GM from the underbelly of society. It ain't glamorous but it's real. Thats all recycled PET bottles in bundles. Sorry it's not a late on the beach.
All the new Nostriches getting hatched and finding their place... I'm in that image, too. Zoom in. (Yes it's real, yes I took it, yes, you can, too - it's from Chicago and if you know where and how leave a note). #photography
The more you travel down the rabbit hole you'll soon enough realize it was a wormhole all along. #photography
After BASIC and a dabble into some flavour of UNIX, this was what I was creating "apps" with in 1987. Apple had all the capabilities of creating a web but they also wanted total control (see the history of their failed Apple eWorld). Hypercard had links, pages, animations, databasing, and was open to your imagination. I still have this manual.
Are your words ephermal?
Playing around on Nostr reminds me of finally giving in and joining Twitter but even more it means reclaiming what was lost. After much deliberation and people I was locally influenced by when I was into the Vancouver startup scene, I finally signed up. That was back in May 2008. It was raw and I used to text my updates from my Palm Treo 700W. It had a community that was growing and excited to be part of this different crowd. We had Tweetups and global 24hr Twestivals (that raised money for clean drinking water in Africa, Charity Water). We thought we were cutting edge. There were people hooking into the network to make it better, like TweetDeck and these other services.
Then came the politicians, journalists, salesmen, bots, and all manner of poison. yeah, the service grew but the culture died. Now Twitter/X is a cesspool of shit posting. yes there's good to be found but so much joy is gone. This happens with every service, it seems.
But Nostr, for now, is different. It takes me back to UseNet days and 9600 baud modems, before search engines and browsers, where some technical proficiency was the barrier and the signal was pure. Back then and for much of the 90's we were concerned about our privacy and were super sketch at the idea of giving out our credit card. We went by anonymous names but met IRL (as the kids say these days). We hosted our own sites and feared no algorythm.
There are those who think Social Media became a thing with Twitter. or FaceBook, or MySpace, or Friendster... I've met those SM agency folk. They miss that the internet IS social media from the get go. They confuse the term SM with what they really mean as ROI, KPMs, data mining, user harvesting, clicks, views, and other commercial nonsense. It's the friends you meet along the way... that's the real value.
I have very little doubt that as Nostr grows so too will it silo and large commercial ventures will eye it for its riches BUT as it is a protocol we have the ability to really keep some semblance of sovereignty alive and I honestly haven't seen that in... nearly 30 years.
I don't see a grill basket (the kind that close, with handles) in your pics. There are large ones you can get. All around the world, when I've attended fish bakes on the beach, that's how it was done. Easy flips. That, or skewer the fish and almost rotisserie style cook.
nostr:nprofile1qqsyw2lflynya6sj2net9a7d9ksvxxw6unlye4jf7ppya9prfh9vl9cwf5nyr nostr:nprofile1qqsxpfwtq34xpnqy9djsg7jjayq3rrst95r4xflje0nqlwjjwhfhrycjn09s7 it's pretty clear how much more fun you have with the freedom of Rumble but you're faced with the conflict of wanting the reach of YouTube... So why not stay free and post edited after on YouTube (as you do on audio pod at like Fountain)... You know, kinda like what Russel Brand does. The wider audience gets reached and those who want the whole unvarnished show eventually migrate. I mean, you've made it clear it's not about monetization and your sponsors are good so just go for the whole coin. Use YT for reach as you convert them to sovereign participants on whatever platform (or ideally protocol) aligns with your values.
Ideally, you'd have a fish grilling basket that you just flip. Now that you've already started... Very carefully with a few spatulas.
Spotted in the wild... A payphone, with a message from 2011! So, it hasn't been visited in 13 years or what? One has tonwonder of it costs more to maintain, collect coins, clean, and power than what it produces.
I'm gonna have to get my own relay or something. Testing out a new client. Each client is only showing some of what has been posted before. Each is missing different posts.