In 1962, an Italian junk dealer named Luigi Lo Rosso was rummaging through the basement of a villa on Capri Island. His aim was to find items for his family's pawn shop in Pompeii. Among the debris, he discovered a dirty, old painting. Deeming it worthless for resale, he decided against taking it to the shop and brought it home instead. There, his wife cleaned it with detergent, although she found the artwork distasteful, dubbing it "the scribble." Despite her aversion, the painting adorned their home for many years.

Fast forward to the 1980s, Luigi's son Andrea, while studying art history, stumbled upon information about Picasso's works. This sparked a suspicion that "the scribble" might be a lost Picasso. Andrea tried several times to convince his parents of his theory, but his attempts were in vain as his father was unaware of Picasso's significance.

Years later, after persistent investigation, Andrea's hunch was confirmed. The painting was indeed a genuine Picasso, created in the 1930s, portraying his muse and lover, Dora Maar. Now, this once-discarded artwork has been appraised at an astonishing $6.6 million.

It is breathtaking how incompetent the State of North Carolina is

At the DMV with my daughter

The lesson is clear

The state does not give a shit about you, and it’s core value is antagonism

It is breathtaking how incompetent the State of North Carolina is

At the DMV with my daughter

The lesson is clear

The state does not give a shit about you, and it’s core value is antagonism

I wonder if Alex de Vries’s co-authors realise the damage they’re doing to their reputation when they publish.

A very subversive way of projecting anti #bitcoin propaganda. Bitcoin is not web3, so why are they conflating the two.

“Bitcoin mining is effectively a controlled way of wasting energy” (first author and de Vries citing themselves, p.3)

Ended up not filing Home Owners Insurance because it was barely worth it. FEMA been pending nearly a month and denied everything so far. I won't hold my breath. FEMA seems utterly useless.

I woke up to an interesting message in my DMs this morning.

Apparently yesterday I answered a question that was meant to be rhetorical. The author of the note took offense as if I was mansplaining to her. Says she's been here for years and I shouldn't open my mouth up to her majesty. As if I was supposed to hear her voice inflection and see her facial expressions through her note on nostr. I was just trying to help. Some of you would know that I've also been here for quite some time under a different npub...

(I rotated keys because I liked The idea of having my key but backed up with a mnemonic phrase which wasn't available when I started as well as the fact I had put my nsec into all these different apps to test them out and wanted to start fresh with an uncompromised key now that Amber is a thing.)

Anyway, I don't think there should be any rules for nostr but a personal rule of mine is rule #62: "Don't take yourself so damn seriously". She's clearly got some things going on so I didn't engage further (every bully has a bully). I just muted the wench & went about my day. Live and let die.

Here's a pair of tits for attention:

Over 1500 black men sent to prison for having POT on them.