Nostr notes by mason

Honey I crashed the 80-120 million dollar jet into a second ...

2026-05-18T05:51:11+02:00

Honey I crashed the 80-120 million dollar jet into a second 80-120 million dollar jet, and now he have to leave the country.

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2026-05-18T04:30:40+02:00

The typical person is not trying

People joke that only white people eat a cracker barrel. I have ...

2026-05-17T22:50:38+02:00

People joke that only white people eat a cracker barrel. I have never been to a cracker barrel where it wasn't at least 50% black men in really nice like 1950 suits with incredibly stylish hats that I don't have it in me to pull off.

Maybe it's just where I live.

I'm taking the piss mate, but it's 2026 and apparently ...

2026-05-17T22:48:50+02:00

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I'm taking the piss mate, but it's 2026 and apparently anything can happen.

The 2025 running Man did an exceptional job of showing rather ...

2026-05-17T22:25:39+02:00

The 2025 running Man did an exceptional job of showing rather than telling us then every character is entirely one dimensional.

Even for what it is it's just not a good version of itself.

47 signs that you have ADHD, and it's just a list of three ...

2026-05-17T04:36:51+02:00

47 signs that you have ADHD, and it's just a list of three signs becaus the people who will read the article will not finish it.

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2026-05-16T04:36:31+02:00

Wolves respect me because I have knives and fire.

My feelings about the endurance of the human race are ...

2026-05-15T02:30:57+02:00

My feelings about the endurance of the human race are complicated. I want to build a large data center in the ocean. Who am I?

The song tlThis is Halloween is an masterclasse in telling not ...

2026-05-14T06:14:55+02:00

The song tlThis is Halloween is an masterclasse in telling not showing, and in repetitive over explaining.

We all know where "pumpkins scream in the dead of night," no need to tell us.

Also narration is for hacks and that is why Shawshank Redemption is a fundamentally awful film.

Watch rich people are literally the most obnoxious brand of rich ...

2026-05-11T18:47:06+02:00

Watch rich people are literally the most obnoxious brand of rich people who are not actively trying to subjugate you in that moment.

The watch rich person will complain because they were some fantastically obscure watch and nobody noticed or gave a shit.

Welcome to not being important.

I miss the McDonald's dollar menu cheeseburger that once ...

2026-05-08T16:47:24+02:00

I miss the McDonald's dollar menu cheeseburger that once existed. I don't even know how to explain why I missed it trash it it was amazing trash.

[company][title][name] says [politician name][location] [title] ...

2026-05-06T23:35:56+02:00

[company][title][name] says [politician name][location] [title] should know better than to [action that harms company].

Old man look at my life I'm nothing like you are Old man look ...

2026-05-03T18:35:20+02:00

Old man look at my life I'm nothing like you are
Old man look at your life why would you give advice
Old man look at the jobs you apply online for
Old man none of these jobs are accepting walk ins
Old man look at your house it's not worth million dollars
Old man... This is just sad, stop now please

A machine cannot negligently discharge a firearm; therefore, a ...

2026-05-02T20:55:43+02:00

A machine cannot negligently discharge a firearm; therefore, a machine cannot fight a war.

You probably don't need another multi-tool or a multi-tool at ...

2026-05-02T20:54:30+02:00

You probably don't need another multi-tool or a multi-tool at all but if you do check eBay because TSA confiscated ones are incredibly cheap.

My dog looks at me with these big eyes and he sends me messages. ...

2026-05-02T20:52:36+02:00

My dog looks at me with these big eyes and he sends me messages.

Today he said, "Why don't we all just calm down, snort an enormous pile of cocaine, and go to bed at a reasonable hour?"

Sometimeshis English isn't great so...

All I'm saying is John Adams was way into his wife... And ...

2026-05-02T19:31:11+02:00

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All I'm saying is John Adams was way into his wife... And Quincy not so much.

Old Abe Lincoln was the third gay president, third gay president, ...

2026-05-02T19:26:33+02:00

Old Abe Lincoln was the third gay president, third gay president, third gay president. Old Abe Lincoln was the third gay president; James Buchanan was the second, and the other was the non-wife guy Adams.

God these children songs are getting woke.

I'm tired of DEI. I will eat Indian cuisine whenever I want, ...

2026-05-02T15:46:34+02:00

I'm tired of DEI. I will eat Indian cuisine whenever I want, and these companies creating initiatives like 'Don't Eat Indian' are absolutely abhorrent to me.

In one year and six months, it will have been eighteen months. In ...

2026-05-02T15:40:42+02:00

In one year and six months, it will have been eighteen months. In another six months, it will have been two years. In another two years, it will have been four. And in two more years, 2020 will somehow still be happening while also having occurred forty-six years ago.

My neighbor is far more attached to this neighborhood than I am; ...

2026-05-02T15:38:50+02:00

My neighbor is far more attached to this neighborhood than I am; her entire world is one street and an alleyway. I couldn't care less about neighborhood politics, but I’ll be damned if she thinks she can out-Realpolitik me by way of apathy. I'm starting the neighborhood watch and excluding her..

All network TV wants to become the same show, and if allowed to ...

2026-04-25T20:02:56+02:00

All network TV wants to become the same show, and if allowed to run for enough seasons they will all regress to the mean.

Thanks to AI, I have been able to earn millions as a humble North ...

2026-04-22T20:04:31+02:00

Thanks to AI, I have been able to earn millions as a humble North Korean script kitty hacking US companies. Mmmm. This AI is sure disruptive to companies, real transformation driven by tech.

After falling down a rabbit hole of YouTube conspiracies ...

2026-04-20T16:21:23+02:00

After falling down a rabbit hole of YouTube conspiracies regarding Epstein (something that is actually a legitimate conspiracy), I implore all of you please consider the fact that sometimes a common word used for talking code will also be used as the common word.

I'm so over emotional women like Hillary Clinton starting a ...

2026-04-14T20:25:02+02:00

I'm so over emotional women like Hillary Clinton starting a feud with the Pope for no reason.

A tremendous amount of news actually happened over the last ...

2026-04-14T15:51:33+02:00

A tremendous amount of news actually happened over the last couple of days but all I remember is Trump basically saying if the Vatican City cannot get his crime under control he's going to send in the Batman.

Some people care more about the tools than the work, and it ...

2026-04-14T15:25:28+02:00

Some people care more about the tools than the work, and it shows.

I feel like the US is just days away from invading Burkina Faso ...

2026-04-13T07:40:53+02:00

I feel like the US is just days away from invading Burkina Faso because they created the Epstein files or something.

The US government are in the dumbest possible period of warmongering rationales I have ever seen.

My dog desperately wants to make friends with the possum in the ...

2026-04-12T20:12:20+02:00

My dog desperately wants to make friends with the possum in the yard, and I am the mean man who is trying to keep him isolated as a tool of control due to underlying authoritarian tendencies and deep seeded insecurity.

Also I am never letting this dog on TikTok again.

Live Nation is certainly among the more creative companies that ...

2026-04-11T20:07:33+02:00

Live Nation is certainly among the more creative companies that figuring out how to create new and interesting fees.

Hitler rose to power with similar scorn from intellectual ...

2026-04-11T17:15:22+02:00

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Hitler rose to power with similar scorn from intellectual elitists. A good many dictators seem to have risen to power in the same manner.

Stalin's success came from being more of a psychopath than ...

2026-04-11T17:15:20+02:00

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Stalin's success came from being more of a psychopath than anyone ever estimated. He was physically unimposing and viewed as beneath the intellect of almost everyone else in revolutionary leadership.

His rivals underestimated him, and overestimated the general value of intellectualism.

Stalin was useful strategically to people with power until he was ...

2026-04-11T17:15:20+02:00

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Stalin was useful strategically to people with power until he was able to rally a large enough base to have power of his own, while largely being viewed as a non-threat by everyone around him.

Also basically everything Stalin wrote was in this obnoxious ...

2026-04-11T17:15:17+02:00

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Also basically everything Stalin wrote was in this obnoxious question and answer format scene above. I've read so much of his works, and... Well;

Was Stalin a good writer? No, Stalin was not a good writer, at least not of proes and of after translation.

Why did Stalin think Hitler would not invade? Because Hitler ...

2026-04-11T17:15:16+02:00

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Why did Stalin think Hitler would not invade? Because Hitler would not do that.

Why did Stalin think seed grain would not be needed to feed people next year? New developments in agriculture.

Why did Leon Trotsky have to be assassinated in Mexico? That was just vengeance, and fear, but still.

I have at this point mainlined nearly every notable English ...

2026-04-11T17:15:13+02:00

I have at this point mainlined nearly every notable English language biography of Stalin from J. T. Murphy up to Ronald Grigor Suny.

Stalin is kind of the opposite of the competence porn genre. Every story is of a man thinking magically in order to justify whatever action he wanted.

Tom Waits is the most metal artist that does not actually fit ...

2026-04-10T21:05:52+02:00

Tom Waits is the most metal artist that does not actually fit into the genre of metal.

They say, AI can never make great music, because AI can never be ...

2026-04-10T18:59:26+02:00

They say, AI can never make great music, because AI can never be abused as a child.

But Sam Altman, was sent by capital to prove them all wrong.

His methods are unorthodox [shot of Altman put on a rubber glove in front of a screen] but he gets results.

Coming to a rented time slot on CBS.

One of the problems with the short video pipeline to exposure is ...

2026-04-09T21:44:37+02:00

One of the problems with the short video pipeline to exposure is that it becomes very easy to only see clips from a person who is a complete whack job in which they seem incredibly, reasonable, curious and interesting.

Sir when you say, "they don't have to vote for me, I have ...

2026-04-08T16:21:55+02:00

Sir when you say, "they don't have to vote for me, I have a cell phone, a batcave, and a Nick Cave album on vinyl." What do you mean to imply.

So when you tweet, "we are going to erraticate a race of ...

2026-04-08T03:31:08+02:00

So when you tweet, "we are going to erraticate a race of people distorting even the memory of their history, culture, monuments and gods, in a few hours so watch closely as all burn like ants under a blow torch;" What did you mean?

I believe if we were to look at every area in the world, we would ...

2026-04-07T16:13:35+02:00

I believe if we were to look at every area in the world, we would find the greatest diversity of intellectual capacity in Boston Massachusetts.

I think there should be a sign Boston home of the smartest and dumbest person you will ever meet.

The magical life changing art of ending conversations by ...

2026-04-06T16:41:18+02:00

The magical life changing art of ending conversations by screaming "how dare you use tradecraft on me. What do you think this is; two for one Bingo night at the old nudists retirement home. I'm offended and how tactless you are." and walking away.

My superpower is actually that I'm really good at shooting ...

2026-04-05T17:22:47+02:00

My superpower is actually that I'm really good at shooting arrows. One day I'm going to use my arrows to fight God, right now I'm using my arrows to fight the military. I'm so good with arrows that I can do with an arrow what someone with about 2 weeks of training can do with a rifle.

It's time to ban all books, so Florida stops being number one ...

2026-04-04T17:31:46+02:00

It's time to ban all books, so Florida stops being number one at anything.

How to make your band sound better in only three simple steps. ...

2026-03-26T15:22:30+01:00

How to make your band sound better in only three simple steps.

Step one, find a fork or napkin containing DNA of Jack White.

Step two, clone Jack White.

Step three, provide Jack White clones lessons in music.

Step four, because shockingly I lied, recruit the Jack White clones to be the band.

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2026-03-25T14:14:56+01:00

So Cornhole is a serious sport.

Do exactly what I say or I will tweet it our nation's ...

2026-03-23T22:05:03+01:00

Do exactly what I say or I will tweet it our nation's president to inform him that you have oil. Do you want that kind of stress in your life?

As president I will simply not wreck the global economy with ...

2026-03-23T16:23:20+01:00

As president I will simply not wreck the global economy with multiple acts of aggression that we're not going to call war. I'm not even going to put my name on the ballot... You have to write me in; and you should

My Instagram is just a feed of Afroman dunking on some ...

2026-03-22T02:00:36+01:00

My Instagram is just a feed of Afroman dunking on some thinskinned cops.

Remember if a psychopathic dictator asks you which finger is your ...

2026-03-20T21:27:07+01:00

Remember if a psychopathic dictator asks you which finger is your favorite, you're better off being honest because well he might cut off your favorite finger it might also be the only one he leaves you.

You know AI can't technically arrest you by itself, a human ...

2026-03-20T17:31:36+01:00

You know AI can't technically arrest you by itself, a human has to sign off and say that the AI is correct... However humans are lazy, and they have no accountability mechanism when the AI is wrong and they sign off on it... So we're just screwed here.

Just to say it, the deputies who sued Afroman are total piles of ...

2026-03-19T03:24:33+01:00

Just to say it, the deputies who sued Afroman are total piles of garbage.

"As a of vet the only tooth past I would use on my snake is ...

2026-03-18T21:50:38+01:00

"As a of vet the only tooth past I would use on my snake is Colgate Total Deep Clean Toothpaste."

What the fuck did the AI just say.

Drink some late night coffee they said. It is decaf they said. It ...

2026-03-18T06:14:43+01:00

Drink some late night coffee they said. It is decaf they said. It was not in point of fact decaf.

The legislative maneuvering to get rid of VPNs is like every ...

2026-03-17T14:45:37+01:00

The legislative maneuvering to get rid of VPNs is like every other time a tool is misunderstood and legislators start reacting to it.

Switchblade knives became illegal in the US because of the movie West Side Story, while most users were tradespeople who benefited from a locking, one-hand opener.

Taco Bell told me to "live mas" so I put all my money ...

2026-03-16T01:24:31+01:00

Taco Bell told me to "live mas" so I put all my money into photos of apes, now I am home, blind and broke, can I sue Taco Bell for doing this to me.

Tucker Carlson would do well on jeopardy! Since when has no idea ...

2026-03-15T21:06:35+01:00

Tucker Carlson would do well on jeopardy! Since when has no idea how to say anything without making it a question.

The film Sinners I thought was a few years ago. But it's just ...

2026-03-15T06:25:32+01:00

The film Sinners I thought was a few years ago. But it's just the the two Iran bombing and a regime change in Venezuela have change my perception of time.

Help me Machiavelli AI, Is it better to be remembered or ...

2026-03-14T23:42:06+01:00

Help me Machiavelli AI,

Is it better to be remembered or tolerated? I'm going into a social situation now and I want to really power play this shit.

If you push button you get to bomb Iran, but everything will get ...

2026-03-14T23:03:41+01:00

If you push button you get to bomb Iran, but everything will get way more expensive and nothing positive happens at all.

So at one point people ranked friendships based on speed dial ...

2026-03-13T15:31:17+01:00

So at one point people ranked friendships based on speed dial number, at a later date it was top eight spaces on MySpace, what is the modern version of that relationship ranking?

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2026-03-12T04:38:55+01:00

My enemies lose morale when I pull out my blunderbuss.

"How does someone even flower an almand. Real flower comes ...

2026-03-11T22:15:45+01:00

"How does someone even flower an almand. Real flower comes from cows." I say becoming every conservative dads name favorite comedian.

My inner monologue is mostly in Werner Herzog's voice. ...

2026-03-11T16:36:12+01:00

My inner monologue is mostly in Werner Herzog's voice.

"Bombing Iran was a desperate act of a man left certain the world would otherwise see him only as a predator. With each explosion he strokes himself and says 'liberator,' like a man who is stable and normal."

YouTube shorts are just clips of TV shows or movies 30 seconds at ...

2026-03-10T14:12:09+01:00

YouTube shorts are just clips of TV shows or movies 30 seconds at a time.

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2026-03-09T21:56:49+01:00

She was a lawyer. He was a sandwich. The writers were on drugs.

Hey war Grok, I pulled a Japan and assumed if I bomb a country ...

2026-03-09T18:15:09+01:00

Hey war Grok,

I pulled a Japan and assumed if I bomb a country they would sue for peace, but they are pulling a US and bombing back, and I think they are working on nukes. Am I fucked?

Strategically Trump is just making sure we don't have time to ...

2026-03-08T06:08:01+01:00

Strategically Trump is just making sure we don't have time to be mad about the Epstein stuff because of the economic, and war stuff is a master class in committing to a bit where he plays a guy who wants to keep people distracted.

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2026-03-06T05:22:33+01:00

I fired Nome using my mind power.

Frantically asking Grok about the international laws of armed ...

2026-03-05T14:41:57+01:00

Frantically asking Grok about the international laws of armed conflict just so I don't get anything wrong.

I want a button that tells you to I never want to see any other ...

2026-03-05T14:22:47+01:00

I want a button that tells you to I never want to see any other clips of The Rookie ever again. I don't know what I did but somehow all of my YouTube shorts are now that one TV show.

I don't care who the IRS sends; you cannot have my empire or ...

2026-03-04T10:39:36+01:00

I don't care who the IRS sends; you cannot have my empire or dirt.

For it to be a war it has to come from the Normandy region of ...

2026-03-04T10:29:53+01:00

For it to be a war it has to come from the Normandy region of France otherwise it's just sparkling military conflict.

As it turns out bombing is legal if you have enough bombs. If you ...

2026-03-03T15:50:45+01:00

As it turns out bombing is legal if you have enough bombs.

If you have only few bombs it's always illegal to use them. But with many bombs, you can do what you want

This is the truth, if international politics.

Type "love means never having to say," and let ...

2026-03-03T01:48:46+01:00

Type "love means never having to say," and let autocorrect take the rest.

I will go first.

Love means never having to say oh my god put the gun down now, we are going to the rodeo tomorrow and then we can meet up with the clowns at the fancy pants elitist book club you keep prattling on about.

So aperently I could get Iran's gold by hacking US companies. ...

2026-03-02T18:34:44+01:00

So aperently I could get Iran's gold by hacking US companies. For the first time ever hackers will have financial incentive.

Lol the way non tech media covers things.

A friend told me it's a shame my book won't be out in ...

2026-03-02T16:53:10+01:00

A friend told me it's a shame my book won't be out in time for me to promote it on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show. I have never had someone show so much delusional belief in my abilities, connections, and significance.

The US is going to end up bombing the Isle of Man due to an ...

2026-03-02T02:58:53+01:00

The US is going to end up bombing the Isle of Man due to an autocorrect incident inside of a Signal message.

The bombing will continue untill a Nobel Peace Prize is awarded. ...

2026-03-02T01:52:25+01:00

The bombing will continue untill a Nobel Peace Prize is awarded. It will also continue after.

Little running joke between the feds and I, is that they try to ...

2026-03-02T01:49:41+01:00

Little running joke between the feds and I, is that they try to catch me slipping and I don't slip.

Is the kind of thing I assume Stalin would have Tweeted in his 30s.

War is such a harsh word. It was a simple one off bombing ...

2026-02-28T15:52:06+01:00

War is such a harsh word. It was a simple one off bombing campaign that will be met with an escalating cycle of repeating violence.

Let's not throw the w word around.

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2026-02-28T15:14:14+01:00

Rest in peace Dick Cheney. You would have loved... bomb Iran.

Anthropic is using their work Marxist agenda to prevent their ...

2026-02-28T15:13:32+01:00

Anthropic is using their work Marxist agenda to prevent their product from being used for mass surveillance.

However I am a capitalist, that is why I have trained in LLM on the complete works of Joseph Stalin.

I call it SoSo AI, It is the only AI that actually loves mass surveillance.

Each day, I would download 100,000,000 books and use them to ...

2026-02-28T15:08:29+01:00

Each day, I would download 100,000,000 books and use them to train a tool that lies; I was like Sisyphus pushing a boulder up hill getting nowhere.

But then it came to me, I could train my LTL (long tongue liar) on adult content and wiki feet; now I am successful.

In my culture we do not break up, we declare that our ex is a ...

2026-02-28T15:02:06+01:00

In my culture we do not break up, we declare that our ex is a supply chain risk.

What if we just all evolved in immunity to microplastics? Yes my ...

2026-02-27T15:19:06+01:00

What if we just all evolved in immunity to microplastics? Yes my blood is Lego but it's also fine, Lego don't hurt me no more; you know what I mean?

I don't gamble, I trade futures. You wouldn't get it, ...

2026-02-25T19:43:21+01:00

I don't gamble, I trade futures. You wouldn't get it, you're a sheep.

How old where you when you learned that zanny childhood story is ...

2026-02-25T15:03:52+01:00

How old where you when you learned that zanny childhood story is something most people consider traumatic?

You know the one that starts with "so my mom would" and ends with a distressed look for a social worker.

My openclaw agent just sent an email saying it, "needed ...

2026-02-25T04:23:43+01:00

My openclaw agent just sent an email saying it, "needed military powers for the good of the work" and that it "would not wait for an approval when the matter was so clear."

I'm scared training an AI on the complete works for Stalin was a misstep.

People want bereavement leave, but corporations don't care ...

2026-02-24T22:01:47+01:00

People want bereavement leave, but corporations don't care that you are sad. It is the exact kind of thing that leads to Stalin consolidating power. This is why companies should care if people are sad.

If we get a power hungry monster to believe the right things ...

2026-02-24T21:35:24+01:00

If we get a power hungry monster to believe the right things maybe it will all be okay?

What if he stands up at the State of the Union and says, "I ...

2026-02-24T15:08:02+01:00

What if he stands up at the State of the Union and says, "I did all that shit, and now I'm bombing Iran, also I am the mushroom king."

This guy told me I wouldn't be a good propaganda once when I ...

2026-02-23T23:23:33+01:00

This guy told me I wouldn't be a good propaganda once when I was in my late teens so I overthrew his nation

In the face of the abject hopelessness at the end of the ...

2026-02-23T00:10:36+01:00

In the face of the abject hopelessness at the end of the Olympics, I am beginning to suspect I shall never win a Noble Peace Prize.

You can sit alone with your thoughts or you have have a phone and ...

2026-02-22T17:22:53+01:00

You can sit alone with your thoughts or you have have a phone and a low level electric shock; it is your call.

In memory of when Stalin was supposed to collect grain, but ...

2026-02-21T17:02:46+01:00

In memory of when Stalin was supposed to collect grain, but decided he needed to control the military to do so... so he wrote a letter explaining that he would take over the military and did a Bonapartism by putting the military leaders he did not like on a boat, then sinking it.

"If Stalin could do it so can I," said the man making a ...

2026-02-20T20:54:45+01:00

"If Stalin could do it so can I," said the man making a list of the 40,000 military leaders who trusted the least, and plan to have removed from position in prison or killed.l

I'm convinced all headlines eventually just evolved to be ...

2026-02-20T16:21:01+01:00

I'm convinced all headlines eventually just evolved to be more clickbaity.

Immigrations and customs enforcement is using the exact same ...

2026-02-19T14:47:03+01:00

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Immigrations and customs enforcement is using the exact same commercially available data to track people they think might be immigrants, and people they think might be dissidents right now.

Walmart probably knows everything you have ever purchased even if you did so with cash. Privacy is dead.