Every time I start feeling like a victim I remember the car crash analogy.

Imagine you are blindsided by a drunk driver. Your legs are shattered. Your pelvis is shattered. Ligaments torn from your bone. You are in immense pain.

As you’re laying there you can’t stop reflecting on your bad luck. None of this was your fault. You were obeying the rules of the road. It’s the drunk drivers fault. He is the one to blame. He deserves to be in prison.

True.

It’s not your fault. You are a victim.

But no matter how unfair, no one can relearn how to walk for you. You must do that yourself. Even if everyone agrees that the drunk driver was in the wrong and a court orders him to make full restitution… he still can’t do the work to heal you and bring you back into good health.

Only you can do that.

So yes things happen.

Things that are not your fault.

Especially when you are young.

But at some point you have to stop dwelling on it and get up and learn to walk again.

How many of these events do you believe official narratives/history got right?

- JFK assassination

- 1969 manned moon landing

- 9/11 attack

- Epstein killing himself

- 2020 US election

- Covid "pandemic" and response

We are starting a band, will be a great band.

Until election season is over, Twitter has reached rock-bottom to me.

I won’t say it’s unusable, since I am using it, but I have to navigate around its main thing to continue with the positive elements of the network effect that exists there.

And so many accounts are super biased on any given topic to a clearly irrational degree. I keep seeing things that seem like satire, but instead they are genuinely written to appeal to lower information people in a way that, from my perspective, is highly patronizing to them.

I find it so distasteful. The prior election year 2020 had a lot of polarizing elements obviously, but 2024 has more clearly conscious polarizing elements going on. Large influencer accounts whose motives are clear toward a broader audience with talking points geared toward child-level rhetoric and civic understanding. You can watch them as an observer speaking to their flock as though they were children.

If you use Mullvad, please send them an email and ask them to support lightning payments. They currently support onchain only and frankly that’s sad :(

Thank you! Together we can make things happen!!

The best part about living on a #Bitcoin standard is the eventual realization that you’re not steadily growing poorer year after year.

Finally.

Your hard work actually matters and your efforts are multiplied over time.

This is the new way to grow.

#Bitcoin is Better Money for a Better World.

Nostr is a group therapy

Good morning! 😎 ☕ Great to see so many new faces here today! Welcome! 🫂 I'm giving out 200 sats to everyone who replies to this note, as long as I can afford it! ⚡

Make sure you're zap-able! I'll send zaps to everyone while my wallet lasts.

anger is poison

There's only one picture of my husband and I online in any English-language context, and it's not labeled as such but rather is buried in a Twitter thread and just kind of put in there as one of many photos, on purpose as an easter egg.

We like privacy, so we don't post many pictures.

But since I already showed my left ear on Nostr (likely for the first time ever in a public picture, funnily enough), I might as well give Nostr the exclusive to my husband as well. It's technically not new, which is why I can show it, but rather I can just be more specific about it. It's a picture of us from back in 2021 at Sahl Hasheesh in Egypt that we've had quietly online for three years. As readers of Broken Money know, his name is Mohamed Badran.

Mohamed is the editor of all of my long-form content, deals with the technical backend of the website, and inspires me to be better as a person every day.