Nostr notes by fmmmbl

Oh boy

2026-08-14T02:23:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…f40m
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Oh boy

I don't think you can isolate one characteristic of bitcoin ...

2026-08-09T19:43:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…l83g
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I don't think you can isolate one characteristic of bitcoin and be assured it will survive to serve that function if you reject the rest.

Might as well bring it on

2026-08-07T03:15:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…xckr
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Might as well bring it on

Ha. I'm with you on the fact that maxi purity test culture ...

2026-08-04T15:31:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…2ajd
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Ha.

I'm with you on the fact that maxi purity test culture was a large factor in enabling this situation.

How I envision people when saying/posting "Never attribute to ...

2026-08-04T15:21:20Z

How I envision people when saying/posting "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

So you don’t believe the reports that these bugs were known for ...

2026-08-03T21:53:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…9s2e
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So you don’t believe the reports that these bugs were known for years?

It is shocking the level of trust NVK had built within his ...

2026-08-03T19:27:39Z

It is shocking the level of trust NVK had built within his circles.

It's hard to fake this level of enthusiasm.

https://www.pullthatupjamie.ai/app/share?clip=63b37132-c989-4d61-87b6-9b01f6dd9408_p274

At this point it’s hard not to assume 99% of public talking ...

2026-08-02T14:35:41Z

At this point it’s hard not to assume 99% of public talking head bitcoiners are a complete larp.

I truly never understood the why a guy who would say he’s been in Bitcoin since 2011 and running a “positive sats flow business”, loved so publicly getting into the mud of social media drama.

Always confused when I see people send "large" zaps to ...

2026-07-30T17:59:02Z

Always confused when I see people send "large" zaps to Jack Dorsey.

Don’t think you’d like him very much.

2026-07-03T23:18:18Z

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Don’t think you’d like him very much.

Are you familiar with JB Pritzger?

2026-07-03T19:14:41Z

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Are you familiar with JB Pritzger?

@nprofile…m8z2 tunes for the evening

2026-06-28T00:38:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…keyu
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plebiANON (nprofile…m8z2) tunes for the evening

Has he ever bought any 🌽?

2026-06-21T20:17:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…zjf6
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Has he ever bought any 🌽?

Yeah that sounds cool. I could see then having a solid set up for ...

2026-06-20T15:59:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…a0n4
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Yeah that sounds cool. I could see then having a solid set up for something like that.

I’ve noticed a lotta empty storefronts there and weird vibe at night on the streets. You can tell drugs have hit that area hard.

I go there once a year for work, always look forward to it. The ...

2026-06-20T00:34:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…q7w2
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I go there once a year for work, always look forward to it. The area as you drive south from there, I consider some of the most beautiful land in the country.

Not sure that I see Charleston, especially the "Downtown" area, as the ideal.

Don't care what the movies say, I like this song. ...

2026-06-18T20:23:04Z

Don't care what the movies say, I like this song.

https://youtu.be/InAcvqqfHGY

Yeah - we have found ourselves doing it, not by plan. I don't ...

2026-06-17T12:23:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…vy9q
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Yeah - we have found ourselves doing it, not by plan. I don't think it's a clearly better way to do it, but I do see some benefits and works for us.

Still holding against the previous low!

2026-06-17T11:55:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…a5k8
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Still holding against the previous low!

In what sense?

2026-06-15T01:13:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…fmtt
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In what sense?

I have had “Son of the Black Sword” on my to read list for a ...

2026-06-10T17:31:27Z

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I have had “Son of the Black Sword” on my to read list for a while. Might have to re-prioritize.

Just took that long to meet the purveyor of such fine lamb. ...

2026-06-09T00:27:46Z

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Just took that long to meet the purveyor of such fine lamb. Forced your hand.

Awesome. Well done 🫡.

2026-06-09T00:17:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…l8e2
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Awesome. Well done 🫡.

What’s the cooking apparatus you’re using there?

2026-06-09T00:06:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…mlsj
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What’s the cooking apparatus you’re using there?

100%

2026-06-07T02:02:40Z

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100%

Awesome - That’s a fantastic setting.

2026-06-06T01:13:47Z

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Awesome - That’s a fantastic setting.

Holy shit - that guy is 38 years old?

2026-06-05T14:03:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…g055
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Holy shit - that guy is 38 years old?

Based on the posts on this protocol over the past few days, I’d ...

2026-06-04T02:39:05Z

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Based on the posts on this protocol over the past few days, I’d say quite a lot.

Made me laugh

2026-06-02T01:22:39Z

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Made me laugh

This is spot on.

2026-05-28T01:02:58Z

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This is spot on.

Nice. That does sound tasty.

2026-05-27T03:30:44Z

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Nice. That does sound tasty.

Are you zesting the lemon on to the steak or using the juice?

2026-05-27T03:26:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…gj0l
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Are you zesting the lemon on to the steak or using the juice?

Zest is or juice?

2026-05-26T21:13:08Z

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Zest is or juice?

Yeah I’ve been out there a few times. Legit operation, wish I ...

2026-05-25T16:46:50Z

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Yeah I’ve been out there a few times. Legit operation, wish I was closer.

They do make their own cream & butter so I don’t think it ...

2026-05-25T12:36:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…lnyy
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They do make their own cream & butter so I don’t think it was full cream top milk and could explain the lack of separation.

Ha. Do you know that for a fact? Never tasted watered down.

2026-05-25T03:20:33Z

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Ha. Do you know that for a fact?

Never tasted watered down.

There’s a grocery store in Ukrainian village that sells raw ...

2026-05-22T01:40:36Z

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There’s a grocery store in Ukrainian village that sells raw milk.

So if he doesn’t do anything, then what? #nevent1q…rq6x

2026-05-21T00:58:14Z

So if he doesn’t do anything, then what?

quoting
nevent1q…rq6x

@nprofile…6sls @nprofile…5krg Enjoyed the pod - definitely ...

2026-05-20T13:17:46Z

plebiANON (nprofile…6sls) Phundamentals (nprofile…5krg) Enjoyed the pod - definitely have some bitcoin presence in the poker world.

Lots of shitcoining from what I remember around the rare ape era. But there were some guys who I always respected who got it like Brian Rast.

https://www.brianrast.com/single-post/2019/09/09/why-bitcoin

Love to see it. Welcome back. I'm good man, out of the city ...

2026-04-24T21:19:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…6nxk
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Love to see it. Welcome back.

I'm good man, out of the city now. Tough for me to get there for the events.

Well look who it is. How you been old friend?

2026-04-24T18:50:49Z

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Well look who it is. How you been old friend?

Nostr event nevent1qqst68elqefalg4xcs8htsf5d7nktxgq46kshwfpkm6hnxjmfc9x2pgzyr8ef3ecy3c4qm3xs7vdrvs3cne39h65v58kr596dta086lp2dw5qsc45cc

2026-03-15T01:54:33Z

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Hi my name is Heinz and I am addicted to San Pellegrino sparkling ...

2026-03-14T22:54:20Z

Hi my name is Heinz and I am addicted to San Pellegrino sparkling water.

Have seen *

2026-03-01T00:52:43Z

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Have seen *

I think seen this as the theory. #nevent1q…e8j4

2026-03-01T00:48:38Z

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I think seen this as the theory.

quoting
nevent1q…e8j4
From @EvanWritesOnX:

"This is a war that was agreed upon to avoid a REAL war.

Start thinking for yourselves.

Just two days ago, Oman's Foreign Minister stood in front of cameras in Washington and said peace was "within reach." Iran had agreed; for the first time, to zero stockpiling of enriched uranium.

Technical talks were scheduled for Vienna next week.

The Omani FM was giving a thumbs-up in Geneva on Wednesday.

By Saturday morning, Tehran was on fire.

If you're watching this unfold and thinking the diplomacy failed, you're reading the surface. The diplomacy succeeded.

What you're watching now is the invoice.

On February 26, Iran and the US concluded their most substantive indirect talks to date. Iran offered to suspend enrichment, dilute its stockpile under IAEA supervision, and join an Arab-Iranian nuclear consortium.

Oman's FM described the breakthrough as unprecedented. Ali Shamkhani; senior adviser to Khamenei himself, wrote publicly that an "immediate agreement is within reach" and that Araghchi had "sufficient support and authority for this deal."

Forty-eight hours later, the US and Israel launched Operation Shield of Judah.

The conventional read is that Trump lost patience, that diplomacy collapsed, that hawks won. That read is wrong.

It misses the structural reality; the strikes are the diplomacy. They are the enforcement mechanism for a deal whose terms were already being set in Geneva.

Ask yourself a simple question.

Why would the US and Israel attack at the exact moment Iran was offering its largest concessions in forty-seven years?

Because those concessions need cover.

Iran's leadership cannot walk into a deal that dismantles its nuclear leverage, rolls back its missile program, and concedes on regional proxies while looking like it surrendered to American pressure.

Khamenei cannot sell capitulation to the IRGC hardliners, the Basij networks, and the ideological apparatus that has sustained the Islamic Republic for nearly five decades.

The regime needs an attack to justify the concession.

It needs to be able to say: we were struck, we struck back, and then we chose peace from a position of defiance;

not weakness.

This is not speculation. Look at the Iranian response. Tehran fired missiles at US bases across the Gulf; Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Jordan.

The IRGC issued maximalist statements about "crushing responses" and "relentless operations."

The rhetoric is wall-to-wall defiance.

But look at what was actually hit. Qatar's defense ministry confirmed all missiles were intercepted.

Kuwait intercepted everything at Ali al-Salem.

The UAE reported one casualty in Abu Dhabi from debris. Saudi Arabia; notably was not targeted by Iran at all, despite Riyadh being the most significant US partner in the region.

Iran struck at every country hosting US assets.

It struck at none of the assets that would trigger an uncontrollable escalation.

It avoided Saudi oil infrastructure entirely; the one target that would have genuinely destabilized global markets and forced a total war posture from Washington.

The Strait of Hormuz remains open. Oil closed Friday at $72.87, barely a 3% move on a day the world was told war had begun.

Compare this to what a real Iranian war posture looks like. Iran has the capability to do far worse. It chose not to. What you're seeing is not Iran's war capacity.

It's Iran's negotiating choreography.

Here's what should tell you everything: the Gulf states denied the US use of their airspace for the strikes on Iran. Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait; they all publicly refused. They lobbied Washington for weeks not to attack. MBS personally ruled it out.

And then the strikes happened anyway. And then Iran hit their territories.

If the Gulf states were genuinely blindsided, you'd expect emergency summits, defensive mobilizations, and a fracture in the US-GCC relationship.

Instead, you got carefully worded condemnations, calls for dialogue, and crucially, Saudi Arabia immediately offering to "place all its capabilities at the disposal" of affected states.

Riyadh condemned Iran's strikes while simultaneously urging Washington "not to get sucked in further."

That is not the language of a shocked ally. That is the language of a state managing a transition it was briefed on.

The GCC's posture throughout this crisis has been singular: prevent real war while allowing the theatre to run its course.

They denied airspace to signal to Iran that they were not participants in the aggression. They absorbed Iran's retaliatory strikes to give Tehran its face-saving moment.

And they immediately pivoted to de-escalation language because the next phase, the deal phase, requires them as brokers, not combatants.

Oman was spared entirely. The mediator was left untouched.

That is not an accident of targeting. That is a signal that the diplomatic channel remains open.

By design.

Iran is in the final stages of a structural pivot that has been underway since Qassem Soleimani's assassination in 2020.

The proxy architecture; Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, Iraqi PMF, has been systematically degraded.

Not by accident, and not purely by external force. The degradation has been permitted.

Hezbollah was functionally decapitated in 2024.

Hamas's leadership was eliminated.

The Houthi file has been separated.

Iraqi militias are being absorbed into state structures or sidelined.

The "Axis of Resistance" is not collapsing; it is being retired.

Pezeshkian's presidency is not a coincidence.

He represents the force within the Iranian system that emerged from the recognition that BRICS membership, GCC normalization, and economic survival require shedding the proxy portfolio.

Iran's entry into BRICS, the Chinese-brokered Saudi-Iran rapprochement of 2023, and the Omani-mediated nuclear track are all components of the same trajectory: Iran exchanging regional militancy for economic integration.

Khamenei approved this trajectory. Shamkhani's public statement; that Araghchi has "sufficient support and authority", is the clearest signal possible that the Supreme Leader has sanctioned the pivot.

The hardliner establishment is being managed, not consulted. The IRGC's maximalist rhetoric today is the sound of an institution being given its last public performance before the script changes.

The strikes allow this transition to happen without internal collapse.

Iran can now frame any deal as a response to aggression rather than a capitulation to pressure. The regime survives. The proxies fade. The nuclear file closes. And Iran enters the regional economic order as a participant rather than a pariah.

Netanyahu called the strikes an effort to remove an "existential threat" and projected that the joint operation would "create the conditions for the brave Iranian people to take their fate into their own hands."

That is not a military objective. That is a political narrative.

Israel's coalition has been on life support for months.

The domestic political landscape is fractured.

Netanyahu needs a "victory", not a military one, but a narrative one. Strikes on Iran give him the ability to claim he neutralized the nuclear threat, defended the homeland, and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the US in a historic operation.

The actual military impact is secondary. Iran's nuclear program was already "degraded" by the June 2025 12 day war strikes. The sites at Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan were hit then.

Then the media came out saying their nuclear facilities are intact.

Today's strikes are a second pass on targets that were already compromised.

The marginal military gain is modest. The political gain is enormous.

Netanyahu gets his exit narrative.

Whether he survives politically or not, he will leave claiming he "saved Israel from Iran's nukes." The real outcome, Israel's gradual integration into a GCC-brokered regional architecture where its freedom of unilateral action is constrained,

will be managed by his successors.

Both regimes, the Islamic Republic and the current Israeli government, are heading toward structural transitions. The strikes provide both with the domestic cover to make those transitions without admitting what they actually are: concessions.

The June 2025 war lasted twelve days. This round will likely be shorter.

The military objectives are limited, and the political objectives are already being achieved.

A return to negotiations.

The Vienna technical talks were scheduled for next week before the strikes.

They will resume, possibly in a different format, once the shooting stops.

The framework that was being discussed in Geneva does not disappear because missiles were fired. The missiles are part of the framework.

GCC-mediated de-escalation. Saudi Arabia and Oman will emerge as the primary diplomatic brokers. Riyadh's immediate offer to support affected states while urging restraint positions it as the indispensable mediator. This is by design.

OPEC+ production adjustments. The March 1 OPEC+ meeting was already scheduled to discuss increased output. Gulf producers have been pre-positioning supply to cover any disruption. Saudi Arabia and UAE were already boosting production. The oil market has been prepared for this.

The entire point of this exercise, from Iran's perspective, is sanctions relief and economic integration. Once the dust settles and the ceasefire holds, expect a deal framework that includes phased sanctions relief in exchange for permanent nuclear constraints, missile programme limitations, and formalized proxy rollback.

Despite Trump's rhetoric about "eliminating threats from the Iranian regime," the actual US posture does not support regime change.

There are no ground forces. There is no occupation plan. The force structure is air and sea, designed for strikes, not governance. The objective is behavioral change and a deal, not the collapse of the Islamic Republic.

What you're witnessing is not the failure of diplomacy.

It's the most resource-efficient way to achieve what diplomacy alone cannot: a simultaneous restructuring of both the Iranian and Israeli strategic postures, managed under the umbrella of a US-GCC brokered regional order.

The nuclear standoff that has defined the Middle East for thirty years is being resolved, not through a clean handshake at a summit, but through the controlled application of force that gives every actor the domestic cover they need to make concessions they've already agreed to in principle.

Iran gets to shed its proxy liabilities and nuclear isolation under the banner of defiance. Israel gets to claim a historic security victory as its political system resets. The GCC gets the stable, de-militarized, de-nuclearized neighborhood is needs for Vision 2030 and beyond.

The US gets a deal it can sell as strength.

And the populations of every country involved get the one thing that was never going to be delivered by ideology or militancy: a path to normalization and economic integration.

This is a war designed to prevent a real war. It is loud, dramatic, and terrifying on television. It is also bounded, choreographed, structurally purposeful with pre-agreed collateral.

The theatre ends when the deal is signed.

And the deal was already being written in Geneva."

Amen

2026-02-28T03:28:38Z

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Amen

Wild. My preferred form of propaganda requires a little more ...

2026-02-25T03:19:08Z

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Wild. My preferred form of propaganda requires a little more subtlety.

What are these accounts? Do they really have followings?

2026-02-25T03:01:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…gvfw
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What are these accounts? Do they really have followings?

Is Jack going to publicly confirm this?

2026-02-24T00:48:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…zvkg
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Is Jack going to publicly confirm this?

Bundle up family, we’ve gotta open with windows.

2026-02-22T01:36:03Z

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Bundle up family, we’ve gotta open with windows.

Banger: https://youtu.be/igDngqzBIH4?si=l9xX-jUnQLus05_X

2026-02-21T01:04:57Z

Banger:

https://youtu.be/igDngqzBIH4?si=l9xX-jUnQLus05_X

https://y.yarn.co/002628be-caa7-491a-9399-0159552bff44_text.gif

2026-02-16T12:07:02Z

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