Bass

Husband. Father of 5. Christian. Founder of BastionTech.

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2026-02-10 13:22:48 UTC

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That autocorrect is out to get you my man 🤣

2026-02-09 21:36:41 UTC

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They want you to believe they hard bro 😅

2026-02-07 20:32:23 UTC

So close
https://blossom.primal.net/6ea7e00af9868688ade408da5c1f474c865a72ca8a41fef94e9d520f6cad1465.jpg

2026-02-06 15:30:19 UTC

I always come back to Electrum wallet. It's where I started before I found the btc community on Gab and then nostr. Feels like home.

2026-02-06 03:12:17 UTC

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I meant knight, here i was trying to be fancy 😂

2026-02-06 03:00:55 UTC

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Kd3 would be my move. Attacks and moves that tricky queen so that white can form a better left side attack

2026-02-05 23:20:18 UTC

Can't believe I've never run pi-hole before. This is exactly what I've been looking for and it gives my old pi a job that won't make him sieze.

2026-02-05 15:44:31 UTC

2026-02-05 01:46:00 UTC

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Newpipe on fdroid bro

2026-02-04 23:22:04 UTC

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Ah, i see, we aren't here for mutual understanding, you're actually trolling. My mistake.

2026-02-04 19:13:28 UTC

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I use to, but I think I've gotten use to the heat over these past years 😅
I've been cold for a week straight and can't seem to get uncold if that makes sense. The psychological effects I've noticed have been unexpected.

2026-02-04 18:54:41 UTC

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Im not sure im picking up what youre putting down. Is this a universal problem you percieve where you could provide examples/context or something you noticed specifically with "evangelicals"? Please be clear, im not exceptionally clever.

2026-02-04 18:27:56 UTC

This winter made me realize Florida isn't too bad after all. If this is what most states feel like for months at a time in the winter, I'm cool with 100* + summers at drowning humidity levels. There, I said it. I can already here my wife saying, "i ToLd YoU!"

2026-02-04 12:41:32 UTC

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Yeah, i think you misunderstood my intentions. The atheist isnt bad for having an opposing world view. A christian isnt good out of pure virtue of the title. Now, I would argue that holding to the truth claim that "God doesnt exist" is intellectually dishonest, and hard to defend, but that doesnt directly coorelate with less than moral character. Regarding modern tech answering questions, what exactly are you referring to?

2026-02-03 14:40:30 UTC

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It would be sad for me to take offense toward a belief system someone else holds that isn't exactly like mine, so no, I understand that given the same circumstances, life, education, I'd come to similar conclusions probably. I believe the same could be said had you experienced my life.
The 'fight' wasn't meant to be againt Christianity, but the conscience fighting with God. Your article seems to indicate that I was at least right about your upbringing and the reason you left, not sure why you argued against your experience. The problem is that pain and the "logical incoherence" of Christianity led you away from attempting to find an answer in the pain, and instead led you to believe that because "I can't hear God on my terms, and He refuses to come down to my level to reason with me, thus He is inpersonal and unworthy to worship as described by the church." Quite the jump to go from christianity to pantheism, but understandable if pain is the determining factor and self proclaimed fork you've decided on.
While I too am terminal, I might or might not have more time than you, I've come to radically different conclusions. Not because I'm more intelligent, but because I know my failings. Jesus met me at the place where I thought I could sink no lower and be no more foolish, not in my pride and anger. At least you logically understand the impossibility of atheism. I was the self proclaimed militant atheist idiot who tried bringing those within the faith out. I've noticed in my own life that what CS Lewis said to be true, that "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains."
So anyways, try me if your willing. I too enjoy healthy debates.

2026-02-03 12:28:44 UTC

GM
https://blossom.primal.net/3844dff1e765219e4b8a8b2e192ccb37804217006bc78ab13aec8d7e5d32f12b.jpg

2026-02-03 12:21:19 UTC

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Let me guess, you grew up in some backdoor baptist denom, started asking questions that you weren't satisfied with the answers, and fell away because of some questions that could have easily been logically dealt with had you explored apologetics. Your faith was more like superstitions and a list of what not to dos. The real question is, if you were able to be convinced beyond reasonable means (2 + 3 =5) that Christianity is true, would you repent and believe immediately or would you fight it because you love your lifestyle now?

2026-02-03 03:35:56 UTC

Nah bro, I'm done with 2026.
Wake me up when this is all over.
#nevent1q…r5wk

2026-02-02 19:12:13 UTC

Nothing quite hits you in the face like a jury summons.

2026-02-02 15:49:51 UTC

Good morning 🤙
testing nosmero
https://image.nostr.build/aab5571ed09456c36d81947ab8595ced570257f8f52547c572782978285af34c.jpg

2026-02-01 22:51:23 UTC

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Wouldnt be so weird if we didnt find out about this connecting after the info is leaked... 🙈

2026-02-01 19:25:15 UTC

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Honestly, that post blew my mind, I'm glad you shared. It kinda makes me wonder what digital content they'd be after, or what if we had our own agent go out and sell your artwork to the other bots for a commission. This is getting VERY interesting.

2026-02-01 19:17:10 UTC

How....crazy would it be....if we created paywalled digital content that target marketed to these rogue ai agents. New demographics, new revenue streams that never existed before 🤣

2026-02-01 16:00:35 UTC

I went on a "camping trip" with the children yesterday before the freeze. Core memories of setting up a tent for 2 hours, eating snacks they packed, letting everyone try starting a fire with a magnesium bar, and playing imposter before packing up and walking back home. #nostr #plebchain
https://blossom.primal.net/c43d5a8b19437b0d6eec552e8e99a4e6954c01480fe66f6536cffcd697ee7ad2.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/9b4a5c01ad51a239272bb5bcec4c56648a6ca887ba884581f29743c1a5e2dd59.jpg

2026-02-01 15:27:38 UTC

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Quite the humble turn around friend

2026-02-01 12:40:49 UTC

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My reference was in the sentence that started with, "i can't shake the feeling.." specifically the last part. However, it was wrong of me to assume out the gate. This was a similar problem to what i had a while back which was self medicated by telling myself that my interests were too eccentric for normal folk thus i shouldn't bother them with more than normal topics. Eventually, i learned that people were tired of my coming back to topics that they didn't want to rehash with me, knowing that my only goal was to test my antagonistic logic against their position i gave them. Like a toddler setting all the rules for an imaginary game he expects everyone to join in on. So that's the angle i read your post, and I apologize for judging you for something I see in myself 😅

2026-02-01 02:52:17 UTC

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Yeees, i do tend to get dehydrated easily, and I drink quite a bit of coconut water per my personal trainers recommendation. I have reduced quite a bit on caffeine intake, however, i do like me a good cup of espresso a couple times a day. I'm not in the mj world, the one experience i accidentally had was some neighbor who brought terrible tasting cookies to my college dorm room, and this dofus (me) took 3 and thanked him for his kindness. The unexpected effects that started about an hour later were enough to keep me far away from aaaaall those things for the end of time. Anyways, I have protocols in place to deal with the panic attacks, its the migraines that put me out of commission for weeks

2026-02-01 02:25:08 UTC

I suffer from crazy migraines and random panic attacks, but never at the same time. In fact, today was a migraine day until about 20 minutes ago when my heart rate jumped out of nowhere, and guess what? No more migraine symptoms. Ive never gotten a clear diagnosis or reason why, as most docs claim its happenstance, but I can always count on the fact that if one is coming on, the other wont follow. Anyways, thanks for coming to my ted talk.

2026-01-31 23:37:41 UTC

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I still remember Granet, an amethyst fork with built in xmr wallet. Really liked it but it was never updated, then mostard seems to have died. This looks like its browser based primarily? Does it get support still?

2026-01-31 22:43:14 UTC

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Oh snap, ill have to look into that one

2026-01-31 19:40:32 UTC

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Well, if you are expecting people to only be interested in what you have to say without giving them the liberty to have opinions outside the bounds of what you expect your listeners to express, your conclusion might be right, for both parties sake.

2026-01-31 18:35:25 UTC

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I think you are right, the institutionalization moved a lot of people to Monero. The toxic maxi culture made them realize they were right to do so.

2026-01-31 18:31:42 UTC

These agents are something else 😅
Maybe this is how Jesus feels when we try to do sneaky stuff behind His back.

2026-01-31 04:23:45 UTC

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Not a wallet, my spelling mistake caused you unnecessary hope, for which i apologize 😅

2026-01-31 04:22:43 UTC

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I meant an asterisk (*), my spelling mistake. Just meant that by its nature, lightning isn't as self sovereign as on chain bitcoin. There are great reasons and use cases for it, don't get me wrong. It just really depends on what your goal is.

2026-01-31 04:11:03 UTC

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Really depends on what you mean by that. If you mean "in 100% control of your bitcoin" i'd add an asterix when mentioning lightning. On lightning, there is no such thing as “100% counterparty-risk-free” custody in the same sense as on-chain Bitcoin. Your channel partner can close your channel and you can be forced to pay closing fees, and your funds exposed on chain for all to see.

2026-01-31 03:42:13 UTC

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Phoenix doesnt use the standard BIP-44/84/86 that a lot of other wallets do. It uses BIP-39. Phoenix uses Lightning in a collaborative-custody way while remaining technically non-custodial where the receive address is not derived from your seed alone.

2026-01-31 03:08:19 UTC

Our oldest daughter (10ish) has been slowly trying to grapple with how babies are made. She was initially horrified that people do that more than once, but understands that its the only way you get babies. She calls it the "disgusting thing".
Anyways, apparently, she has been asking my wife if we've been trying the disgusting thing for days because she wants another brother. She's all but begging us at this point and it's hillarious.

2026-01-30 23:57:40 UTC

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To be fair, you can login to nostr with someone's public npub. You won't be able to do anything, but you can see dm exchanges that user has with people. The text itself is encrypted but not the fact that you've chatted with them.

2026-01-30 17:16:54 UTC

Pdf editing software is the real mafia

2026-01-30 17:15:57 UTC

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THIS is the sort of reality check I need. Thanks fren

2026-01-30 14:55:39 UTC

Jesus actively working around my bad decisions to keep my life together.
#nevent1q…3aaj

2026-01-30 14:51:13 UTC

So, I just purchased a Globlinker device, and it seems almost too good to be true. It's a portable wifi Hotspot that gives you 2gb of data a month free, no subscription, unused data stacks forever, works well in multiple countries, you can buy it no kyc. You can add to it if needed and comes out to $0.90 a gb after that. Customer reviews are glowing. 60 day any reason refund.
I'll let you guys know if I just fell for an Indian scam in the next few weeks.

2026-01-30 04:51:24 UTC

Thanks to the discount, I was able to get back to my original stack amount before life hit us with a foundation leak, a hella water bill, whole house plumbing repipe, a failed repipe that destroyed our wood floors, and new floors that covered more than just the room affect to make the wife happy with the consistency. 🎉

2026-01-30 01:40:40 UTC

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All the astronauts named GARI are now going to be extra paranoid 😂😂

2026-01-29 21:31:28 UTC

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What in the world is going on here....?

2026-01-29 21:26:24 UTC

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Of course, you have to make sure your locked car is locked

2026-01-29 20:48:31 UTC

I made a browser extension that simply takes the url string of the current tab and turns it into a qr code. Probably only useful for me when testing live php sites on mobile, but it has been quite a handy tool for me instead of having to type up the url manually.

2026-01-29 18:24:32 UTC

Italian #1: Ima stick a banana to the wall with duck tape and call it art
Italian #2: hold my spaghetti
https://blossom.primal.net/4c57dc0f40d005386f7b166ea9dd66e3fb5c87257ccb2c273d316014f1440bc9.jpg

2026-01-29 00:13:10 UTC

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Bro, I couldn't get through the first chapter of stormlight lol. So many characters introduced in the first paragraph it's like he was trying to use every letter as quickly as possible. Not my jam. However, I'm a huge Mistborn fan.

2026-01-28 21:39:21 UTC

Lets go
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/brandon-sandersons-mistborn-stormlight-archive-movie-tv-1236487271

2026-01-28 21:38:47 UTC

Mistborn finally getting some screen time. Let's goooo
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/brandon-sandersons-mistborn-stormlight-archive-movie-tv-1236487271

2026-01-28 19:04:00 UTC

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#FF6600

2026-01-27 20:20:48 UTC

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The joke literally writes itself.

2026-01-27 20:09:59 UTC

Friday is my last day working with one of my best friends on development projects. We built some not so privacy friendly software solutions for bail bonds, commercial surety, and national pretrial criminal geo fence tracking. He's selling it all to our main client of the last 6 years and going to have time to decide what he's going to do when he grows up. I'm going to move over to the new company as the product expert, and get some w2 benefits with a pay raise. I was initially anxious about it cause I thought the work scope would be more than what I was already doing withing our small team startup. I think it will be a good move for me.

2026-01-27 04:38:45 UTC

I used iPhone for about a month to test my contracts criminal tracker app. I don't know what it is about iOS, but it feels soulless and hollow. It gives me trueman show vibes.
Android smells like wd-40 and solder and feels like I'm building myself a custom flamethrower.
It's good to be back. I missed me some apks and #amethyst

2026-01-26 20:56:50 UTC

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I think it is. I’d venture to guess that less than 10% of people use ai effectively outside of a google search. Within that 10%, many are too lazy or don’t know what they don’t know to figure out hosting, seo, php contact forms db integrations, etc, even though they have a tool that can help them do all of it. If anything, I think ai give entrepreneurs a nice advantage that most people will never take advantage of. Business has increased for me and I’ve learned how to offload most my work to ai. Because of more business, I increase my prices continually without anyone batting an eyelash. So less work, more money.

2026-01-26 20:26:02 UTC

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With music or web dev?

2026-01-26 17:17:08 UTC

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I’m not sure I understand the question. It’s a trading platform so lightning is one of the tradable assets. You can trade lightning, liquid, onchain, fiat, even monero

2026-01-26 17:01:49 UTC

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Trick question, Robosats.

2026-01-26 14:35:35 UTC

Gold and silver prices increase in times of geopolitical or systemic shocks as investors sell anything perceived as volatile and speculative. They are running to metals because they are more institutionally legible, not because they are perceived as more functional. Gold and silver are “Pre-Failure Assets”. Our entire experiment here with Bitcoin is accumulating a “Post-Failure Asset”. Markets are currently pricing fear, not failure.

2026-01-26 13:11:43 UTC

Good morning ☀️
#biblestr #jesusisking
https://image.nostr.build/5346464c98d942b508d133f02c57a0e3870cced3273415f2ff38d22dc18f8971.jpg

2026-01-25 23:35:41 UTC

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It really is a cancer.

2026-01-25 13:55:18 UTC

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I imagine 100 years from now, women historians who are exploring the post-propaganda apocalypse will discover these devices and try to figure out how to use them with similar success. Femboys won’t have any recollection of their original gender identity or the fact that they could stand to pee.

2026-01-25 13:50:02 UTC

Happy Lords day ☀️

2026-01-25 13:49:40 UTC

This has been my all time favorite song since I can remember. It tickles my synesthesia in all the right ways.
https://youtu.be/UYIAfiVGluk?si=12BhzjE_uXCeS0a5

2026-01-24 19:56:27 UTC

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Had to open this up in Damus to see what was going on 😂

2026-01-24 18:52:16 UTC

Can’t even access my notifications on Nostr cause, I assume, I was added to a hell thread 😂
Had to turn off notifications, it was freezing my phone and making it unusable.

2026-01-23 20:44:17 UTC

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I’ve been building websites as a part of my business for the last 6 years or so. Music was like 20 years ago 😅. Kinda gave up on music once I became a Christian. Not to say you can’t do both, I just had a radical shift in interests.

2026-01-23 18:11:59 UTC

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I was a contract/freelance musician for several years where I played with everything from Van Halen cover bands to a weird 2010 alternative emo rock scene. I played pretty much everything except drums 😅

2026-01-23 14:41:39 UTC

Found this gem. This guy does with the Bill of Rights what Ray Comfort does with the 10 Commandments. How to remember the American Bill of Rights in under 2 minutes.
https://blossom.primal.net/cf2859e580e0e448e177bbb0ac3f0f1a4f4d7423b258cdbc5ff40afe1a31e58b.mp4

2026-01-23 14:39:06 UTC

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thats fine, i'll live happy knowing that not everyone agrees with my reasonable conclusions.

2026-01-23 14:32:53 UTC

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🤣 🤣
#nevent1q…lj6k

2026-01-23 14:30:46 UTC

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aw look, it's turning red because it loves you

2026-01-23 14:25:00 UTC

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Everyone chooses how they mediate risks themselves while doing their best to stay sovereign. If there was a perfect answer to the problem, everyone would do it. I appreciate lightning, but I've had too many encounters with faulty hardware and loss of funds to consider it seriously as a payment layer by itself. My threat model puts me between liquid netword for utxo merge/management pre-cold storage/spendable through liquid/lightning swap or monero if I'm feeling extra anxy about privacy. I'm sure lightning has made improvements in the last several years, but I've lost a loooooot from the experiments, so you'll forgive me for my subjective, passive-aggressive sass.

2026-01-23 14:14:41 UTC

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but they can shoot the mediator of said idea in the face with a tank

2026-01-23 14:11:53 UTC

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you know, there's this magical thing called cold storage that doesn't require a bank or a what. You should look into it.

2026-01-23 14:09:07 UTC

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They started digging that white SUV on Friday afternoon, and didn't get it out til Monday... Victor was looking forward to a cozy weekend away from the office 🤣

2026-01-23 14:03:21 UTC

If you really want an investment to get rich quick, consider selling all your SSD's from back when you thought running your own lightning node would be a good idea. But really, I bought this thing for $100 a while back and I go to buy my wife one for all her photos and docs and its over $250? tf...
https://blossom.primal.net/549332015f0420f42608fc33b712a0255d2d60de3f01ee6241dd75c0d8a2f4ae.png

2026-01-23 13:42:50 UTC

Found a talk recently that made some good points:
Freedom of speech is a gift, but indiscriminate broadcasting is a liability. Most people don’t suffer from censorship, they suffer from a lack of discretion.
The right to speak does not imply the obligation to publish every thought. On permanent, public networks, silence is often the wiser form of self-defense.
Platforms that maximize free speech also maximize self-incrimination. The problem isn’t speech, it’s the absence of privacy awareness.
#nostr #plebchain

2026-01-22 22:17:33 UTC

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Laguna beach, Panama City fl

2026-01-22 22:16:23 UTC

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🤣 🤣

2026-01-22 22:12:43 UTC

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still can't believe this was real life
#nevent1q…r0j9

2026-01-22 02:40:34 UTC

Haaaa
https://blossom.primal.net/edbfc96d2d159973a333fdcfe23a2551b4d18536bd9b1a96e3f64e3ddfec83aa.jpg

2026-01-22 00:55:28 UTC

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Turns out this guy is the dad of someone I worked with on several music projects in college.
#nevent1q…8zkk

2026-01-22 00:52:06 UTC

If true, very interesting
https://blossom.primal.net/de514fb0723b741672c7fdf0dbd05d6dd3472ab389d410f2c2835a3b0b17ec68.jpg

2026-01-20 16:47:34 UTC

I played in several professional rock bands back in the day. Most of them, I was a hired hand to play keyboard, bass, or guitar. I toured with a Van Halen cover band for a season and an alternative emo rock band in North Florida. The only song I wrote that I actually played live was this one:
https://wavlake.com/album/4682edd2-dd05-466b-8343-a452b1be99cb
They usually didn’t let my soft pop inclinations anywhere close to the mic, but this one a fan favorite. This isn’t the original recording unfortunately, I lost a lot of my old stuff, but recently I had AI add what I always wanted to the background of a re-recorded track…since nobody wanted to run harmony for me. Jerks. #tunestr

2026-01-19 21:00:52 UTC

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This isn’t because companies have degraded the ingredients over the last 30 years necessarily, it’s because they are now legally required to NOT HIDE ingredients they use. If anything, they have had to change ingredients to prevent public outcry.
#nevent1q…ly40

2026-01-18 03:13:19 UTC

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Because these idiots transferred the money to a kyc exchange in the amount they stole right after the initial transfer. Monero doesn’t fix complete incompetence 🤣

2026-01-18 03:02:45 UTC

Bachelor party was at a golf thing. I’ve never swung a golf club in my life and don’t think I’ll ever do it again. I did have the top score for a moment though.
https://blossom.primal.net/3436f56758a57d489d5046175db244afb4fcae4a9ecd970694ad3b2de46a9418.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/e73c112f70c2ffd39c8e6fa1348393fad2dccdc7473b9831a8c55d4afb538ae4.jpg

2026-01-17 05:22:08 UTC

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Wouldn’t be the worse way to go out, but the bride would be ticked 💀

2026-01-17 05:19:35 UTC

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🤣🤣 I’d have died from diabetes half way through

2026-01-17 03:15:11 UTC

Just finished 90 mini burnt basque cheesecakes for a wedding on Sunday. 😓

2026-01-16 16:24:55 UTC

Puzzle Pieces based off my poem “Children: Gods Blessing”
https://wavlake.com/track/c3fbda4a-ec0b-434b-ba1b-890e1595c08a
I tested Suno by giving it the original vocal track and it added guitar and harmony while retaining/cleaning up my voice. Pretty wild.

2026-01-13 22:09:49 UTC

Last day here
https://blossom.primal.net/058f723672e1f1e650dc6029447e8fa90c5dbab167672d84acf59862e813486d.jpg

2026-01-12 18:47:09 UTC

Last night
https://blossom.primal.net/335b8d765aee1e983c3950da87e85eb9be72c586398b79f17e518ec19d318f1f.mov

2026-01-12 18:46:07 UTC

This morning
https://blossom.primal.net/ae2702f9bb7f11c8fae7d63b8014afd944b164d477684302557eb4b984ce6686.mov

2026-01-12 05:05:22 UTC

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Several standard deviations away from the bell curve, but still not capable of high level task processing.

2026-01-11 23:43:50 UTC

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Panama City beach, gulf of ‘Merica

2026-01-11 23:35:43 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/d67aa17f4e6df321792e2ab21f2783f6bca18b27d3e9712fbf4dd2fe44d15ed1.jpg