This was unexpected. Nostriga is doing an intimate kind of dialogue. I thought it would be fun to talk about food from around the world. I wrote the post-it note really fast, but if you are interested in food and how Nostr can use this avenue to bring people together and off centralized platforms and closer to Bitcoin.
Connecting With Food Around The World!
And maybe if there is time and the food trucks are still there, I will buy one item from each truck for all of us to taste the foods from Riga and compare it to your homebase.
To quote nostr:nprofile1qqszd0fjceer9003d5z7wclvvlvgxq27hx0azf5sy53ycgxxeldszkqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8xmn0wf6zuum0vd5kzmqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsks60gr from her Noob talk, let's "make a super cookie", meaning bringing something to the table that elevates the recipe, aka (in her scenario) idea.
#foodstr #nostriga
So cool, wish I was there for it! Would have loved to meet other food people on Nostr 🥹
Yes please! Happy to contribute food content!
A gorgeous field in bloom. Just don't ever eat the oil extracted from their seeds. #foodstr #farmstr 
Does anyone else find LinkedIn incredibly toxic? Toxic positivity coupled with passive aggressive commenting behaviour and echo chamber logic. Well — actually — that describes most centralised social media platforms, but LinkedIn just seems worse. (Or is it my network...?)
I didn't plan on raising a #carnivore, but...
#momstr 
New bill proposed in California proposes taxing online advertising to pay for schools and journalism.
This seems better than the crazy linking to new laws in Australia and Canada.
Thoughts?
https://www.platformer.news/platform-sales-tax-california-sb1327-glazer/?ref=platformer-newsletter
Couldn't read the full article, but advertising was supposed to pay for journalism already (ie. the basic business model) — doing it through the government seems like an unnecessary and cost-ineffective step? Also personally (as a journalist), I don't really believe in journalism school. It's definitely a skill best learned on the job. (Writing is another matter, I believe writers do benefit from a school or school-like programme to workshop etc. but I digress, as writing is just one part of journalism.)
I recently visited Hong Kong for the first time in years. Even on my last visit in late-2019, when protesters were still out in full force, it was clear the city was dying - gradually being deformed from a bastion of freedom into ‘just another city in China’.
I grew up in HK in the 90s before my mother moved us to New Zealand. I would return every year to my visit my father, and spent my gap year and college summers there as well. The city had an incredible energy, and the sense of freedom was unlike anywhere else.
It’s sad that those who didn’t know it during that time have no point of reference, and can’t see what was lost. They just see what it is today: Shenzhen + the ability to use google without a VPN. For those that do know the Hong Kong of old, visiting today feels like watching one of those horror films where the murderer wears the face of their victim. Things superficially look the same, but soul is gone.
I had hoped to revisit some of my old haunts, including doing the Victoria Harbour Ferry Zig-Zag that leo@lightning.engineering charted out in a blog post: https://blog.liongrass.hk/2020/05/04/victoria-harbour-ferry-zigzag/#more-916. I found I had very little motivation, though. The weather and pollution were also abysmal, which mirrored my spirits and seemed appropriately funereal.
As someone who grew up in HK in the 90s, also kept coming back during college years and ultimately made HK my home as an adult (at least for most of the year), and is now raising my own child here, there are moments when I agree with this. But I've realised recently that I will likely always have a base in HK because, despite everything, it's still a place where the world (yes, now including mainland China) comes together, and where exciting things happen at a thrilling pace. I don't think anywhere in Asia has that pull. (I know you probably want to say Tokyo, but tbh how do you really do anything beyond tourism if you don't speak Japanese? And please don't say Singapore). You can still access it if you know where to look. This has always been part of HK's energy, but what makes it less desirable post-protests is a feeling that most people are always on edge. People blow up over the smallest things, like the tram driver who almost swore at me for asking if there was a timetable, or the person whose doorbell I mistook for a charity's (next door). So yes, daily life has gotten a bit more stressful, and these things do grind you down. I find that while I'm desperate to leave every few months, I also keep coming back. It's more complicated than Hong Kong just seeming more like Shenzhen (actually imo they're pretty different — maybe it's more like Shanghai?? meets Manhattan...?). I built a life here before covid and the protests, and most of that life is still intact and sprouting like pesky weeds that refuse to die 😂 So yeah, just here to say, I don't feel like the oversimplified narrative that "HK is just China now" to be my experience.
I wish I continued but had to stop because after a couple of months I couldn't get the inserts clean properly and they stopped being absorbent, we would get leaks all the time. Plus we live in a place with a hot and humid most of the year and the layers got too much 🥲 But one interesting thing came out of it — elimination communication, which is basically just noticing when baby needs to pee or poo and then putting them over the toilet or sink. Much less cleanup. It only ever worked for poos for us (can't tell when she's peeing!) but to this day we still do it — bum wiping when they poo outside the nappy is SO much easier, lol!
WHAT IS A DOCUMENTARY THAT CHANGED THE WAY YOU SAW THE WORLD?
PLEASE ADVISE
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#ASKNOSTR
Supersize me
No tips but congrats and good luck! If it's any consolation, it usually gets better in a few months 🥲
Yep, he has FOUR!
Fun fact: when my baby was 2-3 months old, she would stop crying as soon as we put on Homecoming by Kanye West. These days, (she's now a toddler at 15m and loves bopping to music) I put on Doggyland (Snoop Dogg's kids albums), Caspar Babypants, some random folksy finds Spotify recommended, and a mix of classic Cantonese, French and Japanese kids songs thrown in for good measure (these are languages I'm currently exposing her to).
Before I landed back in Asia, I only had one thing on my mind food-wise: SUSHI. Fujimoto is my favourite in Hong Kong right now — it's far from the most expensive (although not cheap either, at over $200USD per head, so it's definitely a treat) but it's properly good stuff, well sourced, well made (Chef Fujimoto used to work for one of the "greats", Sushi Saito) and I love Chef's energy. He's part of the new guard of Edomae sushi and while he excels at all the traditional techniques, he isn't afraid to experiment with flavours and textures. He's a master at abalone — that first slice was heaven, like a dip in an onsen after a long day — and in what's become a bit of a modern standard, the liver is made into a sauce and you're given a little rice ball to soak it up. Hotaru ika (firefly squid) has just come into season, and we were treated to a little skewer of charcoal grilled ones. So, so good! #foodstr #HongKong #sushi
Every time I'm on a long haul flight I feel like the world is big, but also small. GM/GN Nostriches 🌞🌝
The Bitcoin family signal is strong 💪🚸
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