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 Also does someone more keen than I want to explain the note-repeater bot madness in the replies? 🤔 
 😬 just had somebody approach me to be an influencer-for-Harris… who’s gonna tell em they lost me approx 363 days ago? Smh. Read the room, folks. 
 GM 🌞 Here’s another behind the scenes of my illustration project - the zebra primrose. What are you grateful for today? I am grateful for the quiet moments in the early morning with my coffee and my stylus. ☕️ #gratitude #artstr https://image.nostr.build/126d46278353c4638ad546ad333cf7103bc70899c3484366ce7c9d024f24ed48.jpg  
 Same 🫂 
 GM 🌞 book recommendation for your Thursday: The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene. Fascinating. #bookstr 
 That’s hysterical! 🤣 I remember it coming out in the early 2000s because I remember the cover. But I’m just now reading it and wow. Fantastic read. 
 GM Kamo! You as well! 🫂 
 Omg I’m a little obsessed with Theo Von 🤣 looking that up pronto 
 I told TikTok it kind of explains why people act illogically sometimes 😅 
 GM 🌞 just finished my February Seasonal Fruits & Blooms calendar! On to March! Here is a sneak peek of my fav Feb flower 🥰 #illustrators #flowers #art #gardenvarietycalendar https://image.nostr.build/5e0f637dc9c320b43eebee7bb6fe01cfc48568b95e58baf4f8b6f611c0c1e7d3.jpg  
 GM 🌞 just saw someone on LinkedIn replying to Bill Gates, and they called him BG… it took all my willpower to not respond: “That’s WG to you” 🤣 
 William Gates 🤣 
 Good morning beautiful people of nostr. Have an outstanding weekend! 🫂 
 Gm Eliza! ☕️🫂 
 GM 🦉 who gave #Duolingo the permission to be this dramatic for real? 🤣 https://image.nostr.build/12fead62445b4b7d72615734b19e130aad3bf851246b7402eea73776625226a8.jpg  
 GM 🥑 Mandela effect test! The small avocado whose name starts with H and ends with S — How is that name spelled? #mandelaeffect 
 Congratulations you’re from this timeline! 😅 
 Aha you and I are from the alternate timeline 😅 
 It is not… according to Google… (anymore lol) - as someone with a very good memory for words, this particular Mandela effect is really disturbing me. I also am from the HAAS timeline. Lol 
 GM ☕️ ever heard the saying: “those who can’t do, teach”? Well, if that’s true I’d like to add: “Those who can’t teach, argue.” 🤣 
 It’s going well, friend! How’s it going with you? 🫂 
 You don’t have to… you have proofs *badumbumtssss* 🤣 
 Yall. This got me. I’m ROFLMAO. I know to the average non-politically inclined person this probably doesn’t make any sense, but y’all… they could have used him to wiggle a few votes around and now they can’t ahahahahaha I’m delighted 
 Right like if there really is some secret rigging going on, like Bernie fans suspected in 2016, Kennedy would be the much more believable “spoiler” for Trump than Jill Stein. 
 This is ALSO the link between CBD having therapeutic effects on people with Parkinson’s, which causes a reduced ability to convert L-dopa!!! Yeah, I’m nerding out about neurology 😅 nostr:note1ehkyhq9as6kc7v58zh63lje4pr8n386jt92wpcx555t66tfezp3qrhnat6 
 GM 🌞 did you know there is new research coming out that might explain why certain people experience “reefer madness” while other people do not? Could be based on how autistic they are! 

The most interesting thing about this study is that they’ve shown there’s a THC:CBD ratio threshold that can prevent cannabis-related psychosis, with high-CBD cultivars even acting as an anti-psychotic! 

These findings are so important to help health professionals understand and guide medicinal and recreational consumers and not just label all cannabis as mental-health-antagonizing. 👏 

Read the study here: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/9/5616 
 And just by the way, autism is a condition characterized by dysregulation (usually over-activity) in the ACC - anterior cingulate cortex. This is the area of the brain that changes sensory information into emotional information (thus the sensory meltdown exists). It also is used in error detection and rule-setting. To support this part of the brain we need to be getting methylated B vitamins, vitamin C and dietary copper. This study shows that THC lowers methylation, which increases available L-dopa (antsy-ness) but stops it from being converted into dopamine (motivation) or broken down into norepinephrine (chill), while CBD increases methylation and therefore assists with the neurological balance. Freaking fascinating!! 
 Right and that’s because most of it has been cultivated for high-THC! My husband gets wildly paranoid on high-thc cannabis but he is super relaxed on high-CBD hemp products. He is also more “autistic/rigid” than I am. 
 This chart also reminds me that low acetylcholine (which is made from dietary choline most prevalent in eggs) is responsible for autistic “stimming” bc we need acetylcholine in the ACC to control muscle movements a smoothness of motion. This is also related to methylation in the body. Thanks 🤙 
 Happy Sunday 🌞 here’s a behind the scenes for the curious 😎🤙 #proofofwork #bloomstr #flowers #illustration
#gardenvarietycalendar #gardenvarietymarket https://image.nostr.build/0af31c0ac41f8cceb3b21080ee84d49d16d95ad1bcda47e74f43d169cfe50015.jpg  
 GM ☕️ yall wanna sneak peek of the new product I am designing for my Etsy store? 👀 Drumroll, please. 🥁 It’s a gardening calendar by zone for 2025! 🤩 ya girl is about to get busy illustrating! 😎🎨 #proofofwork #gardenstr #flowerstr https://image.nostr.build/04462684b63282d354af6f588f5f20a2e6a844d800fc9bf7b790abea2cbb7c7b.jpg  
 While the devs are away, the plebs shall play! 👾 #nostriga 

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 You know what I like about conference days?

All the cool people are gone so suddenly Nostr feels... 
 🤣🫡 goofy pleb reporting for duty 
 Agreed! 😎 
 Lol not me up at 3:30am on my day off work catching #nostriga highlights 🤪😎🤙 PV! 
 GM 🌞 the “very demure, very mindful” trend on #TikTok could be an entire case study on viral memes. 🤓 yeah, I know I’m a nerd. 
 So it started with a creator named Jools Lebron and is meant to be humor/self-satire. 

Like I could say: “See how I post only on #Nostr? Very demure. Very mindful. I’m not like these other girls out here still posting to the app formerly known as Twitter. Very demure. Very cutesy.” 🤣 

Without the whole meme context it’s a little hard to understand, but that’s the general setup. 
 I know nobody asked for the whole backstory, but I do think the OG version was one of the Kardashians, and of course they used it seriously, not satirically. It certainly helped the viral moment that Jools kind of looks and sounds like a long lost Kardashian sibling too 🤣 I love the internet. Stay weird, friends. 
 Yes! That’s what I love about it too! It fascinates me how memes become memes basically overnight. 
 Gm nostriches 
 GM Dan! 
 Gonna unfollow anyone who hasn’t posted in 2 weeks so I can see notes from people who actually ... 
 😅 Phew! I’m safe! For once, oversharing is an advantage. 🤣 
 🤣 the pain in her voice 
 I mean, I get it. The DNC has fought the Kennedy camp every breath for the past year. They should have cut a deal with him but they were too afraid of him. 
 GM 🌞 Bassem Youssef had his X account with 11mil followers taken down yesterday. I have invited him to join us on #Nostr instead. 😇 
 I didn’t say it was taken down by X. It was just taken down. 🤙 
 Ain’t nobody need Elmo’s legal team coming for me 🤣🤣🤣 
 Do we have a #ceasefire in #Gaza???? 🤞🤞 #asknostr #uspol #viralnews 
 I guess I could have tagged this with #interpol but that seems spooky 😅 
 Even though I don’t “like” anything you just said, I do think you’re right, and I do like that we can have robust conversations about this here without fearing being blacklisted by saying a trigger word. Thanks 
 Lmao my affirmations app got jokes. I love the internet. 🤣 #verydemure https://image.nostr.build/cad9cb2f38c65a1176ad212d08c13b836ef8a57ccd164fccb0497f273afd005a.jpg  
 Question for fellow Americans: have you ever ordered a product from Alibaba, and if so, how was your experience? Any tips? 
 Alibaba because it’s kind of a hotel-ish purchase. I’m slowly setting up a nature-retreat-center type situation, and so I’m looking at an outdoor sauna like a hotel might get. 
 I’m going to try a small(ish) purchase first: an infrared sauna. I expect it’ll show up flat packed and I’ll have to assemble it, which is fine. I’ve already placed an inquiry and they are designing a quote, but my questions are: Does the client usually arrange the port-to-home part of the shipment or does the seller handle that? (The seller does say on their FAQ that they ship to port or to front-door.) And has it been your experience that assembly instructions are friendly? 😅 
 Nice! Yeah I figured the instructions would be in Chinese, but at least I have a mechanically inclined husband who can help me figure it out. Haha. 
 GM 🌞 Sunday synchronicity story time: I have a friend in town who is a widow in her 70s named Flossie. About once a month I go help her in her garden. Two weeks ago when I was there, she gave me a birds nest and said: “I saved this for you. You never know when you might need a birds nest.” And I thanked her and brought it home and put it on my shelf of curiosities. 

Didn’t think another thing about it until today when my husband yelled out in despair because he accidentally destroyed a hidden birds nest in one of our patio tables with the leaf blower - and terrified the poor baby bird inside. 

I was like: wait, I have just the thing. Went inside and grabbed that birds nest and got the little dude back in his table. The parent birds cussed us out I think, but they are flying in and out of there now like they’re cool. 🤣 anyway, what are the odds? #synchronicity 
 Living dangerously 😅 
 You wanna know what is WAY overpriced that nobody is talking about? Freaking trash bags. Lol but seriously. I’m always shocked by how much they cost. 
 I do compost and that def helps with cardboard and food stuffs. I usually only bag other plastics which seems insane to say out loud lol plastics everywhere 😅 
 Right same here! 
 GM ☕️ sometimes I think about how interesting it is that we collectively decided that “spoilers” of certain popular media were uncool, so we invented “spoilers-without-context” as a way to signal that we are pop culture aware and also clever but not a dick. 🤣 
 GM ☕️ getting comments like this one is why I make videos on the internet. 🥰 humans are pretty ok I guess. https://image.nostr.build/97eef2a5c3aeb07eb2c5e46acea6bfa2bf9f5eb2aac908a97555290b750aa1a8.jpg  
 GM 😎 I got the love letters and pink dahlias… who wants to wrestle? 🤣 #costar is so weird. https://image.nostr.build/35f5233695530b09a2c4d31b01e6f5f6ddb403a8a824d4e220e20bb2e34c368f.jpg  
 A serious post because I’m a serious person. Lol jk but I did work out today so there’s that. 😎💪 #fitbodapp https://image.nostr.build/4a6600561c165fcada4eb82268148aa13e142ca52b79297ba79b9b1e6d20dca6.jpg  
 To the windows!!! To the WALZ!!!

🤣 sorry I’ll see myself out… 
 GM ☕️😈 yesterday I made a video about ADHD brains, and a couple peeps showed up demanding that I talk faster and remove my background Mozart because they couldn’t understand me. 

I informed them that to have such strong sensory preferences and “rules” that you believe should apply to everyone is not adhd, it’s autism. 😇 no judgment, it just is what it is. 😅 
 🤙 It’s over here on the ticketytock: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRonR4rQ/ 
 I like what Gary Brecka says which is: ADHD isn’t a lack or deficit of attention, it’s the inability to “metabolize” thoughts. Haha. 
 GM ☕️ Bobby Kennedy just turned in the most signatures of any independent candidate in American history, but you probably won’t hear about that because the New Yorker is running a story about him as a young man putting a roadkill bear in Central Park and staging it as a bike accident for shits and giggles. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

If the point of that piece was to anger or disgust me, then the good people at the New Yorker really don’t understand what I’ve seen in the past 300 days that ACTUALLY angers and disgusts me. I’ll be voting for anyone who possibly could end the war machine, and I’m not sorry about it. Happy Monday! 😄 
 What’s happening to my friends family is Gaza has nothing to do with democracy or peacekeeping unfortunately 
 They really do have the boomers convinced 🙄