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 Anyone out there work at an agency that specializes in podcast outreach?

We need to get some nos... 
 Oh yeah I got you, bro. You want to talk to nostr:nprofile1qqs977hqgydje4pk9e9qu8yqx6a3u767qq46m3vl9aynxl9peqf523cpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgjwaehxw309ac82unsd3jhqct89ejhxqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcyg5shh 
 Managed to fuck up both my car and garage door because the garage door only went up 75% of the way before getting stuck, just enough to be out of my rearview mirror's coverage when I was backing out. 😡 
 Garage doors are crazy.

Like, you can kill yourself trying to perform maintenance on the primary roller spring if you don't know what you're doing.

They're also crazy delicate and become completely useless if anything gets slightly out of alignment. 
 WHY IS IT SO HARD TO NOT POISON MYSELF

LIKE WHAT IS THIS, WHY DO I WANT TO DESTROY MY BODY, I GE... 
 Have you tried lifting heavy things? 
 Ask not what your country can do for you.

Ask what you can do to fuck The Man. 
 "90% of all tweets are made by 10% of the people. And those people are 100% retarded."

- Joe Rogan 
 I'm fairly confident that X has changed / is lying about their engagement metrics.

My dashboard claims I'm gaining 5,000+ followers per month, but my follower count has been flat all year.

A charitable explanation is they used to report net follower count changes and now they're counting every spambot that follows you and then has their account deleted shortly thereafter. 
 Can someone name an investment that isn't speculative?

Like what do people even mean when they s... 
 Indeed, all investment returns require risk. Folks just seem to have an imaginary line on the risk curve at which they consider the risk to be too high, and they call that "speculation." 
 Looking forward to the day when I can order a mosquito drone swarm on Amazon and instruct them to patrol my property as hunter-killers for a variety of pests. 
 Market's gotta dump so that Saylor's next $2B buy acquires as many coins as possible. 
 The cast iron vs stainless steel pan debate is dumb.

Titanium is the new hotness. 
 Tungsten pans might be a tad heavy. 
 I am a very tolerant person until you start waving your flags in my face, gfy with that pls 🙏🫂 
 I'm not a huge fan of the Olympics either 🙃 
 I have the same problem. If you want to stop it there are adhesive stickers you can apply to the glass to increase the likelihood of birds detecting it's a solid object. 
 A family member asked if I had my photo taken with Trump like how my grandfather (who was very active in the Republican Party) had his photo taken with Ronald Reagan.

He was taken aback when I informed him that Trump required a $60,000 donation for the privilege. 
 I know, right?
I got my photo with Craig Wright for free! 
 An issue with Universal Basic Income that I haven't seen addressed is that it would become an annuity that people will find ways to borrow and spend against.

Thus degenerate or desperate recipients will just make purchases today against their "credit line" of future annuity payments. Not sure how you'd prevent this in practice. 
 Yeah I expect it would be like predatory payday loans. 
 Not sure why Elon went all-in on Dogecoin.

He seems more like a Cumrocket guy. 
 But Elon loves edgey humor and phallic symbols and doge stopped being funny 8 years ago 🤷🏻‍♂️ 
 When I grow up I want to become a ghost. 
 I doubt I'll delete due to the historical value, but I do intend to eventually abandon the few social accounts I have remaining. 
 Is this art? 😏
 
 I have a feeling I'll be ghosting a lot of friends in the coming years.

Spending time around bit... 
 Ghosted almost all of mine 6 years ago. 
 Dude, Youtube is cracking down hard and it's insanely frustrating. My go to for YEARS for getting... 
 yt-dlp does a good job keeping up with evading breaking changes 
 Leg Day!

This week I'm up to 3 sets of 7 Leg Presses at 480 pounds 😎 
 I wonder why nostr:nprofile1qqsvwcwuwcwmucx3s7dfs54m49h7uclw4vxh8ygu25m9chk0ypy5ngspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsnv258z has a nostr presence 🤓
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 People love stablecoins. 
 Hahahahahaha keep telling yourself that. 
 What most Puritans fail to realize is that "shitcoiners" are almost always also Bitcoiners. 😜 
 I wonder why Bitcoin magazine and swan bitcoin don't have a nostr presence? 🤭🤭 
 I wonder why nostr:nprofile1qqsvwcwuwcwmucx3s7dfs54m49h7uclw4vxh8ygu25m9chk0ypy5ngspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsnv258z has a nostr presence 🤓
nostr:nevent1qqsy2d62pruk5akcwjs68q0ngxda7kpm4ty5cs4npd23ccx8hn3n5kgpzemhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2un9d3shjtnrdakj7q3qutx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4sxpqqqqqqztlyxlu 
 You wouldn't walk around carrying hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash on you.

Yet a ton of you are walking around with that much Bitcoin readily accessible.

This is a danger not only to yourself, but to the rest of us. We must stop teaching criminals that wrench attacks against Bitcoiners have an insanely high ROI! 
 Depends on who you collaborate with.

nostr:nprofile1qqsvwcwuwcwmucx3s7dfs54m49h7uclw4vxh8ygu25m9chk0ypy5ngspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsnv258z doesn't perform KYC and we offer guides for how to use our service while retaining strong privacy. 
 Absolutely not. 
 🚨PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT🚨

Heather Morgan, AKA 'Razzlekhan' is a self proclaimed social engineer who pleaded guilty to laundering funds her husband hacked from Bitfinex (120,000 BTC) back in 2016.

I crossed paths with her in Nashville this week. After asking around I discovered she has been spotted at multiple Bitcoin events over the past year.

It's extremely suspicious that she is still walking free and hasn't been sentenced for her crimes.

I recommend that all Bitcoin event organizers treat her as a threat actor and DENY ENTRY.
https://image.nostr.build/476ce933688ff65fd0cd701931961d9b1a6348ab86970f74106dfbc6828dda89.jpg 
 I've been receiving a lot of interesting information on Heather after making this post. 

If you know anything about her recent activities, please shoot me a DM!
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 "Bitcoin is the world's greatest ESG investment."

- nostr:nprofile1qqs9336p4f3sctdrtft2wlqaq5upjz9azpgylhfd3dplwf005mfrr9spzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj7spz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kueg6g89xw
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 Had a batshit insane moment happen in Nashville:

Heather Morgan AKA Razzlekhan had the gall to show up. She's one of the people who pleaded guilty to hacking Bitfinex in 2016.

I've asked around and folks have told me she has also showed up recently at events in NYC and Stanford.

Suspicious AF that she's walking around freely... smells like she's flipped to working with the feds. 
 You know you're at a Bitcoin conference when half the folks at your breakfast table are wielding multiple phones. 
 When I am President I shall instruct the Treasury Secretary to buy 20 million bitcoin! 
 We don't need any help from politicians to support Bitcoin. We just need them to leave us alone. 
 Shout-out to everyone who wrote Bitcoin wallets, this shit is very hard, I dunno how you did it 
 Practice makes perfect. 
 Some guy in my airport lounge is on a call pitching launching an enterprise blockchain token and says Mario Nawful's team will help them fundraise and pay exchanges to get listed. 😬 
 Black Swanday 
 Tell us how you really feel 😂 
 This is why Bitcoiners are still on Twitter and not actively using Nostr. 
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 I've seen others complain that it isn't growing fast enough. Which is ironic because that mindset retards growth by preventing them from contributing to the network effects. 
 Did Biden know that he's not running yet? 
 One of the major flaws with democratic republics is they always neglect to put "none of the above" as an option on the ballot. 
 Nice. Switzerland will now require government agencies to use open source software.

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/new-open-source-law-switzerland 
 We have huge swaths of critical infrastructure that runs on Windows and a single buggy update can bring it to a grinding halt.

Anyway, good morning. 
 That feeling when you're providing tech support to a clueless family member.
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 Institutions are systems of control that tend to get corrupted when they amass too much power.

Organized religion is no exception. 
 As it should be! 
 The last ditch plan by one of the few remaining BSV shills sounds really familiar.

Oh yeah, it's the plot of Idiocracy! 🤣
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 just got my first dishwasher. AMA. 
 Weren't you already married? 
 Seems like 95% of folks listen to music while working out.

Anybody else rawdog their routine like a psychopath? 
 Good answer 😊 
 Raccoons are trying to break into Cybertruck trunks and some speculate that this is happening because the raccoons are confusing them with dumpsters.
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 One reason to stick to free weights over exercise machines: traveling.

No matter where you go, a pound is a pound and a kilogram is a kilogram - for free weights.

But machines can vary by brand and even by age / wear. It's frustrating when you're trying to follow a precise schedule of graduated weights. 
 Ok at this point I'm willing to pay for signet coins, I'm done wasting time begging

50,000 sats ... 
 Time to reset signet! 😬 
 For anyone new here, the Nawsters outnumber the Nohsters, but they’re looking to build up the t... 
 "Nawstrich" is to nostr as "nocoiner" is to Bitcoin. 🙃
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