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Short-covering for sure, but interesting bounce so far in the US equity markets - I do suspect crypto soaking up some of the liquidity pressure over the weekend is likely “helpful” in a way that didn’t exist until recently. I thought the ETFs would pummel it on open but Bitcoin off the weekend lows. Watching SOL too.

2024-08-05 15:44:28

Bonne chance all those still playing in the fiat stock markets.
Oof.

2024-08-04 23:50:10

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Nice work! In a couple of years the ninja skills will be opening their door and stealthily avoiding the creaky floorboards to remove the stuffie/comfort blanket from their face.

2024-07-27 00:44:42

I mean I had zero interest in the Olympics before, but now…. record low ratings wouldn’t surprise.

2024-07-19 15:53:19

No blue screen of death on #nostr

2024-07-14 07:24:24

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Happy to see him here!

2024-07-11 19:41:37

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Not a great outcome to be honest, the 1% have a habit of ending up under guillotines.
Hopefully we see broad adoption long before 2036!

2024-07-05 16:52:05

Eating so much more butter now than prior to my red-pilling. Everything’s better with butter.

2024-07-05 06:26:49

I’m at that stage of life where I wish Apple would add “gardening” and “housework” to the list of fitness activities on their watch.

2024-06-28 02:57:09

4-year old reports on today’s preschool:
“Olive hurt my feelings!”
- Why?
“She wouldn’t let me see the ladybug under the locker!”
I love this age. I think 3-5 year olds are peak humanity: zero cynicism, fully engaged with the world, maximum curiosity, empathy (well, except for Olive).
#parentstr

2024-06-18 21:22:18

Miners and $MSTR don’t believe in this #Bitcoin dip, it would seem.

2024-06-11 05:34:08

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If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that any optimistic call of “peak crazy” is doomed to be overrun within a month.

2024-06-10 20:56:47

Business trip this week featuring four separate 737-800s and several nights in Baltimore. Prayers appreciated 🙏

2024-06-09 17:21:33

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Love this age. Smallest Localist is now four and it’s just a constant stream of observations and wonderment. Had an open gardens day yesterday in the village, and aside from the flowers and trees we got to see inside beehives and learn about beekeeping, and poke around in a hotrod restoration garage. Tough to drag him away!

2024-06-08 17:20:02

Unexpected musical cross-over: Smashing Pumpkins cover U2’s Zoo Station. Works surprisingly well!
Nice to see Jimmy and James in the line-up here, too. Despite them being a staple through my college years I never actually got to a Pumpkins show, though was lucky enough to catch Corgan with Zwan in London, in 2003.
https://youtu.be/FfHb_OZ7-Ic

2024-06-06 16:46:32

In SpaceX it would seem Elon has assembled one of the highest performing engineering teams humanity has ever seen. Everything that crops up on each flight test is ruthlessly pinned down and remediated. Just a joy to watch.

2024-06-05 21:17:00

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Can concur. Bitcoin is a lot better for stress management; DCA amazing for emotional regulation. Also the whole time preference thing.

2024-06-05 21:14:43

Sadly, never traded $NVDA but did catch $ARM. Beautiful move in chips.
Nancy Pelosi is of course minting it (further).
A laggard she has a bunch of is $PANW, so anticipating further ludicrous profits from corruption I did add a few September 330 calls today in the $11.40s.
Is anyone posting trades on Nostr? It’s one area X is very strong. #stockstr #trading

2024-06-02 00:58:23

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Love that venue! Last time down there was for Beck.

2024-05-31 22:01:21

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Thanks, will take a look!

2024-05-31 06:53:33

So would love a Futurebit but don’t really want to deal with the thing being impounded by border goons on the Northern wall (and ending up on yet another “list”).
Is there any home mining kit available from distributors in Canada?
#asknostr

2024-05-31 02:21:29

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I’m sure there’s a sound reason, I just like knowing I can rebuild from the ashes after the proverbial fire.

2024-05-31 00:05:53

@npub1wu4…3vw0 back in my Ledger days I used to factory reset periodically to prove I could rebuild from seed.
Am aware you can’t “reset” a Coldcard once PIN etc. are established but can you rebuild the signature from seed to validate?
Don’t have my device to hand to check right now, just curious.

2024-05-30 08:46:22

Things that really are as bad as they’re made out to be #1: The Media.
My heart is doing what it’s designed to do in Fatherhood, thanks very much, and I am much the better for it.
Yes this is real (can Google it, but I won’t grace it with a link)
https://image.nostr.build/4ac4380518a2a7d865b608cf31f2dcb62c693ccae683e0471053b7417e9c70f8.jpg

2024-05-12 16:58:01

Happy Mother’s Day, mothers. Our four year old added mini-marshmallows to the pancakes this am. May your day be similarly sweet! #parentstr

2024-05-07 21:13:22

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the day Gordon Brown announced he would be selling British #gold at what proved to be a market low not seen since 1971 when the US abandoned the gold standard. What on earth was he thinking?
From the excellent Dominic Frisby:
https://www.theflyingfrisby.com/p/browns-bottom-25-years-on

2024-05-06 05:17:17

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Well, quite. The crisis is only for those that have completely discounted their direct experience of the world (beaches played on as children, unmoved; resorts ski’id on as children, busier than ever; garden suffering due to below-average spring temperatures, normal variance) in favour of third-party assurances of impending doom. The >30 somethings in the room have really seen enough to know better by now, but you feel for the kids convinced every weather event experienced for the first time is a direct result of sins of the fathers.

2024-05-04 15:57:33

Ipswich Town, Premier League. Well done lads!
https://image.nostr.build/ab399ff1dbb8c432b212d99fcffdf43679c9fd38fa774832f56c782b02aae6de.jpg

2024-05-04 03:43:57

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This is why I bought a bunch of Bitcoin in the ETFs, I don’t mind trading it there because it’s not “real”!

2024-05-04 00:08:38

Musicians of Nostr, what’s a good minimalist setup for just recording guitar (acoustic or electric) and vocal. Good mic enough for both into a laptop / Logic Pro? Is it necessary to record instrument and vocal separately or no? #songstr

2024-05-03 05:49:49

Poured myself a good glass of red and finished The Hydrogen Sonata tonight.
I salute you, Iain M. Banks, and wish you well in the Sublime.

2024-05-03 05:42:14

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Nostr (or at least the corner I inhabit) appears to be >70% Bitcoin, Food, Gardening and Homesteading, and Music.
Which, to be honest, is not a bad mix.
Anyways, here’s some Wisteria from
today. Flowering a little late because of the enduring cold this year.
#flowerstr #gardenstr #homesteading
https://image.nostr.build/ae68ebc8068d0a0f5786bf51d89d9db0c4ce3572e34c18dd1c83a5613ce0fcd1.jpg

2024-04-27 16:30:23

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Nice. I loved my Seiko Kinetics but the capacitors appear to be a weak link as both I owned failed irretrievably (or at least economically). Never had a solar one.
Have returned to my father’s old Casio digital from the eighties, battered but dependable.

2024-04-26 22:27:33

From the excellent @WallStreetSilv on X. How did we get here? I am glad just edged in under the current collapse with a home and a family, but it’s not pretty out there for the younger folks I work with (mostly 2nd last row). https://image.nostr.build/3b6fd6b6be855986847f096a9217894092fed1c7526fd315ec686302d7d1d39c.jpg

2024-04-26 21:13:46

My eldest is ~4 years away from college and I’m curious if there’ll be any point whatsoever by then.
Seems perhaps too soon for us to be through this and out the other side.

2024-04-22 18:28:37

Bought $TSLA @141 in the fiat account; long view maybe not as pie~eyed as Ms. Wood, but still great value here.
#stockstr

2024-04-18 17:58:40

Peter Brandt, fighting the good fight against vaccine injury and Bitcoin FUD. Have always valued his charting.
https://x.com/peterlbrandt/status/1780983777356910796

2024-04-18 09:02:27

Bought $OKTA at 94. I like a drop to close ~half a big earnings gap which we now have (following Feb’s pop).
Obvs down with the general market but should do well when we bounce. Favourable mentions at various tech conferences I attend.
https://image.nostr.build/4cfb03e026b378504adf06169a0d8e28bd0da05e292779894dc403cdd11da727.png

2024-04-13 23:29:57

I can’t help but presume all crisis headlines are straight fuckery at this point.

2024-04-13 01:22:17

Here come the apple blossoms! Love this time of year. #flowerstr #homesteading
https://image.nostr.build/e79a8fbbe94d32a5d12d8f48da4018b342cbdfa0763c2fad7a9bc0a781c696b2.jpg

2024-04-13 00:29:18

Mogwai magic. Had I persisted with my recording, I would have wanted to sound like this.
https://tidal.com/browse/track/2353115?u

2024-04-12 22:27:24

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I have some explaining to do now her $50 is worth $47.

2024-04-12 21:22:03

Sorry, my fault (true story)
https://image.nostr.build/ccd8d75f59b419ad98730ac1c94905690e3d3ac7a297b173e0ee35240e730fea.jpg

2024-04-12 16:37:22

It’s accelerating.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/assisted-death-quadriplegic-quebec-man-er-bed-sore-1.7171209

2024-04-09 21:26:05

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I was in a Canadian bank the other day to withdraw a bunch of cash (to bribe our way past the roadblocks when the collapse comes, etc) and was pleasantly surprised they didn’t ask what it was for.

2024-04-09 21:22:38

Completely unverified amazing factoid from TFTC 496: The Chinese incidence rate of myopia exploded from 15% to 90% in the span of a single generation.
So many of us are screwed when we step on our glasses a month or so into the zombie apocalypse.
https://fountain.fm/episode/v6MF8IHg6mpCyeUTesiv

2024-04-08 21:11:08

The moon being exactly the right size and distance to blot out the sun every once in a while is one of the more obvious Easter Eggs in this sim.

2024-04-07 22:07:45

From today’s walk by the river, a sample of wildflowers growing happily along the trail: forget-me-nots, red dead-nettles, and dandelions.
It’s still not warmed up here, but at least the sun is out!
#flowerstr #grownostr
https://image.nostr.build/ff7f795ca5cd86a7dc1b3ca694f3c26149a9e8a3973796d69a0c2a5684bb99c2.jpg

2024-04-07 21:37:51

Latest attack vector against Elon’s family of companies. How is the FAA funded again?
“President Biden wants companies like SpaceX that use American airspace for rocket launches to start paying taxes into a federal fund that finances the work of air traffic controllers”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/us/politics/spacex-biden-musk-taxes.html

2024-04-07 18:25:11

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So true. Just off for our walk to the playground. Kid was outside most of yesterday helping me with the yardwork. We love springtime.
Not only do they not need screens, if offered the right opportunities they won’t want screens (at least pre-teen).

2024-04-07 18:20:31

#justinflation
It’s grim up here.
“When Justin Trudeau took office, a Canadian household earning the median income could cover the costs of owning an average home by spending 39% of their pay, according to RBC. Now that figure is 64%”
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/04/04/justin-trudeau-is-beset-by-a-divided-party-and-an-angry-electorate

2024-04-06 18:16:43

I seem to have gained a hundred followers or so last week despite only composing posts in my head and not actually contributing anything.
On the off-chance you aren’t a spicy mix of pornbots and Feds, thanks for the consideration and I promise to add more soon.
Happy Saturday!

2024-04-04 16:08:29

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I play guitar and a bit of by-ear-only piano. Looking forward to seeing you on @npub1yfg…v6vg!

2024-04-04 03:55:44

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Will go bug them for you if you can smuggle me a FutureBit Apollo II in the other direction!

2024-04-04 03:44:59

Hard to believe Jo was a hopeless progressive a few years back, tying with Gary Lineker as the UK’s most annoying champagne socialist.
But everyone has their limits.
Could be 2024’s MVP. Unwavering commitment, outstanding results. https://image.nostr.build/e5353f82906c5d8b59c0637d29868e5d8f1f9a37d7436f3d080b82824b1f5854.jpg

2024-04-01 05:11:13

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I hear ya.
Intending to build a PC with my eldest over the summer. Picking parts is going to take me far longer than assembling them. Will read all reviews.

2024-04-01 02:48:56

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It’s ridiculous. There’s probably a name for the law whereby you have zero trouble dropping thousands on a stock trade but agonize for days over the $14.99 vs $12.99 widget on Amazon. Whatever the condition, I have it.

2024-03-31 17:13:25

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Thank you!

2024-03-31 17:07:08

Taught our 4-year old about static electricity the other day as we were getting the sheets out of the dryer, lots of crackles in the air.
Today he wanted Rice Krispies for breakfast, crackle crackle.
“That’s the electricity, right?“
Love exploring the world through curious kid logic.

2024-03-31 17:00:11

Happy Easter everyone.

2024-03-29 22:28:06

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Anything after the “?” is a parameter, and not part of the page URL itself.
In *most* cases this is unnecessary junk you can remove, in *some* cases it forms part of the request you might need to keep. It’s easy to experiment by just trying it in your browser URL bar. Some parameters have obvious names and purpose, most will not.
For example:
Twitter: s, t - both unnecessary trackers
Facebook: fbclid- unnecessary tracker
YouTube: v, t - these are the actual ids of the video with an optional timestamp, both potentially relevant for you
Short article on this: https://medium.com/@ian-darwin/you-are-sharing-urls-with-tracking-links-please-stop-502c6f54895

2024-03-29 17:30:07

Given the entire political framework of Western societies (and elsewhere, for various divergent reasons) is now merely the administrative layer for a cabal of <globalists | bankers | communists | misanthropes | lizards | malevolent aliens> and likely beyond repair, what might an alternate system look like? Is this end-game inevitable for liberal democracy? Even with sound money?
Say you were given the keys to one half of Greenland for a new state. First move (after separating money from state)?
I do wonder if a “jury duty” approach for randomly selected appointees from the citizenry combined with more frequent referendums would provide a better outcome than election cycles and career politicians, which seem destined for inevitable corruption.
Joe the electrician, you have two years as minister for infrastructure - go!

2024-03-29 17:14:31

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Would it be reasonable to have this downstream of the router provided by (say) Starlink to securely separate local network traffic from IoT stuff? My paranoia here is in the developing stages.

2024-03-29 06:49:33

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Coffee cake.

2024-03-29 01:00:49

Balaji been on fire recently.
https://image.nostr.build/3608f20486704f93dafd5b733c475addac629a216d0c7ab2dde950eba288d4b6.jpg

2024-03-29 00:53:34

If this “renter’s charter” thing passes up here in Castreau’s Cuba North it’s only going to slash the rental pool, it makes an already shaky proposition untenable for would-be landlords.
At root it’s just a further erosion of property rights. I mean yes, there’s the first order benefit to the CRA in extra taxation…. but also Government now has a room registry, tallies well with globalist migration schemes.

2024-03-27 06:19:13

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Hi Matthew, the URL from a pasted Twitter/X link looks something like this:
xdotcom/philc411/status/1772703236778000488?s=51&t=bqU-DERO8RCyTR2vWjyt5E
You don’t need anything to the right of the question mark for the link to work, the s=blah and the t=blah are just tags that help X follow your activity around the interwebs and are for their benefit, not yours. They can be safely removed. Facebook and other socials do something similar. Hope that helps, cheers!

2024-03-25 06:33:39

Bees super happy in the cherry blossoms this week (volume up!)
#beestr #bees #homesteading #grownostr
https://video.nostr.build/bd0c3d11a32a1896e365e862caabf049c0612cb0aa939093e44f72c1b0b1fa8e.mp4

2024-03-25 01:48:43

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Amazing. Thank you! Feels like a “whole” app again.

2024-03-24 18:23:48

Sunday pancakes, kid managed to almost create an inadvertent United States with the batter this morning. One of our favorite family routines ❤️
2 eggs
1.5 cups of flour
1 cup of milk
0.5 cups of water
1 heaped tbsp baking powder
1 smushed banana
Decent amount of melted butter
#foodstr
#parentstr
https://image.nostr.build/30ae291caae4c9bec4291c2959190f230f7e32775af48524e11edd277c980974.jpg

2024-03-24 18:15:02

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Wow you blew through that one quickly! Thanks for the update, will start on that one soon (have just finished 1923 so have a gap in our TV schedule)

2024-03-23 22:00:21

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Interested to hear what you think. Those books were straight into my lifetime top five and I’m very wary of ruining the movie in my head with a sub-par series. Have heard mixed reviews. I hope you find it rewarding!

2024-03-23 21:12:00

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There is a curious class of people that “gets” the entire Covid edifice was a lie, yet still believes that the excesses of sinful humanity are to blame for our imminent climate extinction.
It’s exactly the same playbook on a decadal scale. All of it.

2024-03-22 16:36:54

Clafoutis for breakfast, with pear. Bit gloomy and wet outside today, good warming fare. #foodstr
https://image.nostr.build/aa7e1636ff3ebb4617c5105169398519e424a76337660acffd91cf8032cf0c18.jpg

2024-03-22 15:49:48

Boom XB-1 in the air for the first time.
I miss Concorde; any progress to plug the technological regression of past decades is a welcome development. Let’s get back to pushing boundaries. https://image.nostr.build/dcb86f225c9d9d15744bc4a4e3bfe17fc0a119d098d867997897983383fd2324.jpg

2024-03-21 21:24:11

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Great, just about to finish 1923 on Apple, this one probably next.
Love a good sci-fi that doesn’t overstay its welcome. Finding it increasingly hard to persevere with For All Mankind and Foundation.

2024-03-21 03:35:04

The RCMP warns the federal government Canada may descend into civil unrest once citizens realize the hopelessness of their economic situation.
Unfortunately we have a government in name only, in practice they are merely a sub-administrative layer for the one world globalists tearing it all down before their great reset.
“The coming period of recession will … accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier generations”
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/secret-rcmp-report-warns-canadians-may-revolt-once-they-realize-how-broke-they-are

2024-03-20 19:43:09

Reminiscent of that bit in The Mandibles where squatters take the old lady’s apartment. I guess we’re still following along. Subsequent chapters aren’t too pretty. https://image.nostr.build/4a5c82300f7724159ab21199e94a650544a43f7c36b3b2abbe2ac5502f61579a.jpg

2024-03-19 15:53:56

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You too, eh?
#note1akp…v8dq

2024-03-19 04:57:27

The speed with which the royal family appear to be unravelling, post QEII, is quite impressive. She timed her exit impeccably.

2024-03-18 06:19:38

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Likely months of productive time lost globally to such stubbornness. We do what we can.

2024-03-17 18:14:44

The amount of cumulative time I’ve spent removing tracking IDs after URLs when pasting links… I refuse to perpetuate this stuff as a matter of principle.
twitter/blah?s=goaway&t=youjerks
Another way in which #nostr is superior, I suppose!

2024-03-16 10:08:20

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https://image.nostr.build/8e64b60282ac4f07dd830f0e13d3838b1d72331c4add3e18f4b72858bd5c40f4.jpg

2024-03-16 02:45:06

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Yes I don’t really do anything public for kids stuff generally. No socials, online photos, etc.
I would love to have more conversational stuff on video but it’s challenging because I hate having the phone out around the kids, so usually end up writing it down after the fact. When I remember!

2024-03-16 02:35:37

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I am trying, yes (using Day One).

2024-03-16 02:19:46

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4-year old today: “We can’t see our own noses”
Kids are the best.

2024-03-15 21:47:01

Americans, are you so flush with cheap energy you find yourselves struggling to give it away?
Apparently those dastardly #Bitcoin miners aren’t using nearly enough of the stuff because we’re considering wiring it over to Europe.
Mind you, likely more sensible than Trudeau’s Hydrogen-to-Germany idea.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/03/15/britain-plans-import-us-energy-transatlantic-power-cable/

2024-03-15 06:17:51

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Yup, we’re lucky to have him!

2024-03-15 02:22:34

Straight from the butcher.
#foodstr #beefstr
https://image.nostr.build/58fd7bd78bac7785033bb671dea3b7ecec853003688da03610927fa5714d0670.jpg

2024-03-14 18:53:55

Internet outages in Africa due to “damaged cables”. Lots of choke-points globally for data traffic; this stuff is a lot less chunky than a Nordstream pipe.
Not sure how much resilience Starlink adds as I’m sure their ground stations are using the fibre trunk networks, but hopefully there’s some useful network decentralization effects building.
https://image.nostr.build/c0c35a4976a7b93a7a680737510b5c37d76147384fb5c0fb48858c21b87c1a77.png

2024-03-14 05:27:53

Wednesday Britpop rabbit-hole:
Kingmaker (1991-1995). Burned briefly but brightly.
https://tidal.com/track/233164693

2024-03-14 00:44:51

$MSTR $1800 after hours.
Oh boy.
I sold a couple today at $1750, thereby ensuring the squeeze will continue to infinity. You’re welcome.

2024-03-14 00:23:04

Watched the Taylor Sheridan interview on the Joe Rogan podcast recently, lots of discussion on the absolutely outstanding “1883”.
One of the main points I took from it is how close in time huge societal changes really are, and that our collective memory is very short.
Many things lie downstream of this, but anyway, here’s the US obesity rate tripling inside a single generation. https://image.nostr.build/c03f5784da85ac8679f5b36ecdea4f363f27b54874c1279b0dc78ff93b19ea07.jpg

2024-03-13 06:12:18

Just back from Dune Part 2, fun; loooong, but lovely cinematography. Good IMAX experience.
Life phases: now wearing concert plugs to all movies, tinnitus much better behaved with the volume 20% down.

2024-03-13 05:45:41

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Love mine; even it *was* just a calculator it’s a lovely bit of engineering! Appreciate the power-only connector and cold power adaptor too.

2024-03-12 05:33:15

As well as the anti-freedom money pretext, this of course would result in precedent for the grubby marxists to pick other “clean” and “unclean” uses of energy and start taxing our consumption accordingly.
Energy is life. Bitcoin is the thin end of the wedge. #note1290…wdqj