Nostr is best used to state the obvious and most culturally controversial topics. Including…

The fact that decentralization doesn’t automatically create better discourse. It just removes the ability to blame centralized gatekeepers for our own intellectual laziness.

That “censorship resistance” means protecting speech you find repugnant, not just speech you happen to agree with this week.

That most people claiming they want freedom of association actually want freedom from consequences of their associations.

That building parallel systems is harder than complaining about existing ones, and most revolutionaries are better at manifestos than maintenance.

That value for value models only work if people actually value the thing enough to pay for it, which is a market signal some creators don’t want to hear.

That your keys, your notes, your responsibility also means your mistakes, your reputation, your problem.

That we’ve simply moved the trust assumptions around, not eliminated them, and pretending otherwise is intellectual dishonesty.

The real test of any protocol isn’t its technical specifications. It’s whether it can survive its own success without replicating the exact power structures it claimed to replace.

Discuss.

One can dream

Humility is the true HODL. Ego is the rug pull.

Happy holidays nostr 🧡

good morning and merry christmas 🥰🎄☕

i am bleary eyed drinking coffee by the tree. always knew today would be a tired day: last night i fulfilled my life long dream of being santa. i have always wanted to be santa, even before i wanted children. such a unique opportunity for magic. 🥲✨

i am feeling so blessed in this sleepy state. sitting at the bottom of the stairs with baby in arm. waiting to see my toddler’s face as he realizes the overnight transformation of the living room... so, so blessed...

sending love and smiles to all the world today. go play like a little kid. with trucks or blocks or video games. be a goof today, that is my wish. i love you.

🎁🎁 Merry Christmas Nostr 🎄🎄

For unto us, a Savior was born.

Don’t think so, it’s mostly for the 250 year US anniversary I think

Merry Christmas

#photostr #photography #plebs #plebchain

My coworker hooked me up with the best Al Pastor tacos I have ever had.

1 down, 3 to go.

These are my tacos. There are many that look like them but these are mine.

Without me, my tacos are nothing.

Without my tacos, I am nothing.

Dear Nostr,

Merry Christmas. I hope you had a good year. I hope you'll have some time to slow down, reflect, appreciate the good things in life, and spend some quality time with your loved ones. Life can be rough sometimes, but it can be beautiful too. It mostly is, I believe. And Christmas is a good time to celebrate that. The good times. Family. The return of the light. 🎄

Peace & Love

🫡 Merry Christmas everyone!! Don't forget to smile and end 2025 well with your loved ones. Time to enjoy!! 🧡💊🫂🎄🎅🎶🥂🎁

The yearly “world ahead” image from the Economist is always interesting to analyze for symbolism (and predictive programming)

The pills everywhere, the cargo ship shooting at the 250 year America celebration (trade war going violent?), the space laser shooting at the cargo ship, Zelensky in flames, rockets and needles everywhere were a few that caught my eye.

Anything you notice that stands out?

Side note: friendly reminder that the economist is controlled by the Rothschilds and Agnellis, and pushes city of London/club of Rome propaganda to “predict” (steer) geopolitics and trends

#asknostr

Merry Christmas, Nostr!❄️🎄🌨️🎁

GM and Merry Christmas, dear Nostr friends ❤️

Wishing you and your family health and happiness and every good thing 🙏🌟

Love the tradition of loading opendimes on Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas

Feliz navidad 🎄

Dear Nostr,

Christmas arrives each year carrying far more than tradition.

It carries memory.

It carries longing.

It carries the quiet hope that something gentle might still be possible in a world that so often feels sharp.

Beneath the noise and the rush, it offers a pause, a moment where time softens and we are invited to remember what truly matters.

Christmas is not about perfection.

It is about presence, reminding us that warmth can exist even in the coldest seasons, that light does not need to be loud to be real, and that meaning often lives in small, unremarkable moments we overlook.

A shared meal.

A familiar voice.

The silence that feels safe instead of empty.

For some, this season is joyful.

For others, it is heavy with absence, grief, or exhaustion.

Christmas makes room for both.

It does not demand cheer; it offers comfort.

It does not ask us to be whole; it meets us where we are and whispers that being human is enough.

May this Christmas be gentle with you. May it remind you that rest is allowed, that connection matters more than display, and that even the quietest forms of love still count. And may you find, somewhere in the stillness, a sense of peace that lingers long after the lights dim.

Merry Christmas and peace to you all.

Today is my Grannies birthday, 105 years ago. She was the most positive influence in my life, and I always take some time to myself and remember her on Christmas Eve, what she taught me, and how much she loved me. Ten years later the loss still stings.

Family is the most important part of Christmas, even when they're not with you anymore.

Good Night & Merry Christmas 🎄

Merry Christmas Nostriches!!

Sending you all much love, good health, happiness and loads of Bitcoin! 🎄💜🫂

#christmas

This has been the most important and eventful year of my life; and the best, so far..

In order of events:

- Quit my fiat job, had multiple issues with pay and they tried to stiff me out of 6-figures on the way out but I went nuclear and got paid in full

- Relocated from Australia to Vietnam

- Moved everything here that we didn’t sell; including my old dog

- Got married

- Had an amazing honeymoon

- Got in the best shape since my early 20s

- Learned Vietnamese to basic conversational level

- Made new friends, good friends

- Moved to a new house with a pool

- Had our first child

- Read 30+ books

- Put my time and energy into things that matter to me

- First Christmas with wife and baby

#Bitcoin works. It takes time, and I’m bound to have downswings ahead like everyone (12yo dog has tumours so I’ve got that to deal with), but none of this probably happened without it.

Watching Australia go to shit from afar is more bearable. At least I don’t have to deal with the constant stupidity when I walk out the door here.

I just put down the phone and the world around me is actually normal. Walk to the beach with the old dog, get a coffee for <$1, enjoy the Sun, people say hello and are friendly, work at home then go for great dinner with friends - a far cry from what my life was like last year and much more enjoyable.

#MerryChristmas everyone. Here’s hoping you all enjoy the best of life today!

There’s something deeply cynical about politicians who declare “America is a Christian nation” while their own lives tell a different story. JD Vance says Christianity is America’s Creed, yet he’s married to a Hindu and celebrates Hanukkah with his family. I’m not questioning his marriage or his respect for other faiths. I’m questioning the authenticity of his public theology.

As a reformed Christian, I believe America’s founding was deeply shaped by Christian ethics and moral reasoning. That’s a historical reality we can trace through the documents, debates, and institutions our founders created. But there’s a massive difference between acknowledging that influence and weaponizing faith for electoral advantage.

When politicians suddenly discover the language of Christian nationalism at precisely the moment it polls well with their base, we have an obligation to call it what it is: pandering. They’re not defending the faith. They’re using it as a vehicle to power.

The gospel doesn’t need politicians to protect it. It needs believers who live with integrity, who refuse to let our most sacred convictions become just another campaign strategy. When faith becomes nothing more than a demographic to capture, we’ve lost something essential.

I’d rather have a leader who lives their convictions quietly and inconsistently than one who performs them loudly while calculating their next move. At least the first one isn’t treating my faith like a focus group finding.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​