The Geriatric Philosopher



Warning: This episode contains mature situations intended for an adult audience. Reader discretion is advised.


Monday, March 16, 2026

Tales of the Sanctum: Era of the Spellbound - Episode 11: The Tarot Be Joined (Finished March 16, 2026 14:15 EST)


Despite this storyline taking place mostly in Shepperton off the Thames, United Kingdom, it is entirely written in Moss Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Shepperton is close to my heart in ideas rather than kilometers.

 

I am Brian Joseph Johns and this is Shhhh! Digital Media at https://www.shhhhdigital.com or https://www.shhhhdigital.ca in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at 200 Sherbourne Street Suite 701.


[Spellbound - Siouxie And The Banshees]



Do you like enigmatic characters, engrossing story, magic and the ever atemporal weave?

Play Baldur's Gate 3 [On Steam]


Chapters

  1.  An Unveiled Past - A Veiled Future
  2. Change Comes in Small Packages
  3. Gillie's Cards Speak
  4. Sanctum Meet - Compare Notes
  5. LHR London, Heathrow

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Shhhh! Digital Media Channel Identification and Bumper with Brian Joseph Johns...

 



Coming Soon...

 

Helayne's Return



or watch it on the Official Shhhh! Digital Media YouTube Channel...


A concept video for an upcoming scene from an upcoming episode in The Butterfly Dragon Heroes of our Own Reimagined. 

Thank you to Daz3D, ComfyCloud, Kling Video

Artwork: Amy Wong, Wendy Pusey, Ghastly (lost track of), Birdman (lost track of), Brian Joseph Johns(me)

Tools: Daz3D, Corel Painter, Adobe Photoshop, Lightwave 3D, InstantID, Google Colaboratory, Microsoft Copilot (Windows 11), PhotoPea (a great web based Photoshop stand-in if you're on a low budget or in a pinch), YouTube (of course), Borderline Obsession... 

Writing, story and character design by Brian Joseph Johns ♏

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Thursday, March 5, 2026

A Short Public Service Message from Shhhh! Digital Media


Hi. Brian Joseph Johns here with a short public service message:


First of all, I am not a Taurus (Sun), and I am not being remotely controlled by any Taurus, nor am I (attempting to) remotely control any Taurus (or Tauri?). I myself have a Taurus Moon, but my ascendent sign is not Taurus, and that kind of thing isn't hereditary, seasonal or affected by issues of health (sarcastic jest intended).


Secondly, despite having had one mostly happy relationship with a Taurus woman in the past, I have no plans to seek out or date a Taurus at all, and probably never will, despite my being a water sign. 


Why you might ask (or if you're a Taurus, you're already winding up to charge)? I'm sick of pulling horns out of my ass every five minutes, and I've probably stepped in enough bullsh#t to fertilize a planet's worth of grain.


However, I'd like to thank the more gracious and sentimental Tauri out there, its been mostly a positive experience, but there comes a time when one has to cut their losses and point themselves in a different direction. 


I've taken enough beatings and tramplings in my life to know when its time to move on. I'm hoping that the most recent hoof marks don't leave a scar this time.


I wish you well on your journey, but I've got to be going.


Yours truly,


Scorpio (of the non-guitar playing variety)


PS: I fully expect that my post with regard to this public service message will most likely result in your being serenaded by entire armies of Scorpio guitar players seeking to separate themselves from this message. Consider that a token of my gratitude for NOT stampeding my home office.


I'm sending the best flowers to Virgo, Cancer, Pisces, Scorpio, Leo (I am so sorry I forgot you Bella and Tina) and a few to Sagittarius as well (and maybe one or two to Gemini).


My dearest Tauri, your Shasta daisies however, should arrive shortly thereafter.

This content is entirely produced in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at 200 Sherbourne Street Suite 701 under the Shhhh! Digital Media banner.


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Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Shhhh! Digital Media Presents... The Butterfly Dragon: Heroes of our Own Reimagined: Episode 10 - The Burden of Proof (Finished and new artwork added Wednesday March 4, 2026 13:15 EST)






Wanna be a Captain or Admiral?



Warning: This episode deals with sensitive topics and is intended for a mature audience. Reader discretion is definitely advised.


Chapters

  1. Team is a Four Letter Word
  2. Two weeks later
  3. Bridal Path Party
  4. Jail Break Broke
  5. The Economy of Second Chances
  6. Twelve years ago
  7. Sooner or Later?
  8. Like Father, Like Son


Saturday, February 21, 2026

Shhhh! Digital Media Presents: Grand Tapestry of Moments 03 - The Interview (or The Sick Mined) - More new art February 24, 2026






Chapters
  1. Monday July 21, 2025 10 AM - Change
  2. Tuesday July 22, 2025 12 PM - Sanity
  3. Wednesday July 23 2025 11 AM - History
  4. Thursday April 11, 1996 5 PM - Ashes
  5. Friday July 25, 2025 9 AM - Future


Thursday, February 12, 2026

Help Women, Children And Men Fight The Disease Cancer! Support The National Breast Cancer Foundation or get in on the Rock The Road Raffle and help Men fight Prostrate Cancer with The Canadian Cancer Society!

You read that right! 


You can either help Women and the National Breast Cancer Foundation in their fight against Breast Cancer, or help Children in their fight against Childhood Cancer, or with the Canadian Cancer Society's Rock The Road Raffle, you can win one of five grand prizes, though there are literally hundreds of other ways to win and you'd be helping real life scientists and researchers in the fight against  the disease, cancer!

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, killing women, children and men and accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020, or nearly one in six deaths according to the World Health Organization.

Nearly half of all Canadians are expected to develop cancer, which is the leading cause of death, with smoking, poor diet, and aging as major factors. 

While incidence is high, 5-year survival rates have risen significantly thanks to the impact and successes in research afforded by your support of organizations like the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Childhood Cancer Canada and the Canadian Cancer Society.


If you're in another part of the world, you can still help by searching for your local cancer research and treatment organizations and supporting them.


Thank you and spread the word!

🦋🐉🪄

Brian Joseph Johns

Shhhh! Digital Media

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Thank You Apple!

Hello again. Brian Joseph Johns here.


I've been an iTunes user for years, and had my main account (under my alternate email fav.inbox@gmail.com) hacked by another user who apparently had been using my iTunes account at another location, possibly in the same city as mine or somewhere else.


It was an account for which I'd lost the answers to my security questions as I never use the actual answers to security questions as they can be gotten to by other means such as social engineering or Open Source intelligence.


Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Shhhh! Digital Media Presents... The Butterfly Dragon: Heroes of our Own Reimagined: Episode 9 - The Fallen and the Risen (Artwork added Tuesday February 3, 2026 17:30 EST)

Brand new artwork, though remember that this is still early in the entire storyline. Their final costumes are a bit of a ways off. Still, this should give you an idea of what's around the corner. Thank you to Perplexity AI, GPT, Claude, Google AI Studio, Grok, DeepAIDeepSeek and Photopea.





Chapters

  1. Convergence (Finished January 28, 2026)
  2. Manufactory (Finished January 29, 2026)
  3. The Meeting of Extremes (Started January 30, 2026)