I just get an instant "could not post please check your connection" message :(

X has those "verify your age" flags all over the place now, its really annoying.

Have they done this for every country now or just EU?

I don't use X except for lurking, now that's useless, bye X/twitter

Decent list, I do like the beach though, but only if its mostly deserted and its just me staring at the sea.

Neat :)~

What is it? 🤨

Very nice indeed

Using bitchat today, its OK, took a while to find the person sitting literally next to me, but once it did then it worked fine.

This is going to be really useful once its developed a bit more.

Gm to you too

Absolutely :)

I'll be having one of them soon 🙂

Exactly that :)

I like those rules :)

WTF. Surely there's laws against this?

No robes, no clothes at all, be a man and drink your coffee naked, outside, dancing slightly side to side in the cool breeze.

They say in photography "anything that doesn't add to the picture takes away from the picture".

Basically this means simplify where possible, and applies to more than just photography.

Yes, 100% the TV news is beyond insulting, its like a parallel clown world.

Beautiful scene

Yeah, but worthwhile work, I think :)

Thank you

Sounds good. And I agree that money brings out the scammers, but I'm being positive this week, unusually :)

About 15 years ago, I proposed an idea to the owner of a large internet photography site.

Allow us to add money to our monthly subscription fee, that we could then use to "tip" photos that were posted that we liked.

The idea was to encourage people to post more, and better pictures. But also to reward photographers that you thought were posting good work, since there were really no other ways am average photographer could make any money back from shoots (outside of weddings etc, I'm talking about hobby photography).

Anyway, the owner eventually said no, he couldn'timagine people just "randomly giving money away". I explained it only had to be cents/pennies, whatever, but he declined.

And here we are on nostr, where people randomly zap things they find cool or interesting, including photos :) and it's a great , unexpected, thing 😀😃

It will be thanks, if it works out, I'm always a little pessimistic until things actually happen :)

I am moving house next year :)

At my new place I have room for a decent size vegetable plot and....... Chickens :)

I'm not confirmed on the chickens, need to check if I'm 100% allowed but I think its OK.

The local village has lots of people selling home made stuff and fresh milk, bread etc, and even honey, in fact there's a beekeeper (who also has chickens) just a few hundred yards away.

As someone who has lived all my life in city flats and council estates, this will be like heaven :) really hope it works out.

Thank you

I think nostr is great because its pretty Normy friendly (and primal is very easy to use, as are many other apps).

Its important that new apps and programs can be easily distributed to the general public as they will support something when they see the need, and lately enough people seem to be looking for alternatives.

Too often "alternative" tech is way beyond what a normal person could get into using, and that's a shame. We'll never replace the legacy tech giants if we can't bring Joe public on board. I know as I am one of them.

Just post everything :)

😁😁😁😁

Its worse. If you want a reasonable safe and healthy version of "food" that isn't a chemical soup or 99% toxic waste, its even more expensive :)

Hopefully there are :)

Totally agree.

That's a good point too 😄

You are probably right, and I am sure some people do believe it, but that they were, coerced, somehow, into believing it :)

Flat earth is a fake conspiracy theory.

I believe it was invented by "some government agency" in order to discredit other conspiracy theories.

"Look at those crazy conspiracy theorists, they're clowns, they think the earth is flat, haha. OK now just believe the thing we're telling you instead. You can trust us *cough*".

I've literally witnessed that exact conversation on a TV news channel already.

Prove me wrong 🙃

I agree with that :)

I suspect we feel the same in many countries, unfortunately.

But people seem to be keen to change things so there's hope.

OK, give us your butter making secrets, on keen to try it out :) please :)

We need a censorship resistant version of archive.org.

Somewhere we can store history and records and reality.

I see a lot about things being removed from archive.org and that's not good.

Other current alternatives are equally at risk.

I have my own collection of computer magazine scans from the 80" s and 90''s as well as store catalogs and pin up art and 50s SciFi. I also have random video documentaries about various life things.

Is there an easy way to do this? Can we have large decentralized archives?

I've had this, they just love their own voice so much, and their opinion is the best thing ever, so smart, so clever 😄😁

Yes, exactly that

Tax is unfair.

Recently at work they told me I was getting my annual bonus. It isnt much, but I thought I would maybe take a weekend holiday somewhere nice with it.

2 weeks later when I seen my pay slip, about 40% had been stolen by tax, overall about a third of my wage had been swallowed up by tax.

And that's just before you get your money, afterwards there's more taxes, your house, purchases, savings, everything. It's a disaster.

And where does my money go? It gets wasted on things I do not approve of it being spent on. Its just thrown away to anyone and everyone, squandered.

Where it doesn't go, is benefitting me and my family and future family, my local area.

Its so annoying, if I felt that all those taxes were being spent responsibility, it wouldn't be so bad, but when you see how its eaten up by corruption and wasted on nonsense, it feels bad.

We need a better financial system.

And AI killed the rest of it, well that and well meaning people doing things for free for "experience".

They don't know how to count, or handle money lol

AI slop is everywhere

Exactly this.

The best way to make money in photography is selling all your photography equipment.

Sad but true :)

Thanks, and I'll take one of those yachts please, that would be awesome :)

But they're all on those e-bikes 😉 which are expensive, god knows where they get them from... But overall they are probably getting fit :)

Sometimes yeah, but I also like having a film, CD or game I can hold in my hand, it's part of the appeal. :)

They generally don't look happy lol.

But maybe, they're happy on the inside :)

You are probably pretty lucky :)