Peter Todd

Fun thing is I actually ended up paying for the simulator with USDT! While it was bought from a Ukrainian company, the easiest way to actually pay them ended up being USDT on Tron. Which I actually accomplished via a conversion from Lightning using Fixed Float.

2026-07-17 17:28:33 UTC

My interview with Sean Francis, from the _civilian_ volunteer anti-air unit that I supported with a donated training simulator. He explains how he, a former American marine, ended up doing real estate in Kyiv, and volunteering his time to do anti-air defense as a civilian.
https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/peter.todd/nostr/2026-07-17/sean-interview-1280x720.mp4
I also filmed Sean explaining how the gun and simulator worked, and the unit trying it out for the first time. I got a chance to try it to, and managed to down a simulated shahed. 😂 Working on editing that footage.
https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/peter.todd/nostr/2026-07-17/trying-aa-simulator.jpg
Most of the ~$6k cost came from the $LADA memecoin community; some of it came from Bitcoin donations. Thank you to those who donated!
bc1qdds28nk2n69kc2zh0y62flnxarsp2lv80tn8t5
https://mempool.space/address/bc1qdds28nk2n69kc2zh0y62flnxarsp2lv80tn8t5

2026-07-11 20:10:03 UTC

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That's precisely what Ukraine is doing with attacks on the Russian economy. E.g. the dozens of Russian ships hit recently:
https://npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm.blossom.band/7af125530a073ffafbe38ea92fa82f9385d8048f84a2de5b56c2e676177bc23a.mp4

2026-07-10 19:05:09 UTC

This is fun: https://drukarmy.org.ua/en/donate
These guys accept Bitcoin donations, and are using those donations to buy explosives and other supplies to build weapons for drones.
You sure as hell can't fundraise for this with PayPal! 😂
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2026-07-06 12:30:43 UTC

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Sooner than you'd think: #nevent1q…qthf
So many refineries in Russia have been hit that even Moscow is facing fuel rationing. Farming is beginning to get affected too: shortages and high prices are begining to stop farmers from planting fields, which hopefully will lead to food shortages in Russia.
A big reason why Germany surrendered was they were out of fuel and starving.
My guess is we've got another two more years.

2026-07-06 12:27:33 UTC

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In better news, that's Russia's Omsk Refinery. Burning brightly over 2000km away from Ukraine.
https://npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm.blossom.band/e68fc165f42fe6a4b8f7ead55a73c4ee1a07467bd56ede7cba4c3d7a9024ddbf.jpg

2026-07-06 12:05:01 UTC

'"A Russian missile killed an entire family. Will this photograph stop the war? Most likely not. But I believe the world needs to see the truth," said photographer Yefrem Lukatsky.
"I hope those whom this photograph will cause pain can forgive me. Kyiv, July 6, 2026," Lukatsky added.'
https://npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm.blossom.band/d799b876fea59ba20bbe87c5636095e6fc2ebf391c50780d641f207460c59c21.jpg

2026-07-05 09:25:50 UTC

Red Bull gives you wings! Sometimes angel wings.
https://youtube.com/shorts/XFr4jYbFnpY

2026-06-26 18:25:04 UTC

...and right on cue, the far left psychos have started gearing up to try to get Ukraine to stop fighting:
https://npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm.blossom.band/972cc9bf2ed9766c059f5af2dd51963ee4a3bf6ba7426da66e97f3acf7f49f47.png https://npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm.blossom.band/07e163e4909d20391af193553bc38f491be19aaa969eddc261569393b9a66d33.png
Russians pay taxes, about 50% of which go directly to paying for a genocidal invasion. They're no different than the soldiers using the weapons they've paid for.
Merely blowing up their oil refineries and power plants is already a kindness that they do not deserve. There is nothing ethically wrong with Ukraine intentionally killing so called Russian "civilians" to collapse the Russian war effort faster.
This is doubly true for the ~1 million Russians who have moved to occupied Ukraine, forcing out the Ukrainian population and stealing their homes in the process. They're clearly war criminals directly participating in genocide.

2026-06-18 12:19:27 UTC

The videos from the latest Ukrainian attack on Moscow are wild. Though the funniest has got to be how Russian anti-air defense seems to have blown up an oil tank:
https://npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm.blossom.band/cf0f344b1efde47d10eb3378f0fd641adc9e2a82e9f20b829403d297d33e10d4.mp4 https://npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm.blossom.band/3d802f21291059342dd72e3f7bba12b5e93d634afb8aa12c86d8f086fbc5600e.mp4
The only Russian anti-air defenses proven to work. Tower cranes:
https://npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm.blossom.band/86fe7ee20699299a4cd95a2b666d0835c8f8f2765beb6073fa18cc07cf83e837.mp4

2026-06-09 16:39:27 UTC

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That quote is from Visegrád 24, a notable far right aligned supporter of Ukraine.

2026-06-09 14:32:42 UTC

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4KiB would be a perfectly good upper limit. Merkle trees are used so the proof size scales nicely.

2026-06-09 14:31:22 UTC

“Video with subtitles of yesterday’s attempted beheading of a young British man by a Somali migrant in Belfast. It’s a hard watch but Europeans must see it.
Those who intervened and smashed a shovel over the attackers’ head are heroes
They most likely saved that young man’s life”
https://x.com/i/status/2064303968973394213
https://npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm.blossom.band/21cc72af2588d9a2f1cd8c3af7e62e1368fc7f4cf07e3ee156c5324489e606d4.mp4
Guarantee you that the UK will extend their on-device "nudity filters" to preventing videos like this from being shared.

2026-06-09 10:34:06 UTC

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Also, the data can be downloaded. So the community can back it up in case the calendars ever fail.

2026-06-09 10:33:00 UTC

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The calendar servers retain proofs indefinitely. That's why only one new 32 byte commitment is generated (and saved) per second.

2026-06-04 19:13:25 UTC

What did they call the man who combined his love of artistic expression with his skill in electrical engineering?
Power Banksy

2026-05-30 08:56:18 UTC

https://npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm.blossom.band/bcc7d7b0f7943b15352221f74196a7d84ef99cbd5e7d89bbb0e00c70b16e8acc.mp4
Nice video of two Ukrainian fixed wing, medium range, drones taking out a Russian truck deep within occupied Ukraine. The first one doesn't work. But the second...
This is a new development. It's looking like Ukraine will be able to shutdown the main highway through occupied Ukraine from Russia to Crimea, leaving only the Crimea bridge as an option.

2026-05-22 04:50:20 UTC

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2026-05-21 15:44:04 UTC

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The galaxy brained say the same thing though, because they used that nostr DM to send cashu. 😂

2026-05-20 02:14:41 UTC

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#nevent1q…pf5p

2026-05-20 02:14:27 UTC

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😂😂😂
No. She is just an example. The proof is from decades of nutrition science. It's a proven fact that humans need vitamin B12 to live, and there are essentially no natural non-animal sources of it.

2026-05-19 14:33:57 UTC

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/39153486/student-vegan-diet-delusions-coroner/
A cautionary tale... Humans can not survive on a vegan diet without artificial supplementation of vitamin B12. Without modern biochem technology humans simply must eat animal products to survive.

2026-05-12 06:57:14 UTC

https://youtube.com/shorts/epeMaZN37-M
Rare depiction of the savagery of the American natives.

2026-05-11 08:17:29 UTC

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Canadian banks prohbit you from storing cash in safe deposit boxes; Ukrainian banks advertise it.

2026-05-09 21:36:49 UTC

A recent video of a mother with her child in Kramatorsk, Eastern Ukraine. She's hiding from Russian FPV drones:
https://npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm.blossom.band/6ae97478e33c9d233f1ec6f6dd8ab2b5e3338572156e3117561339fc05f5dcae.mp4
This is a new development. Previously Russia didn't have the range, and wasn't close enough, to threaten Kramatorsk with FPV drones much. Unfortunately this is gradually changing.
Friends of mine are in that area, holding Russia back. They're the ones keeping that mother and child safe. One of the soldiers I know recently paid $1800 of his own money to get another vehicle that they need. I'm trying to get him paid back, and get funds for more vehicles. So far I've gotten 726,360sats (~$586 USD):
https://mempool.space/address/bc1qdds28nk2n69kc2zh0y62flnxarsp2lv80tn8t5
https://npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm.blossom.band/715e32fff46b05c9d65d1fa9194b2a3dca07a0c64b993748b67eb98c66d014f1.png
Ukraine is doing really well right now winning the war on the economic front, by destroying tens of billions of dollars of Russian oil infrastructure. But the ground war is a brutal game of holding ground and minimizing losses, and they need all the help they can get. I know these soldiers myself, and have seen first hand the good work they're doing with the ₿ donations I've gotten for them:
https://x.com/i/status/2049565495712530888
https://stacker.news/items/1475314

2026-05-09 21:10:22 UTC

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There are legal obstacles to doing that. Internet Archive has special exemptions from copyright law due to its status as a library.
Also, IPFS isn't magic. It doesn't magically make space actually become available.

2026-05-08 21:53:44 UTC

They're going to the trouble of setting up a backup in Switzerland... but they still aren't time-stamping their data with Bitcoin.
#nevent1q…3wc9

2026-05-07 20:13:03 UTC

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"Please don't see the world for yourself. Let us tell you about it instead!"

2026-04-28 15:06:10 UTC

Wild footage from Tuapse, Russia, of houses 200m away from the tank farm burning up from spilled oil that the firefighters have failed to contain:
https://npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm.blossom.band/a5d1bc6fe596d78989fa4f0a1b6ca69485273da9100e68af843faebd0783c4bd.mp4
Ukraine's attacks on this port have been spectacularly successful. Ukraine will win this war through the destruction of the Russian economy as long as the western world helps them.
Yes, this has been fully geo located:
https://npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm.blossom.band/0d3e22c74e465fda0b7fc48bcf5ffad481a33e2261799f587a83bb5f829c58c8.png
https://x.com/i/status/2049134233218629819

2026-04-25 13:44:04 UTC

South Africa, a country whose politics is mainly about stealing wealth from whites, also wants to steal wealth from Bitcoiners.
I'm shocked. Shocked I said!
#nevent1q…956f

2026-04-17 10:23:25 UTC

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You are repeating what I said.

2026-04-17 10:22:58 UTC

The Bob calendar is down right now because it's out of funds to pay tx fees: bob.btc.calendar.opentimestamps.org
If people can send funds to bc1q83zmvtfks2dnvqfgcmxme24kah602cxr59h5v7 to get it back up that'd be much appreciated.
https://npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm.blossom.band/6bbb384b9aec7c7c2f2f0d6e160f721101cd733a1007d740c82a611bbacad7f1.png

2026-04-16 18:02:13 UTC

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"A small percentage"
As I said, it's about 15% to 25%. Making the 95% claim in the article obviously wrong. It's a trivial thing to get right.
Solar will of course turn a higher % into heat than many highly reflective surfaces. So the overall concept may work. But not with the numbers quoted.

2026-04-16 14:04:15 UTC

https://www.techradar.com/pro/maybe-its-not-science-fiction-solar-panels-are-causing-rainwater-to-fall-in-one-of-the-driest-places-on-earth
“The researchers modeled solar panels as nearly black surfaces that absorb 95% of incoming sunlight.”
It's hilarious how easy it is to debunk this article. Typical solar panels convert about 15% to 25% of the incoming light into electricity while operating. That's energy that is removed from that location entirely, and re-released somewhere else. This is one reason why putting solar panels on your roof can keep your house cooler.
It is physically impossible for efficiently operating solar panels to absorb 95% of the incoming sunlight.

2026-04-13 15:37:37 UTC

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2026-04-08 09:50:50 UTC

Your daily reminder that journalists are parasites on productive society.
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2026-04-07 15:00:33 UTC

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In the past year I've personally raised about $15k USD in funding for Ukrainian military projects with Bitcoin. And I've barely even tried.
I could use another 850,000sats for my latest project actually, getting Flash Battalion another van: https://mempool.space/address/bc1qdds28nk2n69kc2zh0y62flnxarsp2lv80tn8t5
On a bigger scale, this is total nonsense. The biggest funders of war and violence right now are Russia and Iran. In both cases their ultimate primary funding source is oil and gas revenue; in the case of Russia a lesser funding source is the Russian government's ability to force companies to simply work for free in exchange for future promises of income that both sides know will probably never be paid. Fiat currency has nothing to do with that, and Bitcoin only fixes that problem to the extent that it allows societies to rise up.
But in Russia the population genuinely supports war. That's probably true for most of Iran too. They're infested with Islamic psychopaths.
Even if you think the US and other Western countries are the cause of "war", the argument still fails: the US only spends a small part of total GDP on their military. A Bitcoin standard doesn't change anything there.

2026-04-07 13:48:10 UTC

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Good. Trump's track record on diplomacy with Iran and others is bad. It's far better to solve this with military force and defeat Iran entirely.
The biggest challenge is that a decent % of the Iranian people are supporting the US. So ethics is demanding a more costly surgical approach than you be appropriate for, e.g., Russia or Gaza.

2026-04-07 13:06:36 UTC

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Russians have slaughtered Ukrainians every chance they get, everywhere that Ukraine has given up territory. Ukraine continues to fight because they know giving up is even worse.
Ukraine has tried negotiating peace before. It just gives Russia a chance to rearm and try again.

2026-04-07 12:57:34 UTC

Police collecting bodies in Kherson, Ukraine, after a recent Russian FPV drone attack. Notice how fast they're moving? They're worried about themselves getting killed by follow-up attacks:
https://npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm.blossom.band/03e1ffb1805e5d3eac74a94d1e73719e6cb8ebba4c0be3005fc5eea6533b00a7.mp4
Here's another recent example. A son whose elderly mother was killed. The police officer has to pull him away because they need to collect the body before a follow-up attack kills them too.
https://npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm.blossom.band/7942610ff0d3c435c5caac43b6d466a198f32f8aa537b9fc636b9804cc6fab18.mp4
I recently had an opportunity to visit the outskirts of Kherson. I turned it down, because I didn't have a good enough reason to be there to take that risk. Maybe I'll visit with a better reason; hopefully Ukraine pushes Russia back far enough that it's safe again.
https://npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm.blossom.band/8cbae04b82a416ef0689533758b1cf73648b7e7014a2b135506587cf9f3bf8fb.jpg

2026-04-04 00:25:41 UTC

https://youtube.com/shorts/pyT32HyYBVU

2026-04-01 12:40:38 UTC

Question: can I rent an Umbrel Air in the cloud?
#nevent1q…ux2m

2026-04-01 12:39:35 UTC

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That's one of the things journalists safety guidelines for Ukraine makes clear: just because Ukrainian babushkas are walking around an area, doesn't mean it's safe. They don't give a fuck and routinely stay in ridiculously dangerous areas. Lots of them get killed in the process.

2026-03-28 21:52:36 UTC

https://youtu.be/Wro5D7qv7uM

2026-03-27 13:10:01 UTC

So we just found a good deal on a Ford Transit van for ~4000€. Not as sexy as a truck. But the unit does need efficient transport to move soldiers and equipment around.
https://nostr.download/5f7e5e2de0870915794383f9e4f61cf6f95aae3ed829bb2134b33db7515fb392.jpg
At the moment we already have 2653€ left over from previous donations, so we just need another ~1500€ (~1725$) in donations to get them them that van.
https://mempool.space/address/bc1qdds28nk2n69kc2zh0y62flnxarsp2lv80tn8t5
I also managed to do some interviews with some of the soldiers and foreign recruits of the unit. Flash Battalion is an English speaking one, so mainly from the US and UK/Commonwealth. It's telling how many of the recruits are conservative. One was even a self described MAGA Republican; another from New Zealand had previously worked in the gun industry in manufacturing. Which of course is now basically dead in NZ. Those videos should come out soonish once their editors finish.
Sarah and I going for a walk to the east edge of Kramatorsk out by the (former) airport:
https://nostr.download/8fe05ba649e79d8760f80e29fa6c19095395c804dd5db52ffe2ae2a8fc9f4187.jpg
Sadly that's getting to be a dangerous place to be. The road we were walking down had a few fibers left over from Russian fiber optic drones. Not a lot, yet. But we were about 14km away from the very edge of Russian lines.
#nevent1q…pja7

2026-03-25 13:37:21 UTC

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Proof of funds, as in proof of where the funds came from?

2026-03-24 16:23:34 UTC

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Because that's a busy street and these days everyone walks around with a video camera in their pocket.

2026-03-24 15:09:19 UTC

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The smoke plume from the inferno at Russia's Primorsk port is so big tou can easily see it from space:
https://nostr.download/099cddc862521beb1b184b967c1527cee2454b27bbd3aad4da3236c7d85dfae6.mp4
Meanwhile Russia attacked the historic center of Lviv. As if that's going to win them the war...
https://nostr.download/81a7715ec96bf379972bea325de424fab99b36f8257addc92d51fc9e14715282.mp4 https://nostr.download/02d47b39b76f5cba39b0b59ba890d8554470cf4c6d9ec83cc3d7d3e98979ccb3.mp4

2026-03-24 15:05:02 UTC

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Coward

2026-03-24 12:15:29 UTC

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> for people I don't know fighting a war I don't believe in
You're welcome to come to Ukraine and meet these people, and the war. :)

2026-03-24 12:14:10 UTC

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> Here we can see Warmonger Peter Todd gloating over having raised Bitcoin to donate a vehicle to Ukrainian soldiers.
To be clear, the vehicle is for an English speaking unit staffed pretty much entirely with foreign volunteers. Sarah, next to me, is from Florida.
> Which brings us to the third point. Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world—just ask Biden’s son and the child trafficking ring. Everyone knows this clown has a lot of Bitcoin—why don’t they kidnap him?
😂😂😂
Other than Russian bombs Ukraine is one of the safest countries in Europe. It's populated by white Christians (and some Jews). It's common to see teenage girls walking alone at night, and people regularly leave laptops unattended at cafes.
> This brings us to point 4: he works for the CIA.
So uncreative. Surely you can come up with a more plausible security agency for me to work for. I'm Canadian remember.

2026-03-23 19:31:52 UTC

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Anyway, I'm collecting more funds to buy yet another vehicle for Sarah's unit. This time a Ford Transit van we found for 4000€. It's not sexy. But they need another van to shuttle people and cargo around.
bc1qdds28nk2n69kc2zh0y62flnxarsp2lv80tn8t5
https://nostr.download/7806766d21e4aec3c6b6fd59c088c0846ddc2c86250fa24c4fa19b2d337f5bc9.jpg
https://nostr.download/66d396a53ea613799ce19ecd256c5f0a6229cf0bf48e0b0d7d3c43e8d7b687b3.png

2026-03-23 19:27:38 UTC

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That's my friend Sarah.
The reason why he's wearing those dorky glasses is because two weeks ago, while on a mission, he and some fellow Ukrainian soldiers nearly got killed by a Russian FPV drone. They were so close to the explosion that a thin layer of Sarah's eyes got burnt off, changing their shape. So while previously he didn't need glasses, now he does. One of the other soldiers who was with him is still in hospital with an arm full of shrapnel.
After spending the night in a basement they evacuated on foot, and Sarah spent some time in the hospital for a concussion before returning to work this week.
This morning Sarah volunteered for yet another mission because they needed a medic, and he was the only one they had on hand. Sarah again was nearly hit by yet another FPV drone and is back in hospital again.
And yes, Sarah can definitely shoot a gun. He's used his rifle to shoot multiple FPV drones out of the sky; if he couldn't he would already be dead.

2026-03-23 16:28:07 UTC

The Russian port of Primorsk has received some kinetic sanctions:
https://nostr.download/fd8937f2c2ca421feb4b22f8b746e62564b880bc6569a991f8d76e1540dd1746.mp4

2026-03-22 18:36:41 UTC

https://youtube.com/shorts/9M3zo6Ap9aE
How the fuck is this improv‽

2026-03-19 19:39:43 UTC

“at work everyone was uncomfortable with using "master" as the main branch name on git so i changed it to "slave_coordinator"”

2026-03-17 21:36:29 UTC

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"you might need an email"
Bitrefill works fine even if the email is fake. They do have per-IP transaction volume limits. But VPNs fix that.

2026-03-16 13:35:00 UTC

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Try carrying around a 5m long stick with a decent sized net...
Even "cope cages" on vehicles as aren't that big. Drone netting over roads is that far away. But that's static infrastructure.

2026-03-13 09:23:47 UTC

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That looks like a minibits error. Not an error on my side.

2026-03-13 08:42:57 UTC

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Weird. Should be fine. What error?

2026-03-13 03:55:38 UTC

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Russians are genocidal imperialists right now.
As for Israel, they are clearly not that and have never been.

2026-03-13 03:49:44 UTC

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Iran has been funding violence against the West for a long time. Oct 7th for example. They are already the aggressor and have been for a very long time.
As for "de-Nazifying Ukraine", that's objectively a blatant lie. Comparing that to Venezuela is whitewashing Russia's crimes.

2026-03-12 22:27:50 UTC

https://nostr.download/6c7ec54aedbad09e6e314f8a1876cdf65a022b4d84d91c277d4ddb7a5cb2eb0d.jpg https://nostr.download/1bdaa6c980b31a7c92407c6038835318709beb9dc958e589eeb89ce4272e0d39.jpg
Fuck Russia.

2026-03-12 15:37:41 UTC

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IIRC Ukraine publicly confirmed the use of storm shadows. But they did not say if that was the only weapon used.
There's a good chance they used more than one weapon type at once to defeat Russia's anti-air defenses cost effectively.
Also, there's speculation that the reason why storm shadows were approved for this usage is that Iran was found to be using shahed drones with components made in that factory. Basically, that pissed off the US and UK, who were happy to let Ukraine use overwhelming force to attempt destroy the factory.

2026-03-12 13:29:45 UTC

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"but to what end?"
Obviously, Ukraine can collapse the Russia economy and military production sufficiently that Russia can no longer effectively fight, and take back all the occupied territory.
In the long run, it doesn't matter what happens inside Russia it their economy is in ruins and they can't afford to fight. How they deal with that is their problem.
Anyway, the problem isn't Putin, it's Russian society: they're genocidal imperialists who have been invading their neighbors and taking land for hundreds of years.

2026-03-12 13:23:57 UTC

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I didn't realize your cases were so nice looking!
If I actually lived in one place I'd be tempted to buy one to hang it on a wall. 😂

2026-03-12 13:20:28 UTC

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https://nostr.download/c45c306136c59fe9c4761fc5d90814b6065822ca9164fde3afe01f65ebb613eb.jpg
I'm writing this from a coffee shop in Kyiv that has a spent artillery propellant charge tube holding up a flower pot... Pretty typical decoration around here.
I think you are a great example of how Dubai could easily lose _very_ badly in this war, even though objectively there isn't all that much hazard. Because Dubai has attracted so many people for tax and business reasons who don't really like the city, and have never put down real roots there, they have a large population who have no interest in supporting Dubai when times get a bit tougher. That's not a slight on you. It's just rational: why put up with that for Dubai?
In Kyiv even after the worst winter in the entire war, with power cuts so severe that you might get two hours a day of power, and hundreds of buildings had to turn off the water due to frozen pipes, there's still lots of _new_ businesses opening. Like the coffee shop I'm in right now. The population still here cares about winning and sees a future in Ukraine. And Ukraine is worth saving.
I think there's a high chance this ends relatively quickly because the US and Israel have the military capabilities to really crush Iran's ability to fight. In that circumstance Dubai can probably bounce back.
But if this doesn't end quickly, e.g. maybe due to some bullshit pseudo-ceasefire from Trump losing interest, all it would take is for Iran to keep launching a few attacks a week at Dubai and the wider UAE to keep businesses and the airports fucked up.

2026-03-12 12:57:07 UTC

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Letting Iran get nuclear weapons would be an absolute disaster; letting them build shahed drones by the tens of thousands, both themselves and in partnership with Russia, was already a disaster. I personally have seen the results of that here in Ukraine.
"Who started it" doesn't even matter. They're extremist Jew-hating, Russia allied, islamists who have directly and indirectly killed tens of thousands of good people this year alone. The faster Iran's islamists are wiped out the better.
Hopefully that doesn't need to involve destroying all of Iran in the process. But that's ultimately up to the people of Iran to reject extremist Islam. If they fail to do that soon we should permanently crush their economy to ensure they won't be a threat in the future.

2026-03-10 20:38:07 UTC

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Crazy thing is even though the factory was 110km inside Russia, Ukraine still managed to have a surveillance drone flying above it returning video! Russian air defenses aren't doing so well:
https://nostr.download/434b1ea6b32500e987b57edbae29f5caf4fe5c969618a9ba53e8bdf4c229fa21.mp4
https://nostr.download/7d079a0c1c9a33e6d32cc720c580d2fb8d3692a76106eec52ae4e4e7cfad5daf.jpg

2026-03-10 20:32:02 UTC

Ukraine's recent air strikes on the Russia's Kremniy El microelectronics factory managed to kill 4 and wound 37. Including this guy:
https://nostr.download/e23119bc26ca526668d2cacaf47eec2a870d7f017ef7c63d16ae6ffef4d9ec63.mp4
It's underappreciated how important it is to not just destroy factories, but also to kill and maim the Russian's working at those factories. It's a lot harder and more expensive to replace a skilled worker than it is to replace a tool bought from China.
Cutting off his hand will probably prevent the deaths of dozens of Ukrainians.
To that end, Ukraine should copy Russia's highly effective double tap strategy to discourage rescue operations. That man might still be able to train his replacement, or successfully work with his remaining hand. It'd be better if he had bled to death waiting for a rescue that never came.

2026-03-07 21:38:20 UTC

https://nostr.download/04c1f962fab774e7326ac67f59695454fe40b666628fa55d468c838d263b3b3c.jpg
Chełm, Poland

2026-03-06 19:06:13 UTC

Merkelize the universe.

2026-03-05 02:20:59 UTC

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Ukraine isn't using much small arms ammo any more. It's becoming quite common for soldiers to simply never have a reason to fire their rifle, other than shooting at drones. And that is increasingly being handled by shotguns with birdshot and other specialty anti-drone ammo.
Re: tomahawk missiles, the US hasn't provided any to Ukraine. They should have: Ukraine could have used them to destroy the shahed factories producing the same drones that are now attacking Amazon data centers...

2026-03-04 21:54:12 UTC

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Ha! Maybe pizza. But I rarely eat Doritos.

2026-03-03 22:18:14 UTC

https://youtu.be/n1mH9DOUNpY
Really cool video: competent outdoorsman, making good decisions, who got into trouble and were successfully rescued in truly horrendous weather.

2026-03-01 20:12:39 UTC

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Because we aren't incompetent programmers.

2026-02-26 16:36:08 UTC

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In this case the issue is an autistic child who has panic attacks from air raids. Safety isn't even relevant. It's that the kid can't mentally handle the level of danger.
Also as the article mentions, the specific "safe" city the UK Home Office suggested they move to recently had 38 people killed and 120 injured in a Russian attack on an apartment building: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Ternopil_strike
Like I said, if you're going to give people refugee status for humanitarian reasons, this family deserves it infinitely more than the endless military aged, violent, Muslim males that the UK has no qualms letting in.

2026-02-26 13:41:04 UTC

https://news.sky.com/story/ukrainian-family-denied-uk-asylum-told-to-use-noise-cancelling-headphones-for-child-to-block-out-bombs-13511339
They'll allow in infinity Somalian rapists but kick out a family with an autistic son who can't handle air raids.

2026-02-24 18:24:28 UTC

Lots of Bitcoin donations are still flowing to Ukraine.
I personally have raised about $5000 in the past few weeks in a single fundraiser to get a truck for for my friend Sarah's unit: https://mempool.space/address/bc1qdds28nk2n69kc2zh0y62flnxarsp2lv80tn8t5
The stuff he's doing in Eastern Ukraine is absolutely wild.
https://nostr.download/8b9f9cb7c28c758e3bd06774b105f26decf5fe8c5e4cd500ca48f96b166a53d3.mp4
#nevent1q…mgg4

2026-02-24 11:30:33 UTC

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Exactly. You want the bear to be terrified of the humans right next to it, and run away as fast as possible.
I've actually met park rangers whose job it was to harass bears with pepper spray paintball guns. Especi mother bears: you want them to teach the cubs to never approach humans.

2026-02-24 00:14:18 UTC

https://youtube.com/shorts/8G3JYmcbtrI
...and that's one reason why every single time I've encountered a bear in the woods the bear has ran away from me as fast as possible.

2026-02-20 07:02:02 UTC

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Source? That's shockingly high.

2026-02-20 07:00:27 UTC

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An illegal alien.

2026-02-16 21:54:41 UTC

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https://youtu.be/eQMZI7H6xo4
Second video.
It's hilarious watching him repeatedly go to the air raid shelters. 😂

2026-02-16 21:39:26 UTC

https://youtu.be/o-TzbYITvXU
Surprisingly good video for Ukraine. The guy is a kinda clueless "extreme" travel vlogger who was dumb enough to go to Russia and get arrested. But for his (later) Ukraine visit he portrays it fairly accurately and sympathetically.

2026-02-06 16:46:04 UTC

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Re: that fundraiser, lightning accepted. 30,000,000sats (~$20,000) should be enough to buy a good vehicle for delivery to the front (by me or course). Less money, lesser vehicles ($3k shitboxes get good usage).
The guy in the photo with me, Sergii Sumlemny, runs a drone foundation. He thinks about $1,000,000 should be about right to build enough drones to take back a Ukrainian town. Last summer Ukraine released a report estimating that it costs ~$900 in drones to kill or seriously injure a Russian. Now is an especially good time to do it as they're flailing due to lack of Starlink.
I don't have enough incoming LN capacity for a $1 million donation... But get it touch and I can make it happen.
https://image.nostr.build/4a5bff6a4f68a98aec08a722b56bc08858043a67fd7e5103020dad4a809305c6.jpg

2026-02-06 04:19:01 UTC

https://youtube.com/shorts/3ggzlr_Quxg

2026-02-04 22:13:19 UTC

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That's just Russian propaganda aimed mostly at westerners. They are invading for the same reason they've invaded their neighbors for ventures: Russia is an imperialistic culture that constantly tries to expand and subjugate.
Russia wasn't always so big... Russia got that way through centuries of invasions.
It's notable how the so-called "Russian part of Ukraine" has fared the worst through all this. Russians straight up massacred Ukrainians in Eastern Ukraine every chance they got. Likely at least 30,000 in Mariupol alone. Hell, when I was in Sloviansk recently the same day I was there Russians used an FPV drone to attack a 16 and a 17 year old. Fortunately they survived.
In Kherson, a notably Russian speaking part of Ukraine, Russians have done literally thousands of attacks with small drones against civilians, with hundreds dead. They don't give a fuck about "Russian speaking Ukrainians". They just want to subjugate Ukraine.

2026-02-04 22:05:58 UTC

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Also, re: "meat grinder", it's a relatively one sided meat grinder. Ukraine has been willing to slowly trade land for men; Russia has been willing to trade men for land. In parts of the front the kill ratios get as high as 30 to 1.
I personally have met drone pilots who have killed hundreds of Russians. It's not even that remarkable. Russia loves relentless small attacks that gradually make progress at the cost of huge numbers of men.

2026-02-04 22:02:06 UTC

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That's exactly what a Ukrainian commander told me awhile back. We were talking about supplying drones to the front, and he was telling me about how much they were focused on finding little efficiency improvements in things like packaging and assembly. All those 1% improvements add up.

2026-02-04 21:59:16 UTC

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Russians aren't. Russia is fighting almost entirely with volunteers. It's illegal in Russia for conscripts to be used within Ukraine, and that law is fairly well followed. The Russians dying in huge numbers are something like 95% volunteers, and paid very well for the risk they took.
Ukraine does have the draft, and those men do get used to defend Ukraine. Also, a lot of people volunteer in liu of getting drafted. I personally know a few people who volunteered because they'd rather be able to choose their assignments.

2026-02-04 14:35:28 UTC

https://youtu.be/VlE8g-hJlfM
Great example of how boring war can be. It takes two whole days, a dozen grenades drops, hours and hours of drone surveillance, and finally a quick (risky) assault with three men (and yet more drone surveillance) just to kill two Russians scumbags hiding under a tank.
Imagine how much coffee got drunk overseeing this...

2026-02-04 02:00:09 UTC

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😂
What craters? Go find me some reputable images of that.
Hell, Russians immediately started boasting about the attack before they realized it wasn't a PR win.
https://khpg.org/en/1608811874

2026-02-03 15:10:57 UTC

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"shell craters"
There were no shell craters. It was hit by cluster bombs. Which you can easily see by the extensive imagery available.
Again, you're a psychopath lying in support of genocide.

2026-02-02 21:30:30 UTC

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You can lie all you want. The fact is no reputable source thinks 14k civilians died in the Donbas before 2022.
Russia of course claims otherwise. But Russians are guilty of mass murder, including on the Donbas region, so their lies can be dismissed.
Hell, two days after I last visited Sloviansk, Donetsk, Russia used multiple shahed drones to attack the same passenger train I would have taken if my friend's car had broken down sooner. And that same train was the scene of a massacre in 2022 when Russia bomed Kramatorsk station when it was full of civilians fleeing Russia's invasion.
I suspect you're well aware of all this. You're just a psychopathic Russian supporter, willing to lie for evil.

2026-02-02 21:16:39 UTC

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That 14k number is simply fake. The actual number of civilians killed is about 3400, a number that includes deaths directly caused by Russians. And of course, Russia is the one who invaded and they are responsible for all those deaths.
Ukraine simply wasn't "bombing Donbas". They were defending themselves, and did a pretty good job of not killing Ukrainians in the process.

2026-02-02 05:20:53 UTC

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😂
Ukraine simply wasn't targeting civilians in Donbas. That's Russian defamation.
In a saner world you'd go to jail for repeating that defamation. You're directly aiding genocide.

2026-02-02 00:35:15 UTC

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Skill issue.
Not a problem if your website is only open during business hours...

2026-02-02 00:34:01 UTC

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