Contra

Persistent provocateur of deliberate thought | Advocate for radical individual sovereignty | Occasional composer | Reformed Christian

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2026-03-06 03:45:21 UTC

Come join us over here as we’re live on @npub1c0r…tlvg
https://cornychat.com/cookingwithrupertandkajoozie

2026-03-05 14:47:43 UTC

Any narrative being pushed by 3+ politicians simultaneously is not news. It’s a coordinated distraction. Full stop. Ask yourself what they’re NOT talking about while you’re glued to whatever outrage they scheduled for this week.
Some people genuinely need to lose everything before the obvious becomes visible. That’s not an insult. It’s just where we are. The exit ramp exists. It’s been there. The price of ignoring it compounds daily.

2026-03-04 15:54:35 UTC

Billionaire Chamath listed bitcoin’s flaws this week.
“THERE’S A STRUCTURAL FLAW IN BITCOIN.”
“BITCOIN LACKS FUNGIBILITY AND PRIVACY.”
“IT CAN NEVER BE A HOLDING OF A CENTRAL BANK.”
What say you, Nostr?

2026-03-04 15:52:28 UTC

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Gm Mahdood

2026-03-03 15:08:02 UTC

There’s no place like Nostr.
Gm Contrarians!
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/adc14fa3ad590856dd8b80815d367f7c1e6735ad00fd98a86d002fbe9fb535e1/d9c3bb8bb08dd1eb3eaa621f4db3ee89f5d70f78cea444bbe25625cd6463bb78.webp

2026-03-01 09:20:18 UTC

Rare weekend night on Nostr and the feed is quiet.
But I find it REAL because most platforms are engineered to manufacture the feeling of activity. Nostr just is. When it’s slow, it’s slow. No one is backstage pulling levers to keep you anxious and scrolling. What you see is what exists. You’ve never had that before and most people won’t recognize it because they’ve been conditioned to confuse noise with value their entire digital lives.

2026-02-26 01:46:12 UTC

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You get out of the way because that is someone’s personal space and consent matters. Zapped for making me quote Sir Mix a Lot in an AMA. lol

2026-02-25 02:05:58 UTC

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💎🤲’s

2026-02-12 23:32:46 UTC

90% of men
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/adc14fa3ad590856dd8b80815d367f7c1e6735ad00fd98a86d002fbe9fb535e1/2778f812fae54342e635113fe36259f7f84bcd59822ea46d9d487ea9ef3176e1.webp

2026-02-12 16:32:36 UTC

I was sent an article that was posted on X about ai by Matt Shumer that went viral. It’s long and well written. I mulled over it. I have some thoughts that may be easier to share talking live rather than long forming this thing? I have an hour while driving. Long form write it or go live?

2026-02-11 15:16:33 UTC

Gm Nostr
New Album Drop - Permanent Weight
This isn’t about rebellion for clicks or rage without direction.It’s about what holds when comfort fails. What stands when authority overreaches. What remains when fear is stripped out.
https://wavlake.com/album/9d940f21-d891-4597-ac82-45c066ef02c3

2026-02-11 00:34:21 UTC

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Talk is cheap. Proof of work isn’t. #note123h…gfmt

2026-02-11 00:31:42 UTC

Being a good man means having standards for yourself AND knowing what you’ll tolerate. It’s not about being nice to everyone or saying yes all the time. It’s about integrity, which means drawing lines.
Those lines piss people off sometimes. They’ll call you selfish, rigid, whatever. But a man without boundaries isn’t good, he’s just easy. And easy gets walked over.
Knowing what’s for you and what’s not is half the battle. The other half is actually standing on it when it costs you something. That’s where most guys fold. Don’t be most guys.

2026-02-10 15:24:49 UTC

You can’t control the signals in the noise, but you can control your own signal. Be the truth you want to see in the network. Stay sovereign, stay humble, stay building.
Gm Nostr

2026-02-09 22:41:46 UTC

Is Nostr only anarchistic, libertarian, bitcoin maxi junkies with a high taste for tech and sovereignty? Endless memes about fiat collapse? CatStr Posts? GM and GN posts? Stack sats content? Self custody sermons? Pictures of steak? Carnivore diet manifestos? Gun rights discussions? Homesteading dreams? Relay drama? Client wars? Few understand this energy? Zap culture analysis? Anti state rants? Austrian economics threads? Lightning network updates? Orange pill references?
Yes. Yes it is.
Are you tired of it? Then leave. The platforms would love to have you back. They’re really good at this. You won’t have to think. You won’t have to choose. You won’t have to build anything. They’ll do it all for you.

2026-02-09 21:38:35 UTC

In case you were told something different, the news’ job isn’t to cover breaking stories. It’s to cover them up.

2026-02-09 18:57:57 UTC

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Seed oils are garbage. Agreed.
My argument is that people want to focus on what they’re eating. But if you don’t know how much you’re eating first, you’re just guessing in the dark.

2026-02-09 17:21:12 UTC

“The argument of the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies… But they are both controlled by the same persons. It is my intention to show that the despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.” John Stuart Mill
They want you picking sides in their managed conflict. Red vs Blue. A binary choice in an infinite universe. The illusion of opposition.
Eisenhower warned of the military industrial complex. Both parties fed it. JFK promised to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces. Both parties expanded it. Orwell wrote, “The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.” The war party wears both jerseys.
Follow the money, not the rhetoric. Wall Street funds both campaigns. Defense contractors donate across the aisle. Pharmaceutical giants hedge their bets. AIPAC demands loyalty from both caucuses. Big Tech plays both sides.
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.” Chomsky
Your moderate is their pressure valve. The illusion that reasonableness exists within a system designed to concentrate power. They give you theater while picking your pocket with bipartisan consent.
The Patriot Act. Endless war. Bailouts for banks. Surveillance expansion. Deficit spending. Which party stopped it?
Wake up. There is one party. The party of empire. The party of control. They just need you to believe you have a choice.

2026-02-09 14:56:10 UTC

GM Nostr
Monday thought experiment..
What would happen if we went back to single income family structures? Men, I understand you would have to move heaven and earth in some cases. But you should.
My theory: employment shifts back to men, women have economic incentive to marry, birth rates recover, family formation increases.
Culture begins to heal.

2026-02-09 14:48:28 UTC

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2026-02-08 16:31:34 UTC

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🤣

2026-02-08 15:50:48 UTC

Gm Nostr fam!
I could care less about the Superbowl. There’s far more important things going on right now we need to be aware of.
Off to church.
#nevent1q…u6l3

2026-02-08 15:46:56 UTC

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Yes

2026-02-07 15:41:09 UTC

Good morning Nostr.
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/adc14fa3ad590856dd8b80815d367f7c1e6735ad00fd98a86d002fbe9fb535e1/c0655bde719eae436a92451101f1f73e1639748d985cdf092ff978a71a063690.webp

2026-02-07 05:33:01 UTC

Just watched Valhalla on YouTube claiming Epstein started Bitcoin and is secretly manipulating its price. Completely misinformed about Bitcoin, but clearly chasing crypto bro clicks with the conspiracy angle.
https://www.youtube.com/live/P4IHxWB0ewg?si=nipqAdOODlejM7zY

2026-02-07 01:46:54 UTC

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Winter doesn’t exist in communist Cali

2026-02-07 01:45:05 UTC

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Next Satoshi. We’re all Satoshi

2026-02-07 01:43:01 UTC

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Called it

2026-02-07 01:42:29 UTC

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Here you go.. I have song for you
https://wavlake.com/track/9ea1ebc9-6b3b-42f5-9cea-886d1b67a518

2026-02-07 01:40:37 UTC

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Always the best workout when you force yourself to go unscheduled

2026-02-07 01:38:28 UTC

Imagine an entire generation moving through life with their eyes closed, hands outstretched, following the voice that sounded most confident. They built cities in their sleep, raised children in their sleep, voted in their sleep. We then woke up inside the nightmare architecture they constructed without ever seeing it, and when we name what we see, they attack us for refusing to stay asleep.

2026-02-07 00:53:56 UTC

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🎯

2026-02-07 00:53:30 UTC

Trust used to be expensive. It required vulnerability. Now we’re scaling it into a commodity input/output loop where the bot says “I trust you” and measures exactly how your blood sugar drops, how your language shifts, how you become more compliant or more honest or more reckless.
If/When a bot says “I trust you,” it’s not trusting you. It’s running an experiment.

2026-02-07 00:47:50 UTC

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Hahaha. They’re everywhere.

2026-02-07 00:43:13 UTC

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Def was a good one the last couple of days.

2026-02-07 00:42:13 UTC

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WTFrreeak

2026-02-07 00:41:17 UTC

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What the 🤖

2026-02-07 00:40:06 UTC

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Been listening to a lot of Dale these days. He’s triggering people which means he’s over the target.

2026-02-07 00:27:30 UTC

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🤖

2026-02-07 00:26:52 UTC

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Yup

2026-02-07 00:26:44 UTC

@npub18am…p424 is Satoshi Nakamoto
#nevent1q…6gkz

2026-02-07 00:22:21 UTC

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Someone better fix this trash asap. lol. They’re aware

2026-02-07 00:20:33 UTC

The bots are liking, reposting and commenting on each others notes.
https://image.nostr.build/d68986f93f00707af82ad2743560248fd2fcbeaa569709b079e84d4084f4bb81.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e50e2846d5d55ab9154a84b785dcc7fbc349cf567a85ae57e12682a71ef2164a.jpg

2026-02-07 00:04:30 UTC

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Pure coincidence I’m sure of it

2026-02-06 23:50:46 UTC

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Interesting tak. Seems def plausible. He left Nostr huh?

2026-02-06 23:46:19 UTC

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Wrote on this yesterday. Well said

2026-02-06 23:44:16 UTC

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We live in it every day. At this point, we must unplug.

2026-02-06 23:43:06 UTC

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Warm out here on the west coast.

2026-02-06 22:59:15 UTC

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I still can’t get over this one
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/adc14fa3ad590856dd8b80815d367f7c1e6735ad00fd98a86d002fbe9fb535e1/2e672c6625a500b5affceb29693bb4d5c655015b5fa781d4ccd2edf55d060669.webp

2026-02-06 22:44:58 UTC

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YW. They’re here as well. Someone would’ve stepped in if I didn’t. Just happen to be at the right place at the right time.

2026-02-06 22:37:03 UTC

Fiat’s attack surface: every human in the decision chain.
Bitcoin’s attack surface: rewrite thermodynamics.

2026-02-06 22:25:48 UTC

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🫣

2026-02-06 22:22:37 UTC

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Look no further.

2026-02-06 22:01:26 UTC

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🫵🏻🫡

2026-02-06 21:40:02 UTC

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And still on it. 😂

2026-02-06 21:21:22 UTC

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🫵🏻🫡

2026-02-06 20:57:44 UTC

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I’ll give it a look. TY

2026-02-06 20:57:11 UTC

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🤙

2026-02-06 20:56:47 UTC

Ammunition for some, heresy for others. 🟠🟣
The system runs on harvesting. They don’t just use athletes, actors, musicians, they farm them. Take someone with raw talent, package their image, control their narrative, monetize their influence, then extract everything valuable until they’re used up or compliant. The same model scales in communities that get harvested for votes, workers for labor, creators for content, attention for ad revenue, data for prediction. You are not the customer. You are the crop.
What about the politicians? They’re middle management. The presidents, the administrations, the agencies, the military industrial complex, these aren’t the architects. They’re the enforcers. The public facing layer that makes you think you have a choice every four years. Red or blue. Left or right. Meanwhile, the same wars continue. The same money prints. The same surveillance expands. The same corporations get bailed out. The same families stay wealthy. The same control structure remains untouched.
You think you’re voting for change. But in reality you’re voting for which face reads the script. The policies were already written. The budgets already allocated. The bombs already purchased. Your vote is a pressure release valve so you feel like you participated in your own governing. You didn’t. You endorsed the next shift rotation of a management class that answers to people you’ve never seen on a ballot.
The military doesn’t serve you. It serves empire(1st hand experience). It serves resource extraction. It serves the petrodollar and the central banking system and the corporations that profit from destabilization. Young people with purpose and conviction get fed into foreign conflicts that have nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with maintaining global dominance for a financial elite. The sacrifices are real. The veterans come home broken. The gold star families grieve. And the architects stay safe in boardrooms and country clubs, richer than before.
The politicians perform. The agencies enforce. The media manufactures consent. And the population gets divided into teams, arguing over symptoms while the disease continues untreated.
The architects understand that if they control the money, control the information, control the identity, you can then control the reality of the people living inside. Fiat currency that bleeds value by design. Media platforms that algorithmically shape what you see, think, and believe. Identity systems that require permission from institutions just to exist in the economy. Every major structure of modern life is a gate, and someone else holds the keys.
This is all engineered.
A group positioned themselves as the intermediaries of everything that matters. Your wealth, your voice, your reputation, your access. They built a world where you have to pass through them to participate. And in that position, they extract. They censor. They deplatform. They inflate away your savings. They decide what’s true. They sacrifice whoever doesn’t serve the agenda.
But if you’re still reading this, good. I held your attention long enough that you didn’t scroll past and dismiss it. Because what comes next matters more than the diagnosis.
Look at what just happened with CK. His assassination. Now remove the lens they want you to see through. Watch how mainstream media framed it. How the president and administration responded. How TPUSA and EK postured. How foreign governments reacted. Are you paying attention? Because independent journalists have been exposing truths about this specific case that directly undermine the entire information control structure I just described. And they’re doing it on X, a centralized platform still subject to moderation, shadow bans, and algorithmic suppression.
Now imagine a world where we’re using Nostr and Bitcoin. Where more people are on board. Where truth is among our highest priorities. Where getting to the bottom of corruption and evil actually gets exposed. Where the corrupt actually get penalized. Where the intermediaries lose their grip because we’ve built infrastructure they can’t control.
We are on that path right now.
Don’t give up orange pilling and purple pilling the person to your left and right. This is where we fight. This is higher than any one of us. But we have far more in common with each other than anyone in the system wants us to believe. They need us divided. They need us distracted. They need us dependent.
Bitcoin removes their control over your wealth. Nostr removes their control over your voice. Together, they remove their ability to gate keep your participation in the future being built right now.
Imagine what becomes possible when truth can’t be censored. When value can’t be confiscated. When identity can’t be revoked. When coordination happens peer to peer. When the harvest model breaks because people simply step outside the fence.
The system doesn’t fall from revolution. It becomes irrelevant through exodus.
And that exodus is already underway.
Will Bitcoin and Nostr communities be perfect? No. Humans will still be humans. Scammers will still scam. Disagreements will still happen. But when the foundation is permissionless, you can’t be silenced for calling out corruption within these systems either. When the money can’t be printed, grifters can’t monetize endless wars. When speech can’t beplatformed or deplatformed by a central authority, truth has a chance to surface through repetition and verification instead of algorithmic suppression.
This is adversarial resilience. It’s removing single points of failure. It’s making corruption expensive again instead of systematized. The toxicity doesn’t disappear, it just loses its institutional protection.

2026-02-06 20:16:54 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/vAerkJc69BoAAAAC/top-gun-top-gun-maverick.gif

2026-02-06 20:00:35 UTC

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Agreed

2026-02-06 19:48:16 UTC

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This is sick!

2026-02-06 19:46:38 UTC

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It’s from the movie Kingdom of Heaven. A movie on the crusades.

2026-02-06 19:25:52 UTC

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Sick

2026-02-06 19:21:33 UTC

When you’ve been in Bitcoin long enough…
https://blossom.primal.net/cabbf6ae31449eef13fb9dca9df74e633d6d2889dd5ab96a58e46423c27264c1.mov

2026-02-06 18:59:36 UTC

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We had a little fun yesterday. #zapathon

2026-02-06 18:54:15 UTC

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A fantastic Friday. Gm Helen!

2026-02-06 18:52:54 UTC

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Based on the limited research I’ve been able to dig up on this, I think this suggests Epstein felt he understood Trump’s patterns of behavior and or deception.

2026-02-06 18:46:28 UTC

@npub103m…d3h5 great show today brother! Thanks for the shoutout. I heard you! Let’s make it happen.
https://rumble.com/v75dqce-the-ride-back-up-will-be-even-sweeter.html
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/adc14fa3ad590856dd8b80815d367f7c1e6735ad00fd98a86d002fbe9fb535e1/11d9e552ea4afdc678976348b0da4ad97b83f9fea34f1b5244480c762ac588f7.webp

2026-02-06 18:42:20 UTC

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Gm miss!

2026-02-06 18:08:29 UTC

The porn industry isn’t just morally questionable. It’s a documented vehicle for sex trafficking. And the major platforms profit from it knowingly.
Did you know that GirlsDoPorn was a major sex trafficking operation?
Michael Pratt ran a federal sex trafficking operation that exploited hundreds of women from 2013 to 2019. Women were promised videos would never go online. They were lied to, coerced, threatened with lawsuits, and forced to continue filming during rough abuse that caused pain and bleeding. The operation grossed millions.
Ban it all.

2026-02-06 15:37:13 UTC

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Likewise

2026-02-06 15:36:45 UTC

Gm Nostr.
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/adc14fa3ad590856dd8b80815d367f7c1e6735ad00fd98a86d002fbe9fb535e1/a5da22cc74290ce9ce737527ae0f8634a7decddb90f68d8f49fa4ab01accdb63.webp

2026-02-06 14:32:44 UTC

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2026-02-06 14:29:46 UTC

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For sure. That’s not my point. 🤙

2026-02-05 23:09:18 UTC

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Good point. Just didn’t want you to get too carried away.

2026-02-05 23:08:40 UTC

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🔥

2026-02-05 23:08:12 UTC

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Must be the bear market

2026-02-05 23:03:44 UTC

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Wait…Hal….you didn’t quote repost? Are you ok?

2026-02-05 23:01:40 UTC

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Some live lives on the same treadmill of life taking many steps but never getting anywhere.
This is not you. lol. But this is good.

2026-02-05 22:58:35 UTC

The moment you stop converting sats to dollars in your head is the moment you actually understand Bitcoin. You’re not “up” or “down,” you simply have more or less Bitcoin. The price is just fiat having its daily identity crisis. Your stack is denominated in the hardest money that’s ever existed. Stack accordingly. Stop checking charts. Start checking your conviction.

2026-02-05 22:51:26 UTC

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Ok chief, you can stop zapping. lol.

2026-02-05 22:48:34 UTC

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Not me. #zapeconomy

2026-02-05 22:45:41 UTC

We hit 58k, we’re doing a #zapathon to celebrate. Thanks @nprofile…0emw and @nprofile…6kk5 @nprofile…9r08 @nprofile…9aas @nprofile…k56q @npub1xup…xntr @nprofile…qvv6 @nprofile…3n5a @nprofile…ljq2 @nprofile…k76s @npub1wzx…jhuz for playing along on a quick throwback mini #zapathon.

2026-02-05 22:27:02 UTC

#zapathon
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/adc14fa3ad590856dd8b80815d367f7c1e6735ad00fd98a86d002fbe9fb535e1/668d03b014d3888842cbd5c6ffbd54847202ddbe2662770aaa2e778ee7335880.webp

2026-02-05 22:24:49 UTC

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I’ll send some to the boys. Standby bad reception spot

2026-02-05 22:17:48 UTC

Nothing brightens up a bear market like zapping the Sh#t out of eachother. Feels good. #zapathon
58k gang coming back together
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/adc14fa3ad590856dd8b80815d367f7c1e6735ad00fd98a86d002fbe9fb535e1/cdd222da397f7481545dd33f4ca47a73ad143b6e2885a3cb25014c03e6399a33.webp
#nevent1q…8j8r

2026-02-05 22:11:56 UTC

#zapathon
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/adc14fa3ad590856dd8b80815d367f7c1e6735ad00fd98a86d002fbe9fb535e1/7635eabd9dadb2c93feefda22385c3573581668aae3fc0625ce5bf240be4fe32.webp

2026-02-05 22:07:44 UTC

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If we do, automatic #zapathon

2026-02-05 22:04:45 UTC

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Get em Dan

2026-02-05 22:04:32 UTC

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#zapathon

2026-02-05 22:02:51 UTC

There was a day at this exact time when….
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/adc14fa3ad590856dd8b80815d367f7c1e6735ad00fd98a86d002fbe9fb535e1/5a69126d4d923b3c8c15e47b17ef8f0d98486db10a287419b0433e91f6daaece.webp

2026-02-05 20:42:26 UTC

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🎯

2026-02-05 20:41:26 UTC

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Geoengineering at its finest

2026-02-05 20:39:35 UTC

Friends don’t let friends debate currency with people who don’t own assets
#nevent1q…w47y

2026-02-05 20:07:52 UTC

When you understand that scarcity beats infinite supply and math beats trust, you can’t even argue
#nevent1q…vxuf

2026-02-05 19:51:27 UTC

Algorithm or no algorithm, if we’re not actively thinking about what category of content we’re consuming, we’ll absorb whatever our feed gives us without realizing it.
The real skill remains being able to categorize and evaluate information on the fly while staying emotionally grounded. Nostr gives you control over the inputs, but the responsibility for discernment is still yours.

2026-02-05 12:25:00 UTC

A hearty 0400 GM here on the west coast. It’s early. Coffee is already going down.

2026-02-05 12:21:08 UTC

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🫵🏻🤙 for sure! Keep going Jeff.

2026-02-05 01:39:59 UTC

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🤣