Thinking about firing up a new npub in 2026 and just responding to every note with only one of the following:

-Fourth Turning

-Mandibles

-Psyop

I’d say you could rack up between 500-1000 follows with that strong methodology

People do make sandwiches...out of bread.

GM, fren.

You're saying Vecna is the gay one and he was controlling Will?😂

There should be a word in English the encompasses the art of looking busy. Maybe there is and I just haven't found it yet.

It's decent but they better really turn up the heat in the finale.

“Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.” - A peasant.

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Darwin Award 2025 finalist.

Apparently a lemon piglet is a MUST

I’m must brag a bit….

I am VERY very good at this ☺️

Why aren't there more British people on Nostr?

I use an AI to summarise global news events (I'm interested in) by scraping Associated Press and other tickers directly. Strip obvious SEO (or political agendas) from the headlines to only receive the raw information of what is going on.

I do this because there isn't enough hours in the day to captcha, re-captcha, deny cookies, close tabs that prompt me to disable my VPN, close tabs giving me paywalls, close tabs because the website is blocked in my region (??).

GM!

good morning and pura vida, nostr! it's time to create notes and send zaps! 🫂🤙💜

i think im going to retire this good morning message in 2026. it's time for a change.

new year, new me, new job, new daily gm.

Not sure if this is a rad fitness flex or if I should see a doctor

I’ve chilled out with endurance training (no session longer than 2 hours) over the past month and my heart rate at rest is still in the thirties 👀

Any Nostriches who do a lot of running rowing or cycling is your resting hr *this* low?

GM, fren.

I’ll just be washing dishes or out for a walk and I’ll remember I’m gonna be 30 this year. AHHH. But also it’s okay.

I was right there on that beach last month 🤙

No one ever understands when I try telling them about China (in the US). China has an actual free market. You must see it to grasp how not-free America's market it. People there... Get this, this wild, man... People there **_start businesses._** In fact, everyone I knew there had a business, even if they had employment somewhere else. Everyone, not one exception. You can walk into actual businesses, little shops that have nothing to do with franchises or government. Shop after shop after shop... And a couple streets over, its factory after factory after factory. They're not uptight about you just walking into a factory and looking, either. Would that fly in the US? I doubt it, if you could even find one.

If you're in the US, look around and see how many businesses or friends are employed by the government, or who's employment would disappear if the government stopped paying somewhere in the chain. Even dog sitters would lose their income if the government stopped paying the business the dog owner is employed at. Small businesses are forced to franchise - that's basically a business on top of a business that only exists to manage the layers of compliance and regulatory burden. Franchises don't exist in free markets. Got some economic reason to disagree? GFY, I know my econ. The whole facade of "free market" in the US is more entry barrier than market.

The town I'm in is "growing" - there's "progress" here, as the boomers call it. That's only for one reason - there's a university with several tens of thousands of kids there basically being employed by government policy to sit there and grow their debt. That's their job. Every year there's over ten thousand 18 year olds showing up who signed a thing that exchanges their productive potential for a giant pile of debt. That debt is the only reason there's roads being built here, after several layers of corruption where bureaucrats or companies that are paid by government take a cut. And after the road is built, all the businesses that appear are franchises. You know who they pay rent to? The university. The town is owned by the university, literally. And it takes one or two **_years_** to build anything here. Nothing takes that long in China. Nothing. Free markets are wild!

Oh but China's BAD!!! Orange man : "CHIIIINA!!" There is one reason for all this anti-china rhetoric and protectionism, and its not geopolitics or containment. Its debt. Not that China owns our debt - that's the usual thought stopper when I talk to "conservatives." Without inflation, our debt can't be serviced. The payments on American debt **_at all levels_** require inflation, or the payments stop. Even your mortgage and those kids' student debt. But especially the $37 trillion of federal debt. Inflation makes payments manageable because if everything costs more after the debt is taken, including wages, then its like you borrowed less. This is why it's smart to use debt - take as much as you can, cuz you're fucking the lender. That's the game. But that also means that anything that's deflationary is the enemy of America. China's gazillion factories are deflationary : that makes China the enemy. You buy cheap shit from China : debt doesn't get devalued as fast as the corrupt class would like. Even American factories are America's enemy. Anything, anywhere, that allows supply to meet demand and prices to not rise, is deflationary, and thus America's enemy. That's it. That's the whole story, from why you can't afford groceries up to why a carrier fleet parks in some other country's waters. The beast is driven by hunger ; the hunger of the beast is debt.

I **_wish_** I knew one person in real life who could understand this. Its not even particularly complicated... But people are too busy with their side gigs to think about stuff. I **_almost_** had a conversation about it with a biologist over Thanksgiving. Almost!!! But they thought I was too radical, like maybe I'm a Commy or something, **_because I wanted the government to do less._** lol. We're so fucked.

In meat space, you risk judgment and criticism which are tangible reasons to be introverted. A bad opinion can get you fired or ostracized.

However online, your persona is a disposable account and insulting or disagreeing with someone has no impact on your life.

It takes time to do, but rewore your brain that NOSTR is a fundamentally different space than what your used to. Your essentially safe to say anything.

For those who keep wondering, I’m gonna put this plain and simple for you. And whoever wants to add to this may.

You’re invisible because you’re silent.

Your notes hit the relays. They exist. But you’re posting like you’re journaling, then wondering why nobody’s connecting with you.

There is no algorithm hiding you. You’re hiding yourself.

Human behavior hasn’t changed. People respond to people who engage. You want to be seen? Be social. Actual social, not “post and disappear” social.

Stop dropping 🤙 emojis like you’re collecting stamps. That’s not conversation. That’s performative participation.

Start real conversations. Reply to bigger accounts. Reply to smaller ones. Ask questions. Challenge ideas. Share your actual perspective. Make people feel like you’re there.

Your reply to post ratio reveals everything. If you’re posting more than you’re replying, you’re broadcasting, not building community.

The beauty of your world? Nobody sees it because you won’t show them. You won’t engage enough to let people in.

Nostr doesn’t owe you an audience. You build one through repeated, genuine interaction. One conversation at a time.

Stop wondering why it’s not working. Start doing the work that’s always worked: talking to people.

Now go start working. Or don’t, but don’t blame anyone else.

New ATH by end of day

Or all of Nostr is definitely ghey

I don't make the rules 🤷

huh, old devices?

curious what the bitchat bluetooth radius is

4th Place representing! What's the game plebs?