Experiencing tragedy makes you a bad person who is undeserving of joy.

...I know, what a fucked up thought. But it’s been core to my understanding of the world since before I can remember and it takes a while to undo that.

But I’m curious, is this a lingering effect of my fundamentalist Christian early childhood, or is this a common sentiment in the world?

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump claims "we now know everything" about "the 2020 Presidential Election, being Rigged and Stolen" and urges the DOJ to pursue it with "gusto" as "the biggest SCANDAL in American history."

GM:

Work week in Seattle is over.

Back to down east Cackalacky!

100% this is the most important decision of a man’s life

“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” — Luke 23:34

Fair point. Here's the context...He frequently posts very self reflective V-Logs while hiking in the desert at the base of the beautiful Spring Mountains albeit touching sand rather than grass.

This info is from the fbi dude. The things I’m sharing with you are verified.

We do. I just told you what we know. You’re refusing to accept reality.

The shooter is absolutely a lefty. Was living with his transgender boyfriend. Friends and family have come out and said he was the only lefty in a family of conservatives. You’re peddling disinformation. Whether you’re doing it maliciously or incidentally I can’t tell. Only you know that.

This is what’s happening on blue sky (leftist nostr)

In addition to celebrating Kirk’s death, they are calling for more assasinations of their political enemies.

cool, let me go find some demons to follow so I don't have an echo chamber

Yesterday was a masks off moment

Regardless of how Charlie was assassinated, the people's response tells you what they value.

Read a few posts on x, blue sky, Reddit, even here and you can learn a lot about an individual, groups, and political parties

I use moments like this to refine my follow list and mental models

My home server does lots of things people here have already mentioned that they do. So what might be unique to me, I run about 4 streaming radio stations, personal to me and my LAN.

One is a long-off-the-air local gospel station that used to play some really weird shit. So much of it was singers who were way out of tune. I’m really glad I recorded a month of it before it disappeared.

One is a 12 GB collection of techno and other electronic music my friend M gave me. I call it “M Radio.” It took about 10 years of listening to really get to know the collection, but having it as a streaming radio station really helped.

One is an archive of about 15 years of the “Mysterious Universe” podcast, playing in a loop. Whenever I want to hear some good storytelling, I tune in.

The fourth is a live stream of my local campus radio station, with a secret radio receiver in the city that sends the stream back to my location where the FM signal isn’t so strong. I stream it at a very high fidelity.

I have a Squeezebox Boom in my kitchen with preset buttons on it that can call up any one of these “stations” at will. I love it!

It’s this kind of hard-hitting journalism that slips past the mainstream media’s attention and finds its home here on Nostr, the decentralized platform of the future.

My stack grew a bit after reading this controversial yet commonsense headline.

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have had 12 raw eggs in the last 24 hours.

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I find it tremendously ironic that the invention of the welfare state, ostensibly to help those in need, has effectively destroyed our sense of community duty and care for our neighbors.

It’s allowed us to convince ourselves that it’s “not our job” to look after each other like we used to.

People love to argue that without the state those in need would be left behind. I staunchly believe this to be untrue and downright patronizing. Most people, most of the time, are fundamentally good and generous.

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During Covid I was fighting with some guy on spaces and he said,

“we get it, you think your freedom is more important than other people’s lives” as if that was some sort of a put down.

I responded “Not only is it more important than other people’s lives… it’s also more important than my own life”

He was confused by that.

He could easily file me away as selfish, but not as someone willing to die for others freedom.

He considered himself the selfless one.

And tbh his moral instincts of reducing harms and preserving life were noble.

But to preserve freedom at the cost of life is the higher moral ground, because a life without liberty has no purpose.

So I told him “give me liberty or give me death and if you won’t do either at least don’t delude yourself into thinking you’re the moral one here”

Then they kicked me from the space.

I think about that interaction a lot.