The Blog of Beckley

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This website is so random that I'm not sure how helpful a description would be. Seriously, I write about tech, art, history, money, entertainment, self-reliance, self-help, upcycling, prepping, and so much more!

Entertainment

Cooler Bag Upgrade

I'm a big proponent of upcycling, reusing, and generally getting as much out of things as one can. Sometimes that involves repairing broken parts,...

Featured articles

#thatartistlife

lessons learned turning art into a career

Free Resources for Obsidian

Discover some free resources I've built to create your own Obsidian-based "everything manager"

10 Things Not to Do at Your Booth

Here’s a quick and friendly guide of 10 things NOT to do at your art market booth. It'll help you make the most of...

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Life

Sabbat Schedule Generator

This is a very short post announcing that I'm bringing back some of the free resources I developed years ago when I was a...

Lookin’ Back at 2025 in a Few Images

'Twas a rough year for sure, but I'm still here, my health has improved a little, and I get to make art for a...
Money
Peter Beckley
Money

Resist and Unsubscribe

Professor Scott Galloway has a new project. It's called Resist and Unsubscribe. The gist behind it is that the Trump administration only really reverses...
Politics
Peter Beckley
Politics

Democrats using AI too much

I just wanted to write this short post to say that I'm seeing Democrat politicians using generative AI far too much in their social...
Politics
Peter Beckley
Adventure

A Dangerous Culture

The United States has a culture of aggression not seen elsewhere in the modern era. Through tenets like anti-intellectualism, constant war, glamorizing violent sports,...

Tech

Web and Tech

Open AI shuts down Sora

Open AI announced on Tuesday, March 24 that it was shutting down SORA, the slop machine that spit out short generated video clips. OpenAI...

Hext

Hext is that cursed-looking script that AI generates in images. That's what I'm calling it. Pass it along.

YouTube continues its decent to the trash

The Google-owned video service is back-tracking on policies it enacted shortly after the 2020 election to remove new posts that claimed voter fraud changed...