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The Dude Abides šŸ•¶ļø - Creator of cool T-shirts, mugs & more - Visit my shop! šŸ›ļø I can be snarky. I have a foul mouth. Vote blue. no DMs. NO MAGA. ☭. šŸ«Ž - high

Edibles just don't hit me like flower does for some reason. I can 1000mg and noy be fazed.

Good luck with your roads & firefighters. Taxes will be horrendous there, but hey, at least you're free of an oppressive majority that doesn't want to be ruled by a racist Nazi minority.

##FuckMAGA

https://www.wifr.com/2025/03/25/state-new-illinois-organization-pushes-separate-cook-county/

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i started using the Fediverse before it was called the Fediverse. back before Mastodon even existed, when there was just identica and diaspora.

i watched it go from a tiny place for fringe linux nerds, hackers, and artists, to a place for disgruintled corporate journalists and WokeScolds with 15 million daily users.

steady growth was minimal. The major growth happened from mass influxes. Usually from a negative facebook or twitter event, or some famous person talking about the fediverse.

Then 90% of those new people would drop off, and go back to the corporate BS, leaving behind a small increase. Those cycles happened over and over again until there were 10+ million daily users.

I see something very similar happening to nostr. It is very familiar and natural. But it seems like some people have a Silicon Valley VC funded growth from 2012 paradigm of what success it. Nostr is probably not going to happen like that. They dont have a realistic paradigm of how open source, community developed protocols grow over time.

So they keep getting disappointed because their paradigm is unrealistic, and the hype growth they keep telling themselves will happen is really probably not going to. Or to put it another way, 'go fast and break things' is a luxury mentality afforded by VC capital. Go slow and fix things is how real, lasting, open protocols that are worth something develop.

What will happen with people is pretty simple.

Some will leave quietly, some will leave loudly, making sure to dump their disappointment on everyone before they go. But some will just keep rolling, noting, memeing, and building, a peice at a time, until something really unique, robust, and reliable has formed.

stay humble, stack sats, post notes.

Noice! I came here and dumped all my META BS. And Twitter. I have embraced the fediverse and have long been an open source nerd. For fun I setup a linux server with apache webserver to serve websites from my home with Dyndns since I couldn't get a static ip. That was 2012. Since then my geek has only grown. I have a pixelfed and hubzilla instance hosted currently. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/ef7f31b0012cd51e6c2cfbc296316c21e6e2ace431d29f3eb5a4fadc6dc372fa/ae3a996fb937c683380c7b5922b6e8f2f91381a39dcfc64d69906a8467bf34a9.webp

This is good. It makes the case for the people to own the means of production (Marxism) rather than getting UBI, which, cuz of capitalism wouldn't do anything, as the capitalists would just make things more expensive & out of reach.

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-limits-of-basic-income/

John Thune states "I'll swallow All of Trumps cock in one gulp". He was also purportedly said "we'll maybe form a committee or something, depending on how much blowback we can take". In regard to Pete Hegseth's use of a non approved app for texting called signal. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/ef7f31b0012cd51e6c2cfbc296316c21e6e2ace431d29f3eb5a4fadc6dc372fa/38eccc9906cefb3293ed04dc09b09a8eb6bd7384834be9f603e5a404894dfc7a.webp

My conscious being, spawn is 22. He's an amazing creature that survived his mother's caustic womb due to her Lupus. He was one strong one that survived whereas 5 of his siblings did not & were miscarried. Never give up hope & love your babies hard. Also, know that you will never remember the last time you picked them up which is sad.

Hey errbody. Ineas just reminiscing about a sticker I created a few years ago for a Donnie Darko movie reference.

https://thedudeabides.shop/products/28-days-6-hours-42-minutes-12-seconds-bubble-free-sticker?_pos=1&_psq=28&_ss=e&_v=1.0

Mfer. Its cold outside and rainy. We munched some leaves and grass and seeded out lawn yesterday before rhe rain today so that is awesome! Anywhoo. I am being domestic and voluntold to do things by @maude-lebowski.bsky.social

I need to go buy some business shirts because I am a professional and have to be on camera with CEOs of some of our rural healthcare systems that are in danger because of The Orange Fuckfaceā„¢ & Muskratā„¢ cuts to Medicare. We are probably.going to have to.close them and lose 30% of our business. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/ef7f31b0012cd51e6c2cfbc296316c21e6e2ace431d29f3eb5a4fadc6dc372fa/5d777f0d13773bb07d2071bc5ef8d6e1df3652808f431675b21cb7576798afa4.webp

My conspiratorial brain yells at me to "shut the fuck up and smoke that thing" once in a while. So I guess I gotta abide, right? Puff Puff Pass MFer. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/ef7f31b0012cd51e6c2cfbc296316c21e6e2ace431d29f3eb5a4fadc6dc372fa/3bd5731c9e2be63a77a6abbe235a6c864fb853297f5060caea5e0e55fbcdb760.webp

You know what. Money is really the worst way to live by. We fight over it, we hoard it, we worship it as if it were our one Lord and savior, its no wonder The Orange Fuckface came into being. He's a reflection of our loss of empathy in the world. Money is a construct of oppression. Eat the rich. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/ef7f31b0012cd51e6c2cfbc296316c21e6e2ace431d29f3eb5a4fadc6dc372fa/45100beeabdeac84ff97b7254d8c90dac887fa9130e65ef97d89d88a937f8de0.webp

A 40 million dollar knee bend. I guess you know not to do business with this law frlirm now. FAFO. No capitulation and no complying in advance.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/trump-rescinds-executive-order-paul-weiss

This drifting MFer is not the grown up this would paint him as. He has made millions off of snake oil. Him, Dr Phil, and Oprah are a blight on society.

2 words: raspberry keytones

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/dr-oz-senate-hearing/682102/