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2026-05-08 14:18:40 CEST

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very important

2026-05-08 04:08:30 CEST

i recommend re-reading some of those classic novels they assigned you in high school
they hit harder and are more comprehensible as a grown adult with mature life experience and a better vocabulary

2026-05-08 02:55:37 CEST

i just poked my head over there and man, linkedin is the worrrst https://npub1h2sfcqslrmsmrkchapkpmvqj9fr662jdeaftjyuma8kmfmdpcspsgazhwd.blossom.band/c4b2056d6ca6849b7976dab9ec982ee3da355d29c890117833b4d061425b93ee.gif

2026-05-07 15:23:02 CEST

anyone have one of these? https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-spark/

2026-05-05 05:01:59 CEST

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sure, 95% are not

2026-05-05 04:45:47 CEST

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i mean some core devs were absolutely the problem too

2026-05-05 03:05:54 CEST

y'all, important message:
have kids, it's awesome.
10/10, should have had one sooner

2026-05-02 04:54:16 CEST

i grew up being told 'patience is a virtue' and never really knew what it meant but wow, growing up you learn how rare and precious patience is among adults
most grown-ups are terrible at it lol

2026-05-01 23:24:20 CEST

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he had a based rant on mental health related drug use in young people and the harm of a medicalized society in that pod too

2026-04-30 14:08:20 CEST

same with money.
some people come of age during a deep depression or excessive inflation, others during a raging bull market or generational prosperity and cheap gas, and each grows older thinking they've learned how to save and invest.
Morgan Housel probably said it best: "Your personal experiences with money make up maybe 0.00000001% of what's happened in the world, but maybe 80% of how you think the world works."
#nevent1q…qnuk

2026-04-27 12:58:08 CEST

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that's a good book

2026-04-24 04:28:59 CEST

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which i weirdly respect actually

2026-04-24 04:07:21 CEST

i love animals. had turtles and lizards and snakes when i was little. always been a dog lover, had a dog as a kid. love all the dogs i see.
thought i hated cats because i never had one and was mildly allergic as a kid, but the neighbor's cat visits me now and she's super friendly and now i like cats. (also not allergic anymore)
i still own no pets. no desire either.
you can appreciate things without wanting to own them.

2026-04-15 18:01:09 CEST

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yikes

2026-04-15 04:13:14 CEST

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same!

2026-04-13 02:22:04 CEST

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oh. oh no

2026-04-13 01:28:26 CEST

what happened to Preston Pysh?

2026-04-10 17:37:54 CEST

been reading a lot of history lately and ngl i don't hate this timeline we're on
https://npub1h2sfcqslrmsmrkchapkpmvqj9fr662jdeaftjyuma8kmfmdpcspsgazhwd.blossom.band/46ba019ed5bce43da2442cac734f901f21347e1d1c939421ceb20821280cd829.jpg

2026-04-10 03:27:45 CEST

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zapped for Texas

2026-04-07 03:37:36 CEST

i will change my my mind if presented with new information that is incompatible with my previous opinion
i've learned that some people entrench themselves more deeply in their previous opinion to remain consistent and avoid embarrassment
fascinating

2026-04-03 14:40:55 CEST

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
—F.A. Hayek

2026-04-03 04:10:22 CEST

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💯

2026-04-02 21:26:26 CEST

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definitely trying this

2026-04-02 04:23:16 CEST

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Sound of Metal will knock you on your ass 👌

2026-04-02 02:33:09 CEST

i reject moral relativism
it's a vital component of my behavioral OS

2026-04-01 21:43:24 CEST

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what a reply, thank you!

2026-04-01 17:19:55 CEST

Bibles are an $80 million business
King James, American Standard, English Standard, New International, Christian Standard, New Living Translation, Good News Translation, Study Bibles, Revised Bibles...
which is the best Bible?

2026-03-31 18:50:05 CEST

https://npub1h2sfcqslrmsmrkchapkpmvqj9fr662jdeaftjyuma8kmfmdpcspsgazhwd.blossom.band/14b1c21507ea02d3b0e18254350bb730b05f5c83409133c5f213e94ec98a3fa3.jpg
#nevent1q…swsl

2026-03-31 14:46:55 CEST

from Alex Berg:
"When evaluating the claim of deep bag-biased Quantum agitpropagandists, it’s always more useful to look at what they are NOT telling you.
Recent claims suggest a Quantum computer using neutral atom arrays would require only (!) ~20,000 logical qubits to break Bitcoin.
What they tell you is that this is significant because researchers at Caltech recently demonstrated a 6000 (!) logical qubits array.
What they do NOT tell you is that those qubits weren’t not entangled, which is a requirement to run Shor’s algorithm.
So what is the state of the art in terms of actually entangled logical qubits under the neutral atoms architecture? NINETY SIX (96) qubits.
How long did they maintain coherence? 1-2 seconds.
How long did the new Oratomic paper suggest the algorithm they designed should run? DAYS!
So not only must state of the art in SIMPLE qubits entanglement increase more than 2 orders of magnitude, their ability to maintain coherence across circuit depth must be preserved ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND times longer than they currently do.
Suffice to say they have no idea how to even get there but that shouldn’t get in the way of a headline worthy paper!"
#nevent1q…swsl

2026-03-31 14:39:16 CEST

new quantum fud just dropped from google ✨ well, it's not deliberate fud but it has stoked unwarranted fear
still purely theoretical, they're just projecting progress to revise their predicted timeline as per usual. great marketing strategy to stay relevant in the news cycle.
plus most bitcoin is held in addresses where the public key isn't exposed (at least not until it's spent), so this theoretical achievement would only affect those reusing addresses.
anyway, it's not nothing but it's certainly not something
https://quantumai.google/static/site-assets/downloads/cryptocurrency-whitepaper.pdf

2026-03-28 15:57:35 CET

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i hope so too. i love the product but it's a shitty policy/ethos considering the category

2026-03-27 14:05:16 CET

https://image.nostr.build/7087afb3160d25847e50653c550daeabb4f70ecd88efa2775e5a3596163eaf2d.jpg

2026-03-27 00:31:48 CET

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any tips/suggestions? it's tradeoffs all the way down in trying to balance security with ease of use and not creating a complicated treasure hunt

2026-03-23 17:09:26 CET

"For me, there are two kinds of debts a person can incur. One kind is the material one, which can be seen and touched. It may be as small as a cup of sugar, or as large an amount of money as you can borrow. This has to be paid as soon as possible, so that your own good self-image and personal dignity will not be crushed by it.
The other kind of debt is a spiritual one. It is the one that spurs man to be better than he is, and somehow drives him to go beyond the call of need and duty. One should wear this kind of debt as a suit of shining armor. It can never be fully repaid, but you wish that it could be, with such compounded interest that it would be beyond the wealth of Midas.
I used to envy people who say, 'I don't owe anyone anything!' Now I only feel great pity for those people because they've cut themselves off from the world and human society. How lonely they must be!"
—from Jim Lee's Chinese Cookbook (1968) https://image.nostr.build/7c04d4e7e1a86c195f9591a3c61c2dd65401254aa69c2090de24dee02d6722b8.jpg

2026-03-21 13:26:10 CET

a lot of Longevity Experts™ i see appear to be lacking joyful effervescence and a charismatic lust for life, which strike me as important factors to ignore

2026-03-17 14:04:45 CET

In the long run, clarity about purpose will trump knowledge of activity-based costing, balanced scorecards, core competence, disruptive innovation, the four Ps, the five forces, and other key business theories we teach at Harvard.
—Clayton Christensen https://image.nostr.build/a6c9c80173ec8bd9e78a8851bfd613b9992e8412a856ba212527821fac5af07f.jpg

2026-03-12 20:53:30 CET

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this is funny

2026-03-08 14:58:45 CET

The weak wish to be dependent in order to be protected: those who fear men love the laws.
—Vauvenargues

2026-03-06 14:30:15 CET

idk if the whole iran thing was meant to make people forget about epstein but it's not working
gm

2026-03-03 04:57:50 CET

"i'm so productive"
YES BUT WHAT ARE YOU PRODUCING

2026-03-02 15:26:25 CET

gm https://image.nostr.build/6aeec26b883fe65e5f3697c6732343a5e93a9364cd4348afe8a2a341cd9d5ac1.jpg

2026-03-02 00:24:09 CET

my agent is attending Lobster University every day starting now
@nprofile…xnfk created a liberal arts education for ai and it is great: https://fcf2af38.clawi.ai/lobster-university/

2026-03-01 16:08:41 CET

pay for goods with bear market bitcoin so the businesses you love get to enjoy the future upside ✨ https://image.nostr.build/ae4f6c0bfcb095d54f07c34579bbe279a8c54f89c56dcd3397e7c6cb18946c2c.jpg

2026-02-28 16:50:10 CET

it's 9:50am and the pool temp is 80 degrees Fahrenheit
get in losers we're gratitude-maxxing ✨ https://image.nostr.build/88c2d1af50e1210f7e160514a1147bb8d2a026a7c7ffe61b125913afa63d2a8c.jpg

2026-02-27 23:12:22 CET

i know y'all are crazy for chemtrails but friday night in Austin, Texas is 👌 https://video.nostr.build/41d55d9b8018ae43efb6d61e3aadf223f9e4cd067c3e62ac28d357992bd53eaa.mp4

2026-02-27 14:54:27 CET

https://image.nostr.build/d2b4b3950c63941bce9c601c61678a0836ed6dbf7e4442fdc96e707199cf08c9.jpg

2026-02-27 14:22:19 CET

there is a concerted effort going on to convince you to hate yourself, hate your country, and hate those who have more stuff than you
i will speak for myself: it's not working https://image.nostr.build/7ccb09526f7920db8fe4ff8025197b9748671dfc6e3baf48c95e6631eacd5566.jpg

2026-02-27 13:52:48 CET

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i become a dad in a couple weeks if not sooner. good reminder!

2026-02-27 13:36:12 CET

i'm getting really into chess. what stage life crisis is this.
gm

2026-02-26 13:48:01 CET

"This is what makes the ethanol and biofuel boondoggle so enraging. Not even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that – in a world where species are vanishing and more than a billion people are barely able to afford to eat – it would somehow be good for the planet to clear rainforests to grow palm oil, or give up food-crop land to grow biofuels, solely so that people could burn fuel derived from carbohydrate rather than hydrocarbons in their cars, thus driving up the price of food for the poor. Ludicrous is too weak a word for this heinous crime."
—Matt Ridley, from The Rational Optimist (2011)

2026-02-24 13:49:13 CET

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zapped for this high quality take

2026-02-24 13:35:25 CET

to my friends up north: you do not need to live like that
https://blossom.primal.net/acec52aa227e8ca63786a1dfd4b216987e6a7a8087d5f7435fe4e29dd2b90298.jpg

2026-02-22 16:41:36 CET

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oh agreed, i'm fine with it i just find it interesting

2026-02-22 15:19:48 CET

women's ice hockey prohibits fighting & body checks, and makes full cage masks mandatory
the difference this makes in gameplay is massive
also a nice reminder that culturally we are ok with men getting injured

2026-02-22 14:37:13 CET

"This mental attitude is our personality and is composed of the thoughts which we have been creating in our own mind; therefore, if we wish a change in conditions all that is necessary is to change our thought; this will in turn change our mental attitude, which will in turn change our personality, which will in turn change the persons, things and conditions, or, the experiences with which we meet in life."
—Charles F. Haanel, from The Master Key System

2026-02-22 03:15:19 CET

the Roman Empire has no shortage of stories... https://blossom.primal.net/6e6935d77c988d0a456bcf7ab96b99c0944ec8ab8b19d429a49ac6749e022ee0.jpg

2026-02-22 03:13:39 CET

the Roman Empire has no shortage of materi

2026-02-21 15:29:32 CET

is this your king?! https://blossom.primal.net/850bc9cd76c65a02f08a23a63c88a3fccd65d2a7eeee40ddc5e6f0fe795b8f85.jpg

2026-02-20 14:02:52 CET

"The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool."
—William Bolitho, author of Twelve Against the Gods

2026-02-17 02:57:25 CET

uber driver is listening to the Nickelback album 'All The Right Reasons' start to finish
amazing

2026-02-16 04:57:05 CET

i'm running PicoClaw and can confirm that it is great
ultra-lightweight refactor of openclaw in Go to use 99% less memory. also much, much more secure out of the box.
https://github.com/sipeed/picoclaw

2026-02-15 14:17:49 CET

"The role of war in advanced societies now lies elsewhere. Twenty-four-hour news media generate a chronic state of low-intensity anxiety together with a tranquillizing sense of security. Shaping a perception of the world as endemically dangerous, a landscape of terror can be projected anywhere via television screens, laptops and mobile devices. This landscape frames the view of the world, while those who inhabit it are enclosed in a zone of safety. More than on any other single factor, the stability of advanced societies depends on how perceptions are shaped by the media"
—from The Soul of the Marionette, by John D. Gray
https://blossom.primal.net/97d6837e394de09821fbecf037178538aaaf762b8f7cec4a39c7cec075d2d37a.jpg

2026-02-13 14:50:31 CET

The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.
—Friedrich Nietzsche

2026-02-12 00:18:38 CET

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now we're talkin

2026-02-11 13:03:51 CET

"well we haven't actually SEEN a black hole, it's all data and calculations based on information captured by sensors"
"i don't like being dependent on these car backup cameras, we should be used to looking around on our own"
people i know have said these two things
they think seeing has something to do with our eyes when it's is actually something our brain does. sight is what your brain says information looks like. our eyes have limited sensing capability, but we can extend those senses with devices that can perceive and process more, and different, information for us to receive. senses are extensible. in the end it's all information.
mostly, though, i think many people like to embrace human limitations because it lowers expectations and creates an excuse to live a simple, low-agency life.

2026-02-11 00:12:17 CET

What makes humanity awesome and culture a great adventure is not our own saying so, but our questioning everything.
—André Malraux

2026-02-09 02:06:08 CET

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trash, and wasted my time. so you can't get them for false advertising

2026-02-09 01:46:48 CET

i love how robot-pilled odell got after marty spun up a claw
lfg ✨
#nevent1q…vz5n

2026-02-09 00:24:10 CET

i fear dark shenanigans will be afoot while everyone is bread and circusing tonight for the super bowl

2026-02-08 14:09:28 CET

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
—Bruce Lee, from Tao of Jeet Kun Do

2026-02-05 15:09:10 CET

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fair tbh

2026-02-05 15:07:32 CET

seems obvious to me that Odell made an ai bot that posts "stay humble and stack sats" on twitter so he didn't technically return to the platform
i'm realizing others have not come to this conclusion yet 😅

2026-02-05 14:43:00 CET

without evil forces in the world there could be no heroes
don't lament the existence of demons, expect them
adversaries are invitations. calls to develop excellence, strength, and courage.

2026-02-05 14:14:12 CET

silver is going to zero
do you see how stupid that sounds? https://image.nostr.build/3541a058bbdbcbc7eb248062b47d5be17fee4f50e5df2d6813bddba83bd5a020.jpg

2026-02-05 13:21:26 CET

important lesson regarding a penguin in a zoo in Norway from the book 'Dietrich Mateschitz: Wings for People and Ideas: Red Bull and Viktor Frankl’s search for meaning':
"I felt sorry for it: Do you have to wear that tuxedo? Where's your waist, then? And above all: Did God forget your knees? I had already reached my verdict: Faulty design. And then I took another look through the glass panel into the penguins' swimming pool. Suddenly 'my' penguin leapt into the water and swam right up to my face. Anyone who has ever seen penguins under water is simply speechless. It was in its element! A penguin is ten times more streamlined than a Porsche! With a liter of gas it would be able to travel the equivalent of over 2,500 kilometers! They are excellent swimmers and hunters, and they can dance in the water! And I thought: 'Faulty design!' ... We all have our strengths and our weaknesses. Many people try for ages to eliminate their weak points. If you improve your weaknesses you will be at best mediocre. But if you strengthen your strengths you will be unique. And those who are not like the others can take comfort: There are plenty of others! ... People only rarely succeed in changing themselves completely and fundamentally. If you were born a penguin, even seven years of psychotherapy will not turn you into a giraffe. So don't waste your time refusing to accept your fate: If you are a penguin, don't stay in the steppe. Take one small step at a time and find your water. And then: Jump in! And swim! And you will know what it means to be in your element."
https://image.nostr.build/656a06a6d4042dfbd72266cb80e11e32bb83ac8f5a73e1245196aa11fd99724b.jpg

2026-02-02 04:14:03 CET

i am not in any of the epstein files
this is now a flex

2026-02-01 16:12:49 CET

try to cultivate the habit of seeing circumstances as things happening for you, not to you

2026-02-01 16:03:08 CET

i remember this one podcast where saifedean compared it to 'iddqd', the original Doom god mode cheat
#nevent1q…8zu4

2026-02-01 06:27:54 CET

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i have that tallow ✨

2026-02-01 00:22:21 CET

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https://image.nostr.build/891795e93ffd049ed1cf22bc489e233efda43fcdfb9cae22ca9ac529e1376c01.gif

2026-02-01 00:18:11 CET

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this is good

2026-01-31 04:26:41 CET

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this is the correct list

2026-01-30 16:27:20 CET

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oh nice, this is exactly what she's looking for. thanks!

2026-01-30 15:18:06 CET

any suggestions gang?
also gm ✨ https://image.nostr.build/4e32b939ab44d3d1256e345a33e0787f439ffe12588c21d4f99ba8c0d4e9313f.jpg

2026-01-30 03:36:49 CET

i'm buying

2026-01-29 13:59:58 CET

no one seems to be bothered by the fact that you can't use gold to buy a cup of coffee, or that businesses don't accept it for payments
not stopping them from appreciating its monetary properties and price appreciation
fascinating

2026-01-29 04:38:06 CET

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yes, correct, but as a kid they were badass lol 🤘

2026-01-29 04:35:59 CET

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Sanderson's writing and producing so... Outlook Looks Good™

2026-01-28 12:36:36 CET

new midwit meme just dropped 😅
#nevent1q…6332

2026-01-27 13:44:28 CET

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die..."
—Daniel Burnham (Director of Works, Chicago World’s Fair, 1893)

2026-01-26 13:40:57 CET

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
—F.A. Hayek

2026-01-25 23:38:40 CET

wildly unpopular opinion apparently: i like saylor
so many people buy bitcoin and then do things with it that i wouldn't do. so what. it's freedom money, you can do and build whatever you want with it.
he loves bitcoin, that much is clear. and he's a multi-billionaire with hundreds/thousands of other considerations beyond loving bitcoin. i can see why he gets annoyed, and while i don't share his response or delivery i understand the rationale of the reaction.
i see what he's doing with Strategy. i see who it's for, and who it's not for. it's smart and bold, and more power to him. i don't know if it will work but i hope it does and best of luck.
there is a list of people i don't like, and a list of people i *really* don't like, and saylor's not on either.

2026-01-25 22:02:53 CET

i read Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854) well over a decade ago and just found a note i made with all my highlights
here you go:
//
"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion."
"But lo! men have become the tools of their tools."
"I mean that they should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end."
"Which would have advanced the most at the end of a month–the boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would be necessary for this–or the boy who had attended the lectures on metallurgy at the Institute in the meanwhile, and had received a Rodgers’ penknife from his father? Which would be most likely to cut his fingers?"
"As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs."
"a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."
"Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks."
"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand"
"I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter–we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications? To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea."
"Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written."
"A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips;–not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself. The symbol of an ancient man’s thought becomes a modern man’s speech."
"Yet I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any natural object, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still."
"I am no worshipper of Hygeia, who was the daughter of that old herb-doctor AEsculapius, and who is represented on monuments holding a serpent in one hand, and in the other a cup out of which the serpent sometimes drinks; but rather of Hebe, cup-bearer to Jupiter, who was the daughter of Juno and wild lettuce, and who had the power of restoring gods and men to the vigor of youth. She was probably the only thoroughly sound-conditioned, healthy, and robust young lady that ever walked the globe, and wherever she came it was spring."
"But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constant and imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result."
"and not till we are completely lost, or turned round–for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost–do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature."
"We should come home from far, from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day, with new experience and character."
"Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized."
"He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise."
"They suggest not merely the purity of infancy, but a wisdom clarified by experience."
"What I have observed of the pond is no less true in ethics. It is the law of average. Such a rule of the two diameters not only guides us toward the sun in the system and the heart in man, but draws lines through the length and breadth of the aggregate of a man’s particular daily behaviors and waves of life into his coves and inlets, and where they intersect will be the height or depth of his character. Perhaps we need only to know how his shores trend and his adjacent country or circumstances, to infer his depth and concealed bottom. If he is surrounded by mountainous circumstances, an Achillean shore, whose peaks overshadow and are reflected in his bosom, they suggest a corresponding depth in him. But a low and smooth shore proves him shallow on that side. In our bodies, a bold projecting brow falls off to and indicates a corresponding depth of thought."
"Why is it that a bucket of water soon becomes putrid, but frozen remains sweet forever? It is commonly said that this is the difference between the affections and the intellect."
"The earth is all alive and covered with papillae."
"Innumerable little streams overlap and interlace one with another, exhibiting a sort of hybrid product, which obeys half way the law of currents, and half way that of vegetation. As it flows it takes the forms of sappy leaves or vines, making heaps of pulpy sprays a foot or more in depth, and resembling, as you look down on them, the laciniated, lobed, and imbricated thalluses of some lichens; or you are reminded of coral, of leopard’s paws or birds’ feet, of brains or lungs or bowels, and excrements of all kinds."
"You find thus in the very sands an anticipation of the vegetable leaf. No wonder that the earth expresses itself outwardly in leaves, it so labors with the idea inwardly. The atoms have already learned this law, and are pregnant by it. The overhanging leaf sees here its prototype. Internally, whether in the globe or animal body, it is a moist thick lobe, a word especially applicable to the liver and lungs and the leaves of fat (jnai, labor, lapsus, to flow or slip downward, a lapsing; jiais, globus, lobe, globe; also lap, flap, and many other words)"
"What is man but a mass of thawing clay? The ball of the human finger is but a drop congealed. The fingers and toes flow to their extent from the thawing mass of the body. Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven? Is not the hand a spreading palm leaf with its lobes and veins?"
"As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.–"
"We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty. We loiter in winter while it is already spring. In a pleasant spring morning all men’s sins are forgiven. Such a day is a truce to vice."
"At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander."
"“Direct your eye right inward, and you’ll find"
"A thousand regions in your mind"
"Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be"
"Expert in home-cosmography.”"
"Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought."
"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
"Moreover, if you are restricted in your range by poverty, if you cannot buy books and newspapers, for instance, you are but confined to the most significant and vital experiences; you are compelled to deal with the material which yields the most sugar and the most starch. It is life near the bone where it is sweetest. You are defended from being a trifler. No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher. Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul."
"There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness."

2026-01-25 05:19:39 CET

false. they absolutely do ✨
#nevent1q…m70m

2026-01-25 02:52:03 CET

The secret of success is concentrating interest in life, interest in sports and good times, interest in your studies, interest in your fellow students, interest in the small things of nature, insects, birds, flowers, leaves, etc. In other words to be fully awake to everything about you & the more you learn the more you can appreciate & get a full measure of joy & happiness out of life.
—Jackson Pollock's dad, in a 1923 letter to his son

2026-01-25 00:13:24 CET

Boethius was a Roman senator, senior official, and philosopher of the Middle Ages, and he once recalled something Plato said in one of his Socratic dialogues, that
"only wise men can do what they desire, and the wicked men can do what pleases them but that that will not get them what they desire."
i think about this distinction all the time
he's describing the difference between feelings/intentions and outcomes/consequences.

2026-01-20 03:11:01 CET

today i vibe coded a simple mp3 player, like a streamlined winamp. no bells and whistles, no EQ (yet), just playback and playlist functionality. was tired of all the bloatware options out there.
the thing is i made it in less time than it would have likely taken me to search for and research and compare options to download
i don't think most people have caught on that, when it comes to software, making will soon be more convenient than taking

2026-01-18 22:20:01 CET

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no, it's because they don't have disposable income
classic sour grapes. "i know i can't afford to go out drinking but it's actually good cuz i don't even like that stuff anyway"
#nevent1q…ye3g

2026-01-18 21:22:39 CET

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dude this is cool

2026-01-18 21:15:40 CET

anon, this is your sign to finally statically assign some IPs and label your network devices
https://blossom.primal.net/ac36eee4ae19d9e37dd1ca5212c31898400e18585fd1207b9bb09546f9d631b1.jpg