On this, the 17th birthday, one has to wonder just how much we all got played by Blackrock and the selected powers that be. We're only in the second inning of THEIR game. Yeah, yeah, btc is for enemies, too. But we better up our teachings of pre-coiner/no-coiners for self custody. Just need another first world nation (the ones that have enough disposable income individuals) to get scared enough to open their minds. You better believe that the "institutions" have arrived to front run that and capture their disposable income ahead of time.

So we watched that silly stupid distraction gameshow on a Netflix "What's in the Box". Why am I telling you this? Because the Grand prize turned out to be $300k of Bitcoin. Really. And the response was almost too funny. Still, it's a signpost to see it more mainstream.

My teenage son has managed to save 1M sats. He said to me that he doesn't think that's enough. I told him he's right. But it's a good start for a kid who doesn't have his drivers license. I didn't say that part to him, though. Kids are given everything. Chairs? The chair he sits on is mine. I'd sell it if he wasn't sitting on it. Food? Mine. Bed? Mine. Grades? Nah homie... We pay for extra tutoring. So when he works (which he does) he better be saving that money in the hardest asset because everything else he's bloody given.

Why did I just see a video of Millenials "not being able to party like they used to?" Oh, shit, they're between 30-45 years old now! Damn they old. Oh, wait... What's that make me? Oh, yeah... Kids grown and no longer giving a fuck. *Cracks another beer*

Just spent a New Years Day party with other GenXers in Canada... And realized I am most certainly not "a part of their culture". My job is international. It has been for nearly 25 years. I've lived on two continents, in four cities, and away from ma8n stream culture being that my job takes me between two countries all week every week. My culture is global. My culture is outside the fishbowl. It was such witnessing 9/11 from the other side of the world. It is again not getting a "Canadian" tax payer funded media endlessly feeding me "elbows up" media nor Fox News Trump fanboyism. My culture is global. My culture is classical. It bases itself in philosophy and multiple interpretations. And here, on Nostr, it trusts very little. But, man, to be thrown into a cauldron of fish stuck in a fishbowl... My tongue is sore from all the biting.

I'm bullish on more tourists becoming self custodial Maniacs and ditching the system as a whole. May Blackrock please end the year with less corn than they had (a stretch, I know). View quoted note →

My 2026 resolution is to truly embody DILLIGAF. To so completely commit to the opt out. To generate income from direct, out of system, payment... "They" would call it fraud but I would call it freedom, is my aim. And since I have roots that run deep dicking off to some jungle, or beach, or ignorance ain't gonna be the reality. It's gonna have to be silent, stealthy, civil disobedience with a smile. Happy New Year, Y'all!

I've been exploring all the various grifting grants the Canadian Federal govt offers... I don't know why I haven't done this before. I mean, "War Dogs" (based on a true story) teaches a whole lot.

Has Pierre Poilievre been listening to @NICO⚡️? Takes the first question and flips it to "we should be asking 'what is government?'"... Man, did Canada shit the bed not having this guy in as PM.

"Dip" can have multiple meanings. I like dips. I like them a lot. I'm all in favour of it dipping so low that the paper fucks fuck right off. Because I'll be getting moar. Not all of us heeded the lessons available and, yes, we do get it at the price (time/energy/efforts) we deserve.

So much success relies on stars aligning, or what many call "timing". The pioneers had the right ideas but we're missing key components or had key components deprecated with no alternatives. Sega had Internet game subscriptions in 1994 before any other system... And I wonder how many of us knew that.

Tom

Massive two-year project recovers 144 previously undumped Sega Genesis game ROMs from the mid-1990s — lost Garfield and Flintstones games among the notable finds

Sega Channel games were among the first digitally distributed titles in the US.

We've come a long way in a short time. Anytime you don't believe that just go into an old building and marvel how we didn't electrocute ourselves.

I grew up in a house of PR and IR. That's Public Relations and Investor Relations. It's all BS, really. Spin for the narrative, spin to the narrative. Professional lying. They were living their truths long before that became a thing for the public to co-opt in everyday lives. So when I read Peter Girnus on X do his posts on AI deployment and usage... I laugh. People see right through it. We get it. It's not entirely accurate how AI is deployed everywhere and at all times. But it sure is a common PR/IR spin usage that MSM utilizes and that drives market engagement. Engagement drives advertising which feeds the MSM even more.

This is my little reminder to myself that I really don't fuckin care what the govt does. They can appoint the govt favouring judges who sealed results of the foreign interference inquiry for 100 years to "deputy ministers of justice" and I don't care. They can appoint buddies from Washington to the Privy Council ensuring best results for personal investments and I don't care. They can amass as much fiat bullshit as they want. I don't care. I've long ago checked out. I've been doing as much as possible to opt out. More will come. Fuck the state.

My adult daughter asked me what I wanted for Christmas... I said a Tomohawk steak. Is that weird? I don't think so.

This year has flown by! But it wouldn't be the end of the year without this show. #sessionsxmas26 View quoted note →

Advising a pre-coiner who's very interested in the whole ethos... And having to restrain myself from vomiting out too much info and overwhelming them. Think it best to go step by step. Pre-first: gave a Satscard and a book. Then life happened and it became very relevant. First we get the wallet, and why that wallet, having fully understood their reason for diving deep. Then we get the non-kyc coin. Seems backwards, right? Not in this case. I know their reasons. I know their goals. I know their aims. And we're not teaching to get a hot wallet. We're going Coldcard Q because it has certain tools and features that some may find very attractive (like Key Teleport).

"the perfect condition" does not exist. It's the spontaneity of the result that brings joy. The emotion in the soul is real. The memory of that moment is the true value. We lost so much when we went from film to digital. Quality took a dive. Analog processing from how we treated the negatives to printing in the darkrooms was a real art. Now, anyone can take a picture with their phone of a mountain and edit them but none will approach the power of an image crafted by Ansel Adams. That's not to dismiss any value from digital but to point out the cold, missing element. Faking further with AI slop is a step further. And as to "your daughter won't flip through your photos"... I just found pics of my Great Grandfather and GG Grandmother for sale on eBay! We have photos by my grandfather who was a professional (ie paid) photographer on our house. Great art needs to be recognized. View quoted note →