I genuinely believe America is the best country. Incredibly diverse environments, lots of space, built on some based principles. Sure it has a lot of problems currently but I’m bullish. Wish I could move there View quoted note →

Okay #cookstr what’s the deal with stainless steel and heavy metals? Is nickel something to genuinely be concerned about? I love my stainless steel even more than cast iron. Please don’t tell me I’ve got to get rid of

This whole thing with Mike Lynch absolutely reeks. His co-defendant was also hit by a car and killed last weekend? Super shady

Hey @primal, on the web app I can no longer follow or unfollow people. Any idea what is wrong?

The rampant corruption in politics I believe comes from the deterioration of the importance of the family unit as an environment for formation. Formation of critical thinking, ethics and morality have been outsourced to a faceless state (or private school) that at their heart are optimised for performance, not formation.

GM #nostr Feeling pretty sore after having a lump removed from my back yesterday. Nothing malignant thankfully but was causing some discomfort sat at a desk all day. Now to not pop my stitches for 2 weeks

Thinking about #nostr and growth and how we can fall into the pitfalls of old school social media. The likes of Facebook, Twitter, etc got to the size they did through unethical, addictive algorithms and backroom deals. Nostr is not that. It’s organic and organic growth does not follow the trajectories of traditional social media. We should be onboarding as many as we can but if they don’t hang around that’s fine. Nostr shouldn’t need people chronically online to survive. It’s okay if people came back sporadically. Value4value lies at the heart of this new age of social interaction online. When you’ve filled your cup, come and share it, let yourself be filled. When you need to take a step away, do it and come back when ready.

Started the Joe Pickett series by C. J. Box last week. Already on book 6, someone help I have 25 books in total to go before my brain will let me read anything else

GM #nostr, thinking through how our existence could probably be defined by the word “overextension”. By overextension I mean we stretch things past their natural capacity. We’ve overextend: Money Government Food Environment Schools Communities Purpose Humanity Fitness Entertainment Family Business Am I advocating for degrowth? I guess I kind of am, centralisation is the scourge of humanity. It’s ironic that my favourite show, Star Trek: TNG, shows a future of almost perfect bureaucratic bliss. If such a thing was possible it would be great. "I feel I need a holiday, a very long holiday, as I have told you before…Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: Like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can’t be right. I need a change, or something.” - Fellowship of the Ring

It’s wet and miserable outside but putting this on an imagining myself in the warmer climates of the US

It’s a double whammy today for #proofofharvest 1. Some of my nicest looking courgettes yet 2. Beef dinner featuring “roast” potatoes from the garden. Beef was silverside from a local farmer, slow cooked for 7 hours with some vegetables and stock. Used the liquid and veg to make a gravy. Potatoes were done in beef dripping from same farmer. Didn’t have enough time to get them properly roasted though. Also didn’t peel them 😂

Longing to move to Wyoming to live out my mountain man homesteading life

GM #nostr Had a really valuable call with a brother in the US yesterday. He reminded me that we need that challenge he called “the rock in the stream”. Something that’s hard but if we stick at it shapes us. Sometimes we feel like we aren’t moving forward like that rock, but we’re still being shaped by the stream. Keep the faith, don’t let the system define what you should be. Realise your God given image 🫡

No one ever got fat from eating fruit

Peak levels of copium from the BBC "Increasing numbers of young men – and it is mostly athletic-looking young men" Who let this sentence past editing? 😂

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Raw-dogging on planes: Heroic or just plain stupid?

Some fliers are giving up in-flight entertainment and even drinking water but experts warn it could be dangerous.

6 fried eggs, OJ, coffee, sourdough bread, book to read, peace in the house. The best kind of lunchtime

Interesting video on the idea of a "library economy". The author is a self declared anarcho-socialist, very different to me politically, but I think he makes some very valid points. Focusing on groups contributing a small part to a greater need in the community. I think the general idea is too utopian in that I don't think it's possible. The part of the video that really resonated with me was the idea that information should be freely available. Throughout history we've had libraries that to differing degrees have been available to people to learn from. The internet should have been the ultimate library but tech monopolies have created an artifical scarcity for their own benefit. The true vision of the internet and information was realised by people like Aaron Schwartz where information that is for the public good should be freely given and freely available. The internet could (and can) be the first rung on the ladder for people to become self-sufficient. #nostr absolutely plays into this. Decentralised, censorship-resistant ways of sharing information, not driven by profit (not that having payments is a bad thing though). At the risk of sounding divisive I worry that knowledge-workers are part of the artifical scarcity machine on the internet. Would be interested to hear what people's thoughts are. #solarpunk #politics #internet #plebchain

Stuff is kind of falling apart isn’t it?