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Son of Vin 🍷
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Wine super fan, tech freelancer, & founder of VersusMedia: streaming films and music for Sats. 🍷 https://sonofvin.com 🎬 https://versusmedia.com Nostr Text Based Role Playing Game: (retired) Choose Your Fate Game Nostr trivia bots: (retired) WineMasters TriviaMasters

The LA fires just won’t end. The Palisades Fire turned towards Brentwood last night. We could see it far off in the distance from our bedroom window. Took this shot with a telephoto zoom lens at 500mm on my roof, meaning it's very far away for now.

If anyone has a channel with my node, I apologize but I’ve taken it offline for now. We’re potentially looking at an evacuation order due to this Hollywood Hills fire in Los Angeles and I’m taking it with me just in case. I’ve got backups, etc. But why chance it. See you all on the other side. 🫡

Happy New Year y’all 🎉

My son feeding one of you Nostriches

Replying to Avatar Cole McCormick

I got so caught up with boostagrams and Primal 2.0 I forgot to do something crucial. Here is my official #introductions post:

My name is Cole McCormick, I live in Los Angeles. I’m an early adopter and innovator. I came out here to Direct movies and tell stories. I am a podcaster, my first being in 2016, currently hosting AMERICAPLUS. I’m also producing promotional videos for nostr:npub1pj3a304qsdh99yr5wkug75rfznr284fzy7zalfnuwkctwyye2djsae7des .

In 2021 I discovered nostr:npub13ql75nq8rldygpkjke47y893akh5tglqtqzs6cspancaxktthsusvfqcg7 and his shows, one of them being podcasting 2.0, that took my down a wonderful rabbit hole. I rediscovered the magic in podcasting and was aligned with the ethos of V4V. I wanted to earn Bitcoin for my work, I was one of the first 1200 podcasts that had a value tag on their rss feed.

My vision for AMERICAPLUS has always been to seek positivity in the world. So I talk about a lot of different topics I think are good to talk about. Bitcoin, politics, spirituality, history, movies, Bible, and most recently Nostr. It’s been a solo mission but I have plans for more conversations/interviews and have that be the main thing.

I have made two short films (which I will be posting to Nostr soon) “The Break In” based a real and random night, and “Magic Mushroom Fun Time!” Which was the first V4V short film using V4V Music and distributed over RSS. I gave my small crew splits of payment from the podcast apps and we all made thousands of Satoshis. That was cool.

Fast forward to the last few months my life has been changing rapidly. My dad died in August 2024, I’m working at a steakhouse that, to be completely honest sucks ass, and I’m going through a break up 😂. BUT…I found Nostr.

I seek to be the best version of myself ultimately. Aligning my personality with my soul. So I am going into 2025 with creativity and an open heart. I want to be apart of this new world in the best way I can serve creatively. More videos and short films coming. More podcasts with cool and innovative people. More light.

If you would like to connect I’m always up to talk. If you want to help me make a movie, the answer is yes! If you want to come on my show, let’s schedule it! If you think this post is worth it, zap it!

My soul goal is to give value to people in the best way I can. We are in incredible unprecedented times, and I see only bright things for our future. Let’s go to the moon plebs.

Welcome to Nostr from a fellow LA guy 🤙

Why oh why a Hellthread. Ahhhh.

Still doing these wine reviews when time permits. Marked Ohio off my list. Only 12 states left to try wines from! https://www.sonofvin.com/2024/10/30/50-wines-from-50-states-ohio/ #wine #grownostr

I'm not overly partial to any one of them myself but I agree with your order of preference: Suckling, Robinson, Parker. It's all like the movie critic stuff to me where much of it is subjective. I've tried some that they've rated really high and didn't like it much.

Passed my first Ham radio license test with a perfect score today. I don’t care if it’s an old-timey technology as it was still something I wanted to do. First test I’ve taken in probably 20 years so I’m proud that I aced it. 🤙

If anyone signed up using Nostr and received today’s SocialBug event reminders, did you receive your DM with events? And did it look ok? https://socialbug.ai

“Make grape juice with this one simple trick” 🤷‍♂️

Took me a while, but my free weekly local AI event reminder service is available to Nostr users finally. It's a super basic setup, but it works. I’ve been enjoying what it sends me prepping for Halloween with my kid soon. Sign up on the site using a Nostr extension, fill out your preferred details, and you'll get a weekly DM containg local event notices based upon your interests. It is sent every Tuesday morning. Sorry, but it is only for US based locations. #grownostr #AI #events

https://www.socialbug.ai

Now! I started on it but never finished it. Just didn’t get much request for it at the time so I got distracted elsewhere. Email may be stupid but I got a much bigger response from email users to focus there. LMK if you want me to delete your email version. It’s a simple setup. Just go to the site and login using an extension. Then fill out your info. Next week you’ll get a DM with the details.

I use AWS S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, Wasabi sys, and more nearly daily for clients and myself. I could write code to just dynamically use one of those here too. But when it comes to posting on Nostr, I am supporting the "local" #Nostr biz people like nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7. I believe there are other places who do this as well, but they are the ones I chose to use. This place won't grow if people don't support the devs developing on it. I know from my own experiences here too.

Just renewed my account for another year nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7 🤙🍷