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Between a block and a hard place Building a practice in Freedom | Philosophy | Free Speech | Bitcoin | Nostr | Discernment | Health | and sometimes a poem DM me to join The Bitcoin Poets Society Email me: aj@ft.hn to find out about nostrdev.com
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AJ 1 month ago
Um, uh, hello everyone, um my name is AJ, uh I am a procrastinator ๐Ÿ˜‚
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AJ 1 month ago
My friend wrote this on X. We're losing the meaning of language and that why we're getting all sorts of fucked up: "It's not "bodily autonomy" if you're expecting other people to do something to your body. It's not "bodily autonomy if the change you seek requires some kind of medical treatment or intervention, which is regulated in the way medicines are. It's definitely not โ€œbodily autonomy" if you're expecting other people to pay for it. When did this concept of "bodily autonomy" become such a misnomer?"
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AJ 2 months ago
My dad's friend just told me that in 1973 he had a job in banking in the Square Mile in London, for an annual salary of ยฃ400 p.a. He says he lived well. He was suited and booted. Only thing missing was a bowler hat. Food on the table etc etc What the central banks have done to our financial system is criminal
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AJ 2 months ago
Damn... I need your help with this Nostriches My poems are going to the printer very soon because the magician @Agi Choote has nearly finished casting her spells over my work ๐Ÿช„ Pretty soon they will be on @Fanfares too, thanks to @arkinox and @Shortfiat And I've been told there might even be room for me to do a live reading of a couple of them at @Bitfest I'm kinda bricking it because the tough faรงade is about to be levelled. Any words of wisdom for someone who has never put herself out there like this before? #asknostr View quoted note โ†’
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AJ 2 months ago
Can't explain why but I love this account Maybe because my second favourite poem of 2025 flowed from me because of this account View quoted note โ†’
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AJ 2 months ago
I didn't write this - the part that starts in bold below was written by my brilliant client Jolyon. We're Bitcoiners and Nostriches, we are on the fringe. We don't need approval, we don't need permission. Fuck the banks, fuck the government and fuck Bitcoin Treasury Companies. Let's keep building outside of their walls โ€œ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฟ ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐—น๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐˜€. ๐—œ๐—ณ ๐—ถ๐˜โ€™๐˜€ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฟ, ๐—ถ๐˜โ€™๐˜€ ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐—น๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ.โ€ Vivienne Westwood said this in 1996, and it still lands like a punch. We talk about ๐˜ค๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ all day in marketing. Brand culture, youth culture, company cultureโ€ฆ but what sheโ€™s really saying is that true culture isnโ€™t built for everyone. It starts on the fringes, not in focus groups. โ€œ๐—”๐—ป๐˜†๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ต๐˜„๐—ต๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜†๐˜€ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐—ฎ ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜†.โ€ Vivienne never chased mass approval. She built worlds that attracted the right kind of people and let the rest catch up later. Thatโ€™s the energy every modern brand could learn from. You donโ€™t create culture by blending in. You do it by standing for something so specific it makes most people uncomfortable. Or as she put it: โ€œ๐—ก๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜†๐˜€, ๐˜„๐—ฒ ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐˜†, ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜†๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜† ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜†๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜† ๐—ฒ๐—น๐˜€๐—ฒ, ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฒ๐—น๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜† ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—น ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ. ๐—•๐˜‚๐˜ ๐—œ ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—น ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐—ณ ๐—œ ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜.โ€ Thatโ€™s not ego. Thatโ€™s conviction.
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AJ 2 months ago
Life is doing, doing nothing is death
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