Yo @npub128a2...7erh does anyone ever call you Tiddles? Like the tortoise in Peppa Pig

Look at this gorgeous custom bookplate stamp you get when you buy a book at Weird Providence in Rhode Island. The store is located in the Arcade, which was built in 1828. It’s the oldest mall in America!

Homeschooling is so cool. I’ve been so heavily indoctrinated by the state that it’s blowing my mind that homeschoolers don’t really have grades (as in “what grade are you in?”). Where I live we have to send education plans to the town’s school district every year. Instead of basing it on grade, most homeschoolers use age as a marker for where a child is in their learning. It’s a slight differentiation but I feel like it opens the mind to the many different ways learning can take shape. I went to a workshop last night and got a list of homeschooling philosophies. Charlotte Mason immediately jumped out as something I might be interested in and I’m excited to do more research. Anyone have a favorite homeschooling philosophy? Unschooling sounds cool but I’m not sure I could handle something completely guided by my child. I already make my kid do handwriting workbooks if he wants to watch tv, hahaa

Getting ready to order swag for the fall conference circuit. What are some of your favorite items that you’ve gotten for free at events? Bonus points if you include pics!

I found this homemade book in a little free library. The cover was made from a cracker box 😄

A Sunday well spent

Justice for Yashraj. Why will nobody impersonate him?!? View quoted note →

Love this orange pill advice from @dread at Africa Bitcoin Conference Diaspora #ABCD2025 🙌🏼

“Thanks for picking that up for me! I will Venmo you the money.” “Oh I don’t have Venmo but I can do bitcoin, CashApp, or PayPal” *radio silence* Even if bitcoin has world-class UX, I’m not sure if we’ll ever see widespread adoption until we can figure out how to release the absolute chokehold Venmo has on people, especially millennials. CashApp may not be self custody but at least I can live my bitcoin life if someone uses it to send me money. Venmo has normalized digital payments so much that it’s changed how people behave and has become a verb. Nobody bothers to split bills anymore and they have stopped carrying cash. Why? Because they “can just Venmo you”. I can see stack overflow error happening in real time when I tell my friends I don’t have Venmo because I don’t believe they created the social feature in good conscience and think it’s an awful thing for Venmo to try and normalize the destruction of financial privacy. Yes, you can now make transactions private, even if it’s not the default. No, I don’t care. I’m dying in this hill. I don’t want to link my fiat ass bank account to ANOTHER system when PayPal, which owns Venmo does the exact same thing. And you know what? People have been using PayPal since the dawn of the Internet 2.0. You already have it! And if I’m going to use a newer, mobile, digital payment solution, it’s going to be CashApp because at least I can turn that money you owe me into bitcoin, which is what I actually prefer you pay me back in. To add to that, Block and Jack Dorsey have done so much for the Bitcoin ecosystem. Of course I want to support CashApp! In my experience the hierarchy is: 1. Venmo 2. Zelle 3. Cash (middle ground for “you don’t want to set up CashApp? Weird because I don’t want to set up Venmo!”) 4. “I’ll get your lunch next time” 5. MAYBE PayPal or CashApp 6. Not getting your money back 7. bitcoin So what do I want? Obviously the Bitcoin Standard, but if I can’t have that I want to make cash great again and more people using bitcoin compatible payment solutions. I encourage everyone to join me in a crusade of maximum pain for anyone trying to use something that is not this. We all deserve better! A win-win would be if Venmo integrated bitcoin so then all my Venmo using friends could transact with whoever they wish, using a free and open monetary protocol. For starters it would probably help if I was more often in the scenario of needing to pay people back instead of the other way around…