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 For #introductions I worked 20 years an archaeologist, 10 years an educator, now an aspiring and ... 
 welcome to nostr 🤙🏼 
 Homemade wings tonight in the gulag. 
 ghost pepper 
 The rise of decentralized social media platforms like Nostr has sparked important debates about t... 
 freedom of speech is not the same as freedom of reach 
 Has anyone made a proper bitcoin-free algo feed? (Detecting: Text, slang, price, images, GIFs, vi... 
 working on it! 
 This bull market I shall buy new underwear and socks. There will be signs.  
 only after 100k? 
 Good morning to all my fellow coffee enthusiasts out there!

Sipping  @ #coffeechain  
 GM 
 Holding your Nostr key is a great warmup for self custody Bitcoin.   
 next step: leaking your nostr key 🤙🏼 
 yeah it's because nostr developers can't agree to use one standard 
 if you're writing nostr code, use something like this:

content.displayName || content.display_name || content.name || content.username 
 not to update them all, but to display the first value that is present 🤙🏼 
 nostr vs bluesky? 
 nostr will take off when the algorithms arrive 
 Gm ☀️ ☕️ 
 GM 🤙🏼 
 wait till the sun is close to setting though! (learned the hard way) 
 i miss sending zaps but can’t figure this shit out :/ 
someone pls show me how to zap w cashu b... 
 wallet of shitoshi 
 Leftists are some of the fiercest Monero-using, E2EE privacy advocates I know. During the BLM pro... 
 let's get them on nostr 
 first I stopped paying attention to follows, and now I've found that I don't care about likes either. maybe they're still useful for algorithms? 
 getting zap notifications is gratifying 
 Deploying on vercel feel good.

Maybe two weeks away from releasing a mvp. 

"Two Weeks" 
 it does feel good! what are you building? 
 Question for my friends out there. Let’s say you had to go on a one way trip overseas and neede... 
 give one person half of the words and another person the other half 
 Block Height 870,000 
 number go up 
 I'm retiring this npub. Please DM me for the new one. 

Reason: nsec.app and nsec bunker are cust... 
 this is the way 
 that is probably the way forward 
 for now, I just don't get too attached to one keypair 
 I think there was a proposal for it, but it didn't gain traction 
 kinda dawning on me that chaumian ecash is likely the future. 
 welcome to the club 🤙🏼 
 As quick as we went up, we can also drop like a rock. Be ready for crazy moves. This is bitcoin a... 
 enjoy the ride 🤙🏼 
 GM Nostr! 🔥 
 GM 🤙🏼 
 The US government basically owns (it can seize it if it wants to?) the #Bitcoin of MicroStrategy,... 
 correct 
 gm, as the price goes nuts, those that can eliminate the noise and focus on building will be on top. 
 bull markets are for building 🫡 
 #introduction My first post on Nostr, I want to make more #friends on here let’s link up. I’m... 
 favorite thing: we are the algorithm 
 My favorite feature on #damus is the pfp tap to follow. I love that it protects me emotionally so... 
 what if we didn't see follows at all? 
 I do my part around here for Bitcoin and #nostr but I also post plenty of #weirdstr for good measure 
 keep it weird 🤙🏼 
 need to gamify university tasks somehow 
 it's more fun if you break the rules 
 It’s contradictory to talk about freedom while acting against it. Primal Wallet doesn’t allow... 
 Cashu e-cash wallet: https://www.minibits.cash 
 thanks for the zap, @Minibits 🫡 
 Imagine some people suggesting not talking about problems because you’re a man.
He says, just g... 
 it's true, nostr developers are like stray cats 
 Just washed my hair. Shampoos and rinses are scientifically designed to strip the natural oil off... 
 what's wrong with floss? 
 If it's not open source, it's not private. 

If you can't choose to use your own server, it's not... 
 amen! 
 If you are reading this message, you are the Resistance. 
 fight 🫡 
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 boring! nostr gives us the tools to build communities that aren't bitcoin circle jerks