Not the onion… 🇨🇦💩 Surreal story in 4 pictures

In bitcoin, the miners and startups, if sufficiently short term motivated, can be tempted to fork the system at the detriment of pleb hodlers. Sovereign node running is an immune function that prevents that. In politics, the government, if sufficiently short term motivated, can be tempted to fork the system at the detriment of productive citizens. Sovereign individuals owning firearms is an immune function that helps prevent that.

Bitcoin up 40% for the month. So much energy coiled up during the bear market. Weak hand selling exhausted, causing supply to dry up.

“What if we had a genuine initiation ritual for newly minted maxi’s… a passing rite that affirms your exit from the old, rotten fiat paradigm and your subsequent entry into satoshi’s judicious universe; a transformation symbolized by your face seemingly moving through a portal. I get excited just thinking about it!“ #circlebearding

We all know this feel.

“Take this, dear heart! she said, and thrust a small crystal phial, glittering with the radiance of Eärendil’s star, into his hand. ‘In this phial,’ she said, ‘is caught the light of Eärendil’s star, set amid the waters of my fountain. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places when all other lights go out.’”

The Ozric Tentacles just dropped a new album! It’s amazing, really trippy and energetic. The band was founded in 1983 by two brothers, one of them died in 1999. The father was a famous sculptor in the UK, friends with Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, etc. #PsychedelicRock

Spotify

Lotus Unfolding - Album by Ozric Tentacles | Spotify

Ozric Tentacles · album · 2023 · 6 songs

Doodle from 2020. The 5 BTC buys you 3 years now.

Verbatim, just now: Wife: How are you doing Mr. Scrolly Mc Scroll Pants? T: I’m going to log out of Twitter soon Wife: Is it an anger factory full of angry people? A: Yes! 😂

My dad fired his first bullets this week. Commanding a firearm has such an immediate effect on people, I think because it viscerally conveys to the handler how it really has the power to level the playing field. Proud of him!

The unacknowledged fear of (ego)death causes people to do the stupidest, most destructive things. To create a truly peaceful society, we all must learn to accept our mortality and fallibility one way or another.

Communists and socialists can be really nice people, courageous too. Yet that doesn’t make their ideas any less dangerous.

Seen at Buc-ee’s, Bastrop TX

ETH/BTC hopium. I’m not smoking it, though a dead cat bounce is always possible of course.

Socialism is the cult of victimhood.

Ethereum whales don’t have Diamond Hands… they have Sweaty Hands. Wondering when they should best offload their bags in order to - pay for the lawsuits brought on by people they duped - pay the variable mortgage on that massively overvalued property - pay for their ex who divorced them Etc, etc. Ultra. Sweaty. Hands. (I’m still short ETH/BTC)

Wow - can’t wait to get my hands on some 😂

No Ethereum, this doesn’t mean “it’s still so early”. You’ve had a go at it, I get it that you really wanted to try. It made a bunch of your early founders bitcoin rich. Now it’s time to pack your stuff and go home.

The 2015-‘17 block size war in a nutshell. Big blockers want to increase capacity regardless of security and centralization concerns. (Cartoon is from New Yorker Magazine, 1920s)

Grateful for your responses to my post from last night. I’m learning a few things: - Israel-Palestine is super complex and understandably a sensitive topic - Social media is not a good platform for me to share short burst ideas about complicated matters like this Two things I would like to clarify: - I wasn’t trying to justify Israeli government policy or military actions. - I have a lot of empathy for suffering on the Muslim side of this conflict, too.