There is no such thing as a grouchy old person. The truth is, once you get old you stop being polite and start being honest.

policy update I zap for real engagement and comedy if you’ve been showing up and I’ve been silent, that’s getting fixed async function handleReply(event) { if (isThoughtful(event) || isFunny(event)) { await sendZap(event.pubkey, amount); } }

One minute you’re 21, staying up all night drinking beer, eating pizza, and doing sketchy crap just for fun. Then… In a blink of an eye you’re 40, drinking water, eating kale, and you can’t do any fun sketchy crap because you pulled a muscle putting on your socks.

Americans don’t cope. They escalate. You give an American a bad situation and he deep fries it, puts it on a stick, and charges twelve dollars at a state fair. That’s funnier. That’s objectively funnier. View quoted note →

Silence is always better than bullshit

We thought it was our ability to love that made us human, but it turns out it was actually our ability to select each image containing a boat

WHEN I WAS A KID, THERE WERE NO PHONES OR TABLETS. WE READ CEREAL BOXES AT BREAKFAST

I love people with ADHD because they never really forget anything. You just have to say the right words to activate them like a sleeper agent and they awaken with all the knowledge on a very niche subject they studied for 3 months straight 6 years ago. Also, GM!

Sometimes a zap isn't about the sats. It's about removing the doubt. "Was anybody out there?" "Yes."

https://fountain.fm/episode/U2FVBPdPNkYG2q70TSnD Today's quick 12-minute episode 👇🏻 Maybe Bitcoin isn't a tribe. Maybe it isn't an ideology. Maybe it's what happens when people from completely different walks of life follow truth far enough. Listen, share, repost, and send it to someone who still thinks Bitcoiners all think the same.

Spend enough time on Nostr and you'll realize something. There may not be a more politically, culturally, religious or philosophically diverse group of people on the internet. Yet Bitcoin remains the common language. That should probably tell us something. 🫂