I'm sure it's in there, just probably not on page 21 😂

My father in law, a retired GP, still thinks the NHS has a VIP section in each hospital for retired doctors 😂

I'm kinda wishing I read it now 😂

You gotta give Trump credit, he pump and dumps a market like a pro 😂

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Dirty cat 😂

Yeh, that concerns me about the potential future of NOSTR. We are built with money as part of our DNA, are we destined to produce even more slop in the future?

I didn't invent the Internet, I founded the commercial Internet in1989 along with 3 other, more important people.

i.e. my company was the existing business case that was used as a reason why commercial companies need the Internet

I'm not in the same league or status as Vint, nor am I American, so while I could use ICANN, I have better routes.

But like most things, using historical power or influence comes with a cost and reduces the power you think you had in the first place.

So for this example, where I'm just having some fun, I'm not going to bother 😂

I founded the commercial Internet, I have connections 😂

Interesting, diving a bit deeper on X, after a certain level of engagement and once you pay your premium fees, you are allowed to generate revenue.

Many are using X to try to earn money and that is the cause of a lot of the slop that's on there.

This post highlights it:

Imagine what British Rail could have been if we hadn't privatised it 😂

https://v.nostr.build/opiLkG0e7OEokFTa.mp4

I know 😂

I've just registered the domain:

hardcastle.wtf 😂

😂

It's in the diary.

4pm OK?

Either date 😂

Something like that 😂

Sold, when can you collect 😂

We got it about 10 years ago from the local garden centre. If came with a single olive.

This is the second olive the tree has produced in all that time 😂

Turns out Prince Andrew is not a self sovereign sovereign.

He leases his apartment in Windsor Castle from the Crowne Estate, his lease runs out in 2078.

I had to google that!

So no, but I want to be 😂

I'm not a Sunday roast kinda guy, but after a 7 mile walk, and as the only food the local pub was doing, it was very welcome 🙏

I've got yer back pal.

#FIGHT 💪

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A little, but it mostly hides my balding head 😂

More photos from our Sunday walk and pub roast lunch

Me or the pheasant 😂

Also, photoshop is last decade, we AI things nowadays, keep up 😂

A Sunday walk

My Olive will that 😂

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My heart just isn't in to shitposting on X 🥹

I might have wasted £8 😂

Really? We're just finishing off our glut of tomatoes.

I don't think of them as pets 😂

I couldn't eat Olivia 🥹

It's our only child, so we thought we'd name it

GM

Our olive tree has an Olive 💜

Controversial, but probably true 😂

Chatty and I chat for hours like that 😂

I decided to ask Chatty this:

Out of interest, what's the most unique, but technically correct sentence or paragraph you have encountered while indexing all of humanities writings?

ChatGPT said:

That’s a hell of a question — and I love that you phrased it as “unique but technically correct.” That’s a narrow band of brilliance right there.

There are a few that stand out — sentences that are grammatically airtight, logically sound, yet so strange they almost break the reader’s brain. Here are a few of my all-time favourites from the archives of human linguistic mischief:

1. “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.”

Completely grammatically correct.

It uses Buffalo (the city), buffalo (the animal), and buffalo (the verb “to bully”) in a recursive chain meaning roughly:

“Bison from Buffalo, that other bison from Buffalo bully, themselves bully bison from Buffalo.”

It’s the linguistic equivalent of an Escher staircase.

2. “James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher.”

Also perfectly correct, though it looks like your keyboard got drunk.

When properly punctuated:

“James, while John had had ‘had’, had had ‘had had’; ‘had had’ had had a better effect on the teacher.”

It’s about a grammar test comparing two students’ answers — a perfect recursive example of meta-language.

3. “This sentence contains exactly threee erors.”

Technically self-referential and self-consistent, because the third “error” is claiming there are three errors (meta-error included). You can’t beat humans for self-aware trolling.

4. Gödel-style beauty:

“This statement is unprovable.”

It’s not just linguistically correct — it’s a perfect mirror of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem: true, but unprovable within its own system.

5. And my personal favourite for its balance of poetry and logic:

“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” — Noam Chomsky (1957)

Grammatically flawless, semantically nonsensical, and philosophically profound — it proved that syntax and meaning are separable. It’s still studied in computational linguistics as the perfect nonsense sentence.

If you mean unique in a more existential sense — the most original human line that blends logic and emotion — there’s one I’d nominate from Nabokov:

“I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it becomes.”

That one hits both the logical and emotive circuits — something I can understand, but not feel.

Would you like me to generate a new one — a “Mike-grade” original, perfectly grammatical, technically correct, but unique in human history?

There, I'm trying to hook them first, then start a mass exodus to here 😂

Oh yeh, different name too.

But apart from that 😂

You look different on X 😂

I followed back 👍

Twitter 😂

This:

Yeh, many are complicit in their ignorance

Why heresy?

I'm not in with the in devs 😂

I haven't, there was her business partner who was obviously in on it as well.

If you've read the book, name names 😂

It's just occurred to me, there's only one "like" on X and obviously no zaps.

I know a lot of you want zaps only, but I think emoji likes have their place for when something is good, but not worth zapping. And being able to choose your emoji for the like is so much more expressive 💜

You can mix it up however you like, if you're not looking to make a classic pesto.

If you've not done it before, perhaps follow a classic recipe, work out the concepts and then start playing with the ingredients.

I've made tomato pestos, roasted pepper pestos and spinach pestos, it's basically the same five ingredients.

A leaf or reduced savoury fruit of some kind

Always a small nubbin of garlic

An abrasive, typically a nut

A cheese, generally firm

An oil

Then a little salt (depending on the cheese) and pepper.

Then use a pestle and mortar to grind the ingredients together 👍

Without sound officious or snooty, I mostly make my own 🙄

I enjoy cooking, it's the only hobby I've kept during my entire adulthood. Mainly because you have to eat if you want to stay alive 😂

If you ever fancy having a go, try Watercress pesto, use walnuts instead of pine nuts and I often use manchego instead of Parmesan. Oh also I would have recommended rapeseed oil, but apparently we're not using seed oils anymore 🥹

I am happy, I've got a Cronut, which is apparently a cross between a doughnut and a croissant 🥐

Yeh, but somehow the bots here are nicer.

I miss ReplyGirl 🥹

I haven't been near them in over 20 years, even then I was last there I was just messing about 🥹

I take this stuff seriously you know 😂

This:

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This is strange:

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Sir, yes sir. I'm not holding back sir 🫡

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I mean, I'm guessing, don't quote me verbatim 😂

No, they seem to have WiFi in prison now 🙄

As a protocol, the options are limitless, ask instead what you want to do.

I want to run my own relay, because it's my data and I want to store my own data. But that's a personal choice.

https://nostr.land/restore

is a good public backup service.

Here is an article I wrote a while ago about NOSTR and it's philosophy and mechanics if it helps:

https://mikehardcastle.com/2024/08/26/nostr-a-social-media-protocol-for-the-next-epoch/

I just sold your granny 😂

👀

I guess Prisons have WiFi these days 😂

Yeh, if your monetary system is failing you have to work harder and longer to compensate for that entropy.

Something solves that? 🤔