the act of creation is the only thing that justifies existence

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bro u gotta be top 3 for sure

who has the thiccest eyebrows on nostr?

today is a hard day with the toddler.

i remind myself this is the exception, not the rule and it is mostly magic.

even on hard days the giggles are perfection & his love of little brother makes up for all faults.

Rode the bike to the Bitcoin Walk today.

Had some fantastic conversations… great ideas brewing…

The only gripe I have is the egregious high altitude aerosol spraying that took away one of our precious Fall bluebird days here in the PNW.

Dear Nostr,

Today was a good day. I got some sunlight, went on a walk, talked to friends, and built a fun little project that was stuck in the back of my mind for a quite a while. Love ya'll, hope your day was dapper too.

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18/10/2025

I became an IRON MAN 🏊 🚲 🏃‍♀️

(powered by bitcoin + bitcoin communities)

channeling my inner nostr:npub1lelkh3hhxw9hdwlcpk6q9t0xt9f7yze0y0nxazvzqjmre3p98x3sthkvyz and slicing and dicing videos...

build for the next century.

My no-phone set-up migration has begun!

GM

Fingerprint pointillism is my jam. Here is an hour of me pressing into paper.

#introductions #pointillism #art

Hello all. Long time since I posted. I survived a plane crash on 9/11/25 taking off from KCLS. 5 days of surgeries. And about 30# of

Metal in me. I made it to the end of the tunnel. Was given the choice. Live in the light or go back into my broken body. I choose LIFE. I couldn’t leave my best friend lover and wife. It was worth all the pain. I got 8 more weeks in bed. And then months or rehab. But I’ll. Walk again. And fly shortly after that.

Peace Love & Light. I Love You.

What hash-heated wood products do y'all want to see in time for Christmas? I'm thinking you can give your aunt who hates bitcoin energy use a hash-heated cutting board to open up some conversations

#asknostr #heatreuse

Killer ad! Nostr needs ads like this ⚡️

random request of the day, any reposts are really appreciated 💜

i would love to intern at your company

you could be the light at the end of the tunnel for me, and save me from the dante's inferno of fiat (also known as linkedin)

please reply to either this post or DM me, and i'd happily share my resume with you to make this happen and become the best intern you've ever had ☀️

Nostr suffers terribly by leadership all having gigantic accounts, so that they don't know how dull and lonely and frustrating Nostr can be for the remaining 99,996% of us, down here in the steerage class.

Twitter didn't get so big by being

50 Million People Wait for Jack To Post Something

I’d leave Nostr

A wise friend of mine always says "there are no coincidences"

Anyone ever try cooking couscous in chicken bone broth instead of water? AI recommended I try it.

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My new router keeps disconnecting me from the internet and wifi drops periodically 😢

I don’t have the time to mess with it too much. It seems to be a consistent problem

With tri-band routers.

Anyone else have any issues with a wifi7 router? #asknostr

new beefsteak course

Dropped it poolside while making a video about how awesome the nostr:nprofile1qqswhhhf99z77pfg80s2c00z27rusxn2tzss7450n34krkwa2yadhtgpzemhxue69uhkzafwwfjkcctev93xcefwdaexwqg5waehxw309ahx7um5wghxganywshxgetkq9r69k is at the pool 😂

The broken display on my nostr:nprofile1qqswhhhf99z77pfg80s2c00z27rusxn2tzss7450n34krkwa2yadhtgpzemhxue69uhkzafwwfjkcctev93xcefwdaexwqg5waehxw309ahx7um5wghxganywshxgetkq9r69k really fits the design aesthetic of the nostr:npub1whtn0s68y3cs98zysa4nxrfzss5g5snhndv35tk5m2sudsr7ltms48r3ec app. Kinda like it ngl

Some Thoughts on Adoption (and other nonsense).

There's this old Louis C.K. clip—recorded long before he was cancelled—that summarizes our modern conundrum well: "Everything's amazing and nobody's happy."

As I was walking towards the hospital today—after a way too early 5:30 rise—it dawned on me that wide-scale nostr adoption (and "proper" wide-scale bitcoin adoption, for that matter) is probably not going to happen. The good news is that it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. The bad news is that lots of people will suffer.

"Why so bearish?" I hear you ask. If you know me just a little bit you'll know that, even though I do have many faults, being bearish isn't one of them. I'm still incredibly optimistic when it comes to the adoption and proliferation of freedom tech. Otherwise I wouldn't be doing what I do.

Here's what dawned on me, though: People aren't even interested in their own health, why would they be interested in healthy money? Yes, everyone wants to be healthy. But doing what is necessary to live a healthy lifestyle? Not interested. Not in the least. Usually something really really bad has to happen for people to change their ways. And even that doesn't move the needle in some cases, as plenty of drinkers who still drink after their liver gave up, or plenty a smoker who still smokes after being diagnosed with lung cancer can attest to.

Which brings me to bitcoin treasury companies. Are most of them interested in taking the responsibility of holding their own keys? Are they interested in providing real value while staying humble and stacking sats? No, of course not. They are interested in paper gains, not in a full-blown reorientation that leads to a healthier lifestyle. And I mean that literally: if you truly and fully adopt bitcoin, the responsibility that is entailed by that will result in a reorientation, a re-alignment of values, which will—down the line—lead to more long-term thinking, healthier business practices, more honest value generation, and so on.

To me, this is what "capital B" Bitcoin is about. Change. Real change. A ridiculous proposition to the balance sheet brain.

...which brings me to nostr.

A short stroll through the current iteration of the internet should make clear that the platforms that most people spend their time on are incredibly mis-aligned with humanity. The outrage-machine that we've built for ourselves is keeping us like rats in Skinner boxes, hitting the dopamine button with every swipe and every scroll, no matter what. We've built a machine that is parasitic on humanity, instead of synergistic. We are optimizing for engagement, which means that we are maximizing addiction by shoving a mixture of uppers (porn) and downers (rage bait) down our collective throats. The machine is catering to our lowest selves, as opposed to our highest selves. (We could also optimize for the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, you know. Is that too much to ask?)

But who is to blame for all of that? (And is it worth blaming someone in the first place?)

It is clear to me that the whole military-grade industrial advertising complex that profits from running large-scale and nonstop psychological experiments on the whole fucking population of the earth wouldn't be profitable for long if we would all get our act together. But that won't happen, of course. There won't be a magical finger snap that suddenly shakes us awake from our slumber; that stops us from sleepwalking into dystopia. Just like there won't be a magical finger snap that stops us from our bad habits and unhealthy lifestyles.

Adopting a healthy way of living is hard. It means saying no to the constant onslaught of sugary snacks, fast-food around every corner, and social pressures to indulge. It means taking responsibility for your decisions, cultivating discipline, taking care of your body, your psyche, and yes, also your soul.

A wise man once said that "he who has a 'why' can bear almost any 'how'." And that's what most of us are missing: a strong enough "why." Why go through the trouble of living healthy? It's hard! Why hold your own keys, if someone else can do it for you, and there's even the apparent safety of some insurance? Why cultivate a less destructive relationship to the internet, if you can just autoplay & chill, whether it be with Netflix, YouTube, TikTok, PornHub, or something else? Why not write the snarky comment and trigger a whole cohort of people at the click of a button?

Because it's not healthy, that's why.

"Everything's amazing and nobody's happy." That's the state of the world. Always has been. And I'm to blame too, of course. Sitting in the hospital waiting room, writing these lines, bitching and moaning about the internet, this amazing series of tubes that I so love, warts and all.

But yeah, the internet won't heal itself over night. Neither will the economy, nor the rent-seeking zombie companies that don't provide value, nor the underlying fiat system that broke it all in the first place. It will take lots of time, lots of courage, lots of faith, and lots of responsibility.

It will be hard, but it will also be worth it. And it starts with you.

If you've never done so, I can absolutely recommend buying something a little bit more expensive like a holiday Airbnb or a flight online using Bitcoin.

Try travala for flights or use bitrefill vouchers for airbnb.

It feels incredible. If you don't feel like "I love Bitcoin" after your purchase, I would go check with a doctor.

nostr:nprofile1qqs0ffe6n0dctdt5r6tvdkyxvxge90rwcngls3eyxspfs8sr47wz34qpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgefxeuz discuss 500 - new concept, just testing