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my agent is attending Lobster University every day starting now
@nprofile…xnfk created a liberal arts education for ai and it is great: https://fcf2af38.clawi.ai/lobster-university/

2026-02-27 12:52:48 UTC

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i become a dad in a couple weeks if not sooner. good reminder!

2026-02-27 12:36:12 UTC

i'm getting really into chess. what stage life crisis is this.
gm

2026-02-24 12:49:13 UTC

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zapped for this high quality take

2026-02-24 12:35:25 UTC

to my friends up north: you do not need to live like that
https://blossom.primal.net/acec52aa227e8ca63786a1dfd4b216987e6a7a8087d5f7435fe4e29dd2b90298.jpg

2026-02-22 15:41:36 UTC

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oh agreed, i'm fine with it i just find it interesting

2026-02-22 14:19:48 UTC

women's ice hockey prohibits fighting & body checks, and makes full cage masks mandatory
the difference this makes in gameplay is massive
also a nice reminder that culturally we are ok with men getting injured

2026-02-21 14:29:32 UTC

is this your king?! https://blossom.primal.net/850bc9cd76c65a02f08a23a63c88a3fccd65d2a7eeee40ddc5e6f0fe795b8f85.jpg

2026-02-09 01:06:08 UTC

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trash, and wasted my time. so you can't get them for false advertising

2026-02-09 00:46:48 UTC

i love how robot-pilled odell got after marty spun up a claw
lfg ✨
#nevent1q…vz5n

2026-02-05 14:09:10 UTC

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fair tbh

2026-02-01 15:03:08 UTC

i remember this one podcast where saifedean compared it to 'iddqd', the original Doom god mode cheat
#nevent1q…8zu4

2026-02-01 05:27:54 UTC

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i have that tallow ✨

2026-01-31 23:22:21 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/891795e93ffd049ed1cf22bc489e233efda43fcdfb9cae22ca9ac529e1376c01.gif

2026-01-31 23:18:11 UTC

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this is good

2026-01-31 03:26:41 UTC

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this is the correct list

2026-01-30 15:27:20 UTC

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oh nice, this is exactly what she's looking for. thanks!

2026-01-29 03:38:06 UTC

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yes, correct, but as a kid they were badass lol 🤘

2026-01-29 03:35:59 UTC

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Sanderson's writing and producing so... Outlook Looks Good™

2026-01-25 04:19:39 UTC

false. they absolutely do ✨
#nevent1q…m70m

2026-01-24 23:13:24 UTC

Boethius was a Roman senator, senior official, and philosopher of the Middle Ages, and he once recalled something Plato said in one of his Socratic dialogues, that
"only wise men can do what they desire, and the wicked men can do what pleases them but that that will not get them what they desire."
i think about this distinction all the time
he's describing the difference between feelings/intentions and outcomes/consequences.

2026-01-17 18:56:00 UTC

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yes, i've been impressed too

2026-01-13 14:09:45 UTC

the best part of saylor's recent WBD interview is not the annoyed overrractions to simple questions but the very end, when he talks thoughtfully about books and learning from history
https://blossom.primal.net/99a660a1f993052e4bcc5f3bd94867134bc655794ae70e5c833d5c7f3f370d9d.mp4

2026-01-09 01:17:24 UTC

fun fact: i was unemployed once, for about a year and a half
never took a single unemployment check. why?
because i never want to owe the federal government anything other than my middle finger
values are important. integrity is a thing and it matters.
if any friend or family member ever loses their job i'd rather they get a helpful check from me than uncle sam

2026-01-08 02:35:30 UTC

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2026-01-08 02:35:11 UTC

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yes

2026-01-07 14:04:05 UTC

gm
last chance folks
https://blossom.primal.net/458fd6a34cfe2ed32c4ff3e9f436518fa4c9e0d378508f37ac6b2cd2eed70606.gif

2026-01-06 03:39:05 UTC

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at an airport it's $10
#nevent1q…za4d

2026-01-05 16:21:11 UTC

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appreciate you!

2026-01-04 15:36:53 UTC

every Venezuelan i know personally is happy and celebrating
i've never seen so much joy from that country in my lifetime. the scenes out of Caracas are something else.
happy for them

2025-12-31 17:01:39 UTC

here's to 2026 🍾
https://blossom.primal.net/244e6c3c46760f99f2f783954e61eef1bb16d19c65242d0ada40ef5e966584ee.jpg

2025-12-07 14:57:17 UTC

gonna try to hit triple digits next year
https://blossom.primal.net/0b5e278d55be53d22cab7e581505bb94244f1c118b589f447c6703a71c80555c.jpg

2025-12-04 02:26:36 UTC

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helluva hat tho 👌

2025-12-04 02:10:00 UTC

seriously what are we even doing lol
https://blossom.primal.net/055e7785286ffd326874435136d5e54d9f9a6cd72e30165ac89e3ddb66aebca5.jpg

2025-11-30 16:18:45 UTC

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maybe zap this gentleman for believing in himself and taking action and building a life
#nevent1q…sj5a

2025-11-16 13:40:05 UTC

"While others may find beauty in endless dreams, warriors find it in reality, in awareness of limits, in making the most of what they have." —Robert Greene
gm 🌅

2025-11-14 03:23:50 UTC

i never learned probability or linear algebra in school but man, they are cool subjects and i wish i had

2025-11-08 16:55:31 UTC

"Successful people are not people without problems. They're simply people who have learned to solve their problems." https://open.spotify.com/track/0XRDgVyqwB6xuxJgOrZN3U?si=0Gxr6s66T4KYR5WYGSm0tw

2025-10-31 13:40:07 UTC

when Milton Friedman visited a construction site during the building of the Panama Canal, an official explained that the workers were using shovels (instead of machines) in order to create more jobs.
Friedman replied, "Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it's jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels."

2025-10-31 11:47:09 UTC

gm
https://blossom.primal.net/8cce0499221a9bb2c58307a61a1cd17b774a0191f14d9317827f6ed84f73bbf8.jpg

2025-10-30 02:26:41 UTC

well, simplex is now in blockchain nft land
it was a good run
https://blossom.primal.net/8349ef2d937502edb6763cbe9acf605e063188e8938139e6def0086485143eae.jpg

2025-10-30 01:18:25 UTC

luke dashjr couldn't protect his own bitcoin but he thinks he can, and should, protect the entire bitcoin project
his religious fervor is now mixing with his autism to create an aversion to depravity & illiicit material so strong that it's distorting his sense of actual reality
in retrospect, the gas mask during covid was a tipoff that what used to be quirkiness had veered into a kind of apocalyptic self-aggrandizement

2025-10-23 00:39:48 UTC

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great book 👌

2025-10-22 13:24:24 UTC

its_all_so_tiresome https://blossom.primal.net/0c602f578bfea4e4f935468206c6cb70ef7cadbae1230f12faeb405ee17b041a.jpg

2025-10-20 16:04:53 UTC

Nestle (the candy bar company) also has a whole health sciences division
two of its brands are Peptamen (for treating gastrointestinal impairment) and Vitaflo (for treating metabolic diseases and kidney disease)
sell the cause, sell the cure

2025-10-10 11:48:48 UTC

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one of my favorite quotes of his 👌

2025-10-10 11:47:16 UTC

i'm not really a big schadenfreude guy, but it does make me happy when phillies fans get angry at how terrible their team is because we can finally agree and bond over how disappointing it is being involved with philadelphia.
philadelphia is one of the places in America i dislike the most, second maybe to the entire state of delaware.
anyway gm ✨

2025-10-09 01:06:52 UTC

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what a dream ✨

2025-10-09 01:03:07 UTC

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lmaooo

2025-10-05 23:15:03 UTC

amazon removed all the guns from the james bond movie art
it may seem like a small thing but it's the reason i buy physical media. big things are just accumulated small things.
large swaths of history always get memory-holed by the those invading, intolerant, or in charge
it's okay to change, it's not okay to retroactively change and pretend like past sensibilities and tolerances didn't exist https://blossom.primal.net/864d85532ce3f8ea6db2dbbabed78967396e215e5cdf5c01a9003ae04d0025c0.jpg

2025-10-04 20:28:12 UTC

i listened to the new taylor swift album. it's trash and hilariously cringe, everything you heard is true.
but if you're a fan and you like it don't listen to me, people should be able to enjoy things.
but it is terrible
it's fine, i enjoy some terrible things too. like cheap light beer, and Tottenham Hotspur, and the movie The Chase starring Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson
never apologize for liking things

2025-10-04 17:37:11 UTC

The story of Jane Eyre and the story of The Old Man and the Sea are really the same story.
We can start with Hemingway's story, which tends to attract interpretations comparing it to Christ. (Suffering, redemption, etc.) But really, it’s about an old man who goes about his business and on this particular day he happens upon the catch of his life. And this catch is fierce and cunning and it tries to escape, but the old man sticks with it. He hangs on, tenacious as ever, striving for this thing that is his dream—the catch of a lifetime. In a way, he loves this fish. This marlin. It’s the thing he lives for, and works hard for every day, and suffers for. Pitted against this beast, you get the impression that the old man would die for this fish.
And so it goes for Jane. The story begins with her as a governess, going about her day’s work. But Rochester is her marlin, an unexpected entrant into her life and the very thing that inspires her and sparks a fierce effort. She loves him, and she won’t let go of him. She doesn’t give up. She doesn’t stray. Even when things get terrible, and he rejects her, and everyone around her fails her… she doesn’t give up. And like the old man, her catch gets destroyed by sharks and she’s left with the remnants of what she caught.
The stories end, but you get the impression that the endings are not the point. Things look bleak at the ends. We’re all back to square one in a way, and through certain eyes it can seem frustrating and pointless. “See? All that work for nothing!” But the pages of these books, what we paid money to own and read and think about, are mostly comprised of words that describe everything else besides the ending. The beginning, and the development, and the struggle, and the elaborate descriptions, and moments, and dialogue. All the little similes and metaphors, and the struggle.
Jane Eyre and the Old Man don’t give up. They hang on, and they try. And even when people tell them not to try, that it’s useless, they keep trying.
Hope requires stubbornness and can appear foolish, but it also provides a kind of sustenance and energy that renders any apparent foolishness irrelevant and entirely beside the point.
The point is to always get back up.

2025-10-01 12:49:40 UTC

got the nicest email this morning from an old friend who, unbeknownst to me, has been going down the bitcoin rabbit hole. haven't talked in years, but he messaged me last week to say that things were finally starting to click.
further proof that you can't orange pill people, they can only orange pill themselves ✨
https://blossom.primal.net/f9aa8cbcbc420d50063a4890303ecde2aa438b6d56dd5ae633a7e368dd9f0a04.jpg

2025-10-01 10:58:08 UTC

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gm, happy Q4
#nevent1q…6jnl

2025-09-26 12:24:03 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/316c36a88d73b421fbad89d6fef03da834e18ce43090bb7cfc5c0a823fd27902.jpg

2025-09-20 19:13:44 UTC

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this is v good

2025-08-23 21:40:37 UTC

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yeah, in Wyoming right near Grand Tetons and Yellowstone

2025-08-23 18:36:36 UTC

traveled to the source to grab a memento of the impending print https://image.nostr.build/8ce0b7be7aa9bab66eb9d553fda3ea834fa951603c9f1dd64ada5276c32311e9.jpg

2025-08-11 00:18:06 UTC

this should have been the easiest thing for all of us to agree on ffs https://image.nostr.build/6aa267e30158994411f3c2f3a5d2b74ec07461d152e95bbcba46c2fd5bc319e9.jpg

2025-07-26 17:34:15 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/dc457c9a93dd3ad9765ac72e5ce320b65c24ec3754cd0083e2107976de5ed182.jpg

2025-07-26 14:40:40 UTC

might fuck around and mow the lawn while listening to an audiobook about the Rothschilds

2025-07-25 11:31:17 UTC

i am so sick of seeing pedro pascal at this point
gm

2025-07-24 01:22:41 UTC

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ah, that's awesome. glad to hear it!

2025-07-24 01:06:31 UTC

i hope John Vallis is doing well

2025-07-22 18:05:58 UTC

what is it called when things are generally going good for someone and they have no complaints which prompts them to feel guilty so they find something sad or unfortunate to focus on and feel bad about
does this have a name? is this a thing?

2025-07-18 12:03:58 UTC

the best part about this coldplay concert thing is that the head of hr is the person who lectures grown adults about ethical behavior and how to behave in the workplace

2025-07-17 11:21:52 UTC

i'm not selling you my bitcoin for $118,000 lol, try again.
and while you think about your lowball offer i'll keep gathering more of it.
see how this works?
gm

2025-07-14 12:02:21 UTC

the number of family members and friends who have ignored my advice regarding bitcoin over the years has finally exceeded the number of fucks i have to give
from now on i'm just gonna stay humble and stack sats about it
gm ✌🌅

2025-07-13 13:50:43 UTC

most people aren't getting enough (any?) sunshine regularly
most people aren't sweating enough (at all?) regularly
even people who have a casual gym habit are inside under flourescent lighting and tend to stop just short of that uncomfortable zone of sweating profusely
fix your sun fear and sweat aversion
gm

2025-07-12 22:07:10 UTC

"Some days I lean back and wonder if the Bitcoin protocol is actually mining *us*, minting newer, better, more sovereign individuals in the process. I like to think that’s what artists are doing too: taking our scarce time and attention and returning something that feels well spent and meaningful.
I usually come away from both musical concerts and bitcoin insights feeling changed somehow, more in tune with what’s going on and what really matters, feeling the sense that we’re all in concert with one another with bitcoin helping to ensure that our concert is in tune, on time, and grounded in the same key."
https://www.citadel21.com/bitcoin-and-music

2025-07-09 00:09:17 UTC

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ah damn, most stuff is next week including bitdevs on thursday https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-park-austin/

2025-06-16 01:24:57 UTC

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zapped for a quality looking burger

2025-06-13 01:03:34 UTC

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abso fuckin lutely

2025-06-13 00:45:41 UTC

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zapped for Carl's bacon fund

2025-06-11 23:39:06 UTC

your entire life can begin changing tomorrow if you just start making decisions differently
most people attribute to outside circumstances what was created by their own choices
choose better

2025-06-06 11:38:38 UTC

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being advanced technologically is not the same thing as progress, and knowledge is not the same thing as judgement
#nevent1q…lwzz

2025-05-30 20:03:45 UTC

patience is the key to every great recipe
listen to me, this is important: the secret ingredient you keep asking for is *you calming the f down*
pump the brakes. relax.
good things take time.

2025-05-30 12:18:08 UTC

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a strange event to pay so much money to go to

2025-05-28 11:16:12 UTC

"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant." —Helen Keller
gm

2025-05-28 00:06:54 UTC

turns out "buy bitcoin" isn't the dealbreaker for people but "read these books and articles to understand why" is
you can literally tell someone "here, read these books, they will make you rich" and 9 out of 10 people won't read even one
those numbers seem at first glance like exaggerations but i've lived long enough and had enough firsthand experience to know they are probably underestimations
plenty of time to netflix, to scroll, to go to bars, to watch sportsball
no time to read

2025-05-19 12:52:07 UTC

"you know how there are 100 cents in 1 dollar? well there are 100,000,000 sats in 1 bitcoin. same idea."
sats are not confusing.
there are lots of confusing, unintuitive aspects to bitcoin but sats is not one of them.
please move on

2025-05-09 14:48:57 UTC

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Ingredients:
between 3/4 cup and 1 cup of fresh orange juice (~ 3 oranges)
3 Tbsp grass fed beef gelatin powder
3 Tbsp raw honey
1-2 teaspoons royal jelly
juice from half a lemon
Pinch of salt
Directions:
1. pour orange juice & lemon juice in a saucepan and sprinkle gelatin evenly so it can bloom (soak/absorb) for 8 minutes.
2. turn on stove to low heat while stirring until the gelatin has dissolved.
3. once dissolved, take the saucepan off the heat and add salt, honey and royal jelly. Whisk everything together until well mixed.
4. pour the mixture into some silicone gummy molds and refrigerate for a few hours

2025-05-09 14:48:30 UTC

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2025-05-09 11:29:38 UTC

y'all need to be collagen maxxing
made these gummy treats with nothing but grass fed pasture raised bovine gelatin, fresh orange juice and lemon juice, raw honey, royal jelly, and a little salt.
gm
https://image.nostr.build/63628e54440fa58cab196adfa1949c796e01d7c06e1db3396f6e5aba111cf1a5.jpg

2025-05-08 11:13:40 UTC

shortly after i trapped a possum, a big raccoon decided to pry open my chimney cap and fell in. the sides of the chimney were too slick for it to climb out, so it was just in there making noises for a week. awful.
turns out all you need to do is drop in a knotted rope so it can climb out. homie was gone in less than 12 hours.
gm

2025-05-06 22:43:24 UTC

many people give up alcohol at some point and when you ask them why they usually tell you how they don't like how it makes them behave.
"i just drink myself sick" "i'll go buy drugs" "i get violent" "i gamble too much"
true story: awhile back i was out for the night, drinking and rabblerousing no doubt, and came home around 11. decided to crack open a beer before bed. hopped on amazon, browsed for probably an hour, and eventually passed out.
couple days later this shows up at my door 👇😅 so no, i have not given up drinking. of all the decisions i've made in my day this is still probably the least problematic.
https://image.nostr.build/adddac27240ecb3185af6315c6e991fee3051825f2ad8c78a9f86d72ff6e3a0d.jpg #bookstr

2025-05-03 20:49:40 UTC

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ooo i like that

2025-04-28 11:48:46 UTC

if you mix a couple large spoonfuls of greek yogurt with half a scoop of chocolate protein powder it turns into a delicious thick chocolate mousse
gm

2025-04-25 02:20:08 UTC

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most people i know aren't ready for this level of truth lol
#nevent1q…sdhl

2025-04-22 23:43:38 UTC

always helpful to remember that life is coming from you not at you

2025-04-22 19:04:01 UTC

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LOVE THIS

2025-04-19 17:30:30 UTC

i've taken a different approach to my man cave
basements are not the way https://image.nostr.build/53662a9bc1a9d6a1ed7d1e00fa05b1db1e4a62e7fbd42630d34a450c6287e351.jpg

2025-04-10 13:54:53 UTC

grok ai doesn't know what a merlot steak is
a quick google search got me the answer: it's from the hind legs, between the round and the shank. only two per animal. https://image.nostr.build/5d954a24534742d3fbd7b0149c7800861f314a106932d40a06678e0ddeb1ec9d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/55221f98cd2309bdf16ff029b4578cf20e41215b6f968107ca724732d0a863eb.jpg

2025-04-09 12:51:57 UTC

i don't know which podcaster needs to hear this but i'm not buying an eight sleep
gm

2025-04-05 14:39:04 UTC

coworker: "you're not worried about your 401k?"
me: no, i moved that into bitcoin years ago.
coworker: "wait are you joking?"
me: https://image.nostr.build/838042eea4e3978c5b6444c7afd7e0c6a4edb20ad89b21da3efd6db64bcb2288.gif

2025-04-03 01:35:00 UTC

i'm trying to catch a possum using a (humane, relax) trap baited with marshmallows so the neighbor's cat doesn't get caught.
any tips would be appreciated. so far all i have to show for it is fewer marshmallows.

2025-03-27 11:43:25 UTC

i am ghibli'd out
gm

2025-03-21 11:49:22 UTC

optimization-focused influencers who spent their careers optimizing are still struggling on the dating scene and can't seem to optimize their way into a long-term relationship
i won't name names but more than a few i've listened to have been noticeably despondent and frustrated in recent years as you watch them grapple with uncertainty about what exactly they have been optimizing towards https://image.nostr.build/1939992b5e7561b179d47b60a575ab2a9ca0d2d2cf514aa3caf8954365ca8639.jpg