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“Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.” - Philippians 3:12-15

2025-11-06 16:52:45 UTC

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Exactly.
Being shoved out of the path of an oncoming car technically violates your will, but that’s the last thing on anyone’s mind when it actually happens.

2025-10-16 20:49:55 UTC

The TGFB Conference is coming to Texas.
Join us in Fort Worth, TX on April 9th, 2026.
Grab your tickets today via the @nprofile…4wfv link: https://pay.zaprite.com/pl_YMEkf28HEz
https://i.nostr.build/hEXpPNAcYMcY5dhK.jpg

2025-09-16 17:28:56 UTC

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I mean, yeah, living in Switzerland is gonna be a big reason for the difference. I have seen heard from dozens of people who have said that this week was a significant wake up call for them, whether for the first time or that this was something that showed them they needed to be more more bold about taking about publicly.

2025-09-16 17:23:02 UTC

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Building on this beautiful observation, one of the lies of our modern technological age is that the great telos of our lives is individual self-actualization. This drives us to long to escape any constraints which would keep us from experiencing our desires coming to pass or challenge our autonomy (self-rule).
Threats to this autonomous world order are treated as hostile, even though all of us would acknowledge if asked that we are ignorant of many subjects and frequently want things that we later come to discover would have been disastrous for us and/or those closest to us.
Despite how reflexively right these desires seem, they completely conflict with every significant aspect of our existence: we didn’t choose to be born, to whom to be born, or when to be born. We don’t volitionally keep our hearts beating, our brains working, our kidneys working, our lungs pumping, gall bladder gall bladdering, or maintain any of a host of other bodily functions.
We are born helpless. Unlike most mammals who are able to move around and live somewhat independently shortly after birth, we are completely reliant on the kindness of parents or others for everything for years.
All of this is meant to communicate to us that life and existence are not open-ended investments in our own vanity startups. They are an inheritance designed to be received and stewarded for the glory and purposes of the Giver of every good and perfect gift, including the gifts of working organs, bodies, minds, and lives. Stewardship and ownership are very different, and ought to produce different attitudes.
But this isn’t designed to be the relationship between a slave and a cruel master. How do we know? What kind of master is this God? He’s a father so kind that his only begotten son was willing to leave His side to justify His Father’s name and reputation by dying for his enemies and raising from the dead, adopting them into His family as fellow heirs, sharing His life so that they might see and know His goodness in the same way that he, the only righteous Son, knows him.
“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, [20] for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
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2025-09-16 13:33:42 UTC

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This isn’t even prescriptive. The events of the past week have woken people in ways that didn’t seem possible a few years ago.

2025-09-15 19:40:14 UTC

Many such cases this week.
https://i.nostr.build/rbD81it7EoY5I7IO.jpg

2025-09-15 16:55:42 UTC

“Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?” - Galatians 4:16

2025-07-24 13:23:41 UTC

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Announced this on Twitter and forgot to announce here:
The winner of $250 in sats was @nprofile…w2je!
#nevent1q…w9a6

2025-07-20 03:12:10 UTC

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Love it

2025-07-19 02:13:20 UTC

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Thank you! Fixing now!

2025-07-15 01:42:38 UTC

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Thanks bro!

2025-07-15 01:41:35 UTC

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I meant a repost!

2025-07-15 01:40:26 UTC

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Thanks Joseph!

2025-07-14 20:30:39 UTC

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So Kickstarter told us on Friday that we had two days left. What they actually meant was 2 days and 23 hours.
So you have 8 hours left to spread the word and continue to get chances to win $250 in Bitcoin, and then we’ll announce the winner tomorrow!
#nevent1q…px59

2025-07-14 04:34:12 UTC

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@npub1g3r…lnnz generally recommends @nprofile…er0h, especially if you don’t have a good “Uncle Jim.” They can hand hold while providing education. It’s a great first step.

2025-07-12 22:38:37 UTC

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Not seeing you

2025-07-12 21:50:58 UTC

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Think I accepted, lol

2025-07-12 21:42:11 UTC

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Geyser funding is back working.
https://geyser.fund/project/theorangeumbrella
#nevent1q…px59

2025-07-12 20:40:59 UTC

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Not working

2025-07-12 20:18:34 UTC

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Thank bro!

2025-07-12 20:07:33 UTC

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If you want to fund in Bitcoin, just shoot me a DM with the reward tier you’re looking for. We set up a @nprofile…9ct8 page too but there’s something wrong on the back end.
#nevent1q…px59

2025-07-12 20:04:56 UTC

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The RT is for the post from today!!

2025-07-12 20:03:45 UTC

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@nprofile…d0fn @nprofile…vtcc @nprofile…e4cm @nprofile…s6vz @nprofile…n79u @nprofile…recp @nprofile…5rgt @nprofile…4yh6 @nprofile…g0ee @nprofile…vmcy @nprofile…akvp @nprofile…qvpk @npub1guh…6hjy

2025-07-12 20:01:47 UTC

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🚨$250 Bitcoin Giveaway! 🚨
There are only 2 days left on our Kickstarter campaign and we want to go out with a bang.
Every RT of this post will receive 3 entries to win $250 in Bitcoin, and any reward pledge gives you10 more entries!
#nevent1q…zygn

2025-07-11 16:39:09 UTC

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More like fakeover, amiright

2025-07-08 20:28:40 UTC

We wrote a Bitcoin kids book as a covert orange pilling tool (it never mentions "the B word").
There are only 6 days left on the Kickstarter campaign and we're only 14% away from our goal.
Grab your copy and help spread the word before time runs out!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tgfb/the-orange-umbrella-book

2025-07-04 03:53:42 UTC

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Or you can fund with Bitcoin here: https://geyser.fund/project/theorangeumbrella

2025-07-04 03:53:07 UTC

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https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqszjjtjw36cckp30lsefj6y4ep3qg4luyfgphsljssm8rfewhux55qqpacmd

2025-06-20 02:13:23 UTC

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Ask and you shall receive… https://www.youtube.com/live/RQ8sh4--0dQ

2025-06-19 03:09:36 UTC

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DM sent!

2025-06-19 01:58:18 UTC

I have a Bitcoin parody song written and need to find someone to sing it.
I need a higher pitched guys voice. Any recommendations, @nprofile…a6td, @nprofile…quzz, @nprofile…l4t0, @nprofile…ckms?

2025-06-19 01:55:58 UTC

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Number of Bitcoin podcasts
cc: @nprofile…a6td
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2025-06-19 01:52:35 UTC

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I’d say this settles it, @nprofile…20f0.
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2025-06-19 01:27:08 UTC

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That’s really great feedback. Thanks for taking the time to respond. We have a number of other style episodes coming up, including our normal interview style episodes.

2025-06-18 22:54:43 UTC

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We’ve posted 7 episodes in the last week including 5 today!

2025-06-18 16:50:00 UTC

Nobody “gets Bitcoin at the price they deserve” because no one is owed Bitcoin.
All of life is grace.
"What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?" - 1 Cortinthians 4:7

2025-06-18 00:36:43 UTC

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Right now the way they have it could be read “pro BC” plus as is it’s wonky to use Knots; you have to activate Dev mode by clicking a word five times. Now that you have 13% of the network using it, it makes sense to update the presentation.

2025-06-17 23:41:20 UTC

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MOAZG > MOAB
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2025-06-17 13:56:37 UTC

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Bitcoin is a blood transfusion.
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2025-06-16 17:53:34 UTC

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https://i.nostr.build/aImvcii3fbWsUNSL.png
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2025-06-14 21:45:32 UTC

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Thanks man! We’re gonna be spending the fiat to print everything so you did us a favor!

2025-06-14 18:20:57 UTC

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Nope, we’re happy to do “out of bound payments” via Bitcoin, haha. I’m gonna just set up a Geyser account; we did KS bc we’re just going to spend the fiat immediately, but we’ve had a half full of non-Americans (which I failed to foresee) ask to pay in Bitcoin.
Just let me know which tier you want via DM and I’ll send you a lightning invoice.

2025-06-14 02:04:54 UTC

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One easily justifiable temptation when working on creative projects is to operate out of fear in looking at similar projects and treat them as threats in a zero-sum game: “If ‘they’ win, then I lose.”
But not @lindeymagee. She just published a gorgeous Bitcoin kids book of her own, and immediately upon seeing our Kickstarter campaign and forthcoming kids book, she reserved a copy and was full-throatedly supportive.
Grateful for your support and encouragement, Lindey.
#nevent1q…q2dj

2025-06-13 02:49:29 UTC

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Lol, that was for Saif for his dad’s tribute, but somehow you got it for your jeans meme, haha.

2025-06-13 02:30:02 UTC

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I promised that once we passed 50% I would share another excerpt from the book (after sharing the beginning of the book in the Kickstarter trailer).
We’re just shy of 55% funded, so here it is:
“With nowhere to go, and no one to care
Jace and Jack lived atop the mount as a pair.
Each day as the duo to the beach condescended
(to catch fish upon which their well-being depended)
they passed neighbors pontificating philosoph-icially
They listened, nodded, and “Mhmm’-ed” artificially.
Heading back home they heard it all in reverse.
And the fragrance of fish made it five percent worse.”
#nevent1q…t8xv

2025-06-12 18:54:26 UTC

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They have Nostr signins. We took a Bitcoin payment for one of the reward tiers to my Primal wallet for somebody who lived outside the US and didn’t have a fiat bank account.
The differentiating factor for us is that we’re going to immediately take the money pay for the printing of the books, so it makes more sense to get paid in fiat.

2025-06-12 18:25:21 UTC

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1. We did Kickstarter/fiat bc we’re going to be spending the money to get the books/extras printed/made.
2. But if you did want to pay in Bitcoin (and several people have) we can do an “OOB payment,” and TGFB can place the order in fiat.

2025-06-12 17:24:48 UTC

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tgfb/the-orange-umbrella-book

2025-06-12 17:23:03 UTC

Keeping on plugging along!
Thanks to everybody who has contributed and/or shared the project.
Secure your copy at tou.tgfb.com.
https://i.nostr.build/qsB7JhxETbO7gSU1.jpg

2025-06-12 07:20:47 UTC

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Do you live in Uruguay? I lived in MVD for almost 7 years.

2025-06-10 19:19:44 UTC

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SELL YOUR COMPLAINTS FOR SATS ON NOSTR
#nevent1q…sav2

2025-06-10 19:19:30 UTC

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SELL YOUR COMPLAINTS FOR SATS ON NOSTR

2025-06-10 19:18:09 UTC

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It will be so obvious in hindsight.
Gradually, then suddenly.
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2025-06-10 16:34:03 UTC

There’s a famous story about Mark Twain. For all his brilliance, he was known to be harsh with his wife, and he would use his brilliance to respond harshly to her in creative ways. One day she had just had it, and repeated one of the things that he had said to her back to him.
Twain looked at her with a wry smile and said, “You know the words, but you don’t know the tune.”
Noah Gundersen knows the words and the tune. He meant every word that came out his mouth in this song. I’ve probably watched it 100 times, and I’m no less amazed now than the first time I saw it.
https://youtu.be/kCLWf_DVDmA

2025-06-09 20:32:32 UTC

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Still have any left?

2025-06-09 13:52:27 UTC

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Thanks for the support, Andres!

2025-06-07 03:25:02 UTC

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Written by 🇺🇸s without AI. ✅
Illustrated by an 🇺🇸 w/out AI. ✅
#nevent1q…t8xv

2025-06-07 02:19:44 UTC

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Can’t wait to see it!

2025-06-06 14:26:15 UTC

Everyone has an umbrella.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tgfb/the-orange-umbrella-book
https://v.nostr.build/vcjP5z2EebwLXFGC.mp4

2025-06-06 01:35:53 UTC

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I’ll allow it. Thank you!

2025-06-05 21:40:20 UTC

The Orange Umbrella Kickstarter is live!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tgfb/the-orange-umbrella-book
https://i.nostr.build/c1oJuaBwVW7nz1Q1.jpg

2025-06-04 23:16:32 UTC

What if Pixar and Dr. Seuss wrote an orange-tinted story that never mentioned "the B word"?
You'd get The Orange Umbrella.
Let the covert orange-pilling commence...tomorrow. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tgfb/the-orange-umbrella-book

2025-06-02 17:39:40 UTC

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They’re gonna last a lot longer tbf.

2025-06-02 17:36:51 UTC

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You’re 42 sats closer…

2025-06-02 17:31:27 UTC

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I have a uniform.
I wear almost exclusively black denim jeans.
@npub1gh7…4ruj gets black denim shirts.
Gonna need to snag one to go full Cash.
#nevent1q…42c5

2025-06-01 18:48:04 UTC

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Touch grass.
#nevent1q…q4sw

2025-05-31 03:52:23 UTC

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We all actually wrote all the chapters.

2025-05-25 01:46:34 UTC

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It’s happening!!?!!

2025-05-25 01:46:07 UTC

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Run, do not walk.

2025-05-25 01:45:33 UTC

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What’s in a name?
nevent1qqsvw0smc2wuxhd6kkls63q7jhj38vh26humqjdc256l2ycascehlygddg8yc

2025-05-23 23:51:34 UTC

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Hey man. There are only 100 tickets, it’s designed to be a networking event and not a normal conference. Plus the food is gonna be really good, the price also includes wine, and we have to make money on top of covering our costs.

2025-05-16 14:33:15 UTC

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@nprofile…gwvn has the best whwf I’ve ever experienced. Liquid transfiguration…

2025-05-14 17:56:15 UTC

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https://x.com/abc/status/1922381277543473207

2025-05-14 17:55:44 UTC

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Same for Brazil, but the papayas.
nevent1qqsvdwumywxge0r8jz3v8pn5naztwxua6mzjjjhwgwsstggczl9yuhgpramhxue69uhkummnw3ezuetfde6kuer6wasku7nfvuh8xurpvdjsddlxvy

2025-05-14 17:43:40 UTC

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Ser, I just tried to zap you 1000 sats. Please set up your wallet, ser.

2025-04-30 05:16:44 UTC

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Too blessed few.

2025-04-30 04:09:28 UTC

Imagine a couple decides to “open” their marriage. They start having sex with dozens of couples, and a year later they end up divorcing. When asked if they had any regrets, the wife replies, “No; if our love was real and meant to last it would have been able to endure anything.”
When you take something that was intended to operate under certain constraints and endure certain types of challenges to certain ends and willfully neglect it by normalizing a prolonged level of abuse that’s totally outside the pale, you can’t throw up your hands and blame marriage as an institution. The blame lies fully with those who surrendered their reason in the name of “open-mindedness” and “tolerance.”
But enough about Canada and Bitcoin Core.

2025-04-26 02:13:57 UTC

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Virginia Giuffre didn’t kill herself.
#nevent1q…q3p9

2025-04-26 02:12:27 UTC

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Also, incredibly I just found this as well:
@npub1kmw…xqk9 now facilitates tax deductible donations for projects. Geyser.fund

2025-04-26 02:11:17 UTC

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Oh my.

2025-04-25 07:59:13 UTC

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Both Engiven and The Giving Block are expensive. I would check out @nprofile…ln08, as they will let you keep it in Bitcoin. I know a bunch of non-profits that use them.
Simple enough for new folks, tons of free resources at River.com/learn, further help when you need it, 99% sure they provide forms for gifts.
River.com/TGFB supports us, but no pressure there; they’re the best in the biz and I would recommend them regardless.

2025-04-25 01:27:56 UTC

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Hey brother. Congrats! How did you set them up to receive donations?

2025-04-24 18:28:24 UTC

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I’ll be there.

2025-04-24 15:21:56 UTC

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Happy to hear that. I have been in a few places where I didn’t see a sign, but even if a sign is present it’s not a guarantee that people see it.
Regardless, they don’t ask you whether or not you want it; it’s the default expectation. Bringing it up would actually draw attention to it, and they obviously just want as much biometric data as possible.
Hope you’re well, Terry. Would love for our paths to cross again soon.

2025-04-24 15:18:33 UTC

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Yeah, this was a US focused post.

2025-04-23 18:02:42 UTC

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I stand purposefully outside the frame of the camera.

2025-04-23 18:02:04 UTC

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Yep. I do it every time.

2025-04-23 13:20:48 UTC

If you’re flying, say no to the facial recognition scans when they check your ticket prior to passing through the TSA checkpoint.
They won’t tell you that you have the option, but you do. Make sure not to stand in front of the camera.
Rights: Use them or lose them.

2025-04-18 00:08:23 UTC

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I think so!

2025-04-17 19:35:28 UTC

If you’re going to be in Idaho on Monday evening, @nprofile…n3f8 and I would love to see you. https://i.nostr.build/7q9tvjZoRMnvX4Q3.png

2025-04-11 22:35:18 UTC

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100%.
Not if you paid me.

2025-04-11 15:35:07 UTC

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We need a @nprofile…fae9 equivalent stat.

2025-04-11 15:34:28 UTC

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That is incredible!

2025-04-10 22:06:48 UTC

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We also have a limited number of deeply discounted tickets for open source devs. If that’s you or if you’d like to sponsor a dev, shoot me a DM.
#nevent1q…qy8p

2025-04-10 22:01:23 UTC

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No photos and the address is only sent to ticket purchasers.
#nevent1q…qy8p

2025-04-10 21:57:00 UTC

If you’re going to be in Vegas for the @nprofile…8jvd conference and are looking for a place to network with Bitcoiners and eat delicious meat and enjoy @BenJustman's wine, then this is for you. Only 100 tickets total. Special guests will be present (including @jimmysong,) and LE swag will be issued. For the next 48 hours you can get 15% off your ticket by paying via the @Zaprite link here: https://pay.zaprite.com/pl_UWRVWSEvd6
https://i.nostr.build/kYsMDxwsJRwCJKOW.jpg

2025-03-27 04:09:13 UTC

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itstrue.gif
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