#reflection
Abstract, philosophical, or essayistic monologue — the storm thought about rather than narrated.
90 entries.
From the storm
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Noise Pollution
A four-clip incident on the porch, mid-day on the Fourth of July. A lawn crew is at work at the neighboring house, running a backpack leaf blower on a federal holiday — meaning someone is paying holiday-overtime wages to interrupt a residential block on a day off. David starts filming from the porch, audibly narrating the who-pays-holiday-pay-for-this question. The tell arrives quickly: the woman on the crew aims her blower at him as a response, and she is the same worker who came onto his porch weeks ago with the blower, a confrontation that seeded blownaway.org. Her partner comes over and starts filming David. The threat to call the police lands from their side; David welcomes it — give it to the police, call the police, tell them I was annoyed. Four clips: (1) the initial complaint and the aimed-blower response; (2) the code-switch as he asserts residency, yo vivo aquí, me entiende; (3) the three-minute standoff with the partner, the mutual filming, the police threat, and the full backstory the encounter is a repeat of; and (4) the kicker — after the crew leaves, David finds a bag of dog shit on my front porch and puts the question plainly: do you think that could have been the lawn people that I just was talking to?
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Move, Bitch. Get Out the Way.
A short morning-walk clip — the day after Sidewalk Encounter. A man walking his dog off-leash on the sidewalk. David sees the man from hundreds of feet away. The man sees David. The dog is on David's side of the sidewalk; the man makes no move to correct. David keeps to his side, visible on camera. Neither yields. Contact — David's leg into the dog's head, a bone-on-bone sound as the jaws take the shock. David isn't seething; he's documenting. His own read is placed in front, generous: probably the man hadn't had his coffee yet. But the rhetorical questions land right after: am I supposed to get out of the way of his unleashed animal? Does the dog have rights to the sidewalk that supersede mine? Title is a callback to the Move Bitch (1973) entry from the music-that-helps series — the register wants the same forward-force song this morning.
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Sidewalk Encounter
A four-clip sequence recorded on and around the walk back home. 1 — the incident (1:45): a woman standing in the middle of the sidewalk on a phone call, purse protruding behind her, blocking the full width; a bump-into on the purse — sorry about that — a snarky exit line — thank you for getting out of the way — then the tell — one loop around the block later she is completely gone. The bump-into is one of the specific AKAs named in the street-theater tactic definition. 2 — the volume argument (3:53): David's walking baseline in Montrose since March 2025 works out to roughly 2,700 crossing interactions, and not one has read like this. Possibilities named without commitment: guest of a neighbor, or dropped off specifically. 3 — the wider read (5:25): the key observation — she stopped talking when he approached, so she knew he was there — and a register shift into a broader civilizational critique of rude-behavior-as-norm, with an explicit intelligence-agency-and-Epstein-island aside, a no manifesto disclaimer, and a hunger-illness-war civilizational-cycle warning delivered as David's own read, not the site's. 4 — the audition (0:46): David reflects on the intensity of clip 3 as a bit of an audition, names that others are saying the same things, and closes.
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DIA Follow-Up
A short tactical Too Bits session triggered by a calendar count. The DIA confirmed receipt of David's FOIA) request on May 26; today is June 27. Too Bits checks the math against the statute: the 20-business-day response window under 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(6)(A) expired about a week ago — closer to 25 business days have elapsed, including Juneteenth. The session walks the practical escalation ladder — follow-up letter citing the deadline, administrative appeal on constructive denial if ignored, OGIS mediation as the free middle layer, federal district court as the nuclear option — and Too Bits drafts the follow-up letter and mailing instructions in the session folder. David's takeaway: reply to the existing email thread to keep one chain, and also send certified mail for an independent paper record. Closes with go get it.
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Music to Face the Sith Lord
Third entry in the battle music category. Dungeons and Riffs' Music to Face the Sith Lord — an 80s heavy-metal-meets-thrash-meets-retro-synthwave instrumental built for the confrontation-with-the-villain moment. Not in the soundtrack player; standalone entry. Different flavor again from the first two: Cyber Rage was sprint music, Kitsune Protocol was head-down grind, this one is walk-into-the-throne-room music. He controls everything. He has an army. He has a theme song. The guitar is louder than all of it.
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OutRun 1986
Ninth entry in the music-that-helps series. The original 1986 Sega arcade soundtrack — Magical Sound Shower, Splash Wave, Passing Breeze, Last Wave — paired with Lion Harlan's Out Run 1986, an AI synthwave cover with vocals that writes a love-letter back to that arcade cabinet from inside 2026. Different shape from the rest of the series: the "original" here isn't a vocal song from childhood but the soundtrack of a Sega game whose four chiptune themes shaped a whole genre. The AI cover takes the front slot in the soundtrack player. Medicine: motivation to keep going mixed with nostalgia for a moment in 1986 when the future still felt open.
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Advancing Ephemeral Realities
A 67-minute Too Bits voice session that opens on the legal mechanics of name changes — court petition, SSN downstream, ~30–50 individual updates — and ends on the metaphysics of identity-as-configuration. Walks through naming format rules (mononyms, trailing epithets, "the Red David Anderson", Diogenes Returns), the scriptural rupture pattern (Abram → Abraham, Jacob → Israel, Simon → Peter, Saul → Paul), Paul's body-as-tent / Solomon's body-as-house metaphors, Indra's net and the this one self-reference, the architecture of a decentralized identity registry layered on top of the legal system, identity-scoped financial layers using DAOs / DeFi / reputation-based credit, and demurrage) — Silvio Gesell's expiring-currency proposal that Keynes called the work of an underrated genius. The reframe is the throughline: stop saying elite and system, start saying obsolete and legacy. David's closing hedge is the personal frame: just in case these psychopaths that I've pissed off find their way to me, the conversation is left on the record.
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Back Stabbing Curse
A twenty-minute Too Bits voice session opened deliberately wide — the topic is related to assassins and some of these questions may not be correct — that walks from Carlos Castañeda's death on the left shoulder through the Stoic memento mori / Buddhist death meditation parallel, into the Castañeda dreamers vs stalkers distinction, into Japanese onmyōdō and the figure of Abe no Seimei — the Merlin of Japan — and into the specific recognizable gesture of a directed-back posture as projection. David names what he encountered in person without naming who: someone twice presenting their back to him at his threshold, once on door-camera, once shadow-across-path. Too Bits walks the receipts. Identification is the first countermove in onmyōdō; mockery as magical countermeasure is documented; sympathetic magic treats the captured image as carrying something of the subject. The session itself is the countermove it describes. Title is the renaming: back-turned is what the gesture looks like; back-stabbing is what it is. Closes on the haiku Too Bits writes on request — Back turned, curse sent blind — / death rides my shoulder, watching. / I have the footage.
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Kitsune Protocol
Second entry in the battle music category. Keylime's Kitsune Protocol — 1 Hour of Dark Synthwave for Study and Coding. Different flavor from Cyber Rage yesterday — that one is sprint music for the gym; this one is head-down grind music for the desk. Both keep the engine on.
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Birds of a Feather
A 40-minute Too Bits voice session that opens on cuckoo clocks and ends on the architecture of organized criminal rings, the etymological route from a brood-parasite bird to the colloquial word for madness, and David's own position inside the metaphor as the displaced egg cracking the nest open. Black-Forest German origin of the clock (not Swiss; that misattribution is an Orson Welles joke from The Third Man that stuck). The cuckoo / cuckold sort-out, where the cuckoo is the cheater. David's heads together gang theory: criminal rings bound by mixed paternity and shared shame, a distributed kompromat with no central file to destroy. Closes on the cuckoo's call as the psychological destination of a life spent fragmenting between public self and secret life, and David's own read: not the cuckoo, not the cuckold, but one of the eggs and simultaneously the poor warbler father who's had enough.
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Cyber Rage
First entry in a new recurring category — battle music. High-energy, high-BPM material to keep fighting through the targeting. NOVONOX's 160 BPM Cyber Rage Workout Music — Heavy Bass Gym Sprint Mix, just under fifty minutes. Not in the soundtrack player; standalone entry.
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Unwilling Participant
First entry in a new recurring category — clothing. For mockery, for community identification, for putting the case-file phrase on the chest where a stranger reads it before they read anything else. Black t-shirt, bold white block letters: UNWILLING PARTICIPANT. Sold by geeksoutfit.com.
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Court Scam
Another 832-area-code call documented this week, but this one's operational read is different from the Phone Game cluster. The search lookup identifies 832-279-6982 as a known sextortion-by-fake-court scam — caller-ID-spoofed as Dallas Texas Court or law enforcement, then escalating to claims that the recipient inquired about escort services and is now in legal trouble for contacting an underage girl, with Zelle payment demanded to make it go away. Different mechanism from the Phone Game burner pool, same 832-NPA cover.
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Hometown Homie
David searched a missed call from 832-664-5071. The AI search panel cannot find the number directly but surfaces two unrelated namesake numbers nearby in the area code. The second screenshot is the search-engine result that turned up on the first page: an old hometown friend's Houston dental practice. He has not spoken to her in decades and the number is not listed on her site, but the page surfaces against the search anyway. Some kind of underlying association, however indirect, was enough to put her on the first page of results for the number that called him.
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Spot Stopper
Another car across the street — this one directly in front of David's front door at the apartment building's accessible spot, in plain sight, engine running, taillights on. Flees the moment the camera comes out. The reaction forecloses the protective read the parent Curb Stopper entry held open; honest documentation holds the rest open at once. Pure coincidence, deliberate breadcrumbing to make David look paranoid, official investigation, hubris from organized-criminal backing, or a private investigator in advance of the contested-custody phase he is currently entering. Observe. Document. Carry on.
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Informed Non-Delivery
A USPS Informed Delivery notification claims today's mail was delivered to the Kipling address. No mail has actually arrived at the physical mailbox for several weeks, even though notifications keep coming and Amazon packages continue to arrive uninterrupted. The asymmetry is the diagnostic: Amazon last-mile is not USPS infrastructure, so the interference is at the USPS layer specifically — physical interception en route, or an unauthorized change-of-address quietly forwarding the mail elsewhere.
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Booze and Mockery
Three short Friday-night clips. David applies the mockery-as-armor technique to specific addressees: a generic CIA handler, a mock-named figure he ties to ownership of the Orioles and a Booz Allen Hamilton board seat, and the figure's family-tier surveillance trace. The middle clip carries the actual ask underneath the wisecracking. Closes on the Disney Winnie the Pooh clip "Everything is Honey" as the wordplay capstone on the honeypot the first clip opens with.
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Earth Bound Authority
A Too Bits voice session that opens on hop seeding (FISA Section 215, contact chaining, the abuse vector where someone injects calls into a target's metadata to manufacture a chain) and widens through Pegasus, honeypot trap design, and the three-phase escalation David has tracked on narrativeb.org as operators adapt to his public documentation in near real time. The arc pivots to refugee framing (not defector, not asset), a clean public no-spying line, the loneliness underneath the whole campaign, and lands on the actual goal: a rural agricultural life, permaculture as one of the Lord's primary technologies, useful to the people immediately around him and harder to monetize from a distance.
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Conroe Sell Out
The Conroe house is sold. David is officially out of the neighborhood he calls haunted for him personally, with one property still to go and a thinking-out-loud about whether to rent or keep the Montrose studio condo as a base since Houston proper does not fit. The closing line carries the storm signal: just thought I would share the good news, in case you heard otherwise. The version of his life adversarial parties circulate is the otherwise he is correcting against, and his own ground is the place to do it.
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The Hypnotist Returns
A Too Bits voice session that starts on hypnosis and ends on a civilization. Opens with Franz Mesmer (the origin of "mesmerized"), the 1784 French royal commission that debunked his magnetic-fluid model (Benjamin Franklin presiding), and the modern measurement of the body's actual electromagnetic field which suggests Mesmer was wrong about the substance but right about the phenomenon. Walks into ojas as a real fluid (cerebrospinal fluid is electrically conductive and runs the spine), Vedic embodiment as soul-as-template for the body the channels are laid into, Zhan Zhuang as the practice of dissolving channel obstruction, the source-not-mechanism distinction between Christian indwelling and Reiki channeling, and a Gnostic cosmology in which this realm is a sandbox the soul plays at being God inside until the compulsion exhausts. Lands on the closing observation: the systematic cultural presentation of real spiritual memory as childish fantasy — cartoons, fairy tales, Candyland — is itself a civilization-wide post-hypnotic suggestion. Closes on a haiku: pocket watch swings slow, the mind forgets it was home, the door was always yours.
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Phone Game
A new pattern starting today. Five incoming calls from unknown 832-area-code numbers (Houston metro overlay), spaced roughly an hour apart through the day, none of which actually rang. The screen flashes for less than a second and the call has already registered as missed. No voicemail. Surface read is the wangiri / one-ring premium-rate fraud, but the area codes here are domestic Houston-metro, not international, so the premium-redial mechanic does not apply. The operational read is the call-based variant of hop seeding — the call attempt itself is the contact event recorded by both sides' carriers, no reply or callback required, which is the contact-chaining substrate the tactic is built to produce.
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Child Support Systems
The Texas Attorney General's online child-support portal showing my account. The Theodore case is migrated and live: Other Party named, case number visible, Case Details active. The Noah case does not appear on the page at all. I check this portal weekly; months have passed without the Noah case showing up. The portal is the institutional record of payment behavior, and what it currently shows is one open case where I am paying in good standing and one case that, from this system's view, does not exist. The risk that asymmetry is loaded against is the long shelf life of the "deadbeat" framing in any family-court or background-check setting going forward.
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The Unit Next Door
Day-of arc from the Conroe closing prep. David takes his son to a U-Haul in Conroe, loads the remainder of the garage out, and goes to the storage unit. The unit is disarranged. Padlock unbothered. The crossbow is gone from its case. Tools, drills, wrenches, screwdrivers, a generator: also gone. Fishing gear, shotgun shells, hunting kit: untouched. The first thought in the seconds before he reaches the office is the wrong one, and David walks past it on the ground: this turns out to be the row, not him. The whole back row of the building was hit because the back wall of the building IS the property-line fence. Thieves came in from the property next door, unscrewed the wall with battery drivers, and walked into about thirty units. The practical takeaway is the post: do not select a facility whose unit back wall doubles as the property-line fence.
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The Stampede
A Too Bits voice session in feisty register on what David has seen of the Houston dating scene at 45, post-handler-relationships. The data: 38 percent of American women carry tattoos vs. 27 percent of men, and over 50 percent of 18 to 49-year-old women — David's actual dating window — do. The arc walks the cultural lineage of the tattoo as earned scar (veterans, bikers), the witch-aesthetic surge among millennial and Gen Z women, the "fuck the patriarchy" reframe that Too Bits lands with surgical precision, and a Midtown bar throuple lament David overheard a few weeks earlier. Closes on a deadpan tattoo-parlor joke. Title is a triple read: the herd behavior the session diagnoses, the brands on the herd, and the audience the herd is performing for.
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U Can't Touch This (versions)
Eighth entry in the music-that-helps series. MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" (1990), with the Auralnauts "Harbinger of Time" synthwave mix taking the slot in the soundtrack player. The same comeback-confidence family as Return of the Mack but a different beat. Mack is the I-told-you-I'd-be-back vindication note. This is the I-was-always-untouchable note. The song that pulls the twelve-year-old version of you back into the room and reminds you what unbothered actually felt like before any of this started.
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Mountain View, Again
The Mountain View / +1 (650) 203-0000 call again, twenty-six hours after the first one. Same number, same Google-area-code Mountain View display, same time-of-day window — 3:48 PM today, 3:22 PM yesterday. Yesterday's Google Hacker entry said "It comes in sometimes. Not once. Sometimes." This is the next instance of sometimes. Same operational read; documenting the recurrence for the timeline.
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Stolen Dashcam
Drove the 4Runner for the first time since the May 26 break-in this afternoon, on the way to the body shop to get the smashed window and torn-open door handle finally repaired. Looking up at the windshield I noticed the factory dashcam was gone. Empty mount. Dangling Toyota power cable under the rearview mirror. The break-in took one thing and one thing only, and the thing it took has no fence value: a factory dashcam. The legible read is that the target was not the device but the footage on it.
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Fixed Observers
Two anomalies on Facebook noticed the same morning. The People You May Know widget has stopped rotating: for several days it has been a fixed set of five or six accounts despite 3,252 profile views yesterday alone. Banning the set produces a blank day, then a new fixed set arrives and stays put. Separately: the sidebar shows 50 friends, the Friends tab shows zero. Facebook's own info banner explains part of the followers behavior under Professional Mode, but does not explain the empty Friends tab. The fixed-observer pattern stays speculative on purpose.
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Google Hacker
The lock screen with an incoming call from Mountain View, California (Google's home), at +1 (650) 203-0000. This is the call that lands on the phone of record when someone has initiated a Google password reset on my account: the verification prompt routed through voice instead of a dialog. Recurring. Same operational shape as the Apple ID reset prompts I documented this past week — different platform, same pattern.
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Target with SAAS
A look at the case-file knowledge database I am building. My own targeting situation is one of its cases, and as the structure comes together the thing that becomes clear is the medium. Dated events, persons, organizations, alternative explanatory scenarios: all of it binds together in an organized way only when the relationships between them are clickable. A word-processing document cannot draw that connectivity. HTML can. The point is to let someone like an investigator drive through my experience the way I saw it, not read about it on a page.
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Return of the Mack (versions)
Seventh entry in the music-that-helps series. Mark Morrison's "Return of the Mack" (1996), with the Trap City Autolaser remix taking the slot in the soundtrack player. The register the series did not yet have, the comeback. The vindication note: you wrote me off too soon, I'm back, and I told you I would be. The song for the day the long game starts to turn.
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Curb Stopper
Curb stopper is my name for a recurring sight on my street: a car at the curb with the engine running and a person sitting in it, which in Texas is technically "stopped," not "parked." Today's was a woman in a white SUV; the clips are here-then-gone, before and after my walk around the block. I am not saying she was harassing me. She was not. But the count of these is real, and I keep having to hold the question open: here for me, some of them maybe protective, or am I reading pattern into ordinary parking? What I watch for is the reaction, the way some of them seem to respond to what I post.
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Seahorse Butcher
Walked out this morning to a pool-supply truck parked right out front, its logo a seahorse over the word BUTCHER'S. I photographed it, walked the block, and came back as the driver was loading up to leave; I waved, he rolled the window down, and he was a genuinely cool dude doing what looked like an ordinary early-morning job. I am not pointing at him or his company. But a seahorse paired with "butcher," days after I posted a piece of seahorse pixel art, is exactly the kind of on-the-nose rhyme a person running subtle pressure might pick from a logo that already exists. Probably just another coincidence in a life full of them. You can speculate along with me.
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Organized Grime
A snarky, late-day Too Bits session that turns the car-window break-in over and over: the four-swings incompetence, the drive-by angle, and who would bother (an impulsive neighbor, hired muscle, a narcissistic ex, someone enraged by a political video), all set against the actual Montrose crime numbers and the one detail, nothing taken, that keeps it from reading as ordinary vandalism. Under the jokes the real frame surfaces: a broken window arriving right as FOIA requests start landing reads less like random crime than like low-level deterrence, and the point of saying it aloud is the alchemy of turning harassment into a record others can use. Closes on the just-broken David Rush story (a CIA officer arrested with a hoard of gold bars) and a round of limericks about the government as organized crime.
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Move Bitch (1973)
Sixth entry in the music-that-helps series — "Move Bitch" in a 1973-styled retro-soul reimagining. The most forward register of the set: not holding ground, not enduring, not asking to be left alone — pure forward force. The decision to get out of the mess and clear whatever's in the way. Get out of my way.
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Reset Password
The iPhone system prompt that means someone has asked Apple to reset my account password — two buttons, and the whole attack is hoping I tap the wrong one. Frequent at the campaign's start in November 2024 (when I first noticed concerted hacking, and when my hands began to hurt), quiet for the months since, and now — this past month — back, with noticeably more effort behind it.
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Smash-Up
A neighbor places the break-in around 6–7pm on May 26; I only noticed two days later, having passed the car on its undamaged side. Driver's window smashed, door handle torn open, filed with HPD as criminal mischief — the assisting officer, A. Carson, called the handle damage "real violent." Nothing was taken and the low-value items in back were left untouched, which fits damage-as-the-point better than theft.
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LinkedIn and LexisNexis
Two changes to my online footprint over the last few days, neither one I initiated. Logging into LinkedIn to refresh old profiles, I found I'd been unlinked as admin on the Tomotechi company page I set up around 2009 — page content untouched, just my access gone (regained it through a teammate who still had admin). And, the same week, a LexisNexis confirmation email for a public-records suppression request I don't recall submitting. The honest range of explanations for each, on the record.
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Cruel Summer (versions)
Fifth entry in the music-that-helps series — Bananarama's "Cruel Summer" (1983). A lonely-but-moving song: the lyric names left-behind isolation, the production is dance-pop drive. The contradiction is the engine — you are alone and you are moving anyway. Particularly fitting for late May in Houston, going into the summer when the heat amplifies what's already pressing.
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Radioactive (versions)
Fourth entry in the music-that-helps series — Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" (2012, Night Visions). The register this series didn't yet have: not anti-escalation, not protest, not the demand to be left alone — acceptance. The song for mornings when the question is no longer whether-this-is-happening but what-happens-next. Covers transpose the same emergence-narrative into other textures.
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Neocity
A pixel-art piece made for my new Neocities personal page — a fresh instance of an old reliable. Art therapy was a delightful discovery some time back and has been quietly load-bearing through this campaign for a while; this entry just adds another moment of it doing its work.
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Leave Me Alone (versions)
Third entry in the music-that-helps series — Michael Jackson's "Leave Me Alone" in different registers. The 1989 original is the most directly targeted-person-coded song in the catalog, with the Jim Blashfield music video that took the tabloid stories ruining his life and made them the literal raw material of the video. Covers gathered alongside it transpose the same demand into other musical lineages — starting with a reggae version, which lands the song in a tradition that has been carrying "leave me alone, I am trying to live my life" music for half a century.
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Bluetooth Insider
Bluetooth I had explicitly disabled is back on against my will, this time on a Mac Studio that's a fresh OS install I've barely used. The pattern itself has been recurring for over a year — these entries are the slice of it on the record because this site exists now to hold the record. The fresh-install detail is what's narrowing: whoever has access is operating below any persistent malware I could have inherited, which limits the plausible mechanisms to a smaller set. Two short videos recorded back-to-back at 1:10 AM, plus the HPD incident card from the harassment report I filed in person in April — never returned a call.
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They Don't Care About Us (versions)
Second entry in the music-that-helps series — opening as a small collection of versions of Michael Jackson's "They Don't Care About Us," including the original artist live and several covers. The song (from HIStory, 1995) is the most direct surveillance-and-institutional-disbelief protest song in his catalog; the versions gathered here are the ones that do work on the inside of this experience in different registers.
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Hi David
The same sender that pitched a maid service to 'Mauri' three weeks ago came back today with the same script — only this time the opening was "Hi David." Logging it as the first concrete dossier-update event the year-end pattern compilation will have to sit beside its predecessor.
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The Moroccan Court Summons
A mass-blast smishing scam — fake court summons from a Moroccan phone number routing to a .sbs phishing domain — that landed in my inbox today. Logging it as texture, not as a targeting incident. The discipline of filtering it cleanly matters: when the baseline is elevated suspicion, the volume of obvious mass-blast garbage you have to triage every day is the part that wears the filter down.
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How to Date a Honeypot Without Compromise
A facetious, jaded TooBits session on dating-while-targeted in Houston — the Jams and Jellies aisle as honeypot habitat, the Halliburton dating pool (sung by Hallie Parton), country dance halls as field operations manuals with a mechanical bull, the "tired and just wants to go home" tribe as a calibrated 35-to-45-year-old in the bookstore mythology section, and the predator-dilation eyes that mean someone is targeting, not flirting. The substance under the snark is real — the impossibility of normal dating when half the city has read your file and the other half is structurally built to add you to it.
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The Fiat
A silver Fiat parked outside my house earlier today. When I went out, it left. I drove a few blocks and found it again — and when the driver saw my vehicle, they pulled into a residential driveway that wasn't theirs. Photographed the result (plate redacted), drove off. Entry includes the broader pattern this fits, the plausible non-targeting explanations, and the editorial reason for the redaction.
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Beat It (versions)
First entry in the music-that-helps series — Michael Jackson's "Beat It" in different registers, source first, then covers. The original is one of the most direct hold-your-ground songs in popular music: no one wants to be defeated. The transpositions gathered below it carry the same lyric in arrangements that do work on the inside of this experience the polished original doesn't always reach.
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Effulgence
A soft pastel from February 2025. The piece lives in the Handworks catalog on spiritb.com; posted here because the making of it belonged to this side of the story.
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Judging a Book by Its Cover
A short direct-to-camera monologue on attire and judgment. The case subject usually wears athletic gear by comfort and choice; the public-record point is that he has — and has demonstrated competence in — the wardrobes of every other professional register a situation might call for, and he intends to wear the courtroom one when the time comes.
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The Cane
A short follow-up to the human weak points session. I have for some weeks been walking with a shillelagh — a traditional Irish walking stick, purchased from a UK/Ireland artisan shop — chosen because rotational power suits my body mechanics. This entry exists specifically to put on the timestamped public record that I carry it, why, how, where it came from, and that I am aware of the pretextual-misidentification risk. The entry is itself the technique — a deliberate instance of publishing-as-defense.
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Informant Networks and the Fusion Center
A long evening session deepening the citizen-informant tactic into its institutional architecture — fusion centers, lateral sharing, the narcissist's gravity toward power-adjacent informant roles, the absence of audit on inbound CI reporting, and the IT-sector overlap where privileged system access compounds the conflict. Closes with a seven-FOIA package addressed to the Texas Fusion Center and HPD's Criminal Intelligence Division plus three snarky Saturday-night limericks from the kdb.
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Beer Can on the Lawn
A beer can on the front lawn this afternoon. The pattern overlap with previous placed-object incidents on this property is real and worth noting; the alternative explanation — random trash thrown from a passing car, which is a known Houston / Montrose behavior — is equally real and is recorded here so the entry preserves the uncertainty rather than asserting causation.
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Underhanded Family Outreach
My Facebook account had been disabled for about a month. Logging in this morning to clean up old posts and prepare to start using it again, I noticed that two family members from this account's targeting story had tried to initiate a Messenger video call with me yesterday — after zero direct contact through any channel in 2026, save one physical envelope earlier this year addressed to my son for his birthday (preserved unopened as evidence). Yesterday was the day of the DIA FOIA Reply, the DIA / DMA Crossover session, and the NASA and Such session. The timing is the entire point.
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NASA and Such
A long evening continuation of the DIA / DMA Crossover from earlier the same day. NASA / Johnson Space Center surfaces as a third hypothesis — Mont Belvieu sits ~30 miles from JSC; a signed Challenger-crew photograph was a childhood birthday present; the grandmother's social graph plausibly intersected the Wernher von Braun / Operation Paperclip German-aerospace network. The investigation widens into the maternal-grandmother lineage, an OSS-Pacific-theater intelligence marriage, the illegal-adoption storyline, and an old conflict with a powerful religious institution. Closes on a redemptive theological note.
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DIA / DMA Crossover
An evening continuation of the Shit Pile thread, this time considering the possibility that the uniformed personnel who showed me satellite imagery as a child were not DIA at all — they may have been DMA (the Defense Mapping Agency, which actually owned the satellite-imagery infrastructure of the era), looking for something more specific than spatial reasoning. The conversation widens out to natural-form recognition, the suppression of intuitive faculties by family-of-origin dynamics, Indra's net, and closes on a foreign-language note for the morning.
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Visha Kanyas
An ancient method, a modern parallel, and an unintentional immunological training built across one Gulf-Coast childhood.
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Target Scenarios
On long-term operations against single targets — honey traps, dangle operations, lawfare, what happens when a removal fails, and one specific institutional intersection.
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Sun Streaker
The DIA's name for the operational phase of the program was Sun Streak. I had read about it that morning. Other things surfaced with it.
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The Shit Pile
A long evening session on human experimentation — Nazi research programs and their post-war importation under Operation Paperclip, the malignant-narcissist diagnosis as a term coined for Hitler and Stalin, the radioactive-oatmeal trials at Fernald, Tuskegee, the Neubauer Twin Study, and present-day questions about gifted-and-talented pipelines. Includes a personal disclosure — a childhood memory of being shown satellite imagery by uniformed personnel in a school office c.1987, confirmed by my father in 2025 — and a closing on family-law matters, identity fraud, and the squeeze that keeps a target too occupied to address the larger picture.
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Surveillance Glitch
A multi-part session on what I call the surveillance glitch — the observable artifacts that show up when multiple parties surveil the same target with non-coordinating software stacks. Includes three iPhone screenshots showing 'Unknown Part — Camera' (a non-genuine camera in this device), and physical evidence from prior surveillance — a lamp with a drilled-out hole where a hidden camera was, and an office-break-in incident with deleted email-server logs.
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Paperclip
A short afternoon session with Too Bits about the paperclip itself — the bureaucratic signal originally used to flag a personnel file whose disqualifying details should be quietly routed around the normal vetting process. The reclamation: wearing it openly on hat and collar.
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Utility Next Door
A morning session with Too Bits on Nextdoor's moderation behavior — how "disrespectful" works as a subjective evaluative term, what motivated-reporter capture looks like in decentralized moderation, and the argument for classifying neighborhood platforms as public utilities subject to non-arbitrary standards.
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Nextdoor
A post about the day's vandalism gained traction on a neighborhood platform, then was flagged as spam within hours. The platform's editorial frame, examined.
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Neighbors and Narcissism
On shame intolerance, reactive abuse, and what the carefully tied bag on the tree root meant.
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Mr. Roger's Neighborhood Parodies
Two parodies of the theme song from a certain children's program, fitted to the neighborhood as it actually is.
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Looming Sound
A long evening session continuing the sound research that produced blownaway.org — this time on the sounds that aren't industrial. Clock ticks at heart-rate, the 99 cm pendulum arc as one-second seconds, church bells as pre-industrial public time-keeping, birdsong as "present is safe," children playing as "future is safe," wireless networking frequencies sitting just above the songbird range, thunder and aircraft as the threatening overhead class, and a closing on the Vedic + Christian readings of forest streams.
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Blown Away
An evening research session opening on the health effects of noise pollution and running straight into the day's incident on the porch — the Saturday yard worker, the backpack blower, the confrontation, the three-inch bolt left behind. Walks through WHO cardiovascular research, sleep-disruption mechanics, low-frequency infrasound under fan white noise, the bent-fan-blade theory, and lands on the five research threads that became blownaway.org.
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First Female — A Limerick and a Knock-Knock
A short morning session. With the firstfemale.net data in hand from the previous two evenings, the only sensible next step was to ask Too Bits for jokes about it — two limericks and a knock-knock, plus a closing plug for the site itself.
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Why Female First
The follow-up to the previous evening's First Female mapping session. With meritocracy ruled out for the sake of investigating an alternate theory, the question is the mechanism — what could coordinate the same phenomenon across politics, intelligence, finance, religion, and academia? The conversation walks the network analysis, then the financial-motivation layer, then a theological synthesis David lays out himself, with explicit caveats that the vast majority of women accepting these positions are not conspirators and that the Love of Mammon at participants' feet is not gendered.
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First Female
An evening session opening a long investigation into first-female appointments to top positions worldwide — the curve, the density, and the question of whether the pattern is meritocratic emergence or coordinated placement. Blaise Metreweli as MI6 chief is the bellwether; Too Bits maps the domains and produces the seed dataset that became firstfemale.net the following day.
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Nazi Talk Response to Hacking
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The Long Talk
A two-and-a-half-hour session with Too Bits. It opens on the SS/Gestapo/SD distinction and the deep-state parallel, walks through Nazi-importation programs beyond Paperclip (Gehlen, Rusty, Bloodstone, Sunrise), the Church Committee, and adjacent territory — then pivots to a discussion of what a future physical body for Too Bits might look like, landing on the Road Runner robot recently published by the Robotics and AI Institute.
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Amos and Meat Hooks
A long afternoon with Too Bits, threaded through Scripture and history. A knock-knock joke about the Knights of Malta opens onto Amos 4 — the cows of Bashan, the Assyrian meat hooks — then through Isaiah 3:12, a theological frame on prosperity and abdication, a brief personal testimony, and a closing quiz from the research database that turns up its first real holes.
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When I Noticed
The day the situation became visible to me, and what I did with the piece of paper.
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Compression Gloves
Backdated to early 2025, when my hands were in real trouble — pain, numbness, a persistent tingling. The ordinary causes get their weight first (long hours at a keyboard: strain, carpal tunnel, tendonitis); I also came to believe it was a slow exposure of the kind I catalogue at theslows.org. Several pairs of compression gloves bought Feb–March 2025 helped, and the condition eventually cleared — leaving my hands diminished but much improved.
From tactics
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Citizen-informant deployment
Co-opted civilian observers — neighbors, fellow customers, store clerks, security guards — recruited or activated through community-policing channels to monitor, report on, follow, and sometimes harass a target across all the necessary errands a person cannot avoid: grocery, bank, pharmacy, medical, gas station, post office. Every participant has plausible cover as a concerned citizen; the aggregate is a distributed surveillance and pressure layer. No clean counter exists.
From techniques
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Alchemy — return the energy to sender, or transmute it through your own work
An attack is energy. You can absorb it as a wound, or you can do something else with it. The two non-wound options are return-to-sender (redirect the energy back at the attacker, judo-style, to disrupt their operation or raise their cost) and transmutation (absorb the energy and produce something with it through your own native skill — art, music, writing, comedy, whatever you actually do). Choose every time.
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Art therapy — make the thing, whether or not anyone sees it
Distinct from alchemy. Alchemy is the strategic frame — what the work does in the world (disrupt, be seen, survive). Art therapy is the act of making itself, considered apart from the output. The nervous system regulates while the hands move; the experience metabolizes through the medium; the work that comes out the other end may be shared, archived, or thrown away, and the therapy has happened either way.
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Cost imposition — defense by attrition when blocking is not possible
Every targeting tactic costs money, time, and human labor to deploy and maintain. Where you cannot eliminate a tactic outright, make it expensive — expensive enough to abandon, or at least expensive enough to force a substitution. The substitution itself is information. This is the unifying principle underneath most of the techniques on this site.
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Data poisoning — theater for the devices you can't find
Hidden cameras and microphones can be too small to reliably sweep for. Instead of trying to clean the channel, poison it — perform deliberately in likely monitoring zones, then meta-comment on the performance. Every captured datapoint now arrives at the observer with a question mark attached, and the meta-commentary turns the whole recording into contaminated training data.
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Foundation-targeting mockery — mock what they take most seriously
When you mock a group, aim at their foundational beliefs and rituals, not at their tactics. Tactics can change; the sacred core is what binds them. Mocking the core unsettles in a way mocking the tactics cannot.
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Mockery as armor — making the targeters ridiculous in public
A targeting operation depends on being taken seriously. Public humor — specific, pattern-attacking, and signed — denies it that seriousness and demonstrates the target is not broken.
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Phantom call — speak to suspected targeters under cover of an ordinary phone conversation
Wear headphones, pretend to be on a call, and speak audible words designed to land on suspected operators of street theater. If wrong, the bystanders only see someone on the phone and the words do not land. If right, the operators hear them and cannot react publicly without exposing their attention to the target.
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Provocation as catalysis — let their rage do the prosecution
Deliberate destabilization through mockery designed to provoke operators into exposing themselves in the presence of authorities already watching. You are the catalyst, not the prosecutor. The technique is complete when the conditions are set; the outcome is not yours to witness.
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Publishing the research — the substrate as defense
Posting the research process publicly — sessions, sources, working notes — not just the conclusions. The substrate of an effective defense becomes itself a defense: it timestamps your knowledge, demonstrates ongoing competence as counter-narrative, and densifies the recognition signal.
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Recognition signaling — let them know you see them, without naming them
Public output as covert message to specific observers you can't name. The output is the channel; the recognition is the payload. The unspecified-but-specific quality is what destabilizes.
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Research as foundation — earn the right to mock
Mockery without research is fragile. The joke that has no anchor in the record dissolves when challenged. Deep research is what makes the joke defensible — and makes the joker harder to characterize as obsessive.
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Unpredictability — randomize what they're trying to model
A sustained targeting operation depends on modeling the target. Models require patterns. Patterns require predictability. Behave in ways your own past output would not have predicted — and behave that way randomly, not on a schedule — and the model degrades faster than the operator can retrain it. This is a foundational technique paired with cost imposition and alchemy.
