plastic christmas trees are a scam

real trees only

Incredible impressions over Mauritius.

Traditional tribes use(d) it because it was relevant for them in their context, as a medicine/tool and never as a solution.

What's important to know is that mushrooms/weed/medicines let you relax below your mind, so you can take a break from the terror of the mind.

Real healing cannot happen in this state. Real healing happens afterwards, once you are beyond the mind. This obviously can only happen from within, not from something externally.

Nostr, why do YOU think this kind of attitude is more and more prevalent? Is it a sign of something good or bad?

Seen at the train station in Barcelona.

#asknostr

Read the Bitcoin white paper. Just read it.

And then tell me that is not the most insane and beautiful upgrade to this shit show of a financial system today.

Peer to peer cash for the future, today. If you’re not bullish on that or see that as the most obvious fucking upgrade, you’re either dumb or nefarious.

I have no fucks left to give. Too much to build and fight for. Onward

Bitcoin is a spiritual technology disguised as a protocol for money.

Does $150K by April seem that crazy in context?

Today is my little brother’s 21st birthday! 🎁

Madness.

I still remember him at 4 years old.

If you want to surprise him, spread joy and reassure him that his older brother is not a bitcoin madman, please send sats to:

aspirationalsemiprocyclist@coincorner.io

Or, zap this post - even tiny amounts - and I’ll forward them his way!

If god gives me fifty more years on this earth, then I will be hodling bitcoin for 50 more years.

What does this mean?

Finally completed my binder #pokemon

You could have the "real" version of this card for >$100,000. But what does "real" mean? It was made by a specific corporation? I refuse to let corporations define reality. It's a shiny piece of printed paper. Anybody could make this, and it would be no less "real".

We've entered week 3 of my substituting for 2 colleagues.

name a better album. i'll wait.

Totally feel that! 🥲

Your kind of response is an example why the public talk about #knots vs #core is not a respectful discussion and also a symptom of broader #bitcoin adoption.

I hope you will learn to #respect other people even if you do not align with them and try to move forward in discussions by a factual manner.

at a cypherpunk conference. some thoughts:

- interesting humans with many different backgrounds: hacktivists, cryptographers, civil society activists, infrastructure guys, electronic voting people, vpn people, tor devs, solarpunks, radio comms, file sharing, internet archive, general freedom tech, and many more.

- bitcoin is mentioned all the time but there are practically no bitcoiners in sight. I'm the bitcoin guy now.

- everyone knows about nostr. people are very interested in it. maybe 2-3 nostr users are here, no devs. many people representing bluesky. I'm the nostr guy now.

- many people know about cashu and bitchat. lots of excitement.

- many synergies, lots of groups and companies working together. the urgency is obvious. cypherpunk vibes are strong.

verdict: bitcoin and nostr are severely under-represented in communtities where a lot of important work is done. shitcoin phobia isn't a good reason to not engage in a much larger discourse about privacy, freedom, and technology. we haven't lost the plot but have a lot more to do.

Just set a new FTP on the bike 🚲

Yeehaaa. Goal is 4w per kg by the end of the year!

If you know what that means you’ll know I’m pretty buzzed.

Most of the political violence in recent years has come from the left, but I think that’s more due to ideological capture than anything inherent about left vs right.

Because the left captured all the institutions — tech, media, academia — people on the left were able to live in a bubble. They were able to avoid the unpleasant cognitive dissonance that comes with encountering opposing viewpoints. It was like being in a very large cult.

When this persists for long enough, it’s easy to become a fundamentalist of sorts, someone who views contrary viewpoints not just as incorrect but evil. It’s easy to see how this would happen — as your worldview gets ever more affirmed, it becomes ever-more painful to have it exposed to contradictions and internal incoherence.

People on the right the last few decades were constantly told they were bad and wrong by the media. It was almost impossible for them to live in a bubble. When you don’t live in a bubble, you are exposed to cognitive dissonance all the time, and you have less absolutism and fundamentalism. Less existential dread when someone disagrees with you, more rigor in formulating your worldview.

What the right should not want is to swap places with the left where their views become fundamentalism, dissent from them is verboten and their side gets radicalized when challenged.

Free speech you disagree with has to be protected no matter what. Unfortunately, I think it’s just the nature of power that it corrupts, and when the right re-takes it (they have in the US, but not entirely as the institutions are still very much leftist), they’ll probably do stupid shit like outlaw mocking Charlie Kirk’s assassination as “hate speech” or outlaw flag burning.

I am against abortion.

I am against euthenasia.

I am against vigilantism.

I am against capital punishment.

I am against assasinations, including of foreign leadership.

Killing is always a tragedy and should only be practiced reluctantly, in self-defense, whether as a nation or as an individual. Not only because it kills someone, but because it turns someone else into a killer. That is a heavy cross to bear.

Work for peace.

Pray for a ceasefire.

Hope for reconciliation.

Choose life. 🕯

Grateful for everything that's happening. #gratefulchain

This cartoon warning of the vampiric nature of the Federal Reserve is 113 years old.

What’s harder: convincing a merchant to accept Bitcoin or convincing a Bitcoiner to spend it? 🤣

Milky Way with the Tetons in the lower right

Captured last night on an iPhone 15 w/ 10 second exposure, a short hike away from the magical Blue Heron Lounge in WY

The galaxy stretched completely across the night sky and was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen

When you look at something like that, it’s hard not to feel insignificant

But keep on, we do!