What UK bank would you recommend? My current bank is about to close my account because of a suspected bitcoin related transfer worth less than £100... Fucking fascists. Still need to receive the earnings from the fiat mines somewhere... #asknostr

A month or so ago my mother-in-law asked for help with opening pdf boarding passes on her phone. I tried to install a free pdf reader on her normie android phone. Every app had built-in adds, which tried to trick the user with misleading buttons to click on ads instead of opening the file. She had 5 different PDF readers installed, but every time she tried to open a file with one of them she was clicking on the big green button to open the file, which was actually an ad to install various other apps/spyware. Today I needed an app on my GoS phone to edit a PDF and cut a few pages from the start so I can then get Voca to read it to me minus the contents and all that. I went to Zapstore, installed PaperKnife+, edited the PDF and was done in no time at zero cost with zero adds viewed using an app that respects my privacy. Went to zap it, it was unclaimed, so my 1K sats went to the catalog. I absolutely loved every step of that process.

If you keep sats on a normie phone you are taking a risk. Older iPhones are less capable for surveillance which is good, but should not be trusted with anything of value. View quoted note →

When discussing something with others, it is much more useful to try and understand them and where they're coming from than to try and argue your point and win an argument. I've been doing the latter all my life and I'm reasonably good at it, but Increasingly see the pointlessness in it now. If you catch me arguing with somebody old style, remind me of this note 😅

"There are a whole lot more of us than there are of them, and we can force revolutionary change whenever we want. ... the people who rule over us never stop thinking about it. It haunts them. It consumes them. It keeps them up at night. They obsess over it."

The Most Under-Discussed Political Reality Of Our Time – Caitlin Johnstone

FFS this book has been around for 16 years and I'm only reading it now. Better late than never 🙂 "Remember, an activated attachment system is not passionate love. Next time you date someone and find yourself feeling anxious, insecure and obsessive - only to feel elated every once in a while - tell yourself this is most likely an activated attachment system and not love.

Governments are always on the lookout for new and creative ways to steal our money. View quoted note →

Reminds me of 7th of October. Some guy on Session was trying to convince everyone that Hama's is about to defeat Israel... Now ppl draw parallels with the French revolution and add guilotines to memes. These protests will not end the status quo; they will be used to justify more control. The solution is to build a new system by connecting and working with others outside the current one. Just stop feeding the monster, no need to fight it. View quoted note →

I wish that at my age this was all fucking obvious to me, but it wasn't. I found it insightful and very useful and will listen to it again. View quoted note →

Teal Swan: Are you in a Man’s Mentality or a Boy’s Mentality Towards Things? Episode webpage:

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Are you in a Man’s Mentality or a Boy’s Mentality Towards Things? by Teal Swan

So many men do not see the difference between a boy mentality and a man mentality. So, in today’s video, we are going to focus on one chapter of ...

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Rings true to me. View quoted note →

I have Zapstore now 🎉 Installed Accrescent from GoS app store -> installed AppVerifier from Accrescent -> downloaded APK from zapstore.dev -> copied APK hash from the download page -> used 'verify from clipboard' in AppVerifier to validate the downloaded APK -> install APK. I wish Zapstore was available in F-Droid but mostly, I'm happy it exists 🤩

@Zapstore if it is not feasible to add zapstore to F-Droid, could you add the APK info to AppVerifier? I installed Accrescent from the GoS app store, then AppVerifier from there, hoping to verify the zapstore APK in an easy & foolproof way but it was not found.