Trysty's Blog
Trysty's Blog

Trysty's Blog

Anything that comes to mind that I think others may enjoy reading and thinking about.


Why Guide Dogs for the Blind Are Cruel and Obsolete

19 Dec 2025 1 minute read 5 comments Trysty

People have used animals to do work for them for many years but the need for it has ended.We now have the technology to replace animal helpers with machinery. It is fine to have a companion that works for you or with you voluntarily, but when it is a...

Propaganda and Brainwashing

2 Jan 2023 2 minute read 16 comments Trysty

I’ve been hearing words and phrases echoing  again and again, like tired slogans.  “The greater good”  & “the right thing to do” are spewing from the mouths of almost anyone discussing current events, especially the past couple of years.   I seriousl...

Ampleforth MEME contest

27 Nov 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Trysty

I don't use Twitter or any of the other social media sites, so wasn't going to enter this contest, however, I noticed that we could simply create a post here on PublishOx and tag it with the AMPLMeme tag. That works for me and I did think of a simple...

Re-thinking right and wrong

2 Oct 2019 2 minute read 16 comments Trysty

  I read an article and its reply by @happyme and the reply got me to think about whether or not we can actually justify right and wrong. Take for instance, the widely-referred commandment in the Christian Bible, Thou shalt not kill. Within that same...

Blockchain: Is it really so great?

2 Sep 2019 1 minute read 24 comments Trysty

I've been dabbling in Steem for a couple of years now and was quite impressed by what I saw and read on the platform itself. They keep talking about how the blockchain is immutable and all your data is safe because no matter what happens to one node,...

A game that pays YOU for playing?

7 Aug 2019 1 minute read 10 comments Trysty

Here's something you don't see very often: I discovered a game where players can earn the Steem (along with other tokens linked to the Steem token) crypto-currency token just for playing the game! The games are based off board-games and players make...

My Token Portfolio for the #ShowYourPortfolio contest

10 Jul 2019 2 minute read 9 comments Trysty

This is my first post on this platform, so please forgive me if things don't look formatted very well; I'm still figuring things out.     I've been lurking here on PublishOX for quite some time now, but just haven't had the time to actually get down...