You never really know the true impact you have on those around you. You never know how much someone needed that smile you gave the, or how your kindness turned their life around or how much they needed that long hug or deep talk. So don't wait for the perfect time to be kind.

Good Morning 💜🌻🌤️

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

Where is this place ?

Beautiful. I hope you’re cooking those flowers too! 🌸🤤

Damn, those look good. Enjoy!

Everyone knows it's fake. I'm 52 grey at 30. Not enough dye it the world to fool anyone.

Embrace it.

I don't know if he will finish the trilogy or not, but this Patrick Rothfuss quote is amazing:

"There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man."

I love the framing. Wise men don't fear many things, so what they do fear is high signal. And then that last point- gentle men are known for their diplomacy and agreeableness in all matters; what would make a gentle man angry?

More importantly to make it really hit home, think about your best personal life example of a *specific* gentle man. Your awesome uncle, perhaps. The guy who is literally always chill. The gigachad walking around with his goats and never gets upset.

Or, if you have trouble with a personal example, just picture Mr. Rogers. The quintessential gentle man. Always nice. Neighborly. Who can picture him angry?

And then one day, for the first time you've ever known him, he is fucking furious at something.

That's signal. And truly scary.

What would make a gentle man angry?

Gees there's a lot of crud that's built into the system. The amount of rubbish spewed from these people's mouths knows no bounds

#austriches

Liberal Democracy is basically the weaponisation of NPCs by the parasite class against the productive class.

Indoctrinate people from childhood through their early 20s with statism, reinforce approved narratives via M5M, frame the Overton window between two narrow poles of statist authoritarianism, quash any dissent that arises and impose censorship, then pretend like all the policy enacted is simply the will of the people regardless of how few actually support any of it.

Those able to break free of the programming see it for what it is but are powerless to do anything against the mindless masses who prefer to bicker over which colour ties the authoritarians are going to wear whilst they loot the treasury. The parasites are happy because no-one challenges their actual power and they’ll be gone from office by the time their shenanigans are revealed whilst the productive class simply tries to keep pace with the ever-eroding purchasing power being siphoned away through inflation rending them unable to focus on removing the cancer.

It’s every bit as unsustainable as the Soviet Union was but we tell ourselves we have ‘freedom’ which merely obfuscates what percentage slave you are to the State under the illusion of having a say with your vote.

It took 150 years to come up with better money in #Bitcoin, it’s time we came up with a better way of organising ourselves than giving leeches with a monopoly on violence all the power. nostr:note1kwu7jz66nye6el0f8kmkcnajkr0ztyk9xuyrltqr7za5656j7yvqad6z6d