Misty

For those of you who don't have LinkedIn anymore, when you're applying for jobs, what do you put in the LinkedIn address field when it's required to have a profile? If I can get work without having to have a LinkedIn anymore, I'd like to do that.

I understand stacking sats, but I also want to make sure I'm stacking letters.

There's 5th-wheel grease on my hijab.

I just left Andrew Tate’s The Real World after being there for almost two years. I’m not sure how I feel. Kind of freeing, kind of sad. Released.

Grandbaby was born less than 45 min ago. My daughter called to let me know they are both OK. 🎉🫂

My daughter is in labor. Grandbaby #3 is on her way!! 👶 Whoohooo!

As soon as reliable income comes in regularly, I want to shut down my website(s), LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and X. Maybe even my Substack. I'm over it all.

I paid my rent for next month. In Bitcoin. 🎉 I'm glad the tech is available that enabled that ability (Strike Wallet). I didn't want to spend any of it, but I had to, and I'm glad I could.

Writing by hand effectively is vital to learning, communication, and being able to think and analyze for yourself. It's something I cannot get enough of. I write by hand when: - Researching at the computer - Detailing dates, times, locations, and odd observations in log books - Creating "morning pages" - Brainstorming - I need to vent - I'm thinking of missed loved ones and missed connections - I trace the Arabic letters of the Quran - Keeping key reminders during presentations - Making a list of things I must do the next day Writing by hand is your connection. Without it, life begins to fall apart. https://glassalmanac.com/generation-z-is-losing-a-skill-weve-had-for-5500-years-40-are-losing-the-ability-to-communicate-effectively/

Severe storms blew through last night. The alert on my phone said “severe” for flash flooding. A little while later, another alert ranked as “severe”. BASEBALL-SIZE HAIL was in all caps. In both cases there were no cautions to stay home but instead direct orders to take immediate cover. It’s rare they label these warnings as “severe” here. Trying to fall asleep and looking at the sky, all I saw were flashes. Constant flashes. With the wind and the torrential downpour, my instincts spoke one word that I dread: tornado. The last time the sky looked that way, my son and I were living in my van, parked at an RV park in the Florida Panhandle. We had the choice of staying in the van or fleeing to the little bunkhouse for “shelter.” It was mostly made of glass. With one bar of cell signal, my friends at the time were trying to tell me about its path. It was after midnight. You couldn’t see it and the radar on the phone weather app wasn’t working. On its approach two miles coming directly at us, it split from one into two. Both strands went about a mile around on each either side of us. A miracle. A pure miracle if you ask me. But I never forgot the sky or how I felt. As I laid in my bed last night, I tried mentally prepare myself for baseball-sized hail crushing my van, and along with it any options of getting to a new job or training for a new job that I’ve been trying to get but don’t yet have. I tried to stop my mind from haggling with insurance adjusters that don’t exist. My text to my son indicated he as already home when the storm hit. He hadn’t gone out with his friends. Howls. Torrential rain. Flashes upon flashes through the curtain. This morning, I found that we were under a tornado watch and then a warning. I didn’t want to look last night. Like in the van, there was no place else to go or be or to flee to. Being scared wouldn’t have helped. Had things had gotten louder, I would have taken the dog and we would have sheltered in the bathtub with me, but it didn’t. I slept well. According to the reports, there might be more of that today.

After my aggressive job search while seeking technical writing roles (I'm up to around 500 applications into mostly technical writing and related content/documentation positions), I'm seeking assistance for job search resources at my local Texas Workforce Solutions office. I'm glad I went as their only goal is to get you employed full-time. They have innumerable resources available to the job seeker, two specific ones I hope pan out. Don't be afraid to seek out local job hunt sources at your local employment/ unemployment offices. You might be surprised by what you find!

I canceled my Alby subscription and my Alby account. Posting from Yakihonne as a test. I set up a Coinos wallet but it looks like I did that wrong, and now their website isn't loading? 👀 I'll try this all again another day.

Just to confirm: There is no other way to send or receive sats over NOSTR other than opening up lightning channels in some way, shape, or form, is that correct?

I just did a search in my email for the word “apply.” Results total from February 2025 - now = 472. This means I’ve conservatively applied for about 400 jobs since February of this year.

Going through an old hard drive (2017) and found some old affiliate videos I never published. A few things: * My makeup job was atrocious. * I was very bold in speaking the truth AND asking for the sale. * I should have started posting videos back then and stuck to it. * I really miss that jean jacket and sweater. * Don’t ever let me wear camouflage-batwing sunglasses ever again. One video was in response to someone saying, “You’re never going to amount to anything.” My speech back then was on point. I didn’t believe in myself nearly enough.

I’ve spent my morning reviewing Islamic marriage contract templates on the internet. As a technical writer with some understanding of contract and family law, my brain can’t help but reword some of these clauses so they are explicitly clear in intention, definition, and statement.  I’m sure those changes will be fine once I cross that bridge, as they don’t change the underlying “interpretation” but only clarify it by specifically stating it. In contractual law in the United States, contracts must not be vague. I know that when you’re looking through legal documents, there are a lot of vague or confusing-like statements still contained in them.  There’s a huge gap between what the law states and what is actually passed onto parties or judges in a case.  I hope my future husband finds my documentation skills valuable. 

Because, according to some, I have nothing better to do.

Taxes, man. Taxes. https://www.inkedsheets.com/p/taxes-it-doesnt-have-to-be-this-complicated

If you believe everything you read in the LinkedIn feeds, you're losing hope of ever finding a job. The feed has to be dominated by their algorithm. There are people finding new jobs, and I would love to see more of those success stories. https://open.substack.com/pub/mistysbledsoe/p/an-open-letter-to-the-linkedin-algorithm

The IRS is always going to tax Bitcoin in the value of fiat money, never the value of Bitcoin. Everything gets cheaper with Bitcoin, which means any revenues you earn in Bitcoin, should also be taxed (if at all) at a much lower rate. Microsats, really. This means as Bitcoin becomes worth more in fiat numbers, the higher the taxes that will be owed on goods and services as long as it's valued in fiat denominations. I think I have an idea. I need to let it percolate for a bit.