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STANDING AGAINST THE TYRANNICAL POWERS THAT BE

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2026-04-02 19:41:34 UTC

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Ok. Like $700?

2026-04-02 19:25:15 UTC

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Awesome. What’s the latest and greatest

2026-04-02 19:21:22 UTC

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Whatever is best. It’s been about a decade since I’ve had one.

2026-04-02 19:19:43 UTC

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I know. Show me where? I’ll buy it now. Strictly for Nostr only. Esim

2026-04-02 19:18:56 UTC

Where can I buy an Android Graphene online unlocked, with an esim? Preferably that I can buy with Sats or Bitcoin… @npub1utx…50e8 #asknostr

2026-04-02 18:49:12 UTC

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@npub1jfn…t047 just thinks different. Y’all need to listen

2026-04-02 18:22:09 UTC

In the midst of worldly chaos, I made a chill song.
https://wavlake.com/track/7fb03c01-aae0-4037-aef5-398a2a610f51
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2026-04-02 18:04:56 UTC

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I know your android only and it’s killing me UTXO!

2026-04-02 17:52:06 UTC

Young men build identity around themselves because no one told them there was a better architecture. You optimize for your own comfort. Your own status. Your own reflection. And it works just well enough to keep you locked in.
Then something breaks the loop. A woman who deserves more than your highlight reel. A child who doesn’t care about your resume. A God who isn’t impressed by your personal brand.
You start reordering. Not because someone guilt tripped you into it. Because the old arrangement stopped producing anything worth having.
God first. Then her. Then them. Then you.
And the strange thing is you don’t disappear in that order. You finally show up. The joy isn’t a reward for good behavior. It’s the natural output of a correctly ordered life. Selflessness isn’t loss.
Every man figures this out or he doesn’t. No one can argue you into it. The receipts are in the results.

2026-04-02 16:57:35 UTC

The entire attention economy is a protection racket. Nice content you got there. Shame if no one ever saw it.
A zap bypasses the racket. One sat. Straight to the source. No cut. No gatekeeper. No negotiation.
They can’t tax what they can’t see.

2026-04-02 16:46:56 UTC

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💯

2026-04-02 15:19:01 UTC

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Gm Helen

2026-04-02 15:17:49 UTC

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🫵🏻🙏

2026-04-02 15:12:50 UTC

You cannot fix the problems created by government with more government. The Federal Reserve does not create wealth, it redistributes it. From the young to the old. From the productive to the connected. From the future to the present. The money printer is not a tool. It is a weapon. And it has been pointed at our kids their entire lives.
Bitcoin does not fight the Fed. It makes the Fed a relic. The way email made the fax machine a relic. Not through protest. Through obsolescence.
Gm Nostr freaks!

2026-04-01 23:28:40 UTC

The reason Nostr works isn’t generosity. It’s incentive alignment. When knowledge flows freely and value flows back through zaps, you get a market that actually prices teaching correctly for the first time in history. Legacy platforms buried this under ad revenue and algorithmic gatekeeping.
That’s a functioning economy where human capital is finally sovereign.

2026-04-01 18:12:54 UTC

Collective hallucination is the most honest description of the American economy.

2026-04-01 15:06:06 UTC

So where does one look when every institution has burned its credibility?
This is Holy Week. And the answer this week has always pointed to isn’t a system. It’s a person. A King who didn’t campaign for the throne, He bled for it. Who didn’t negotiate peace, He purchased it. Who didn’t promise reform, He finished the work, was raised, and sat down. Because it was done.
Every empire that ever demanded your ultimate allegiance is either gone or going. He’s still seated.
That changes how you carry the weight. Not because the chaos stops, but because you weren’t designed to fix the chaos. You were designed to be faithful inside it. Love your wife. Raise your sons. Steward what’s in front of you. Let the kingdoms rage. The outcome was never in question.
The world says anxious is the only reasonable response. The throne says otherwise. Gm Nostr

2026-04-01 14:47:08 UTC

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Sounds exactly like my story. Lol

2026-04-01 02:23:52 UTC

Your spine doesn’t need a surgeon. It needs a foundation.
Most back and hip pain isn’t structural failure. It’s muscular weakness pretending to be something worse. The medical system is built to intervene. Cut. Prescribe. Manage. Not rebuild.
I’ve lived this. Still working through it. What changed everything wasn’t a diagnosis. It was loading the right muscles consistently and letting the body do what it was designed to do.
Your glutes are probably asleep. Your core is probably decorative. Your hip flexors are probably running the show because nothing else showed up to work.
Fix that and the pain starts losing its grip.
Nobody’s selling you this because there’s no revenue in someone who got stronger and stopped coming back. The body is remarkable when you stop outsourcing its job to a pharmacy.
Start light. Stay consistent. Build the foundation your skeleton is begging for.
You don’t need management. You need capacity.

2026-03-31 23:34:54 UTC

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Yessir

2026-03-31 23:34:36 UTC

Bitcoin and Nostr are not movements. They are non compliance made functional. That is what scares them. Not the tech. The posture. People who looked at the new social contract and said no thanks. I will write my own.
Being ungovernable is not a phase. It is a prerequisite for being free.

2026-03-31 21:12:48 UTC

Everyone wants to be the voice of reason until reason requires them to lose followers. Truth and conviction aren’t personality traits. They’re prices. Most people window shop.

2026-03-31 21:09:11 UTC

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I need to work on the ligonier links. There are a few things I want to switch up. One being the “reformed” angle and allow for more than just reformed peeps

2026-03-31 16:03:07 UTC

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Awesome. I’d like to check it out.

2026-03-31 15:04:46 UTC

I’ve created and published a Nostr #Bible devotional app. It’s live but needs some tweaking. Let me know what works and sent please. I’ll work on it when I have time. Much love. #ToChristAlone
https://reformedbible-twm5ugr9.manus.space/bible

2026-03-31 14:40:30 UTC

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That’s it 🫵🏻

2026-03-31 14:38:23 UTC

Go be dangerous today.
Comfortable men are predictable. Predictable men are controllable. Controllable men build nothing worth remembering.
You were not put here to be managed. You were put here to be faithful. And faithful men have always terrified the people running things.
GM. 🤙

2026-03-31 14:33:27 UTC

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Congrats bro. Quite an accomplishment in today’s culture. That’s masculinity!

2026-03-31 14:32:32 UTC

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2026-03-31 14:30:41 UTC

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Welcome to the golf life.

2026-03-31 14:28:38 UTC

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Apparently is was a branch of it called Order of DeMolay, a Masonic sponsored youth organization for young men

2026-03-31 05:14:17 UTC

Wait…Walt Disney was a Freemason?

2026-03-30 23:14:55 UTC

Where’s your quiet place? This is mine.
https://image.nostr.build/200d7e7403f45d375c925246c47c00f250bd7350f0608f60b20aa7b46a815d76.jpg

2026-03-30 23:14:15 UTC

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Haha

2026-03-30 17:36:43 UTC

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Yes.

2026-03-30 17:18:05 UTC

Weighted dips. Add them to your arsenal. Today, I went 4 sets @90lbs for 6-8 reps.
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2026-03-30 16:05:05 UTC

The system rewards going along. Conviction is the thing that draws fire. Nobody asks why you obeyed. They only ask why you didn’t.

2026-03-30 14:45:05 UTC

Gm Nostr
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2026-03-30 00:40:15 UTC

Most people define love as having their emotions reflected back to them. They want validation. Not care. Affirmation. Not correction. Love properly deployed performs a social function no one else will. It tells you what you need to hear. Not what makes you comfortable.

2026-03-29 15:20:30 UTC

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Amazing

2026-03-29 15:07:48 UTC

Good morning. This is the day the Lord has made. Rejoice and be glad in it.
The Heidelberg Catechism opens with the most important question you will ever answer. What is your only comfort in life and in death? That I am not my own, but belong body and soul, in life and in death, to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood.
Read that again. You are not your own. You were bought. The price was not negotiated. It was blood. The blood of the eternal Son of God, poured out willingly for rebels who deserved wrath. That is not sentiment. That is the ground you stand on this morning.
Paul writes to the Corinthians with the same force. You were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. The logic is airtight. Ownership determines obligation. If Christ purchased you, then your Sunday morning belongs to him. Your voice belongs to him. Your attention belongs to him.
This is not guilt. This is glory. The God who made the universe wants your worship. Not because he needs it. Because he is worthy of it. And because the act of worship is where your soul finds what it was made for.
Go to church this morning. Sing like you mean it. Sit under the preaching of the Word. Let the truth of what Christ accomplished wash over you again. You need it more than you think.
He is risen. He is worthy. Worship him today.

2026-03-29 15:00:14 UTC

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🤙🙏

2026-03-29 14:58:36 UTC

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What went down

2026-03-29 14:57:37 UTC

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There is so much potential and at the same time I agree. I’m constantly thinking about how we can come up with solutions to this problem.

2026-03-28 22:39:48 UTC

What did I miss in 3-4 days since being gone?

2026-03-28 20:47:23 UTC

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Yessir 🤘

2026-03-28 20:27:21 UTC

One of the best things about Nostr is that I can disappear, get away and come right back
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2026-03-24 17:44:25 UTC

You can’t always escape the world. But you do have opportunities to get out, get some fresh air, touch some grass, and spend time with the people you love.
Take them.
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2026-03-24 17:42:32 UTC

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Always.

2026-03-24 17:42:25 UTC

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Yessir

2026-03-24 13:54:16 UTC

Gm Nostr.
Father/Son time
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2026-03-24 02:26:53 UTC

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2026-03-23 15:57:44 UTC

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Thanks

2026-03-23 14:52:14 UTC

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I’ll give it a look.

2026-03-23 14:43:49 UTC

Gm Nostr
The world is unstable. The people making decisions are demonstrably reckless.
The best thing you can do is make your household hard to disrupt and easy to sustain. Stay ready.

2026-03-23 14:33:51 UTC

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The saints obeyed because God first made them the kind of people who could obey. Anything else is Pelagianism.

2026-03-23 14:30:39 UTC

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As soon as I get some more time, I’m going to put out some updates.

2026-03-23 14:29:36 UTC

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Yessir!! 🤘

2026-03-23 14:29:10 UTC

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Always have something productive to say. Thanks bro. Was just curious.

2026-03-22 15:10:35 UTC

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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2026-03-22 15:06:56 UTC

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That would be good to see. @npub1jfn…t047 you seen or know anything about this? Or in this conversation in general?

2026-03-21 23:21:05 UTC

Think through this. Share this. Create this. Someone has the time. And someone will reap this harvest. I’m just creating thought experiments.
Picture this. A teacher publishes a full semester of physics lessons as long form articles on Nostr. Tagged by subject. Tagged by level. Available on every relay that carries the content. A parent in Montana discovers it. Her daughter works through the material over three months. The parent zaps the teacher directly. Lightning. Instant. Permissionless. Value moved from learner to educator with zero institutions in the middle.
The teacher builds reputation the same way everyone on Nostr builds reputation. Proof of work. Students who learn well and parents who see results send zaps. Teachers who produce nothing of value receive nothing. The market does what the school board was supposed to do but never actually did.
Curriculum lives on relays. Censorship resistant. A lesson on Austrian economics or sound money or constitutional history or theology stays published for as long as relays carry it. No content moderator. No terms of service review. No algorithm deciding your children should learn approved narratives instead of useful ones.
Student progress becomes a portfolio of cryptographic receipts. A teacher signs an event that says this student completed this course and demonstrated competence. That signature lives on Nostr permanently. Verifiable by anyone. Over time a collection of those signed completions from reputable teachers carries more weight than a diploma from an institution that graduated kids who still struggle to read.
Structure comes from Nostr lists. A teacher publishes a sequence. Start here. Then this. Then this. Parents and students follow the path like a curriculum map. Communities on Nostr function as classrooms. A cohort of students and a teacher gather around a shared subject. Discussion happens in the open. Questions get answered where everyone benefits from the answer.
And Bitcoin funds the entire operation. No bank can freeze your homeschool budget because you chose the wrong curriculum. No state can defund a teacher because the lesson plan made someone in an office uncomfortable. You stack sats. You deploy them toward your children’s education. Nobody gets a vote except you and the teacher you chose.
The brilliant part is what this does to geography. A master teacher in Buenos Aires can teach your kid calculus and receive payment in seconds. A theologian in rural Tennessee can publish a course that reaches families in Europe. The talent pool becomes global overnight. Quality rises because competition is open and payment follows performance.
There are real challenges. Quality control in a permissionless system takes time. Reputation has to mature organically. Early adopters would carry the burden of curation. Mainstream credential recognition is a friction point for families who still interface with legacy institutions. Video and heavy media still need external hosting because relays handle text better than large files. Discoverability requires search and filtering tools that somebody has to build.
All true. All solvable. And none of it is harder than the problem we already have, which is an entire generation processed through a compliance machine that teaches them what to think instead of how to think.
The infrastructure is mostly here. Nostr handles publishing, identity, payments, and content organization already. What is missing is the education layer on top. The client that makes it feel like a school instead of a feed. The tagging system that lets a parent find exactly the right math course for an eight year old. The teacher dashboard that makes publishing curriculum as simple as writing a long form post.
Someone is going to build this. Probably multiple someones. The protocol is ready. The payment rails exist. The families are already looking for the exit.
The state spent 180 years building an education system that serves the state. The replacement will be built by parents and teachers who serve each other directly. Funded in sats. Published on relays. Verified by cryptography. Controlled by nobody.
The extraction is already in progress.

2026-03-21 23:16:13 UTC

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I think it’s with primals update

2026-03-21 22:46:07 UTC

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Can’t webmaster created it for android only. Want to though

2026-03-21 22:41:54 UTC

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It usually does. I think it’s client side not wallet

2026-03-21 22:39:35 UTC

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Maybe primals new wallet and client update messed something up

2026-03-21 22:33:58 UTC

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What happened to you?

2026-03-21 22:33:31 UTC

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Precisely. This is what I ultimately was trying to solve.

2026-03-21 22:32:47 UTC

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Nope. It seems when I switched back to primal to check something out, it reverted me back to their wallet even though it showed my NWC as rizful. I disconnected and reconnected and it worked. Idk

2026-03-21 22:25:12 UTC

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Exactly. Spend to interact and the noise drops. I agree.
The gap is portability. Your filter works for you. But a new user has no stake history, no zap graph, no signal. They start cold.
Staked vouching closes that. A trusted npub locks sats to vouch for a new one. The new user inherits signal from day one. Onboarding becomes a trust transfer.

2026-03-21 22:13:03 UTC

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True. The fix has to make bad behavior expensive.
Staked vouching? You lock sats to vouch for an NPUB. The stake is the signal. If the NPUB you backed rugs, your stake takes a hit. No centralized arbiter. No custom client logic. Just a relay native event any client can read.
Sats are already the universal signal on Nostr. This just puts them to work as a trust layer.
One NIP could anchor the fragmented WoT problem and give every client a shared primitive to build on. idk

2026-03-21 22:03:43 UTC

The problem is simple. There is no cost to being a bad actor on Nostr.
NPUBs are free. Sock puppets are free. Bots are free. Fake social proof is free. You can flood relays, manufacture reputation, scam new users, and disappear with zero economic consequence. The only friction is social and social friction on a pseudonymous protocol is nearly zero.

2026-03-21 21:51:54 UTC

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The real question is who builds the one where gaming it costs money. I think there are a few threads worth pulling…
What’s the minimum zap threshold that makes sock puppets economically irrational? Too low and it’s gameable. Too high and you’ve excluded users who haven’t stacked yet.
Should ratings be bidirectional? Creators rating audience engagement quality opens a different use case. Builders filter collaborators. Merchants flag bad faith buyers.
What happens when a high rated NPUB gets compromised or sold? Key rotation exists but social graph continuity is fragile. Reputation portability is unsolved.
There’s a client politics problem too. Primal, Damus, and Coracle all have different WoT implementations. A reputation NIP that one client renders and another ignores creates fragmented signal. Buy in has to come before it means anything at scale.
The version that actually works probably looks les like Yelp and more like staked escrow. You lock sats to vouch for an NPUB. If they rug, your stake takes a hit. Aligned incentives without a centralized arbiter.
This is a conversation worth having I think.

2026-03-21 21:43:43 UTC

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Rebellion is in your DNA.

2026-03-21 21:36:41 UTC

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I don’t think so. I’ll have to go double check. Super weird

2026-03-21 21:31:16 UTC

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2026-03-21 21:29:46 UTC

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I removed it and reconnected to rizful. I think it worked

2026-03-21 21:24:49 UTC

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Thats weird 👇🏻
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2026-03-21 21:22:11 UTC

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Let me check

2026-03-21 21:07:51 UTC

Anyone have trouble seeing received zaps in their rizful wallet @npub1jlu…p2kq
I’ve had zaps on some notes that aren’t appearing in the wallet. #asknostr

2026-03-21 20:39:26 UTC

Your reputation on Nostr isn’t what you say about yourself.

2026-03-21 19:40:26 UTC

Romans 13 is not a call to passivity. It is a theology of legitimate authority. Paul calls the magistrate God’s servant. The civil ruler holds a sacred charge whether he knows it or not.
Christ was not a conqueror by Rome’s definition. He is still King of Kings. Every knee bends to Him including Caesar’s. Servant leadership is still leadership. He washed feet and then said follow my example. He commanded constantly.
The dominion mandate in Genesis 1 was never revoked. The Christian man who builds nothing and leads no one is not modeling Christ’s humility. He is modeling Adam’s passivity. That is what broke the world.
Lead your household first. Then your church. Then your community. The man who can govern and refuses will answer for that too.
#nevent1q…fd08

2026-03-21 19:28:09 UTC

Clarity is a courtesy extended to an audience that has demonstrated good faith. It is not owed to people who have already decided what you mean before you finish the sentence.

2026-03-21 17:25:08 UTC

The government claims peace, when there is no peace!
“When There Is No Peace”
https://wavlake.com/track/73fa5925-4ec5-4b87-b951-da3a71c85052

2026-03-21 15:39:57 UTC

A society that cares about children and a government that does not cannot both survive.
History is not ambiguous on this. Every civilization that handed child formation to the state eventually stopped producing the kind of people who could hold it together.
The collapse is not coming.
It is the process you are already inside.
Unless the society remembers it never needed permission.

2026-03-21 15:31:06 UTC

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Classic

2026-03-21 14:57:36 UTC

For the legend. Gm Nostr
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2026-03-21 14:47:10 UTC

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Gm Derek 🤙🟣🟠

2026-03-20 14:45:53 UTC

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This is what I’m talking about

2026-03-20 14:44:39 UTC

Gm.
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2026-03-20 14:41:52 UTC

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Will do. Thanks team

2026-03-20 14:31:59 UTC

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SoCal

2026-03-20 05:30:09 UTC

This note is a reminder to myself and anyone else that needs it.
CHRIST IS KING

2026-03-19 21:11:45 UTC

104 degrees in March. WTF!
Geo Engineering?

2026-03-19 20:29:00 UTC

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🔥

2026-03-19 20:20:16 UTC

The fastest way to soften a man is to make sure he never has to carry anything. No weight, no God, no code, no consequence.
What’s left isn’t a man. It’s a consumer. And consumers are easy to manage.

2026-03-19 20:02:47 UTC

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The song was made for @nprofile…fugu awhile back

2026-03-19 20:02:24 UTC

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Lyrics are yes. I use Logic Pro for the mixing

2026-03-19 19:58:05 UTC

The bots found Nostr. Which means the humans who built this place have a choice to make.

2026-03-19 17:35:48 UTC

Contra systema. The system needs its dissidents more than it admits. Every tool it builds to contain us ends up being the thing we use to route around it. Nostr is proof