Tor relays are important for many people around the world. We should try to make sure we are able to support people that need Nostr the most. We miss you Roya 🥹🫂💜

Instant Messaging is such a walled garden, actually. o.o

There are no real "multi messengers" anymore like Meebo and IM+ back in the day. There is Beeper, but it runs on Matrix and I would consider it commercial; and it uses Synapse... x.x XMPP gateways seem to be far and few out there - I found a few very old ones for Telegram but none for Signal.

Man, are people really running a multitude of IM apps on their phones these days now? Is that actually a thing? O.o

Guess I am stuck with my Matrix messenger for a while... Well, I could work to implement this in Nostr, I guess - but there are a few things I would have to work out first. Bridges rely on controlling your account; and not everyone would trust a remote service... so I would have to figure something out. o.o

Looks like I was able to get this working again, sort of. It says I'm connected to 9-11 relays, but only shows that I have 100 followers (and even Jack only about 40, so it has to be a data gap), and very few notes on timelines (with obvious gaps even for hugely active accounts). Relay.damus.io never seems to pass me any data (0kb both up and down) to me, which j assume is due to my connection coming via Tor, but honestly I don't know. I'm connecting using Amethyst, if anybody sees this and has any ideas—what's the best, biggest relay for Tor users right now?

Secondly, and most importantly for anyone who sees this note, please make some noise to try and stop the passage of RISAA (the FISA 702 reauthorization) that's about to hit law as soon as this Friday. Please read about it and push it out on all of your socials, if you agree it's a problem. It's going to be hard to stop this thing, even with all hands.

Whoever sees this, thank you for hearing me.

Yes sir

Nice case!

Buying sats?

Are you a bot, anon?

You can get ones that are nothing but American flags for the design. It's utterly glorious.

If you ever make any more, definitely give this newer design a whirl, not as pretty but much better controls, especially if you can print those in TPU.

Ha -- going the extra mile! How did the thumbstick control turn out with that set?

Someone here on Nostr pointed out to me that I am a classical artist who does not know how to take risks, thinking they were giving me a bad criticism, but I find it a nice compliment.

I admire classical artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, Raphael... so much.

I feel I am in good company.

#art

Has anyone ever tried cheese coffee?

Those look like they turned out especially well. 🧡