I’m committing to touching as little fiat as I can in 2025.

So far today I’ve paid for an eSIM and groceries via nostr:npub1m7r9aayrqjtt2q0whkyrwlys75s5d828c5uewvqwyfd2kxefkfjqgeny2w,

Paid my credit card via nostr:npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 nostr:npub1k763esjjzm2vzz7gtt38q4wf49zlua72l4rreu3myzghuwwwdqtq2mcg5x

Paid for my coffee and lunch with ⚡️

Ate that lunch while watching nostr:npub10uthwp4ddc9w5adfuv69m8la4enkwma07fymuetmt93htcww6wgs55xdlq on nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg at the restaurant and sending zaps 🫡

GM Nostr

Local, organic, farm to table lunch at Caoba Farms in Guatemala.

Paid in bitcoin.

No factory farms and no banks.

No, he’s a lizard-robot hybrid and always will be.

On a mission to spend sats today. Cold brew acquired.

GM

Happy New Year

GM

Viscerally felt the toxicity of my X feed this morning and came to Nostr for some relief.

CMEs. Large solar events. I guess that fear extends much farther than bitcoin. But yeah, our sats would certainly be useless. But then again we’d have much bigger problems.

Interesting. It’s under their “Ideas” banner. I seem to remember that radio program having decent intellectual content once upon a time.

GM

I recently returned to my home province for my first visit in18 years. I visited my grandfather’s old house in a small rural community where I lived with my mom when I was first born.

I had not seen this house in probably 30+ years. Having only vague memories and pictures to go by, it was truly humbling to see how modest this structure is. The fact that it’s still standing and I was able to visit it, are gifts.

Just up the hill (second photo) sits his old wood shop where he built many beautiful things.

The house is now used as a tool shed for the property next door which was also my great grandmothers house.

#stayhumble

#stacksats

Some reflection:

I left my home country of Canada one year ago to travel the world, and more importantly, research where I wanted to call home.

Canada has stopped being a place where I feel welcome. The pandemic years, with the absolute vitriol spewing from the prime minister and his media has left a permanent impression on me. And even worse, the same vitriol that came from people I once called friends.

I was labelled as dangerous. That and whatever flavour of bigot was popular to label someone that week for choosing to exercise autonomy over their medical decisions.

This, not to mention the crippling level of taxation, and ever-rising costs of living, were enough to drive us out into the world to find another path. It felt as though there were no hope to purchase a home, or prepare for retirement. When the government extorts you out of more than a third of your income, and then expects you to happily stay on waiting lists for doctors for years at a time, what are you paying for?

I don’t know where I’ll land for good, but I don’t feel like Canada is a place of opportunity for me anymore. Perhaps one day it will be again.

GM

More Newfoundland.

#newfoundland

#travel

This account is temporarily a Newfoundland appreciation account. But I mean, just look at this place.

Twillingate, Newfoundland.

#travel

#newfoundland

#canada

GM

Cape Spear, Newfoundland, Canada

Hmm well that was supposed to have a photo attached. 🤔

GM

Newfoundland, Canada

GM 🫡☕️

I currently live in a millennial trailer park in Costa Rica, otherwise known as a park full of shipping container “tiny homes”. One of the perks is almost all my neighbour’s have friendly dogs. This guy visits me almost every morning. GM.

But you’ll feel it.