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Sarah
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Trail running + native plants

Evening at the lake after a day with friends. My heart is full. ❤ #grownostr #goodlife #gratitude

Thanks for the info!

Cheerful zinnias to help you relax this evening - or wake up, depending where you are in the world! #grownostr #gardening

Headed out again to spend quality time with friends and family on five stops in three states in less than two weeks! New England summer weather is sounding amazing after the last couple weeks of humidity and heat at home "below the Mason Dixon Line," as my mom for some reason likes to remind me. 🤷‍♀️ Plus, here's a stream from my latest trail run for your enjoyment! #runstr #grownostr #travel #qualitytime

Hello, milkweed tussock moth caterpillar! 😁 #grownostr #gardening

Welcome to my garden, little one! 😊😁

#grownostr #gardening

Nice! Glad you're getting out there! Still nasty humid here. I have been sooo slow this week. Not sure if it's just the heat or my new low-carb diet I haven't quite got dialed in yet or both...In any case I just remind myself I train in summer so I can enjoy big miles in the fall when it's nice! Have a good one!

Haha. 😄 It also included wine berries and sourdough toast with avocado.

Obedient Plant blooms well on the way! I love watching my garden go through the seasons. 🌸🌱 #grownostr #gardening #nativeplants

GM Nostr! Yin yang eggs, totally unintentional. 🍳 A reminder to find balance in our lives. As my junior high principal said every morning, "Make it a great day or not, the choice is yours." Go get 'em, nostriches! 😁 #grownostr #powerofpositivity

Snack with wine berries foraged from a local park. Yum! Sweet summer. #grownostr #foraging

GM Nostr! I hope your days is as cheerful as this sunflower! 😊 And what a cute little red and green bug! (Hoping it's not harmful...) #grownostr #plantstr

Haha. Oops and thanks. Not sure how it popped up for me. When I open Amethyst, it feels like it always pops me into a random spot in the timeline. 🤷‍♀️

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Taking break from nostr for a few days. I need to get off tilt and focus on my work.

I’ve been reflecting on the state of things here as i start to use bluesky more often (i still like nostr much better fwiw).

I know this may offend some of you but I’m getting frustrated with how caught up we all are in our zapping wonderland with no concern for the outside world.

If we want this place to grow and succeed we really need to take a look in the mirror and ask ourselves what it would be like to join nostr right now if you knew nothing about bitcoin. You would probably hate it, and stop using it within a day. Our worlds may revolve around bitcoin, but to a majority of people, they could give two shits about bitcoin.

Nostr is now considered by many outsiders as a “bitcoin project”. And I, for one, think that’s a terrible thing for nostr adoption and growth. There are brilliant people in this world who care about freedom tech but just don’t understand bitcoin yet and want nothing to do with it. And by making nostr all about bitcoin, we’ve scared those brilliant people off, who could have helped this place develop even further than it already has.

The way things stand right now, I see nostr adoption as being fully tied to bitcoin adoption. People won’t want to come here until they understand bitcoin. Instead of selling people just nostr, we now have to sell them nostr + bitcoin. And it shouldn’t be that way.

I’m still bullish on nostr, but we really need to do some self reflection at this point and ask ourselves what the correct path forward is.

See ya in a few internet frens 👋

I hear you, but I feel like that really depends on who you follow. My feed is mostly homesteading types (not sure how that happened, but it's cool) who also occasionally mention bitcoin, but it's definitely more focused on raising/growing/foraging food, country/rural life, freedom of thought and speech, health, and much more. It's true, I originally found out about nostr bc my husband is a bitcoiner, and he helped me get my account set up, but I joined bc it seemed like a fresh start for social (and yay zaps), and now it has become much more than bitcoin. I think it will attract liberty-minded people, and then after joining they may eventually realize Bitcoin can be an important part of their freedom equation if they didn't already.

Purple hyssop in bloom! What can I do with this besides please pollinators? (fennel in background) #grownostr

GM Nostr! Back from an 8M run (w/ some walking...) in killer humidity this a.m. At least we've finally been getting some rain. So many maters and peppers are going to be ripening soon! May your Sunday be everything you want it to be! 😊 #runstr #grownostr

They're multiplying.... 😁 I love how they appear out of seemingly nowhere after rain. #grownostr #mushrooms #fungi