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Ā£36k to live in Sunderland, attempt to stack bitcoin and investigate crypto scams

Ha ha. At 36k thatās inviting corruption, which will probably be pretty easy in this role.
Itās the smells. Digital photography doesnāt smell of anything.
Itās why a use a tripod for my landscape photography though. Apart from helping to get an accurate composition, it slows me right down so I can be present in the moment, out on the hill.
Ugh. I know that feeling all too well.
Thanks Gigi. Immich is absolutely brilliant, especially the machine learning based search. Itās excellent for finding little moments I remember from when my kids were younger.
Your work has been an inspiration in the past too. Thanks again.
VDO Ninja for your private video calls, it uses WebRTC and it totally private.
OBS to record everything. Eg Your own camera and mic....and bring the VDO Ninja feed for your guest.
I use it for my podcast and its super reliable and high quality. OBS can simply record to you hard drive, stream live, or do both.
ā”ļøš¬š§ WATCH - Jimmy Carr is the United Kingdomās most popular comedian and celebrity. Carr says, āI would not mind it if our government mines for bitcoins. Our power stations donāt do anything at night, so weāre going to mine for bitcoins. Great. New gold standard. Fine.ā
https://blossom.primal.net/3def5c738c1b66e91e031d4b3cfb0c37ffd84c2976a839dc2b52ca4527113688.mp4
Huh!? No he isnāt. āJimmy Carr is the United Kingdomās most popular comedian and celebrity.ā
I did enjoy the way he just casually dropped that in though.
I use OBS to record and bring everything together. VDO ninja to online call your guest and bring it into OBS.
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Iām very bearish on normal peopleās strength to resist authoritarianism and centralisation. Especially in the west where life will remain just comfortable enough, so long as you follow all the rules and sing for your supper.
Reckon if weāre truly orange-pilled, we might have to accept itās gonna take a long time and some sacrifices will be required.
āI burn my life to make a sunrise Iāll never see.ā
A good few exciting options.
I'm DONE with Adobe...
#photography #opensource #selfhosting
Theyāre not gonna take our internet connections away. The last thing they want is us gathering (and organising) in the real world.
Australiaās under 16 social media ban which started today isnāt going so well. This ban was never going to work and children are bypassing the checks fairly easily. Iāve personally heard of four 13-15 year olds that could reactivate Snapchat accounts simply by setting their date of birth so they are older than 16 and completing a facial scan age verification which āconfirmedā they were old enough. Iāve also heard many reports of under 16s still on TikTok without even having to do anything to bypass the ban, and YouTube accounts that were flagged for suspension that are still active.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-10/social-media-ban-day-one-teen-access/106126706
Itās so dumb. Still depressing to see how many people are in support of government doing parenting though.
Itās a place for the desperate, trying to reassure each other that being a corporate hack is meaningful and fulfilling.
Bought some gold before there's none left.

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I think for creators working towards a 1000 true fanbase (from Kevin Kelly) could work very well. And your fans should have the freedom to share their value (money) in many ways. With the best money (sats) and best technology (like nostr, so you own the relationship).
https://fountain.fm/episode/nx8jCK6OGhKpTsOI85E3
nostr:nevent1qvzqqqpxquqzpvajsmyjk70zprsceqf8arlhxc50ty4lyfk2khsh5hgd9438dp9hcdfd7f
The hybrid model has worked for me for several years now. The V4V portion remains very low though, probably less than 5% at the current time.
After building out my own system - where I post the same videos as I do on YouTube without the ads and sponsors - I can now smugly direct people to my website whenever they complain about seeing another sponsored section in my videos. They nearly always choose to stay on youtube though, and it seems convenience also plays a factor in this whole story.
Like nostr:npub1clk6vc9xhjp8q5cws262wuf2eh4zuvwupft03hy4ttqqnm7e0jrq3upup9 also touched on in the video, "the ask" can create tension and easily appear desperate or greedy if you do it too often. Whereas I can land a new sponsor, get more money into the pipeline, plan ahead, and there's almost no friction from my audience.
The other important aspect of the "lifeboat" in my case is maintaining a newsletter email list of my audience, and then keeping it trim so it represents my core fans as much as possible. I've been using Sendy for about a year now, and if a platform suddenly disappeared, I could stay in touch with the most important followers.
Breath of the Sea. A calm, long-exposure seascape where tide, sky and timber meet in soft blue tones. A moment of quiet breath from the sea.
Limited edition print is available now. Shipping worldwide.
https://btcpayserver.firstmanphotography.com/
#landscapephotography

Someone mentioned this to me the other day:
Repetition compulsion: The unconscious tendency to recreate past, often traumatic, situations or emotional dynamics.
Hey nostr:nprofile1qqsgwy4nd85sdgujtasqqrq2nsfdu57z98mtvrhxs6fdfdecgp3947gpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3vamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3w8qux6urg9ekxjen9ftptmk I think Alex is ready to be brought here to Nostr. If you know him (you two have similar following on YT), maybe sell him the idea. Just a suggestion.
Context:
I don't know him. I have mentioned Nostr to quite a few people now and I find the sell extremely difficult. You can see that cynical look on their face like you are asking them to check out the "latest" app or bit of software. They then tell you they like Discord (like Alex here) or Bluesky and a bearish wave washes over me. You say the word "decentralisation" and their eyes glaze over.
However im gonna promote Nostr again on some upcoming videos and got a decent response when i menttioned it before. Will also soon be introducing Immich and other self-hosted and FOSS options that exist for photographers.
It's just very easy to forget how far down the rabbit-hole we are here. Releasing my current stream of consciousness would be like talking a foreign language. Especiallly to people still so deeply ingrained in the fiat system and who are often seen supporting authoritarian regimes, such as the recent "ban" of social media for young people in Australia.
Apologies for length of reply. You just struck on something i've been thinking about a lot lately.
I honestly donāt think heās well.
Ha. Was literally about to share this. The creep of authoritarianism is unrelenting.
I donāt want to leave and run to some metaphorical citadel. Iād rather stay and fight for my home.
The digital ID card announcement has definitely triggered a fight or flight response though.
Nice, I saw that the other day. Iāll give it a whirl.
Iāve been constantly disappointed how many people are cool with authoritarianism when it flips in the direction of controlling things THEY donāt like.
Absolute magic on my latest shoot.
#landscapephotography

šÆ We all think weāve found a better way (we have!!), and we want to share it far and wide to make a better world.
If youāre not virtue signalling on Nostr, what are you even doing really?
Posting landscape photography to Nostr on a self-hosted blossom server for the win.
#landscapephotography šø

There are times when things seem dark and intimidating, but the path ahead is very clear. We are fortunate in these moments.

#photography #landscapephotography #photostr #nature #lakedistrict
I really canāt understand why anyone would want to clone their own voice. Deception at the heart of the technology.
Google isnāt a helpful librarian. Itās a data extraction empire.
Search isnāt free. Gmail isnāt free. Chrome sure as hell isnāt free.
Youāre the product. Worse, your behavior is the product.
What you search
When you search it
What you skip
What you click
How long you linger
They donāt just log your answers. They log your questions.
Think about that.
They know when youāre scared.
They know when youāre desperate.
They know when youāre lonely.
This isnāt paranoia. Itās documented.
GOOGLE LOGGED THAT TOO
Every Click. Every āOkay.ā Every Search. Time to Claw It Back.
https://untraceabledigitaldissident.com/google-logged-that-too/
Any thoughts on SearXNG? Self-hosted or otherwise?
Itās got so much worse in the last couple of months.
There should be a word for when someone describes the results of countless years of hard work as āluck.ā
Run your own business to control your own time.
Run Bitcoin to control your own money.
#freedom #livefree #free #landscapephotography #photography #peakdistrict #rocks #nature #photography #arran #scotland

Controlling your own time is catastrophically undervalued.
https://firstmanphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Control-Your-Own-Time-Nostr.mp4
#proofofwork #lifehacks #landscapephotographyĀ #picstrĀ #photostr #mountains #photography #peakdistrict #rocks #nature #photography #sunset #goldenhour #art




