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 “And I love Vermont, but it’s the season of the sticks.” 🌌

https://tidal.com/track/236098576?u  
 Always feel blah when it starts and so happy I attended once it’s over. 
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 No one is perfect and we all make mistakes. How we learn from them is what defines our character. 
 What did I miss?? 💞 
 Totally agree with the sentiment 💖Happy Friday Eve 🕊️ 
 Trademarks are a fuck if you do, fuck if you don't type of law. 

Was not an easy decision, but h... 
 No clue what this is about but team NVK all the way. 
 Language class on a Thursday evening is 🥱 
 I absolutely love this!! Really wanted to attend the 2024 Conference. Check this out yall: 
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 Pretty sure the majority of people moved from X to Bluesky without even knowing the differences between the two. And it seems safe to say that nostr will be fringe for a while. 

There needs to be some other tech giant that comes into the mix who isn’t from the 99s and the 2000s.  
 True, I just wish they had more education re why they’re following what is all 😭💖 
 🌧️ 
 “You think my life is rap?” 

https://youtu.be/H58vbez_m4E?feature=shared

 
 It’s low enough to be nonsensical in 2024 on a global stage for the Secretary of Defense. Hypotheticals are dangerous, I don’t engage in them. 
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 Takeaway: don’t choose excellence in service because everyone is everyone. Cool, cool. 
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 There are so many ways to reply to this, I can’t even begin to. Here’s to a smile before bed though. 

#WhoToldYou 
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 A guy I know voted for President Trump because he’s afraid of nuclear war. The incoming Secretary of Defenses highest military ranking is Major. Skip the fact that he’s a news personality. Service wise:

For scale, he isn’t a - 

A General 
A Lieutenant General
A Major General 
A Brigadier General (that’s like a senior staff general) 
A Colonel 
A Lieutenant Colonel 

He’s literally the lowest ranked officer you can be.  
 That and look what Canada has y’all, sign language interpreters! I know it seems like I beat a dead horse about equitable access for the deaf community here in the US but it’s because we’re so far behind. 
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 Christmas song: 
written ✅
recorded ❌
shot ❌
edited ❌ 
 Way to go!! 🎄 
 I can only imagine. Way to get that balance in, fam. 🏡👫👶🏻🪄 
 The women bring balance much needed balance to the nostrsphere.
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 🌐💖 
 Signal gets group video chat!

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 We use it for work 💙💙 
 So who wants to take bets about Elon’s X buying Truth Social? It’d be the ultimate way to buy... 
 Meh I don’t know. I feel like they won’t need truth social anymore because it’s duplicative of Twitter. Trump could just tell his people to go back to Twitter. Wild times! 💁🏽‍♀️ 
 Just had an 8 minute phone conversation with someone I’m getting to know. Tell me why I wrote out all my questions in advance and don’t think I took a full breath the whole time. 

How do people talk to people? 🧡🧡🧡 
 @roya ୨୧ how goes the planning love? 
 Too bad there isn’t a gong emoji. Please for the love of God, listen to @NVK 
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 Any veterans here in the nostrsphere? Grateful for you if so.  
 TODAYS THE DAY I PLAN OUT #NOSTLOUIS 

REPLY WITH WHO YOUD LIKE TO SEE THERE AND WHAT YOU’D WAN... 
 To do: I’d like a group kundalini yoga class led by someone local the STL community respects 💖 

A two day summit would be nice! I could attend anytime before year end. Only jumping to NY for a day or two.  
 This is a good one! @roya ୨୧ a few community give back options so we could choose as a group which to zero in on. Thanks for taking the lead girl! I’ll be there with bells on!  
 Me: holy fuck 84K
Katie: are you selling?
Me: no.
Katie: then why do you care?

I love her. 
 😂 Balance is the best.  
 I had a dream last night then I was in Florida, God knows why, and I was at a park. Then Elon gave announcements over a loud system telling people what he wanted them to do for the day. People understood it was routine and only a few were like ymbj.
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 Lightest sleeper ever.  
 How can anyone watch sports so late at night 🥱The Lions haven’t even started yet. Trying to hold on just dang  
 Who is this guy narrating the Bitcoin movie on HBO Max and why didn’t he hire @walker to voice it? 
 Admittedly I turned it off about 12 minutes in. Boring.  
 You’re so talented!!  
 I told someone today I never want anyone to talk to me about drag queens/positive role models for kids again because our incoming President literally gestured sexual innuendoes in front of a crowd and on nationally tv less than a month ago.  
 I freaking love my hometown. Getting a late night drive through chai at a local place and saw a friend picking up food from the same place at the walk up window. 

He ran over to the passenger side of my car and said “we love you very much, how are you hanging? 🕊️” 

🥹 community is everything.  
 “And everyday I’m gonna be smilin…” 

https://tidal.com/live/36808316 
 Lots of notes re: Ross today. It’s an incoming Trump Administration, and hope springs eternal right. 

That said, just a heads up that the latest historical precedent for President Pardons at the onset of an incoming Admin was like…Ford in the early 70s for another President, Nixon. It happens on their way out, to gain favor or street cred. 

 
 Later this afternoon I talk to the guy I have a crush on and I feel like Adrian Monk in any scene from MONK when he was attempting to get to know someone. Positive thoughts though! 🥰

In other news, I’m getting some work done while watching MJs This Is It and I’m just in awe. One of my favorite documentaries of all time.

“Yes, I believe in me, so you believe in you. Help me say!”

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 Slow Sunday morning in the Nostr streets. Or I’m missing a ton of notes as they load, hard to say. 🤗

In other news, my dad’s going international for a fishing trip for 5 days and I’m like 🥹. Of course I wanted the names and numbers of people he’s with, flight information, resort so I could look it up. He said “Angela, I raised you. Not the other way around.” 

I meaaannnn I know, it’s just 💞  
 Realized that today is my small business anniversary. In 2018, I established a US based 501c3, disability inclusion charity, called Invest In Access. 🧡

The vision was to make strides toward the day when disabled children in America will grow up in a society that recognizes them wholly - through equitable infrastructure, equitable access to the workplace, and equitable access to the joys of everyday life that people often take for granted; concerts, education, recreation, you name it. 

We’ve made a ton of progress and that’s been in large part to relationships rooted in lived experience, community, and cross movement collaboration. We also invest in our community childhood development center and mental health action. 🥰

If you’re on other platforms, you’ll find a list of our clients floating around. Proud and grateful. #CreateYourOwnDestiny  

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 Thank you, Nela!  
 Sometimes nostr feels really in flow. This isn’t one of those times. Tap me in when @jack has a nostr client, when @roya ୨୧ gets the green light on planning a #nostrconf in #STL or…no, yeah. That’s about it. 

In the meantime, I’ll be looking to the light for some peace of mind. 🧘🏽‍♀️
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 Here. 
 If they know now that he’s coming home in January, was he pardoned now? If so, it was the current Administration. 
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 His name is jack. 

jack has given his time to nostr (more important than funding) for nearly 2 years, and what people have to show for it is what’s here now. Unreal. 

jack mentioned building a nostr client in the not too distant past on his page. That’s why. That and it’s in my interest that he builds one. 

Anything else, dude?
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 Today I’m realizing that even though the election is the outcome that many people here on nostr wanted, it isn’t making any difference toward to the pace at which clients will be counted built here. There’s no “reinvigoration.” 

Guess I’ll just hang my hat on the fact that @jack has been deep in Black global/US culture and hope he leads in this moment.  

Counterbuild or become part of the fray  is the moment we live. That is clear to people, right?  
 what’s your nostr client going to be called 
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 🫂✨🌐 
 Can you believe Trump, RFK and Elon were all Democrats 
 Old white hat  
 Yes please! Girl I’d actually go. STL might as well be down the street from Mich.  
 Girl it’d be an honor. Only dates that would be no gos are Dec 1-3, I’ll be in NY for a memorial service ❤️‍🩹 
 At the salon this afternoon, the person doing my hair was a recent grad, totally fine. Anyway, I had my head back in the rinsing bowl and all of a sudden: 

Thud! 

A large shampoo bottle wacked the side my head 🫠 She was like “FU*K! I am so sorry!!” 

Of course I just thought  to myself “welp, that’s very on brand with the day 🕊️” and made sure she wasn’t embarrassed. 

But ouch. Oof. Life yall. 🧡

https://tidal.com/track/62097997?u 
 Appreciate this :) 
 It isn’t about me. It’s about introspection. You got an F, b. 
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 @jack time for you to make that app please and thank you, jack. Cause like come on, you can’t leave the people with Elon and Zuck 🫠🫠🫠🫠 
 Gentle encouragement to read ⬇️ 

Just as it’s important that I and fellow Americans to acknowledge that the incoming President is Donald Trump, it’s equally important that people are able to see this moment for what it is in global history.

I rountinelty witnesss that people on nostr are quick to dismiss reality with theories. Rather than take something for what it is. 

As you view the image below, I encourage you to be honest with yourselves. 

Did you dismiss instantly? 

Dismiss me instantly?

Explain it away? 

Can you take it in and consider a view you may not hold? 

How did you react. Reactive behavior v stillness is vital for balanced personhood and a balanced society. 

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 You know why I’m good at stacking sats? I have @Wallet of Satoshi and a business @CashApp (no Bitcoin for biz yet there) so all that the sats can do in WoS is chill/grow 🤗 
 Yesterday bright to you by a massage and today brought to you by a hair appointment and work 🤎✝️🏡
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 *brought. See @PABLOF7z? 🤎🤎Imperfection is a b.  
 KEEP NOSTR SIMPLE

VOTE “NO” ON THE EDITS REFERENDUM 
 Oh nooooooo 💖💖 I was just being silly re: this and now I’m caught in @ replies galore