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📢 After the Fall: the final piece in my Collapse Series.

Collapse doesn’t end with a bang. It ends with absence. No utopia, no rebuild led by the same hands that broke it. Just people scarred, cautious, still here.

Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/ibgirl/p...
Part VIII (Final): After the Fall
Collapse doesn’t clear the slate, it reveals the scaffolding we never noticed.
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The Descent Delusion just dropped.

This essay takes aim at the idea that the decline is slow, manageable, and reversible. Spoiler: It isn’t. And the longer we pretend it is, the harder the fall will hit.
#CollapseSeries #Collapse #EndOfEmpire #Substack open.substack.com/pub/ibgirl/p...
Part V: The Descent Delusion
When Power Mistakes Acceleration for Control
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📢 NEW DROP! Collapse Series Part V: The Depressed Architect.

Narcissists don’t seek help.
They build systems that punish everyone else for their feelings.

#bigtech #Substack #Narcissists #powerandtrauma #depression #corporations #mentalhealth #substackwriters

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Part V: The Depressed Architect
Why Control Feels Safer Than Feeling
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The Smart Prison
Surveillance. Programmable money. Biometric control.
It’s not sci-fi. It’s the system we’re sleepwalking into.

Part IV of the Collapse series. #SystemicControl #Privacy #Surveillance open.substack.com/pub/ibgirl/p...
Part IV: The Smart Prison
How collapse is being managed algorithmically, not repaired.
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Automation didn’t just kill jobs. It killed memory, meaning, and human agency.

The Automation Lie (Collapse Series, Part III)

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Part III: The Automation Lie
Productivity Without People Is Collapse
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The elite want more babies, but refuse to build a world worth being born into.

Declining birthrates aren’t a crisis. They’re a rational response to betrayal.

Part II: The Birthrate Illusion

#CollapseSeries #BirthrateIllusion #SystemicBetrayal
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The Birthrate Illusion
Commanding Life Into a Dying System
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More babies. No jobs. No schools. No homes. Just more bodies for a collapsing system. The elite aren’t planning a future, they’re planning their own burial. Collapse doesn’t trickle down. It buries everything. open.substack.com/pub/ibgirl/p...
The System Eats Its Own
Why Elite Control Guarantees Its Own Collapse
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“You’re not behind. You’re building something real.”
New essay: My Brain Has Standards. A manifesto for the slow, deep learners who never fit the system.
🧠 #Neurodivergent #GiftedMisread #DeepProcessing open.substack.com/pub/ibgirl/p...
My Brain Has Standards
Why Deep Thinkers Get Left Behind in Shallow Systems
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Living in two worlds where you’re not quite this enough, not quite that enough… I wrote about 40 years of being the outsider. open.substack.com/pub/ibgirl/p...
“What Are You?”
The Question That’s Followed Me for 40 Years in Oregon
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A new executive order quietly expands civil commitment powers. Could a 20-min telehealth call or your antidepressant record make you “unfit”? My essay traces this control back to witch hunts. #WomensRights #ExecutiveOrder open.substack.com/pub/ibgirl/p...
From Witch Hunts to Hysteria to Now
How Control of Women Never Went Away It Just Changed Names
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Another crow.
Same stretch of road.
Different scream.

Lacrimosa: Part 2 just dropped.

This one wrote itself.
The world is saying something - we’re just slow to listen. open.substack.com/pub/ibgirl/p...
Lacrimosa (Part 2)
Two crows lie dead, run over by cars.
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🧠 New video just dropped.

What happens when domination has no consequence and empathy is erased from the equation?

This isn’t sci-fi. It’s emotional rehearsal.

🎥 Watch the visual companion to
“A World Without Empathy”
ibgirl.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...
What happens to a gifted child no one wants to understand? They grow up invisible, until they find the courage to name it all. This is my story. open.substack.com/pub/ibgirl/p...
The Child They Couldn't See
A Story of Twice-Exceptionality, Abuse, and Reclamation
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Unmasked is my story of growing up gifted and neurodivergent without anyone seeing it. Misread, mislabeled, and underestimated for decades. This is what it looks like to find the language… and stop shrinking. open.substack.com/pub/ibgirl/p...
Unmasked
A personal reflection on growing up gifted, misdiagnosed, and unseen—and what it means to finally understand your own brain.
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