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On a ferry, remembering the year when Transport Canada changed the regs so passengers could stay in a below-decks car hold, as drowning en masse in a steel coffin was preferable to catching a cold.

72hr fast completed (first one). No challenges with hunger. Tinnitus curiously worse, and a migraine on day two. Outside of my head, body felt good. It’s amazing how much of our (well, my) day is normally consumed by food. Planning it. Buying it. Cooking it. Eating it. Cleaning up. Family of four, it’s near constant. Lunch boxes. Endless snacks. Etc. Weird to not be on that merry-go-round (I was away from home, the only time this is remotely practical!).

So my Pi is taking months to sync now after a rebuild, not sure it’s ever going to finish as I can only ssh into the thing for an hour or so after a reboot before it locks up. Start9 boxes are out of stock (and I would need a Canadian distributor anyway as not dealing with the border for shipping). Best open source alternative? Paranoid about recent chipsets with their built-in back-doors, but any thoughts welcome.

Andor strong in conclusion, but over-rated for the first half of both seasons. Under-rated: Skeleton Crew. Kids loved it. Good quality production, writing, and casting.

Going cast iron this year has been a revelation. So happy with my extensively seasoned, unchemical’d cookware. https://nypost.com/2025/06/02/us-news/nys-lawmakers-want-to-ban-nonstick-cookware-over-chemical-that-feds-say-isnt-dangerous/

I recall some theorizing about sats powering the spam-free communication world. How do we apply that to this current nonsense on #nostr? A one-sat fee for every post would stop the carefree operation of bots spamming hundreds of thousands of messages. Fees pooled and distributed to node-runners?

Five year-old vocab today (lots of cyclists out in the sunshine): “Look another bike-el-ist!” I mean, it’s logical.

Was not previously aware an AppleTV could multi-task. Discovered with five year-old this AM that we can have Tidal running behind Angry Birds. Presently splatting green pigs to Glass Beams. https://tidal.com/browse/album/346496902?u

Premier League season draws to a close (finally - FA Cup and Playoff Final should def be the marquee events when season is done rather than the other way around). Rollercoaster. Look forward to next season in the Championship, #itfc #sportstr

Canada set to borrow more this coming year than during the 2020 COVID fiasco (Desjardins).

Just watched the first couple of episodes of Dark Matter, sheesh. Sting in the tail.

Having learnt my lesson from previous highs, this time I am not going to inform my wife that “our bitcoin is doing well”

Oh great, the Coinbase phishing mails have started. Can’t recall receiving one before; presume hack related. Thanks, KYC. Awesome job.

Honestly between the UK’s death spiral and the apparent massing of lemmings for Carney up here in Canada the world is getting awfully depressing (again). Felt like we were winning for maybe ten minutes or so. With ref: “Over 40 Labour MPs have called for the introduction of digital IDs so the Government can "get a grip" on illegal migration” (paywall) https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/labour-mps-urge-digital-id-for-migration-control-qqx7kpp2l

Nothing like watching a lot of Twitter Furus who are generally aligned on the markets completely at odds with one another. Coin flip. This feels like the Covid crash to me, and that was a great opportunity, but thankful that I’m not reliant on the fiat lottery - infuriating people have had to navigate this BS to try and preserve wealth. Just watching my node blinking away doing its thing. DGAF. Calming.

Watching Bitcoin, which allegedly “just acts like a tech stock” completely decouple and just sit there like a rock in the flood is quite something.

Bought more $TSLA at $304

What’s going green first?