Lately I’ve been appreciating how important curiosity is. I’ve found that when I’m having a difficult interaction with someone, when the way they are treating me isn’t up to my standards, it’s generally because they have no curiosity for me or my ideas. And I am better able to understand a situation, and come up with strategies and ideas when I’m looking at things with a sense of curiosity.

You can take the zealot out of the cult, but you can't take the cult out of the zealot.

I haven't left Bitcoin, but I have left the American Bitcoin maxi scene. And so if I keep talking about Bitcoin, but I'm not talking to American Bitcoin maxi's, who am I talking to? I've been trying to leave the Bitcoin bubble for years and expand to new communities so which communities would be good to take a look at? This is my list so far... The LatAm FinTech world The cyber security scene The broader open source software community Human Rights activists Que mas?

"That's a made up word!" Yes, but all words are made up.

It's weird to me that we have this common narrative that therapists just encourage people to be "victims" and blame everyone else and do nothing. In my experience that is wildly inaccurate. A good therapist calls you on your shit. You can't do therapy without taking a good long look in the mirror.

What's you're fav Linux admin command? Like what do you type in your sleep? Mine is $ sudo lsof -n -P -i | grep LISTEN

The dude that was lecturing me on men and women last night told some stories about his grandfather beating his father, and his father beating him. This quote is all I could think about 😢

Every. F#$%%^. Time. Sometimes I gotta go look in the mirror and check to see if “please lecture me about masculinity” is tattooed on my forehead. Whenever one of these crypto bros spots me it’s like they just can’t help themselves. I was out on a date with my husband last night. We were just chilling on the patio of some funky bar in San Juan when a pack of dudes walks in and shares the patio table with us. They looked familiar, after a few min we sorted out that we’ve met them before at one of the local crypto events. I never start these conversations. “masculinity” and “femininity” are not a part of my day to day vocabulary. Not one time ever have I started this conversation. But I’ve done it so many damn times I can spot it a mile away and map out the whole thing. The beginning of the convo has lots of lovely words and includes things like “women are amazing”, “men are strong”, “men and women are not the same”, “I love to see a traditional family”, etc. The middle of the convo starts to get dark and includes things like “men are inherently violent”, “women are just complex and emotional creatures”, “men should be men and women should be women”, “men are the natural leaders”, “the world is inherently violent and hierarchical”, etc. etc. The end of the conversation is really the part that they love and can’t wait to get to. Sometimes I think they might nut in their pants if we make it all the way to this part. “men should be the decision makers”, “women will naturally submit to a dominant man, it’s just nature”, “women don’t really want to make decisions, it’s too stressful for them”, “the world should be led by men”, “we lost our way when women got brain washed into thinking they should be like men”… “repeal the 19th!” Well yesterday it started with one dude wanting to talk about parenting. “you have daughters?” And he wanted to tell me all about his daughters, but I can see it coming a mile away. He wasn’t talking with me, he was talking at me. He was just loving the opening to start lecturing me about women’s nature. I tried to wrap it up and change the topic, but that was never going to work. It started at the beginning of the convo with lovely things like “I love my daughters” and then we got to the dark middle “men are inherently violent”, “the world is run by violence.” I tried to diplomatically disagree and told him that I have a higher view of men, and we get to chose what we lean into, etc. But of course he then started into the ugly end of the convo with him running through scenarios trying to demonstrate why violence rules the world, and the part he was really waiting for… “that’s the hard truth. I can tell you about the hard truth of women too!” And nope, nope, nopidy nope. I just got up and left. Every. F#$%%^. Time.

Bitcoin is for breaking walls, not building thrones.

My husband just informed me that I earned more sats on Nostr this morning than our routing node has ⚡ 🫶 😝

The writing was on the wall with the “have fun staying poor”. I came to the Bitcoin because I wanted to demolish power structures. HFSP very clearly states “I’m here to create a monetary hierarchy where I am above you”. The American Bitcoin influencers now are motivated by being above others, and they try to sell Bitcoin by promising that those who adopt it will also be above others. It’s the antithesis of what I thought we were doing here and it’s heart breaking.

I’m really saddened and disgusted with the Bitcoin world right now. And to be very clear I mean the loud, American, Bitcoin social media ‘influencers’. Most of them anyhow. They are a pack of tyrant worshiping, blatantly misogynistic, fame whoring sociopaths. At this point I’m embarrassed to have ever hung out with them, or to now have any association with them. I’m debating what to do about this. I’ve left Bitcoin Twitter and don’t plan to engage with that world anymore. I want to keep speaking about this tech, but I won’t be focusing on that audience. They don’t want tech, they want to be above others. I’m not sure what is a good strategy here. I thought maybe I could help make things there better, but it’s gotten so bad that I can’t in good conscience be associated with it. Should I work on forming better Bitcoin communities? Should I just leave them to rot by themselves and focus on expanding the use of this tech in better communities? ...something else I haven’t thought of yet? I’d love some ideas here.

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I'm going to try setting up a cashu.me wallet. What mint should I connect to?

It really works out well for me that super long hair is considered luxurious and sexy because do you know what you need to do to achieve super long hair? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I mean I wash it and brush it, but other than that I just ignore it... and ta-da 🪄 luxurious long hair.

Yesterday I was talking to a friend about a really fun day I had a few months back. It was just randomly one of the most fun days I've ever had, and I think it was so fun as I had low responsibility that day, and zero expectations. Every fun thing that happened that day was a pleasant surprise. What's a wildly fun day you had and what made it so fun?