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

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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 👊🏽

2026-04-14 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

2026-04-11 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
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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 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
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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
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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
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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.

2026-04-02 13:25:33 UTC

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2026-04-02 02:19:57 UTC

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Thanks. I overcame the notion that sewing is a gender based skill a long time ago. Back in my skydiving days my local rigger built full rigs, containers, main canopies and reserve parachutes. Sewing was obviously a big part of it. The first 120ft2 sport parachute I ever bought, I cut all of the panels of zero porosity nylon and all of the spectra line sets to length with a hotknife, according to the cut list and the cardboard templates. Then I cut the webbing for the risers and the steering toggles, and handed the whole thing to Chris to sew together. I ended up getting a $1200 parachute for about $800 by doing the cutting. It was a pretty cool feeling deploying that thing for the first time at terminal velocity and praying it didn’t blow up from the opening shock. My buddy had half of his canopy totally blow out once and we happened to have a video telemetre on him when it happened. I swear you could see his eyes suddenly get bigger lol.

2026-04-02 01:39:43 UTC

This $30 Amazon sewing kit plus some add-in larger needles has already saved $100 worth of socks, $200 worth of hunting gear, and these, my fav ugly but earth-grounding and live-in footwear. I can’t wait to get some traditional buckskin ones from a certain nostrich. Not a beautiful repair, but these mocs cost about $115. #prepstr #depressioneraskills
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2026-04-01 22:52:41 UTC

My uncle just sent me these from a bar near Kennedy.
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2026-04-01 14:46:33 UTC

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My Dad’s wife is a real pro gardener and she swears by this outlet:
https://www.westcoastseeds.com/

2026-04-01 00:37:38 UTC

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Nice work. It’s cool for inexpensive meals that last a long time, to do 3 gallons of a soup and freeze it in Pyrex single or double serving containers. Shy on groceries one night? Partially defrost one so you can bust out the cube of frozen soup into a pot. Place on low to 3 and walk away for a half hour while you go about your chores. Your nose will tell you when supper is ready.

2026-03-31 04:57:06 UTC

I said goodbye to my Dad at 5:30am this morning before I started the 12hr drive back home. After celebrating his 80th birthday with him yesterday, it was one of the more memorable goodbyes.
When I turned 13 my Dad started treating me like a man. The days of holding his hand as we walked up from the field to the house for dinner ended. The hugs turned to handshakes. The words “I love you” were replaced by approving nods. The expectation of taking care of the chores and not being a slacker when he was away on business were non negotiable.
Through the next three decades of my early and middle adulthood, any hint of affection from me or even a simple attempt at a hug when leaving after a visit was met with a stiffness and a seeming disdain for anything resembling emotion.
This morning I shook my Dad’s hand before I left. He thanked me for the visit and even told me how much it meant that I took the time to come over from a province away for his birthday.
As we parted I gave him a hug and said “I love you Dad.” as I turned away. And for the first time in 40 years that hard ass said “Love you too.” Blew me away lol.
I’m going to miss him when he’s gone. I’ll be forever thankful for his quiet, Spartan reserve, that he instilled a work ethic in his kids, and that he taught me to “mean it” when I do or say something. #dadstr
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2026-03-31 04:07:43 UTC

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Nice cave.

2026-03-31 03:44:43 UTC

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You just did. Preorder #1 right here

2026-03-31 03:40:49 UTC

Happy to say I just got back from the return 12hr drive. 24 hours of driving in the past 4 days for a golden 24 waking hours hanging out with family. And did the whole trip on gas retailer gift cards purchased with Bitcoin. They worked!
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2026-03-31 03:36:27 UTC

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What a haul

2026-03-31 03:34:08 UTC

I ❤️ SLNT gear.
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2026-03-31 03:12:23 UTC

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Buried 40gal drums. That’s what we used at the pork farm for animals that succumbed to this or that. Seething with maggots. We called it the pig eater. But good luck retrieving the byproducts

2026-03-30 04:11:09 UTC

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JHFC SMH

2026-03-30 04:08:11 UTC

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Omg. A haiku about rabbits screwing

2026-03-30 04:07:29 UTC

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It’s hilarious when rabbits breed. The male always falls over.

2026-03-29 22:48:23 UTC

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Zomg

2026-03-29 22:42:15 UTC

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Get busy this Spring folks.
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2026-03-29 22:34:03 UTC

It’s funny how popular compact SUVs are now. One family get together. Two RAV4’s one Subaru XV and one Acura CX – 50 in the driveway right now.
My brother-in-law took me for a rip in the Acura and that thing is like it is on rails. And horsepower to spare.
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2026-03-29 19:38:01 UTC

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2026-03-29 15:45:43 UTC

Dad’s 80th birthday today. So glad I’m getting the opportunity to spend it with him. We are just going to have a little fire down on the beach with the family and see how many hot dogs we can smash. Might be a bit of whiskey involved.
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2026-03-29 13:28:20 UTC

It seems to be about the number required to follow to yield 50-100 active posters that share your philosophy and interests. It’d be cool if we could regularly prune our follow list based on “days since last post”.
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2026-03-28 18:22:57 UTC

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European style manicured lawns are designed to consume the one free day that you’re not at work or in church, when you’d otherwise be plotting against the state or doing productive things to get you off the teat of big food and big tech. I’m sure of it.

2026-03-28 09:14:36 UTC

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Yeah I can see why you’re pissed. Let’s go hunting.

2026-03-27 17:09:47 UTC

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2026-03-27 13:15:23 UTC

One hour into a 12 hour drive. Heading to BC to visit my dad for his 80th birthday. Rocking out to some @npub14hq…jjzu
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2026-03-26 14:45:42 UTC

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Good morning for a cold plunge

2026-03-26 05:58:06 UTC

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I can’t believe the mileage I’ve gotten out of my PS4 Pro and a 3TB external drive. Although I nearly never get to play anymore. Too much to do and learn with the time I used to spend gaming. Including getting proper sleep, not irradiating my eyes with a blue light till 1am many nights, and getting to the gym a lot again.

2026-03-26 03:51:16 UTC

Haha sold my mint 2012 PS3 and a couple of decent games on local marketplace for $200 tonight. Met the guy at the gym parking lot 20 mins ago. Funding a little smash buy tomorrow. Too bad I didn’t buy BTC with the money spent on the console and those games in 2012-2015.

2026-03-26 03:45:46 UTC

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The age of personal responsibility is gone. If it ever existed

2026-03-26 03:42:39 UTC

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I wish it hadn’t been so long since I worked with my uncles in their sugar bushes so I could remember more of the tech side of how their boilers worked. Basically a scaled up version of yours, but the tray was separated into 3-4 partitions. I don’t know the mechanism that permitted movement of the sap between the sections into the final one that had a tap on the end for emptying the contents into a 40 gallon food grade barrel. It was a cool experience working on it with them. I was likely 20 before I ever tasted fake “maple” syrup. My aunt used to make everything with maple syrup including maple syrup pie. Have you ever mixed it with a bit of whiskey? Good stuff.

2026-03-25 21:27:41 UTC

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Go to bed

2026-03-25 15:06:23 UTC

At less than 30mph no less.
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2026-03-23 18:50:54 UTC

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I think a major primary responsibility of parents is to “train out“ any behaviours that they see in their child that make other humans not like them. Things can be debated once relationships or negotiations have been begun, but nobody gets very far in this world if everybody that meets them thinks they are an asshole.

2026-03-23 00:37:04 UTC

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I’d give my left arm for a plate of crawfish etouffé

2026-03-22 20:55:06 UTC

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To be fair I don’t know if he was necessarily advocating for it as much as pointing out that such warped measures are helpful in a system whose incentives have been backwards for 7 decades.

2026-03-22 20:28:21 UTC

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Socialism is like water. It gets into every crack

2026-03-22 19:57:03 UTC

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With that recommendation I want to see it. Do you have to get it via torrent? Or just on the Criterion Channel via subscription? Throw us a bone motherfucker lol

2026-03-22 00:14:42 UTC

Gotta love it when you update your GPU drivers and get a 30% frame rate improvement on your fav game.
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2026-03-21 22:22:26 UTC

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I found a place to get slips. I will likely also do the test again with water. Cool to hear a success story. It’s an amazing food and easy to can.

2026-03-21 22:13:23 UTC

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Wow that’s a lot of material. And every one has a cool story.

2026-03-21 19:24:36 UTC

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Been on a couple of weekend getaways with my wife at the El Dorado. Even though we only lived 30 minutes away down the valley, it is a nice place. The Grand resort towers downtown is so nice too. We went there for our honeymoon. If you’re ever going back there let me know. I know every epic hike in the area.

2026-03-21 19:10:20 UTC

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That’s cool that you’ve been there. The back side of Boucherie Mountain where Mission Hill Winery is located is the first place I ever rapelled on rock.

2026-03-21 18:53:54 UTC

Meanwhile back home
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2026-03-21 18:50:27 UTC

Spring in the Okanagan Valley BC. Still pretty slippery at altitude.
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2026-03-21 18:46:32 UTC

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Yeah concrete waits for no one. If you’re not ready for your pour, it’s thousands of dollars. And once it is set up, even your weeping tile voids through the garage footings are a major pain in the ass off you miss one. I’ve been on the end of a shovel, a jackhammer and a concrete chainsaw a few times because I missed something on a foundation inspection.

2026-03-21 17:28:52 UTC

I just tested this new faraday bag from SLNT. The phone is reachable but water safe in the outside pocket. But in the main compartment the phone cannot be reached by SMS, Bluetooth, iMessage or phone call. Solid! @slnt
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2026-03-21 13:57:30 UTC

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The guy next door to the first house build I generalled poured the basement foundation, the main floor, the first floor exterior walls, the second floor, and the second floor exterior walls all in concrete. That place isn’t going anywhere, but man you’d have to be sure about your window, exterior door, mechanical, stair and plumbing RO’s. The only conventional wood framing were the interior walls, 2 stair sets and the roof system. I bet he doesn’t need AC in the summer. I never got to see how they did the heat runs, cold air returns and the floor penetrations for the electrical and plumbing, and he was still finishing long after I handed my customer his keys. His subs likely had some challenges I’m guessing. But I thought it was pretty hardcore.

2026-03-21 09:49:07 UTC

@npub1jcr…3whq thanks homeslice

2026-03-21 09:02:12 UTC

As of today I have travelled around the Sun 55 times. 32 billion miles. I am still no closer to the answer. But I know love. And I know it’s the only thing that really matters.
Have a good day Nostriches.
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2026-03-21 01:32:29 UTC

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2026-03-21 01:17:09 UTC

Nice spring equinox. Left the gym to this ugh.
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2026-03-19 07:22:45 UTC

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One of my biggest revelations of the past 10 years as I experience middle age is that wisdom has a lot more to do with what you choose not to say as what you do say.

2026-03-19 07:06:51 UTC

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Such horseshit.

2026-03-18 13:52:56 UTC

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GM👊🏽

2026-03-18 13:14:11 UTC

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Oh yeah it also backs up a Start9 mini PC server

2026-03-18 13:12:21 UTC

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Here’s the UPS I have. It backs up my laptop, primary desktop, PS4, monitors, router, and fibre modem. Then I have a homemade solar panel charged or wall outlet chargeable cart with two deep cycle marine batteries and a 1000W inverter for 110VAC or 12V lighting and very small appliances.
Check this out on @Newegg:CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD PFC Sinewave UPS Systems - 1500VA/1000W, 120 VAC, NEMA 5-15P, Mini-Tower, Sine Wave, 12 Outlets, LCD, PowerPanel https://www.newegg.ca/cyberpower-cp1500pfclcd-nema-5-15r/p/N82E16842102134?tpk=1&item=N82E16842102134

2026-03-18 12:58:53 UTC

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And not that the comments are missed…a quick scan of any of the other stories’ comment sections reveals a pretty good sample of the average literacy and intelligence of the masses.

2026-03-18 09:39:29 UTC

It’s interesting to see how Fox now has all stories on the Iran conflict siloed into a separate part of the site that has no comment section.

2026-03-18 09:16:55 UTC

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And it’s really fun for the kids, stomping shredded heads of cabbage into pulp in a big muck bucket.

2026-03-18 02:34:10 UTC

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I could tell by their rough countenances and the blood on their ponchos that they were up to no good. Behind them 5 miles lay Bodie California, the nearest frontier town and known to be a rough place.

2026-03-17 15:39:00 UTC

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Where do you shoot it?

2026-03-17 15:11:17 UTC

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Not only pricing out new waves of buyers, but driving a whole swath of existing mortgage renewals underwater. One day you’re good, next day you’re “house poor”.

2026-03-17 13:49:05 UTC

Have USS Tripoli false flag odds popped up on polymarket yet?

2026-03-17 04:01:33 UTC

On a streak with this @npub126n…e9ll box.
The UPS was a good investment.
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2026-03-17 03:20:43 UTC

Awesome, heartfelt and well written story from @npub1pw8…dxrj
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2026-03-17 03:04:17 UTC

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Good idea.