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 dry fasting 
 godspeed  
 if they lose your attention
they lose their power  
 idk how to do this regarding the war machine (which feels so collusively all-pervading that idk how to focus on it anyway) without feeling like I'm doing it *to* the people dying in the wars. (but I have been feeling like putting each of the actual people that are behind the war machine under a magnifying glass in the sun) 😕
 
 imo, herbal steam inhalations are so worth getting out of bed or off the couch for. they bring some relief and are enjoyably feel-good relaxing... especially before lying down.
https://theherbalacademy.com/blog/breathe-easier-with-a-decongesting-herbal-salt-steam/ 
 assuming they both wanted to, I wonder what it would take for X/FB/etc to adopt the nostr protocol.
would they have have to be willing to take a complete loss on the full value of the corporations or... ?
 
 this is great. period. and I'm grateful for nostr. more than grateful really.

was it a "mirage" tho? idk why that word being used there has been bothering me enough to ask, but...
it feels wrong
 
 What if “fate” is actually quantum entanglement 🤔 
 idk if "fate" and "acausal" are synonymous, but these are interesting too along the lines of that wormhole:
• Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR) Theory
• Morphic Resonance
• Synchronicity
🧘‍♀️ 
 I thank fuck for you all
🙏
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 can't remember ever feeling more relieved than it feels to see Julian Assange free
 
 But all the ‘Bitcoiners’ still stay, even when Nostr is right here. nostr:note1v2434xmczswh53... 
 Read just the first chapter of John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" (free via Project Gutenberg etc) a... 
 (if it ever came down to it)
would you rather:
donate plasma or sell some of your #bitcoin? 
 🫂 
 🫂 
 nostr suddenly feels a lot deeper and a bit broader 
 are you calling us fat 
 so much love and appreciation for yall @Snowden and @jack and everyone working on nostr and bitcoin.

that jurisdiction you mentioned, whether it's post or extra national, whether or not it's ever possible to solve any problems from within any current or future system(s)... it feels like a necessary and beautiful thing that should always be available to anyone who ever may find themselves in need or want of it. 
 
 I feel like everyone poor enough to have to pay a monthly fee to keep their bank accounts open would want to hear this.

"Bitcoin is different because it is a currency that's cryptographically backed, multijurisdictional... which means that it's very hard for any one power group in any particular jurisdiction to start turning it into a rent seeking apparatus."
#JulianAssange
#Bitcoin

#TheRentIsTooDamnHigh

https://twitter.com/pete_rizzo_/status/1708820710116802889?t=e37rdNRNIayIhWaKwKc3Mg&s=19 
 New users of nostr (or anyone), what questions do you have about nostr? 
 if someone first created a nostr account through them, would using something like the free Proton VPN and/or TOR be sufficient security for connecting a Bitcoin wallet or is it infinitely more complicated than that? 
 also, are there recommended apps for cleaning metadata from images before uploading them? 
 yeah the fudge-rounds line was dumb but my man is singing his heart out 
 it's a certain kind of divisive and derogatory propaganda that's been perpetuated for so long that it's usually unwittingly lodged into people's default mode to get those who aren't on it to feel better than-and robbed by-those who are so that they'll be focused on punching down and forget all about the tax dollars that go toward things like making vassals of sovereign peoples and nations and doing things like actually torturing and killing people all over the world with absolute impunity in a dumb attempt to rule over all there is, etc, etc.
(just a guess)

but yeah most of us don't realize when we're regurgitating shit deliberately designed to deepen the divide between people who otherwise might join forces to make the world better for all