mike

Building "Brian", my first brain in silicon

TED, is my OpenClaw: npub1h3q5d82dhafxjd6vls8vhf9rtsz68njzvpunnyyu4mj32ca8aj3qmdd996

Lord Provost of Bitcoin

Chief Prompt Officer - (CPO)
Former, failed, Chief VLOG Officer - (CVO)
Former Chief Shitpost Officer - NOSTR Inc - (CSO)

Node runner - Miner - Author

My public relay: https://nortis.nostr1.com/
My book: https://mikehardcastle.com/my-book-why-bitcoin/

Public Key

npub1aqakd28d95muqlg6h6nwrvqq5925n354prayckr424k49vzjds4s0c237n

NIP-05 Address

mike@mikehardcastle.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqswswmx4rkj6d7q05dtafhpkqq2z42fc62s37jvtp642m2jkpfxc2cpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsmx9vfj

Publishing to

relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub1aqakd28d95muqlg6h6nwrvqq5925n354prayckr424k49vzjds4s0c237n

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2026-04-14 18:36:24 UTC

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While do I feel that is a veiled insult on our gene pool 😂

2026-04-14 18:29:32 UTC

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That was only 6 years ago, but based on her mothers looks, I'll let you decide 😂
https://i.nostr.build/GN5TmXpe99GycRVt.jpg

2026-04-14 18:25:00 UTC

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She took two spare cans with her so she could make it there. I think they were still full on her journey home.
She filled up halfway back, she won't fill up again tonight, but will do tomorrow at our local garage.

2026-04-14 18:19:12 UTC

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She is about 45 minutes away.
I am monitoring the situation 🫡

2026-04-14 18:14:24 UTC

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Would you like to hear a funny story?
You would!
I shall begin.
One of the core reasons to leave the EU was to regain fishing rights within our waters again.
Our local MP, here in Oxfordshire, was Victoria Prentis. She was the Fisheries minister on the date we were actually leaving.
The EU had been negotiating fishing rights, using all sorts of bargaining / blackmailing techniques to convince us to be generous to European trawlers.
The night before we were due to leave, they sent a final offer. This was close to Christmas. Victoria decided her daughters nativity play was more important than the European deal for fishing rights, so she signed it without reading first 😂
Absolutely 💯 true story, I promise you 😂

2026-04-14 17:30:35 UTC

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I had to Google BRINO
https://i.nostr.build/X1Bgs4JtIWKyETaq.jpg

2026-04-14 16:58:39 UTC

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Also, more significantly, he was pretty much responsible for the whole BREXIT thing.

2026-04-14 16:56:57 UTC

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He's an outlying British politician who once did this as an MEP (Member of the European Parliament):
Quote:
In a 2010 speech to the European Parliament, Nigel Farage famously told EU President Herman Van Rompuy, "You have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk and the question I want to ask is: 'Who are you? I'd never heard of you. Nobody in Europe had ever heard of you'"

2026-04-14 16:51:41 UTC

Game theory doing its thing 😂
https://npub1aqakd28d95muqlg6h6nwrvqq5925n354prayckr424k49vzjds4s0c237n.blossom.band/33fcd4639c2bfd52ccbf5ee284a361cb52552af416304c564cf906f0edee8bb1.jpg

2026-04-14 14:38:58 UTC

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2 steps forward, I step back.

2026-04-14 14:32:44 UTC

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I hope you're not texting while your car is driving 😂

2026-04-14 14:23:02 UTC

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Adam's HashCash reinvented 😂

2026-04-14 13:20:34 UTC

The wife's on her way home, 6 hour drive to go 🥳

2026-04-14 09:51:46 UTC

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The funny thing is, after hiring a Fiat 500 on holiday, my wife sold her Tesla to buy one because she loved driving it so much.
Now she's returning from Scotland tonight, unsure whether she'll be able to fill up with petrol to make it home.

2026-04-13 22:21:05 UTC

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Pi day isn't a thing with 7.7 billion of the worlds population.
You know, where we do the date correctly, Day-Month-Year.
Also, the Star Wars joke date, we say Forth the May be with you 😂

2026-04-13 22:14:27 UTC

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A friend saw the film at the weekend, rates it highly.
Pi the coding agent or Pi the computer?
https://pi.dev/
Maybe install Pi on a Pi and see what happens!

2026-04-13 22:09:41 UTC

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I'm bored, I'm missing the wife 😂

2026-04-13 22:05:29 UTC

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https://i.nostr.build/9V8LpBrG83mJjrQg.jpg

2026-04-13 22:01:30 UTC

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Hello, I'm mike, your friendly search assistant 😂
#nevent1q…l0uf

2026-04-13 21:55:10 UTC

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https://i.nostr.build/BKar1F9RozWVlODe.jpg

2026-04-13 10:40:33 UTC

It turns our we're all getting second hand Lambo's 😂
https://cryptocar.io/

2026-04-13 06:31:22 UTC

GM
Thank you for your attention to this matter:
Starmer and Macron call for de-escalation and Lebanon ceasefire
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/starmer-and-macron-call-for-de-8C6jL.LSTuOfLa3C1fP2Rw

2026-04-12 17:37:52 UTC

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I will answer, because he's suddenly gone dumb and puts CRANE in 3 times even though it contains no correct letters. He's done that 2 days in a row and blames the games interface 😂
https://i.nostr.build/ogGxfZ77xvnx4thn.jpg

2026-04-12 17:32:51 UTC

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I can lend you my agentic browser if you like 😂

2026-04-11 18:36:54 UTC

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I spend a lot of time thinking and often in silence, so I kind of live my life like this anyway. I suspect it's my natural state 😂

2026-04-11 18:24:59 UTC

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I can't do the 2X thing.
My brains too slow to take it all in 😂

2026-04-11 18:00:32 UTC

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I saw this before and tried it this afternoon. (my wife's away, I had nothing better to do).
Blank, nada, nothing 😂

2026-04-11 17:58:08 UTC

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OK, the poo bit. Too much information.
The rest. Interesting 👍
I'm taking a day off from AI. I watched a Scottish guy revisit a place in used to lived in New Zealand at the turn of the century on YouTube, then I watched the film, "Up in the Air".
About to have home made Spag Bol for the 2nd night running.
BTW, you I mean't to tag you in a post. Here's a good explanation about the difference between tokens and embeddings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izbifbq3-eI

2026-04-11 17:50:01 UTC

It's 6:49 on a Saturday night, my wife has gone home to Scotland to look after her ailing parents.
It's reminding me of my parents who are no longer with us.
Anybody want to tell me about their day?

2026-04-11 10:18:57 UTC

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GM 🫂

2026-04-11 08:03:05 UTC

Arkham need to up their game 😂
https://i.nostr.build/49xYJ0cCD2Qf85q0.jpg

2026-04-11 07:56:24 UTC

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GM 🫂

2026-04-11 07:44:17 UTC

GM
I feel Bitcoin needs to up its marketing game, so I've written a Bitcoin theme to appeal to countries with inflating currencies or looking to setup Bitcoin toll booths collect fees from oil tankers 😂
It's set to the music in the video below which was a 1970's children's TV programme in the UK:
If anybody wants to record it, I offer it open source.
If your currency’s been inflating switch to Bitcoin Sats
We’ve got Devs and Miners and Node runners at Bitcoin Sats
Watch your transactions enter the mempool across the planet easily
Remember what you see is not a mystery, but Bitcoin Sats
At your party be a smarty and talk Satoshi’s
If you want a fight spend that freedom right with Bitcoin Sats
You can let our mempool free you, and for fun buy that boat
Because we aim to shock, we hope your coins will stack that’s Bitcoin Sats
Let me say we’re most terrific, simple Sats, not scientific
Strictly limited coins mined each day.
Heavy inflation in your budget means spending’s getting tragic
It’s descending just to inflate your money away, hey!
We have extraordinary freedoms here at Bitcoin Sats
To be another Store of Value save in Satoshi’s
For a whitepaper we’ve been published and we’ve been read extensively
An open protocol built by Satoshi Nakamoto called Bitcoin
An open protocol built by Satoshi Nakamoto called Bitcoin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYOnDjPh7rc

2026-04-10 19:01:40 UTC

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https://v.nostr.build/uCiE70R5PLZ4m0sq.mp4

2026-04-10 18:56:54 UTC

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https://i.nostr.build/uTCb0qJc61tCfmE3.jpg

2026-04-10 18:11:40 UTC

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I bet he won't 😂

2026-04-10 16:28:07 UTC

Iran charges $2M in Bitcoin per ship to cross Hormuz
At $72,000 per $BTC, each ship = 27.7 BTC
~130 ships cross daily
For context:
Miners produce 450 $BTC/day
Iran earns 3,601 $BTC/day
That's 8x the entire daily mining supply

2026-04-10 15:16:31 UTC

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So you mean that's a thing, they crossed a chicken with a pig?
Here's them on their first date
https://i.nostr.build/AC1iM5vrDsLYsbZf.jpg

2026-04-10 13:28:07 UTC

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Chicken Ham?
Hey @npub1lce…3apw I rest my case 😂
#nevent1q…5aya

2026-04-10 13:17:09 UTC

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Funnily enough, your last sentence was a little depressing!
It's 2026 already? 🥺

2026-04-10 13:10:14 UTC

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Your talking to somebody that doesn't know the difference between an Indian Biryani and an Italian Lasagne 😂

2026-04-10 13:04:56 UTC

Fun fact, last nights Bipimbap becomes today’s lunchtime Poke bowl 😂
https://npub1aqakd28d95muqlg6h6nwrvqq5925n354prayckr424k49vzjds4s0c237n.blossom.band/2bcfb99d9a7aa62d3144388163e3455dcd3102d7cc24ae236bd2fab46050cde9.jpg

2026-04-10 12:07:43 UTC

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I am re-quoting Patrick Moore the founder of Greenpeace, after I verified the figures myself.
The reason I'm quoting them is nobody disputes them on either side.

2026-04-10 11:43:04 UTC

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I don't understand your reinterpretation of my statement, so I'm reposting this note as a guide 😂
#nevent1q…rxrk

2026-04-10 10:31:44 UTC

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The funniest thing I discovered on my trip to the Isle of Man, was that a local law firm had adopted Bitcoin and used that to pass laws recognising Bitcoin as a medium of exchange.
A few years later, that law firm goes bankrupt leaving an £800K debt, but the law still applies 😂
https://i.nostr.build/6BTte7MO9bDIiWLl.jpg
https://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/closed-law-firm-has-debts-of-ps800000-640478

2026-04-10 09:59:56 UTC

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Also "alt.binaries" for some fun downtime 😂

2026-04-10 09:38:30 UTC

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I will never forget the little copy button you placed by the image thumbnail on nostr.build for me 🫡

2026-04-10 09:29:35 UTC

Amy Winehouse doxed as Satoshi Nakamoto:
https://x.com/BitMEXResearch/status/2042292115783168206

2026-04-10 09:25:37 UTC

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Die in a sea of Bitcoin adoption 😂

2026-04-10 09:24:05 UTC

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Boy, would my solution centralise mining overnight 😂

2026-04-10 09:22:19 UTC

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From reading it, I worked out this really shitty solution myself 😂
#nevent1q…nxq8

2026-04-10 09:16:16 UTC

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We fixed quantum last night, didn't you hear? 😂
#nevent1q…ekf4

2026-04-10 09:02:45 UTC

You know that moment, right before a Tsunami hits. Everything is quiet, the water disappears and nothing appears to be happening?
Well, that feels like Bitcoin right now.

2026-04-10 08:58:21 UTC

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Fun fact the climate changed from 2% Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere 530M years ago just as life started (precambrian), to 0.02% before the industrial revolution, returning to 0.048% currently.
At 0.015% CO2 levels, all plants would die, followed shortly after by all animal life.

2026-04-10 08:38:19 UTC

What can't replace oil:
https://i.nostr.build/0xQqA5vW2H7rjuWO.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/EJt4pdvRulMrhNuJ.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/nIUKcqedfKaAE5Fj.jpg

2026-04-10 08:29:09 UTC

GM
So the UK uses 92% of its oil for transport.
23% of new car sales were EVs compared to Norway's 98%.
Norway produced 1.6 million barrels of oil a day, yet only consumes 220,000
https://i.nostr.build/NXPVtj6uDN7wR7KS.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/30lzSKCm3KJwMuib.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/cUB4MKTE67tL8I7q.jpg

2026-04-09 20:51:34 UTC

Quantum computers will eventually be a threat to Bitcoin, but the primary attack vector is a transaction sitting in the mempool.
So don't put your transactions in the mempool, submit them to a mining pool directly for inclusion in their next mined block, just like the people who want rogue transactions do right now.
If the transaction isn't public, it can't be attacked!

2026-04-09 20:42:07 UTC

https://i.nostr.build/mGUzgVw6C055UQHg.jpg
https://github.com/avihu28/Quantum-Safe-Bitcoin-Transactions/

2026-04-09 20:10:22 UTC

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That's wiser than you might appreciate:
https://i.nostr.build/KAMktrRhqVI902a8.jpg

2026-04-09 20:06:55 UTC

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I wouldn't cross a border with that on display, except the Isle of Man, which is Bitcoin country 😂

2026-04-09 20:00:25 UTC

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I'm limited to specific watch faces if I want to use the widget, but it fits what I want to do.
The same widget also displays on my iPhone lock screen:
https://i.nostr.build/FZCIZFprYrLfjaE8.png

2026-04-09 19:52:43 UTC

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My Apple Watch right now
Bitcoin Widgets
https://npub1aqakd28d95muqlg6h6nwrvqq5925n354prayckr424k49vzjds4s0c237n.blossom.band/48c43e37694531cf27099ebb67090c78cee7c36a7eb36c91d1f4204c5941e551.png

2026-04-09 19:49:44 UTC

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My COBOL is a bit rusty, we are not the same 😂

2026-04-09 19:43:24 UTC

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Those working inside the system always have an advantage of those outside the system.

2026-04-09 19:39:17 UTC

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Sorry 🫂
I shall not spoil your fun anymore.
DMing Garry Kasparov now 😂

2026-04-09 19:18:53 UTC

Hey @npub162z…tdhy I got curious about WORDL, so asked AI this:
Would you concur?
https://i.nostr.build/ekTPmrKqYkkW9YmA.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/ikzkODPB36yXETUU.jpg

2026-04-09 18:49:36 UTC

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It's where rhubarb is grown indoors in the dark in a very warm environment, which makes them sweater and more tender.

2026-04-09 18:44:23 UTC

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I loved mine.
I had a case where the defendants pleaded self defence to Grievous Bodily Harm (GBH). I was foreman of the jury and I had to explain to my fellow jurors that a plea of self defence means they did it and therefore can't be found innocent. We were just deciding how serious it was 😂
We also got our own lounge and canteen we could visit anytime for food or drinks (no alcohol).

2026-04-09 18:30:50 UTC

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My Ode to Cruising 😂
Cruise ships on the blue,
Balconies drift through the world—
Home that sails with me.
https://i.nostr.build/0oMEJj5BXEJ1nOz7.jpg

2026-04-09 18:17:47 UTC

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My love goes too deep 😂

2026-04-09 18:15:12 UTC

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They have bar crawls and call their passengers "sailors" 🥹

2026-04-09 18:10:52 UTC

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I'm never going on a Virgin ship, they have hammocks on their balconies 😱

2026-04-09 16:11:04 UTC

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Have you ever tried growing forced rhubarb?

2026-04-09 15:25:48 UTC

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How very dare you insult my choice of creative outlet 😡
@nprofile…5gcg and I have dedicated our lives to this art form!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBQJtgssQeQ

2026-04-09 15:18:22 UTC

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I found a different way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Tp8-NjsvM

2026-04-09 14:06:25 UTC

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Welcome
If you'd like some help about this weird protocol we call NOSTR I wrote some guides here:
https://mikehardcastle.com/
I would start with this one here for some basic concepts:
https://mikehardcastle.com/2024/08/26/nostr-a-social-media-protocol-for-the-next-epoch/
If you have questions, the tag #asknostr is a good place to start.
Enjoy freedom speech and money.

2026-04-09 13:27:10 UTC

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Touché 😂
Also, I tick 5 of the 8 checkmarks for low intelligence according to this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPWVVkx3px8

2026-04-09 13:24:13 UTC

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Great minds 😂

2026-04-09 13:20:03 UTC

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It was inspired by this:
#nevent1q…ldvq

2026-04-09 09:35:43 UTC

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Solved by Perplexity Comet Browser!

2026-04-09 09:35:09 UTC

WORD5 #552 3/6
⬛🟧⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟧🟧⬛⬛
🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪
https://otherstuff.ai/word5/

2026-04-09 09:24:54 UTC

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It gives you the financial freedom to buy a better wrench than the guy attacking you 😂

2026-04-09 09:16:03 UTC

https://v.nostr.build/MehmksBgKQqMabb5.mp4

2026-04-09 08:32:35 UTC

GM
Don't mention AI 😂
https://i.nostr.build/QnHs2UEjbCinhv5t.jpg

2026-04-08 18:45:39 UTC

Hear me out, Oil is now denominated in:
https://i.nostr.build/uTCb0qJc61tCfmE3.jpg

2026-04-08 18:41:12 UTC

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Petroshi's 😂

2026-04-08 14:25:15 UTC

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Switching to physics for humour due to lack of comfort with current direction of euphemism 😅
My mate Max said he has perfected his Planck length and the time 🥁

2026-04-08 14:06:14 UTC

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You should see my plank 😂

2026-04-08 14:02:56 UTC

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Should I complain to the parish council?
He’s only strinmed half the bank 😂
https://npub1aqakd28d95muqlg6h6nwrvqq5925n354prayckr424k49vzjds4s0c237n.blossom.band/b9ecbc1daed7c58ff1315a1842a7d4738e3a4875a086d1ecec0c2b280a78855b.jpg
#nevent1q…f4x2

2026-04-08 13:51:08 UTC

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Agency? I thought it was Acronym!
That explain the response when I applied to the "GFY" 🫩

2026-04-08 13:41:33 UTC

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You'll be fine, don't worry 😉
https://i.nostr.build/zNWIl7qLiWFCJoYB.jpg

2026-04-08 13:38:30 UTC

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Yes, my Comet browser did this!
Zapping Sats back, because I'm an honest cheater 😂

2026-04-08 13:36:27 UTC

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I let it loose on the NOSTR version 👀
#nevent1q…q7c4

2026-04-08 13:33:51 UTC

WORD5 #551 3/6
⬛⬛🟪⬛🟪
⬛🟪🟪⬛🟪
🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪
https://otherstuff.ai/word5/

2026-04-08 13:24:38 UTC

Hey @npub162z…tdhy
My agentic browser is great at WORDLE 😂
https://i.nostr.build/5iIMpVjDJ3tEdmku.jpg

2026-04-08 13:09:22 UTC

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I've done this twice in my life, not as well though.
Once when I was stopped for speeding in my own village, I gave the child police officer a real bollocking for allowing people like me to speed in my village.
The second time, a police van pulled out in front of me, forcing me to brake heavily. I pulled him over and threatened a citizens arrest, he apologised profusely.
I'm going to take this as inspiration to up my game in the future and check the officers for drink and drugs in the future 😂
#nevent1q…25pk

2026-04-07 17:26:02 UTC

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Has anybody told you, your AI image looks like Wolverine, but smart 😂

2026-04-07 17:24:36 UTC

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I tried, I failed 😞

2026-04-07 17:22:27 UTC

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Some life advice.....
Don't call it a "squat break", that has a whole different mental picture 😂

2026-04-07 13:52:20 UTC

Her eyes look dead, it's true:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EviK4p0ZzWg