18 hours riding One Day18 hours riding One Day
Here a campfire. Lights the page before at the needle foot of my quill. Lights ym stockings on -- ohww!! Now, lights my toes which protrude thru my stockings. and thats O-K, is why I have my gator skins.
Eighteen hours wi'oowt stopping, past South Border, I rode along leaving my favorite mare Slim Grey behind preferring One Day, whose ginger coat and robust constitution reminded me of the blood that got spilled to inspire such a journey. She's red all right, an' she's well, too -- my, well red One Day.
but my eyes are laden like ym sixshooter and I shorez shit didn come here to tell you about One Day, but she did bring me South and Back with out so muchez bringing about a dust cloud or two. Eighteen steady hours and I fjord the Rio Grande --there, before making thiseer camp (& I dream of another fine specimens like One Day, sauntering past my window, hips glistening with sweat in the sun)
18 hours no breaks what a ride.
-- @billytheked
Dear Muser,
You may have seen me sharing the Orwell quote, "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength," and it is mostly in response to people cheering on war. Like, seriously.
(a saloon haiku)
I am tired.
The saloon is my refuge
most times I am hardly there
(a childhood haiku)
(credit to @dagny761)
in the musein the muse
Bitcoin from a Stoic Perspective
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@Kontext aligns some of the principles in Bitcoin to those in Stoicism. I am quite enamored by this quote in "Entropy and Order" so far. Very lit:
The logos contains in itself an indefinite amount of entropy, which is also mimicked in the mining process.
My February Writing Wrap Up 🍓
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@plebpoet refrains from writing about the morally repugnant, but I say, lean into it. Not every corner can be pretty. (Lolita, by Nabokov, for example?)
The Penultimate and Ultimate UnPhiltered posts
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@TotallyHumanWriter closed off this amazing story of becoming a professional writer in cyberspace (Read it from the beginning --#1434640) and shares a few lessons learned along the way.
Three More Reviews from The Booklight
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@jbschirtzinger shares thoughts on some o f what he has been reading, and announces come changes to his website. I am not sure if there is a more prolific reviewer than he.
[REVIEW] Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams
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@Scoresby turned me on to some cyberpunk fiction in this (his first in the Muse?) post. Seems like a hardboiled sci-fi, with a twinge of pulp-western.
my son's first tooth fell out
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@cryotosensei helping us set a high standard for quality posts in the Muse, and in this one, the Teacher-Father-Writer-(SPY?!) Shares a Proud Moment
Simplicity of Childhood - a haiku
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I'm not sure I have ever felt so good on SN as when @dagny761 shared this with me.
The Mid-Atlantic Bitcoin Meet up at Pubkey DC Feb 18
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@Satattack keeps pushing the envelope with the bitcoin-non-fiction writing. It is my honour to resurface this lit-up post from this week. And in case you missed the prelude, another beacon, check it out as well (#1436254.)
elsewhereelsewhere
Rumor has it
opti sits in the middle of nowhere
compiling many bitcoin core
on a pi4
hoping that there is no need
to set up a guix box
these mice like wires
fml
from the saloon --#1444865
Till next time.
p.s. I am finding it harder to be online so much lately. Is it just me?
I used to spend an unholy amount of time playing Fallout games (New Vegas & 4)... an aspect I really enjoyed was modding. I ended up doing a "propaganda posters" mod for FO4 to give the player, at least aesthetically, more freedom in how they want to position the faction. A bunch of those posters ended up taking a lot of cues from 1984.
Thanks for featuring my essay, btw! :)
Maybe you should have some of those printed up on demand?
Hmm that's an interesting idea! I've also thought of making some Bitcoin propaganda posters in the style of @Scoresby and making a mod for it, but haven't committed to it and quite frankly, I'm a bit nervous about re-installing the game, the old habit of spending hours in the game each day might kick back in (:
Yeah, if you have laid off the sauce, you don't want to start drinking grandpa's cough syrup again. Gaming has become far too addictive for many.
thanks for putting it in the territory!
Thank you for the mentions! I love the news letter
YEEEESS... Chopping wood is a bliss. Need to be outdoors, phone far far away
Well, if you had waited, or I had been earlier, you could have included my just posted book review too. After 800 page Victorian literature or 200 page Victorian literature that reads like 800 page modern literature, a fast, modern read was necessitated.
To answer your question about being online, though, I don't think anyone likes being in a dumpster fire. Everyone went online originally to get away from the dumpster fire. Times change.