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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!

2024-06-06 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 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

2024-05-06 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

2024-04-08 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 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

2024-04-04 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!

2024-03-29 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.

2024-03-25 06:33:39

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

2024-03-23 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

2024-03-19 15:53:56

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You too, eh?
#note1akp…v8dq

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.

2024-03-09 18:27:55

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Big blueberry clafoutis fan. Looks amazing, nice work.

2024-03-09 00:58:06

There’s been a lot of “where’s retail?” talk recently. Well, two things today scared me a little. Both marked prior tops.
1. Got dragged into a WhatsApp group chat as “the crypto guy” to advise on what degenerate meme coin to buy next. People I’ve not spoken to in over a year.
2. CFO pings me on Slack to discuss his personal crypto strategy (bought in last time we were over 60k).
Hmm.
How’s your day going?

2024-03-09 00:34:13

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Just cooked a couple of eggs in butter and hot damn.
I thank the red-pilling daily for increasing my butter intake. If only I could take back all those margarine years.

2024-03-08 19:55:15

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I thought it was to stop it smelling/tasting of cut onions and other choice fridge aromas.
Butter seems to soak that stuff up.

2024-03-05 02:19:06

Dune and #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/962685f089d4c7e13329e55da85e7b6fb77ded5f40165be5e20b95e0864a6a4d.jpg

2024-03-01 22:30:58

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Ouch. Wake up call for me was trying to extricate a significant amount of GBP from a UK investment and move it to Canada. Bitcoin fixes this, and most everything else.
Congrats on the growth of your business!

2024-01-20 22:44:26

Germany comfortably taking dirtiest energy in Northern Europe accolades this morning. Again.
Not sure there is a better example of post-truth narrative bullshit than the Teutonic green energy miracle. Been at it for over a generation now. And if we accept this is flagrant nonsense, it holds other perceived eco-wisdoms are too.
Picking climate and emissions was a clever move as people’s memories are short. But they’re not that short. An increasing cohort of humanity now has start-to-finish evidence that “repent ye sinners!” measures imposed to save us just make things demonstrably worse. This is just example 1 of n, of course. https://image.nostr.build/2f6fc7ef587f4bb585a5c6676f6b9545a9cd19d6384b63090d4f3de0ca427133.jpg

2024-01-13 06:29:13

We don’t have it as bad as Alberta, but still a respectable -14 degrees here on Canada’s West Coast and we’re running some supplemental heat.
How I wish this thing was mining #Bitcoin. What a waste of 1500W!
One day, @npub16k4…afa9, one day..
https://image.nostr.build/6d7188d43ae13602dda92c994075dc2fc9ad9812f71d849916cf1b13a558f78b.jpg

2024-01-08 21:28:34

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Excellent, thanks. Will give this a try.
Added bonus: more cash transactions for the Post Office standing in the way of a CBDC!

2024-01-05 00:05:47

Anyone have a suggested next move as black?
https://image.nostr.build/07de87be8942ad9ce8963c3121f2cd82f8318d0ca4d77fe660e71586e55584f1.jpg

2024-01-03 19:39:22

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😂 very wise, I am sure. I mean my reticence to find out means I am stacking harder, I guess, but I would rather be a participant in the alt-economy. On the to-do list for the year.

2024-01-03 19:36:34

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Love this; I want to use Bitcoin more for retail purchases but am not sure I can be bothered if every “purchase” is considered a taxable event. I need to look into this more. Know any CRA friendlies who can shed some light?

2023-12-31 18:18:51

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It’s really good, yes. I’m an aviation nut so was always going to appreciate these films, but I think they’re both as enjoyable as the first Cars movie. Good soul, especially the second.

2023-12-31 17:51:57

Yes, yes, Aliens and Terminator 2, however I feel a superior sequel often overlooked is Planes 2: Fire and Rescue.
I admit it helps that my kid asks for “the Thunderstruck movie” (even if he thinks the song is about Thunder Trucks).
https://youtu.be/Gshl2USNC6I

2023-12-03 17:01:20

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Excellent, about to try something similar - ducting attachment etc all “hardware store standard” or did you have to get creative?

2023-11-27 16:01:14

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I’m in Canada, so valued in the Northern peso approximately $5.50 per 4L.

2023-11-20 07:25:02

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Personally not too much (only really drink it in tea, about four cups a day) but we have two kids so at least sixteen litres / 4 gallons a month from Costco.

2023-11-09 07:14:44

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Very nice, where can I get a stack of those?

2023-10-31 18:38:57

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Well yes, there is that I suppose!

2023-10-31 16:32:29

20 years ago today, Concorde’s final flight; G-BOAC departing into the low cloudbase at Heathrow on 31st October 2003.
We took a step backwards then, as we did post-Apollo. Not the natural order of an exploratory species to voluntarily become less capable.
The hits keep coming.
https://image.nostr.build/3cd72112c92a16d989c29e3e1edac6e21873d5a08188cdec5ac5cc3795077321.jpg

2023-10-28 00:54:13

I don’t believe X/@saveyoursons is on here, so I’m just going to re-post attributed as I get value from this healthy reminder. My goodness do they grow up fast.
“I keep this picture nearby at all times. I know it's kind of just a cheesy meme, but it serves an important purpose for me.
It reminds me to pay attention to what actually matters. It reminds me to say yes to my kids more. It reminds me that at the end of my life I'm not going to care how many grains of sand in my hourglass I spent on business or work or anything like that.
All that will matter at the end is your memories, and the way you impacted the people you love.”
https://image.nostr.build/c5f9495fbbf94b9eb5c8dbf288634bea2471ba9614a843bd438713529b2c7ddc.jpg

2023-10-15 19:13:02

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Indeed. So many of our civilizational issues boil down to energy flows. Ascend the Kardashev scale or retreat and wither to irrelevance and extinction. Carbon dioxide was always a proxy (attitude toward nuclear the bellwether).

2023-10-08 09:58:04

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100%. Looking to move beyond jam and chutneys next year.

2023-10-02 16:36:16

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Excellent idea, thanks - love my bitwarden.

2023-09-25 13:24:32

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Yep. Best societal outcomes from strong families and community; best individual outcomes through health, time and wealth. All under attack. Relentless.

2023-09-24 04:46:18

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Cheers, I have 1.6(18) Test Flight and can only access profile zaps.

2023-09-24 04:44:45

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Thanks - going to have to get my head around Nostr Wallet Connect it seems!

2023-09-24 04:24:35

Are the bulk of you zappers using Zapplepay, a non-Damus client (on Apple), profile zaps, or other?

2023-09-19 04:49:24

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It’s already pay-to-play if you want any engagement.
Honestly I thought I’d stick with it, but there’s no point.

2023-09-17 04:16:26

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Rather be a conspiracy theorist than a complicity theorist.

2023-09-16 21:24:28

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Return to Eden, cassette-based text adventure goodness from the eighties. Some fantastic emulators out there.
Loved LucasArts - Monkey Island!
Sierra Games also.
https://image.nostr.build/9298cbadd7c1c9854790ac448998244c1ae10a18992dec58e166ed6407216030.jpg

2023-09-16 21:11:56

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Last one I picked up, 8-bit gaming is the business. Simpler times.
https://image.nostr.build/f3ed6c482b79b2009062507ca09504a094d0a5b9a56478d9f9979f63a87e8511.jpg

2023-09-16 04:48:59

This is bonkers. Overpaying the heck out of ours at 1.99% - might be the only chance we get to build equity in fiat-land.
https://unusualwhales.com/news/20-of-residential-mortgage-borrowers-representing-130-billion-in-loans-at-three-major-banks-bmo-td-cibc-in-canada-are-seeing-their-balances-grow-as-monthly-payments-no-longer-cover-all-

2023-09-16 01:32:22

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Available for rental on Vimeo, apparently:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/onebyone

2023-09-04 16:15:03

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😂 ouch!

2023-09-04 16:10:14

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Surprisingly, I did buy #Bitcoin first. And then 50/50 with Ethereum for the next few years before seeing the light. But yes! XRP was the third “app” on my first hardware wallet, back in the day. I appreciate Saifedean greatly for shaking such nonsense from my skull.

2023-09-02 07:02:39

Headline #2,365 in a series of n in which the word “pandemic” is incorrectly substituted for “lockdowns”
https://apnews.com/article/college-math-test-help-6cca6a5e873d5aeb5e75b4f94125d48c

2023-07-24 22:38:29

Ok you lovely people, I think I’m only going to post photos here now; the other networks are all rapidly losing their appeal.
The first rain in a month has made for some amazing looking apples. It’s been a year of ups and downs on the self-sufficiency trail, but we are certainly not hurting for fruit. Apples, blackberries by the bucket. #farmstr #foodstr #homestead #grownostr
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/ee03b9a0d960b6d1e9cc9a6c674c661d55f27977fabf83a4af63919b970e90a4.jpg

2023-07-24 04:57:42

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Welcome back!

2023-07-23 02:03:14

In either direction - outward with telescopes like JWST or inward with atom smashers like CERN, we’re just going to find more. More stuff, more layers, more complexity. Nature a fractal; the design work behind this iteration of the sim really was a labor of love. #note1qp0…yee6

2023-07-19 07:11:57

As #garlic is apparently this evening’s thing, here’s a small portion of our drying stock, pictured for gratuitous nature/tech dichotomy in front of the Tesla Powerwall that keeps our lights on.
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/3db5a01cb3da97d1b0adba0f99f5b14cf8579dd081bf5eff156ef162c1686eb9.jpg

2023-07-16 23:33:31

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I had presumed they’d chosen to name it after a hellish nightmare vision of misery and suffering. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/036d2f68451d39f6262c5ef507913d646df6cfd665d53a6f46b09906f64a1fb3.jpg

2023-07-16 06:07:52

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You certainly will! Shortcut: pick one or two of the #Bitcoin celebs to follow and plagiarize their follow lists (and relays) to get you started. You can prune at leisure.

2023-07-15 03:09:20

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In all seriousness, earplugs are an essential when they develop peak decibel capacity at around three, especially if you’ve already had some
hearing loss.
You can’t *not* be in close proximity when (e.g.) changing a wailing child but you *can* increase the prospects of being able to hear your future grandkids at their Christmas concert.

2023-07-13 16:03:16

38 years ago today: Phil Collins and then-wife Jill about to board a British Airways Concorde from London to New York, enabling him to take part in both the Live Aid concerts at Wembley Stadium and at the John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia.
There was indeed something In the Air Tonight, and it was moving at Mach 2. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/a91627b93a3ff613f3d69f8dc0bf0304b18166994a519a197554be864227c79b.jpg

2023-07-08 05:33:15

Aside from a retirement-year traverse of Canada, the only overland supersonic flights undertaken by Concorde were over Australia during testing in June, 1972.
https://nostr.build/i/8a858dcf88b7bf2dbe9ec366fd578fdaaec03a106e70fb0bda001b5363049b46.jpg

2023-07-02 06:13:53

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It’s Ok, the Government have solved that problem.

2023-07-02 05:59:47

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Hi Sam!

2023-07-01 06:13:33

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Save us from the imbeciles in charge up here.

2023-06-21 22:48:13

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I am currently reading:
* The History of Bees (Maja Lunde)
* The Creature from Jekyll Island (G. Edward Griffin)
#ProofOfBook

2023-06-14 00:57:27

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The whole trilogy is amazing. Well worth the time!

2023-05-23 18:02:30

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Geographic ring-fencing for carbon quotas is going to be a hoot with the CBDC Euro.

2023-05-04 18:59:45

#[0] Congrats on closing the 88 Sats founder group! Enjoyed your latest podcast and was wondering if you were able to dig up any more about the full reserve credit union opening in BC?

2023-04-17 06:43:11

Oh look! The Germans have invented a Time Machine, and voluntarily decamped to the eighteen hundreds.
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_295d4ce3e55a3e2882d83dec0532838c1bc7a809e864a21f445c77de1118c634.jpeg

2023-04-13 16:05:55

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For your convenience and safety, Mr. .build*
*within the geographic ring-fence of your 15-minute city, beyond which your e-vouchers will not function.

2023-04-11 04:03:04

Celebrated #Bitcoin 30k by stacking some sats; then again, this is how most days are celebrated!
Picked up a little $MSTR during regular trading hours today. Are cashtags a thing on Nostr?

2023-04-01 03:24:27

Has anyone seen a spy balloon recently?

2023-03-26 23:17:12

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This, then, is no surprise. Absolutely enormous growth potential in private schooling over the next decade.
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_905c0e9c6b462fbdc8eb2988114c44947625eb0279b7b289580047d54fc19732.jpg

2023-03-26 21:39:18

The speed with which this bullshit is accelerating, books will become subscriptions and accept annual revision (indeed, “unprompted update” behaviour has already been observed on Kindle).
Buy physical.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/25/agatha-christie-classics-latest-rewritten-modern-sensitivities/

2023-03-25 01:29:31

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“Blunders”

2023-03-23 21:37:38

Apropos of nothing, though possibly related to a recent reading of “The Mandibles”, I’ve recently cleared my accounts of any exposure to bonds.
note1dxd32gxapdtymsme22d3xgct3emy7axuek44wcjuhr0nlf5l453s9emw3n

2023-03-23 00:54:59

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Yes. There are only four Star Wars movies, and that’s one of them. Gets better and better on rewatch.

2023-03-22 02:38:51

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Yup. Get out of the cities. Build community.

2023-03-22 02:03:30

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If we hit an ATH in short order I’m going to be scrambling to:
a) deal with secure, resilient, redundant key management like a grown up
b) educate loved ones on what this all means, and how to approach things if I should accidentally fall under a money printer
So no, not ready

2023-03-08 04:49:56

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Agreed. Mixing words and numbers just looks cheap.
Abbreviation V4V is Ok, value-for-value at a push, but mixing is reminiscent of some strip-mall dollar store or fast food joint.
Wings4U!

2023-03-06 17:02:21

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I suspect having an on-ramp to a lightly filtered relay as a new user, while initially reminiscent of services they may be leaving, would help adoption. An opportunity for someone, perhaps.
“Wild West” Nostr could be a secondary exploration. Before I figured out filtering on the Universal feed it had become practically useless.

2023-03-02 18:21:42

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Ha! Perfect, seems to be working now, thanks. Appreciate the speedy response.

2023-03-02 18:14:11

Q: am I not seeing the zap icon on my own posts because self-zapping would be silly and Damus is saving us from ourselves, or have I just not set this thing up right?

2023-02-12 17:09:50

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I’ve added a couple this year built per https://raspibolt.org/ - anecdotally know a few long time casual Bitcoiners (like myself!) who’ve become a lot more invested in the nuts and (lightning) bolts this cycle. Feels 100x more real when you’re part of the network.

2023-02-07 03:32:42

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I presume the spam filtering benefits would only manifest if you unsubscribe from *all* free relays and exclusively use paid ones with similar filtering proclivities. Subset-nostr and Wildwest-nostr.