Dawn

wss://spatia-arcana.com is back online. I didn't even have to do anything. Pyramid started right up 😊
My apologies to the 2 people who lost half their Nostr today.

2026-08-12 19:41:52 UTC

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As a nostr professional, i will say... you'll be okay. I promise 😂 we are built to be adaptive & resilient. Somewhere, a long time ago, I read that an hour of sunlight/day on your face and hands is enough to keep levels within a healthy range. I don't know if that info still holds true, but it's a good winter goal. 1 hr/day for health, supplement for wellness.

2026-08-12 19:24:23 UTC

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Yes! Even just vitamin D helps a lot. My very unprofessional but seasoned advice is Nov 1st-March 1st.

2026-08-12 19:08:15 UTC

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Ugh, I'm so ready for the next season. I want sleep, hearty foods, and hoodies. But I've basically been living on cucumbers, caffeine, and 5 hours of sleep per night, for weeks.

2026-08-11 02:29:03 UTC

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Crazy! 549 m deep?! Is the black in these photos the intrusive lava flow that I'm reading about?

2026-08-11 02:12:08 UTC

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😂 noted.
No, I don't travel much unfortunately, but I'll definitely do some reading about it.

2026-08-11 01:58:09 UTC

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Neat! I would love to see that someday.

2026-08-11 01:51:49 UTC

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Definitely. My picture isn't the best but there is evidence of that in the river, where the dolomite slabs have shifted into a practically vertical position

2026-08-11 01:16:43 UTC

I'm gonna turn up the geological nerdiness to a macro scale for a minute...
This is a syncline:
https://dawn.blossom.band/6f1d9f349f6fe1640ea2b0d1081ff8c5767f91f625b3d0cdbdbdc422789f60bc.jpg
Not far off, to what would be the left in this photo, is a thrust fault subduction zone where the younger plate was overtaken by an older plate. (It's a cool spot to explore. There's a 2 ft wide creek at the center of it. Within a couple of steps, you can be in 2 very different geologic, and in turn ecologic, environments.) The massive thrust pressure and relatively high rate of speed at which the thrusting events occurrd created a series of dramatic synclines and anticlines that make up the backbone of the entire ridge. This particular section buckled and collapsed, creating the canyon that channels the river that is there today.
https://dawn.blossom.band/be8a44c08c0ca8fdf0a0f314dea88eee30b82719d85e6e0d6289a65a651fe444.jpg

2026-08-10 04:08:48 UTC

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This is cool! I wanna order one 😅

2026-08-09 01:49:03 UTC

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Thank you

2026-08-08 23:17:08 UTC

On the latest edition of strangeness with strangers... I went for a walk along a stretch of river I don't visit often. The water level is at a near record low, so I thought maybe I could find some more agates or other cool rocks that aren't usually exposed. I wasn't completely out of civilization, but far enough that there were no houses or traffic nearby. I hadn't been walking very long nor found anything pretty yet, when a barefoot old man in swimming trunks came down the bank from above. He walked over to me and said, "Hi, I'm here to go for a swim. What are you doing?"
I told him I was looking for agates since the water was so low. We talked about the conditions. He asked what I do with the agates. I told him that was still in debate. He said, "Well, I am going to swim now." As he turned to walk away, I looked down at the water's edge and a little glimmer of yellow caught my eye. I reached into the water and pulled out the most beautiful little vibrant bumblebee colored agate.
https://dawn.blossom.band/1241fabfddbc70d27bc303bc4e1fe4fed83f96f883acbc2ce2ba3de3699bb8f2.jpg
Of course I was excited, so I doubled down on searching for others in that area. I went up and down that stretch of river, as the old man swam a few hundred yards away. I found nothing but a few underwhelming fossils.
On my way back to the spot where you can easily ascend the bank, the old man came walking out of the water and up to me. He said "Here, I found this for you. It's not an agate but it's pretty," and he handed me a sun bleached mussel shell with a perfectly shimmery interior.
https://dawn.blossom.band/67a3659df1fa13105c2c50950b886aec82f90be873eb1d1519ae04d35631d21c.jpg
I said, "Oh that's beautiful, thank you," but by the time I looked up, he was over the bank and gone. I went up the bank, too, and he was nowhere to be seen. No car. No one walking on the road. Nothing. I'm not sure if I talked to God or a magical merman today, but I found 1 pretty little agate and received an awesome gift, so either way, I'm happy about it. 😊

2026-08-08 13:07:01 UTC

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😂 that's an astute observation.

2026-08-08 12:34:46 UTC

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UP, is that upper peninsula?

2026-08-08 02:07:10 UTC

I found a bunch of wicked-cool little agates to tumble. There's a black one (my favorite), some ashy/mossy ones, and a couple pieces of jasper with an an agate core. Batch 2 is gonna be a wild time :)
https://dawn.blossom.band/6cf232c0a5ad8c43dc4d6d71411d85dca51a7f3b8156121ecc54c8ea4dbc4502.jpg
#rockstr

2026-08-08 01:34:49 UTC

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I'm curious what the machine whisperers will have to say after some scrutiny, because from a user perspective, this sounds very compelling.
This fellow is the umbrel guy, right?

2026-08-08 00:40:00 UTC

https://youtube.com/watch?v=H3pDESkUvJ8&is=N6kHEYhMuzDcha9i

2026-08-07 17:49:29 UTC

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I don't really know. We were taught some about Native American history and lore in school but I was a terrible student.

2026-08-07 17:44:12 UTC

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💯 #metoo

2026-08-07 16:42:43 UTC

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Can you imagine the horror if chickens were the size of humans? 😅

2026-08-06 03:57:33 UTC

After 10 days in a hatch chili salt cure & 5 hours in a smoker, I now have Canadian bacon... err... back bacon. 😊 https://dawn.blossom.band/0a286c4cd71d02491a3c305c094308dc9349d42360b7ef18219bd236e38bb685.jpg

2026-08-06 01:52:47 UTC

Spatia-Arcana is a free, by-membership community relay. I am not operating it to provide generic assured data redundancy for anyone. Any redundancy that I do have to offer is a bonus.
That said, with all the current chaos, I'll be deleting a lot of notes and/or temporarily disabling members until things cool off. I can't show nostr to my irl friends right now and expect them to be like "Wow, cool... who are these angry people? Whats a cold card? Who is the pos they want to lynch?" Emotions are understandably high, but most of the world doesn't even know any of these events have happened.
This isn't some warning or sad plea, just a service message. If you're using nostr as designed, my actions won't effect anyone. Few will even notice a difference. But, I need to look out for my own goals, my own people, and my own well-being just as much as anyone.

2026-08-06 00:04:28 UTC

I've gotten pretty good at cultivating food and some obvious high trade value crops. I think next on my list will be defensive botany. I'll call it that... for lack of a better term.
https://dawn.blossom.band/f576fe333c3bbbddf0dcdb00d42604236194ec2c1245a0d847a212953ee82671.jpg

2026-08-04 16:26:50 UTC

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This reply was intended for a different place. Pardon my chemical imbalance 🫠😅

2026-08-04 16:25:56 UTC

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Totally replied to you in the wrong place 😅 #nevent1q…u4aq

2026-08-04 16:16:25 UTC

https://dawn.blossom.band/9153a45f3d40096fe4b38e60ce8f053679948593744acea3d3b2c06bf2f1196e.png
@npub1m3x…a5sf 😅 @npub1nt9…6h7x

2026-08-04 16:10:21 UTC

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...but I think it's a Costa Rica thing. (I am also an uncultured American who lives in the middle of no where, so take that claim with a grain of salt 🫠)

2026-08-04 16:08:26 UTC

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Hahaha everyone's been so (understandably) grumpy, I figured I'd try out some of that culturally cohesive language 😅

2026-08-04 15:59:52 UTC

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Thank you for the explanation! I was trying to figure this one out but I was only coming up with wrong) but what seemed to be logical) answers. 😅

2026-08-04 13:06:03 UTC

I'm a few min late...
Nostr Study Group... come renew your pura vida :)
https://honey.hivetalk.org/meet/Nostr%20Study%20Group

2026-08-04 02:38:05 UTC

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🤣 I much prefer marshmallow fluff and peanut butter inclusions in my ice cream. epidote might be rough on the teeth

2026-08-04 02:32:32 UTC

...and the pre-polish stage of tumble #1 has begun. The yellow jasper & blue quartz are looking good so far. My favorite piece hidden in this mess is a piece of clear quartz with a band of bright green epidote inclusions. It's going to make a beautiful piece of jewery... if I can ever develop some skill for that task. https://dawn.blossom.band/43f763162a79557ad52567c7cfbbd13581ce14230bacb2c257d2c58364813183.jpg
I need to go on a few lake walks and find some nice stones for the next round. I also have some of the smokey high quartz soaking in a baking soda solution right now. I'm excited about those. I think they're going to be really pretty.

2026-08-03 23:13:15 UTC

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Good to know, thank you... safe to assume the pending proofs are actually gone, yeah?

2026-08-03 20:27:10 UTC

Hallway is one of the coolest Nostr things I've experimented with and a game changer for onboarding people and groups outside of the bitcoin space. You can check out my instance here:
https://sparc-noasis.netlify.app
I've chosen a mix of fun & utility moreso than staying scoped to a topic or tight-knit group. Any Spatia-Arcana members who want to use it have fast access to the members-only space, their bookmarks, and their personal notes right away in the side bar. When you sign in, all of your follows, relay settings, and favorite relays become available, as expected. Mobile browser will give you less fixed feeds than a full screen, but it's fast & the feeds feels complete.
The subtle details are all over the place. Check out profiles, little side buttons, menus, etc...
Expect a few bugs, but I think we're safe from any of the catastrophic list wipes and whatnot. I haven't had any of that. There will be some little changes as this progresses, so if you have ideas, I'd love to hear them.
If you want to practice Latin, reply here with a statement solely in Latin so I can republish it and get you access. 😊
#nevent1q…5kax

2026-08-03 14:29:24 UTC

Dammit, I don't know how to troubleshoot cashu.
I'd been receiving to npub.cash and moving out to minibits. Some time ago, the minibits scanner started taking 5-15 minutes minutes to scan QRs, so I started using cashu.me as an intermediary. It was a stupid flow, but it worked until last night.
I had about 5k sats accumulated at npub.cash, so it had to be broken into 2 claims. The first, I scanned with cashu.me and got this error:
https://dawn.blossom.band/a312434332000b9042aa6b2db8befe195deb7f5f7de9ef787a587d5e0899af1e.jpg
I figured something was offline & saved the proofs as pending. I did the many, many minutes scan with with minibits for the second and got the same error, so I copied the token string into cashu.me to save as pending since I can't find an option like that in minibits.
This morning, by weird coincidence and for the very first time ever, my cashu.me pwa was reset as if I'd never had a wallet, so I tried to recover from seed but of course the pending history is gone 😂🤣 what do?
There's obviously a cashu.me problem and a minibits problem, but is there also an npub.cash problem? Or is that a mint problem?

2026-08-03 13:34:39 UTC

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Maybe?

2026-08-03 13:33:48 UTC

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https://github.com/hardran3/Prism/releases

2026-08-03 01:43:23 UTC

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Hey, I'll be deleting wss://sketch.nostr1.com tonight. It was a good experiment but it hasn't achieved the level of clean replies I was hoping for... so you should probably drop it off your list 😊

2026-08-02 21:13:07 UTC

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Getting over the "crypto" public image is going to be a huge uphill battle in many realms, and it's only going to get more difficult since the public perception of bitcoin has basically shifted from money for criminals to money for professional criminals.
With the size of the current stigma, I think communities (in the truest sense of the term; ie not whatever definition Discord decided on) have the best chance at eating at least a big portion of that elephant. "Big Nostr" definitely isn't going to do it.

2026-08-02 12:56:27 UTC

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💙 I hope you do!

2026-08-02 12:53:26 UTC

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Don't worry, I've got deep ties to the local volunteer fire department 😎🤣

2026-08-02 00:34:01 UTC

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https://spatia-arcana.com/96fed121e0abef1056201e92ab8c6e891b552f1ec5db58f4b13579c5b17a6171.mp4

2026-08-02 00:27:04 UTC

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https://spatia-arcana.com/0ac21655af755cd9e06baa0deefbe482287efade1b8f88baf864e85e6996b09e.mp4

2026-08-02 00:01:40 UTC

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I used to have a friend who could spin fire poi like nobody else I've ever seen. I should try to find some of her old videos

2026-07-31 13:11:35 UTC

Men tend to place a lot of their self esteem on the ability to acquire and provide financial security. There is no doubt this current mess is going to shake some foundations, unwillingly change many future plans. If you find yourself reading this...
Remember, you are more than your money. All circumstances are temporary, and no matter where you land in the aftermath, life is always as beautiful as what you make it to be.

2026-07-31 04:14:52 UTC

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🫂 I miss On This Day, but I can never get connected anymore, without mucking up my relay list.

2026-07-31 04:01:04 UTC

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Finding that spot is a whole other matter 😅

2026-07-31 03:59:11 UTC

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This is why intuitive is more critical than easy, imo. None of this is difficult to understand, it's just foreign. The sweet spot is just hard enough to feel a sense of accomplishment and get a glimpse at the brevity,... while also not leaving things in a state that is so hard that the process is overwhelming and the brevity is scary.

2026-07-31 03:46:37 UTC

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Dollar Tree usually sells little packs of dice sized wooden blocks for $1.25 and Harbor Freight carries a $9 wood burner. 😊

2026-07-30 19:55:37 UTC

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I'm putting together a "community-building w/pyramid" course for not-yet-on-nostr people. Do you mind if I include this?

2026-07-30 19:47:23 UTC

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Wonderful news

2026-07-30 13:52:33 UTC

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Oh, interesting! Thank you, sir! I'll definitely give it a go.

2026-07-30 13:32:47 UTC

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I don't know which one I like more

2026-07-30 03:49:38 UTC

Enough sad stuff for/from me today. Let's see how my rocks in the tumbler are coming along...
https://spatia-arcana.com/4ba9eb0d39d99dc46e55f7aed9227daef44ede549c961cf52ef4271fae784a41.jpg
https://spatia-arcana.com/ad0ad4ca9dd6836611d8e5bf2fc427405db9ffd50cceb550b4583b5a5c60b319.jpg

2026-07-30 03:04:35 UTC

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I agree, it is most definitely a symptom of that.

2026-07-30 02:43:55 UTC

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I like how you've phrased that... being an adult and human action are one and the same. I've been saying "that's just life".

2026-07-30 02:33:08 UTC

Every metaphor for a garden overlays onto life (and vice versa) because a garden is life. One of those lessons is that you are not a god... that no matter how well things are going, things can and will go wrong, and sometimes there is nothing you can do to stop them from happening... because you are not in charge. Nature is.
This:
https://dawn.blossom.band/9aa33832cb22ee7069920b8ac3d60d54247f24068140c2ff923bf0e7858a1758.jpg
is mosaic virus. Nearly every plant species is susceptable to some variation of it. There is no treatment or prevention. It is carried in seeds and spread by bugs, tools, hands, direct leaf contact, even the wind. As a steward of nature, the only interventions are removing the sick plants from the garden, keeping bugs at bay, and practicing sanitary tending methods.
I experienced my first mass garden loss from mosaic 3 years ago, when I planted tobacco seeds acquired a random ebay seller. I watched as half my garden slowly, but quickly, died. Every morning, I could see how it was spreading from plant to plant. Everyday my garden became a little less vibrant. I didn't know what was wrong then, but I do now.
It seems that this year, I must have acquired some carrier green bean seeds from a different, unfamiliar seller. My beans are dying. There is a high probability that most of my garden will die very soon. I will remove the sick plants as they appear and I will tend my garden cleanly, but pollinators are going to pollinate and the wind is going to blow... and there is nothing else I can do but hope that some things make it through.

2026-07-29 22:13:39 UTC

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That might be the dumbest thing I've said all day. Clearly there is an attempt, but I meant it in this particular context 🫠

2026-07-29 22:12:35 UTC

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I know there is some serious 4th turning type of shit happening, but it almost seems as though there is an active attempt to prevent the next turn. 😅

2026-07-29 21:57:42 UTC

I used to think the whole "adulting is hard" trend was a byproduct of a broken monetary, societal, and regulatory system that forced a generation of kids to grow up too fast, just to be left to function in a world where all the benefits of getting older... things like purpose, achievement, family, risk/reward... were widely unattainable or, at best, stripped of their meaning, leaving these people clinging to the nostalgia of simpler times.
Maybe it started out that way, but more and more, I am starting to think that this particular mental weakness has been exploited and twisted into some sort of codependency-inducing psyop... adult coloring books, birthday cake flavored vodka, Pokémon beer mugs, adult happy meals with a toy included... nearly every temporary escape from responsibility that adults have, has been wrapped up in some sort of remeniscent-of-childhood theme. There is no lifestyle, conventional or alternative, that hasn't been tainted by the kidification of adulthood in some way.

2026-07-29 14:44:34 UTC

🕯
https://youtu.be/6S8XV7KAgTU
Grateful for all his contributions to the soundtrack of my life :(

2026-07-29 03:27:20 UTC

Again, I keep seeing reference to big relay™ shutting down... I am always on the lookout for wss://spatia-arcana.com to bring in fun & intellegent notes, beautiful imagery, and a touch of magic. It's not so much about the content itself as it is the people who create it. If you're looking for a new outbox that also happens to be part of a chill community (and you think you fit the vibe) apply at https://spatia-arcana.com by signing and requesting to join. 🌔

2026-07-29 02:40:21 UTC

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Human nature will always accentuate the best and worst of a thing. Getting rid of as much interference with that process as possible, is probably the best we can do... until we all get out brains chipped or something.

2026-07-28 13:08:35 UTC

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It's open :)

2026-07-28 13:02:01 UTC

Nostr Study Group will commence in about 10 min. I'm a little behind schedule this morning. https://honey.hivetalk.org/meet/Nostr%20Study%20Group

2026-07-28 12:30:00 UTC

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It was so close! $10 and he was sweet as could be 🫠

2026-07-28 04:38:09 UTC

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No. Not at all. 😅

2026-07-28 04:36:55 UTC

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Though there is a stray cat that's been coming around my property lately, that I have dubbed Mustache. He bullies my 3 legged cat so we are on strange terms. I don't consider him to be my responsibility yet, but he did have a close encounter with my neighbor's dogs that almost got me more involved than I want to be. Outcome pending.

2026-07-28 04:23:27 UTC

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For what might be the first time in my life I have a rational number of pets and zero temporary ones, right now. Please don't curse me 😅

2026-07-28 04:10:58 UTC

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😂 I could have brought this guy home and named him Bartholomew, but I resisted.

2026-07-28 04:01:22 UTC

No 🙅‍♀️
https://dawn.blossom.band/3da34d8e4a11724ff17e6dd0f342e24a5a52f2bfea2c192db9f2c1d796f182a6.jpg

2026-07-28 03:59:55 UTC

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Finally. Sheesh

2026-07-27 03:13:04 UTC

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Hello :)

2026-07-27 01:15:49 UTC

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No way, really?

2026-07-26 04:52:03 UTC

Life on repeat, in the best of ways... https://dawn.blossom.band/ba5fdcd5dd9b5a0ed2c112cf672df6a0f36683d47d8020d1b62014736b4c364a.jpg https://dawn.blossom.band/51042e8f61574a17b524feaa46bd5dd2065c30ba501ace0a37ac40f0e7a354f8.jpg

2026-07-26 04:42:13 UTC

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We have lots of relays that use reactions to build feeds and couple clients that use them to build feeds too.

2026-07-26 00:31:08 UTC

https://youtu.be/BjyAyXXQM_o

2026-07-25 21:55:48 UTC

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Oooh, that is clever!

2026-07-25 21:19:14 UTC

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I am strongly in the "shouldn't". I had a lazy, hungry winter 🫣😅

2026-07-25 13:52:03 UTC

Chocolate ice cream for breakfast...
#nevent1q…54ul

2026-07-25 12:05:20 UTC

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I was trying to connect, to republish or repost this audio, but clients were failing to connect.

2026-07-25 04:33:29 UTC

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No problem! I hope you try it out and find it as useful as I do 😅

2026-07-25 04:25:52 UTC

💜 with Pyramid's latest update, all Spatia Arcana members now have access to a personal bookmarking service via relay:
wss://spatia-arcana.com/bookmarks
- Mark it as a favorite relay.
- Republish any note for future reference.
- Find them again with any compatible relay browsing client. It keeps a personalized list for you, so you only see your own bookmarked notes in that feed.
You can also browse the whole community's bookmarks at wss://spatia-arcana.com/bookmarks/all

2026-07-25 02:59:02 UTC

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@npub17pl…ezx0 is the Kubo relay offline? I finally found some kid safe content! 😅

2026-07-24 00:48:54 UTC

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I am also starting to notice lots of ugly AI images out in the real world... printed t-shirts, framed pictures, stickers, sign graphics. It's an immediate turn-off for me.

2026-07-23 22:54:58 UTC

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Pears.

2026-07-23 22:46:37 UTC

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Cannot and will not confirm nor deny 😊

2026-07-23 12:47:46 UTC

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I think so, too.

2026-07-23 04:15:21 UTC

3 million years in the making... Agatized wood... walked in, rucked out... washed, cut, and polished.
After: https://spatia-arcana.com/5d6a481a1173ba76247629509a33b02e169ca67ccc74dd82eb11be676e772bdb.jpg
Before: https://spatia-arcana.com/2ca4d0c210634f76e8dc540b4715da35003bbd36a2e0bb65a9d93b7534a14209.jpg

2026-07-22 18:51:12 UTC

Personalized scams during your moments of crisis... now playing on a legacy social platform near you.
https://dawn.blossom.band/f98e025eca4a15c61c7325f02ef59a1975c27f41aeed4244196257ff80bb33cf.jpg

2026-07-22 04:12:35 UTC

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It is! I hit play and thought the lower layers of voices were coming from behind me 😅

2026-07-22 04:07:56 UTC

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ahhhh... this is tripping me out 🫠

2026-07-22 03:32:20 UTC

Things are just humming along on wss://spatia-arcana.com . We have fun, intelligent, and fascinating members on our little growing tree, our first content bot (thanks @npub1fhp…ds8n 💜), some chill chat groups, nostr edu reading materials written by members, a beautiful collective kind 20 gallery, a couple books (thanks @npub1m3x…a5sf 💜), many ngit repos (thanks @npub180c…h6w6 💜), _mostly_ highly informative btc notes, lots of humor, lots of nature, art, and esoteric notes... and there are so many different quality ways to explore and interact with various parts of the community now.
After realizing that I could actually run a Pyramid relay, I wanted SpArc to serve as an example of how awesome Nostr could be and, thanks to everyone who's gotten involved, it has far exceeded my expectations in a mere 7 months. I have an underlying feeling that this is only the beginning. 😊

2026-07-22 01:45:05 UTC

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🤔 I think I'd like it to have a 1-2 min pause between songs for thunky rock tumbler sounds. How do I make all this happen? What do I need?

2026-07-21 22:57:39 UTC

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24/7 for the next 6 weeks!
If I had the right equipment, I can't say I wouldn't try that. I just got the tumbler today, so maybe I'll work it out by my next batch 😅