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The UK social media ban for under-16s will be circumvented by Nostr, @GrapheneOS, @mullvadnet, @torproject and Linux. Get in touch if you need help.

Children of the UK! Follow these steps and you won't have to care about what any w**ker politician thinks you should do ever again. Refuse to go to school Learn how to use a VPN Set up a Nostr profile Learn how to use Bitcoin and start accepting it Do this and you'll be fine.

youths in the UK are about to discover decentralized and censorship resistant communication: nostr. if you're from the UK and want to be social with your friends, here's a fun little note: China banned several nostr apps and servers 3 years ago. those users are STILL using nostr. you can't ban a protocol all that easily.

Your first, albeit temporary, line of defence against the new Big Brother surveillance state measures that the UK State has demanded service providers force upon UK citizens is to switch off automatic Operating System updates on your phone. Look up how to do this and do it now.

If in the UK we end up with a new tech savvy generation who are fluent in VPN use, self hosting their data, using privacy hardened operating systems, and uncensorable digital money, then I'm not only OK with that but happy to come out in full support of our authoritarian government.

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06…

A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms says land that sold for £500 an acre a few years ago now goes for £5,000. He is being moved off ground his family has worked for generations, because he cannot outbid the people buying it. The buyers are corporations, and they have no intention of farming a single acre of it. Here is how the trick works. A company keeps emitting carbon exactly as before. Same factories, same flights, same supply chain, same product. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants some trees, and announces to the world that it is now carbon neutral, or, if it is feeling brave, carbon negative. The emissions never fell. It simply bought a landscape to point at. Take BrewDog. In 2020 it bought a 9,300-acre Highland estate, propped up with public grant money, and promised a million trees and the crown of the world's first carbon negative beer business, removing twice the carbon it emitted, forever. By 2023 roughly half of the 500,000 trees it had managed to plant were dead, killed by drought, with critics noting the planting was drying out the peat and releasing carbon of its own. The advertising regulator ruled its carbon-negative claims misleading. In 2024 it quietly dropped the badge and dismissed the entire carbon credit market as a flood of cheap schemes whose benefit was "questionable, maybe even non-existent." Then it sold the estate to a firm whose actual business is selling carbon offsets. That is the whole model in one story. Public money in. Dead trees out. A green halo worn for four years and then dropped. The farmer who used to be on that land, gone. The hillside passed to a company that exists purely to sell other people the right to keep polluting. This is no fringe case. In one recent year, half of every estate sold in Scotland went to investment funds, corporations and charitable trusts rather than anyone who would farm it. A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid. So this is what net zero looks like on the ground. A man who produced food is priced out of his own glen. A corporation that produced emissions buys the glen, calls itself a force for good, and sells the carbon. The land stops feeding anyone. Nobody's emissions actually went down by a gram. The food was real. The farmer was real. The carbon saving is a line in a slide deck. And we have somehow decided the villain in all this is the man with the sheep.

I just moved into a new Airbnb in Madrid 🇪🇸 Barely any reviews, so I asked the owner why it wasn't listed on the long-term rental market His answer told me everything about where Spain is heading Turns out, he had an inquiokupa before us For those who don't know: an inquiokupa is someone who moves in as a legitimate tenant... Stops paying rent after the first month or two... And then uses Spain's tenant protection laws to stay in the property for 1, 2, sometimes 3 years while the owner gets nothing The owner can't evict them quickly. In fact, he has to pay for their electricity, water and gas bills while they're there, or they go to jail The process of kicking them out is slow, expensive, and the law is written to protect the occupant So what did this owner do? Once he got rid of his squatter, he pulled the flat off the long-term market entirely Now he rents it by the week to tourists and digital nomads He makes more money, has full control of his property, and never has to worry about an inquiokupa again Now multiply this by thousands of landlords across Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville ❌ Every single one of them doing the same calculation ❌ Every single one of them reaching the same conclusion And the politicians who designed these tenant protection laws are standing in front of cameras pretending to wonder why there are no affordable long-term rentals available Of course, they know they created the exact problem they're pretending to solve ❌ When you make it impossible to remove a bad tenant, landlords stop creating tenants ❌ When landlords stop creating tenants, supply collapses ❌ When supply collapses, prices go up for the honest renters who would have paid all along In fact, the people the law was designed to protect are the ones who suffer most And until someone admits that, Spain will keep losing rental supply one converted Airbnb at a time And tourists will keep getting blamed

Martti Malmi, one of Bitcoin's earliest developers, just released a new version of Nostr VPN, an open-source mesh VPN that replaces the entire trust model of traditional VPN services. Traditional VPNs route all your traffic through a central server operated by a company you have to trust. They see your data. They require your email. They can log your activity. They can be subpoenaed, hacked, or shut down. Even modern mesh VPNs like Tailscale, which improved on this by sending data peer-to-peer, still require you to authenticate through a centralized coordination server using third-party accounts like Google or Microsoft. Nostr VPN eliminates the central server entirely. Your identity is a Nostr keypair, a self-generated cryptographic key pair with no registration, no email, no third-party account. The underlying transport layer is FIPS (Free Internetworking Peering System), a self-organizing encrypted mesh network where nodes authenticate each other, route traffic for each other, and establish connections without any central authority or global topology knowledge. Each node's Nostr public key (npub) serves as its network address. The architecture uses two layers of encryption: hop-by-hop encryption between peers and independent end-to-end encryption between mesh endpoints with periodic rekeying for forward secrecy. When direct connections fail due to NAT issues, the system falls back to Nostr-based multihop routing through other FIPS nodes rather than relying on company-operated relay servers. Peer discovery and NAT traversal happen through public Nostr relays using encrypted gift-wrapped messages. The new release adds native desktop apps for macOS, Linux, and Windows, an Android app, Nostr-based multihop routing for when NAT holepunching fails, and improved network management. It supports UDP, TCP, Ethernet, Tor, and Bluetooth transports simultaneously on a single mesh. This is what happens when you apply Bitcoin's design philosophy, permissionless, self-sovereign, no trusted third parties, to networking infrastructure. Built by one of the people who helped Satoshi build Bitcoin in 2009.

This is like saying - what’s better in politics: left or right? Both are wings of the same bird. Stablecoins are slightly better, but they do not liberate us from financial control. It’s the new version of fiat, just in digital form. The EU will launch its digital euro and the media propaganda will influence people to ask the wrong question: “what’s better, cbdc or stablecoins?” While the ONLY exit door is Bitcoin. (And no, cash is not the answer).

Everyone is out in London protesting today. I wonder how many have seen this chart. One line represents government revenue. The other represents government expenditure. The chasm between them is plugged with debt, a bill passed on to future generations who have no say in the matter. By 2074 UK debt is projected to hit 270% of GDP. People are angry about the water. Nobody is talking about the broken pipe.

I just heard that in Nolan’s "The Odyssey", the role of Odysseus’ loyal dog, 'Argos', will apparently be played by a cat.

You signed a £300,000 mortgage. The bank had nothing. They typed £300,000 into your account. The whole transaction took them 5 minutes. Over the next 25 years you pay them back £550,000. That £550,000 is your wages. Your overtime. Your weekends. Your sleep. For them it is pure profit. They created the money from thin air. They have no cost to recover. 5 minutes of their typing. 25 years of your life. That is the trade. The government allows it. The Bank of England protects it. The banks feed themselves and their paymasters. You were not given a mortgage. You were enslaved by one. You do not own the house. You do not own your wages. You do not own your future. You rent your life from people who created nothing. This is why they fear Bitcoin. Bitcoin cannot be typed into existence. Bitcoin cannot be debased by their paymasters. Bitcoin cannot be lent ten times over. The day you understand Bitcoin is the day you stop renting your life. That is why they hate it. And that is why you need it.

I Loved "Juno", so I can't wait to see Achilles in Nolan's "The Odyssey"!!

The reason so many invest in real estate & price out young people is that inflation makes the dollar & savings accounts useless so everyone needs to use their home as a saving account instead. Monetary policy is the problem, but like all lefties in human history you are programmed by your banker owners to never even notice this, let alone speak about it, and instead go after actually productive people to ensure they remain ground under the heels of your owners.

Let’s cut to the chase

The bond market just told you Britain is broken. UK 30 year gilt: 5.76%. Highest since 1998. UK 10 year gilt: 5.08%. The US 10 year sits at 4.43%. Britain pays 65 basis points more than America to borrow money. Every basis point is your tax. Your pension. Your mortgage. The last time the UK 30 year sat here, Tony Blair was in Downing Street. No banks have failed. No Lehman moment. No crisis trigger. Just this government. This Bank. This currency. This level of debt. The bond market does not bluff. It does not vote. It does not protest. It prices the truth. Bailey is paying 5.08% to fund a state being debased at over 11% a year. The lender loses 5% in real terms. Every year. Guaranteed. This is your pension. Your ISA. Your annuity. Britain is in a slow motion sovereign debt crisis. And nobody on television is calling it. PROTECT YOURSELF NOW.

'Oi bruv, listen up innit, it’s ya boy Gazza Stevenson here, the one who made it big time back in the day. Yeah, I was that trader geezer, stackin’ mad P’s on the bond desk, livin’ the dream, flyin’ first class, birds everywhere, the full works... But please bro, don’t even try it, yeah? I got rich but you never can do the same ‘cause I was a one-off, innit. Proper miracle, me. You lot? Nah. You’re stuck in the ends, scrapin’ by on zero-hour shifts, Universal Credit an’ dreams of a council flat upgrade. That’s just how it is now, bruv – the game’s rigged, the rich got all the ladders an’ you got the snakes. End of. So what we gonna do about it? Tax the rich, that’s what! Hit ‘em where it hurts, take their yachts, their second gaffs in Marbella, their private jets – the lot. An’ while we’re at it, gimme some of that money too, yeah? I mean, I’m one of the good ones now, ain’t I? I wrote the book, I do the talks, I’m on the telly tellin’ everyone how unfair it all is. But I still gotta eat, bruv. I still gotta keep the wolf from the door, keep the missus happy, keep the kids in private school so they don’t end up like you. So bung us a tenner, or a grand, or whatever you can spare. Go on, means-test yourself, pay your bit. It’s for the greater good, innit. I’m tellin’ ya, if we don’t tax the rich proper – an’ by rich I mean anyone who’s got more than me right now – then you lot are proper screwed. No hope, no future, just more Deliveroo gigs an’ Netflix on the electric that’s about to get cut off. But me? I’m the voice of the voiceless. I’m the one who escaped the matrix an’ came back to tell ya the door’s locked now... So cough up, people. Donate to the cause. Subscribe to the channel. Buy the merch. Because we need to tax the rich… an’ I’m standin’ right ‘ere with me hand out, safe. You can’t make it like I did. I was special. You’re not. Simple as. Now gimme the money, bruv. For equality, yeah? For the kids. For the future. Please mate. Cheers Bro.'

Well this was pretty astonishing to read this morning. Taxes are already at their highest level since the 1940s. It will become 38% of national income by 2030 if current plans hold. And yet here are Labour MPs urging Starmer to go further. Sadly, this was entirely predictable. As the system becomes more indebted and more desperate, the state inevitably becomes kleptomaniac. It has no other lever to pull. It cannot create wealth so it confiscates it instead. First from the middle class and then from anyone with anything left to take. The state will expand its claim on your labour, your savings and your future until there is nothing left. The tax burden has risen from 33% of GDP in 2019 to over 37% in 2024. Not because public services improved but because the bills from decades of money printing and mismanagement are arriving and someone has to pay them. That someone is you. Bitcoin is the only asset that exists outside their reach so keep that in mind. They cannot inflate it, freeze it or confiscate it without your cooperation. You've been warned.