Laeserin

Everytime I am out of full-time work, for a bit, it first feels like it's a vacation. And then I start to notice that everyone and everything around me has been slowly, but dramatically, falling apart. While I was spending all day reviewing project plans and attending important meetings.
Including myself. I was also decaying. I was decaying and I didn't even notice. I just felt tired. So, I drank more coffee. But I was still tired, underneath the coffee.

2026-03-05 05:40:38 UTC

When your party controls Congress, but you still do everything by Executive Order because you think Congress is retarded and you plan on just staying President forever...

2026-03-01 18:39:32 UTC

Bin immer wieder verwirrt. Ist das jetzt Laschet oder Pistorius? 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

2026-02-28 14:45:19 UTC

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We still have democracies. It's the constitutional republic that is crumbling.
But we can still influence democratic governments by winning popular votes and petitioning for change.

2026-02-28 11:21:23 UTC

This war is brought to you by:
Politics is for retards...
Voting doesn't matter...
Who cares? NGU and chill...
I'll just get away from USA problems by moving to...
Listen, Bitcoin will double in USD price every year and nothing else matters...
I don't need privacy laws because I am a nym...
All politicians are basically the same, so it doesn't matter who you vote for...

2026-02-28 10:33:00 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/krz9WMkpxAYAAAAC/this-is-houston-go-for-launch.gif

2026-02-28 10:31:34 UTC

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Which is sort of ironic because previous administrations contained more actual Jews.

2026-02-28 06:26:21 UTC

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Those are just 30817 Markdowns, instead of 30818 Asciidocs. I could switch over.

2026-02-28 06:14:04 UTC

*Is anyone using my Wikistr?*
It doesn't seem to be getting much traffic and I've transposed its features to the other clients, but I don't want to turn it off, if someone needs it.

2026-02-27 15:25:50 UTC

Wow. Gary Stevenson. Blew that interview out of the water and left his interviewers looking like clueless toffs.
https://youtu.be/iD2sPL7k98c

2026-02-27 09:54:18 UTC

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You do not need a job to have any of that. Pick up a shovel and start digging. You know where to dig. Your shovel is your capital. Ask a friend to help. You now have two human resources...

2026-02-27 08:16:54 UTC

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That's Lady Macbeth, of course.

2026-02-27 08:15:30 UTC

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Probably saved to cache.

2026-02-27 08:14:31 UTC

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Oh, I think it will be gruesome and drawn-out, and might require a major war, to end it.
https://i.nostr.build/SOYdbY9Bm9wmOUlC.png

2026-02-27 07:52:19 UTC

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Who will hire them? Everything is being done by the machines, the companies can't fire the machines, and there's no hungry market to sell the machines into because everyone has machines.
That is the difference between humans and machines: *You can't fire machines, only sell them.* They are mechanical slaves. You own the machines, so you are stuck with them (and their costs, which are high and never-ending), unless you can find a buyer, or you go bankrupt and write them off. That is why mechanisation and automation are a one-way street, for any company. It works or you are gone.

2026-02-27 06:55:28 UTC

Meanwhile, your idiotic government is still mass-importing more humans because of a non-existent labour shortage, that is about to quickly become non-existent even harder.
https://i.nostr.build/Jr4kubZn3NvJUkoe.png

2026-02-27 06:36:25 UTC

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1. Fire your employees
2. Setup customer-side customization (i.e. make your customers do the work the employees were doing)
3. Customers can't figure out customization
4. Sell customers AI tools for customization
5. Profit.
Nothing ever changes.
Please press 1, to speak to a human.

2026-02-27 06:04:57 UTC

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Nope.

2026-02-27 05:54:14 UTC

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I'm also implementing spells. It's pretty cool and I can merge my macros into that framework and get more mileage out of them.
It's from @npub107j…ncxg

2026-02-27 05:50:29 UTC

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Don't forget the potatoes 🥔

2026-02-27 05:48:45 UTC

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Use #grimoir

2026-02-27 05:48:17 UTC

Few know this.
Freerse also has one, I think.
#nevent1q…scmz

2026-02-27 05:47:32 UTC

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Yakihonne and aitherboard both have GIF buttons.

2026-02-27 05:45:56 UTC

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Maybe, but real jobs is real jobs.

2026-02-27 05:43:10 UTC

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We have gifs on Nostr. Just not on the client you use.

2026-02-27 05:41:26 UTC

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Step 1: fire your employees
Step 2: have your customers do their work, together with AI.
Step 3: seemlessly and smartly interconnect the workflows
Step 4: the customer is fired

2026-02-26 11:20:38 UTC

Helsing #drones #Deutschland #Germany
In original German:
https://youtu.be/7XtJeUkPmbg
Dubbed into English:
https://youtu.be/xo8SXF-7P9A
And from the Handelsblatt:
https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/ruestung-haushaltsausschuss-bewilligt-kamikaze-drohnen-mit-auflagen/100203371.html
And from Welt Online:
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article699f0ca9d0c7f5820fad0965/bundeswehr-haushaltsausschuss-billigt-kauf-von-kamikazedrohnen-in-abgespeckter-form.html

2026-02-24 13:13:46 UTC

₿ Bitcoin = 63,002.57 USD
🪙 Gold oz. = 5.154,48 USD
💶 1€ = 1,18 USD

2026-02-24 11:40:49 UTC

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I'll check it out.

2026-02-24 11:14:40 UTC

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Yes, I've heard of him. He's been a guest on some of the ones I watch.

2026-02-24 11:02:28 UTC

GM.
Here is an update on the Druzhba pipeline situation.
Ukraine has blown up the pumping station that feeds the pipeline. In order to understand why this is so critical, you have to know where the oil from Kaleykino pumping station, in Tartarstan, goes to. It is used for supplying the #Russia shadow fleet, in the Baltic and Black Seas.
https://i.nostr.build/BCZZYXl7eJLjxliB.jpg
#nevent1q…kh6c
Latvia is offering to supply the electricity of an entire power plant, to substitute for any cuts from Slovakia and Hungary.
The EU is considering removing Hungary's voting rights, as the current government is anti-EU, but is currently only giving the Ukraine an immediate emergency package and awaiting the results of the Hungarian election on April 12th.
In other news: #Ukraine is taking advantage of the (Elon-ordered) Starlink blacklist and (Putin-ordered) Telegram ban to push the defensive line back in Dnipropetrovsk. Russian military intelligence is currently in shambles, as it was based upon these two systems. The number of drones launched has noticeably declined. They are slowly switching to unencrypted Russian coms and sparse Chinese satellites, but this is a major and permanent setback.
It is rumored that the Telegram ban is a precursor to some larger political turmoil within Russia that might require spying on the citizenry or a media blackout, such as an unpalatable end to the war or general mobilization.
It should be noted that most of the Russian plane crashes, industrial fires, and blackouts are not caused by Ukrainian attacks, but by chronic under-maintenance, lack of skilled workers in the civilian industry, or low-quality supplies from China.

2026-02-24 09:41:22 UTC

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https://youtu.be/XgwBmjV4W_M

2026-02-24 08:36:02 UTC

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We know that he was an intelligence asset. There is just arguing over whose asset he was, as he seemed to be serving multiple agencies. Like a freelance asset.

2026-02-24 08:28:28 UTC

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Isn't he an MP? I only do journalism podcasts.

2026-02-23 16:58:22 UTC

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Posh ones.

2026-02-23 15:11:49 UTC

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Anyone who has heard me in an interview is probably confused because I don't sound very bright.

2026-02-23 14:49:03 UTC

I love listening to British podcasts because they make me feel less weird. It's so utterly intellectually-satisfying to listen to someone carefully select the most-fitting synonym.
Oooh, that word was incredibly apt... *golf clap*

2026-02-23 06:52:46 UTC

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2026-02-23 06:34:22 UTC

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You have to just be used to iterating for years on the same project. It's about persistence.

2026-02-23 05:12:44 UTC

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Well, yeah, but also AI isn't a human. Odious to even compare the two.

2026-02-23 05:02:16 UTC

I guess this is what the male version of a Cat Lady looks like.
#nevent1q…6c4h

2026-02-22 17:45:00 UTC

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I would rather just be in the moment.

2026-02-22 16:47:30 UTC

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Facts 📠

2026-02-22 16:17:00 UTC

New profile pic. I think it accurately captures the disconcerting young/old Europe/Africa cacaphony I have going on.
https://i.nostr.build/xEMWlLNtKWDfAvxV.jpg

2026-02-18 14:27:28 UTC

I don't usually see bots 🤖, but I do see people talking to the bots, complaining about the bots, ranting at bots, bragging about their bots, philosophizing about the bots. Basically, the bots have turned humans into bot spam. Even I am being turned into bot spam because I am reduced to talking about the humans I see talking about the bot spam.
*Just use better relays*, already. Why is this such an intractible issue? What are you doing? Why are you doing that? Why are you not doing something better?
Human, de-bot thyself.

2026-02-18 13:46:06 UTC

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Yeah, maybe, but most industrial companies have abandoned the West and he's figuring out how to actually build here.
It's easy to negatively-compare him to CEOs who do all of their production overseas, as they can't do anything wrong, if they don't do anything.

2026-02-18 07:26:08 UTC

https://youtu.be/BYXbuik3dgA
Yes, #Elon is still a pretty amazing CEO. Yes, he has single-handedly made welding and other industrial production great again.

2026-02-17 10:44:05 UTC

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Favorite food, fr.

2026-02-16 07:27:23 UTC

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Also, I managed to actually have a number for every item. Got sloppy about that, further down the list, last time.

2026-02-16 07:26:19 UTC

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Yes, I am aware that this news reflects an unapologetically European world view. That is because I am in Europe and I view the world from here.

2026-02-16 07:18:23 UTC

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Nope. I got up at 4 am and hammered it out. All hand-Googled. 😂

2026-02-16 07:14:10 UTC

GM. It is Monday, the 16th of February, and these are *Your News in Numbers* :
* The gold rally has cooled off, after nearly doubling in price (from $2.800 to $5.000), within a year. Silver also more than doubled, from $30 to $75.
* Bitcoin went from $98k to $68k, over the same period, trending toward it's predicted bottom of $55k.
* The Federal Reserve monetary velocity is continuing its relentless march down the hill, currently at 1.650, with the spectre of the USA joining Europe, Japan, and China in the deflationary debt trap. The Fed total monetary base has slid from $6.400 billion to $5.400 billion, since the last round of stimmy checks, so Trump is now eyeing another round.
* The EU is hoping rearmament at home and reconstruction/investment in Ukraine will pull it back out of its own impending recesssion. Germany has returned to the tradition of lending poorer customers money it knows will never be repaid, at its own interest rate (currently 2,75% on the 10Y, in comparison to 4,05% for the USA)
* The German credits are mostly being used to purchase large machines Made in Germany and expand the influence of German industrial conglomerates. But it's drones, electrical grid components, and medical equipment, instead of cars, this time around. Rheinmetall shares are up 73% on the year and Siemens Energy is up 155%.
* After almost 2 years, Brussels has formed a government. France's government has survived 2 no-confidence votes and passed a budget.
* 25 years of negotiations have led to the Mercosur Deal, between the EU and Brasil, Argentine, Uruguay, and Paraguay: a free-trade zone for over 700 million people. This was then immediately dwarfed by a messy, rushed EU-India deal covering 2 billion people and 25% of world trade.
* The BRICS currency idea has largely been abandoned, with the member countries either sticking to their own currency or adopting the Chinese yuan. Russia recently issued $3 billion in yuan government bonds.
* China remains the largest national trading partner for both Ukraine ($19 billion) and Russia ($228 billion), but the value of that trade is declining in both markets. It has just agreed to increase humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, and has continued to refuse to recognize Crimea or Donbass as Russian terrorities. Chinese firms have been livid about Russia bombing their Ukrainian operations, and the Belt-and-Road Initiative has largely ground to a halt in Europe, while European and American companies take economic ground across Ukraine. China, in turn, is quietly and peacefully taking over Russian borderlands in Siberia, and has even been allowed a Russian transit port, Vladivostok.
* But the biggest news of the week has been the Russian ban on Telegram and WhatsApp (over 100 million Russian users). Everyone in Russian territory is to switch to the national Max App, a WeChat clone that lacks E2E encryption. This is unfortunate for the Russian military, which has been relying on Telegram for secure frontline communications. Quite crushing, after their satellite receivers were put on the Starlink blacklist.

2026-02-15 11:24:18 UTC

https://youtube.com/shorts/UDAOPt9u1xU
#shorts

2026-02-15 10:30:03 UTC

https://youtube.com/shorts/ElQ7G7fl9No #shorts

2026-02-14 21:30:25 UTC

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Beautifully retro.

2026-02-14 16:40:21 UTC

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Too bad they lost. 😕

2026-02-14 05:58:34 UTC

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It doesn't translate, tho. It just reads with that accent.
But it makes sense to use the Spanish voice to read Spanish, as that sounds closer to a native speaker reading it. Or just use the French voice for English and giggle.
We'll eventually have translations, too, of course. Then you can have everything rewritten in your native tongue and read aloud with your native accent.

2026-02-13 20:17:04 UTC

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Sorry, mangeled the second link:
https://aitherboard.imwald.eu/event/nevent1qvzqqqr4tqpzq0s66re6t57pyfzakaug23ky8t0rm97xuprvt98kq97ddn2pv35sqyd8wumn8ghj7argv4nx7un9wd6zumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6qg4waehxw309askwemj9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd3skueqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsz9mhwden5te0dehhxarj9eek7anzd96zu6r0wd6qzxthwden5te0veex2etvv9ujuum0we3xjapwdphhxaqprdmhxue69uhhg6r9vd5hgctyv4kzumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6qg3waehxw309ahx7um5wgerztnrdaksqgz3cxjst8kvyy20c5yrs7902vhtv7mnn75antvy0kw2pdn3fmq9ruu35v6g

2026-02-13 20:11:10 UTC

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Try having it read aloud with the Spanish voice. https://aitherboard.imwald.eu/event/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqcc09cqdka9r6d82gt7fehts6rtyfq75p7s6zj2xf6fgkcd29pzjqqxkgetxv96kcapdw35hgmr9tvmtga
For the British voice: https://aitherboard.imwald.eu/event/naddr1qvzqqqr4tqpzq0s66re6t57pyfzakaug23ky8t0rm97xu[%E2%80%A6]9e3k7mgqrf4xzmn994jhjun994skuttpw46x7cnfdanhyctsdpus5fkmq3
Have to select "read aloud" from the menu

2026-02-12 16:09:57 UTC

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Your note is appearing on wss://nostr21.com
That's an excellent relay. Just use that one.

2026-02-12 08:01:23 UTC

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The real signal is that I watch the Tagesschau with Oma, in her kitchen, and the price of Bitcoin now scrolls by on the ticker tape, during the finance portion of the news.
Boomers in Deutschland want a daily update on the Bitcoin price, the 💵/💶 exchange rate, mortgage interest rate, and DAX points. 😁
https://media.tenor.com/COS0ZnMmlRwAAAAC/itll-be-fine-its-fine.gif

2026-02-12 07:51:08 UTC

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Nostr's relay dad is awake! GM ☀

2026-02-12 07:26:18 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/G-WTYXLhFx0AAAAC/its-alive-its-moving.gif

2026-02-12 06:00:14 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/LXVjxxjA3FAAAAAC/jail-believe-it-or-not.gif

2026-02-12 05:51:17 UTC

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Hey, there. Long time no GM, brother.

2026-02-12 05:50:10 UTC

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Woo hoo! Another one!

2026-02-12 05:30:40 UTC

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A real Nostrich, sighted in the wild, in its natural habitat...

2026-02-12 05:25:01 UTC

GM. ☀
Please GM back, so that we know you are okay, Nostr.
#naddr1qv…wpth

2026-02-12 04:11:14 UTC

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That would be better. DM me your code.

2026-02-11 21:11:18 UTC

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I legit read posts on Citrine. 😂

2026-02-11 21:06:48 UTC

Within a week, I have used the following Nostr clients:
* Aitherboard
* Jumble.imwald.eu
* Wikistri.imwald.eu
* Alexandria
* Alex Catalogue
* Scriptorium: VS Code
* Scriptorium: Obsidian
* Decent Newsroom
* GitCitadel.com
* Gitworkshop
* Habla.news
* Relay.tools web
* Relay.rools Android
* Primal.net
* Orly
* Lumina
* Citrine
It didn't seem like that many. 🤔 I'm so used to switching rapidly between clients, that I eventually just ceased to even notice.

2026-02-11 12:40:12 UTC

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They don't use electricity or the Internet.

2026-02-11 12:39:14 UTC

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Okay, I think I can also make that.

2026-02-11 06:55:21 UTC

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It was majority German, as a colony.

2026-02-10 11:49:15 UTC

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As an Army brat, the people claiming Puerto Ricans aren't Real Americans™ really grates. The US military is full of Puerto Ricans, all the way back to WWI, and including my friends and relatives.
What, they don't count? Whatever. Fuck em.

2026-02-10 11:39:28 UTC

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My family like
https://media.tenor.com/QIsrRM--stEAAAAC/boricua.gif
🤣

2026-02-10 11:12:35 UTC

Daaaaammmmmnnnn... 51 million views on YT.
#nevent1q…u4ft

2026-02-10 11:08:37 UTC

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Do you mean you want DMs to work seamlessly in an e-mail client, so that they look just like the surrounding e-mails, or that you want them to render more like e-mails alone in their own client?

2026-02-10 11:02:50 UTC

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green text in my feed 🤩

2026-02-10 10:59:42 UTC

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Like Pennsylvania?

2026-02-10 09:45:50 UTC

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Hispanics are an ethnic group, not a race. Non-Hispanic whites (usually referred to simply as "whites") are all white people who are a member of a different ethnic group (from Scandinavians to North Africans.)
It's the same with all races: black, Asian, etc. There Hispanic Asians and non-Hispanic blacks.
Generally, American brown people are getting paler faster than pale people are getting browner, but that doesn't affect the ethnic statistics.

2026-02-10 09:18:33 UTC

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There are more Hispanics in Texas than white people, and they will soon be the majority. They are most likely to be Catholic, followed by Evangelicals.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/21/census-texas-hispanic-population-demographics/

2026-02-10 09:11:27 UTC

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We have paid, monthly subscriptions and retain the right to cancel them at any time for misuse, with no refund.
I don't consider every bot misuse, but some are out of control.

2026-02-10 09:08:07 UTC

You were this many days old, when you found out that #greentext was originally just a blockquote parser error caused by leaving out the space after the chevron.
#nevent1q…jphn

2026-02-09 19:49:56 UTC

>be a human Nostrich
>everyone thinks I'm a weird nerd
>decide to lean into it
>implement green text
>everyone is right

2026-02-09 19:26:52 UTC

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😂

2026-02-09 18:03:33 UTC

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It is one of the States with the most Catholics.

2026-02-09 16:01:17 UTC

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https://youtu.be/RKGbjJarMeA

2026-02-09 15:50:20 UTC

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If you want to keep dancing, you are very welcome
https://youtu.be/kJQP7kiw5Fk

2026-02-09 15:30:39 UTC

Your official reminder that the three best things about Texas are:
* Catholics
* Austin BBQ
* Latinos
Preferably in some combination.

2026-02-09 15:27:11 UTC

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Ah, the purists...

2026-02-09 15:24:52 UTC

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Also, that is sort of irrelevant. If the elites had put a country star on stage, should I then declare the music and performance bad? Because everything the elites like is automatically bad?
A lot of country music is actually pretty good...

2026-02-09 15:23:27 UTC

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Maybe, but this is the first thing that's made me homesick for America, in years, and that says a lot.
I'm like, man, I need to book a flight to Texas, fr.

2026-02-09 15:13:47 UTC

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Listening to it, again, and dancing around my kitchen.
Haters gonna hate. 🫶🏻

2026-02-09 15:09:14 UTC

I'm biased, but this surprised me by being one of the first #SuperBowl halftime shows that I could stand watching all the way through. Never heard of the singer, but he was singing and rapping his heart out. Set and camera-work were amazing. Even Lady Gaga was neither an eye-sore, nor an ear-sore, for a change.
People complaining just seem butthurt to me. Puerto Rico is also America. We all learned Spanish in school. Brown people can also be citizens. Try to keep up.
I just wish the dancers would wear some more clothes and dance less sexily, but I always think that. 😏

2026-02-09 13:36:26 UTC

German unemployment the highest since 2014.
Politicians mostly preoccupied with importing more workers and browbeating the employed into working more hours, because of some fictional shortage of potential employees.
Politicians so lost, fr.
https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/arbeitsmarkt-deutsche-arbeitslosenzahl-steigt-auf-zwoelf-jahres-hoch/100196131.html

2026-02-09 12:42:52 UTC

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They went on a crazy hiring spree, last year, and now they have more people than work to do. The newer people are probably cheaper.

2026-02-09 11:10:47 UTC

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I don't know. 🤔 Iran isn't Venezuela. The US is relocating a significant part of their military, pulling back from the Pacific and Europe. Stretched very thin. Playing for time, with half-hearted negotiations, so that he can move stuff around.
He screwed up by claiming he bombed out their nuclear program, when he hadn't.

2026-02-09 10:41:11 UTC

Looks like the US military is preparing for a full-scale invasion of Iran.
I think it's more clear, now, to everyone, why Trump has refused to criticize Russia for invading Ukraine: He doesn't actually think there's anything wrong with invading other countries. Wants to keep his own options open.
If anything, the President of Peace is looking to set a record for most countries invaded, or threatened with invasion, in a single presidency.
We are facing 3 more years of this. Buckle up.