"It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the Love and the courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out to the risks of living with both arms. One has to embrace life."
Morris West #pricetalk
Recently, the price of dog food has gone down but the price of cat food had gone up. 🤔
In my area, the price of a gasoline has fluctuated within a 24 cent (usd) range since the beginning of the year.
This is going to be so cool... I watch people have voice note conversations almost to the extent of replacing phone calls. I don't think I've ever seen them as a public/semi-public way though. Listening to an active thread will be a lot like a eavesdropping in busy coffeeshop 😅
Ohh I could make strawberry, basil, and chocolate so that it looks like spunomi 😂
The particular relay referenced here contains content that is voted on by an ever-changing and expanding set of users. Some (including me) currently have more voting weight than others, so that we can focus on creating a friendly, maybe fun, low bitcoin feed for new users to explore until the relay develops an attitude of its own.
Oh, I bet it would be! ... but I can't find passion fruit here :( hahah
Coracle has scheduling.. it's under the little settings wheel on the note composition box.
Really happy basil this year... I think I'm going to try making strawberry basil ice cream. 
Much better luck today lol... fully trust the app... pshhh, who does that? But it did work😅
"My Greatest Hits"...
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#Shakespeare
sorry for spamming reposts and replies :)
nostr:nprofile1qqsr7acdvhf6we9fch94qwhpy0nza36e3tgrtkpku25ppuu80f69kfqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy0hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttjv4kxz7fwv3jhyettwfhhxuewd4jj7qg3waehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5hsleq7kw I had a thought about yakbak.app a couple of weeks ago & some random yakker agreed that it was a good point. He thought maybe we should ask you. I was going to tell him I would relay a note to you, but my voice notes keep getting rejected by my blossom servers now.... so here's the note :)
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I've probably tried to reply 10 times. I stopped counting after 5 (the first 4 were mindless button-smashing) 😅 I hope those don't magically decide to show up at once or something. I'm fairly certain I've been sending empty events though lol
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Is nostrapp.link micro enough?
Even if people don't think so, they will be told so.
How about a logo for Nostr? Everyone can contribute to the Nostr ecosystem and create the visuals they like. And I love that!
However, I believe having a recognizable logo could be beneficial for the Nostr community as a whole!
I asked designer Andrea Nicolini (aka Bembureda, https://bembureda.dribbble.com), to create a logo and an icon for Nostr. I think he did an amazing job! Don’t you think so?
Download it now! Available in multiple sizes and colors here:
https://github.com/mbarulli/nostr-logo/
The CC0 license allows you to use it for any purposes without restriction.

/cc Thanks for sharing!
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Haha, seriously? What are the chances?
On today's episode of the Unusual yet Underwhelming world of Dawn, I sat down on the curb of a parking median and immediately found a coral fossil and a cracked agate in the gravel... proceeded to spend the next 15 minutes picking through their rocks. 
I told the publisher at the paper I've been delivering on occasion, that I don't currently want any more formal of a job than what I am doing now, so he's trying to casually rope me into some sort of informal permanent position. We've gone from "just drop these off" to "while you're out, you can drop off extra copies and my contact email to other places if you want" to "if you happen to come across anyone would like to advertise I can pay you a some passive commission on those". It's funny to me. We are acquaintances anyway & he really just doesn't want to ask me straight out, but I am getting the impression he would really like to have my full attention. 😅
I can't even stay in range of my own wifi, let alone someone else's bt, but I like the idea lol
I might have interpreted something wrong, but yes. Are you generating the more inclusive whitelist now and the 97k is generating off of that?
I'm curious... can you write backwards, as in mirrored?
If I were to spin one up for you, I’d make it dawn.brainstorm.social; it would be just like straycat.brainstorm.social except anchored to your pubkey instead of mine. I may want to do that pretty soon so I can get your feedback!
The main thing that makes foo.brainstorm.social different from my previous iteration earlier in 2025 (grapevine-brainstorm.vercel.app) is that each instance of foo.brainstorm.social now incorporates strfry (not just neo4j) and is “owned” by one pubkey (foo).
My main focus over the past few months has been getting neo4j to synchronize with strfry and then stay synchronized indefinitely. Seems to be working, and right now my focus is making sure it can run for long periods of time with a minimum of headache. Once that’s done, the next step will be making the various WoT scores available to other clients and services.
What I’m probably gonna do, but haven’t done yet, is make it so that any given Brainstorm instance — dawn.brainstorm.social, for example — can calculate the full gamut of personalized WoT scores (GrapeRank, PageRank, hops, verified follower count, etc) not only for the Brainstorm owner (you in this case) but personalized to other users as well. At first you’d do it for your friends; eventually you’ll be able to do it as a paid service if you wish.
The first real use case, I think, will be to produce a whitelist of pubkeys which is very inclusive — much more inclusive than “my follows + their follows” — but from which spam is reliably excluded. That whitelist can be accessed via api by relays and used to guard against spam. Hmm, maybe call it SpamGuard™️? SpamShield™️? I already have the api running; see for example https://straycat.brainstorm.social/get-whitelist, which produces a list of about 97k or 98k pubkeys, updated every 2 hours. That list is created by querying the database for pubkeys with graperank influence > 0.01; I’ll probably add an option to pass the cutoff to the api as a parameter.
I'm trying to zap you but I keep getting an error back that the receiver's service is unavailable and address cannot be found.
With that out of the way, I'd be honored to help test, anytime. I don't do much that wouldn't be expendable if everything needed to shift in a different direction, suddenly or otherwise.
The initial use, that you mention last, about how many whitelisted pubkeys are you including to achieve the 97k+ ?
Who around here has pretty handwriting?
Brainstorm: your personalized WoT nostr relay that keeps track of your Grapevine.
Eventually, you will be able to rely on your Brainstorm to maintain a vetted list of academic articles on whatever topic you’re interested in. They will be vetted by experts in that field. Who curates the list of experts? Your Grapevine. Who curates the list of topics? Your Grapevine.
Right now, my Brainstorm instance maintains lists of nip56-reported users, curated by my Grapevine (https://straycat.brainstorm.social/nip56.html). Updates every 2 hours. Soon my Grapevine will interpret more sources of raw data (not just nip56 reports) for the decentralized curation of more lists.
Example: If we were to tag users with keywords like “tenured professor” and “physicist”, using a NIP-56-like system of tagging, Brainstorm could easily curate lists of physicists and tenured professors using the same technique that is running right now for NIP-56. In my mind, that is the start of how we build a working decentralized alternative to legacy academic peer review.
🧠 ⚡️ 🍇
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You are doing amazing things! I need to figure out the best way for me to host stuff so I can help test and build my own grapevine in the process 😅
I can't aim but I can draw a straight line 😅

Pyrite & a little bit of copper in quartz rich mine tailings...

Please don't asknostr hashtag me.😅 I'd rather maybe hear a few opinions on this than a bunch.
I was gifted the option to choose from a couple different udemy classes that aren't being utilized. What would be more beneficial to spend my time on, assuming I know nothing about writing code. 60 hours of Python or 130 hours of Javascript?
It was the 2nd song that came to mind. The first was Ol' Red by Blake Shelton. Damned rural life 😂
When I was a child, my father used to take with him to this cool little metaphysical bookstore when he'd go for a book. I was too young to have interest in any of the books, but the shop sold those neat candles that had pewter and crystal trinkets hidden inside that were revealed as the candle burned away. Every now & then, he would buy one for me and we would burn it in the evenings. I learned about unicorns and wizards that way. I never see those candles anymore. I kinda miss that type of stuff.
What does this mean? I've gotten this error back from only strike addresses for 2 days now. #asknostr 
It's a lot. I'm going to go eat tacos now. 😂
That is true. I appreciate them and all that has lead to their presence. I just don't like the placement of these particular one. 😅
Yep, exactly. Reposts and likes count as votes, as well as anything you post. (No replies are counted in any of it) You wouldn't need to do anything different than you do now. Your reposts would push content to the voting pool. If you want to actively participate in voting, you can, but it's not necessary.
The first page I flipped to was 863. I laughed so hard.
I hadn't been able to put my finger on what was different lately, but I think you just did. There used to be a lot more meaningful discussion amongst a wide array of people, like a big brainstorming session. Maybe that was a phase destined to pass, but it was fun.
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Invite me where? 😀😂
Oh no... I'm not going anywhere 😂 just trying to be poignant I guess.





