I’m in an abusive relationship I would like to escape That relationship is between me and the State

So I've been going over my Dharma Marga calendar in conjunction with evolutionary astrology with the help of ChatGPT and honestly its mindblowing how accurate these things are. #astrology #dharma

Seen on ig... felt compelled to fix it 😅 #memestr

New short essay now up on #nostr and @Stacker News only! cc/ @Jake Woodhouse View article →

Check it out: Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism, is said to have envisioned a society in which all people lived according to reason, without law courts, temples, or currencies divided by city-states, in his now-lost book Republic. That bit of information just blew my mind. If that's not an utterly anarcho-capitalist #Bitcoin idea, then I don't know what is. And he wrote it 2000+ years ago! BTW I'm close to finishing my essay on the convergence of Bitcoin and #Stoicism. If there's anyone out there who has been genuinely looking forward to that piece, I apologize for the wait from the bottom of my heart. I have been letting you down - as well as myself - and I am painfully aware of that. I have two very good reasons for the delay though: 1) The parallels run much deeper than I thought (I had no idea Zeno was basically an anarchist) and the essay, instead of being 2000-3000 words like I originally thought, is looking more like 7000+ words. 2) I have simply been not at my best. Unmotivated, tired, undisciplined. Completely my own shortcomings. All that being said, I go to war against myself every day. I put pen to paper every day, even when nothing noteworthy comes out of it (or sometimes it feels like it's too much to even put out there). But, as I said, the essay is very close to being finished. If you want a preliminary idea into what it will be about, you can listen to this episode of the @Bitcoin Art Magazine Podcast with @Asanoha from December, where among other things discussed, I read most of the draft I had written at the time:

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A conversation between Asanoha from Bitcoin Art Magazine and Kontext. We talk about SATOSH.EE, the Bitcoin Wall Calendar, a little bit about my phi...

Time may take your good looks, misfortune may take your wealth, an accident may take your loved ones and external conditions may take your health, but you will always have philosophy, you will always have your personality - your personal reality.

1 year ago today: @Open Source Culture Manifesto published (12 Feb 2025, block height 883,435) View article →

Jesus took on the suffering of the entire world voluntarily. That is what one must do, if they wish to become a spiritual warrior. That's also what Dostoevsky meant when he said that every man is responsible not only for themselves, but for all of humanity. The warrior sage must learn to carry that weight with grace and compassion, for otherwise they are doomed to crumble under it. That burden is the ultimate spiritual exercise, resistance training of the soul, the one true challenge to make it grow. The question is: will you accept the challenge?

“Fate doesn’t happen to us, it happens through us.” (Paraphrasing John Sellars paraphrasing the ancient Stoics) #stoicism #philosophy

A gentle reminder to touch grass. Or snow, or something 🤠 View article →

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Finally googled WTF "hawk tuah" is. I wish I didn't.

All of my Tallinn gangsters 🇪🇪 See you in 2 weeks: 20 Feb 2026 at 17:30 in Rahva Raamat (Viru Keskus) I will be doing a presentation of my book "A Stoic Resurrection." The book itself is currently only available in English, but the presentation will either be in Estonian, English or both, depending on what languages the people that show up speak. Hope to see you there 🫡 https://rahvaraamat.ee/et/sundmused/raamatu-a-stoic-resurrection-esitlus?id=849 The event will also be livestreamed on Facebook so you can still tune in even if you can't make it. I'm thinking maybe I'll be able to get @Jaxzon to come along with me and do a #nostr livestream as well 👀 View quoted note →

Was re-listening to Once Bitten #562: Stolen Science Series Part 7 - Decoding The Science Of Ancient Initiations with @RedTailHawk and @Daniel Prince yesterday and was reminded of this: https://blossom.primal.net/165961a5b0484ed8d9655c33a74161d8349426358b644222df8ec1a2f91ef950.3gp Funnily enough, during that trip to Cambodia in 2023, I also started writing this: https://medium.com/@mckontext/unified-creation-energy-theory-ucet-8814041ed94c ...which aligns pretty much perfectly with a lot of what Red is talking about in that episode. Highly recommend giving it a listen if you haven't yet: https://fountain.fm/episode/xJhmGJwLayW0ADEwmU2L

Even though I have been thoroughly disillusioned by the Bitcoin community over the past few years (note to self: have no expectations), I’m still of the opinion that in a world of statists, satanists, conformists, liars, cowards, morons and scammers, the Bitcoin community has potentially the lowest percentage of the aforementioned types and probably the highest percentage of freedom-oriented, truth-seeking, optimistic innovators, artists and entrepreneurs. As such, I will continue putting my proverbial eggs in that basket and continue searching for my tribe predominantly from within the ranks of bitcoiners. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Onward. 🫡

A lil' something from the sessions... #tunestr