no such thing as a free lunch y’all

Cartoon by
Robert Ariail

two entoloma amongst ferns, and leaf litter

you guys have a gander at these cool blue mushrooms i saw 😊 werewere-kōkako (entoloma hochstetteri)

We’re using the U.S. military to create volatility such that our president can engage in insider trading.

Jung saw Christ’s death and resurrection as a metaphor for our own death and rebirth. He suggested that carrying our own cross of opposites as completely as Jesus did his is the way to true healing.~Claire Dunne, Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul

Goodnight Blue Sky

Kimchi premium + Bank of Japan's 30 year yield just spiked to 4%

When Seoul and its umbrella lock in, the rest of the world usually follows

Every single problem humanity faces is caused by a lack of imagination.

"Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. The big money is in the sitting." - Jesse Livermore

TL;DR: HODL BTC

Morning.

Why Bitcoin is a statistical outlier

The moment a man starts sitting down to pee is the moment you know that man is now a zen master

bitcoin is the e pluribus unum of money

of the people, by the people, for the people

As the Taoists said way back in the Axial Age, to expect certainty from religion is immature and unrealistic. It was a sign of an undeveloped spirituality, a childish viewpoint. There is no certainty. The Taoists found a great freedom in not being certain about things. They didn’t have to pompously declaim facts and doctrines and truths. Keats spoke of “negative capability,” when the mind is capable of resting in doubts and uncertainty without any irritable straining after facts and reason. It’s quite a trick of the mind to allow yourself to be in that fertile state of unknowing, to just let yourself stay in the darkness.karen Armstronginterview w/ Parabola Magazine

Karen Armstrong, Interview with Parabola Magazine. "To Go Beyond Thought".

But I thought criminals used Bitcoin?

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

Morning.

Breath is the nexus point between psychology & biology.

Each emotion has its Inside Out pattern: Gasping/screaming (fear), gagging (disgust), sobbing (sadness), hyperventilating (anger), laughter (joy).

Through vagal tone, one can reclaim their nervous system simply via attention & intention.

Breath is the nexus point between psychology & biology.

Each emotion has its Inside Out pattern: Gasping/screaming (fear), gagging (disgust), sobbing (sadness), hyperventilating (anger), laughter (joy).

Through vagal tone, one can reclaim their nervous system simply via attention & intention.

Distributism is the idea that society works best when everyone owns a little, instead of a few owning everything:

Anti-monopoly
Moral ecology
Local subsidiarity

It’s the third way out of laissez-faire capital exploitation & state-socialist collectivism—only possible with neutral private property.

Thanks to the Federal Reserve, the world’s been subject to a chimera of fascism and communism since 1913.

The political categories & spectrum of horseshoe theory have been exacerbated, blurred & incoherent ever since, but for the first time in history, Bitcoin provides a neutral third space.

Thanks to the Federal Reserve, the world’s been subject to a chimera of fascism and communism since 1913.

The political categories & spectrum of horseshoe theory have been exacerbated, blurred & incoherent ever since, but for the first time in history, Bitcoin provides a neutral third space.

“There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.” ~Stephen Mitchell, Tao Te Ching

Bitcoin straddles the line between Exit and Voice. My vote of no confidence in the dollar is an expression of my free speech and a voluntary exit from a legacy system that no longer serves me.

We Bitcoiners are taking collective action in search of a better alternative. That’s self-sovereignty.

Housing prices haven’t gone up.
The dollar is dying.

Elephants are red.
Donkeys are blue.
Doesn’t matter who’s in charge,
it’s the money printer versus you.

Why Bitcoin is the Occam’s razor of finance

When Jung once said that “a neurosis is an offended god,” he meant, metaphorically, that the neglect of a deep, instinctual energy ultimately revenges itself in our somatic discords, compulsions, addictions, or projections onto others.~James Hollis, 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵

If you HODL for more than 4 years, institutional & whale movement makes very little impact long term