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2026-03-24 03:25:51 UTC

Learning to build with hand tools 1st attempt building some large boxes with only human power
https://blossom.primal.net/989f0b5dd959cfb4dde9e48c283c480903339a0685bbe904224b4154bf1697c6.jpg

2026-03-22 01:41:33 UTC

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This is why male only spaces were done away with. Time to reclaim.

2026-03-22 01:39:27 UTC

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Add bone marrow practically candy at that point

2026-03-21 23:07:34 UTC

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And bitcoin says I should be able to save the energy of a day's work 😉

2026-03-21 23:06:28 UTC

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You are likely fine as long as it wasn't there for days

2026-03-21 23:05:44 UTC

Just a quick reminder of why bitcoin is so important. We are opting out of a system that has gone too far that agitates the world to get gain and protect the idol that is modern monetary theory.
https://blossom.primal.net/56a7c5d5f69db59d63cd5bbd1baffcd617088c432b04563d7c2dab84cde08cf7.jpg

2026-03-19 01:40:12 UTC

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Some sats for the slow week! Appreciate what you do!
https://fountain.fm/episode/oNdTVbg0WoYvNkUh8Uyi
#nevent1q…n73c

2026-03-18 16:46:39 UTC

The financial system trying to tie Epstein to bitcoin is laughable. They are running out of ideas. Bitcoin is winning.

2026-03-17 04:05:30 UTC

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Been on graphene for a few years you won't regret it!

2026-03-17 03:57:01 UTC

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Reach out if looking for a new gig. Don't forget to breath, you are more valuable thantheat job and your value isn't tied to it.

2026-03-07 18:43:27 UTC

ah springtime! planting, growth, renewal. My Psyche needed it immensely!

2026-03-07 18:28:52 UTC

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Trying it now, feels really smooth!

2026-03-04 02:58:17 UTC

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Appreciate the context! I work in cyber threat Intel now, the paybis decent. Just don't know if this is long term going to remain a viable career path. I'm fine pivoting to AI but it kind of feels hollow. My dad was a plumber and I worked some summers with him, but framing I was thinking traditional timber framing a bit more niche but pays a bit better from the folks I've talked to. I'm not ready to just jump into something like that but it feels more human if that makes sense. Maybe I just need to learn a trade or skill for hobby now with the thinking that if the AI bubble bursts I have other options. Not trying to be all doom and gloom, I've just seen the code the llms produce and itbmay be functional and do what folks want but it feels off, I've played with Intel reports and such with LLMs and theybfo fine, good augmentation, but businesses won't stop there I'm afraid.

2026-03-04 02:21:57 UTC

NGL I was very interested in AI (not LLMs like chatgpt or Claude) but rather purpose build models to evaluate specific tasks and do one thing and do it well. Was doing numeral networks before all this hype. But I'm just so exhausted. Sick of AI pictures, videos, and managers telling everyone they need to use Claude to code at work. I'm just exhausted. What do I do? I'm in my late 30s. Part of me wants to just start learning something like woodworking or timber framing and restart but got a family and a mortgage. For those that were there in the dot com bubblenis this how it felt? Will this pass and people go back to acting normal? Block laying off half their workforce has me concerned....

2025-09-26 03:03:10 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/abe03afb28aec6713cb89d67524dd1aa37f2ae228ed495f44a20223b30dbc0f0.jpg
Always a good feeling when the canning is done.

2025-08-23 14:08:01 UTC

Government run by beuracrats across the political spectrum took our money, education, health, and trying to take our freedom. Start with the money and work our way to freedom. Block by block we have to take it back.

2025-08-19 02:54:53 UTC

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bummer!

2025-08-19 02:54:33 UTC

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also (and please tell me to bugger off on the unsolicited advise if you ever don't want it) but pine needle mulch around blueberry plants and buttermilk have done miracles foe my blueberry plants

2025-08-19 02:48:28 UTC

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yum! do you make a tea with the leaves? dewberry leaves and blackberry leaves i use to make an herbal tea for the kombucha

2025-08-18 12:54:37 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/bad792925319db33e854b40bda7a0d3ceb381f11d92f344c64ac7997012a1711.jpg
Nostrich Blueberry Jam! #homestead #foodstr #homestead

2025-08-14 04:36:54 UTC

hey @npub1rxy…hnp8 did coldcard never make or stop making the Satslink? I want one so bad!

2025-08-13 23:39:05 UTC

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youll still end up gnawing parts off of both peels and seeds but for get togethers you can churn through them

2025-08-13 23:26:58 UTC

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https://a.co/d/g9a8krg
worth every penny for us.

2025-08-13 21:07:42 UTC

the technology for freedom of association and economic freedom is here, we just need to build the furnishings. #nostrdevs #nostr. I'm so excited to be here.

2025-08-13 01:57:12 UTC

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es increible gracias por hacerlo!

2025-08-13 01:55:20 UTC

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this is amazing!

2025-08-12 23:59:50 UTC

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yum! sometimes we freeze ours into ice cubes for that same reason!

2025-08-12 23:24:29 UTC

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what do you use yours for? we add a bit to teas but are careful because of the saponin content.

2025-08-12 22:35:49 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/5a00bd71cb860b2ca81b744534b6260b23ec8493fda333e9e10f5cc67f991883.jpg
Check out this vibrant pic of lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) from my garden! 🌿 This lemon-scented herb isn’t just pretty—it’s a natural powerhouse for wellness. It can help calm anxiety and stress, promote better sleep, aid digestion, and even boost brain function. #farmstr #homestead

2025-08-12 12:20:06 UTC

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Hey Chris! You probably don't remember me but I used to go by cardanerd. Thanks to you and Bitcoin dad i'm reformed and working on building an envelop style budgeting app built on lightning and nostr. Thank you for everything!
https://fountain.fm/episode/NYnqsqd7mDA2Irs4UdTp
#nevent1q…7jhs

2025-08-11 23:42:21 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/f54627b592ea782665e7c9c474baaa0d19d30af53018d2d77bd8891d2231d028.jpg
So the name is real! This Ghee is great! has a nice butterscotchy undertone. 5/5 will buy again! I've made ghee before and I know a lot of work went into this might have to move the food budget around to do reoccuring purchases of great ghee. #reviewstr #foodstr

2025-08-11 21:28:01 UTC

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makes sense I read it wrong I think we agree then!

2025-08-11 19:13:36 UTC

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sure if we take it to that extreme, but by that same token a lemonade stand can't compete with tropicana and we shouldnt expect them too. Somewhere in between there is acceptable but your point is well taken. I'm happy to pay a slight premium for a good well made product and invest in circular economies. I.e. id choose to pay a few more dollars for a bushel of apples from the local farmers market that accepts btc than sams club. I could spend less sats at sams club using thebtccompany but i'd rather incentivize the social connections.

2025-08-11 14:53:26 UTC

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you aren't wrong but small batch and local just has less economies of scale and will cost more, but I think as circular economies grow and baseline rates of production go up, thise niche and local good makers can invest in capitol heavy processes and the prices can come down.

2025-08-10 02:23:28 UTC

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you are a marketing genius!

2025-08-10 01:35:55 UTC

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https://media0.giphy.com/media/A413bgMWn5ew/200w.webp

2025-08-08 16:48:17 UTC

https://video.nostr.build/c6ab3db03f06f23972e55b08edbefe07ca00772db54fc99789fd1c7fff970f0e.mp4
Dehydrated tomatoes now being made into a powder. #foodstr

2025-08-08 13:54:42 UTC

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it is alright ghee can't wait to try the GreatGhee

2025-08-08 12:58:49 UTC

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it varies between batches but a combination of meat, organ meat, and ocassionaly ill throw in somethingblike some blueberries or sweet potatoe, etc. He gets a bone frequently for teeth and mineral content.

2025-08-08 08:16:26 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/41ef63ad7a2bfdedc97f205140abe3e0fef5a9d65e96e52e496cadeb74dc7ae2.jpg
Two years ago my dog got kidney stones, it led me down a rabbit hole on dog food. It isnt just the human food system that is broken. I started making my own dogfood and my dog is healthier than he has been in years, the vet was shocked, and I almost always think that the dog smiles at me everytime he gets fed. #petstr

2025-08-08 02:09:31 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/bf0c83c4b2b7a9dfdc4c8bf4e4039632fe9b50ddb5f3d6bb0620fac3a4811b3b.jpg
Did you know that as part of making tomato sauce or salsa you can dehydrate the peels and seeds then blend them to make a tomato powder? It is very nutritious and can be used as the base to many great spice blends and stocks #foodstr

2025-08-08 02:00:55 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/cc5b3da2597ad061fa67868363367e84104d4019fc0f774067ebad42e2c5e257.jpg
Am i doing it right @npub1n88…teq3 ?

2025-08-08 01:21:33 UTC

there was an awesome tea company somewhere here... where are they?

2025-08-06 23:53:12 UTC

Taking back my attention, no more constant notifications, hyper connectivity, dopamine hits. Slow and steady block by block i'm going to stack sats and build on nostr and bitcoin.

2025-08-06 23:44:27 UTC

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I would say that most of the success in my professional career I owe to windows xp not working on my first computer and ordering ubuntu cds. I thought this was an insightful and great article.

2025-08-06 23:41:35 UTC

Why is it that #bitcoin is still considered by many as speculative and not an investment?

2025-08-05 15:05:34 UTC

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anytime!

2025-08-03 00:18:04 UTC

ok DVM sounds like the place to start foe me dev wise since i live and breathe apis at work. Thank you all for the great and anazing resources people are putting out!

2025-08-01 11:41:56 UTC

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This looks like an amazing and fun oppurtunity

2025-08-01 02:59:08 UTC

which apps do people prefer to use? on ios i really am liking #YakiHonne ! for discoverability i've found it to be the best though #damus has the best notifications on my phone. For android i really like #Primal and #Amethyst . Any others I should be trying?

2025-07-31 02:34:02 UTC

I'm more convinced than ever that the biggest retirement strategy for cybersecurity folks is a small homestead.
There is something deeply engrained is us to seek ownership/stewardship and purpose. I'm no luddite but i'm more convinced daily that human connection and community are critical to human flourishingg and that technology, while a great force multiplier, may be wreaking havoc on human systems.
During my time here on #nostr i'm becoming bullish that we can make some amazing communities here or use it to augment existing communities.

2025-07-30 19:55:46 UTC

it feels like a small town here on nostr and so fun we can get to know each other and provide v4v

2025-07-30 01:20:48 UTC

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this sounds amazing

2025-07-30 01:04:39 UTC

first time i've gotten a watermelon from the garden #foodstr #grownostr
https://image.nostr.build/62daafea1f993224a54f5975b965a7589ea8d9c215b8caedf73ece0597663630.jpg

2025-07-29 23:15:27 UTC

getting ready to turn garden tomatoes into some amazing salsa #foodstr
https://image.nostr.build/4946821c93972d96a3fb15f71c4e1c7ab8af438f48aae371c43f873362df0b96.jpg

2025-07-29 21:22:07 UTC

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i make some once a week but may start shifting towards you because it is definitely work! ill order some soon to try. Ghee is the best for cooking with!

2025-07-29 20:43:16 UTC

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do you culture your butter like traditional ghee? this looks amazing!

2025-07-29 18:24:13 UTC

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https://media2.giphy.com/media/4cuyucPeVWbNS/200w.webp?cid=4ea4f8d517qg21k6ewdbn3djzjx3lpf2ajhhi3t5hzimmk4k&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=200w.webp&ct=g

2025-07-29 18:00:32 UTC

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thanks! i'll take a longer look they had higher fees than strike but ill look into it more.

2025-07-26 13:18:34 UTC

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sorry blossom servers

2025-07-26 13:17:42 UTC

Is anyone hosting private blossom relays to backup private data like home movies/pictures? thinking it might be a good first project for me to try and implement.

2025-07-25 23:21:14 UTC

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how many sats stored in that seed phrase of yours! great lengths to memorize your seed phrase!

2025-07-25 20:49:09 UTC

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fair, i use strike for that but their bank could debank me at anytime it is the thing that keeps me up at night

2025-07-25 18:33:46 UTC

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do i not have it set up correctly?

2025-07-25 18:17:50 UTC

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Hate to argue, but i'd argue the other-chainers can be more frustrating. I'd rather talk to a goldbug about the possibilities of bitcoin than an eth/xrp person.

2025-07-25 18:15:54 UTC

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Congrats, proof of work showing through to be sure! For woodchips if you haven't i'd highly recommend looking into getting garden giant mushroom spores, they are more ammenable to light, taste great, and help those woodchips turn into beautiful soil over time!

2025-07-25 18:06:59 UTC

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Novel idea the us government should just spend less, cut it to the bone.

2025-07-25 17:50:05 UTC

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This is the way

2025-07-25 17:42:15 UTC

I can 100% relate to this
#note1n22…ud5e

2025-07-25 17:41:15 UTC

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Not a bad thing in my book.

2025-07-25 17:40:10 UTC

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Ok but how do I get my employer to pay me in bitcoin?

2025-07-25 17:18:02 UTC

PSA that Coinbase doesn't know how lightning works, went to move lightning to coinbase to use a coinbase card to pay for breakfast and it never made it, (left my lightning wallet but never arrived there) The agent didn't know they supported lightning and tried to tell me i didn't send it because they couldn't find an on-chain transaction. I spent 45 minutes on chat getting it figured out, now have to wait up to 7 days for it to be solved. (this would be easier if everyone just accepted lightning already!) I've never had an issue with another service or company thus far, but at least taught the agent about what lightning is and how it works, one at a time we will get there !

2025-07-24 23:21:53 UTC

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for those who haven't seen it yet
#nostr devs where do i start?
https://image.nostr.build/6210bee107f8f4c1412c7149597a8dfa5882d062a17bc139f3679531582b90c6.png

2025-07-24 23:20:12 UTC

#nostr where have you been! Just discovering this and it is super cool! thinking of pivoting my simplesats bitcoin budgeting tool to being a nostr native..... hmmm so much reading and planning to do and only one lifetime to do it all!

2025-07-24 23:10:51 UTC

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100%! and thank you for the kind words!

2025-07-24 22:47:09 UTC

Every store i go into i ask if they accept bitcoin. It has led to a lot of interesting conversations. Just last week I was at a secondhand store and asked if they took bitcoin. They explained that they'd love to but aren't setup for it yet.
They had a square terminal and pointed out that soon they might be able too. We kept talking and it came out that they had a large investment in xrp, my heart sank. We had a long conversation where they talked about not being able to afford bitcoin and that xrp was about to take off!
We talked about why xrp and the typical speed argument came up, blah blah blah. I wish everyone could experience lightning payments. Bitcoin is ahead of the curve in so many ways!
I finished by sharing an article about the centralization problem and the xrp ceo getting ready to cash out a big chunk. Keep talking to folks and taking the tome to educate, we are so early to #bitcoin and we need to have ways to show people what an amazing and freeing evosystem. Hope has all but fled the fiat system and people are going to go to defi snd crypto to try snd get rich. Hopefully we can save a few of them along the way!
Stay humble and stack sats! Zap me if you think the couple running this store needs to drop xrp and stack sats!

2025-07-24 17:37:15 UTC

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Separate is a great idea! happy to follow you multiple times!

2025-07-24 03:18:07 UTC

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I'm shocked!

2025-07-24 02:26:56 UTC

Anyone that likes envelop budgeting, or believes in putting all of your money to work, please take a moment and give me feedback on my new project SimpleSats. The idea is to have an envelop banking system that is aware of your payday (where you take your pay in Sats) and can help organize your expenses, long term savings goals, and emergency funds. It will help you save what you need for each expense (i.e. it knows you get paid every 2 weeks, or twice a month, or month, and helps you set aside your expenses and goals, saves a bit in a special envelop called the volatility buffer to help with the fluctuating price of fiat compared to our sound satoshis, and long term goals will be setup with on-chain wallets/cold storage. I have a few questions:
1. Does anyone else want to live on the bitcoin standard or is this mostly an investment vehicle at this point for most folks?
2. Would anyone else find this useful?
3. Having played with albyhub i'm leaning towards using that, but as of right now i've been building it with strike for billpay/still have to do fiat things. What is your preference?
4. Bsd or gpl? I want it to be open source and a public good.
5. I don't have a ton of time for this, but I want/need a product to do these things to move to the bitcoin standard, are there mechanisms in the community for public funding/crowdsourcing? I'm relatively new to #NOSTR and #Bitcoin and trying to see if that is something common in our community?
I really appreciate everything and any feedback, critisism, etc. would be greatly appreciated. https://image.nostr.build/ca1ed670c0280368aff90533991eb4fea306fd852a5675c2a7d6cee7268eb6e4.png

2025-07-24 01:43:31 UTC

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I love the coldcard q and sparrow, definetly one of my favorite combinations.

2025-07-23 22:25:38 UTC

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😂 for those who know

2025-07-23 21:05:04 UTC

alright after setting up albyhub in fly.io i want to build simplesats (an envelop budgeting system for living on btc standard) there. Does anyone know the folks over there to get me early bank account access? I love strike but this whole nwc, budgeting, and self sovereignty seems such a beautiful thing!

2025-07-23 20:30:38 UTC

albyhub on fly.io is 🔥

2025-07-23 01:53:49 UTC

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I bought steak and shake today with lightning and it was so seamless! I hope the square rollout makes this a more common occurrence! Whole meal cost me 15000 sats!

2025-07-19 00:01:38 UTC

Happy to announce that ive started development on some open source software to do envelop style budgeting with sats. I want to completely opt out of the current monetary system and i'm hoping that this can make my and other folk's lives easier. Here is thw thing. I have a farm, I have several kids, I have a full time job. If this is something that people care about and are interested please let me know! sometimes it feels like my creative efforts are always *meh* i keep going because i enjoy programming/ building things but one day i want to build something folks use/need! Your thoughts are much appreciated! #bitcoin Moving shortly with the whole family to life on the bitcoin standard!!!! wish us luck! Hopefully that means we can build fast and work out the kinks for ya'll!
https://image.nostr.build/6210bee107f8f4c1412c7149597a8dfa5882d062a17bc139f3679531582b90c6.png

2025-07-12 22:02:24 UTC

How is Argentina doing under Milei? One thing I've noticed in history is that Argentinians know how to revolt.

2025-03-26 20:21:50 UTC

I'm relatively new to the Elixir community, I do my best to learn in new and unique ways. A lot of the libraries i've written thus far I need to go back and rewrite huge chunks with what i've learned. This is by far and away the library I am most proud of. I turned of my LSP , opened up helix and the api documentation and just wrote this code. This feels like such a huge change for me in productivity. I did my best to implement the API as is and document as well as I could. This library provides programmatic access to search results from brave search.
Want to feed your ai project? Make sure to get the right key from brave but that should be easily doable. Need to write custom searches for news or intel feeds in your elixir project? Have at it! I want to thank absolutely everyone that has helped me get to this point, I thought I hated programming and pursued other careers/ambitions after my first programming gig as a Java Spring Boot developer right out of college. I did systems administration, moved to Security for a while, and now do Intelligence work for a large company. But I have the bug now. I love programming in elixir. Please take some time and get a free api key from brave and test this out, please provide feedback to help me make this the best project it can be!
[Source code is available](https://github.com/osintowl/BraveEx) please feel free to leave a github star, make prs, or open up bug reports.
I'm really excited about goggles in brave search. They allow you to modify the algorithm to discard, prioritize, or deprioritze search results based on domains, patterns, filetypes, etc. I plan on adding in a few goggles to the repo for folks to use in company research, cybersecurity, etc.
Docs are available on [hexdocs](https://hexdocs.pm/brave_ex/BraveEx.html)

2024-10-29 11:58:07 UTC

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The uniparty is the problem. We need to take back the country starting at the local level and repeal the 17th amendment.

2024-09-02 01:37:26 UTC

Just harvested these today and made a pasta sauce. Spaghetti came from the ripe spaghetti squash in the garden too. I love the #homestead #garden
https://m.primal.net/KZjk.jpg
https://m.primal.net/KZjl.jpg

2024-09-01 16:37:55 UTC

any elixir devs on here with nerves experience? I have a cool idea.

2024-09-01 16:23:10 UTC

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I'm afraid you may be right about that.

2024-09-01 16:21:55 UTC

I've been seeing a lot of debanking lately, what features would you need in a budgeting/bitcoin management app to move to the bitcoin standard?

2024-09-01 15:00:17 UTC

I'mconvincesd X is now just a bunch of fem bots from Austin powers following me, let's give this #nostr thing a real shake.

2024-04-15 15:13:54 UTC

guys I love #bitcoin, but talk me off the cliff. When Iran sent drones to Israel and the risk of WWIII were high, the Brice of #btc dropped and gold soared. Give me some potential reasons for that with btc being hard money. Is it too tied up in stock market now with etfs?

2024-04-13 22:56:14 UTC

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do you have a flake for this setup? would love to build on it :)

2024-04-13 05:53:26 UTC

Check out the sassafrassai/openrefine flake on FlakeHub!
https://flakehub.com/flake/sassafrassai/openrefine
#nix #flakes #flakehub
We love nix and are determined that this is the future of AI development. We created the openrefine flake on flakehub to help keep your data clean.

2024-04-13 04:19:13 UTC

Want to find some cool nix folks around here, any around?

2023-09-19 11:44:06 UTC

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Roflol this made my day!

2023-09-19 03:40:35 UTC

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It wasn't jefferson, but the quote is still a powerful and apt diagnosis/assessment https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/private-banks-spurious-quotation/