It's Don Julio's last day cutting jamón at his hotel job. Finally, retirement... Then, on his journey home, he is waylaid by questions about his troubled past. One for the meat lovers. Come get a slice of Canarian culture.

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Delighted that my story, set near to Las Palmas, was recently published in Bull Magazine. #fiction #writing #Spain

Buying a Mars Bar with my pocket money in the 90s. Best 29p I spent every week. I felt like a king. The bar was so big, it didn’t easily fit into my pocket. I grasped it in my hand. Carried it around. Boasting in front of my mates. Mars bars don’t cost 29p now. They cost 3 times that much. And they aren’t as big. Mars Bars in 2000 weighed 65 grams. Now? Just 51 grams. 22% less product. So what, Phil. Who cares? That’s inflation, right? (+293% for those who are wondering) It happens. Costs go up. So do our wages. Sure. But you're not in control of either. And funnily enough, your purchasing power only goes down. "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.” Milton Friedman. It is taxation without legislation (a.k.a theft). With every push 'the Big Red Button'🔴 the government steals from you. Don’t blame Mars; blame the central banks. And don't settle for a measly 51 grams at 3 times the cost. Let's demand the whole damn thing, and take the button away from those thieves in suits. (picture credit Jordan Walker) #inflation

Bitcoiners - stop using boring AI art! It’s hard for bitcoin businesses, thinkers, and founders to stand out. Especially when their images look so similar. We pay attention to difference, not white noise. Am I against Dall-E or AI images? Not entirely. They add colour and can be quite arresting. It’s amazing that we can get art like this at the click of a button. But I see 50%+ of those who post about bitcoin using Dall-E images. All so similar! If you do this, you end up as noise not signal. They make your posts look like a cheap Crypto News website 🤮 Readers are hypersensitive to image quality. It’s what determines whether they give your ideas the time of day or not. *** Ideas to use instead of instant GPT images: 1. Trust your words. Craft a hook that draws readers in rather than an image. 2. Show your face (or at least A face) Selfies are divisive, but readers like to see who is offering the thought. We connect with people. 3. Use image libraries. Search sites like Pexels or Unsplash for scroll-stopping photos. 4. Spend more time prompting. Ensure your image looks unique. This can take some time. Hope you found some value here. Carry on, legends.

"Study Bitcoin" doesn't work. It's completely ineffective. Here's why... Imagine approaching someone on the street. You tap them on the shoulder and say, "Study quantum physics." They think "Why the heck should I? Quantum physics sounds like a load of hard work." They don't have a reason to care. Imagine someone telling you to 'study corporate redundancy procedures' or to 'study the formation of stalactites'. It’s boring.🤷 It would take you years to become an expert. Bitcoiners will read books, listen to podcasts, and put in hundreds of hours of learning, but when it comes to messaging they are... unimaginative. Many of the bitcoiners I know say things like ‘if only they knew’ or ‘if only they could see the logic’. Did you really expect people in an online forum to respond positively to your aloof two-word command? Don’t ask the 94% of non-believers to 'study bitcoin'. Make them care. 🧡 Think like 21st century copywriters, not 1950s school masters. - Search for triggers. - Uncover your audience’s real fears - Paint a picture of their wildest dreams and show them the path to get there. Tell stories of people in their situation. Make your message resonate. Don’t just set them a bunch of boring homework! 1BTC=1BTC, HFSP, and 'Study Bitcoin' are lazy. Let's do the work to show nocoiners why they should care.

GM! This picture represents exactly how many fucks I give about the stock market tanking. #bitcoinonly

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How to Deal with Shitcoiners #bullishbounty

How to deal with shitcoiners #bullishbounty #bitcoinonly

The year is 2032. There are 1.5 billion LinkedIn coaches desperately fighting to convert the two remaining users who have not yet hired or become LinkedIn coaches. This is the only monetary value left in the world. Most of the coaches rifle through bins, looking for scraps of B2B sales wisdom to repackage as digital courses. They roam the streets in search of podcast hosts without a guest, or perhaps an unattended sports car which could provide the backdrop for a much needed thought-leadership reel. They send daily connection requests to the 2 potential clients who still haven’t leveraged the power of LinkedIn to sell their services to a powerful network. Perhaps these people might benefit from a 9-figure copywriting masterclass, a LinkedIn rebels solopreneur community, or ‘The Only Power Hour You’ll Ever Need to 10X Your Lead-Gen Strategy’. Just one sale could feed a family of gurus for a month. Surely, these two accounts will at least download they World’s Best LinkedIn Social Selling Guide for People who HATE Playbooks. Surely… A new client entering the content marketing funnel could provide a ray of hope for a whole pod of LinkedInfluencers. Sadly, news emerges that the two accounts are actually a chatbot named Gary Hashtag designed to optimise post discoverability and a tribute account for Simon Sinek’s late mother. There is no more revenue to be drawn from the platform. Gurus are crushed, and LinkedIn’s value plummets. All the coaches set their status to Open to Work, but there are no other jobs in the world. Tom from MySpace buys the platform for $1 so he can become everyone’s friend. Influencers venture outside their digital Neverlands for the first time in years. A new society emerges. People farm the land. They work together. Without being slaves to The Algorithm, they can live a peaceful existence. Personal brands are made illegal. A new Utopia emerges. And the world becomes bullshit free.

GM from Gran Canaria. Great hike with the lads yesterday. We only talked about bitcoin for around 70% of the hike...

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Coming to your local supermarket! #inflation #costofliving #thebigprint

GM from a very upset Betty. Off to the vet again... #catstr

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GM NOSTR. I'm Phil, and this is my story. After studying history and embarking on a career in advertising, I ran away to join the circus. OK, not the circus (I can't do backflips). But I did leave the UK to travel the world and teach English. Argentina, Mexico, and Asia opened my eyes to different people, attitudes and realities. I started to write - first a humorous travel blog, then articles and fiction. I've since published hundreds of stories and several books. In addition to writing for clients, I began to coach writers online. One of those writers orange-pilled me, and I'm forever grateful. We still work together today🧡. Since then, I've read a stack of #bitcoin books even taller than me (1.95m) and have gone deep into the rabbit hole of economics, money, and freedom tech. In 2024, I shuttered my coaching business to focus full time on my two passions - #writing and bitcoin. Now I work exclusively with bitcoin-native clients and edit the @21 Futures series. I live in the Canary Islands with my two housemates Betty and Balthazar🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛. They are currently chasing the laser dot. Follow me to get zapped.