thor
Thorwegian 🇳🇴

https://berserker.town/@thor

1983 vintage. Lives in Oslo, Norway. Interested in tech, cooking, history, music, art and travel.

Public Key

npub1cuyfg04rf9gemn6kk2juzw8anmgxftt9mhk2ucu5a27c0f30zacqggzw8d

NIP-05 Address

thor@tigerville.no

NIP-57 Address

thorwegian@getalby.com

Profile Code

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relay.damus.io

nos.lol

nostr.mutinywallet.com

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2023-09-25 08:25:05

if you want to see stuff from Mastodon and interact with it, you need this relay in your Nostr client:
wss://relay.mostr.pub
more info:
https://mostr.pub

2023-09-25 08:01:07

good morning https://image.nostr.build/b12e1af4070418bae43bb96c274c426b2c2e3a668d657d1694454f11cc72b9d5.jpg

2023-09-25 04:49:20

i wrote the code for a synthesiser but i need money to build it and also people who will buy it, and i'm not good with that stuff.

2023-09-25 04:45:53

if you're American, work in IT and have moved to New Zealand, i'm getting Silicon Valley prepper vibes from you

2023-09-25 04:35:09

i can use small words. i swear!
DOC: you have constipation and should adjust your intake of fibre.
ME: sooo... my poop is hard because i don't have enough veggies?
DOC: if you want to say it that way...

2023-09-25 03:01:40

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someone on here said he thought the crowd had become more diverse. but i don't know when he first found the place and when he checked it again. maybe the vibe
was different in the very early days?

2023-09-25 02:58:13

when i say i'm #neurodivergent, THIS is what i mean. these are the results of a series of brain tests i underwent when i was 28.
they show that i'm very intelligent, but i easily forget what i'm told, my attention span is quite short, and i'm slow to make decisions.
a normally developed person would have scores that are much closer to 50% on a test like this. the scores are percentiles. if you score 5% on something, you're 1 in 20 people in a bad way. if you score 95%, you're 1 in 20 people in a good way.
these tests, which took an entire day, were what my psychiatrist used as the basis for my #ADHD diagnosis in my late 30s. i turned 40 this year, so it came pretty late.
somewhat paradoxically, i got a high executive function score. you're not supposed to have high executive function when you have ADHD.
but i think this is explained by the fact that they're not testing your real-life executive function, only your ability to solve a puzzle in a lab. they can't test your life management skills, which is the most important part. getting and keeping friends, jobs and romantic partners serve as a good test of that, however, and i have always struggled there.
i'm not too interested in speaking to any more doctors about this or trying any more medications, because they can't really do anything about the things i really care about, such as serving a purpose, and having real-life friends and a life partner.
considering the above, and going by the theory of "opposites attract", i should be married to someone who is very plain but very organised, so she can "run the business" while i "entertain the guests". https://image.nostr.build/4cdd8f9df03fe6fb88346ea44eb92286619edda99e578842c517e51922d1ff5a.jpg

2023-09-24 19:48:29

Biden moment https://image.nostr.build/1d18d86c92f0e6e0ef8151b4eddd443d14a5f29379dcebc24e3daaabc7e2bf3d.jpg

2023-09-24 19:45:24

🤔 https://image.nostr.build/c3a84ea1d276ccf87472e7647f8c56a3af9d3d665468361b910fb49421f3d869.jpg

2023-09-24 19:23:19

worm https://image.nostr.build/283c9b9a667c08f856349f211eb27f38dc43aa75765f3371bf129cc9a3906838.jpg

2023-09-24 19:18:31

i haven't posted to Nostr in a while, so i'm wondering if the vibe is different here now

2023-09-24 19:17:14

let's see
*taps the mic*
is this thing on?

2023-05-29 14:03:54

mostr.pub gateway between Nostr and Mastodon is as reliable as ever, i see. the posts don't make it across half the time and are often invisible to people who don't have the right relay added. when i post to Mastodon, luck decides if anyone on Nostr will see it.

2023-05-29 14:00:13

browsing Nostr again for the first time in a while.

2023-03-28 23:46:15

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that needs to be listed on nostr.watch and then it will appear in NADAR.

2023-03-28 23:45:33

if you follow me on here, you will want to follow thor_at_berserker.town@mostr.pub as well, since that's where i'm active for the most part. for that to work reliably, you want to add relay.mostr.pub to your relays though.

2023-03-25 05:29:31

still waiting for the microblogging platform that puts a little indicator on the posts, so people can tell if i'm in the mood for a discussion or am just venting my frustrations, and the only meaningful interaction you could have with me without annoying me further is to kiss my feet.

2023-03-24 08:21:06

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it's the symbol i get when i search for "phone" though, because that's what Unicode had intended it to mean, and until this moment, that's what i assumed it meant. Google tells me the shaka sign is popular but i've never seen it before.

2023-03-24 04:57:58

"essential workers" are a bit like air
everybody needs them but the supply is plentiful so the value is low

2023-03-24 04:50:14

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nostr vibe: gotcha buddy, high five
fedi vibe: are you okay?

2023-03-24 04:48:33

the usual symbol for a "like" on nostr is 🤙 and that's the phone hand gesture, so it's more like "i'm listening in" than "i approve"

2023-03-24 04:38:13

a Mastodon meme
"toot" used to be the name of the button that sent a post off
naturally, tooting involves a lot of hot air...
https://media.berserker.town/media_attachments/files/110/076/400/118/397/041/original/8c2d55272c37276a.png

2023-03-24 04:29:22

https://media.berserker.town/media_attachments/files/110/076/332/954/098/142/original/5111613b0f3bbdfa.png
https://media.berserker.town/media_attachments/files/110/076/371/956/533/221/original/f45a648c2b9c3ede.png

2023-03-24 04:26:56

my DMs are busier on nostr than on fedi. people wanting to talk to me personally. it's an element i miss on fedi.

2023-03-24 04:18:33

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this one totally feels like it could have been a fedi post

2023-03-24 02:16:54

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this is a big question that i could write an entire blog article about

2023-03-24 02:11:06

not been super active on here for the past few days. i do have more friends over on the Fediverse so it feels a little warmer and friendlier still.

2023-03-24 02:09:48

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if this was the Fediverse, there would be, but no Nostr clients appear to have a "Mute conversation" option

2023-03-23 18:23:47

me doing 4D chess moves to get at the coldest discount beer cans

2023-03-22 17:21:29

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as i understand it, having one of those installed is fairly common. and the next most common extension would be a Lightning wallet that does a similar thing for authorising payments for zaps.

2023-03-22 07:05:29

🔥🕯 https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_6c45be3eeba5cd00d3c744c23e16e490f56c2f61e90c69c1506da6e8d264bc3c.jpg

2023-03-21 20:11:04

there are plenty of Nostr users out there already, so why even join. i'm redundant, right? 😛

2023-03-21 19:41:30

*looks at YAPWLA*
Yet Another Profile With Laser Eyes
the Shania Twain side of me says YDIMM
You Don't Impress Me Much

2023-03-21 19:35:46

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it's not unreasonable to pay about the same rate for a writer or video editor as you do for a plumber or carpenter. it's going to be a bit steep. but they're compensating for taxation, fees, lulls in jobs coming in, etc. there is zero job security if you're freelancing, working as an independent contractor, or as a CEO.
your employer is only providing you with an illusion of income security so you don't have to worry about it. "everyone else" DOES have to worry though. employees are a bit sheltered like that.

2023-03-21 19:31:39

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if the post hits the 40k zaps goal, and i write this article, i'll probably get far less than $20 per hour. it's more likely to take me half a workday - 4 hours. ordinary wages are at $15-20/hr in many countries. freelancer/contractor wages are higher due to the lack of income security.

2023-03-21 19:29:43

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is this a big ask? not really. 40k sats is only 11 USD at the current exchange rate. i actually made a miscalculation and should have asked for 80k. i was aiming at $20/hr. but i posted it and can't correct it. so i'll do it anyway. i'm from a high-income country. it's not much money at all. the Satoshi is a very small unit. $20/hr is low pay for a freelancer.

2023-03-21 19:24:38

give this post 40k sats if you want me to write a good blog article about how to set up an account on Nostr, explain what to keep in mind, common beginner's mistakes to avoid, and provide a good introduction to Nostr for beginners.

2023-03-21 19:15:02

this advice won't work for the ladies, but if you're gentlemen: the size of your wallet tends to work a bit like your scrotum: it expands or shrinks depending on the weather. it manages.

2023-03-21 19:12:11

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there is some legacy from the crypto world there. first Bitcoin conference i ever went to was in the Canary Islands. it was tiny too. but Bitcoin type people just wanna have events in fanciful locations in my experience.

2023-03-21 19:10:03

*looks at zap wallet*
it's not much, but if you find yourself with little, little is often sufficient.

2023-03-21 18:46:29

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it can't be denied that it was probably important for the developers though. takes a bit of time for this stuff to grow.

2023-03-21 18:29:29

i've not been on stage too many times, but the times i did that, the audience seemed to enjoy it.
one time, i was trying to give a presentation at a startup seminar and i was just being me and people found me funny.
the other time, i was playing the piano, and a girl came up to talk to me, and a musician wanted to offer me advice on how to become a professional.
i like when people respond so i do that kind of stuff.

2023-03-21 18:25:12

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if i do get invited to do a talk, it will at least have some baseline amusingness to it. i can't go up there and give a dull talk. that's not me.

2023-03-21 18:24:01

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i'm flexible as for the theme of the talk. i'm not always the best judge of what might catch on, so if the arrangers of Nostrica 2.0 want to provide some input there, i might be able to cook something up

2023-03-21 18:18:10

if you are arranging a Nostr conference, it wouldn't hurt to invite me to the panel. if you know my Nostr account, you'll know i'm anything but boring. if necessary, i'll wear a fun hat and play the piano at the evening jam session, and maybe even cook some good meals.

2023-03-21 18:06:24

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i'm not seeing multiple stages in screenshots from the Nostrica livestream either, so all the talks are apparently happening in a single room that seems about classroom-sized, and classrooms usually fit about 20-30 people.

2023-03-21 18:04:53

i'm not seeing packed seats at Nostrica. and it's not a big venue. i'm guessing about 30 people.

2023-03-21 07:57:58

someone please tell me the name of this song. i had no idea how to google it so i had to make a MIDI of it:
https://media.berserker.town/media_attachments/files/110/060/201/614/986/641/original/5a62129cca4a2127.mp3
"every" kid seemed to know how to play it when i was a kid.

2023-03-21 07:22:29

💔💸 https://media.berserker.town/media_attachments/files/110/060/064/943/826/728/original/f27aecfca657128b.jpeg

2023-03-21 07:15:21

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like you add features to web browsers by installing extensions, you could do the same for a Nostr client

2023-03-21 07:14:43

😤 https://media.berserker.town/media_attachments/files/110/060/035/241/414/811/original/8f0053586f5aeb7a.jpeg

2023-03-21 07:11:03

i wonder if they would let a client that allowed plugins/extensions into the App Store. i have my doubts.

2023-03-21 05:50:53

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thanks. i might make one adjustment: make it possible to see if it timed out on connecting or if it timed out waiting for a reply.

2023-03-21 05:48:24

got a request for making an account on berserker.town and the stated reason for joining is "making friend"
i'm smelling a click farm. they sometimes find my site and type some generic thing in that field.

2023-03-21 05:45:07

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i could run the checks from my server but this would make it a less useful tool in some regards, unless i made it optional. but i want to be sure that it's an ISP issue that some people have before i consider adding a back end.

2023-03-21 05:42:45

more social media clients should have a PIM built into them so you can keep a list of interesting people and make notes on them. just a field to input a personal note per user that could be searched from somewhere in the client to find back to people would help a lot. it's doable to store this on the network itself because if a client wants to keep private data there, all it has to do is encrypt it with the user's private key.

2023-03-21 05:37:37

i'm interested in debugging why NADAR (https://nadar.tigerville.no) isn't working well for some people. can people please test and report what kind of browsers, add-ons and connections you are using?
MOST of the relays should *not* be listed as offline in the results, so if it does that for you, i want to know everything you can tell me about how your browser is behaving, including the debug console if possible.

2023-03-21 03:52:54

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asking because this sounds like an interesting project to work on

2023-03-21 03:50:55

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are you a web designer? developer and musician who has a Bandcamp page here.

2023-03-20 23:12:23

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i copied the ID of that note and ran it on my computer. it's on 16 relays as far as i can see. but i can't guarantee for what your device, browser or network will do.

2023-03-20 23:09:19

i usually say i hate getting into arguments with people, but if you actually manage to challenge me a bit and can keep going at it in a civil way for hours without even once saying something stupid, i'm actually okay with that.

2023-03-20 21:44:07

*sees some post that has been proven flawed by metastudies repeatedly*
they'd get very upset with their most recent idea if i showed them the evidence that it's no use.
so i won't.
ideally, it should work to correct that mistake, but in reality, it just makes you really unpopular.

2023-03-20 21:17:38

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Firefox is less popular than Edge - the browser that is usually considered the least popular...

2023-03-20 21:16:17

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oh no, that's even more obscure. i was talking about Firefox. Seamonkey isn't even in the top 5:
https://void.cat/d/NAHMpC69duC7k1fME75SiU.webp

2023-03-20 20:53:04

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aha, the one browser i don't bother to test with anymore because hardly a soul uses it these days. maybe they ought to, morally speaking? but do they? not really.

2023-03-20 20:50:56

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it's a *fairly* American sort of anti-establishment perspective to have. we have anti-authoritarian perspectives in Europe too, but they don't tend to be so focused around the money supply. that's quite an American thing to do.

2023-03-20 20:48:12

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all they think about is money

2023-03-20 20:47:48

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oh right, we're in coinbro land 🙄

2023-03-20 20:47:19

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every browser that i use will render it. but it's a bit of a P.I.T.A. when you wanna edit them...

2023-03-20 20:46:38

one of the first records to be recorded and released digitally was ABBA's The Visitors in 1981/82. i had it down as 1975 for some reason. might be some other release i'm thinking about.
it can be streamed on YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_xFpjlrF38&list=OLAK5uy_l2j6c-5-nsg_DE_Vr3W07Lh0AhiJQhDww

2023-03-20 20:43:00

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late 20s because much of the tech and science we continue to use emerged in the early 30s and late 70s because some of the first digital stuff began to get some adoption then - early home computers but also the first digitally recorded album - an ABBA record - around 1975.

2023-03-20 20:39:25

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well, okay, a LITTLE bit of it was specific years - 1968 (the "year of protests") because that year did cause a major shift and so did 1993 (the web)

2023-03-20 20:37:53

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on my end here i wasn't aiming for particular years but more feeling out roughly where things changed - not very precisely

2023-03-20 20:37:00

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the search result that comes up most often for that year is women's suffrage - is that what you meant though?

2023-03-20 20:32:34

current era = 1978 and later
narrower sense = 1993
broader sense = 1968
broader sense still = 1927

2023-03-20 20:30:10

the "current era" started around 1978 or so, as i subjectively judge it.

2023-03-20 20:26:24

the Yugoslavian War happened in 50/60 FPS, on live TV. not in historical black and white film reels from 1942, so as far as i'm concerned, it happened "today".

2023-03-20 20:24:34

when the Yugoslavian War broke out in the 90s, Europe was shocked that such brutality wasn't considered a chapter of history rather than something that could happen "today".
now we have the same kind of carnage going on in Ukraine. i think maybe people are a bit less surprised this time over...

2023-03-20 20:18:35

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i must admit i had high hopes that it might result in some productive collaborations/projects but this far, people are largely sucking at taking me up on such offers.

2023-03-20 20:14:10

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the counterarguments to this isn't on my speed dial at the moment, but it sounds similar to cherrypicking of the sort that you tend to see in Russian media sources - the ones that are heavily censored at the moment
if the Russians were so correct about this POV, why would they need to introduce such strict laws to curtail speech?

2023-03-20 20:10:21

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https://void.cat/d/P4EvgMnTWFV9xAcLhghvAK.webp

2023-03-20 20:08:36

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the U.S. has one hell of a P.R. department. even fools heads of state at times...

2023-03-20 20:07:23

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before i can evaluate if that request carries any merit, i'll need you to explain what you're talking about

2023-03-20 20:06:02

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oh, you mean like with Gadhaffi?

2023-03-20 20:04:13

while i have some respect for Zelenskyy because he appears to be sticking around to lead his country instead of accepting offers to flee it, i do think he did accidentally get caught up in it a bit. if that war hadn't happened, there's a chance he'd be a very forgettable head of state that didn't do much to solve Ukraine's problems. so he got a bit lucky there. historical accident put him in that role. when i see the media glorify him, i remind myself of that. and for all i know, maybe the guy is profiteering off the war in some way. we don't know for sure that he isn't. i don't assume him to be a saint, but i suppose he does serve as a unifying figure.

2023-03-20 19:56:56

in all fairness, there are SOME parallels between the invasion of Ukraine and the invasion of Iraq by the Americans. very few countries supported the Americans in that. the difference is that hardly anyone liked Saddam very much. Ukraine? all right, typical East Bloc corruption kind of thing, but not as brutal as Saddam. so while not officially endorsed, there was at least a *bit* of a justification there. not that it went so well. America created ISIS through that war.

2023-03-20 19:48:01

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as i understand it, there's still quite massive support among the Russian public for what Putin is doing in Ukraine. i'm not sure if the average Russian citizen is aware of how little sympathy this has in the UN. even the Chinese are a bit reluctant to outright endorse these actions, because they don't want to burn bridges.

2023-03-20 19:44:08

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from Norway's perspective - we share a border with Russia and have a long history of peaceful trade with Russia - our hand has actually been forced by what Putin has been doing. we were trying to strengthen bonds to Russia, collaborate in the Arctic regions. even during the Cold War, Norway's been relatively friendly to Russia, despite having American backing. it's usually a bad idea to be enemies with your neighbours. Norway can't accept what's going on in Ukraine right now. sure, there are historical arguments for having Ukraine as part of Russia, but Russia kind of hoisted its own petard there didn't they...

2023-03-20 19:39:20

Putin tries to make it out as if Europe's been trampling on Russia all along, but why would be make much of our energy supply reliant on Russian gas if we distrusted Russia and didn't want to trade peacefully with them? while Russia has always been a bit of a challenge, i can't say the public mood in Europe in 1989 was one of "let's trample on Russia" - more like "maybe this is a new start?"
Putin had other ideas though.
before Putin began his business in Ukraine, NATO had turned into more of an alliance for military operations in other parts of the world than something that was specifically targeted at Russia.
ironically, because he didn't buy that, he made it true again.

2023-03-20 19:33:58

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prior to Russia's transgressions, the EU was attempting to "play nice" with Russia - it's generally just been a world of pain for European powers to go to war with each other, so this approach made sense, but Putin isn't following that playbook...

2023-03-20 19:32:10

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in EU legislation circles there is an idea of "harmony" that has some commonalities with the Law of Jante
one mustn't be "unmusical" or rock the boat.

2023-03-20 19:29:35

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the dark side of this mentality is the (in)famous Law of Jante:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante

2023-03-20 19:27:47

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it's perhaps more accurate to consider Norwegian managers as "coordinators" rather than "chiefs"
sure, at times, the top people have to make some calls, but it's usually more about reaching some kind of consensus in most cases. Scandinavia is fairly egalitarian.

2023-03-20 19:26:24

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making decisions in Norway can take a bit of time. even if you're the supposed boss of some enterprise (whether public or private), you gotta have a meeting about it first...

2023-03-20 19:21:20

there are certain benefits to developing and maintaining websites via a shell
https://void.cat/d/QWvVyKGNnt9Mz8mj3qTZnr.webp

2023-03-20 19:01:08

my Nostr clients aren't too good at notifying me about zaps but they're coming in. this is a few days worth of them at most. https://media.berserker.town/media_attachments/files/110/057/146/118/957/550/original/080e99019de7680b.png https://media.berserker.town/media_attachments/files/110/057/145/895/211/514/original/9767166f134cce60.png

2023-03-20 18:57:33

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who knows, maybe someone's into wet toilet paper that smells like ammonia

2023-03-20 18:55:11

on a scale of 1 to 5, how useful is my Nostr web app https://nadar.tigerville.no
i'm hoping it helps for something.

2023-03-20 18:51:57

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you know, interestingly, i did more processing internally in the past, but i find it helps me think to do it externally, even if nobody's listening. i talk to myself more now than i did when i was younger, so i've actually been moving in the opposite direction...

2023-03-20 18:18:06

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i've just come to the conclusion, after 40 years on this ball of dirt, that i'm not really persistently/consistently into any one thing. not anything productive anyway. i like posting on the Internet, but it's largely not useful for anything...