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Day 273 🌅
✨ "Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will; and say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens."
— Epictetus
💫 "I choose not to abandon myself in the name of belonging."
🙏 Grateful for the love that keeps arriving


GratefulDay - Daily Gratitude Calendar
A Nostr-based daily gratitude calendar for personal reflection and community sharing
I’ve been trying to articulate this, and I think the robots are helping me get closer. 😂
The Hierarchy of Communication.
I think our communication needs more depth. We miss so much when we stay at level 1 with posts and comments. We’re connected, but how much are we really understanding each other?
I don’t know the answer, but I think this has merit. More communication doesn’t always mean more connection.


What if everything worked out better than you expected? #bloomstr
#memories
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Day 272 🌿
✨ "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
— Abraham Lincoln
💫 "I trust that my life can be both simple and deep."
🙏 Grateful for the differing perspectives.
🙏 Grateful for charity, not in the virtue sense, but to genuinely help.


GratefulDay - Daily Gratitude Calendar
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Follow #connection
Just in time for our iOS review, spammers like @ytmeta4 are getting through Zap Cooking’s curation by posting YouTube videos with food-related words. Deeply frustrating, but it’s showing us where we need to improve.
Tools like Brainstorm are helpful, but when an account is new, it takes time for community signals to build a fuller picture. We need to catch this faster. I’m going to take action to improve the discovery feed, and I want the community’s feedback on how we do it.
Maybe repeated mutes, blocks, or spam reports temporarily take an account out of discovery and trigger a review. We’d need safeguards so a few people couldn’t abuse that.
Free speech matters. So does the freedom to decide what gets attention in the spaces we build. If you walk into a room and start yelling over everyone, people stop listening. Why should spam get a free pass here?
How would you handle it? What signals would you trust?
GM.


Day streak milestone: 100 days of gratitude 🔥


GratefulDay - Daily Gratitude Calendar
A Nostr-based daily gratitude calendar for personal reflection and community sharing
Day 271 ☀️
✨ "For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule."
— The Dhammapada
💫 "I can want repair and still tell the truth."
🙏 Grateful for the kind people of the world who do it without expecting anything in return


GratefulDay - Daily Gratitude Calendar
A Nostr-based daily gratitude calendar for personal reflection and community sharing
One of our greatest recipes @bevo
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Three years ago, this is where it started.
A simple idea: food connects people.
Since then, nostr.cooking has grown into Zap Cooking. We’ve built, learned, changed a lot, and kept going.
Looking back, the product has changed.
The idea hasn’t. 💜⚡️🍳
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Added this to the background of the office setup and new ideas are flowing


Day 270 ⭐️
✨ "Take away thy opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, “I have been harmed.” Take away the complaint, “I have been harmed,” and the harm is taken away."
— Marcus Aurelius
💫 "I let go of the story that I must do this alone."
🙏 Grateful for the generosity of others


GratefulDay - Daily Gratitude Calendar
A Nostr-based daily gratitude calendar for personal reflection and community sharing
Generosity (Christian)
Generosity is the overflow of a grateful heart. When we recognize how much we've been given, we're freed to give. Scripture says God loves a cheerful giver—not from obligation but from thankfulness. Generosity can be time, attention, money, or mercy. Gratitude turns "I don't have enough" into "I have enough to share." We become conduits of the same grace we've received.
"Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver."
— 2 Corinthians 9:7


GratefulDay - Daily Gratitude Calendar
A Nostr-based daily gratitude calendar for personal reflection and community sharing
There’s beauty among us


Zap Cooking for iOS has been submitted! I can’t wait for you all to try it.
It’s a feature rich Nostr app, shaped by everything We’ve learned over the last three years of building Zap Cooking. You’re gonna love it. 🍳⚡