here's to 2026 🍾
if you ever start warming up to the idea of communism please read this
there's enough tequila in these things to kill a small cat
Guadalajara
"Governments do like epidemics, just the same way as they like war, really. It's a chance to impose their will on us and get us all scared so that we huddle together and do what we're told."
—Dr. Damien Downing, President of British Society of Ecological Medicine, 2009
Merry Christmas fellow nostronauts ✨
agreed
i like Alby and the setup is fine for me but just barely
"People only ever have the degree of freedom that their audacity wins from fear."
—Stendhal, Vie de Napoléon
there are two types of people in this world:
those who think you can substitute onions for shallots and those who know you cannot
took a welding class this weekend. i am not very good yet but now i know how to weld.
gm
i did not know methylene blue was so closely related to ascorbic acid (vitamin C)
gonna try to hit triple digits next year
just bought eggs with bitcoin. couldn't have been quicker or more smooth.
now i need to replace the bitcoin
this is the way
seriously what are we even doing lol
"Pay very close attention to the things you find yourself coming back to over and over again. Building or finishing anything is a matter of *starting* over and over again; don't ignore what pulls you."
maybe zap this gentleman for believing in himself and taking action and building a life
"While others may find beauty in endless dreams, warriors find it in reality, in awareness of limits, in making the most of what they have." —Robert Greene
gm 🌅
when Milton Friedman visited a construction site during the building of the Panama Canal, an official explained that the workers were using shovels (instead of machines) in order to create more jobs.
Friedman replied, "Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it's jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels."
gm
well, simplex is now in blockchain nft land
it was a good run
luke dashjr couldn't protect his own bitcoin but he thinks he can, and should, protect the entire bitcoin project
his religious fervor is now mixing with his autism to create an aversion to depravity & illiicit material so strong that it's distorting his sense of actual reality
in retrospect, the gas mask during covid was a tipoff that what used to be quirkiness had veered into a kind of apocalyptic self-aggrandizement
its_all_so_tiresome 
Nestle (the candy bar company) also has a whole health sciences division
two of its brands are Peptamen (for treating gastrointestinal impairment) and Vitaflo (for treating metabolic diseases and kidney disease)
sell the cause, sell the cure
one of my favorite quotes of his 👌
i'm not really a big schadenfreude guy, but it does make me happy when phillies fans get angry at how terrible their team is because we can finally agree and bond over how disappointing it is being involved with philadelphia.
philadelphia is one of the places in America i dislike the most, second maybe to the entire state of delaware.
anyway gm ✨
amazon removed all the guns from the james bond movie art
it may seem like a small thing but it's the reason i buy physical media. big things are just accumulated small things.
large swaths of history always get memory-holed by the those invading, intolerant, or in charge
it's okay to change, it's not okay to retroactively change and pretend like past sensibilities and tolerances didn't exist 
i listened to the new taylor swift album. it's trash and hilariously cringe, everything you heard is true.
but if you're a fan and you like it don't listen to me, people should be able to enjoy things.
but it is terrible
it's fine, i enjoy some terrible things too. like cheap light beer, and Tottenham Hotspur, and the movie The Chase starring Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson
never apologize for liking things
got the nicest email this morning from an old friend who, unbeknownst to me, has been going down the bitcoin rabbit hole. haven't talked in years, but he messaged me last week to say that things were finally starting to click.
further proof that you can't orange pill people, they can only orange pill themselves ✨
traveled to the source to grab a memento of the impending print 
might fuck around and mow the lawn while listening to an audiobook about the Rothschilds
i am so sick of seeing pedro pascal at this point
gm
i hope John Vallis is doing well
the best part about this coldplay concert thing is that the head of hr is the person who lectures grown adults about ethical behavior and how to behave in the workplace
the number of family members and friends who have ignored my advice regarding bitcoin over the years has finally exceeded the number of fucks i have to give
from now on i'm just gonna stay humble and stack sats about it
gm ✌🌅