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Pretty much just my shower thoughts 🚿🧠 But I do other things like... Developer Advocate at Lightning Labs | Co-Organizer of San Juan Bitdevs | Founder of Velas Commerce

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2026-07-05 01:02:53 UTC

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O fuck, you're like a proper sociopath!
So 🖕 and stay the hell away from me.

2026-07-05 00:50:59 UTC

The US is great in many, many ways because it has “Inclusive institutions”. And yes, there are so, so many examples of systematic exclusion happening in the States, but, unfortunately, nearly everywhere else has even less inclusive institutions, and so by comparison we are kicking ass!
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty is one of the best books I’ve ever read. It walks through, in painstaking detail, and with a flood of data points why some nation prosper, and why some fail. Spoiler, a nation with extractive institutions will fail to prosper.
The US was founded on some great principals including balance of power, and because of that the citizens of the US have often been involved and included both politically and economically and that is why we have done as well as we have.

2026-07-05 00:37:10 UTC

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Facts don't care about your feelings. Atrocities happened and you need to look reality in the eye.

2026-07-05 00:29:12 UTC

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O look another atrocity apologist. ...truly grotesque.

2026-07-05 00:01:15 UTC

It’s the 4th of July 🎇 and our 250th birthday 🥳 and so people keep asking me if I’m feeling patriotic… and no, no I’m not.
Now before you accuse me of hating my country… I kinda do! But also kinda don’t. You see just having been born in the US gave me access to more money, and more opportunity than nearly 99% of the rest of humanity. I was born in the global elite. I am wildly lucky to be an American!
But here is the thing, I’m mad at how much I’ve been misled.
I was taught all about the founding fathers, and they certainly got the spirit of the thing right! “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” 👏👏 Fuck ya! They nailed the vibe. ...but then interpreted “all men” to mean rich white European males. Ugh.
Do you remember manifest destiny? I sure do. This was the idea that white Americans stealing land from and often killing Native Americans was totally fine, cuz that land was divinely ordained to belong to the white Americans. "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions."
The story was taught to me with glory. We set out and conquered the wilderness and banished the savages! ...also known as theft and murder, which I later learned about as the “Trail of Tears”.
I was taught that yes slavery is wrong, but you know it wasn’t that bad, and we ended it ages ago, so all is well and forgiven now. I had this idea in my head that the slaves were generally just farm hands that couldn’t leave. They were given houses, and they raised families and had happy little lives. Later I learned about a number of diaries from slave owners or those on their plantations that contain detailed documentation of their systematic mistreatment of slaves, including notes on just how much abuse slave populations would withstand before potentially revolting. I won’t repeat some of the stories from them here, they are as you might imagine just about as cruel and horrific as it is possible to be.
And no doubt conditions were very different on different plantations, but with how many of these diaries we have, it’s very clear that how horrific this phase of history was has been intentionally hidden.
In my own lifetime we’ve gone to all kinds of wars under the guise of “liberating” others, or because it was totally necessary to protect ourselves from imminent danger, etc. And when you look closer and closer, it becomes abundantly clear that it was never about anything besides power.
I have been consistently lied to about what this country has been and is.
We were founded on some great principals. And that whole balance of power thing has really done wonders for us and taken us a long, long way. With those principles and with the political inclusion that we have had, we’ve made a lot of progress! However, psychopaths gunna psycho and we seem to be good at enabling them.
We are the evil empire. To this day the abusive elite are out here holding the positions of power in our country and directing thefts and murders of all sorts of varieties and they do it all with my tax dollars and in my name. And I feel pretty fucking gross about that.

2026-06-26 23:08:15 UTC

I think I've been to 20 different countries. Is that impressive or are those rookie numbers?

2026-06-18 19:30:36 UTC

Sometimes when someone says something atrocious I’ll call them on it and be like “that’s not cool” and then they’ll get all pissy and be like “well you’re not any fun”. And I’m just like, bro, do you not know how to have a good time with out doing some gay bashing? Is homophobia a prerequisite to your enjoyment?

2026-06-18 16:41:32 UTC

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2026-06-18 15:30:56 UTC

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2026-06-17 15:08:04 UTC

Everyone wants to be seen, no one wants to do the work of seeing others.

2026-06-15 14:22:02 UTC

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so if they deny that the problem exists then they don't have to do the protecting and risk the consequences of that?

2026-06-15 13:44:06 UTC

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so ... men don't want to protect cuz they don't want to end up in jail?

2026-06-15 13:26:52 UTC

I love the idea of men as protectors, it’s a task that they are generally well suited to. Men in general are taller, have more upper body strength, etc. And a very honorable thing to do with physical strength is to protect others.
However, men actually doing protecting is pretty rare, at least in my life experience. The most common way that a man, who in theory wants to be a protector, fails to protect, is by not believing that there is a threat to protect from.
I have known so many men in my life that I’m pretty sure are not predators themselves, and who in many areas of life are decent and reasonable people, that for some reason shut down on this topic.
Unfortunately, being sexually assaulted is very much the norm for women in the world. It has certainly been my experience in life, and also the experience for nearly 100% of the women that I know. And it’s not just anecdotal data here, there are just mountains and mountains of studies that all tell this story as well. The evidence is overwhelming.
When I talk to these men about these things I do not accuse them personally of any wrong doing. I do not say ugly things about men in general. I do not advocate the removal of any rights from men. When I am talking to these men I am looking for understanding, but that seems to be the one thing they can’t give. They just shut down and go into defense mode and I don’t know why.
So if you have any idea, please please tell me, why are there so many seemingly decent men out there who can not/will not see this reality? What is going on here?

2026-06-14 14:31:18 UTC

I hate the phrase "nothing good happens after midnight."
My dear, do you have any idea how many of the most amazing moments of my life happened after midnight!?!?!

2026-06-14 12:36:13 UTC

I don't like the collectivist language here. I didn't fight to get paid, at least not in this life, that happened well before my time. But I am so very grateful to the women that did fight to get paid, cuz yes, women and mothers have always worked.
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2026-06-13 14:35:42 UTC

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the accuracy of your perception of me.

2026-06-13 14:34:14 UTC

What does the word "capitalism" mean to you? And I don't need a dictionary or text book definition here, I'm looking for the associations that the word holds for you.
So let's do word association! When I say "capitalism", what 5 other words come to mind?

2026-06-13 14:01:58 UTC

This is not what a man looks like. This is someone who has intentionally, with all consuming dedication, cartoonified themselves for the entertainment of others.
No doubt it’s impressive, and very eye catching! 👀
But very likely, for most women, not really that attractive. This dude is no fun. This guy will not join you on a wild night out and do shots and then have tacos. This guy will make your child together cry on their 5th birthday when he refuses to eat a piece of the birthday cake. You’ll never see this guy as he’s at the gym 3 hrs a day. He’s pretty miserable.
Most women are going to want men that look like real men.
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2026-06-12 18:29:34 UTC

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I think Israel should exist. I've met a lot of lovely Israelis and I support them. But maybe you are asking if I support Netanyahu or what the IDF is doing, or what I suspect mossad is doing. And the answer there is absolutely not.
But at this point, you are clearly not someone who I wish to give my time to. so adiós.

2026-06-12 14:29:31 UTC

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All of them are? Am I causing genocide?

2026-06-10 13:58:11 UTC

The internet can be an ugly place. Sometimes I'm scrolling and its all just...
"XYZ is all the fault of women!"
"ABC is caused by the Jews!"
On and on.
Sometimes it gets to me, but sometimes it's wildly flattering.
Don't know if you knew, but apparently, I run the world 💅✨

2026-06-08 22:21:13 UTC

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😬

2026-06-08 21:36:20 UTC

On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your interpersonal conflict resolution skills?

2026-06-07 16:54:51 UTC

You are a slave to the “Egregore” until you have learned to see the egregore.
I am so sorry, humans are not the independent creatures that you want them to be. You are not the independent creature that you want to be. I am not the independent creature that I want to be.
And it gets worse! The less aware of this issue we are, the more it controls us. The more you think you are above the impacts of “culture” the more susceptible to it you are.
Now at this point you might be feeling what I’ve often felt when wrestling with this issue, perhaps you’re thinking “Hey, I’m not an automaton, I have free will!” And of course you are right. But you are a limited creature, very effected by and formed by your surroundings, that is developing free will. And the less you are aware of the limits of your biology, the more you are chained to it.
Humans are, fundamentally, inseparably, at our very essence, down to the neurons in our brains, social creatures. This is fact. I could send you a library of evidence. We literally absorb and mirror some of the thought patters of those we spend a lot of time with, for example depression is contagious. The ideas we are surrounded by and the things we experience as a child literally forms the structure of our brains.
Our social-ness, our ability to form tribes, this is the human survival technique. We are not bigger, we are not stronger, we are not faster. In some ways we are more intelligent, but not in other ways. We have survived by forming groups. One human vs one tiger and the human is lunch. Ten humans vs one tiger and the tiger is lunch. This is essential to the human species. The egregore, the collective unconscious is our survival technique. Our ability to do this is why we still exist.
Only through the understanding of this reality do we gain independence from it. We become independent creatures when we realize that we have not been. We gain independence from the egregore when we learn to see it.
So it’s not a question of if culture comes from people or people come from culture… it’s a dance between the two. And the more we are aware of the dance, the more we can lead it.
And it's so, so important that we see this reality as it is very much used against us. Language triggers tribal feelings. We all, yes even you, have exclusion panic baked deep into our brains. Seeing this and knowing how to use it is the special skill of politicians and marketeers. We will not be free from this manipulation until we have learned to see the egregore. So this is really a massive, MASSIVE, issue. It's the next phase in human evolution! The egregore got us to where we are now, and now we need to evolve past it.

2026-06-05 21:59:37 UTC

Bitcoin isn’t a revolution, it’s evolution.
Revolution is changing one figure head at the top of the power structure for another. Evolution is removing the need for the power structure.

2026-05-30 19:19:17 UTC

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I can't tell you 🤫

2026-05-30 19:14:25 UTC

I’m done with the trying to prove myself in life. I am very much the weird bitch that I set out to be. Now I’m just amusing myself with random sidequests.

2026-05-23 14:15:12 UTC

“Traditional values” and “Family values” are most of the time just a quiet way to say “I want the return of patriarchy”.
When I hear a man say that he wants a return to "traditional values" what I hear is... "I have a hierarchical mindset. I don't know how to value myself unless I can think of myself as above others. I need to be above women so that I can have a sense of value."

2026-05-17 20:46:22 UTC

Empathy is the foundation of human civilization.
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2026-05-17 00:14:46 UTC

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Okay I’ll break it down. Let’s start with Elon’s statement “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” Now, not only is this statement fundamentally false, it is so backwards as to be a direct attack on civilization itself.
What makes humans different from the other animals in the animal kingdom? We are not bigger, we are not stronger, we are smarter in some ways, but most importantly, we are co-operative. One human and one tiger and the human is lunch. Ten humans and one tiger and the tiger is lunch. The human survival technique, what makes us different and special, is our ability to form bonds with one another and engage in productive co-operation. And of course we can’t do any of that without empathy. Empathy is the foundation of civilization.
Now if you look at the broader context of what Elon said that makes it less atrocious, still fundamentally wrong, but less horrific. Now of course empathy can be weaponized, any feeling can be weaponized, and the most commonly and successfully weaponized emotion is fear. And that brings us around to Arendt’s statement.
Now in this case I’m not familiar with the broader context of her quote, but I do have some familiarity with her work and so it seems to be to be a fair representation of her perspective. And this statement “The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism” is objectively true.
Humans are not wired to hurt one another, we have empathy deep in our bones. If you study any atrocity you will find that a prerequisite was the dehumanization of a group of people. Whether that’s the Jews, or waring factions in the Sudan, or Tutsis, step one is to consider them less than human. Atrocities can not happen until empathy has been removed.
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2026-05-16 17:01:55 UTC

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2026-05-11 17:09:21 UTC

I typed up my complete thoughts on abortion. It's here https://hannahmr.com/the-very-revealing-topic-of-abortion/
But I'll also paste it below...
The very revealing topic of Abortion
We love for things to be simple. A clear yes or a clear no. One clear line in the sand. But life is messy and complicated and doesn’t often lend itself to clear answers. A sign of maturity and intelligence is the ability to wrestle with a very complex issue and resist the urge to lean on a simplistic answer.
If you’d like to test someone’s ability to wrestle with complex issues, ask for their opinion on abortion. Rarely is there an issue that fits this test better. It is complex and for most people it stirs very deep and difficult to manage emotions.
Abortion fits this test so well as you have two things that very much matter, a fetus and a woman, and in the scenarios that we debate, their interests are at odds. For every simple and clear answer that you think you can find, once you change the assumptions or scenario, that simplicity evaporates.
The question of abortion also reveals someone’s ability to exhibiting care and understanding for others whether that other is an unborn fetus or a living woman. The language that someone uses, the examples that they chose… reveals a lot.
If you are of the mind that abortion is a simple matter, then I hope that the below walk through of my take on the topic reveals many aspects that you had not been consciously considering. This topic is one where we can very quickly see that the answer will always be context dependent and a constant weighing of the relative importance of conflicting needs.
A fetus
Let’s start before conception and imagine an IVF clinic. Here is a classic thought experiment:
You are in a building when suddenly the fire alarm goes off and you realize the place is engulfed in flames. As you run to safety you pass an IVF clinic. Inside the open door to the IVF office you see a container holding hundreds of frozen embryos and next to it a crying 2 year old child. You only have the strength and time to save one. Which do you chose?
Nearly everyone will chose to save the child. Why? Because while an embryo certainly does have value, it’s value is far less than that of a living child. That child has thoughts, and feelings, a fully functional nervous system that can experience pain, that child has attachments, and has begun forming an identity, a story. While the embryo’s have none of that.
This thought experiment illustrates that the value of an embryo grows as it does. Most of us would agree that abortions are less objectionable the earlier in a pregnancy that they happen, and many of us would find a late term abortion to be similar to that of murdering a baby. So let’s move to the very difficult topic of late term abortions.
If you were thinking that this one is quite clear, then I’ll tell you about one line that changed my whole perspective on this topic. Years ago I read an article written by a doctor who performs late term abortions, the line that changed my mind was simply “the people who come to me are people who have already painted the nursery.”
The stories she preceded to tell about why prospective parents ended up in her office were absolutely gut wrenching stories of medical tragedy. Situations where the baby won’t make it, and the mother might not either. Stories where the options are let the baby slip away in peace now, or force the parents to watch their child live in pain and cry in gasps for it’s last breath of air.
The abortions she performed were not done out of revenge or regret, they were a tragedy management tool that saved lives and eliminated certain suffering.
With these examples we can see that the bar for when abortion is a decent thing to do raises as that fetus develops. But thus far we’ve only thought about one end of the equation, the fetus, but we can’t forget that women also matter. The life and the well being of a woman also has value.
A woman
Thus far in my life I have had two pregnancies. Both well planed and both that resulted in the birth of a healthy child. I have been responsible, but I have also been lucky.
Being pregnant was an amazing experience. I had uncomplicated pregnancies and it was mind blowing to feel these new people develop and grown inside my body. They had distinct personalities while still in the womb.
I have not been faced with having to make a difficult decision about terminating a pregnancy, and I hope that I never have to make those choices. It would be gut wrenching to end a pregnancy. It is a death of sorts, certainly it is a great loss and a tragedy. But when it is my body, my fetus, without a doubt it is my decision.
Burden and choice are flip sides of the same coin. Those with the skin in the game are those that are best suited to make the choices. Someone in a fancy suit hundreds of miles away who will not have to live with the outcome of the situation is wildly unfit to make difficult reproductive choices for others. No one has more of a right to make to make reproductive choices than a pregnant woman.
Giving someone else the rights to make these difficult choices is to disrespect the rights of women. It is to remove bodily autonomy and make women slaves.
While childbearing is certainly natural, it is never easy, and quite often it is very dangerous. Statistically speaking, being pregnant is currently the 6th most dangerous job in the United States. Some years it’s more dangerous than being a police officer.
In parts of the world without modern health care, complications from pregnancy and childbirth is the leading cause of death for young women.
When a woman chooses to bear a child not only does she risk her life, she is certain to undergo a very difficult and traumatic experience. Birthing a child is incredibly gruesome work. For most of us we will have a moment of finding our selves laying in a pool of our own blood and feces wishing we could pass out. With my second child I was unable to get an epidural and I’m pretty sure I maxed out my bodies ability to feel pain.
Can you imagine what it feels like to have your body ripped apart from the inside out? No I am not being dramatic, ripped is the right word. And let’s not forget that the recovery is likely to last years.
What right does someone have to force another sovereign being through such a process?
And I will only touch on the topic of rape. I think any decent person would be appalled by the idea of a women being assaulted and then forced to risk her life in enduring childbirth.
So which one matters?
Both obviously. And that is the difficult and complicated part, that it’s both.
I imagine we’ve all seen the very publicized examples of very crass abortion supporters who have done things like throw an abortion party, etc. That’s ugly. And it says that women matter but a fetus does not matter.
I’m sure we can all also think of an example of a staunch anti-abortion campaigner who would like to see women forced to carry their rapists babies. That’s horrific. And it says that a fetus matters but a woman does not matter.
The tricky part about all of this is that it’s both, and it’s not simple at all. The life and well being of a woman matters, and a fetus also matters. In tragic times and places when the their needs are at odds, then very difficult choices about which matters most have to be made. And the ‘answer’ to that will differ in every situation. It’s a constant weighting of conflicting rights at different points in time in different situations. It’s not simple. We can’t make it simple.
If we can take a step back from our very understandably intense emotional connection to this topic, we can see that any clear and simple answer crumbles under the reality of varying situations. Having a considered and caring take on abortion requires the capacity to hold complexities. It requires maturity and intelligence.

2026-05-10 20:03:04 UTC

I think I'm having a hard time accepting that being seen, being understood, is an incredibly rare thing.
I keep expecting to find it in anyone I interact with, and that of course, is not going to happen 😕

2026-05-07 21:16:21 UTC

It's so stupid the way dudes will use "suck a dick" as an insult. ...bro, you have a dick... don't ya think shaming people for giving that some attention might be shooting your self interests in the foot???

2026-05-07 17:55:52 UTC

SSRI’s/SNRI’s don’t cure depression, because depression isn’t caused by too little serotonin.
These drugs are essentially pain killers, and they save lives. It’s pretty damn difficult to climb out of a deep psychological hole, but these pain killers can push you out of that hole. And once out, you are in a much, much better position to do the work of fixing whatever it is that is causing that depression.

2026-05-07 15:50:45 UTC

I am constantly handing out this career/life hack and it baffles me that so few people do this.
It goes like this… you have a special interest/career focus and you see a really interesting person talking about your topic! You’d really love to just invite them out to a bar and have an hour long conversation with them and ask them all kinds of questions about their work… but that’s kinda creepy, you can’t just do that.
And so, ladies and gentlemen, what you do is... wrap that whole process in a meetup! When you’re running a meetup you can totally invite that person to a bar to give you a personalized lecture, you just have to do it in front of a bunch of other people and call it a fire side chat at an event. But this way not only will they not find your invitation creepy, they will be flattered, they will show up, and then they will thank you!!! 🙌
It’s the most genius career hack I’ve found. Why are you not doing this?!?!?!

2026-05-07 15:25:58 UTC

Buen dia a todas. We have an epic @nprofile…qxte this month.
Janusz will be discussing his research into the privacy of Spark payments and then Isabel Foxen Duke will be taking us on a deep dive into BIP360 & Bitcoin’s quantum issue!
As always RSVP below or we won’t have the right amount of beer!
https://www.meetup.com/san-juan-bitdevs/events/314676183/

2026-05-07 13:21:23 UTC

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Being pregnant is statistically the 6th most dangerous job in the US. In some years it’s more dangerous than being a police officer or being in the military.
https://www.scarymommy.com/pregnancy/how-dangerous-is-birth-in-america
Complications in pregnancy and childbirth is a leading cause of death among adolescent girls in developing countries.
https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/maternal-health

2026-05-07 13:01:39 UTC

Mother’s day is and should be about honoring the heroic effort required in childbirth. Being a dedicated parent is it’s own wildly important work, but that is separate from the dangerous, traumatic, and very necessary work of birthing children.
It’s such an injustice that we hide away from the world the intensity, danger, and seriousness of this work. People not appreciating the work of childbearing causes such a lack of understanding.
If you are someone who has not experienced or witnessed childbirth, at the very least please watch some videos on it. Links in the comments below.

2026-05-05 19:50:47 UTC

Ain't it funny that the dudes that go around calling everything "gay" and reference their right to free speech are the same dudes who lose their shit when when a lady with a septum piercing makes a mean joke about men on TikTok or when anyone makes a Charlie Kirk joke.
Pick one buddy. Do you want the anything goes 'free speech' vibe or the decency vibe?

2026-05-04 18:16:31 UTC

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Free speech means that people can make whatever jokes they want, and it means that people can denounce and ridicule whatever jokes they want.

2026-05-04 18:16:05 UTC

The jokes that someone makes/laughs at reveals their values.
When someone objects to a joke, 9 times out of 10, it’s not that that person lacks humor, it’s that they are rejecting the values revealed by that joke.

2026-05-03 13:40:44 UTC

There is a positive correlation between religion and the repression of women. Why?

2026-05-01 19:33:28 UTC

Understand but don't accept.
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2026-04-22 14:12:40 UTC

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2026-04-20 02:14:12 UTC

The difficult and complicated part its that it’s both.
I imagine we’ve all seen the very publicized examples of very crass abortion supporters who have done things like throw an abortion party, etc. That’s ugly. And it says that women matter but a fetus does not matter.
I’m sure we can all also think of an example of a staunch anti-abortion campaigner who would like to see women forced to carry their rapists babies. That’s horrific. And it says that a fetus matters but a woman does not matter.
The tricky part about all of this is that it’s both, and it’s not simple at all. The life and well being of a woman matters, and a fetus also matters. In tragic times and places when the their needs are at odds, then very difficult choices about which matters most have to be made. And the ‘answer’ to that will differ in every situation. It’s not simple. We can’t make it simple. And that’s why someone in a fancy suit hundreds of miles away who knows nothing of the specifics of the situation can’t be the one that makes those choices. The people directly affected by the outcome of the situation are the only people fit to make those choices.

2026-04-19 19:51:16 UTC

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It's interesting that I'm talking about sexual assault and you change the topic to money chasing. Why are these things related in your head?

2026-04-19 19:22:31 UTC

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If you are someone who has a lot of money and is public about that then it would make a lot of sense to be wary of a new woman that you are dating and try to sort her intentions. Makes perfect sense.

2026-04-19 19:10:18 UTC

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What are you talking about?

2026-04-19 18:50:23 UTC

Every woman knows that it’s not “all men.” But women don’t know WHICH men it is. Predators aren’t dumb, they present as normal dudes. Because of this, it is logistically necessary for women to be wary of all men that they don’t know well.
A situation that sucks for everyone.

2026-04-15 21:57:50 UTC

Does being understanding and loving actually work? I feel like I've put in an epic effort for decades to be as decent as I can to people. I've bent over backwards to be understanding. I've worked hard to hug rather than kick when someone is down. ...did any of that help anything?
If someone doesn't want to see you, if their ideology won't let them respect you, then they will just never be good to you. It doesn't matter how loving you are.
You can't make someone care.

2026-04-15 14:39:09 UTC

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ahh, ya you didn't sound genuine to me, and this proves it.
You have a lovely day now (which is passive aggressive for fuck off)

2026-04-15 14:07:13 UTC

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warder?

2026-04-15 02:56:41 UTC

Where are all the protectors? I was told that men are protectors… where are they?
Now there are a few, but wow are they rare, and I get so, so exhausted with having to explain why I have basic human rights, why I should have boldly autonomy, why I should be the primary decision maker in my own life. At times it seem that I’m surrounded by a sea of men that want to subjugate me and control my body.
Where are the protectors?
I would really, really love to know more men that take it as a given that I have bodily autonomy and should be leading my own life. I would really, really love to be around more men that actively protect my autonomy in the world. ...can someone help me find them?

2026-04-15 02:55:17 UTC

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ya, I know a lot more than you on these topics.

2026-04-14 22:23:02 UTC

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...ahh, right. this is all my fault.
so sorry, I'll go admonish myself until others stop being shit to me.

2026-04-14 22:21:50 UTC

People who are staunch pro-lifers and yet own guns and eat meat have a strange set of priorities.
You’re telling me that you are willing to end countless animals for your culinary enjoyment, but you wouldn’t end a 6 week fetus to save a 12yr old from having to carry and birth her rapists child?
I think ya got that morality the wrong way around.

2026-04-14 21:32:08 UTC

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Agreed. A lot of men were sold the idea that their value comes from being "the head of the household" etc. they have this idea in the back of their head that if they aren't leading a woman they have no value. That sucks.
And so to get out of that you have to give them a different way to value themselves. And these ideas can't come from me... cuz I'm a lady. sigh.

2026-04-14 19:08:34 UTC

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This is an issue in the present moment.

2026-04-14 18:41:25 UTC

How exhausting it is to constantly have to check and test to see if those who are trying to get close to you have any respect for your basic human rights.
That has been the case for me in the past ~4 years. So, so many in the Bitcoin/Crypto community have gone down an ugly red pill path adopting an ideology which tells them that women are not appropriate to full autonomy. And these people will attempt to pull you in to their ideology. They will court you and use lovely sounding words and phrases, and once your guard is down they will try to convince you that you are a follower, inappropriate to decision making, a second class human, support staff only.
It’s so exhausting, and pathetic. They hide their ideology as they lack the courage to be honest about their convictions. They know that they will be rejected outright if they don’t hide behind flowery words and drip feed their disrespect.
What sucks most about this is that now it’s a logistically horrible idea to let anyone in at all until they have thoroughly proven their respect for my basic human rights. So tiring. And it doesn’t feel like that should be the case, that I should have to performs checks to see if someone supports my basic autonomy. What bull shit.

2026-04-11 00:52:11 UTC

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O no big story, just thousands of small ones. I ran out of tolerance for those not willing to put in any effort to understand others. I've just had enough of that for a lifetime. I am now done.

2026-04-11 00:06:31 UTC

O the amount of times I’ve been told that my concerns are paranoid, illogical, hysterical. I’m always being told to shelve my concerns so that I can consider other people’s perspectives. I can’t do it any more.
There is quite a lot to be learned from listening to others perspectives. I’d go so far as to say you can’t learn or grow if you don’t. But it has to be mutual. Continuing to do the hard work of putting yourself in someone else’s shoes when they won’t do the same for you just degrades your respect for yourself.
If you can’t be kind, if you can’t be understanding, if you can’t take a moment to consider how a situation impacts someone else…. Go fuck yourself and good bye.

2026-04-09 15:54:07 UTC

Understanding is not the same as agreeing or condoning.
One of the most frustrating things about being on social media is watching the sea of posts and memes and “debates” which are just people intentionally misunderstanding each other. People purposely being obtuse and twisting others words in attempts to “dunk” on others and score a few likes.
It’s not just ugly or childish, it’s wildly lazy. What a cheap easy way out of actual thought.
“It's the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

2026-04-09 00:01:14 UTC

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Do you think there is an objective definition of terrorism? If so, what is it?

2026-04-08 22:04:50 UTC

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2026-04-07 17:25:51 UTC

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2026-04-07 17:25:02 UTC

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2026-04-06 03:24:46 UTC

One of the most intellectually lazy things you can do is decide that if someone disagrees with you it’s simply because they are an idiot.

2026-04-05 18:28:37 UTC

Here is some discrimination against men. This is what the red pill crew should be mad about.
https://blossom.primal.net/ed6c45d8cec46456184d863a66ad540f1b7dd97a85db3a05656f64fb0a90cddf.png

2026-04-03 19:51:51 UTC

Today is my last day of being 42, my last day of being the answer to life the universe and everything 😭 Really I can’t say I pulled that off, but I sure did give it a go!
In the past year I made 12 trips to 5 different countries. I did two talks en español!
I definitely prefer the messier moments and the messier photos. Life just is messy, you make yourself miserable trying to be perfect and polished.
https://blossom.primal.net/d01fe1fce87e42d1630b58a2a58de3140084149d3cf315175e4e6313ea1d9e2b.jpg

2026-03-30 17:57:36 UTC

Affirmative action for white men has been a part of the states for the entirety of it’s existence.
That has been fading a lot in my life time, but it amuses me how people get so angry about the evil “DEI” and don’t realize that in a lot of places DEI is simply a process for removing the affirmative action for white men. It’s a process for making the hiring process more fair… making it more of a meritocracy.

2026-03-30 17:53:48 UTC

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No you can't. You can influence a lot of things, but in the end you control nothing but yourself.
If you take on responsibility for things outside your control you will make yourself miserable. Fewer things in life I am more sure of. This is just the way it is.

2026-03-30 16:14:12 UTC

The key to the whole inner peace thing is to not have any desires or attachments that your sense of self is dependent upon.
20+ years ago I spent a few weeks studying Buddhism in a world religions class at Oakton Community College. I don't remember a lot accept that I didn't like it. I'm not supposed to desire anything? What's the point of being alive then?
Years latter I came to understand the concept more as you're not supposed to be attached to things and that made a lot more sense to me.
...But I am attached to things! I have to un-attach from my kids in order to have inner peace? Nah that's BS
But now I get it. It goes back to this 'outcome pressure' thing that I deal with a lot and the idea of not taking on responsibility for things outside my control. It's about a sense of what you are and are not responsible for.
The attachment thing is mostly right. But it doesn't mean don't care, or don't strive, it means don't lose your sense of self to an attachment to something external.

2026-03-27 18:38:48 UTC

Someone: "how do you do it all?"
Me: "I don't, I have a partner who does it all with me."
Ladies, don't marry a man that wants a wife and kids. Marry a man that wants to be a husband and father!

2026-03-24 14:33:50 UTC

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It wouldn't bother me so much if I were paying for schools and firetrucks. But it really does bother me to know that I'm paying for bombs that get dropped on schools.

2026-03-24 14:32:51 UTC

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2026-03-24 12:25:46 UTC

There is no utopia, everywhere has it's problems. You gotta pick the set of problems you prefer.
...like today, my office in San Juan is far too sunny. So sunny I put sun glasses on over my computer glasses.
These are my kind of problems ☀️😎😉

2026-03-22 13:25:25 UTC

There is a variety of misogyny that I run into a lot in the crypto community. It's very nice sounding hippie dippie misogyny and it goes like this... male leadership is simply natural, it's what we see all throughout the animal kingdom. That's just the way nature is.
Two things here:
1. This is just plain false. For example, Bonobos are one of humans closest relatives in the animal kingdom, and Bonobos are matriarchal.
2. Let's say that the animal kingdom were entirely patriarchal, do we want to be like the animals? Do we aspire to be like Chimpanzees, or do we aspire to be more enlightened creatures? And I'd argue that more enlightened creatures aren't interested in suppressing half of their species.

2026-03-20 22:59:33 UTC

“SaaS is dead” they say. AI killed it, we’ll all just use Claude to write our own custom apps.
*ahem* Claude is SaaS.

2026-03-20 19:09:49 UTC

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2026-03-20 17:12:51 UTC

Ahh the grotesque state of the world.
https://blossom.primal.net/adf6b776f0f8d619f1db5743b38de67b3ee7f9b6ec79977b2a5f9275be64fbdf.jpg

2026-03-20 15:09:08 UTC

Chuck Norris' email was gmail@chucknorris.com

2026-03-20 14:00:10 UTC

Ooo, I found the official music video, and it's stunning.
Not sure why flowers and flowing fabric are so sensual, but they really, really are!
https://youtu.be/qKFMK2eDWeQ

2026-03-20 13:40:01 UTC

Wow I need a bottle of wine and an evening that inspires me to dance to this 🍷💃🎶🥰
I must be overdue for date night… or maybe I’m ovulating. Who knows. Just dance.
https://youtu.be/Tyu8yRPlyIw

2026-03-20 13:38:37 UTC

"The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates ~400BC

2026-03-20 13:33:41 UTC

I think most of us know it on an intellectual level. If you’ve read a shit ton of books, if you’ve done a bunch of shrooms(so I’m told), if you’ve been to therapy, then you know…
You control nothing but yourself. You are not responsible for the behavior of others. You are not responsible for the outcome of a complex situation. The only things it makes sense to worry about are your own choices. Life is mostly just about deciding who you are and connecting with others.
We know this intellectually, but we were born in a world that sold us a very different perspective on life. One where you must feel shame if the outcome is not what you hoped. One where life is about being above others, and having more. And removing that programming from the back of your head takes years and years of work.
But everyone once in a while, I don’t just know these things, I feel them. Every once in a while I have a morning where I forget to feel shame and forget to try to be above others. And on those mornings, life really feels pretty fun.

2026-03-19 18:23:40 UTC

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2026-03-19 17:52:13 UTC

Both "woke" and "based" are cringe. Flip sides of the same political bullshit coin.

2026-03-19 17:39:26 UTC

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2026-03-19 16:19:20 UTC

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2026-03-19 16:15:28 UTC

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2026-03-19 14:49:19 UTC

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

2026-03-17 19:27:14 UTC

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okay, but don't you think that you matter? When do you get to be the priority?
I'd argue that in a healthy relationship two people are supporting eachother. At times one may get prioritized, but balance is pursued. Your goals, your ambitions, your development shouldn't be ignored.

2026-03-17 15:56:50 UTC

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Giving up autonomy is not a path to self realization.

2026-03-17 15:26:59 UTC

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Agreed, there is a difference. But I see submission as taking someone away from full self realization. ...which I view as a big part of the purpose of life.

2026-03-17 15:21:08 UTC

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...there is a video of him with 6 fingers? I missed that. Links?

2026-03-17 15:20:39 UTC

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2026-03-17 15:12:10 UTC

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I think that dynamic frightens people as they don't perceive it to be healthy. ...I'm one of those people.

2026-03-17 15:10:58 UTC

So what do y'all think about the Internets new fav conspiracy theory that Netanyahu has been dead for like a week now???

2026-03-17 14:56:06 UTC

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But gents, please do braid your beard and wear cologne!