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Northern Canadian outdoorsman, prepper, Bitcoin pleb, and sovereign computing maxi.

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2026-05-04 02:26:02 UTC

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Correction Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet Tour ‘87. Bad Medicine came out in 88

2026-05-03 05:50:05 UTC

After a long workday on the yard and house on 4½ hrs sleep, I had a little siesta from 4-5:30. I woke to a text from my Dad that he had suffered a heart attack earlier in the day while cutting the lawn. He’s 80. I called him and it just crushed me hearing the obvious labour to his breathing. Vitals are good, more tests and possible interventions to come, but I’m just sitting on the edge of my bed hoping his recent birthday isn’t the last time I get to see him a province away. He’s such a good man.
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2026-05-03 02:30:22 UTC

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I got a one year sub on the F1 app and it has been cool to be able to get the content live AND be able to switch driver cams mid race or watch the races several times from different drivers’ POV or a track summary view. Plus the additional analysis content.

2026-05-03 02:15:15 UTC

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5 weeks and what a great weekend for it

2026-05-03 02:14:39 UTC

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Kid is on fire
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2026-05-03 01:05:57 UTC

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Nice wagon

2026-05-02 07:41:37 UTC

I’ve been waiting for 6 months for this night. Truly grateful for time, health, an end of winter, a little space, and good friends. And a full moon to boot! GN animals.
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2026-05-01 15:33:18 UTC

#selfcustody #grownostr
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2026-05-01 02:58:00 UTC

First sprout 🌱 of the year. 4 days from seed not bad.
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2026-04-29 18:46:42 UTC

Great writeup.
#nevent1q…xh2m

2026-04-29 00:39:42 UTC

Here’s a good list of garden survival foods that were common in the Depression years, extracted from a YT video of the same name:
25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression
1. Rutabaga
2. Mangelwurzel
3. Salsify
4. Jerusalem artichoke
5. Winter radish
6. Parsnip
7. Hamburg rooted parsley
8. Turnip
9. Collard greens
10. Swiss chard
11. Winter cabbage or Danish boarhead
12. Navy beans
13. Kentucky wonderpole beans
14. Ground cherries
15. Field peas
16. Field corn
17. Storage onions
18. Cardoons
19. Skirit
20. Good King Henry
21. American ground nut
22. Runner beans
23. Dandelion
24. Lambs' quarters
25. Seakale
#gardenstr #prepping #grownostr

2026-04-28 13:45:37 UTC

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GM Jay 👊🏽

2026-04-28 03:48:59 UTC

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The percentage of people who will go the sovereign route will track with the percentage of people who exercised some critical thought when faced with taking experimental gene therapies 5 years ago.

2026-04-26 18:31:52 UTC

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Yeah I grew up outside of London ON and it’s amazing how similar the summers are there to Houston TX 1800 miles south. Hot and the humidex at 99. I used to soak a sheet in the bathtub, wring it out and lay that over top of us with the ceiling fan going just to get a little bit of sleep and relief

2026-04-26 16:51:35 UTC

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Looks like a black walnut or a tree of heaven. Nice weather back there.

2026-04-26 15:50:42 UTC

I’m not starting much from seed this year, just big beef tomatoes, red bell peppers, and wicked ghost peppers. Everything else in the garden this year is going to be high nutrition root crops, tubers and curcubits (squash).
I wanted to try growing sweet potatoes this year and perpetuating root stock, but they appear to be some sort of highly guarded food technology in Canada. Every outlet that sells slips is out of business and the one I did find in Ontario informed me when I sent in my order, after 2 months of correspondence confirming availability, that they won’t be filling orders this year. No explanation given, just “due to circumstances beyond our control”. They wouldn’t even tell me what happened when I pressed them on it. I’ve tried starting my own with store bought organic sweet potatoes, but I suspect the anti-sprouting compound they spray on them was the reason I couldn’t get them to sprout after several attempts.
One experiment I am excited about is doing some totally unattended potatoes and onions at a local spot where tree companies have been depositing wood chips for years. It’ll be cool to see if I get any yield in the piles that have fully composted to soil.
#prepping #gardenstr
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2026-04-25 19:55:02 UTC

Have you ever avoided playing one of your fav songs during a turbulent time of life, so you won’t attach bad memories to it? #asknostr

2026-04-25 19:21:15 UTC

When was the last time you asked a local vendor if they accept Bitcoin yet? #asknostr

2026-04-25 18:44:17 UTC

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Iranian media hitting the nail on the head this week. And here Orange Man thought he was the only one who could sow social unrest and attack a nation’s currency. Funny thing is they are all working together anyway.

2026-04-25 16:45:47 UTC

If you hear someone curse in public by using a deity’s name in vain, why is it always “Jesus Christ!” or some variation on that? Why is it rare to hear “Buddha!”, “Jupiter’s Cock!”, “Set!” or “Allah!” Is this just a western thing?
#asknostr

2026-04-25 15:49:33 UTC

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Thanks. Doesn’t that go out the window when you’re doing consolidations? Appreciate the insight.

2026-04-25 15:40:19 UTC

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We used to lose a fair number to sows laying on them. Gosh I love those little squeakers when they are that age

2026-04-25 15:38:24 UTC

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Can you please elaborate on the proper moving strategy or consolidation moves after a fork? And whether the use of mixers at that stage risk problems with sanctioning coins post-mix? Thanks

2026-04-25 06:30:55 UTC

What do you think was the first “acid test” in the US on what outrageous act the government and corporations could perpetrate or permit, in coordination with state controlled media, without triggering widespread social unrest and violent protest? Go back in history as far as you like. I’d love to hear your answers. #asknostr

2026-04-25 06:13:42 UTC

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That’s what several tons of molten iron microspheres under hundreds of feet of rubble looks like, for two weeks.

2026-04-25 06:11:24 UTC

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😂

2026-04-25 06:09:16 UTC

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Our sixty something hunting buddy sat on the edge of his cot in the wall tent the first night in camp a few deer seasons ago and started blasting short form content on his phone while we were trying to enjoy conversation and the warmth of the woodstove over a few beers. That shit lasted exactly 2 minutes before he got threatened with violence.

2026-04-25 05:08:45 UTC

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I love telling people that text me TikTok links that I can’t open it because
1) I don’t have TikTok
2) I don’t share mine and my family’s personal info with and allow what goes into my brain be controlled by the CCP

2026-04-24 20:27:32 UTC

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The worst part is, they’re going to keep pushing till people snap and then use that for justification for crackdowns.

2026-04-24 05:11:35 UTC

Remember, this isn’t a war of countries vs countries. It is a war of captured governments performing military actions at the behest of the corporations that fund them, vs other corporate interests that also want to be party to the asset stripping of society. As the world is reordered into multipolarity. In other words, we aren’t voting our way out of this. The only choices are exit and build, insurgency, or getting steamrolled. Choose your hard.
GN

2026-04-24 03:11:54 UTC

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That and panzerotti are so awesome.

2026-04-24 00:45:50 UTC

“My Nostr’s on fire, how ‘bout yours?” #grownostr
https://youtu.be/L_jWHffIx5E

2026-04-24 00:06:02 UTC

My wife made an advent calendar style 21 day run-up to my daughter’s 21st birthday. Every night starting tonight, she can tear open the front of one of the containers on the poster on the wall. Each cup has a number in it written on a piece of paper. Each number corresponds to a similarly labeled gift on the table. We are trying to make it special and my wife is so thoughtful that way. I was considering adding a 22nd gift to the table, an invoice for May’s room and board lol. Naw we will let her finish her practicum this summer at least hahaha. I did get her a Cold Card and some plates, but I’m not giving them to her till she passes a quiz. She’s got about 50 hours of reading to do yet. 😂
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2026-04-23 20:56:08 UTC

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I don’t know if my liver can handle more winter. Lol

2026-04-23 20:48:24 UTC

I will one day be able to do my spring yard cleanup and prep my garden beds. But not this day. Another couple inches of snow incoming. I’ve never seen snow this late, in 14 years up north.
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2026-04-23 14:12:40 UTC

It is retarded that @npub18m7…q955 is consuming 39GB of phone storage AFTER a cache clear.

2026-04-23 00:18:02 UTC

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Amazing resolution

2026-04-22 15:28:58 UTC

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We tried to get Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan but they didn’t want a verifiable identity 🤣. Good to see good artists who’ve brought joy to the world joining the fray

2026-04-22 14:25:20 UTC

"Make it make sense."
Be careful what you ask for. This analysis by @npub1546…f9mt is the closest thing to making the high frequency narrative flip flop on the part of the American regime and news media make sense, in my opinion.
As Simon points out in the few minutes around 33:50, this is not a war of nation vs nation. It is purely a war of rebalancing of world polarity and asset-stripping capability sharing between the three powers: the Financial Industrial Complex, China (as the dominant power) in cooperation with the Military Industrial Complex, and the Technological Industrial Complex, all of whom's goal is to asset strip the West and humanity in general, usher in an inescapable physical and financial surveillance state, and continue to create theatrical conflicts with real deaths and destruction to keep the military industrial complex fed.
Looking at this as a war of nation vs nation for the first handful of weeks is the reason why my brain couldn't make sense of the constantly conflicting headlines. All of our governments are now puppets to corporations, the largest asset managers and sovereign wealth funds. It's why a vote for a leader in any western, supposedly democratic country hasn't mattered for over 50 years. It's the reason why despite who is office, the same agendas we are resisting continue marching on. It's why none of the actions of the countries involved in this conflict have made sense for more than 24 hours at a time. The countries are all in bed together at the behest of the real power, the corporations.
It behooves all of us to give some serious thought to how to live outside of the current financial system so we can still live and conduct trade when the INDIVIDUAL sanctions start coming down on those who won't accept things like digital ID and biomedical ID's and social credit score based transaction ability.
Build local community and communications capabilities. Acquire assets that can be transacted without third parties. And to as great a degree as possible, diversify your income streams to span things that can earn you value "in the system", as well as things that can't be taken away. It is easier said than done, particularly for those of us who are/were already somewhat trapped before coming to this stark realization. But it is the only possible escape for you and your offspring.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/56UyZQ9TupzpTSUtjh9CBL

2026-04-22 05:15:19 UTC

The true magnitude of the theft we are subject to in a debt based monetary system is only truly apparent when we understand that it is not only the value being stolen through compounding annual inflation, but the compounding loss of the deflationary effects we would otherwise realize through ever-increasing productivity and efficiency.
#grownostr #stacksats

2026-04-22 04:46:44 UTC

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Amen brother. I’m 55. Almost every “thing” that has made up the biggest parts of my life have “chosen” me. But the BEST things are the ones that I chose. I CHOSE to become a father to another man’s child and enter a now 22 year marriage, with a ton of ups and downs, with an amazing woman, when I was perfectly content and stable as a bachelor. I CHOSE despite knowing the lifetime of sacrifice it would entail, to have and provide for a second child between us. And I chose to always opt out of the system to as great a degree as I could, when I realized in my early 30’s we were being sold a false bill of goods in the west. I chose Bitcoin.

2026-04-22 04:26:03 UTC

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Layin’ Pipe in the sky. Geez I remember catching him at open air gigs almost 40 years ago. Guy could shred.

2026-04-22 01:27:13 UTC

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GN. I believe…I’ll have another beer.

2026-04-21 20:14:38 UTC

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It’s amazing how code has changed with regard to flashings since 1999

2026-04-20 11:34:06 UTC

Too bad someone has decided to profit from bringing addictive poison into the community. Not a single nutritional product on the shelves. Kids buying fiat food for sound money. Not sure this is a win. Disgusting.Does the local dentist also take sats?
#nevent1q…guck

2026-04-19 14:56:36 UTC

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I’ll take Yngwie’s strat too. My entire teens running modal scale patterns up and down the neck and trying to learn how to sweep pick lol

2026-04-19 14:44:00 UTC

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I think the open source models and local models will help avoid a portion the rug risk but not the erosion of the core knowledge. In the search for advantage the majority will likely also still trend to using the most powerful tools they can find with frontier models, regardless of the privacy tradeoffs.

2026-04-19 08:26:26 UTC

It’s interesting when you think about the adoption and widespread use of AI in terms of the “parable of the two builders” from the Bible. The one about building one’s house on sand vs building it on rock.
What really baked my noodle when it dawned on me, is that AI literally IS built on sand. (silicon) And maybe in more ways than one.
The business world will certainly leverage AI coding tools, but I’m sure most here agree the learning of manual coding must be kept alive. I can see incentives for big tech to get a generation hooked on agentic coding tools of which they are the gatekeepers. That’s a pretty easy setup for a rug some day in the future. What do you think? #asknostr

2026-04-18 15:20:08 UTC

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Great mission and great focus. Helping youth understand the question “What is Money?” and how our current extractive system works is absolutely step 1 in driving change. I’ve been encouraging the young dads I know to get their kids watching stuff like The Tuttle Twins. Links to other amazing work like Joe Bryan’s “What’s The Problem?” and Brian and Kelly Estes’ project “God Bless Bitcoin” are on speed copy on my phone lol. Keeping an eye on your channel 🤙🏽🙏🏽

2026-04-18 10:38:45 UTC

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My dream plan B destination

2026-04-17 21:15:54 UTC

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Isn’t a lite account kind of KYC because of the record of who the e-transfer came from? Thanks Adam and team

2026-04-17 20:10:25 UTC

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I don’t like the shape of that snake’s head. You should remove it.

2026-04-17 13:54:33 UTC

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Yeah fuck these guys. @npub10hp…dxkr and @npub126n…e9ll have us covered.

2026-04-17 02:40:55 UTC

Fear Narratives in the Modern Age
It is migratory bird season where I live. Hundreds of thousands of birds of every kind that have wintered elsewhere are streaming back into the area to repeat the annual ritual of breeding, nesting, raising young, and surviving on nature's bounty.
When I was sitting on the front stoop having a smoke last weekend, there was a murmuration of Starlings (the same as "flock" for starlings) sweeping through the area, occasionally lighting on any one of a number of nearby large trees. We are talking enough birds to change the colour of an entire grove of trees.
Occasionally, and without any seeming threat, a single bird would leap from the branch that it was perched on, and take flight. Without delay, the entire group of 5000+ birds would erupt from their perches and the sky would become black with a flowing blob of shrieking birds.
It got me to thinking. How much societal behavior over the past century has mimicked this crowd fear response? Based entirely on fears we have been told are we should have? Fear of other nations. Fear of terrorists. Fear of the drug cartels. Fear of viruses. Fear of impending economic collapse. Fear of lost freedoms. Fear of standing up and standing out. It's been a century of FUD.
What if, when the first "bird" got spooked, the others took a second to look around and decide if it was worth reacting?
After a time, it's impossible to tell if what you are being told is truthful or designed to instill fear and illicit a response.
Be not afraid. Never let them get to you. Stand up and fight. #grownostr
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2026-04-17 01:09:14 UTC

I can’t believe I’ve never read this poem before. Thanks to this episode of The Peter McCormack Show, I now have. And if you really want to be floored, listen for a few minutes starting at 24:30. Apparently Spotify no longer has a “share from timestamp x “ function anymore.
T. S. Eliot
1888 – 1965
A penny for the Old Guy
                              I
We are the hollow men  We are the stuffed men  Leaning together  Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!  Our dried voices, when  We whisper together  Are quiet and meaningless  As wind in dry grass  Or rats’ feet over broken glass  In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour.  Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed  With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom  Remember us—if at all—not as lost  Violent souls, but only  As the hollow men
                              II
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams  In death’s dream kingdom  These do not appear:  There, the eyes are  Sunlight on a broken column  There, is a tree swinging  And voices are  In the wind’s singing  More distant and more solemn  Than a fading star.
Let me be no nearer  In death’s dream kingdom  Let me also wear  Such deliberate disguises  Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves  In a field  Behaving as the wind behaves  No nearer—
Not that final meeting  In the twilight kingdom
                              III
This is the dead land  This is cactus land  Here the stone images  Are raised, here they receive  The supplication of a dead man’s hand  Under the twinkle of a fading star.
Is it like this  In death’s other kingdom  Waking alone  At the hour when we are  Trembling with tenderness  Lips that would kiss  Form prayers to broken stone.
                              IV
The eyes are not here  There are no eyes here  In this valley of dying stars  In this hollow valley  This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
In this last of meeting places  We grope together  And avoid speech  Gathered on this beach of the tumid river
Sightless, unless  The eyes reappear  As the perpetual star  Multifoliate rose  Of death’s twilight kingdom  The hope only  Of empty men.
                              V
Here we go round the prickly pear  Prickly pear prickly pear  Here we go round the prickly pear  At five o’clock in the morning.
Between the idea  And the reality  Between the motion  And the act  Falls the Shadow
                                  For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception  And the creation  Between the emotion  And the response  Falls the Shadow
                                  Life is very long
Between the desire  And the spasm  Between the potency  And the existence  Between the essence  And the descent  Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is  Life is  For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends  This is the way the world ends  This is the way the world ends  Not with a bang but a whimper
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0QpNmowRcVlT58vndxeM2i

2026-04-17 00:21:17 UTC

Has anyone considered that, unlike other fourth turnings throughout history that eventually yielded to periods of renaissance and rebirth, that this one has a feeling of finality to it? Like we are playing for “all the marbles” this go-round?
The reason I’ve been thinking about this is because of the absolute surveillance and censorability of trade, communications, and movement that the powers that be are currently developing.
This ability to achieve full spectrum dominance over every aspect of people’s lives has never existed before. I fear that it is going to have to get ugly.
If I was 18 again and unattached, with the knowledge I have now, I’d be a problem and be getting out in front of this. What do you think?
#asknostr

2026-04-16 23:33:28 UTC

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Even without this exploit, ledger will never see another dime from me. 90% of the spam and phishing emails that I get now are a result of a customer data breach that they suffered four years ago. How to mention that they rugged everybody ending support for a device that countless people were using with the solution being to simply upgrade to a newer or more expensive unit. And the NanoX internal battery is garbage.

2026-04-16 22:14:50 UTC

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I can’t tell you how many people I know who are sovereignty maxis in many areas of life but use centralized social media and haven’t done a minute’s study on what money is. People I have literally spoon fed to get on Nostr. Like, we are talking simplified step by step online guides, tips on how to get a meaningful feed started, and how to protect their keys. Not one taker. 🤦‍♂️

2026-04-16 21:56:27 UTC

In the past year this recipe has saved us about $300 compared to using products like laundry pods that force you to use a set amount of detergent regardless of load size.
#homesteading #prepping
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2026-04-16 19:39:46 UTC

How is “Bitcoin as money” not going to be indefinitely kneecapped by the absence of de minimus spend legislation? I used to think it was just a case of the legislation not catching up to the technology, but in reality, what incentive does the government have to increase the ease with which people opt out of their extractive system?
Am I missing something? Well, other than a frontal lobe cause I'm still stacking hard like a retard. #asknostr #grownostr

2026-04-16 03:36:49 UTC

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2026-04-16 03:32:12 UTC

PSA:
Every day you practice intermittent fasting in 2026 will be one day you don’t have to start eyeing up your neighbours and their pets in 2027.

2026-04-16 01:16:02 UTC

I’m rewatching Top Gun Maverick (2022). Guess what? The enemy country was two weeks from having enough enriched uranium for a nuke. I love predictive programming in Hollywood lol. #grownostr
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2026-04-15 21:45:47 UTC

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My wife found the magic bullet for this.
- lower cupboard with an upper and lower shelf
- top shelf has the containers all nested
- bottom shelf has a box that you can pull out that has all the lids in it.
Works amazingly well. Easy for the kids to do when putting away clean stuff.

2026-04-15 21:39:10 UTC

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I dubbed my first jump on a sky surfboard to that song. Love it

2026-04-15 15:59:15 UTC

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GM 👊🏽

2026-04-15 15:24:20 UTC

My old Dad isn’t happy about this last blast of winter either lol.
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2026-04-15 13:36:25 UTC

Another fresh inch and a half of snow overnight. It’s expected to continue through mid morning. Definitely going to be a delay on planting this year. In light of the news about fertilizer and diesel costs on the front page of our local paper yesterday in this smallish agricultural town, I’d say we should all definitely be getting something in the ground this spring.
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2026-04-14 20:27:59 UTC

Great episode @npub1ahx…5ech . The most highly concentrated set of takes I’ve ever heard from @npub1546…f9mt , and now among my top 5 podcast episodes of all time. Gritty, informative and inspiring. Great questions. #grownostr
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6JW3TaAT6X7zN8jtxay8BG

2026-04-14 20:18:26 UTC

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Just tested Jamie for the first time last week. What a great tool.

2026-04-14 02:56:55 UTC

A Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
*By Étienne de la Boétie 1552, translated into modern simple English
A long time ago, a famous writer named Homer wrote a story where a leader says, "Having one king is better than having many bosses." But that doesn't make sense. One bad king is just as bad as many bad bosses—maybe worse.
Here is something that has always confused me. How can one mean person control thousands or even millions of people? That one person only has power because everyone else gives it to him. He can only hurt people if they let him. If everyone stopped listening to him, he would be powerless. It's like he has no muscles of his own—he borrows strength from everyone else.
Think about it. If someone told you that one scrawny, scared person was controlling an entire country full of people—making them work, taking their money, and telling them what to do every day—you wouldn't believe it. You'd say, "Why don't they just say no?"
It Starts With Habit
When people are born under a bossy ruler, they grow up thinking it's normal. It's like if you were born wearing a heavy backpack. After a while, you get so used to the weight that you forget you can take it off.
There was once a group of people called the Spartans who loved freedom. They were taught from birth to never let anyone boss them around. When someone offered them money and power to work for a king, they said, "No thanks. You don't know how sweet freedom is. If you knew, you'd fight for it with your teeth and nails."
But most people aren't like that. They get used to obeying. They think, "This is just how things are."
The Trick
Here is the secret of how one person stays in charge. He isn't alone. He has about five or six best friends who help him. These friends get money and power for helping, so they want to keep him in charge.
Those five or six friends each have about a hundred helpers. Those hundred helpers each have a thousand helpers. Now you have thousands of people who work for the leader. They don't want to lose their jobs or their money, so they make sure everyone else keeps obeying.
It's like a video game where the top player has helpers, and those helpers have more helpers. Everyone at the bottom thinks, "I have to obey because everyone else does." But if they all stopped at once, the leader would fall over like a statue with no base.
The Distractions
Smart bad leaders know that busy, happy people don't rebel. So they give people free food, games, and parties. They keep everyone entertained so they don't notice they're being treated badly.
In ancient Rome, the leaders gave people free bread and held huge games with gladiators. The people were so busy watching the fun that they forgot they weren't free. It's like if someone took your lunch money but gave you a candy bar, and you said "Thanks!" instead of being mad.
You Can Just Stop
Here is the craziest part. You don't need to fight a war to get free. You don't need weapons. You just need to stop obeying.
Imagine a fire. It burns as long as you keep adding wood. Stop adding wood, and it goes out by itself. A mean leader is the same way. As long as people keep doing what he says, he stays powerful. If everyone just stopped—if they didn't show up for work, didn't give him money, didn't listen to his rules—he would have no power at all.
Animals know this. If you catch a wild animal, it fights to escape. It would rather die than be caged. Even a horse bites the bit when you first try to ride it. But people? Sometimes they forget they can fight back.
Why People Stay Scared
Some people work for the mean leader because they get paid. But they are miserable. They have to watch everything they say. They have to smile when they're scared. They have to do whatever the leader wants, even if it's wrong. They think they're getting rich, but the leader can take everything away whenever he wants.
Other people are just scared. They see what happens to people who complain, so they stay quiet.
The Good News
Freedom is free. It doesn't cost money. You don't have to buy it. You just have to want it.
If a whole country decided tomorrow morning that they weren't going to obey the mean leader anymore, he would have no choice but to leave. He only has power because people give it to him. Like a phone that only works if it's charged—unplug it, and it dies.
So remember: If you ever find yourself obeying someone mean just because "that's how it's always been," ask yourself—what would happen if everyone just stopped? The answer is: everything would change. And it starts with one person deciding they've had enough.
#nevent1q…ryye

2026-04-14 01:46:30 UTC

Interesting read.
A Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Étienne de la Boétie, circa 1552. #bookstr #grownostr
https://nonresistance.info/docs_pdf/Voluntary_Servitude.pdf

2026-04-12 20:57:00 UTC

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You literally cannot hate your government enough.

2026-04-11 13:32:04 UTC

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Meine Göttin

2026-04-11 02:28:52 UTC

Like a villain
#catstr
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2026-04-11 01:05:42 UTC

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Yeah I wasn’t talking about the light jk

2026-04-11 00:59:28 UTC

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Subsonic
https://image.nostr.build/448167a09ca39d14eae141a0e94637cff45ae5fdc6a78052fcc4683bb605f895.jpg

2026-04-10 17:12:13 UTC

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What about the additional capital gains headache and loss of value that arises from the KYC spend? I still don’t see the upside for anyone who doesn’t have a massive stack. Thanks.

2026-04-10 02:45:50 UTC

Why does McDonalds restaurant empire own no beef farms, but they own children’s hospitals? #asknostr

2026-04-09 19:12:29 UTC

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A slow day fishing is still better than a good day at the office. 🤙🏽

2026-04-09 02:06:51 UTC

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No way did you get one of those sweet new zero turns?

2026-04-09 01:00:26 UTC

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Are you sure that Y wasn’t an “I” lol

2026-04-08 02:45:07 UTC

Before cooling and after cooling shots of the rendered beef tallow from this batch of broth. The result is hard, pure white and you can’t even stick a butter knife into it. It’s not as good as ghee for cooking, but it sure makes eggs taste great when used for frying.
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2026-04-08 01:19:09 UTC

I wonder to what degree Trump and Hegseth’s public statements are now being advised by AI, to maximize the number of insider pumps per month. It’s like the tempo and constant reversal of message is almost mathematical.
#asknostr

2026-04-07 22:33:09 UTC

And…..still hanging out lol
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#nevent1q…a8tc

2026-04-07 14:42:34 UTC

Just sitting in my office and this happened. Sorry to tell you buddy, the plant is fake lol. #ohdeer @npub1e54…w5l3
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2026-04-05 21:57:18 UTC

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I wonder if Dennis Fong aka Thresh is still around from the Q1 days.

2026-04-05 17:20:47 UTC

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Those indirect fired Herman Knelson’s (or similar) with the flexible heat socks, where the unit sits outside and the sock pipes that heat inside is a pretty good way to go. You never end up with any hydrocarbon exhaust in your growing space. Just the heat. And you can plug the thermostat in to the main panel of the heater unit outside, then string the sensor on the wall just inside the greenhouse from the cord, and it will self regulate. We used to use these for winter construction heat vs direct fired propane heaters inside the house being built, because the immense amount of water vapour produced by propane heaters would not allow the drywall mud to sufficiently dry between coats.

2026-04-05 15:23:47 UTC

Happy Easter!
It’s a good time to tell your loved ones that they might want to stick some spuds in the ground this Spring….or not.
The closure of the Straight of Hormuz is already disrupting fertilizer deliveries to key food producing nations. You won’t hear the legacy media talking about this till it’s too late. Best to be prepared.
The Fertilizer Dependency Nobody Talks About: The 90-Day Famine Clock and The Global Food Crisis Nobody Sees Coming
How Qatar Energy's Natural Gas force majeure triggers a fertilizer crisis that threatens global food security.
To understand why an LNG contract cancellation in Doha eventually means empty grain bins in Dhaka, it helps to start at the molecular level. The Haber-Bosch process, developed in 1909 and refined continuously since, synthesizes ammonia by combining atmospheric nitrogen with hydrogen under high pressure and temperature. The hydrogen must come from somewhere — and in 72% of global production, that somewhere is natural gas via steam methane reforming.
The math is unsparing: producing one metric ton of anhydrous ammonia requires approximately 33 gigajoules of energy, almost entirely from natural gas. Global ammonia production runs around 185 million metric tons annually. That translates to a staggering continuous demand for natural gas just to keep the world's soil nitrogen-replenished — a demand that does not wait for geopolitical crises to resolve before planting windows open.
Nitrogen fertilizer — whether as urea, ammonium nitrate, or ammonia directly — is not a luxury input. It is the yield multiplier that allows modern agriculture to feed 8 billion people on roughly the same arable land that fed 2.5 billion in 1950. Strip it away and yields on commercial farms fall 40-60% within a single growing season. This is not a projection from a model. It is observed agricultural science from every nitrogen-withdrawal study conducted since the 1970s.
The geopolitical chain, laid out precisely, runs as follows: A Hormuz transit disruption compresses LNG supply to European and East Asian markets. QatarEnergy, facing force majeure conditions it cannot operationally fulfill, suspends delivery contracts. Fertilizer plants — which purchase natural gas on spot and forward contracts tightly correlated with LNG pricing — face input costs that make production uneconomical or physically impossible as supply dries up. Plants idle, first partially, then completely. Ammonia output falls. Urea prices spike. Farmers in import-dependent nations — which includes nearly every country in South and Southeast Asia, West Africa, and the Mediterranean basin — cannot afford or cannot source the fertilizer needed for the next planting cycle. Planting is reduced or delayed. Ninety days after the planting window closes, the harvest that never happened becomes a food price event that no central bank can neutralize.
## Russia Closes the Second Door
If the Haber-Bosch dependency is the structural vulnerability, Russia's simultaneous halt of ammonium nitrate exports is the second door slamming shut on the escape route.
Russia is not merely an energy exporter — it is the world's largest single supplier of nitrogen fertilizers, accounting for approximately 22% of global urea exports and roughly 15% of ammonium nitrate trade before the 2022 conflict-era disruptions. The resumption of partial flows in 2023-2025 gave commodity markets a false sense of stabilization. The current export halt — triggered by a combination of domestic allocation priorities and Western shipping corridor closures exacerbated by the Iran conflict — removes the supply buffer that had kept global nitrogen prices from entering full crisis mode.
Cross-referencing commodity intelligence and institutional research on fertilizer trade flows, the exposure pattern becomes clear. Egypt, one of the world's largest urea importers and a critical breadbasket for the Arab world, sources a significant share of its nitrogen inputs from Russian and Qatari-gas-derived supplies. Bangladesh, which feeds 170 million people on a land area roughly the size of Iowa, runs fertilizer import dependency rates above 80% for nitrogen compounds. Nigeria, despite being an oil producer, imports nearly all of its nitrogen fertilizer due to domestic refining and manufacturing limitations.
The Goldman Sachs warning — that fertilizer disruption creates material food price spike risk — understates the timeline asymmetry embedded in agricultural systems. Financial markets price fertilizer today. Farmers make planting decisions next month. Harvest consequences arrive 90 days later. By the time grain prices spike on commodity exchanges, the agronomic damage is already locked in. Futures markets cannot undo a missed planting window.
## The 90-Day Clock: Mapping the Cascade
Multi-factor analysis of current planting calendars against the fertilizer supply disruption timeline reveals an acute vulnerability window across three distinct agricultural zones — each with different but overlapping risk profiles.
**South and Southeast Asia (March-May planting window):** The kharif season — South Asia's primary summer planting cycle for rice and cotton — requires soil preparation and fertilizer application beginning in March and April across the Indo-Gangetic plain. Bangladesh, already flagged in commodity intelligence as facing potential gas station closures from fuel shortages, confronts a double bind: fuel shortages that disable irrigation pump networks, and fertilizer shortages that reduce yield potential even for crops that are planted. Pakistan, managing its own fiscal crisis, has depleted foreign exchange reserves that would normally fund emergency fertilizer imports. India's buffer stocks provide some insulation, but farmers in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar — some of the country's poorest and most fertilizer-dependent states — operate on thin margins where any price spike triggers reduced application.
**West Africa (March-June planting season):** The West African agricultural calendar is brutally unforgiving. The single rainy season in the Sahel runs from June to September, with soil preparation and input application required from March onward. Institutional analysis from commodity trade sources confirms that ETG and other regional agricultural commodity firms are already reporting fertilizer supply shocks at distribution hubs from Dakar to Lagos. Unlike Asia, West Africa lacks any meaningful domestic fertilizer production capacity — the region is almost entirely import-dependent. The structural exposure is total.
**Mediterranean and European farming belt:** Europe's situation is more complex but not less serious. The fertilizer shock of 2022 prompted some European ammonia plant shutdowns that were never fully reversed — a pre-existing wound now facing a new one. Slovenia's introduction of fuel rationing — the first EU member state to implement formal rationing in the current crisis — signals that the cascading effects of LNG force majeure are already reaching national policy levels. Agricultural diesel, which powers every piece of farm equipment from tractor to harvester, falls within the rationing calculus. A harvest cannot happen if combines cannot run.
Australia presents a particularly telling data point: a country with significant domestic agricultural capacity is choosing to plant less wheat this season explicitly due to global fertilizer cost uncertainty. When a net exporter reduces plantings, the global supply baseline contracts before the crisis is even visible in consumer prices.
## Hoarding, Rationing, and the Political Economy of Scarcity
History provides a reliable template for what happens when food-adjacent commodities begin showing supply stress signals. The pattern now visible — simultaneous hoarding of fuel and fertilizer across Asia and parts of Africa — is the precursor stage, not the crisis stage. Commodity intelligence and cross-referencing of trade data from port authorities and shipping analytics show vessel rerouting already adjusting to new supply geography.
The Philippines' declaration of a national energy emergency, with airlines flagging possible aircraft groundings from fuel rationing, illustrates the economy-wide nature of the shock. An aviation system under fuel rationing does not efficiently move emergency food aid. A ground transport network under diesel rationing does not efficiently distribute grain from ports to rural markets. The logistics layer — invisible during normal times — becomes the binding constraint when any one input is squeezed.
Bangladesh's potential gas station closure scenario, flagged by quantitative modeling of domestic supply balances, would not merely inconvenience commuters. Bangladesh's agricultural sector depends on diesel-powered irrigation — the tube wells and pumps that lift groundwater for dry-season rice production. A diesel rationing scenario in Bangladesh during spring planting is an agricultural emergency wearing the costume of an energy emergency.
Thailand's fuel shortage hitting Songkran tourism — a relatively softer story in the immediate news cycle — is in fact a leading indicator of fuel price stress spreading through Southeast Asian economies that are simultaneously food price sensitive. The hotel rate cuts and tourism contraction are the first-order effect. Reduced agricultural diesel use among cost-squeezed smallholders is the second-order effect, the one that shows up in crop yields two quarters later.
Japan's record food prices at cherry blossom season celebrations register as a cultural curiosity but encode a real economic signal: a highly import-dependent food economy with a weakening yen facing global commodity price spikes absorbs those shocks directly and rapidly. Japan, with deep reserves and purchasing power, can absorb the pressure. The question is which nations cannot.
## The US Secretary of Agriculture Problem
When the US Agriculture Secretary characterized rising food prices as "shouldn't be too disruptive," the statement landed against a backdrop of data that flatly contradicted it. Institutional research across commodity markets now projects household food prices rising 8% as a direct consequence of the fertilizer-energy coupling. For middle-class American households, 8% is painful but manageable — a line item in a budget. For a household in Lahore spending 55% of income on food, or a subsistence farmer in Mali for whom fertilizer is purchased once per year on credit, 8% is a food security event.
The Secretary's assessment reflects a cognitive capture that consistently afflicts wealthy-country policymakers analyzing food crises: they model the shock through their own consumption basket and purchasing-power buffer, then extrapolate to populations with neither. The IEA's simultaneous call for rationing — a rare explicit policy prescription from an institution that typically traffics in projections and recommendations — suggests that at the technical level, the severity of the supply situation is understood more clearly than political communication suggests.
This gap between technical assessment and political messaging is itself a risk multiplier. When governments understate the severity of a developing food crisis, the private sector does not pre-position emergency stocks, NGOs do not mobilize, and bilateral food aid commitments are not made until television cameras are already filming the consequences. The 90-day clock does not pause for political calendars.
## The Dangote Variable: A Structural Shift in Disguise
Here is the development that commodity intelligence and institutional research suggest is being systematically underweighted by Western financial analysis: the Dangote Refinery in Nigeria, after years of delays and fits-and-starts, has reached full operational capacity and begun exporting refined fuel to other African nations.
The strategic significance of this development, in the context of a global LNG force majeure and fertilizer supply shock, cannot be overstated — and yet it registers almost as a footnote in international energy coverage focused on Hormuz and Qatar.
Dangote's refinery, with a nameplate capacity of 650,000 barrels per day, is the largest single-train oil refinery on the planet. Its emergence as a functional regional fuel exporter at precisely the moment when African nations are facing acute fuel shortages from global supply disruptions is not a coincidence of history — it is a structural realignment. African bunkering hubs are already reporting surge business as vessels reroute around the Cape of Good Hope to avoid the Persian Gulf transit risk. This rerouting, driven by insurance cost mathematics and force majeure risk, is simultaneously creating both a problem (longer transit times, higher shipping costs for African import-dependent nations) and an opportunity (West African ports becoming critical bunkering and transshipment nodes).
The Dangote refinery transforms this opportunity from theoretical to operational. For the first time in the post-colonial era, a sub-Saharan African nation can supply refined petroleum products to its regional neighbors without depending on European or Middle Eastern intermediaries. The fuel rationing crisis sweeping from the Philippines to Slovenia — a supply chain we mapped in our [Australia stockpile analysis](/articles/energy/fuel-supply-chains-australia-stockpile-realities/) — is, paradoxically, accelerating the development of African energy self-sufficiency infrastructure that decades of development policy could not catalyze.
What this means for the fertilizer supply crisis is indirect but real. African nations with reliable domestic fuel supply can operate their agricultural equipment even as global supply chains tighten. If Dangote's capacity can be channeled — through regional bilateral agreements, AU-level coordination, or commercial contracts — toward subsidizing or prioritizing agricultural diesel allocation, West Africa could partially insulate its planting season from the worst of the supply shock.
This is not yet happening at scale. But the structural precondition — a functional, high-capacity regional refinery exporting to neighbors — now exists for the first time. In a crisis defined by dependency chains, any node that breaks a dependency is geopolitically significant.
## Racing the Calendar
Nations are now explicitly racing to secure fertilizer supplies, a phrase that should send ice down the spine of anyone who remembers the 2010-2011 food price crisis that contributed to Arab Spring uprisings from Tunisia to Syria. That crisis, triggered by a combination of drought, export bans, and commodity speculation, produced food price spikes that destabilized governments across the Middle East and North Africa. The current disruption pathway — not drought-driven but supply-chain-driven, with the LNG force majeure as the triggering event — carries different origins but risks structurally similar political consequences.
The countries most exposed — those combining import-dependent food systems, high food expenditure shares of household income, thin foreign exchange reserves for emergency imports, and proximity to political instability — form a list that reads like a geopolitical risk atlas: Egypt, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Nigeria's northern states, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Sri Lanka. These are not marginal economies; they are collectively home to several hundred million people, many of whom have already demonstrated in recent years that food price shocks translate with remarkable speed into political disruption.
Multi-factor probabilistic analysis of the timeline suggests that the critical decision window — the period during which emergency fertilizer procurement, planting-season adjustments, and food aid pre-positioning can still meaningfully alter harvest outcomes — is measured in weeks, not months. Once the March-May planting windows in South Asia and West Africa close without adequate fertilizer application, no amount of post-hoc intervention can restore the yield that was biologically precluded.
The 90-day famine clock is not a metaphor. It is a crop calendar.
## Executive Summary / Key Findings
- **QatarEnergy's force majeure declarations (Q3 2025)** will disrupt 12.7 million metric tons of LNG shipments to Italy, Belgium, South Korea, and China, equivalent to 38% of Europe's winter gas buffer reserves (IEA, 2025 Winter Fuel Outlook).
- **IMF stress testing shows** a 60-day LNG supply shock triggers 220% spot price spikes in ammonia, with 90-day disruptions causing fertilizer plant closures across 17 countries (IMF Commodity Shock Report, April 2025).
- **Pentagon wargaming scenarios** identify 6 critical food-producing regions (Ukraine, Brazil, India, U.S. Midwest, North China Plain, EU wheat belt) that face 15-40% yield declines within 12 months of sustained fertilizer shortages (Joint Chiefs Agricultural Security Brief, 2026).
- **Federal Reserve models** predict a 3.8% global GDP contraction if grain reserves drop below 60-day consumption levels, with emerging markets facing 14.2% food inflation (FED Crisis Simulation, March 2026).
- **Satellite imagery analysis reveals** Chinese state-owned enterprises are stockpiling urea at 4x historical averages, suggesting Beijing anticipates systemic fertilizer shortages by late 2026 (Stratfor Geospatial Intelligence Update).
#prepping #homesteading

2026-04-05 10:50:07 UTC

Time to plant potatoes for winter 2026/27
#nevent1q…amjw

2026-04-04 22:43:07 UTC

You know what really grinds my gears? People being threatened with debanking, fines, wage garnishees, taxation and imprisonment for no other reason than the fact that legislation (often intentionally) has not kept up with innovation when it comes to using Bitcoin as money. And the fact that we live in a world where we have to even rely on legislation to keep us free and able to provide for our families in the first place. Can you even get your head around the absurdity of getting taxed on an asset that was (for many Bitcoiners) purchased with already taxed employment income? I was thinking for a while that since cap gains aren't "at source" it represents the one part of our system where we can exercise the fundamental prerequisite of freedom. The ability to say "No!". But they've really got us. At least they've got me, until I can find a way to market my skills for cash. Fiat employment, consumer debt, at source taxation. Direct penalty and/or preclusion from income in the event you "say No" to any extractive measure.
I spent more than 9 hours yesterday finally getting my shit together record-keeping wise with regard to buys and spends over the years. Jumping through hoops for account access and records on exchanges I closed accounts on years ago. Exporting csv's that, in the old days, didn't even include the cost basis in the TX history. Having to check historic records on price to fill in the blanks. Gathering receipts for purchases made with Bitcoin. Identifying the cost basis for the coins spent for purchases. Encrypting and backing everything up.
The only reason I'm even bothering with this exercise is so that if I choose, I can respond to any inquiries in the future without scrambling like an idiot while the fines and interest on any judgments racks up by the day. Here in Canada if you have an amount owing on your tax account, they charge DAILY interest while in dispute or if you're rounding up funds.
And I can already tell by looking at the data, that a huge opportunity exists for some overzealous punk in the tax office to give me a $0 cost basis on over half of any transactions. Not to mention the fact that in the first two or more years of being a Bitcoiner, you are largely in the experimentation and testing phase. There’s no frigging way one could ever track the endless transactions on wallet testing, channel funding and everything else we need to learn. And don’t even get me started on accounting for zaps and streams (never). My point is, we are being painted into a corner with reporting requirements on an asset that the powers that be selectively treat as either a security, commodity or a currency depending on how it suits them.
All of this shit could be completely avoided with a simple de minimus exemption. In my opinion, zero incentive or movement on that exists or is likely given the advancing control grid.
So we haven't really freed ourselves at all. Bitcoin's entire value prop, for anyone other than people in conflict areas that have no other options, is completely neutered. Unless you want to be a broke ass hero whose family wouldn’t understand why you can’t just get along and follow the rules. “Why can’t you just appreciate what you have?” “Why are you on a mission all the time?” Everyone is asleep in the ramp leading to the slaughterhouse.
Here's to hoping more and more of us embrace no KYC options or hit a block. If I see a "1" on my shares accepted on Datum, I am so fucking out of here. #grownostr

2026-04-04 21:36:57 UTC

The three most important lessons that I’ve learned since becoming a Bitcoin and personal sovereignty maxi:
1) Culture, and indeed all Human incentives, are downstream of money
2) All behaviours can be explained by examining the incentive structures of the subject
3) You cannot have personal liberty or free markets without communication and transactional privacy
#grownostr

2026-04-04 21:22:45 UTC

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Yes I’ve been thinking about the “If not me, then who?” angle in most areas of my life in the past 5 years. If there’s one wish I could be granted for humanity, it’d be for more inquisitiveness and more critical thought.

2026-04-04 20:26:22 UTC

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What happened dude? Hope you’re well soon.

2026-04-04 19:23:12 UTC

Here’s another question with regard to the practical benefit of switching to a privacy phone:
If everyone you’re surrounded by looks at you like you have two heads when you discuss digital hygiene and the importance of privacy, and they have devices that are 100% leaky and in some cases, actively listening, aren’t you just giving up all the gains you realize by being cognizant of the privacy issues, by still leaking loads of metadata by proximity to others who aren’t?
Prime example. I was talking to my wife about an elderly relative who fell for those stupid AI generated “chair tai chi” ads on Fakebook, and was looking for a way to keep moving in a low impact way. He got ripped for a $58 monthly sub, quickly realized it was bullshit and didn’t read the fine print and got ripped for another month renewal before he could shut it down.
Not 3 hours after that chat I’m seeing ads for this stupid product on any YouTube feed that doesn’t have blocking enabled (other devices that others are using on a signed in basis). So an advertiser somewhere now thinks that I am interested in this product. And I have never actively searched it myself. Same thing goes with these stupid “learn to play guitar” programs. I was getting fed stuff like that simply because I have searched for some technical metal riff ideas on YouTube. I’ve been playing guitar for more than 30 years. I hardly need a fucking lesson on how to play a chromatic scale.
Anyway, back to the point. Aren’t a privacy phone’s benefits kind of negated by those who are in your day-to-day proximity who exercise zero digital hygiene? /end rant #asknostr
#nevent1q…dsn6

2026-04-03 19:39:09 UTC

Can anyone weigh in on the real life cost/benefit of going Graphene plus Pixel before I spend $1200. I want to get off the teat of iOS but I don’t want it to be a purely intellectual and tech learning pursuit. I’m bound by work to carry an apple or android device because all of our apps run on it. And the company phone I carry. So I’m pretty much negating the benefits weekdays while I am carrying that spy device. I am thinking maybe I could just forward my work line to my pixel and throw the work phone in a bag. Thanks. #asknostr #graphene

2026-04-03 18:11:55 UTC

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On the topic of three piece bands kind of in the vein of Rush, another Canadian arena act, Triumph. The very first concert I ever saw, when my rocker uncle agreed to take me when I was 12. Three guys that know how to create a wall of sound. Plus at the time they were known for having one of the most over the top pyro and laser shows among touring bands. Rik Emmett even answered a letter I sent him once, when I was deciding on what music school to attend after HS.

2026-04-03 17:44:24 UTC

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It’s so cool that you guys started a show. Congrats.
https://fountain.fm/episode/rMvCzr3X6gB3pBrpZJNP
#nevent1q…z9x2

2026-04-03 16:50:51 UTC

Does anyone have any good resources on the benefits and courses of treatment for microdosing Psilocybin for the treatment of PTSD? I have a loved one who has been in emergency services for a long time and struggles with it. I have read some online resources and studies, but I am wondering if anyone has any experience with this, and courses of treatment that have had positive outcomes. Thanks. #asknostr @npub1qkt…ms0r

2026-04-02 13:58:20 UTC

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Don’t ask me why the glass is on the dash of his truck lol. He was just “borrowing” it.