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Nostr video clients: Flare ZapStream These two seem like the main ones out currently. Anyone tried? Pros and/cons? Rumble Odysee Peertube These seem more centralized but could serve as backups. nostr.build looks great for images but not going to handle video content for free. View quoted note →

Anyone have recommendations for a solid nostr video client? 4min video seems to be more than Damus or Primal can handle.

Since YouTube deems this a TOS violation, I'm re-uploading it here for posterity. Shaykh posts on Telegram regularly and is one of the top Maliki scholars. View quoted note →

Solid interview with Dr Bilal Ware Highlights: 19:45 - How would Malcolm X would have responded to the events of Oct 7th? 23:40 - Hamas's resistance within the framework of the power imbalance 27:30 - The fiqh of fighting, resistance and being outnumbered 29:18 - Exemplary violence, how it works and how it is being applied in Palestine 34:00 - Zionism as White supremacy and disparity of violence 52:30 - Zionism's on its last gasp 01:37:19 - The double standards of the media, the shift in the official/media narrative, no lessons learnt from the Iraq war 01:44:04 - Unfinished question - on Israel losing/the Palestinians not giving up 01:46:30 - Can the USA save itself?

About cried last night watching eps 4 of Rings of Power. Tom Bombadil, Barrow Wrights & Entwives all in one episode! This is the "fan fiction" style adaptation I've been dreaming of for decades! View quoted note →

In honor of those who are fighting most for our freedoms and since I am aiming to my delete Twitter/X account soon, I'm reposting some of my content from the past year. Since Oct 7th I have exclusively used Arabic in my posting (aside from reshares and a lone post in Latin). This was intentionally to boycott use of English in MT dialogue, break algorithm, and improve my Arabic. As Nostr is still newer and not all clients have ease of translation, I'm posting here with English translation included. 🇵🇸 #FreePalestine أمريكا = افضل طريقة للتعبير عن النفس هي الصمت لما الواحد يقول الحقيقة يسموه خطاب كراهيةً. إن مصطلح "منكر الهولوكوست" أصبح له معنى جديد الآن الرعاية الصحية هي مجرد ذراع آخر للمجمع العسكري. "الغذاء سوف يفوز في الحرب" الأمم الإسلامية بتتوحد، وفي نفس الوقت، في نوبة صراخ من الإسلام الغربي لما ادرك أنه ماعندهوش أي سيطرة على السياسة العالمية باستثناء الهجرة والبيتكوين. 90% من المسلمين الغربيين ليس لديهم أي فهم للسياسة لأنهم يؤمنون بالسيادة الأخلاقية للديمقراطية. وهذا الجهل يبرر تواطئهم في الترويج للاستعمار. أولئك الذين ليسوا جاهلين هم انتهازيون دعائيون. اتبع المال… شهد العالم خلال الشهريين الماضيين خلل في تفكير العديد من مسلمي أمريكا و السبب الرئيس في ذلك يرجع إلى الصدمة الناتجة عن المحرقة التي تحدث في غزة. كل هذا يؤثر سلبيا على الخطاب السياسي و هذا للأسف يصب في مصلحة الظالمين المعتدين. فللأسف الإسلام الأمريكي قد أصيب بنوع من السرطان و الذي يجب تحليله. الإمبراطور (جو بايدن) بدون ملابس America = The best way to express yourself is silence. When someone tells the truth, they call it hate speech. The term "Holocaust denier" has a new meaning now. Healthcare is just another arm of the military industrial complex. "Food will win the war." Muslim nations are uniting, meanwhile Western Islam has a hissy-fit upon realizing they have zero control over global policy aside from hijra and bitcoin. 90% of western Muslims have zero understanding of politics because they believe in the moral supremacy of democracy. This ignorance excuses their complicity in promoting colonialism. Those who aren’t ignorant are propagandist opportunists. Follow the money… In the past two months the world has witnessed many American Muslims become incapable of thinking rationally due to the communal trauma of the Gaza holocaust. This has led to the popularizing of an unhinged political narrative that is now playing directly into the hands of the oppressors. The reality that American Islam has developed a sort of cancer must now be analyzed. The Emperor (Biden) has no clothes.

My uncle has a lake cabin that has been in the family for over century now. Every year he adds on a section here and there. New deck and dock project in the works currently. This thing has grown from a tiny 2 bed shack to a monstrous 5 bed jungle-barn (he owned a garden business so the interior is covered with large potted plants and trees). My cousins (both SDEs) have been able to spend a few summers here on remote work and it has been a goal of mine to do this as well. This weekend my brother and I got to bring our kids down here and it was probably the first time in 20 years we've had kids playing on the beach. Lots of good memories and probably more so for my mom and uncle getting to see another generation growing up here.

The Rings of Power Season 2 dropped on Prime last night. I’m two episodes in a loving it! The PJ LORT trilogy was my initial internet culture. Sharing nerd-lore, using elven & hobbit names, fan fiction… It was fun, weird, and reminds me a bit of what Nostr culture is like right now. The beauty of reading fiction is you get to imagine much of the faerie-world (Tolkien’s lecture - On Fairy Stories - being perhaps the greatest exposition on this) with it becoming an experience of your own. Adaptation, on the other hand, is more editorialized, communalized synthesis of a shared understanding of people's engagements with the story. The former is a fully sovereign experience, the latter a centralized undertaking - very much like the difference between a decentralize protocol and an algorithmic platform or custom AI. Depending on one’s disposition, favorability will incline in either direction and may even fluctuate from time to time. In fact, the ability to freely go back and forth is necessary for development and enhancement - this is how we analyze, test, and innovate. This freedom of movement and flexibility is something I see attacked a lot lately - and I mean this in both the tech space and the mental arena. We see governments applying pressure on big tech orgs, tech platforms enforcing controls on customers, FUD everywhere so that indie-streamers are more trustworthy than degree-touting journalists. Polarized engagement-farming drives the machine so much that if the troll isn’t being fed, it comes down from the Northern mountains to feast on mutton, dwarves, and hobbits alike. We are much in need of a wizard to cast them all into stone and I’m glad that Nostr has been playing a part in such a spell for me. Anyhow, this is why I love when a new Tolkien adaptation gets released - my mind gets to ping-pong between the real, dream-world and a new corporate fiction. I can float for a bit in the ether and analyze my fitra with the dream the world is trying to fashion and hopefully balance it with the vision I aim to build. This is the magic of art and why I believe it will always triumph over science!

Huckelberry summers are why I love Idaho.

"The Gazan today moves in the domain of Divine Perfections and not in human deficiencies." ~ Taha Abderrahmane View quoted note →

Designed this garden for my parents five years ago and it has been wonderfully maintained! My dad grows raspberries, blackberries and tends a tiny vineyard. Mom grew up on a 160 acre homestead farm and loves her vegetable garden (this is probably the smallest it has ever been), but is more into flowers these days. (before pic from April 2019, after pic is today)