The constant labeling of America as a “democracy” is intellectual laziness at best, deliberate deception at worst.

Our media and political establishment either don’t know or don’t care that we’re a Constitutional Republic. The distinction matters because it’s the entire point of our system.

The Founders built a republic specifically to prevent tyranny of the majority. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner. A constitutional republic is where the sheep has inalienable rights the wolves can’t vote away. If you don’t understand this, you don’t understand America!​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

How does nostr feel about the brave browser? #asknostr

I'm stumbling across a lot of new (to me) Nostriches from people boosting/renoting interesting notes. Is it annoying or helpful to see boosted/renoted notes even if it means the feed has many of the same note repeated? Personally, I want to see more of it. This is how the information is propagated on Nostr, we relay it around to each other.

This got me thinking, we have everything we need to build a better tinder, as well as fightstr on nostr. People already have accounts, bios, and a post history to give you a better idea of their personality and character than you will ever get on any dating app. All we need is a kind:69 looking for love flag, with a geotag, to tell these apps to include you in the matchmaking in your area.

From there you could have so many clients, ranging from a tinder clone, to a sentiment analysis AI DVM powered auto matcher that matches you based on your post histories.

I'm so curious what will happen to Bitcoin and the crypto with the next US administration.

What are your humble predictions?

Thank you for conducting such a thoughtful and beautiful answer and instructions . I will be attempting this tomorrow morning ☺️ Eggs are so versatile, such a power punch. Love em.

How living life on the bitcoin standard really looks like…

Fiat poor.

Just me&my corn 🌽

Happy as fuck.

Keep smiling fam 🤙🏼🧡🫂💜

PoW in peace.

Timestamp of freedom 919482

How do yall like to cook your eggs

I miss you

Never miss a sunrise

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a better depiction of the word “fiat” than this building being built in the downtown of my city. Yes, that is vinyl siding with an image of a brick printed on it …

#grownostr #gn #fiat #bitcoin #timepreference #building

Every time. Even as i was typing this 🤷🏽‍♀️

A little late GM ☕️🏃‍♀️

#GA #Nostr wonderful people 🌿

🎵 Music heals — through your biology.

Not just art, but neuroscience in rhythm.

Every tone, beat, and harmony speaks directly to your brain:

1️⃣ Tonality — the voice of emotion

Low, warm tones calm anxiety.

Gentle rising melodies lift depression.

2️⃣ Rhythm — syncing brain and body

When you move or breathe with the beat,

your mind finds balance, focus, and flow.

3️⃣ Reward — dopamine in harmony

The same brain circuits that light up for love, laughter, or achievement

also glow when you feel music deeply.

4️⃣ Sociality — connection and oxytocin

Singing, drumming, or even listening together

lowers cortisol, strengthens trust, and heals loneliness.

🧬 Music isn’t magic — it’s biology in harmony.

Your brain was built to heal through sound.

📖 Reference:

Bowling DL. “Biological principles for music and mental health.”

Translational Psychiatry (2023); 13:374.

doi:10.1038/s41398-023-02671-4

Music for the mind, ⚡️ Sats for the soul..

— true wealth is harmony🧘🏻‍♀️

What kind of music you listen to today? 😊

#asknostr #nostr #damus #nostrhealth #healthstr #stacksats #btc #siamstr #musicstr

#music

Day 14/31

Stretching & an early bedtime…. Sometimes we must listen to what our bodies need.

#31days

Where are all of the girls on this platform?

The leaves aren’t the only thing becoming more orange as the weeks pass by.

Bud Light is not beer. It’s lager

Beer is found in proper British pubs. And if you go in one and say “beer is for girls”, the locals will box your head off and drown you in their moobs. Cheers 🍻

Garden in north Carolina

I concur...and I get more engagement back when I do engage. #nostr has been net positive for me!

Nostr sometimes feels like that awkward party where everyone’s standing in corners checking their phones instead of talking. We’ve built this incredible censorship-resistant protocol, escaped the algorithm plantation, and then… crickets.

Here’s the psychological trap: we assume someone ELSE will engage, so we lurk instead of participate. Classic bystander effect meets network effects. Meanwhile, we’re all secretly refreshing our notifications hoping for that sweet dopamine hit of human connection.

The brutal truth? Nostr’s value isn’t in the protocol, it’s in US using it. Every like, zap, and repost creates positive reinforcement loops that keep people posting quality content instead of doomscrolling back to the bird app. We’re literally Pavlov’s dogs, but we can choose to ring each other’s bells.

Engagement breeds more engagement, and network effects are how we build the future.

P.S. - If you didn’t engage with this post, you just proved my point. 😏

I spent my youth chasing athletic validation, believing physical prowess was the path to success. Parents and coaches perpetuated the delusion that sports excellence leads somewhere meaningful, despite the math: less than 0.02% of high school athletes ever play professionally.

Of 8 million high school athletes, roughly 480,000 compete collegiately. Perhaps 1,600 will see professional pay. Lottery odds disguised as career planning.

What I missed is that intellectual development offers exponentially superior returns. The mind doesn’t peak at 25 and decay. Knowledge compounds. Wisdom deepens. Critical thinking strengthens with use.

Athletic achievement is zero sum: someone must lose for you to win. Intellectual growth is positive sum: learning enhances collective human capacity. Scholars echo across centuries; athletic records get broken.

I find deeper satisfaction conquering complex texts than I ever did conquering opponents. Reading Seneca, studying theology, understanding economic principles. These victories compound rather than fade.

The tragedy isn’t being athletic. It’s mistaking applause for achievement. Physical fitness serves intellectual performance, not the reverse. The body serves the mind.

We celebrate the temporary over eternal, physical over metaphysical, spectacular over substantive. True power lies in what your mind can comprehend, create, and contribute.The nerd was always superior to the jock. I just realized it too late.

Nostr isn’t a blockchain.

Nostr isn’t federated.

Nostr isn’t your VC’s latest Ponzi coin flip.

It’s literally just relays yeeting cryptographically-signed JSON blobs into the digital abyss and hoping another half-broken VPS somewhere feels charitable enough to echo them back.

That’s the protocol. Pure. Elegant. Cursed.

You don’t ‘join Nostr,’ you enter a firehose of infinite code where the only consensus mechanism is whether your potato internet dies before the timeline renders. Suddenly your phone becomes a martyr, begging for mercy as 9,000 relays simultaneously vomit every {‘kind’: 1} shitpost since the dawn of time directly into your TCP socket.

The best part?

Nobody can stop it.

There is no kill switch.

No ‘Nostr’ app.

No moderator tribunal.

No Silicon Valley algorithm deciding your vibes.

Just raw data bouncing between machines forever. The truest form of decentralization is strapping your device to the void and whispering: please, gods of bandwidth, just let one packet through. Technically superior. Spiritually cursed.

..but what else you gonna use?

99% of 700+ digital asset managers = certified trash. These overpaid clowns watch Bitcoin demolish their “sophisticated” models every quarter while bleeding out at scale.

The microscopic fraction who actually beat Bitcoin proves the rule….everyone else should have stacked sats and let number-go-up technology work. Bitcoin separates signal from noise, and most “professionals” are just expensive noise.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

You can just build a house in the woods.

With your daughter.

On a monday morning.

Proof of work.

Proof of time well spent.

It only took us 4 hours.

For one house.

We only accept units of freedom though. 🗽🧡⚡

Timestamp of freedom 911,285

Week 109 with #SaturdaysForSatoshi

I drew today’s sign at the system change camp earning side eyes, but also sparking interest.

Then I went to the closest Banks around and decided to take place in front of Berenberg private bank.

Had fun making fun of the rich kids of Westend.

Then back to camp onboarding people to primal and giving them a 2625 #Zap to reward their curiosity.

Are you part of the top 1%?

My daughter is a gifted photographer, catching unusual and intriguing images through the eyes of someone with severe autism.

#photography #autism