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It went pretty well overall! I couldn't find a horizontal pressure tank so I ended up needing to replumb the whole setup (small blessing, maybe). My "associate" went into a bout of the less-pleasant alcoholism effects right in in the middle of working on it yesterday. He'd pretty much laid out a plan for what I needed to do by then, so I took him home and took over. I had leaks everywhere.
He came back today, a little less shaking and sick, to fix my work. I guess I did an okay job. All the screwy parts were loose and I only had 1 leak on the gluey parts.
I was much more intimidated by the brevity of "the main water line" than I needed to be. I fafo a lot, but important things still make me nervous 😅

2026-05-05 17:33:33 CEST

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🫂 thank you. You're probably right. Some lifestyles provide a different set of skillsets than others. 😅

2026-05-05 17:19:56 CEST

I am heading into day 2 of trying to replace my well pump, pressure tank, and all the puzzle pieces connecting everything... with zero experience and a drunk sidekick for assistance. 35 miles to the nearest hardware store. No big deal. 🫠
(This post is a slightly stress induced procrastination, if you can't tell.)

2026-05-05 07:16:44 CEST

State of the union...
https://cdn.satellite.earth/f0ece16f85705035aee7e25f002eb44c4a2a59615131280230097b94fe91f354.jpg
(That's the best pun I can conjur right now. I'm exhausted)

2026-05-05 07:05:04 CEST

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I'd assume the "slow and inconvenient" people don't do many wire transfers.

2026-05-05 07:02:46 CEST

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Don't answer that :)

2026-05-05 07:02:33 CEST

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Are you calling me a weirdo?

2026-05-04 07:30:56 CEST

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👀 https://penstroke.shakespeare.wtf/

2026-05-04 06:55:33 CEST

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Exploring clients is good 😊

2026-05-04 06:53:19 CEST

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There was a supporting character, but she wasn't so fond of having her picture taken.

2026-05-04 06:49:45 CEST

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Haha yeah, they are super easy to spot when they first emerge. Everyone has their own little tricks for getting the plants to throw more shoots & how to camouflage them from competing foragers. After a few seasons of picking, you learn what harms and what helps the plants and start acting as stewards of the sacred asparagi, spending half your time out there cleaning up other people's hack jobs 🤣

2026-05-04 06:43:10 CEST

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It mostly grows along drainage ditches & irrigation canals. Basically anywhere that is kind of rocky & well draining but still flush with water

2026-05-04 06:39:15 CEST

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It's one of my favorite spring activities. There is a patch just past the end of my usual walking route. I'll walk down, pick enough for dinner and walk home. It's so fun.

2026-05-03 23:07:37 CEST

I, too, did some foraging today. This is year 3 of documenting the return of the asparagi on Nostr https://cdn.satellite.earth/a233923a28df6b04799936f5fe021f1876693ed91cdc36f13696ea16a12fd565.jpg
#eatwild

2026-05-03 23:05:17 CEST

A short story...
https://cdn.satellite.earth/b64ce43c7156adb66c4967437cff353111ee52c11539484e384034d249a883ae.jpg

2026-05-03 15:36:51 CEST

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Yeah, but she's picky about everything. She won't eat cured meats (except bacon) or anything made with rabbit. She won't eat egg whites. Or banana. She likes large leaf herbs (and apparently lemongrass) but not things like thyme and oregano. She does eat regular grass and certain veggies

2026-05-03 15:34:53 CEST

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This one might be my fault. I've been experiencing all sorts of posting problems lately.

2026-05-03 06:08:09 CEST

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The most translucent agate of the day... https://cdn.satellite.earth/52f67d82494749e5b59fbb26acbbf30519565c14b4022962a0c2782579f21491.jpg

2026-05-03 05:07:58 CEST

...and herbs💜 (Whisper likes the lemongrass) https://cdn.satellite.earth/2aa364afeb2c223a9e1a574f50d81d48ee5d1bcaee9b8f2fe54b9bc728a3ef8a.jpg https://cdn.satellite.earth/eb6c65cfb2ddbee0bdbc85cb8714d6152eaf2932262092e04e42e41137f709db.jpg

2026-05-03 04:58:32 CEST

I found every color of jasper under the sun, some very nice agates. and most interestingly, basalt with calcified letters and numbers on it. It was my most unexpected find of the day. Finding yellow jasper is pretty neat, too. Arsenic and sulfur give it the yellow color. https://cdn.satellite.earth/79ee2c741439cffca158060b4c2d79af2e34c5715b1d0a13515054c3508082f2.jpg
https://cdn.satellite.earth/9c46753edf9b46595fd05aff1e963ecd9fd3434f3ecab23cde5739d6ef6e0ef7.jpg https://cdn.satellite.earth/c24874327dc979484b7e02dff71060e9960f018fb856ca555f07206840292900.jpg

2026-05-03 04:38:45 CEST

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It's been a beautiful day

2026-05-02 18:22:03 CEST

Hahaha I'm being punished for being online too much :) I'm gonna go for a lake walk and do some flower shopping... but I'll be back later, probably with pictures.

2026-05-02 18:03:51 CEST

Now that the pnw linuxfest is well done and over, I'm trying to shift attention to new users' notes for wss://spatia-arcana.com/spotlight . That was the initial intention for this experiment.
It's tricky for 1 person to do this with republishing. There are a lot of spam accounts, test keys, and the worst of "global", under the introductions hashtag. Not fun to browse.
If anyone happens to catch new user notes that seem legit, while browsing with Fevela, Jumble, x21, or ImWald... can you help me out by republishing them to this relay? Just add it to your "favorite relays" list, and it's simple to do from there. Click the 3dot menu on any note. You'll see the option. Click that, then choose wss://spatia-arcana.com/spotlight . Notes will then be sent to the queue for vetting.
Not everything will get accepted because I have PoW set at 1, but certain clients seem to produce that by happenstance pretty regularly (maybe it's intentional, I don't know).

2026-05-02 16:33:24 CEST

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Dang, ok. No worries! It will tell me in due time, so long as I keep it alive 😁

2026-05-02 16:13:38 CEST

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Sometimes they're links, sometimes they're slow to load. The slowness seems client agnostic on my side, but my download speeds are ridiculously low. And I think links are just an exasperated byproduct of the slowness. It's relatively new. Your images have usually loaded fine for me.

2026-05-02 15:51:10 CEST

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Is that why it's been so difficult to see your pictures lately?

2026-05-02 15:43:45 CEST

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No, I was rambling to myself... but here it is:
#naddr1qv…60pu

2026-05-02 15:34:32 CEST

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Which two emotions?

2026-05-02 06:35:49 CEST

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@npub1lwy…4zv0 do you have any idea what my mystery tree might be? Beyond thinking it might be a malformed but enthusiastic apple, I'm stumped ✨️

2026-05-02 04:32:24 CEST

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Yeah... chachi, habla, badges .page, and emojito are all 404

2026-05-02 04:29:18 CEST

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🤣 great show. 2nd best stream ever.

2026-05-02 04:16:24 CEST

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I think the next time I make ice cream, I'm going to tweak this recipe and substitute coffee for the tea and try to make some sort of cinnamon/ancho paste to swirl through it at the end 🤔

2026-05-02 04:13:18 CEST

The infamous earl grey dark chocolate ice cream... https://cdn.satellite.earth/df33506a12712b3e9ef8b7dfb747a2f8f523c0125c1499319d22577871d2c2c4.jpg
I'm never buying ice cream again 😅

2026-05-02 02:26:41 CEST

When I'm sitting on the ground, my dog will come up from behind and put her head over my shoulder, right next to the side of my face. She doesn't touch me or rest her chin on my shoulder or anything cute. She'll get close enough to feel warmth and maybe whiskers, then she just stands there like, "what are we looking at?" It's cute in its own way but also a little creepy.

2026-05-02 02:13:54 CEST

Transplanting mystery trees... https://cdn.satellite.earth/c8ec2d118f458c1fd17489c49815ab1300aca90bc2833edbaa3f55b7cfb7cae7.jpg

2026-05-01 03:54:40 CEST

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😅
https://zap.cooking/r/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzps3sahf5efwgxx9lgkf2cptvmcm4r8fetsysfsm758r9pw9dffcjqqvxymrpvd4j6ur9wpcx2u3dwp6k6urtd9hz6urfv54um36h

2026-05-01 03:18:38 CEST

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I don't think it's that simple.

2026-05-01 02:42:16 CEST

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That's fair and honest. It is probably the case for many who just don't feel comfortable saying it aloud.

2026-05-01 02:32:29 CEST

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This is awesome, nice work!

2026-05-01 02:23:11 CEST

Pumpkins are the first through this year.
https://cdn.satellite.earth/28f616012d10d0e96329c8990f6f48d68fe94b06d02d3f1cc2605c0545ff607d.jpg

2026-05-01 02:12:42 CEST

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I remember that. I sent you a few hand crafted ads 😁

2026-05-01 02:11:09 CEST

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True marketing & advertising people won't apply their skillset until they see an opportunity to make money off of someone else making money... so instead you have a bunch of users with varying degrees of marketing skills, attempting solo guerilla marketing. Some loose organizing among those willing to advocate for various apsects could amplify the impact. Trying this with a few people, in our own way. We'll see how it goes. 🤞

2026-04-30 22:50:52 CEST

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🫡 everyone should adopt a pet normie, to do their dirty work for them 😅

2026-04-30 15:26:00 CEST

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You 💯 should. There are others that post about vintage outfits too. I'm pretty sure that when more than 1 person starts talking about a topic, then communities get bootstrapped 😉

2026-04-30 04:23:00 CEST

https://a.nostr.build/p7dLsh1TFivbXoTt.mp3

2026-04-30 02:48:16 CEST

Everywhere. https://cdn.satellite.earth/7c101008a1b0cd75edf8b18c5a273847744ce0ce2b9840d92a97349a72049971.jpg

2026-04-29 03:19:33 CEST

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Wrong accent, oops 😅

2026-04-29 03:17:30 CEST

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It's in closed beta atm.
@nprofile…mfcz mind if I share access with zoè?

2026-04-29 03:13:29 CEST

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connect.nos.social .. i think it still works. I haven't tried in a long time.
xnostr.com ... I think that is x to nostr but, maybe it goes the other way too

2026-04-29 02:59:35 CEST

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🫡 better late than never

2026-04-29 02:31:07 CEST

https://youtu.be/cXlxCOoNZ7E

2026-04-29 02:19:43 CEST

Today, I used the sleekest long-form composer I've seen yet. I'm irrationally excited about that. 😊

2026-04-28 21:01:41 CEST

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Hey! It did work! Cool! Thank you, sir, and welcome to the Spatia-Arcana community!
Feel free to add wss://spatia-arcana.com to your public outbox and inbox lists, if you want.
(We also have a spam-free inbox available, but it doesn't fully work with Amethyst. There's a bunch of other stuff you can do, too. Feel free to explore. That homepage acts as a wayfinding guide to all sorts of cool nostr stuff, if you're feeling curious.)
I'll take your new member feedback to the appropriate place, so maybe we can find a way to convey instructions. Thank you so much for testing this with me!

2026-04-28 17:51:53 CEST

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Oh! Okay... the relay's homepage needs you to sign in so that it can identify you and add you to the member list. If you use amber, you can "create new nsecbunker" for the relay and copy/paste to sign in.
Then you can poke around the page amd see all the cool stuff you can do, if you want... or just add the wss: url to your client. It will work with any.

2026-04-28 17:41:59 CEST

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You can create your own chat group on spatia-arcana.com if you'd like. Members are able to do that. You can make it with different levels of privacy restrictions.
(Just keep in mind that I technically have access too, since I am the operator)

2026-04-28 13:19:23 CEST

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I believe it would go under public outbox relays on amethyst... but I haven't tried this at all, we're learning together 🤣💫

2026-04-28 03:42:58 CEST

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https://spatia-arcana.com/74eaa2632a0e7152ecbc2791c17416fabd80a86329554fb3b36c10b89c1c6791.jpg

2026-04-28 01:46:07 CEST

PropagandaFest is one of the best times to enjoy relay feeds...
wss://relays.land/spatianostra
wss://touchgrass.nostr1.com
wss://spatia-arcana.com/favorites wss://aquaticchickentheory.nostr1.com

2026-04-27 16:10:39 CEST

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I was a bit surprised by the lack of dehumanizing ideas, in a good way obviously. He's very considerate of all parties involved, which is pretty rare. I'm still reluctant to say it's a good approach since anything resembling red flag laws becomes a slippery slope very quickly. It was a good talk, though, I'm glad you accepted. Glad I listened lol

2026-04-27 15:57:23 CEST

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I don't know if there is a best solution to the problem his company is addressing but this was an interesting conversation. It's nice to know that someone out there is considering things more deeply than the surveillance state ever could.

2026-04-27 14:19:02 CEST

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Fun! I tried engraving runes on pebbles at one point, too. Maybe I should try again and add those to the menagerie.

2026-04-27 14:16:17 CEST

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Chertified vuggy crinoidal limestone 😅

2026-04-27 06:44:26 CEST

https://youtu.be/CTAud5O7Qqk?si=JEq8yKfHYVhsB0lc

2026-04-27 05:11:50 CEST

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I've never been keen on mining. That's a laborious and dangerous industry.
I really enjoy adventuring and searching my environment. Foraging, rockhounding, etc.

2026-04-27 05:01:01 CEST

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It's starting to get out of control. Almost every flat surface in my house is covered with fossils and crystals right now 😅 it's a mental illness.

2026-04-27 04:49:49 CEST

I should start an online rock shop and use it to fund a mobile roadside rock shop :)

2026-04-27 04:43:21 CEST

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Yeah, it's kinda crazy.... I recently found a new spot to fossil hunt & I've already scored some rarities.

2026-04-27 04:29:17 CEST

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I was reluctant to list all the geeky adjectives that make up this rock...
Chertified vuggy crinoidal limestone.

2026-04-27 04:25:34 CEST

https://spatia-arcana.com/d0e86fe8f528c53f83a22d0601a5fd71882c2a5ccf34299293c6b75c60da9662.jpg

2026-04-27 01:30:15 CEST

I just woke up from a hard nap. I had a dream that I was walking across a bridge, over a river. There was no sound except my footsteps, which echoed as if I was walking through a tunnel. Halfway across the bridge, I walked to the edge and looked down along the river bank. There were 3 red foxes, sitting in a row, on the side of the river where I had started. I turned to walk back, to get a closer look. The sound of my echoing footsteps scared them. All 3 jumped into the water and swam under the bridge. I ran to the other side in time to see them come out of the water and run into tall grass, in a line. I was watching the wavy pattern of moving grass when I woke up. #dreamstr

2026-04-26 20:38:00 CEST

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Crazy stuff, man! Keep it coming
@npub1njs…7fqx I have a suggestion for one of your follow packs :)

2026-04-26 19:10:47 CEST

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I don't know its proper name.

2026-04-26 18:47:09 CEST

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That should work out fine for me.

2026-04-26 16:00:47 CEST

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I'm so excited for our next meeting about it. We have a couple of parties interested in listening in again. I think there is benefit in learning what we need/struggles we have in a less bug-reporty environment.
And beyond that, what we are trying to do also helps solve a broader problem at the same time that it solves our own.
I'm sorry to hear about your mute list. If it gives you any inspiration, I don't even have one 😅

2026-04-26 06:46:44 CEST

https://npub1cgcwm56v5hyrrzl5ty4vq4kdud63n5u4czgycdl2r3jshzk55ufqe52ndy.blossom.band/3cb04377c8684d69641d50f45378022de9fcda901353da983d59ad8e32074180.jpg

2026-04-26 06:43:47 CEST

Some days are so full of goodness, that it's difficult to maintain my composure. Grateful. 💜

2026-04-26 05:44:41 CEST

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Ah, dang 😅 oh well.

2026-04-26 03:38:14 CEST

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I wish I had the confidence of that pigeon 😅

2026-04-26 00:41:38 CEST

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Your chaos is lookin' good this year!

2026-04-25 22:58:46 CEST

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I doubt that. I'm gonna make mango chicken curry for dinner tonight now 😊

2026-04-25 20:34:24 CEST

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What kind of stuff do you like?

2026-04-25 20:29:48 CEST

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I'll be going back to the area in about a month. I can swing in & check them out more closely, make sure they are not some marked up temu purchase, if you'd like?

2026-04-25 20:06:27 CEST

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🤣 yes! Exactly! Coachella for thee, Burning Man for (not) me!

2026-04-25 19:50:51 CEST

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As a sidenote... there was not a single rock or crystal in the place *smh*... but i did find $100 handpans.

2026-04-25 19:46:40 CEST

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I found a great shop last week... 4 floors, advertising futons and "imported" items (whatever that means anymore) on their signs outside. The 1st floor specialized in spiritualist larp, the 2nd was all 90s nostalgia-wear, the 3rd was stacks and stacks of hand woven baskets (+1 futon), and the 4th floor was a bone-art gallery. I bought some hippy pants from the lady on the 1st floor, but they are too long for me. Apparently, larpy spititualist women average ~6ft tall? (I think it tracks) anyway...yes, i think I know a spot :)

2026-04-25 19:14:23 CEST

Booked some concert tickets and a fire lookout. It's going to be a good summer :)

2026-04-25 18:06:53 CEST

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Hahaha it's all part of the spiritualist cosplay movement I was talking about. (If that was you I was taking to about that, I don't remember. It could have been @npub1fhp…ds8n 😅)

2026-04-25 17:56:26 CEST

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It's a night shot of a river and sky, but it got turned sideways lol

2026-04-25 17:54:18 CEST

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I think I like it too... it is sheer luck that it happens to be a perfect picture for a bug

2026-04-25 17:50:18 CEST

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haha, sorry. client turned my picture sideways

2026-04-25 17:47:15 CEST

https://i.nostr.build/v4FyW8UcLAjSMJjD.jpg

2026-04-25 05:16:18 CEST

While I down with a headache today, I had 2 more baby lemon trees pop up. I planted 4 seeds. 100% success rate. I think I might be a lemon tree rancher now. 😊 https://cdn.satellite.earth/4e579a777e0e162316a0350072644615e61ed186f350950840d1945c28d40657.jpg
#lemontreegang 🍋

2026-04-25 05:10:28 CEST

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Those are the most heartwarming words I've read all day. 💜

2026-04-25 05:09:28 CEST

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Oh, you're in one of those clubs 😅