The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing that you had. 💕

Eastern TN, Western NC, upstate SC are rekt. Hundreds of roads in Western NC simply no longer exist.

The state and federal response has been ongoing, with over 1,000 personnel, including National Guard assets, deployed according to FEMA. A disaster declaration for NC has been made but crews cannot traverse over collapsed bridges and 100+ foot ravines.

Main interstates I-40 and I-26 have collapsed sections. Numerous state roads have washed away.

Many secondary roads into neighborhoods are effectively eviscerated for miles. Survivors can't get out, help can't get in.

It's hard to get into Asheville. A 30 minute drive take 8-12 hours with many roads not existing, the remaining gas stations swamped. To get into smaller towns in the mountains is a day's journey if possible at all. National Guard trucks with food and water have to stop at collapses.

Similar to Hurricane Katrina, where boats and helicopters were the only viable means of aid delivery in the first days, air support is currently the most effective way to connect Western NC to the outside world. There are a limited amount of helicopters operating. Although the water has receded, the roads are still impassable.

This is still very much an active search and rescue mission. There is a high number of missing (in the thousands per state media) because people can't get in touch with loved ones. We saw this after Hurricane Ian as well, and expect that number will drop significantly when phone service/internet returns. For death toll and recovery, the final number will likely not be known for at least a month.

The lack of media presence on the ground isn't for lack of trying - reporters can't get into many areas for the same reason rescue can't. Even if they could, communication systems are destroyed / offline.

This is not going to be a quick recovery for anyone. Some rural parts of Western NC may never be rebuilt.

Yeah, I definitely didn't find out about it until a friend texted me after I sent him a track that I thought was pretty cool, but not the Widdler. 😅

Finally, giving the Widdlers new album a listen, 40 tracks. Oh man, this is the kind of dub I've missed. *chefs kiss*

It is the west signing bombs and putting explosives in consumer electronics

We are the bad guys

"Telegram will now provide users' IP addresses, phone numbers, and other details to relevant authorities in response to legal requests, per Bloomberg"

ISRAEL IS THE P DIDDY OF COUNTRIES

Or maybe they come from the same source 🤔

$1 usd buys you nothing. A few years ago it did. Im sitting here thinking how the world is gonna look when $5 buys you nothing 😕

Maybe if we all clap and bang pots and pans on our balconies and at our frontdoors, the second moon will leave us alone?

Nostr clients should block content from accounts with invalid NIP-05 entries.

WTF is the point of having them if we don't enforce their validity?

Would you look at this little prick

If Diddy is found guilty it will serve as another example that those in positions of power can abuse. Diddy is a business man, he’s a media mogul and actually invested in X (I don’t blame Elon or X for that but it’s the truth.)

In cases like Epstein the media and the intelligence agencies worked to keep the story quiet. Weinstein, Larry Nassar, members of the royal family, politicians, law enforcement etc, abusers come in all shapes and sizes. In some cases they are extremely powerful people.

This week a CIA officer who drugged, sexually abused multiple women got a 30 year sentence.

Survivors used to have to pray that a journalist would cover their story to be heard if law enforcement wouldn’t take them seriously and to an extent social media and new media changed that but there was one big problem, if they published their story online it wasn’t censorship resistant. The powerful still had the upper hand.

Nostr empowers the individual and has the potential to serve some of the world’s most vulnerable. Nostr evens the playfield. 💜