And reflection, daydreaming…. nostr:note100gfkrpltuxvqtz5tl220rmxhl3px954wkmdh8u87alev972zutqmvms2g

I’m hearing more from my friend about the world of influencers.

13 of the 15 girls on the hen do this weekend were fitness influencers or similar.

Here’s my takeaways.

🎙️ No one cares about deplatforming or censorship. No one spoke of Twitter / Brazil over the weekend.

💀 Gyms in london have influence hours where you can film without bothering other normal gym goers.

🏃‍♂️ running is cool again but you have to have a big bum too. It’s kind of unobtainable. Classic.

💉 everyone has had some “tweakment” done. Baby Botox or botox, lip filler, minor boob job, profilo (smooths your skin), lazer treatments, veneers etc. it’s SO normalised among young women, apparently.

💇‍♀️ hair extensions are less cool. No one has them anymore.

🥘 all but one of them has suffered from an eating disorder.

The anorexia or bulimia or any other number of things I hadn’t heard of before had of course affected their periods.

One of them had been told by a doctor when she was 16 that she wouldn’t be able to conceive. So sad.

So she never used protection with her partner of 7 years and this summer she fell pregnant… awesome right?

Well maybe. don’t forget she and her partner had always prepared for a childless life.

🥾 they went on a hike on Saturday morning. The hike took 2 hours. Taking photos as part of the hike?

ALSO TWO HOURS 💀

💰 it’s not enough to have 200k instagram followers + affiliates and sponsors.

You need to have a business like a “sustainable” swimwear brand or vegan cookbook / online coaching. Basically you have to treat your audience as a customer base.

Funny story. One girl had created a load of Tupperware brand.

But oops. She messed up because people stopped buying from her coz the products actually lasted. So they bought one for life and she couldn’t keep monetising her audience.

Fucking hilarious.

🍷 it was a Hen Do and the usual thing to do as a Brit is to get shitfaced. lol sorry it’s just British things.

The Saturday night they had a few drinks courtesy of the investment banker in the note below, but these girls had smoothies and yoga and breath work and were worried about bad photos or giving off the wrong impression to their followers.

What are they, the QUEEN OF ENGLAND??

🏠 the villa they stayed in had 800 followers on IG at the start of the weekend. Today it has 2,500 because of their tags and content. Wild.

👰‍♂️ the bride spent the Sunday morning alone in her room drafting posts about the hen do weekend because she had a new deal starting on the Monday and she couldn’t overlap the hen do content with the sponsored content.

⛓️‍💥

To sum up. Would’ve been super interesting to be a fly on the wall over this weekend but influencing SUCKS.

The model is retardio and to succeed in the world of influencing, your mental health takes a big hit and you effectively HAVE to become an unbearable diva.

And yes bitcoin fixes a lot of this.

But Nostr fixes A LOT more.

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Let data speak! If they are still not convinced means they have decided to make quite a risky bet against Bitcoin. Meaning they will compensate the bad decision paying a higher price in the future. Hopefully they remember your advice by then.

any ideas on the best way to influence my current workplace to adopt Bitcoin strategic Treasury strategy?

already done a 5 page doc last year outlining the obvious - fiat failing - governments will continue to print - inflation etc

they unfortunately didn't buy it - as they are a startup and rather allocate money to other business they want to acquire/invest

I want to give it 1 more crack and I was thinking of approaching it and showing examples of other business currently leading the way e.g strike, MSTR, Metaplanet etc

any other suggestions nostr?

Nostr note to self: don’t pay any attention to follower count or profile name, go & see if you value their posted content, & click follow if you like the look of it

(Signal vs noise unlearning from legacy social media experience)

Nice, maybe it’s just the screenshot but the orange is a bit muted? What type of releases will there be?

#amsterdam #nederland #photography

As I look back through my entire body of work (maybe 14 years shooting digital) - my favourite photos are the ones that embody a sense of space, movement and freedom. I didn’t always realise what it was I was trying to communicate, but it emerges slowly over time.

Those qualities I seek out out in the physical world also need to be present online, and so far Bitcoin and Nostr have been the closest thing I’ve found to offer that freedom.

#photostr

#photographerstr

#australia

#australiastr

#photography

#fineartstr

#artstr

#bird

#birds

#terns

#freedom

#grownostr

#plebchain

Australia calls itself a democracy.

But in reality it is a tightly controlled technocracy.

Propaganda streamed into every living room 24 hours a day.

No protection of free speech, no right to defend ourselves.

The illusion of choice at election time between globalists in red or globalists in blue.

The tax system and business regulations are set up to ensure that government-approved corporations are the only ones who make super profits.

Decentralizing your life is getting easier with #Bitcoin and #Nostr.

Yeah I’m using Damus at the moment

Hey everyone, I’ve been trying to connect a lighting wallet so I can send some zaps! ⚡️

But Wallet of Satoshi is giving this error message…. I’ve tried both copy/paste to add the address and scanning the QR code.

Any ideas, or anyone have a Alby invite? 🙏🏽

#grownostr

#plebchain

#walletofsatoshi

#alby

#help

I'm always positively surprised by how much Vietnamese appreciate it when you at least try to speak some words of Tieng Viet (Vietnamese). I picked up some over my years here and I always start the conversation in Vietnamese, not in English. We are in Vietnam, right? In return they will be very forthcoming and helpful, and laughing their arses off at my pronunciation (and i gladly join them in that). Ice broken. Give it a try, you'll see!

after several months off nostr, I am keen to jump back on and give it a crack. also will be uploading some new vinyl sets of some wax I've been collecting over the past couple of years. stay tuned. #tune8

An insider wave sneaks through the pack 🌊

#grownostr

#photostr

#photographerstr

#australia

#australiastr

#photography

#fineartstr

#artstr

#surf

#lineup

Kids are 4 & 2 with 3rd due in a few weeks

So pre school, which means very easy to entertain them

Yeah I travelled a lot between 18 and 30, visiting over 100 countries I think

When I emigrated to Australia from the UK 4 years ago I had to write all the places I’d visited in the previous decade & it was a long list

So yes very to do a lot of that when I was younger

Hello world.