Globe99

Scientist | Libertarian | Transhumanist | Urbanist | "Casual" Bitcoiner

Projects I like:
catallax.network (npub1qwe…qldl) Nostr-based service and reputation marketplace
Angor (npub1wrz…cm02) Bitcoin-based time-locked crowdfunding
https://blockforgebtc.com/blockforge A fully on-chain voxel world, living on Bitcoin forever.

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2026-07-21 21:57:23 UTC

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Not true... there are certain pods that have attacked boats near Gibraltar. It seems to be "pod selective", like there are specific groups of orcas that are going after boats...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_orca_attacks

2026-07-21 21:55:36 UTC

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Also fun fact: They're selective eaters, certain pods when they hunt and kill Great Whites will just eat the liver and leave the rest of the corpse.

2026-07-21 16:23:22 UTC

GM... The most important problems in the world right now have solutions that can't be verified with computer code.

2026-07-21 15:36:10 UTC

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"The Scent of Desperation"... Irresistible! 😅

2026-07-21 03:10:55 UTC

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Lisan Al-Ghaib!!!
he of the blue-on-blue laser eyes has seen the future

2026-07-20 03:34:11 UTC

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The NBC miniseries from the 90s was also really good

2026-07-20 00:43:34 UTC

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Or Tor.... Which seems to work reasonably well

2026-07-20 00:18:23 UTC

Weekend with old friends I haven't seen in years... Sleep-deprived but soul-replenished 🙂

2026-07-19 18:45:27 UTC

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"Mathematically impossible" how? Generating public private key pairs is cheap and quick

2026-07-19 00:04:38 UTC

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Great Rick and Morty plot point.... How do you destroy an Empire?
Not with bombs, sci-fi guns, or any of that... Just make the currency worthless and it all falls apart

2026-07-17 05:09:41 UTC

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He's gonna find the "real killers" lol 😅

2026-07-17 03:56:08 UTC

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i'm sure there are some scribblings on the back of a waffle house menu that are going to blow the whole thing open! 😂

2026-07-16 22:10:36 UTC

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it's important to like the person you see in the mirror 🙂

2026-07-16 22:08:03 UTC

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New heights for the Great American Grift

2026-07-16 17:02:17 UTC

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cool, share design file?

2026-07-16 16:52:23 UTC

I'm starting to notice just how much the pace of public intellectual life seems to slow down in the summer... My RSS and podcast feeds dry up, OSS projects don't get updates, Substacks go fallow, etc...
Everyone seems to be kicking it at the beach, which is nice, but I'm still stuck here hustling through major life changes. I guess, maybe next summer? 🤷

2026-07-16 15:29:10 UTC

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Is this is "certified human" badge? Would trusted attestations be better?

2026-07-16 14:41:42 UTC

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Yeah and they're actively converting businesses

2026-07-16 03:38:49 UTC

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Collectively, yeah. Both have big hits and big misses.

2026-07-16 03:37:54 UTC

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It's an irregular one, sometimes text or voice memos, but it's been a good thing. Make a voice memo and play it back to yourself. Good to know how you sound and talk, if nothing else.

2026-07-16 03:36:28 UTC

Just a reminder, heavily armed, poorly trained masked agents of the State are still out in force on US streets killing with impunity.
#nevent1q…u47n

2026-07-16 01:58:39 UTC

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😬 not trying to give you any ideas
I tried it and died a few times, still not clear how to even get into the dungeon but no hints I'll figure it out eventually 😄

2026-07-16 01:23:44 UTC

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🤩 that incense holder

2026-07-15 23:15:14 UTC

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wait so if your npub dies are you permanently locked out, or just start over from the beginning?

2026-07-15 21:08:07 UTC

Time for Stimpaks! #starcraft
#nevent1q…8nyt

2026-07-15 18:03:59 UTC

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Very "Far Side" 😆

2026-07-15 18:02:39 UTC

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I could see this only assuming $$'s hold value roughly the same, or on an inflation schedule that is predictable form the past... Keep in mind BTC/USD has two parts that can change in intrinsic value

2026-07-15 17:28:01 UTC

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"STEM" is a lot more than "code."
AIs still aren't doing experimental science.

2026-07-14 22:33:14 UTC

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Plenty of situations too where using cash is the more convenient option... Like at a bar, I don't want to have to hand over a card, wait for the bartender to go back to the terminal to do the transaction, print out a piece of paper, then have to hand it over to me to try to make out the numbers in the dim bar light so I calculate the tip right....
All that is skipped if I just hand over cash and get change.

2026-07-14 20:18:50 UTC

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Happy to do my part 😄
Not a Dev and have no ambitions as such, but I'll "slurp the slop" and tell y'all where it needs improvement.

2026-07-14 19:45:11 UTC

Nostr's tiny, but it's one of the few spaces that feels genuinely innovative. I've never found myself excited for new software releases since... IDK, the 00's?
In a world where everything's a grift, this feels real, even if it's just us ~40 weirdos.

2026-07-14 19:26:42 UTC

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Player kick player instead of player kick ball. Then player kick good ball.

2026-07-13 22:51:04 UTC

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Not too confident after "History of the World Part II"....

2026-07-13 15:51:33 UTC

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Early 20's is about the right time for it, when you've got the energy and lack of experience. You need to be metaphorically stepping on a lot of rakes and getting smacked in the face, to figure out how you fit into the world.
But it's not an ethos to build a sustainable life, or organization for that matter.

2026-07-13 15:41:26 UTC

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@nprofile…sx7w is doing this in Europe!

2026-07-13 14:30:17 UTC

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So THAT'S why his wife was in China!!

2026-07-13 03:34:50 UTC

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Wow that is so not my experience... I guess I've cultivated follows differently.... I've got some Swedish archeologist, a guy who operates a pinball arcade in Finland, various micro-celebs like Meredith Whittaker etc.
Certain hashtags can sometimes come through with "shipped" porn but it's usually NSFW tagged. (Also I'm using Momostr but it probably doesn't make a difference.)
Are you just rawdogging the straight relay feed, or what?

2026-07-13 02:53:34 UTC

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Like Tim Capello, "I Still Believe" 🎷 💦 🥵
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1dY6OkPb7E

2026-07-13 02:46:47 UTC

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Because people on the Right who claim to care about Freedom really just want "their guy" in charge, and now that Elon's in control of X and Zuck wears a chain, "it's all good in the hood."
Meanwhile people on the Left take one look around here and go "eww Bitcoin" and run away.
The people who actually care about decentralized social media are on Mastodon, but Nostr people go "eww rainbow flag on the profile" and then add "mostr . pub" to their banned words list.
Soooo that's about the size of it

2026-07-13 01:31:10 UTC

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Yeah I think Intellectual Ventures was working on something like that for a while...

2026-07-12 16:56:34 UTC

Binface music video -- wish he'd touch down in my town!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9FRnsfsOkQ

2026-07-12 16:40:28 UTC

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"This society" no it's just the American right-wing conspiracy machine that leaks its way into Nostr

2026-07-12 02:35:54 UTC

Anyone understand what just happened with that red card #worldcup ?

2026-07-10 22:34:04 UTC

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Next client or whatever, "NostrIL", it's right there for a name.... make sure to zap the source

2026-07-10 22:30:42 UTC

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haha same here. trying to figure out whether Umbrel or "build it yourself" Linux mini-PC.

2026-07-10 22:08:42 UTC

My life over the past few years: Finding some forgotten piece of scientific simulation software, last updated years ago, dusting it off, and trying to figure out if anyone who made it is still alive / contactable on the internet....

2026-07-10 21:55:34 UTC

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They've been releasing these videos for the better part of a few months now...? Not just "now"

2026-07-10 21:53:34 UTC

Hey @nprofile…dkg0 not sure if you can hear this from over on Nostr, but does msep.one still work? "About" page 404's and there's no Github or anything, which is why I'm curious... don't want to rawdog rotten SW #nanotech

2026-07-10 21:45:11 UTC

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All of these videos are the "trees", the "forest" is a 50 year campaign of obfuscation and deception.
Proof will come through congressional testimony, not this video or that.... But for this video in particular, the object is described as just basically blowing in the wind, which doesn't help to rule out the "balloon" hypothesis. Unknown, but not anomalous.
C.f. uap.guide for the basics

2026-07-10 19:35:18 UTC

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Damn Felix, you were supposed to be the Chosen One!!

2026-07-10 19:32:59 UTC

Hey @nprofile…9k4f since you seem up on this stuff I'm interested in potentially getting a home Linux mini-PC... do they make those pre-installed with Linux or does it make more sense to just get one off the shelf and scoop out the Windows slop myself?

2026-07-10 19:24:51 UTC

Getting re-immersed in my first "scientific infatuation", the Drexlerian vision of atomic nanotechnology popularized in the late 90's / early 00's, is a bit like doing digital archeology....
The exponents of the field, people like Eric Drexler, Ralph Merkle, Ralph Freitas & et. al. are still active but *barely* online... They have 90's style web-pages, "firstnamelastname . com," that are black-text-on-white background and riddled with 404's. The explainer videos are full dated, chunky 00's CGI.
But the vision for what can be achieved remains just as radical as it was at the turn of the millennium, and with new research by CBN, closer than it's ever been to reality.

2026-07-10 15:15:50 UTC

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Oh hey if you figure out how to keep it from getting scummed up with algae, that's valuable data Your Country needs in Washington DC

2026-07-09 20:39:40 UTC

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Naw the actual commies are on Mastodon, BSky is more just "liberals" from what I hear

2026-07-09 15:42:45 UTC

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Sure, but it's much more limited without "the printer," because you're talking about purely private-credit-fueled bubbles...

2026-07-09 15:41:38 UTC

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Yeah there's this weird thing where it's like the "real" economy, the stores near you, housing costs, etc, obey basically "supply and demand" and operate more or less efficiently.... But once you get to the top of the stock market, AI is just this big sucking black hole that sweeps in everything.

2026-07-09 15:38:44 UTC

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I'm usually able to finish them -- sometimes with the help of the "blog" and "tricky clues" -- but then again I have a lot of time on my hands 😁

2026-07-09 14:42:23 UTC

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Yeah I thought it had a lot of promise too, it's integrated into Ditto so I assumed it was one of the @nprofile…z2n3 people...

2026-07-08 22:44:12 UTC

This recent @nprofile…jjnc podcast goes into a deep-dive on #marathon (the 2026 game) and its current issues in the context of the modern gaming industry.
https://pdst.fm/e/clrtpod.com/m/pscrb.fm/rss/p/arttrk.com/p/2D5E6/mgln.ai/e/1246/tracking.swap.fm/track/AoSMVIl7piQbthzJoBqJ/traffic.megaphone.fm/TBIEA2616963621.mp3
Personally I haven't owned a console since the SNES, and just about everything I play these days runs in a browser. That being said I played the original Marathon trilogy back in the 90's when it was a Macintosh-exclusive game, in an era where "PC gaming" was synonymous with Windows. As such my friends were all playing Quake, possessing a technically superior 3D engine, but also a dull, dirt-brown and black aesthetic, and no particular story to go along with it.
For the past 20 years or so, that's what shooter games have looked like to me. I see billboards for Call of Duty XVI whatever, and it's some grim soldier dude in a burnt-out wasteland, and I think "pfft I'm not missing anything."
But cut to the Marathon cinematic reveal trailer, and I think WOW this is actually different, in a way that the original Marathon felt "violently original" in the context of the gaming world of its time. This might actually convince me to plunk down the petrodollars to get the latest PlayBox5000 or whatever's necessary to run it. But....

2026-07-08 21:54:28 UTC

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Sure... But by the same token (😏), there was a certain point when Bitcoin didn't even have a "price", or certainly not a price that was very well defined. "Pizza day" was a pricing event, but that was just a one time purchase. Then you had Mt. Gox, which provided 24/7 price, but it was... Mt. Gox.
Even granted today the "price" is fairly well defined, but still not 100%. Small differences will exist between exchanges.
I agree (perhaps in contrast to some here) that daily active users, and perhaps more importantly something like "daily zapped value" is the appropriate way to define Nostr's overall success. We don't have great metrics, sure, but turning this around, does anyone? Do we really know daily active users of Facebook, or is that "trust me bro" by Zuck?
Public zaps offer the chance of an actual, reasonably direct metric of the economic value of a social network, something that's fairly unprecedented.

2026-07-08 20:56:22 UTC

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Yeah I've never had a stronger feeling of "everyone should be using this thing" since.... Bitcoin I guess

2026-07-08 18:21:15 UTC

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Except with ICE in 2025, it's exactly that. Jackbooted, masked thugs busting down doors,, snatching people off the street, and shooting civilians in the face.

2026-07-08 18:04:42 UTC

I see the value of prediction markets for providing an incentive to surface non-public information... Impending war, political upsets, even scientific discoveries, etc.
But in sports, this is really just gambling... Nobody "should" have insider information about this, so I think something gets skewed about the incentives.

2026-07-08 16:03:16 UTC

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https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/af92154b4fd002924031386f71333b0afd9741a076f5c738bc2603a5b59d671f/a73bbd16b018bdd61d3b2df826132f37e33f3e50e97ab0e78d3d09f36abad9cf.jpeg

2026-07-07 20:33:15 UTC

#mst3k "The Brain that Wouldn't Die"
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/a73bbd16b018bdd61d3b2df826132f37e33f3e50e97ab0e78d3d09f36abad9cf.jpeg

2026-07-07 01:53:55 UTC

I predict some pretty heavy EU tariffs going through tomorrow.... 😅

2026-07-07 01:45:53 UTC

Cool of them to get Lobot from Cloud City to ref this one #worldcup #starwars

2026-07-06 18:58:09 UTC

Another great #pico8 micro-game https://the-sailor.itch.io/scoundrel

2026-07-06 18:08:28 UTC

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Oh neat... So it's not like a specific 24-word wallet?
One thing I was thinking about is this could be a means of "steganography"... I.e. print out a crossword puzzle that's actually your 24-word seed phrase, but innocuously disguised for cross-border travel.

2026-07-06 17:56:02 UTC

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Crossword you say???

2026-07-06 16:50:38 UTC

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"Delete your X account", in this context, is effectively synonymous with a complete retreat from public life. 😑

2026-07-06 16:48:22 UTC

The intellectual parallels between Bitcoin and the Constitution are quite striking when you think about it... These were both attempts to create an enduring "operating system" in which multiple non-trusting (and in fact perhaps rivalrous) parties would nonetheless be incentivized to co-participate in the production of a public good.
Equally interesting to me is the "dead founding father" aspect of it, how every generation there is a new conflict between The Founders' / Satoshi's Intention, and a new class of "interpreters" claiming that, actually, the founders intended this or that, or that we no longer live in the Founders' world and their original intent needs to be updated for the times.

2026-07-06 16:21:48 UTC

#starwars #worldcup https://youtu.be/0R0JRGzzg_E

2026-07-06 15:25:37 UTC

GM -- I saw Johnson give a talk years before he embarked on his " #longevity quest"... He looked completely different.
#nevent1q…qpqs
Lots of thoughts about this. 100% respect the "don't die" position, that's been my goal since a very young age. I never wanted to have to go the "ascetic" route as he has, although I respect it as somewhere between scientific self-experimentation and extreme performance art.
I thought (mistakenly in the late 90's and early 00's) atomic #nanotech would advance much quicker than it has, instead most "innovation" funding this century has gone to Bits instead of Atoms.
Despite this, there's always #cryonics, which continues to slowly plod along, which in combination with brain imaging (moving reasonably quickly) and continued advancements in nanotech (still moving slowly but non-zero), could I think produce a decent backup by the time I need it.

2026-07-06 15:16:27 UTC

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Welllll time for the ole' liquid N2 bath along with the rest of the extropians

2026-07-06 15:02:34 UTC

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@nprofile…4mrd

2026-07-06 01:47:16 UTC

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Honestly, good.
People on centralized platforms need to be reminded that that's not "the internet."

2026-07-06 01:40:02 UTC

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i learned like 5 new vocabulary words from this

2026-07-05 23:18:32 UTC

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I would guess some combination of possession and ball position towards the goal...?
I guess that's how I'd approach it..

2026-07-05 01:51:47 UTC

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I mean yeah "rah rah America" and all that, but what exactly does "best" mean?
Wealthiest? Maybe in aggregate, but I doubt "per capital"...
Happiest? Certainly not according to most rankings.
Healthiest? Lol no way 😅

2026-07-04 21:43:19 UTC

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Certainly not "entitled", agreed.

2026-07-04 21:00:50 UTC

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Well that's a bit pessimistic... Occupying as you do a central position in the Nostr network, in the "Web of trust" sense, would clearly offer the potential for some kind of profit if Nostr takes off, wouldn't it? At least in terms of Zaps, and/or the ability to advertise one's own "projects for hire"...
Of course nothing's going to be comparable to actually owning the token that powers the network as in the case of BTC, but there are at least some benefits to being at the center of a social network when crowds shows up... Especially one with built-in monetization.

2026-07-04 20:46:57 UTC

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"Almost Food" which is exactly like Food, except in a few crucial ways: https://youtu.be/KLHRjaUBb3o

2026-07-04 20:43:28 UTC

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Wow so somebody posing as Google? Did they sound like "Johnny from Bangalore", or what?

2026-07-04 19:04:42 UTC

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Acknowledging historical reality is the first step to healing 😆
I honestly don't know what the "it's all a scam" narrative is based on anymore... In an economy that pumps AI companies to valuations of 1000x earnings or whatever, THIS is the "scam"?

2026-07-04 18:57:29 UTC

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Bitcoin seems like such a unique and singular (at least to this point) historical example of open-source software development actually being able to capture its own economic value....
How can this be replicated? Are we "early investors" in Nostr in any sense that might result in later economic gain?

2026-07-04 18:07:13 UTC

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Hey so FYI there is a "longform content" specification for Nostr that allows you to use Markdown for longer essay-type posts.... a few clients include
https://habla.coracle.social/
https://highlighter.com/
https://decentnewsroom.com/

2026-07-04 13:20:30 UTC

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Wow that geezer's a menace... Amazing that nothing has happened yet!

2026-07-04 05:08:31 UTC

Finally got around to Attack on Titan, first two episodes... Not really doing it for me.
IDK, clearly there's some interesting lore going on here but the main character is pretty grating to be around. Worth sticking with it? #anime

2026-07-04 02:03:23 UTC

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And I thought Science was getting too boring...
This is genuinely the coolest thing I've seen in a while

2026-07-04 00:51:16 UTC

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The first world cup I've seriously paid attention to, and wow, it's been a banger... especially this game

2026-07-04 00:38:08 UTC

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threw out his leg! 😬

2026-07-04 00:33:25 UTC

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damn, was hoping to see shootouts... oh well back to "soccer reality" lol

2026-07-04 00:09:44 UTC

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you know Argentina team got an earful on the bench at the end of regulation, came out swinging

2026-07-04 00:07:46 UTC

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and here comes the bride, FROM THE TOP ROPE!!!

2026-07-03 22:02:49 UTC

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Woah there, China did that one!

2026-07-03 20:29:27 UTC

Hey @nprofile…t34f I think the algo at stats.andotherstuff.org might need some tweaking , it's showing 1 million+ daily "publishing users", pretty sure that isn't right....

2026-07-03 16:54:39 UTC

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time for cryo

2026-07-03 16:04:48 UTC

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hey I want to read this, but do you have a DRM-free ebook I can purchase anywhere?

2026-07-03 15:57:24 UTC

Stupid phone call day! Multiple stupid centralized payment systems screwed up, so now I've got to sit on hold for hours to wait for some guy in Manilla who probably can't fix my problem 😠