Happy Hanukkah! As you light the menorah tonight, embrace the enduring themes of freedom, resilience, and hope that Hanukkah symbolizes. This festival reminds us of the power of light to overcome darkness and the importance of maintaining faith in challenging times.

During this season, it's also essential to remember that the actions of the state of Israel do not represent the views of all Jewish people. Many in the Jewish community stand in solidarity with the pursuit of peace and justice for all, including the people of Palestine.

Let us hold in our hearts the aspirations for peace and dignity in Palestine and around the world. As we celebrate these days of miracles, let's commit to fostering understanding, compassion, and coexistence.

May this Hanukkah inspire us towards a brighter future, where every community can live in peace and harmony.

#HappyHanukkah ✡️ #PeaceForAll 🫂 #Hanukkah 🕎

One of my favorite winter time fruits, #Persimmon 🤤

I’ve waited all year for this magic 🪄 ❄️

Ummmmm…. Is there an adult only version of NOSTR like Only Fans? ☮️

Once you fully understand Bitcoin, you should pay it forward. You dont need to save a village-only one lost soul. Be the reflection of Satoshi, spread the knowledge and power of Bitcoin. The cost is little, but the reward is rich. 🫶

#PayItForward 🙏

#Bitcoin #BTC

Good morning

Wakey wakey eggs and bakey (this is actually #serniki, not bakey 😅)!

I found one of the best steak houses in Tbilisi, Georgia 🤤

If you guys happen to visit and want a good steak, I would recommend the Argentinian Steakhouse by Gastronome 🙌 🥩

#Foodstr #FoodPorn #Steak #ArgentinianSteak #Argentina 🇦🇷 #Georgia #Carnivore

Hey #Nostr fam! How are you guys?

I had a mini digital detox at a Monastery in the Georgian mountains, so I was not on here much, did I miss anything major?

My brother Dan wrote something beautiful about our little brother Andrew.

I miss you, Dewey. 💧

Losing someone young, or losing an older person while you are young, is always hard.

When my father passed away from cancer while I was in my early twenties, it wasn't surprising at all. This fact had been coming for two years, slowly. But when it came, it hurt just as bad. And till this day it still hurts.

I was at work and got a call; it was a hospital. They said my father had been suddenly transferred to hospice, and it wasn't looking good. He probably had a week at most. He was in another state. The doctor transferred my father to me on the phone and my father was weakly like, "hey...." and I said hello, and I said I'm coming now. He said, "No don't... uhh.... don't worry... you are far and have work... I'm fine...." I asked then why was he transferred to hospice if things were fine. He was like, "uh well... well you know.... uh.... it's fine...." And I was like, "holy shit I'm coming right now."

So I went to my boss and looked at him. I had previously told him that there might be a moment where I would have to just immediately leave without notice, no matter how important the meetings and such, because of my father. So in this moment I literally just looked at him in the middle of a busy day and was like, "I gotta go" and he was like "of course". So I drove there, two hours away and went straight there. My father weakly said on the phone not to go, but he never sounded like that, so I went immediately.

I got there, and my father was in a hospital in the death ward, and the guy who greeted me was a pastor rather than a nurse, which was not a great sign. I asked what was going on and he told me straight up that this was not good, that my father was likely dying within a week. So he brings me to my father. My father is barely awake. His memories and statements are all over the place, but I just hold his hand and tell him that it's fine and I love him. I'm just there. He kept fading out and I was like, "it's okay, just relax". He could see me and talk in a rough sentence or two and thanked me for coming, but started to fade away.

And then after like 30 minutes, he went fully unconscious. He was still roughly gripping and shaking the bed headboard and so forth but wasn't conscious (and I was like, "Are you all giving him the right pain medicines, this doesn't look good", and even the pastor was like, "yes I have seen many and this is not comfortable" and I was like an angry 23-year-old so I went out in the center area like, "what do all of you even fucking do here?! He is shaking the bedframe and looks in pain, and even the pastor agrees. Holy shit." So I went and got medical attention to deal with this, but felt slow and ineffective at this. They gave him more morphine and it calmed him down, but while it relaxed him, he ultimately didn't wake up again.

I spent the next couple hours there, and then left and called various family members for my second round when he was unmoving. I said if they want to see him, come now, in the next day or two.

But a little while later after I left, I got a call and was told he had died. Only I (and the nurses) saw him while he was still briefly conscious.

During that call itself, I was stoic. I was like, "Yes, I understand. Okay." and then hung up. And then I sat there for like five minutes in silence... and then cried. I got over it quickly and we did the funeral in the following days. My father had been struggling with cancer for years, so this wasn't fully surprising.

But what lingered was the memory. It has been 13 years now, and yet whenever I am in my depths I still think of my father. The memory never gets weaker. I think of his love, or I think of how attentive he was, or how accepting he was, or what he would say about my current problems.

People we love, live on through us. We remember them so vividly, and we are inspired by them.

If he was a lame father, he wouldn't have so many direct memories 13 years later. But because he was a good and close father, he does.

All of those memories are gifts. All of them are ways of keeping aspects of that person alive in our world. It's how we remember them in the decades that follow. Their victories, their losses, and everything in between. Virtues they quietly did that you find out later. Virtues you realize only in hindsight how big they were.

Amazing thank you! 🙏💜

Awesome thank you so much for this detailed response!

Curious if you know.have used/have thoughts on the file transfer option Keet has? And does SimpleX offer anything like that? I didn’t see they do but perhaps I missed it?

#asknostr

Thoughts on Keet vs SimpleX?

Pros/cons?

Main differences?

Thanks in advance 💜

GM Nostr.

I spent the entire morning just trying to renew my italian residence permit that... wait for it... has an expiration date of "illimitata" (unliminted)... 🤔

Hours (and euros) wasted just so that many people being paid by the government could push paper in a circle.

So the iOS is already working ? Cause I used to have the same issue as with simplex ! The big groups fucked up and missing messages

Anyone have any updates on keet.io ?