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Name your first born, Ben.

Imagine you have a crazy ex, but it's worse because that ex is a vampire and goes around killing everyone you date going forward.

Anyway, I have a new book review.

I read best-selling author VE Schwab’s latest novel “Bury My Bones in the Midnight Soil”. It’s about vampires, and the story stretches over 500 years. A friend recommended that I read Schwab, and when I went to my local bookstore, this brand new one from her was displayed front and center, so I picked it up.

The genre is gothic horror romance, basically. With an elevated/literary element to it. The vampire themes are presented on two levels:

-The first is the straightforward level; there are actual vampires. So there’s a plot, action, all sorts of stuff involving some superpowered murderers. One cool detail I liked is that (as undead beings) the vampires hearts don’t beat, but when they drink someone’s blood, their heart beats for a minute and circulates that new blood around. They crave blood to satisfy hunger, but also to feel a heartbeat again, albeit briefly. Nice touch.

-The second level is that the vampires are an allegory for empowerment. Since the book takes place over five centuries, it includes several time periods where women were without much power or rights. And if you were a lesbian (as the author is, and some characters are), well you were pretty much out out of luck. Becoming an immortal vampire with super strength/speed offers the option of breaking free from society’s norms.

I only have so much time to read novels, with sci fi and epic fantasy being my favorite genres, so literary urban fantasy about toxic lesbian vampires was a bit outside of my normal scope. It’s good to broaden one’s horizons, they say.

Overall, I found Schwab’s writing quality to be great. Solid prose, a shocking inciting incident that caught me off guard, a fresh angle on a villain, clear settings and actions never left me confused or distracted, etc.

The story itself was hit or miss for me, though. At 500+ pages, I found it a bit slow. Out of the three point-of-view characters, I could connect well with one of them, but not really the other two. I liked several of the supporting characters, especially a couple of the men were my favorite characters actually, which I think is a testament to Schwab’s writing quality.

I’d definitely read more of Schwab’s novels in the future since I enjoyed her writing style, even though this particular plot didn’t exactly resonate with me.

7.5/10

it mirrors his truth social posts

Legally speaking, did President Trump authorize the mirroring of his Truth Social posts? Is it allowed under the Truth Social terms of service?

bluesky is failing because it is a centralized safe space for soft people

nostr might be small but we are a disagreeable bunch

The things that are going on in the U.K. with regards to censorship are so awful that they make me viscerally upset every time I encounter them online.

People are being given years in prison for saying true things in defense of their country and way of life.

It’s disgusting, it’s treasonous and it’s shameful.

influencers will say that family is most important then fly to a different bitcoin conference every month

Get off zero on #nostr here:

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#bitcoin 

#smij #zapd #freedom #decentralized #unity #rossisfree #grownostr

psst, don't tell anyone, but im running both core & knots,

because...fuck'em all.

Gold Digger was a term, now it's a standard.

Maybe a Sat's Digger

As far as I understand #Coinbase reserves are audited quarterly. This leaves a lot of room for the commingling of #MSTR and #IBIT #bitcoin holdings with Coinbase users’ funds which could allow some degree of market manipulation. I would be happy to be shown that this type of manipulation isn’t possible but until proven otherwise, we have to consider this as a real possibility.

All speculations could be cleared by demonstrating proof of reserve and the rational provided by #Saylor to justify not doing so are weak at best.

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Saylor saying that ATMs do not move the price is the same logic as saying that money printing does not impact inflation. 🤡

#bitcoin #mstr

Where I come from, owning “assets” weren’t part of school lessons or neighborhood conversations.

These are the only assets I hold in the fiat legacy system. The rest is in hard assets like #Bitcoin and a bit of #Gold

#Mstr #CEP #asst

Obi-Wan Satoshi 😂

#bitcoin #nostr #bitcoinconference #bitcoinconference2025 #saylor #mstr #strategy

Question for someone who has been to a #bitcoin #bitcoinconference : How hard is it to get seating on a stage with a popular speaker? Is there standing room? How early would you need to arrive to see someone like Saylor or Trump's kids??

Anyone needs a ticket for Vegas Bitcoin Conference?

Got one spare that I’m selling!

Spread the word!!

#bitcoin #vegas #bitcoin2025

#lasvegas bound today! Hope to see some of you there.

First vacation in over a decade so I’m excited for a lot of things, but one of the biggest is just watching all the nerds go hard in #vegas. We’re gonna have some fun.

#btc #bitcoin #conference #nosvegas

Maybe should have e changed the channel before the news started doing a full break down of how the #Bitcoin bros (not what the wife wanted to hear) supported trump back into office.

Great work #davidbailey showing up on channel 4 news, broadcast across the UK!!!! Was nice not to have all the news being negative, but also rather mainstream, it goes up and oh no it goes down and also let’s talk about crypto….

Prepping us backwards Brits for this wild new technology that’s been jumping feet first into over the pond!!! Already a year behind with the ETFs, so basically waiting to fall further behind, then again , Rachel from complaints probably has more stuff to worry about than the inner working of distributed ledger technology.