Wednesday, November 27, 2024

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November 27, 2024 | By: Zayne Harbison

Blogging

This blog will be my main page from here on out! I hope to inspire as many people as possible using the power of basic internet access and thorough understanding of basic networking! As daunting as this task was and still is for me - and no matter how much I hope people respect that - it will never be that way for others. The internet was the worst thing in my life growing up, and sometimes it makes me feel like I never grew up at all. Laughing at silly pictures on the internet all day or getting irately angry every time a politician makes a dumb tweet is just not healthy for an adult man. I grew up in what most people call "the hood" or "the ghetto" to drop just a few of the labels that have been given to me. Looking White does not make that much different, if you ask me. All it does is drive a wedge even further between me and other people. If I try to be myself, it is laughed at or mocked as cultural appropriation. This is entirely opinion based, and it is the bane of my existence. It has planted a seed of sorrow so deep in my soul that there is only one person left to blame. It is going to take a whole lot more than a reliable internet connection and a few knuckle sandwiches for lunch to fix that. No amount of black eyes or bloody lips have changed my depression so far. All it does is make me question my relationship with my higher power. It hurts. It gets a little bit worse than that, but for time sake, I will not delve into that.

Who, what, when, where, how, and why?!

I will simplify it here like this. If people are evil and the internet is evil and the internet just makes things worse by covering them up easier, then people on the internet are excusably the most evil part of existence. Bullying is straight up evil. There is no such thing as tough love. That is domestic violence. Doing it on the internet just makes you a stranger. It is not cyber-bullying. It is terrorism! There is no excuse for people to be afraid of something that they cannot see. It is a known fact that the internet is a necessity for the majority of the average Americans function throughout the day. From clocking in to submitting papers to checking on the kids. What is not known is that there are wicked individuals using this to their sick, morbid advantage and straight-up gaslighting the poor. Trolls are not trolls when children - and even adult victims of bullying - are killing themselves and being accused of having emotions.

It cannot be!

Once the human mind, body, and spirit can get past the fact that obscene content is being forced onto unwilling victims BY THE AUTHORITY, then and only then can you move on. Bullying does not stop with lunch money, it does not stop with bloody underwear, and it does not stop in the bathroom. If you cannot have privacy in the most private place of all, a bathroom, then you won't even have a mind to do it with. Anyone who has been deprived of privacy in their quarters - whether it be hygiene or rest or even just having room to breathe at work or school, just to top it off - will lose touch with reality. Privacy is not being alone. It is not having a curtain to put up. It is a safe space! Being treated like property, they become addicted to finding an escape. They begin to escape from themselves. They begin to escape from the good things in life. They begin to forget that demon that caused all of this in the first place.

Hate has no place in any of my blogs

Entertainovation

Started as a birthday present for myself in July of two-thousand twenty-three, I started Entertainovation as a landing page for my merchandising portfolio. I made this website when my TikTok page, Entertainovation, became popular by making videos with my pet dog Brownie. I got him some of those trendy "talk-buttons" and shared my experiences learning how to take care of a pet as high-maintenance as I am. Eventually, I realized the potential for the website! My film certifications and computer certifications could be put to good use!

Brownie the Pug
Brownie the Pug - 2023

There is a reason that I am so careful with this project. I am sure you can imagine what the abusive fat-cats and their crooked goons have in store for "someone like me." I got fed up with the bullying towards children from the adult entertainment industry in my own family. Hip-hop, sex work, the military, legalization, gang violence, and so much more. My response was simple. I asked ChatGPT how I can get away from artificial intelligence and still make an impact on my own. It layed out a simple reference chart detailing my previous work history and experience with abusive entertainers. I am good at what I do, and that may or may not be why nobody likes me. Just shut up, avoid the corrupted authorities and religious holier-than-thou types, and get to work! Sure, members of the priesthood are creeps. Sure, Mormonism is treated like a cult. Sure, White men from the South are belligerent. Sure, it is okay for people to make mistakes as long as they play the snitch. Sure, people with money can visit as many disgusting night clubs that abuse children as they want. Best of all?! There is never going to be an investigation into how all of this happened to me as a child, until I escape. As of writing this blog post, Entertainovation is down for critical maintenance. Once I get it back up, it will continue to be the family-friendly showcase for my browser-based video games and photography contests! Family-friendly content is not just for children, and there is no reason for children's entertainment to cater to adults. It is a public access opportunity for everyone in the family to share entertainments and even learn a little bit about them, as well. When learning, most recognize the opportunity as a lame one. I hope to change that while also increasing the security and value of entertainment that will influence young minds. I am hoping to do more with it. I will have to see if it can ever gain traction on social media, first!

The College Diet

The College Diet is a blog that I am developing to raise awareness for the lack of wellness among the student base at American colleges and raise funding for my own tuition. I was assaulted myself, on multiple occasions, when I attempted to apply for college due to where I am from and the fact that I was poor. Beyond the physical threats, there are ritual hazings to intimate women and other freshmen students. This has often taken lives. Alcohol poisoning, suicide, and rape have taken the lives of hundreds of freshmen over the last decade. I like to blame these kinds of behaviors from anyone, enrolled in school or not, on depravity. It all starts with nutrition. A hungry mind does not think right. I will write about my experiences while offering the same public access opportunity to engage in a refined online forum as I have elsewhere! I have a fundraiser for this project on GoFundMe. You can find it here!

MyPrayerBox

As the name suggest, this webpage will be a prayer-box. It is intended to be a public access opportunity and a tool for those outside the reach of an actual prayer-box or congregation meeting house. If you would like to support this, you can find the fundraiser here!

Zayne's Space (Here on Blogger at zayneharbison.com)

I love writing! I love sharing stories with my friends and colleagues! I love knowing that I make a positive impact on society! What better way to do that than to share my personal stories here? It may seem like I am revealing too much sometimes, but I am really just exposing the truth. I know what I must keep to myself, even still. I am only human. I am a man who lives in the body that God gave me. I suffer with the illnesses that the world has caused me, both mental and physical. Depression affects the mind and body. I am getting better every day. I spent the first twenty years of my life without a good nights sleep. That was the window for evil to find its way into my life. There is nothing like it. Still, I must obey the law and respect the human spirit. Here, I wish to share a more positive message and insight into my works. It is a public access opportunity to learn more about me and why I do what I do!

U.S. Survivors

U.S. Survivors is a collection of webpages that I hope to refine over the coming months into a public access opportunity for individuals of all walks of life to share their own experiences through hardship with an emotional buffer. I know from my own experiences how crucial this is. Without it, it is just you and ChatGPT. Most people cannot actually afford the company that they deserve. I feel that I have found the best solution that I have to offer. The alternative is emotional gatekeeping and violence. You can help with the fundraiser here on GoFundMe!

Medium

Medium is precarious workspace for writers who take their work seriously. Due to the rise of intelligence threats posed by artificial intelligence and punk teenagers with too much money and too much time on their hands, the platform is opening up to more writers. I will be sharing a little bit of everything here in hopes to reach as many as possible!

Patreon, BuyMeaCoffee & Ko-fi

Patreon is a patron based subscription service for dedicated artists to cater to their dedicated fans. Buy Me A Coffee is a homonym for web development fundraising practices. The platform offers a fun-yet-professional way to share newsletters and updates with followers and subscribers who donate "coffee" as a support to the author. A cup of coffee in two thousand and twenty four costs about three dollars. Seeing as to how drinking coffee goes against my religious beliefs, I accept donations labelled as books. Rather than increasing the price of the base donations, I left it at three dollars, because users can adjust it as they wish! Ko-fi is essentially the same thing with some special integrations and a unique interface. I know that established users have their preferences, so I will be updating both pages with the same behind-the-scenes content for paid subscribers.

 

  You can get 75% off the GOLD tier on Patreon using code "GOLD75" until Christmas Day!


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Tumblr

Tumblr is the king of websites, and you can tell them that I said so! Not only did they reinnovate social media with the first major photography-based blog, they did so without recognition and continue to do so every day. That may seem intentional, but I assure you that no one is going to be pulling their door off the hinges since the major Google acquisitions ended. Meta, being the new forerunner in the social photography game through their acquisitions of Instagram and Oculus, has only one competitor left in terms of acquisition authorities. That is one mister Elon Musk. He almost ruined Twitter with unmonitored artificial intelligence, and with zero regard to the atmospherics involved in a good photography blog. If you really need to share it, sure, people will eat it up. Will they love it, though? I have had no such luck. That is why I am sticking with Tumblr for my shared photography works. I appreciate the genuine nature of the platform, and why would I want to look for perfection elsewhere? Here is a link to my Tumblr page. I hope that you have found something that you enjoyed in this blog post. Thank you for reading!

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Chainmail Letters

Photo credits - (Swagatika Behera at Flickr)

We have all seen it. It may not have been in our lifetime, but the cliche is easily visible in old paper copy files or when the old timey message is flowing across the silver screen. It seems so cheesy now. Once upon a time, it was just another day at the office.


August 7, 2004 - Sub: BIIIIG Yawn! - CC: nosyjosie@company-news.corp

FWD: Jerry in Financial 

Hello dear sir or madam! You have been privileged with this clipart GIF of a cat doing a stretch! Also, today is Monday! You know what that means! The line to the coffee pot is going to be phenomenal this morning. 

P.S. - Hubert smells bad today. ;D


If this looks familiar, then you know what this is referencing. If not, we have some ground to cover. Let us begin here. What is worse than a Monday at the office? The only thing that could be worse than listening to the copy machine right outside your cubicle whirring all morning is listening to Susan one cubicle over have a long-drawn-out conversation about nail polish with her manager in accounting on the phone. She keeps forwarding her calls to you, not knowing that you arrived early today. Your boss asked you to fill out some extra spreadsheets because he is in a hurry to arrive to a meeting at headquarters on time. Little did you know, it was only going to take five minutes. Tick... Tick... Tick... Tock. Did the second hand just move backwards a little bit?!


Did you know?

Memes were actually spawned by the late-era chainmail letter? Office workers would share their favorite moments from movie night in their forwarded rendition of an e-mail. It was a significant way to share and be social while also acknowledging inboxed messages. 


As the office computer became more and more of a staple in the industry, so did its common use. One person may have needed instruction on a seemingly simple task, so now everyone is expected to read the same e-mail on how to use the new water cooler. The passive-aggressive connotation is there, but it is still normal to be blunt at this point. No one has had their feelings hurt over a companywide e-mail, yet. A dumb question is best left on ice. Eventually, things get more complex. It is no longer the local office. A message is sent from New York to the office in Maryland, it goes from there to the Carolinas for a conference speaker to read over, and finally it lands in some poor chum's waste folder after they scroll through and barely click delete in the new Vegas spot overlooking the strip. The message was not so important, but something is missing. The glam! What happened to the funny cat pictures and superstitious ultimatums about important events on the third Tuesday? 


While many seek this humor in their modern inboxes, the lost art is gone. No longer will we see the same message that half the country woke up to this morning. No longer will we feel obligated to participate and contribute to the silly forwarding nicknames. "Captain_Jack_Arrow" and "FREEW1ND0W$98DOWNL0@D" will never encourage you click a link to a baseless movie forum ever again. That is okay! As time progresses, so does our humor. Some may take longer than others, but that is also okay. It happens. What matters is that we had a good time!


I would like to offer you this, a chainmail letter for you to copy and keep forever:


Send this message to three (3) friends by next Friday, or your computer will melt! The sun is slowly burning, and we are going along with it. How does that make you feel? It makes me feel GREAT! I am outliving THE SUN one glorious moment at a time. Never again will mom call and make me feel like I am not "bringing home the paper." Filling out boring paperwork just isn't going to be the same without me! I am the ink on the paper! WOO! Bring it on, world! Next Friday, keyboard jockey! Yeah!


Share at your convenience if you wish, but do not forget to outlive the sun! Thank you for reading, and be sure to let me know what you think of the story on my social pages.