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17th Earl of Oxenford. Failed aristocrat. Number go down storytelling. Iโ€™m less useful than a prophet. Iโ€™m a poet. Bitcoin.

My father-in-law just got set up with Unchained.

Heโ€™s a sailor so please, stop the boating accident jokes! Itโ€™s a sensitive subject.

Is there such a thing as a spaces equivalent on Nostr in the works?

I bet Iโ€™m the only ice cream truck driver on #Nostr.

And no, I do not have free samples. You should not be eating this stuff anyway.

Not seeing a source for this one, but the undocumented sexual abuse of young boys by female teachers in public schools is widespread. It quickly corrupts otherwise virtuous young men. nostr:note1tga67jx4vcaljyjjl6svumjrmxh86dz60vpakud5kas94m4zvqyqxhr5aq

GM. Enjoy some #coffeechain and one of Kiplingโ€™s most recognized poems.

Ifโ€”

IF you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

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:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

On a long enough timeline truth, goodness, and beauty win, and win handily.