kurtcroix / Kurt Croix is on Nostr

Running for County Clerk in Ray County Missouri

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2026-03-22 15:16:07 UTC

Howdy y'all, my name is Kurt Croix and today I'm publicly announcing my candidacy for Ray County Clerk. I've lived here for four years and the lack of transparency in the courthouse has concerned me.
My slogan is "Proof, not Promises", so I'll be dropping projects on the lead up to the election that show what I'm going to do to fix these transparency issues. The first is a podcast feed of the Commissioner's meetings. I've been live streaming them and automated the conversion to a podcast feed so you can listen to them at any time. They're not the greatest quality, because I'm just using a phone, but if you elect me, I will use the AV setup in that room to produce a higher quality stream.
You can listen in your browser here: https://kurt-croix.github.io/podstr/episodes and I'll include some instructions below on how to add it to a couple popular podcast players.
As a Software Engineer, I can solve a significant amount of our county's problems that stem from being stuck in the 20th century. Be on the look out for more projects I release that will focus on bringing sunlight to our courthouse and county processes.

2026-03-10 00:02:15 UTC

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Github

2026-03-09 21:41:37 UTC

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@nprofile…6htm did you have a way to do this?

2026-03-09 21:34:58 UTC

Figured out how to automatically upload streams from @nprofile…fkdx to @nprofile…2szn's podstr. Now I just need to figure out how to trigger GitHub actions from a Nostr note.

2026-03-07 04:43:43 UTC

Croix4Clerk: CommissionersMeeting_2026_3_4
Episode webpage: https://croix4clerk.podbean.com/e/commissionersmeeting_2026_3_4/
So I manually downloaded the stream from @nprofile…fkdx , turned mp4 into mp3, and then uploaded to podbean. I could probably automate this in an hour if I decide I want to pay the $30/month in hosting fees.

2026-03-05 14:13:46 UTC

Using full foss tools, I got the commissioners meeting live streamed, from an old android phone, and converted to mp3. Looks like amethyst won't let me upload an mp3 directly so I'll have to find a different server to use to upload that. #asknostr wasn't there a tool where you could convert an npubs feed to rss so it could be listened to in a podcast app? I thought @nprofile…jgy8 maybe made it.

2026-03-05 13:40:07 UTC

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Also figured out if I leave my camera blocked, the audio only streaming still works.would be cool to be able to select a photo so people watching wouldn't just see black. I could make some GitHub issues with feature requests if you'd like

2026-03-05 13:33:29 UTC

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Hey, so I figured out it's just a ui bug. The first video is correct. The second video shows 0 seconds but when I download it it's the correct video, which it looks like the metadata is associated with the 3rd video.

2026-03-05 01:08:32 UTC

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That's illegal

2026-03-05 01:08:21 UTC

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I can only see one of the replays unfortunately. Also would be also cool to continue a stream if the connection is lost within 5 minutes or something

2026-03-04 14:14:39 UTC

Today the county commissioners will be approving their budget during the meeting today. I'm going to attempt to live stream the meeting on @nprofile…fkdx in about an hour. We'll see if it it works over 5g since they denied me access to the wifi.

2026-02-25 02:04:11 UTC

Is there any easy way to make my pfp look better without editing the photo myself? Shows up really bad on most clients. #asknostr

2026-02-25 00:34:08 UTC

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Go to their site and contact them was the last I heard.

2026-02-24 21:28:22 UTC

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Can I search through my data?

2026-02-24 20:32:20 UTC

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Thanks, very excited to see how I can use Nostr to solve normie problems.

2026-02-24 19:33:06 UTC

Howdy, long time Nostrich, first time Doxxed.
I'm running for my County Clerk office and my platform is based around the Blossom and Nostr protocols to solve problems we have around Sunshine Laws (MO specific version of FOIA) and a lack of transparency for the people.
I also would like to explore using @nprofile…xr9w for our elections.
I will be streaming our county commissioners meetings using @nprofile…fkdx. Hopefully I will transcribe them using one of the many AI clients I've seen on the feeds.
I plan to use a client like @nprofile…2szn's Plektos to create calendars for tangential entities like the LERF board to post their events so folks can more easily see and attend them.
#introductions