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6 hours ago•••
I’ve gotten solid feedback on this episode of @npub10qr...xqj8 with @npub13nd...0svh (and of course some saying they didn’t like it one bit).
I’ve learned that the vast majority of Bitcoiners just want moonboi Bitcoin NGU hopium mixed with macro death-of-the-dollar doom porn. How do I know this? Because I see which episodes get the most traction. Bitcoiners may say they want “different guests and opinions” on Bitcoin podcasts, but their actions tell a very different story… The numbers are clear. That’s why even though Saylor has done 69,420 podcasts and everyone has listened to countless hours of him, the majority of people will still watch any new Saylor conversation over some lesser-known person. This isn’t a dig on Saylor, it’s just reality.
That said, if you are one of the minority of Bitcoiners who enjoys having your preconceived notions challenged, and have the ability to approach uncomfortable topics with an open mind, I encourage you to check out this conversation with John.
9 hours ago•••
i decided to go up the street and have some beer and stake sammich
it was nice
i fed a little of the veal stake to my favourite shop stray #catstr chikita, as well as giving her some nice ... well, the nicest thing i could find, some actual gravy with chunks of tuna
plus of course some cheesy biscuits
she is getting more and more familiar with me, she doesn't bat my fingers when i try to touch her now
gave me a good opportunity to watch her and she has the dark eye secretion and a bit of the yellow stain on her paws, and the more obvious tongue out thing... only difference with her is her laryngitis
but she several times managed to make a note as she spoke to me, sometimes surprisingly
anyway
too many things to think about
i almost wasn't gonna turn on the computer but then i saw #mochi wanted some dindins so i gave him the best of the new things i found... well, i saw them before but now i look at the label and look for the one that shows chunks of tuna in a gravy, that seems to be nearly decent, not just jelly and meat so soft you could cut it with a credit card
mochi is enjoying a can of that now also
if humans won't appreciate what i do then i'll find some small animals who will
i know there is some nice humans that appreciate me and i do my best there but the little animals appreciate the attention and care in a very concrete way and i need some of that
if nobody is bettered by your actions then you are worthless
9 hours ago•••
I call this piece “Tea Bag Wisdom on Yeti.”
11 hours ago•••
lazy humans like to feed #catstr shitty food like grain and dry based biscuits and pressure cooked soggy soft meats
but cats actually prefer food that they have to tear apart and they enjoy cleaning surfaces covered in traces of butter and meats
and another thing
when you feed a cat on chewy meats, that you brined as you should, they drink more water, which improves their kidney function, because the salt makes them thirsty, and that reduces the risk of developing kidney disease, which is a major plague of domestic cats fed on those shitty foods that "vets" shill for their "pet food" manufacturer sponsors.
mleku replied 11 hours ago
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11 hours ago•••
it is a pleasure to watch a #catstr tearing apart a proper chewy piece of meat
i almost denied him his afternoon eating to give to the stray up the street but now i'm like... damn, i gotta do something about my wood supply
these simple pit spits don't have under-ventilation so normal charcoal is useless without some serious amounts of fuel or something
ok, maybe fuel, maybe i just get lots of fuel to get my coals glowing
it's gonna take a while to figure this out because i don't have a ready supply of seasoned, segmented logs to work with, or any clue where to get them any time soon
14 hours ago•••
been making a bunch of revisions to https://protocol.realy.lol - my "reimagining" of the nostr protocol
still some ways to go before i'm finished revising the message format and i've realised that i need to eliminate message headers for requests with actual RESTful HTTP paths, because these headers on the requests are really redundant if they are tied to a specific "endpoint"
REST doesn't say anything about the use of push-enabling websockets, so it's not quite a REST protocol but for everything that fits that model it's REST
at some point in the day after i have done a bunch of tedious work these days and caring for my kitteh i feel the need to completely break from the routine so i'm going to play some more immersive game than the kingdom 2 crowns i play in between bouts of nostr and work on this stuff
i think i'm getting better at managing two separate streams with my work stuff (did a little bit on it today) and my pet project/#gitcitadel related work
lunch is coming up imminently also, and partly i am becoming aware of this because i'm feeling a bit antsy and my cat is now eating the last bit of beef chunks left in his bowl... i might put another piece on
#realy is pretty much at MVP grade for me now, late beta, and it needs a big code review and refactoring but nobody's paying me for that and it works and is giving me a direct personal benefit in combination with https://jumble.social #jumble for having better control over the social comms in my life
life is getting better
i'm sure it will continue to get better, also, because i'm listening to the feedback
mleku replied 13 hours ago
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14 hours ago•••
i just had a comical experience with #mochi the #catstr just now
i put out some of these char grilled beef chunks for him to eat, and the window was open and a bunch of noisy buzzy bumble-flies came in and started harassing him because meat
he fully freaked out over the flies, to the point where he was retreating to the stairs to hide from them while i was trying to locate and eliminate these pieces of shit fucking hate these things also
me and mochi have a lot in common, two things being high sensory acuity
his is typical to the species but he is sick at the moment so like me he is also irritable
yes, the main reason why i'm so bitey and jumpy is because i'm sick, and congrats, assholes, because this means i'm even more determined than ever in my life to purge your shitty arses from existence like i did to the two stupid bumble flies
not necessarily by killing you, that would be a bit weird and excessive, when i can just shut you out
and if it was my property, this cottage, it would have insect screens on every window yesterday, and there would not be flies
we get a few mosqquitoes here, but not many, idk why, probably because it's a bit too cold for their life cycle, but there is some, and they are very annoying when they show up to bug me when i'm sleeping, and leave their injection wounds all over my exposed skin
it was just funny as hell tho, i mean, sad, again, to watch the cat being distressed but funny also because his behaviour was so sympatico to my own feeling towards these pests
me and my mochi are gonna make our own little space in the world, and he is so sympatico to me that he is helping me focus on the important things that make the biggest impacts
you may think it's just some livestock but cats are so intelligent that they can be something even more connected than even dogs emotionally
he learns things so fast, that i just say words now that i have trained him to associate with places and parts of my body and bam he's on it like lightning, when i say his name, and he is asleep, he wakes up and ears point at me and sleepy eyes look towards me
i have a special affinity with cats, i think, because i have top percentile sensory acuity, inherited via my mother's family line
this round of learning how to live with one, which i have aspired to having a cat for a long time, is really coming full circle though, he's teaching me as much as i am teaching him
17 hours ago•••
i have come to the conclusion that my #catstr #mochi is suffering from, i think, throat in fection, or flu-like illness
feeding him chewy char grilled beef is definitely helping him clear up his gingevitis, his tongue is less exposed now after the last week of regular chewy things, he is actually eating less, in total, but wanting food less, at the same time, and basically quite sure that he doesn't want to go outside
well, i'm going to listen to what he is telling me, so i'm not making him go outside for a while
i'm going to clean and bleach his bedding, white towels tied down over the upside-down couch he adopted as his bed, because he drools on it and the yellow staining i see on his feet and especially back leg are the same color as the drool, and it reminds me of the dark yellow goop that comes along with a throat infection
so it's probably mainly a throat infection, but it was synergising with his gum infection (gingevitis)
i took that collar off him, since wearing it the color of the mucus leaking out of his eyes has got a lot darker, which i don't think is good, so probably it's just battering his immune system, so that went in the trash
the chewy beef food is definitely helping him heal, the amount of yellow staining his lower parts where it's coming from his sick mucus-laden mouth and throat is definitely now reducing
the other thing i've started doing is i load up a clean tissue with some 3% peroxide and give his eyes and ears a good wipe
the eye wiping really irritates him, i suppose the peroxide is a little irritating on contact but it definitely kills off the bacteria associated with the parasites... oh yes, so it's probably a sinus infection actually
he has definitely got ear mites, but now i think about it, the yellow goop, the dark yellow mucus from the eyes, and the stain, all are consistent with an infection inside his sinus cavity
it may be that this is making him more vulnerable to the ear mites, but in any case, it is definitely a good thing to give his ears a little wipe and some peroxide to cut back the strain of the secondary infections caused by the mites eating his ears
i have also been taking pieces of the char grilled beef up to feed his little cousin the new wave lady who haunts the supermarket
she loves those chunks, and behaves exactly the same way as mochi with them, sits there for 20 minutes just to eat two pieces that in total weigh about 50g
she has some of the same issues, the gingevitis and possibly the ear mites but she hasn't got the sinus infection, she is pretty clean white all the way down
but i bet if i just drop her some beef every other day and she eats something chewy that massages her gums up well and gives her some good fats and nutrients and salt that she will also start to look even more healthy and maybe get a bit more friendly
female cats with gingevitis are extremely cranky, i used to have this cute medium hair black fluffy years ago in australia and she was mostly ok while i was caring for her because i was feeding her proper food - kangaroo mince with beef liver, mostly, but when i left her there with my mother, probably my mother switched her over to lazy sterilised and grain filled foods and of course this led to her developing gingevitis and made her very cranky
mum sent her to the vet and she had an infected tooth extracted and came back so much more cuddly and friendly, to the point where she found it interfered with her hobby of knitting and spinning, with her demanding to occupy the lap where she needed space to do her textile things
anyway, point being that female medium hair fluffy cat with a hostile attitude towards people is often a sign of gingevitis, and the often protruding tongue is 100% certainty
so it will be nice to see how she responds over time
if it's effective and the folk at the shop and bar business there engage me about this because everyone sees me feeding her, they will inevitably, i will say "if you give her some scraps from steaks and stuff that is chewy it will keep her gums healthy" and perhaps this will greatly enhance her quality of life and make her even more of an icon of this little establishment
anyhow, it's so nice seeing a sick animal heal and get better and happier and become more pleasing to the people around
i wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people who "hate cats" just have been exposed to cats with sickness caused by this sterile/dry food garbage and probably more than a few cases of the cat being terrorised by some mean person, i mean psychopath, like whoever taugh Mochi to be afraid of rolled up umbrellas
i will agree, for my part, that many of the dogs that i have hated over the years have been neglected, no walks, bad food, chronic, untreated parasite infestations, lack of an actual guardian, no training
i think you can learn a lot about the health of a society by how the people's animals health and behaviour is
southern europe there is a lot of strays, both west and east, and the society has a grinding poverty underclass, as well, and very often those who keep those animals alive and sometimes get them medical help, are often the poor people
21 hours ago•••
after my previous favourite i ching reading site started sending me access denied (idk, maybe they just have abandoned it or maybe it's broken) i looked for another and found this
it's got some really intensive and detailed stuff about the readings and meanings beyond just the classics about the static hexagrams, the changing lines, it also goes a bit further and discusses the change pairs in the text and this top page of the site discusses several aspects of understanding the meaning of the readings
i ching is a form of meditation, and can help you understand what is going on in your life and sometimes even points you away from what you think is the important subject towards what is actually underlying the issue
i don't believe one can really see the future... to some extent maybe and at some times we get a clear message but aside from the really large scale trends, it's not possible to discern anything and would make life less fun anyway
i ching is just one little tool i use to maek sense of things when i don't have any other clear inputs
used with moderation and care it can help understand things a lot
like i just got a reading that lucidly pointed out the theme for me at the moment of retreating to the people who i have affinity with ... that was on display last night as i looked at a broader feed and wound up begging to get trolled by some choice individuals but i don't need to see that, and from that home base i can reach for something bigger
23 hours ago•••
30 hours ago•••
BRÆKING: ETHEREUM IS FINANCING NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAMS IN NORTH KOREA
31 hours ago•••
if you are a client dev
please consider
if i receive garbage that i don't want to read
that's spam
so if you show me that some dumbass i hate messaged me
that's SPAM
31 hours ago•••
#asknostr
when did "mute" become the word instead of "block"?
just pause for a moment
if i am deaf and i watch tv, i can read what they are saying because i have mastered lipreading
so, muting just means that you can still see it, but you have to learn lipreading to notice
and also, nobody has to be taught reading the expressions on people's faces
so, muting is not really what i mean when i say mute
i want to BLOCK you fuckers from consuming bandwitdth on my fucking network
you understand?
NOT MUTE
SI FUCKING LENCE
i hate you all cunts and this is very effectively ensuring that i continue to be moved towards bullding a nostr where there is a BLOCK button and a BLOCK list and it literally means if the FUCKING RELAY SENDS IT TO ME THE RELAY IS COMMITTING AN OFFENSE, of SPAM, isn't it? spam, that's where you get sent a message you don't want, that profits someone lese
so, if your fucking shitty client doesn't BLOCK people, you are SPAMMING your users
31 hours ago•••
so i went out for some beers at the local watering hole tonight
and there was nobody there, and this has not happened in all the time i have been here (nearly 3 months)
the bar lady said it may have been because of some party over in Santana, the next town over
was quite funny to sit and listen to the local boys jibber jabber and try to learn how to understand what they are saying, i have done a lot more portuguese lessons now and i did understand a lot more, like just today i learned how to say "i think" (but i don't know how to write it) and i heard that a few times as well as many other things
and i learned the word "chuva" means rain, because suddenly a fog blew in, and it was weird, like smoke blowing past the street lights, and then the pitter patter started
oh well
anyway, i fed two nice chunks of espetada to my favourite stray supermarket kitty, the new waver girl chikita
she sat with those pieces for about 20 minutes chewing and gnawing and chewing and gnawing
was my second reason for going up there apart from getting some tissues to soak with peroxide to help my mochi heal from his ear and eye mites (cleaning is the main thing that helps)
third reason was to see what was happening but i went up tonight on one of the most ded fridays of all time, the bar lady agreed that it was ded
well, chikita at least got some dental stimulation and i had some limited interaction with the local boys, and they were all boys, i mean, 18-25 year olds
was fun, anyway
now it is raining so anyway time for me to be indoors
and my mochi probably wants more pats
i like living out in the boonies
people are real here
33 hours ago•••
i've decided i'm going back to using only my wss://mleku.realy.lol relay on jumble because the people that @npub1l5s...gx9z is letting onto theforest are a whole smorgasbord of stupid people, who i had deliberately not followed and see them because i'm using jumble
that's the great thing about jumble and #realy
you can't post to realy if i mute you, or if you aren't followed by me or followed by one of my followers
the amount of bullshit this screens out is incredible
and on that note, it's my friday night and i'm gonna go and drink some beers at the local pub and not take my phone and pretend that i didn't just have my experiences of the last half hour or so
33 hours ago•••
i just discovered that the builder of this little cottage i live in used multistrand wire for the household electrical system
as a consequence, the light in my bedroom had become disconnected, due to the fact that the pressure connection on it expects thicker wires to be pushed into it
the evidence was very clear, in the amount of soot around the connection that it had been arcing for some time
i'm like
is this my consumer protection via government ensuring that buildings are not built to catch fire?
this one literally could catch fire, the upper half of the building is all composite fibre board with a tiled facade
i mean, i don't at all know what to say, how could someone literally think it's ok to put wires designed for low amperage into the walls of a building? minimum should be 8 amps
i doubt these wires could take 5, and taht's not counting the connectivity problem from all the installed devices that expect a solid fucking mm diameter wire
i fixed the light in my room, anyhow
but did this clown literally use this extension cable wire for the whole wiring job???
33 hours ago•••
Made some new #Bitcoin / America propaganda 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
36 hours ago•••
314 days ago•••
That would be sweet. How much is this gallon of milk at my grocer, in satoshis? And I don't even have to type it in.
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