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2026-03-11 11:50:07 UTC

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another example of philosophy flip-flopping (caveat: Core isnt a monolith -- different contributors now) are the comments Core made on compact block filters.
when compact block filters was announced it was to announce to miners/pools to implement them in order to more closely align with the p2p network. at the time fees were elevated, as some exchanges and pools were stuffing blocks (perhaps to make an argument for big blocks). "follow the <compact block filters> p2p network or risk your blocks being orphaned".
this got turned on its head with the OP_Return PR. "node's compact block filters should follow what the miners are mining"
i think those that throw the word gaslighting around Core proponents is because they arent goldfish 🧐

2026-03-10 04:15:55 UTC

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i made beef curry with weed butter before.
i think sweets make it easier to hide the weed taste, i personally enjoy it enough but i can see why people wouldn't. theres also the convenience factor of munching on some cookies or brownies vs eating a whole entree to get high

2026-03-05 05:05:02 UTC

ahh i cant choose only 9 🫠
https://image.nostr.build/ce972666896fe3701f3b88c85e81fdaa979ce727729b55ddb54190511872216a.jpg

2026-03-03 05:18:47 UTC

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praise kier 😂
the wait for season 2 was painful, while i want to know what happens next i wouldnt mind if they stopped at 2 and let the internet's imagination run wild obsessing over every frame forever

2026-03-03 04:36:23 UTC

it's that time of year again. lantern festival is the 15th day of Spring Festival/Lunar New Year to celebrate the end of festivities
https://youtu.be/yO-FZkJA1bE
another lantern festival tradition we have in taiwan is the "bombing of han dan" in taitung rather than shooting fireworks at the public like in yansui/tainan, this one parades a brave volunteer that is stripped naked into a bunch of fireworks. goggles and a towel for safety 😰
taiwanese people are weird, enjoy some tang yuans 🥳
#nevent1q…mfq9

2026-03-01 00:18:20 UTC

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thats made up unquantifiable bullshit 😅

2026-02-28 00:56:35 UTC

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unspendable dust like inscriptions shouldnt need help to relay across the network then and transactions containing arbitrary data should be minimized not expanded
those transactions dont help me receive more sats 🧐

2026-02-28 00:39:24 UTC

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turned 40 this year 🫠🫠

2026-02-25 05:48:44 UTC

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imagine if users chose to accept the argument that malleable transactions of being a "consensus-valid use case", there wouldnt be lightning and nostr zaps 🥲

2026-02-21 17:52:37 UTC

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nodes only follow one chain 🤷
2 chains is a great rapper tho

2026-02-21 17:37:11 UTC

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nope, not a hardfork. bip110 uses existing consensus rules rather than adding new ones making it compatible with all nodes on the network
nodes that enforce bip110 would not ever see the offending block as valid, making the enforcing node only ever compatible with one side of the chainsplit.
nodes that dont enforce bip110 remain compatible with both , but only one side of the chainsplit carrying perpetual wipeout risk. both sides of the chainsplit ultimately cant coexist without a hard fork present
a hardfork would explicitly reject bip110 blocks which would be adding a rule.

2026-02-21 16:25:58 UTC

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nothing pedantic about it, bet all you want, that's not a hard fork

2026-02-21 15:13:05 UTC

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remarking imaginary chainsplit scenarios as "reckless" without expending any effort quantify-ing said risk is intellectually lazy.
feel free to avoid hypocrisy by voicing support for a ursf/hardfork instead

2026-02-21 15:01:49 UTC

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its a soft fork because all current versions of Bitcoin remain compatible with bip110 blocks as it is using exisiting consensus rules and not adding new ones
fun fact: a ursf contrary to it's name is a hard fork 🤓

2026-02-08 06:01:01 UTC

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the wipeout risk is there for non-upgraded nodes because the difficulty adjustment still exists
i believe any scenario is far from certain and bip110 doesnt present any harm

2026-02-08 05:55:25 UTC

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ultimately without a coinciding ursf to bip110, the chainsplits cannot coexist.
its just the same utxo set.
functionally, you're not going to be able to interact with the network(s) properly as there would exist no mechanism to prevent your tx to not replay on all networks.
the idea that a stalled bip110 attempt creates an opportunity for proponents to forward bitcoins to detractors is wishful thinking 😅 or possibly pure avarice

2026-02-08 05:41:01 UTC

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its not, bip110 blocks remain compatible with exisiting nodes on the network which is why there exist the possibility of wipeout (however small). the wipeout risk wouldnt be solved without a solution like your checkpoint, which is a forced upgrade.
ursf to bip110 isnt a softfork

2026-02-08 03:20:09 UTC

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im pretty sure chinese teacups have no handles because of their generally smaller size and unique shape which makes handles unnecessary.
non-fermented tea (green tea) lightly fermented teas (oolongs, aged white teas) are often brewed at higher too-hot-to-handle temperatures 90c-95c which some choose to enjoy at to get the full spectrum of flavor.
the design of a good tea cup have thin flared edges for faster heat dissipation which isnt present in coffee mugs or western tea cups. there's also a specific "three point grip" to enjoy freshly brewed tea.
so chinese tea cup is less about teaching patience, more so teaching how to enjoy tea properly using physics 😂

2026-02-08 00:17:14 UTC

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your simple checkpoint doesnt address the older nodes on the network from re-org risk which would be a forced upgrade. checkpoints to invalidate valid chain(s) of blocks would be a hard fork

2026-02-07 23:58:31 UTC

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there wont be any bip110 coins though 😅 thats not how soft forks work
your scenario of "forking off" happens if theres a coinciding ursf, which contrary to its name is a hard fork

2026-01-31 22:21:05 UTC

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stability to who? chainsplit is a non-issue unless theres a coinciding ursf

2026-01-29 16:29:42 UTC

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are there less bugs/pests up there too?🤔
random tea fact: in taiwan tea leaves grown at higher elevations are sought after because the leaves are more nutrient dense from growing slower, but there is specialized tea called oriental beauty (東方美人) which despite grown at lower altitudes holds high demand because it undergoes additional natural fermentation with bugs that feed off them leaving compounds that make the tea unusually sweet on top of the fermentation-drying process in oolong tea 🤓

2026-01-29 15:39:25 UTC

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do grapes grow slower at higher elevations like tea or coffee? 🤔

2026-01-24 15:43:36 UTC

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best of best i think breaking bad and better call saul as one is hard to beat
so many good responses, not sure what to add
the good place (2016) i think is a fun time

2026-01-17 15:57:10 UTC

every now and then podcasts i listen to say something along the lines of "the PRC will take Taiwan" 🙄
at least get them to try kinmen first, sheesh
whatever opinions, do come visit often 🇹🇼

2026-01-11 04:03:07 UTC

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i keep reminding mine: "your resistance is futile buddy 🤣"

2026-01-10 03:27:20 UTC

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in taiwan us stocks and etfs arent available directly either
only through brokers upon brokers in a various network of off-shore entities (cayman, sychelles, island of man, BVI etc) often only interacting with markets in hong kong or singapore rather than wall street

2025-12-15 02:15:05 UTC

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https://img.tarounagi.tw/blossm/2ef89ffe3d0b8e27cadceb580d61e2a32cae706f21967cf005fa08f603cfa564.jpeg
🤤🤤

2025-12-15 02:02:52 UTC

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it's just vibrating magnets, dont overthink it. save your money, ears dont pick up what your eyes see on graphs 👀

2025-12-14 10:01:55 UTC

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Nixon

2025-12-14 07:48:36 UTC

finally getting chilly, guess crab season is coming to an end 🥲
next up mullet roe season (烏魚子), still nothing at the local markets but any day now 👀

2025-12-13 08:17:56 UTC

someone please orange pill nas 😭😮‍💨

2025-12-06 06:05:27 UTC

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君子喻於義，小人喻於利
confucious say the focus isnt on the trophies (what is profitable; the risk/reward result of scamming), gentlemen/scholars consider what is <morally> right 🤓

2025-11-25 09:54:40 UTC

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this pack is missing infinite pizza slices 🤣

2025-11-18 12:12:48 UTC

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reading a book while high is pretty fun 😎
when it comes to fiction my imagination is pretty crap compared to when i get a little toasted, makes it a lot more fun.

2025-11-15 05:18:46 UTC

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where to find the volume settings on these things 😩

2025-11-11 09:06:52 UTC

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i dont disagree, but i think its relevant to point out that before getting used to the other units (i.e. mBTC or μBTC) werent there early users who felt Bitcoin should just shift the decimal points over time 👀
reminded me of: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=13144.0
"sats the standard" came much later

2025-11-08 10:28:20 UTC

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i wouldnt mind a new half life

2025-11-08 08:36:12 UTC

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https://img.tarounagi.tw/blossm/b4713b1d86da543e3a8b5f41ddcaa435887884393408248739e71b7e32913b1a.jpg
😋😋😋😋

2025-11-08 08:27:27 UTC

today drove out to miaoli, taiwan where they farm mitten crabs. mostly known as a delicacy in shanghai cuisine, these crabs were mostly known to be from the jiangsu province in china
https://img.tarounagi.tw/blossm/8cc5bfc9645acdbc32b840afa7fc5f3917c7513dd6cface7f11e076e49152ab4.jpg
mitten crabs mature in seawater and spawned in freshwater. during the fall months the mature crabs make their way back to where they come from.
taiwan has it's native hairy crab species, but for a couple decades the entrepreneurs in miaoli decided to farm the more sought species from across the strait.
https://img.tarounagi.tw/blossm/1c0b12d214b7c4207219b8e272161ba028e3354839c1acf19f4c859133852558.jpg
up until this year ive only bought these at markets and for most of my life only had these crabs in fancy restaurants. fun to enjoy food where it is being produced 🦀

2025-10-30 08:56:22 UTC

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be careful 👀
https://youtu.be/D3U55usfJK8

2025-10-22 16:51:00 UTC

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i was on a cooking book binge awhile ago. i learned a lot from a book called "ratio" (ruhlman) which i have saved as an epub on my phone along with others from libgen.
instead of looking up recipes from search engines which are almost always terrible slop, i search the book(s) instead and keep digital bookmarks 🤓

2025-10-19 06:06:33 UTC

woke up early to head to yehliu fishing harbor to bring home 16 rock crabs for 31,000 sats 🤤
https://img.tarounagi.tw/blossm/670e6d7ad10d4297f1105baf304aa2a2b3c5c1418c6c178d2cb24ef29ea1dc50.jpg

2025-10-13 13:44:55 UTC

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in the core vs knots context, datacarrier encompasses more transactions in Knots than Core
in the only-looking at core v30 context, datacarrier now allows multiple outputs instead of one to be treated as standard transactions to relay across the network as unconfirmed transactions (among peers that also acknowledge those new standard rules)

2025-10-13 13:41:08 UTC

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if you feel a way about the spam, take the time to learn how to apply the patches
it's good homework 🥳

2025-10-13 02:16:13 UTC

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im referring to the code comment change to datacarrier in v26 which limits datacarrier to outputs (meaning input-styled arbitrary data storage schemes like inscriptions would not be in scope)
on another note, v29.1 has the minrelay fee changes (reduced from 1 to .1) backported

2025-10-13 01:10:19 UTC

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so users should just stomach the datacarrier code comment changes in exchange for security patches?
what if users simply dont want to relay garbage (inscriptions, stamps, large op_returns, etc) as unconfirmed transactions to their peers? shit out of luck?

2025-10-12 10:20:50 UTC

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i wonder how they prepare crab there 🤔
my only reference is a lobster platter i had in baja california, mexico like a decade ago that came with beans, tortilla, and salsa

2025-10-11 17:03:22 UTC

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depends on the crab.
these freshwater mitten crabs are mostly farmed, its sustainability comes down to economics as mitten crabs technically are invasive to Taiwan (taiwan has its own native species of hairy crabs 毛蟹 so ecological damage is somewhat limited)
ocean crabs have size requirements to meet and there are harvest quotas throughout the year -- there are even times out of the year where females aren't sold
🤓
...and then theres imported seafood

2025-10-11 16:17:06 UTC

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of course! they're delicious 🤤

2025-10-11 14:24:12 UTC

it's crab season again 🥳
this time of year has mitten crabs filled with eggs, better escort them with some meat-filled mud crabs
~181,000 sats
https://img.tarounagi.tw/blossm/91a1093c71a69631e0169442682c79912f7eebec5e8c73f3047e5e12d202c54d.jpg

2025-10-08 06:40:29 UTC

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14 out of 72 now 👀
fluctuates but certainly more than before

2025-10-03 12:40:46 UTC

alice in borderland s3 is so bad 🤮🤮 it's a shame because s1 and s2 i thought were decent adaptations of the manga
the manga still had the whole RETRY arc left, why did netflix have to come up with their own nonsense 🥲

2025-10-01 08:23:53 UTC

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it would appear the set of things that could bring this metaphorical locamotive to a standstill is null 🤓

2025-09-25 05:52:19 UTC

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actually even worse, merely making a suggestion of how nodes could set their own policy is "distributed authoritarianism" because it may discourage consenting 3rd parties from transacting 🤨

2025-09-25 05:37:44 UTC

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from the mailing list: enabling nodes to set their node policy is apparently "distributed authoritarianism"

2025-09-23 07:41:22 UTC

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whats the internet speed like?

2025-09-21 09:45:39 UTC

it's not quite crab season, but couldnt resist 🦀
https://img.tarounagi.tw/blossm/499886efbf0e381b4523de9d47bbb8b985b2f7e64ad0a3f36e714ecdf82f3101.jpg
went to grab a pair of all-season mud crabs for 22,000 sats 😋

2025-09-20 05:35:45 UTC

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are mempool policy descisions made at the edges (by individual nodes) or by devs
mempool policy refers to what unconfirmed transactions are validated and relayed to peers
descisions consist of expanding/contracting existing policy rules, or removing them outright

2025-09-18 23:39:53 UTC

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thats what i set my ac to 🤨

2025-09-05 08:42:58 UTC

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when rewatching breaking bad as bitcoin goes higher and higher, it starts to make the show into a comedy
still excellent

2025-09-05 08:40:52 UTC

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millennium actress

2025-09-03 13:45:00 UTC

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huh?

2025-09-03 13:09:40 UTC

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as much as im not a fan of v30, this is incorrect, storage demands will remain the same because of block limits, the changes to default values in policy don't affect consensus

2025-08-26 05:16:20 UTC

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158,058

2025-08-21 14:29:57 UTC

filters work (Core w/ PR28408 compared to mempool-space today ). What nodes choose to pass on to peers is none of anyone's business, nodes have always been able to come into consensus despite not sharing policy.
spam ad nauseum aside, nodes hear about transactions at different times by design and it shouldnt be expected that nodes must relay the same transactions either.
the detriment to block propagation from a network with diverse policy has always been on the nodes which choose to propagate junk that others do not. Seeeing how there's no requirement that other nodes must participate in propagating compact blocks, the best course of action for the nefarious actors is to mine the blocks first (or pay someone to do it for them -oob-). Forcing this behaviour isn't a centralizing force to miners, it's normal incentives; if they want to push their luck, go for it. Nodes have all the reason to utilize any tools to make their odds suck a little harder.
when I see that mempool-space is so different than my own instance, im reminded of clicking through block explorers back in 2016 when mining pools were stuffing transactions to fill up blocks jacking up fee rates for years. "I should take running a node more seriously"
https://img.tarounagi.tw/blossm/e6eb86984d37d1bddf3ffede291927fe7a5c5f337ce7d0509617191b782175a9.png

2025-08-20 04:04:28 UTC

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i can confirm this anecdotally, i usually have anywhere between 2-6 knots peers on my node, i see them much more frequently then lets say last year 😎

2025-08-15 03:39:05 UTC

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paper bitcoiners that pay paper money for blue checks and permission to communicate and receive unsolicited nonsense 🙂‍↔️

2025-08-11 05:58:51 UTC

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noscl 🤓

2025-08-11 05:57:03 UTC

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nostr-tools? 🤔

2025-08-04 07:06:22 UTC

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haptics can help with that, it's just sad that every app trying to be a remote (which all kinda suck) has to be an ad serving service too in order to be successful
id vibe code something instead, but i fixed my remote already 😅

2025-08-04 05:52:49 UTC

tv remote was having some issues so i decided to use my phone as a stop gap for a few hours(most android/google TVs have a remote service)
every app on the playstore that uses this service is filled with ads. like, press a few buttons and an ad pops up (navigate too often? have an ad!) 😅 i run pihole/unbound so the ads never load, but makes me wonder how on earth does anyone tolerate apps like that

2025-07-29 11:35:46 UTC

the baby snake is learning how to roll around, occasionally bumping into things on my watch -- wife feels i dont coddle him enough:
"its no big deal, pressure makes diamonds 💎"
"oh please, you and i both know diamonds are worthless 💊🍊"

2025-07-29 02:33:08 UTC

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i understand this feeling 🫠 been playing for two decades with my dad and still dont know what im doing
cant tell if i actually got better or the man's just getting old

2025-07-24 00:27:23 UTC

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although wifi is not on the visible spectrum like many radio waves, the waves are directed, limited in structure, and certainly measurable 🤓
spirituality is great but to receive the energy, frequency, and vibrations of the greater universe you'd have to have the correct receiver(s) and process them too, and the human body is limited in its ability to process/receive many signals
meditation and drugs can only go so far 🤭 perhaps zen can be found through engineering

2025-07-22 02:04:50 UTC

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the orange turtle was always my favorite 🍕

2025-07-19 02:02:02 UTC

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wouldnt these angles make the phone fly vertical? this doesnt make sense 😅

2025-07-11 12:32:30 UTC

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host of the largest bitcoin podcast in the world 🤭
if only he took the time out of his schedule to go on tftc he could have been convinced to not sell his 🌽

2025-07-11 12:09:50 UTC

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sit on the floor! 😂

2025-07-11 07:00:55 UTC

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i managed to download this album so fast (i use yt-dlp monitoring releases on the Clipse YouTube Channel) that i got So Be It pt. 2 🤨
it's back to the original now 🥳

2025-07-11 04:16:53 UTC

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it's out!!! 🔥

2025-07-07 10:49:33 UTC

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it's pretty good
but.....
i rather let god sort them out 😏 (7/11)

2025-07-07 10:34:59 UTC

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he did the whole plottwist thing all while filing a lawsuit, then had conductor make him a track to whine about lebron
"the famous actor we once knew lookin' paranoid and now spiralin'😂"

2025-07-07 10:01:05 UTC

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he missed, the point 🤭
how does he go drop like a dozen songs/features + a collab album over the last year sneak dissing the whole time and be like "the haters dont bother me 🙂‍↔️"

2025-06-28 12:56:05 UTC

our baby snake is 4 months old today 🥳 TIL of a long-standing family tradition of 收涎, literally translated as "anti-drooling ceremony. the idea is that babies stop drooling when they grow up so everyone getting together to find ways to soak up all the baby's drool early should make them grow up faster.
https://img.tarounagi.tw/blossm/ea00a5ed1f0dab4edd6e0837b9ee22e2be1a099118544d353b1d85c85af54d6e.jpg
....so obviously one surrounds babies with cookies, breaking off pieces to soak up his drool 🤭
these traditions make no sense, but at least it's fun. the family goes around in circles and come up with funny rhymes.
收涎收乾乾，趕緊叫爸爸 (soak up all your drool, so you can start saying daddy)
收涎收灕灕，乎你聽話懂代誌 (soak up all your drool, so you'll behave and gain understanding)
this tradition is still practiced in Taiwan and Fujian province of China. some use fancy pastries, doughnuts, or cakes; we went for traditional cookies ~2500 sats

2025-06-24 04:20:41 UTC

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dot got me thinking about putting ginger root in my tea 😵