This is my politics @HODL

How long until people say, “it’s as good as Bitcoin”? (Good as gold parallel)

I listed 52 items on eBay today with the help of task batching. Technically it was several days of preemptive work to set me up to be able to do this but normally on a good day it’s 10-20 items listed. I’m up to 208 listed items (I liked that cause, Idaho, lol) and I’ve only got 42 more free monthly listings until I need to upgrade to a basic store account. I’ll probably do that tomorrow if I can manage to get another 50 up. I’ve already got stuff organized and ready to photograph so when I wake up I’ll start taking pictures and get geared up to list again. 😊

One post trick from September.

View quoted note →

Scaling up my eBay listings. For the past month instead of cherry picking various high value Pokemon cards to list I’ve organized all my cards by theirs sets, alphabetized them, and began sorting them by quality (near mint, played, and damaged). After that I use a sharpie to put a primitive sku on their penny sleeve (plastic protective sleeve) like NM1, NM2, P1, P2, D1 etc to make sure when one sells I go to the second Abra in the near mint section for example. Today I took photos of the sleeved card, the raw front, and raw back, of each near mint base set card. Now I have 156 photos to organize in folders and then I will list all 52 cards. If I have planned this correctly it will take an hour or two to do so. I’ll be going from 1-10 cards listed a day to possible hundreds, just because of organizing and planning. Hoping it works. I don’t know how else to scale up. Also documenting everything as I go and writing guides of sorts so that if I can get enough income to justify it I can hire others to help and use the documentation for training and reference. Additionally I sent a message to an old friend who has shared office space for rent, and while all the offices are currently occupied when one comes available I could get one for $400 a month, and I’m kind of excited to work towards that as a milestone. Something about having a place to do work and knowing what work to do and when is good for me. Anyways. That’s what I’ve been messing with recently.

Well, I said, “see you in October” and it’s the first. I’ve been working on eBay and yo-yos still. Here’s the yo-yo content from September. Still have a highlight reel to edit from the 27th but otherwise this is all of it below. Also I made social accounts again to see if that helps the business and to give me more distribution, if you want to follow any of that I’m “MikeMontys” on TikTok and Instagram. Same content though. September 2025 — Published Long form (YouTube) 2025-09-27 — Yo-yo Practice Session — 2025-09-22 — Yo-yo practice session 2025-09-22 — Highlights from 2025-09-22: Yo-Yo Practice Session — 2025-09-14 — 2025-09-14: yo-yo practice — Highlights from 2025-09-14: Yo-Yo Practice Session — 2025-09-07 — 2025-09-07: Yo-Yo Practice Session — Highlights from 2025-09-07: Yo-Yo Practice Session — Shorts (YouTube)

I’m gonna take a break from posting for a while. I think a month is a good start. See you in October.

Don’t dunk on people for not knowing what you know. Teach them or fuck off.

My kids are shrieking like banshees outside and I can’t decide if I’m gonna go deal with it or not.

The amount of time I spend playing among us, makes me suspicious of a lot of of you folks. in a good way

Everything pushes the modern internet user towards being a public figure. I had something akin to that going on before burnout hit me and my mental health pushed me to delete every thing I’d built. I still feel pulled to it. But considering how I act on these twitter clones I am certain it’s a mistake to try and rebuild a platform now. I could be wrong. But it’s a gut feeling I have.

I use Primal to watch the live streams on Nostr, but when I am listening or watching a live stream, I cannot participate in the normal chat. I send a message, it never appears. I can send zaps, and those do appear. What's going on with Primal's chat in live streams, however? Any ideas?

In one breath a creative will say "Good artists copy, great artists steal". In the next breath they’ll demonize AI being trained on all the world’s knowledge.

Apparently for my variation bulk listing by collection set idea can’t have mixed card conditions. So now that I’ve alphabetized half of my sets I need to break them out into damaged, heavily/moderately/lightly played and near mint and sell them in individual bulk listings rather than specifying the card condition as a variation of the card. Fine. A little more up front work but still faster than individual listing and potentially better profit to fee ratio than individual listing. Kind of hoped to get something up today though…

Everyone’s got an opinion. Doesn’t mean any or many are worth considering.