HUGE news.
I've been contacted by a key member of the White House administration!
Can't wait to see where this conversation leads...
GM
New treadmill for Betty 😺 and Balthazar😿 (who really needs to lose a lb or 2 )
Only took me 3 hours to assemble!
My forearms are killing from tightening 100+ screws by hand.
Oh, and I joined a gym today.
Now we all just have to keep each other accountable. 🤝💪
So great to see more well crafted stories here on nostr.
Loved it!
Please submit work to 21futures.com. we pay contributors and also publish here with zap splits.
Just got 2100 sats from nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg at nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r. Thanks!
Funniest joke about Prague or Czechia wins them all.
Ends at 10pm CET tonight (19.06).
Make me laugh.
#btcprague #joke
Seeing lots of posts about how nostr offers the freedom to provide value and earn for artists and many other freelancers.
Probably only 1-5% of bitcoiners use nostr.
Imagine when it is 1-5% of the world...
GM from GC.
Have a blessed SATurday.
Me, ignoring all my work this week.
Motivate me, nostriches!
#procrastination
The Spanish dream is to be a 9-5 public servant doing paperwork you don't give a shit about.
Chatting to a Canarian friend at the weekend. She's smart, educated, mid 30s with no kids. She's worked on and off in various professions because few private companies hire permanent employees.
She came to the same conclusion as many Spanish have. Get a job any job, as a civil servant.
She is applying to work at the airport because you don't have to study much for the test. "Who knows?" she said, "the benefits and hours might be decent, and I won't worry about getting laid off."
I bit my tongue. It's so sad she is going for any old job, not following her interests and using her best skills.
Many countries are trapped in this cycle, employing more and more citizens who just want a modicum of stability. Once employed they are incentivized to make the governmental system less efficient, employing others too.
Taxes rise. Benefits fall. The money printer whirrs.
Corporations take advantage and offer zero-hours contracts. More people work for cash under the table.
It's sad. There are lots of ambitious, smart, driven young Spanish, but within 5 years of finishing their studies, they are begging to become government paper pushers.
The country has the lowest birthrate in Europe. People are more under pressure with bills than ever. Inflation is drastically underreported. Houses are sold to 50+s
But hey, in 2024 GDP went up 1% because of more tourism, so the coutnry is now heralded as Europe's golden child.
I'm not saying this to shit on Spain. I choose to live and work here, and I love it.
People are cool (apart from all those miserable civil servants).
Just trying to spread a little truth based on my experience.
Isn't that what nostr is for?
Great work. Hope to bump into you and chat about the future of nostr in Prague!
Me on my way to zap the fuck out of some HQ nostr reads.
GM!
Funny story and a beacon to the nostr/bitcoin tribe 🙏 :
As some of you may know, I run an AI team at a large fiat health-tech company. The job has been sucking out my soul for the past few years, but I persisted because the paycheck was very comfortable and helped me keep the lights on at home. It's been brutal working 10-12 hour days under high stress, hardly being around for my teenage son's final years of childhood, and then trying to make time for my passion projects in bitcoin, nostr, and AI.
Last week, I had enough and finally did what I had been stopping myself from doing for over a year. I asked my SVP to lay me off. He laughed and said that's going to be really tough because I run a high visibilty team and the optics would be terrible if I was laid off. 😂
I pressed him some more and told him there was no way I could continue for much longer and he finally demurred and agreed to "see what he can do" 🤷♂️
I'm going to take him at his word and assume the sweet axe will fall by the end of June, plus about two months of severance. That's about as much runway I have to start making a dent with all the projects I want to dedicate my time to:
- NosFabrica: health data and interoperability on nostr
- Casa Nostra: an umbrella for all my creative projects
* "Finding Home," my Bourdain-inspired food/travel/culture show
with bitcoiners
* "July 18," the sequel to my novel 24 that's 20% written
* "Plebchain Radio," my nostr and bitcoin podcast I co-host with
nostr:npub1tvqc82mv8cezhax5r34n4muc2c4pgjz8kaye2smj032nngg52clq0rkrq4
* "Rendezvous with Claude and Friends," my performance art
podcast
* "The Acceleration," my AI focused podcast
* "Waiting For Satoshi," a one-act play I'm working on, loosely
inspired by Waiting for Godot
Why am I sharing this with you?
Because Nostr is where the smartest builders, thinkers, and gentleplebs hang out. This is my tribe and I am asking for ideas and guidance. Now that I have taken the leap, how do I make sure a net appears? I want to go full steam ahead on all the projects I listed above, but also want to ensure that I'm not rug-pulling my family.
Good luck!
Enjoyed your film at BFF.
Get out of the fiat world and you will fly 10 times higher.
The vast majority of paid articles are written in house. There are still some freelancers who have good relationships with editors and can get comissions. Still, it's rare in any writing niche in 2025.
The industry has changed.
Most paid work is B2B writing or copywriting.
No cryptobros were harmed in the writing of this story...
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Wrote a bitcoin humour piece especially for a pleb publication.
(Unpaid. Just for fun).
Submitted it to the magazine in November.
Enquired with the editors in February.
Told it would be published.
Waited until June.
Today I learned I am not included in the listed contributors for the issue.
It won't be published.
This is so disappointing after 6+ months of waiting. Not the way to run things.
They lost a contributor, customer and advocate.
Sometimes writing sucks.
On the plus side, I'll just publish it on nostr.
Fuck publications.
I don't need anyone's permission to be funny.
Article coming soon...
Pandering to the X algorithm.
Peter Schiff will never be poor. He even owns bitcoin now.
Yep. I go hiking anyway (and mostly talk about bitcoin) so I'm just making it official, LOL.
Join the very first Bitcoin Walk in Gran Canaria.
SATurday June 7th.
We'll be checking out this volcanic crater.
And if we find any shitcoiners along the way, we can throw them in! 😁
https://bitcoinwalk.org/gran-canaria/
#nature #touchgrass #hiking
We have noce döner in Canarias now because it is basically Germany.
Yes, sir.
See you in Prague!
Shame we didn’t meet in person, Shaun.
I love using Yakihonne for nostr:npub12xy9yxej6s9hgzsn3rfyfc3xgtdr29wqlvulquzhz2fhqqywk5vqnyvqut stories.
GM to the whole nostr team!
