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Indeed, it is... excessive.

2026-10-26T07:00:58Z

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Indeed, it is... excessive.

Approaching permanence through redundancy and presumably it helps ...

2026-10-26T06:09:27Z

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Approaching permanence through redundancy and presumably it helps with reaching users who might not otherwise see your note. The latter is less relevant with the advent of the outbox model, but still may have some validity, since there are more clients that allow users to brows relay feeds directly.

I presume it would blast them out to all relays it normally does, ...

2026-10-26T06:06:07Z

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I presume it would blast them out to all relays it normally does, and whether the note gets deleted from a particular target relay depends on its own policy about deletion requests and whether that relay was reachable at the time the deletion request was blasted.

Been a while since I took a look at what you've been working ...

2026-10-26T06:02:07Z

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Been a while since I took a look at what you've been working on. If life would slow down for a minute, I might take a peek.

For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through ...

2026-09-24T15:47:33Z

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For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ. - Romans 5:17

Actually, maybe not. ...

2026-09-24T15:43:51Z

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Actually, maybe not.

Now I am wondering if Wisp is decrypting my search relay list and using my relays or falling back to the default because it appears my list is empty.

I also have this problem, but I am assuming it is because my ...

2026-09-24T15:38:02Z

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I also have this problem, but I am assuming it is because my search relays were configured using Amethyst, so they are all encrypted in the "content" field of my kind 10007 event.

New folks should honestly focus on replies and quote-posts that ...

2026-09-21T19:54:52Z

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New folks should honestly focus on replies and quote-posts that add value to the conversation. Most people don't read directly from relay feeds to see kind 1 notes from people they aren't already following.

Christians, if you haven't done so recently, tell your pastor ...

2026-09-20T23:40:18Z

Christians, if you haven't done so recently, tell your pastor how much you appreciate what the Lord has done through him in your life.

Pastors tend to hear a lot more from agitators and critics than they do from those who love and appreciate them. You don't know just how many fiery darts are flung his way, and how much just a few kind words will encourage him to keep fighting the good fight.

Still living in infamy, helping devs keep their clients ignoring ...

2026-09-20T20:25:39Z

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Still living in infamy, helping devs keep their clients ignoring future-dated notes. 😂

For seminary: Sydney Ahlstrom, "A Religious History of the ...

2026-09-16T06:13:16Z

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For seminary:
Sydney Ahlstrom, "A Religious History of the American People"
Joseph M. Canfield, "The Incredible Scofield and His Book"

Note: Despite the title, the latter work does not take a positive view of Scofield or his book.

For fun:
Brandon Sanderson, "The Way of Kings"

Yup. Now do fiat. None of it works the way most people ...

2026-09-11T19:32:55Z

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Yup. Now do fiat.

None of it works the way most people conceptualize it in their head.

Not unless the owner exposed it, or the user is using their cloud ...

2026-09-09T08:05:33Z

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Not unless the owner exposed it, or the user is using their cloud service which has to be exposed in order for them to access it, but in the latter case Alby keeps it updated to the latest version.

I run mine on my Start9 and there is no public access at all. Just within my network. That's the whole point of NWC.

Looks like only versions more than a year old (August 2025) are ...

2026-09-09T07:58:01Z

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Looks like only versions more than a year old (August 2025) are affected, and even then only if they exposed the UI to the public internet, which is generally a bad idea anyway.

The self-delusion is strong. ...

2026-09-06T00:59:57Z

The self-delusion is strong.

Really? I have yet to encounter any who think that ecclesiastical ...

2026-09-04T21:27:54Z

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Really? I have yet to encounter any who think that ecclesiastical officers should have authority over matters of state, nor any that think civil magistrates should have authority over matters of church. Do you have some examples?

Have you read @nprofile…sa3c's article on Christian ...

2026-09-04T16:15:55Z

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Have you read Contra (nprofile…sa3c)'s article on Christian Nationalism? He does not at all frame it in terms of trying to force people to be different than they are. He merely recognizes that the magistrate has been delegated the authority over the sword by God, and therefore the he should recognize where that authority came from, rather than pretend like he has no higher basis for its authority at all.

In fact, he explicitly recognizes that the state has no authority or ability to "make people different."

We should always be careful we are interacting with opposing ideas in the way their proponents actually frame them, rather than erecting straw-men.

I am not a fan of the men he points to as leaders in the CN camp, and I am certainly less optimistic about how likely we are to move toward that kind of "magistrate holding the sword while on his knees" ideal this side of the parousia, but I cannot deny our duty to strive in that direction.

Moreover, Contra (nprofile…sa3c) explicitly says that this ideal will only come about via culture first being transformed by the preaching of the gospel. I certainly cannot fault that proposed pathway to reaching the ideal, even if it is never achieved in this life.

My man! That was a great read!

2026-09-03T03:25:24Z

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My man! That was a great read!

A not-so-short note on spam and the outbox model: TL;DR: Even if ...

2026-09-03T01:46:02Z

A not-so-short note on spam and the outbox model:

TL;DR: Even if spammers can’t write to your inbox relays, you will still see spam in the replies to other users’ notes in Nostr clients that have implemented the outbox model.

Not so long ago, it used to be pretty easy to hide spam from view. Back then, Nostr clients only ever read from the relays that the user had set as their "read relays." That meant a user could simply select relays that restricted who could post to them, such as WoT and paid relays, and remove any public relays from their read relays to have a spam-free Nostr experience.

However, this resulted in users missing a lot of posts and replies from other legitimate users, because they weren't reading from the relays that those users were writing to. It also had a centralizing effect on relay selection, because you needed to be writing to one or more of a few popular relays to have any hope that people would see your posts, even if they were following you. You might write to a few other relays as well, but they acted primarily as a backup for your notes.

In answer to this, the outbox model was developed, in the hopes of encouraging relay decentralization. Under this model, Nostr clients no longer just connect to the relays you have listed as "read relays," now called "inbox relays." Instead, they connect to relays that other users you are following have listed as their "outbox" or "write relays" in order to fetch their notes and populate your feed. This means all users can select a variety of relays and expect that their followers will still see their notes. There is no advantage to writing to popular relays, because Nostr clients will pull your notes from any relay listed in your “outbox” relay list, even a very small personal relay, to populate your followers’ feeds with your notes.

The outbox model also inspired the creation of the additional relay list for “blocked relays” so that users could retain some level of control over what relays the client was connecting to.

That’s all well and good for populating a user’s main feed, since the Nostr client is still only reading from relays that were selected by the user’s follows. But what about replies? If Alice posts a short text note, and Bob replies to her note, but Alice is not following Bob, how will she see that there is a reply? The answer is, assuming that Bob is using a Nostr client that has implemented the outbox model, his reply will be written not only to his own “outbox” or “write relays,” but also to Alice’s “inbox” or “read relays,” that way Alice will see the reply, despite the fact that she is not following Bob.

This on it’s own does not result in a loophole for spammers, because Alice can still set inbox relays that don’t allow just anyone to write to them. As long as her Nostr client is ONLY looking for replies to her notes on her own inbox relays, and she has only selected relays that spammers can’t write to, then she will not see spam replies to her own notes.

Here’s where the spam issue creeps back in again, though: What about Charlie, who follows Alice, and wants to see the replies to her latest note? What relays will Charlie’s Nostr client connect to in order to find those replies, assuming he is using a client that has implemented the outbox model? It won’t be his own inbox relays that he has selected himself, because there is no reason to expect that replies to Alice’s post will have been written to Charlie’s inbox relays. Rather, Charlie’s client will fetch replies to Alice’s post from her list of inbox relays. If Alice has selected quality relays that don’t let spammers write to them, then Charlie won’t see any spam replies. However, if Alice has any public relays in her list of inbox relays, then Charlie will see any spam replies that were sent to those relays, even though he has no public relays in his own relay list.

So, you can still pretty easily control whether you see spam replies to your own notes, but it is very difficult to control whether you see spam replies to other users’ notes. Your primary recourse is to make liberal use of the “blocked relays” list to prevent your Nostr client from reading from relays that are known to house spam.

There are a few issues with this approach, though. First, not all Nostr clients support the blocked relays list, so you will still see spam on those clients. Second, some clients encrypt the entries that are added to this list, and most other clients don’t support that encrypted data, even if they support blocked relays lists. Third, this becomes a game of whack-a-mole, where you have to keep adding more and more relays to the list when you discover they contain spam.

Perhaps the better way forward for reducing spam is for clients to have their own spam mitigation features. Wisp and Dark Wisp have this in the form of the nspam filter, which often needs to be retrained to be able to identify the latest forms of spam. Other clients take a bit more straightforward approach by allowing users to hide any posts from anyone outside the user’s Web-of-Trust. The downside to this is it disadvantages new users who have not yet made it inside other users’ social graphs. Another option that could be used in conjunction with this, now that more clients offer the option of adding proof-of-work to your posts, is to hide any posts from anyone outside the user’s WoT, unless the post contains at least X amount of PoW, that the user can adjust to their preference.

The downside to this is that the client would still be downloading the spam posts and just not displaying them to the user, which uses unnecessary bandwidth and likely cellular data for users on mobile phones. But as has often been said, there aren’t really any solutions; only trade-offs.

Yeah, I think Amethyst is one of the worst clients about ...

2026-09-03T01:14:21Z

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Yeah, I think Amethyst is one of the worst clients about connecting to relays that you did not select in your relay list. I think it is going beyond what is expected in the outbox model.

When building your home feed, it should only be fetching top-level notes from your follows' outbox relays.

When showing replies to your own notes, it should only be fetching from your own inbox relays.

When showing replies to other users' notes, it should only be fetching them from that user's inbox relays.

However, as evidenced by all the various relay login requests I am constantly inundated with, I believe it is also fetching notes from the inbox and/or outbox relays of those who have replied to a top-level note, and maybe anyone tagged in those notes, too.

That means you WILL see spam if those users have not been on top of maintaining their relay lists.

Yep, that's why. Jank.army is showing that the spam is on ...

2026-09-03T00:52:55Z

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Yep, that's why. Jank.army is showing that the spam is on relay.primal.net, which I also have blocked on Amethyst.

Interesting. Do you have any relays blocked?

2026-09-03T00:48:43Z

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Interesting. Do you have any relays blocked?

There are quite a few spam replies to this note: #nevent1q…ahf3 ...

2026-09-03T00:44:24Z

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There are quite a few spam replies to this note:

quoting
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Greek food is delicious

When you view the replies, do you see them?

On your own posts, or on the posts of other users? Do you see the ...

2026-09-03T00:32:43Z

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On your own posts, or on the posts of other users? Do you see the spam replies that The Bird (npub176g…q836) mentioned on his post?

Yes, I have mentioned exactly this previously. Amethyst assumes ...

2026-09-03T00:31:23Z

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Yes, I have mentioned exactly this previously. Amethyst assumes that all relay lists other than inbox/outbox (kind 10002) should be private lists, and therefore encrypted. However, this is the LEAST compatible with other Nostr clients, and users have no way to choose not to have those lists encrypted.

Nevertheless, ALL Nostr clients should expect that lists can contain encrypted content, and support reading that content if they support those lists. This is detailed in NIP-51 (Lists), which says, "Lists can contain references to anything, and these references can be public or private... private items are specified in a JSON array that mimics the structure of the event tags array, but stringified and encrypted using the same scheme from NIP-44 (the shared key is computed using the author's public and private key) and stored in the .content."

Looks like @npub176g…q836 is using Amethyst, so this is not ...

2026-09-02T23:14:51Z

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Looks like The Bird (npub176g…q836) is using Amethyst, so this is not going to be enough to resolve the problem on its own. Because of the way Amethyst has implemented the outbox model, it connects to relays that are not in the user's outbox or inbox relays in order to display replies. In my experience, it does this even though I have proxy relays set.

This being the case, I also encountered a lot of spam while using Amethyst, even though I have ZERO public relays in my inbox relays. The only solution I could really come up with that was effective was to add the relays where the spam was appearing to my blocked relay list.

My list of blocked relays is growing as I encounter spam on new relays, but here's what I have blocked so far:

relay.primal.net
top.testrelay.top
relay.ditto.pub
nostr.bitcoiner.social
nostr.oxtr.dev
relay.dreamith.to
bitcoiner.social

Now, the unfortunate thing is, Amethyst encrypts the entries on the blocked relays list, and many other clients don't read that encrypted content, so they will still connect to those relays. For instance, I am on jank.army right now and I see all the spam, even though it is on relays I have already blocked. This disregard for encrypted entries on lists is far too common.

Looks like it's just a single relay, but a popular public ...

2026-09-02T04:38:23Z

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Looks like it's just a single relay, but a popular public one.

Won't get a chance today, and maybe not for a few days. My ...

2026-09-01T18:22:10Z

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Won't get a chance today, and maybe not for a few days. My seminary term started this week and I am also guest speaking Friday evening and have to prep for that.

Same question re: Amethyst.

2026-08-31T05:36:08Z

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Same question re: Amethyst.

So, is it just me or is it odd that Wisp/Dark Wisp allows you to ...

2026-08-31T05:31:24Z

So, is it just me or is it odd that Wisp/Dark Wisp allows you to add PoW to your notes, but doesn't allow you to filter out notes from users outside your WoT who haven't included PoW?

So... When do we get to sell our duplicate coins on the Blake ...

2026-08-31T05:17:09Z

So... When do we get to sell our duplicate coins on the Blake chain?

Keep an eye on this as it progresses. It's shaping up to be a ...

2026-08-31T05:09:10Z

Keep an eye on this as it progresses. It's shaping up to be a powerful way to have P2P access to your digital library of movies and TV shows, and far easier to set up than Jellyfin.

quoting
nevent1q…04p8
PearCinema v1.1.3 is out!

Your film and television collection, playable anywhere, without exposing your server to the internet.

New Features

• Choose what each person can see. On the People page, every person now has a "Can see" line: tick the drives or folders they may watch, to any depth, and everything else disappears for them. Tick nothing and they see everything, as before. Films they have already downloaded stay on their phone.

• Decide it when you invite them, not after. Pairing a new device now asks what it will be able to see before it shows you a code, so a device can be limited from the moment it joins. Handing over the whole library asks you to confirm.

• The phone app works sideways, and on tablets. Turn it and the page fills the screen instead of staying a narrow column.

Improvements

• Films and TV shows with unusual filenames now get proper episode numbers. Anime numbered 01, 02, 03, files named only "E01", and several other naming styles were being filed with no episode number at all, so they could not be sorted or resumed.

• Specials, OVAs and bonus episodes are now filed under "Specials" instead of sitting numberless, and creditless openings and disc menus no longer show up as episodes.

• Films that cannot be read are now named on the dashboard. Previously a damaged or half-copied file simply never appeared in the library, with nothing said anywhere.

• Converting on an NVIDIA graphics card now works with the drivers Linux Mint and Ubuntu ship. The bundled converter needed a newer driver than those systems offer.

• When the video engine test fails, the page now shows what each graphics option said, in plain words, instead of one unexplained error.

• A television waiting on its Media Assistant channel is now named in the phone's TV picker, with the one step needed to fix it.

• Changes to what somebody can see reach their phone in about a second, without needing to refresh.

Security

• The file holding this machine's private key for reaching other libraries is no longer readable by other users on the same computer. Reported by a user; it is tightened automatically the next time PearCinema starts.

https://peerloomllc.com/pearcinema/

Zapstore (npub10r8…t2p8)

#PearCinema #P2P #selfhosted #video #movies #privacy #jellyfin #Android #iOS

Public relays in general are always a haven for spam, and ...

2026-08-30T20:52:12Z

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Public relays in general are always a haven for spam, and Primal's public relay is one of the most popular, so it is always chalk full of it when these types of spam-attacks happen.

Already did before posting. I thought that might be the issue, ...

2026-08-30T18:33:41Z

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Already did before posting. I thought that might be the issue, too.

Doesn't seem to be working in Dark Wisp. I had the "Spam ...

2026-08-30T16:38:31Z

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Doesn't seem to be working in Dark Wisp. I had the "Spam replies" filter on already and turned the WoT filter on as well, then recomputed my social graph for good measure. Still seeing this:

Yeah, WoT client-side is definitely another effective tactic. ...

2026-08-30T16:21:48Z

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Yeah, WoT client-side is definitely another effective tactic.

Outbox model somewhat requires that you connect to other users' inbox relays to fetch replies to their notes, though. Unless, of course, you are making use of an aggregator relay that is pulling those replies for you.

When looking at replies to your own posts, your own inbox relays should be sufficient, but when looking for replies to someone else's note, there is no reason to expect that they will be available on your inbox relays, so outbox clients should be connecting to the OP's inbox relays to fetch those replies, unless you have added them to your blocked relays list.

If you have a personal music library and want to be able to ...

2026-08-30T15:08:19Z

If you have a personal music library and want to be able to easily listen to it remotely, then give PearTune a try.

Just install the host app on the computer with your library (available for Umbrel, too), point it at your Music directory, then scan a QR code with the Pear Tune app on your phone, and you're done. No opening ports, no VPS and reverse proxy, and no need to use Tailscale or similar VPN. Just scan and you are connected P2P to your home computer's media library from anywhere.

quoting
nevent1q…j63n
PearTune v1.0.6 is out!

Your music collection, playable anywhere, without exposing your server to the internet.

What's new:

New Features
- Like the song you're listening to straight from the player. The heart is on the player itself now, in both looks.

Improvements
- The albums grid keeps loading as you scroll. No more "Load more" button.
- Uses less memory while playing. The app now fetches music a little at a time instead of pulling a whole song ahead.

Bug Fixes
- Music now pauses when your Bluetooth car or headset disconnects, or when you unplug wired headphones, instead of sometimes carrying on through the phone's speaker.
- Your queue no longer disappears after a pause. If the connection to your library drops while the phone is locked, the queue is kept and comes back as soon as the library is reachable again.
- Tapping Shuffle on an artist now really shuffles from the first song, so the list no longer runs out after a few tracks.
- WMA files from a Jellyfin library now play, the same as from a folder library. (Needs the updated library host.)
- Music folders that use shortcuts or symbolic links are now included in your library. (Needs the updated library host.)
- On a Mac, "Update now" works again. Note for Mac users already on 1.0.2 or 1.0.3: install this version by hand once, and updates will apply themselves from then on.

https://peerloomllc.com/peartune/

Zapstore (npub10r8…t2p8)

#PearTune #P2P #selfhosted #music #privacy #bitcoin #zapstore #Android #iOS

This is all about relay setup here.

2026-08-30T15:02:06Z

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This is all about relay setup here.

I'd debate you, but I have a feeling we are pretty aligned on ...

2026-08-29T07:30:29Z

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I'd debate you, but I have a feeling we are pretty aligned on this one.

All laws are an instantiation of SOMEONE'S morality. The only true morality is God's. Therefore all laws should be an instantiation of God's moral law.

Christian magistrates will more closely apply God's law to the civil spere than non-Christians, all else being equal.

Nevertheless, we should not expect to achieve an ideal instantiation of God's moral law through any human magistrates, since all have remaining corruption, even in the best cases. Yet, this reality does not relieve us from the duty of pursuing the ideal.

No one should understand any of the above to mean that I would favor the establishment of any particular denomination as the official "Church of the United States," nor that civil authority should be subject to ecclesiastical authority by means of church officers ruling over the civil government, nor that I think the state can or should compel faith in Christ. I do not hold to any of those more extreme views.

Race Realism and modern psychology make the very same error: They ...

2026-08-26T20:26:42Z

Race Realism and modern psychology make the very same error: They attribute moral failings to physiological conditions.

The result is also the same: They remove both hope of gospel-transformation and responsibility to repent, since no man can change his biology, and regeneration and sanctification are spiritual works on a man's soul, not on his body.

#nevent1q…w87t Reformed folks should naturally understand this. ...

2026-08-25T21:25:19Z

quoting nevent1q…w87t

Providentially governed circumstance and morally authoritative norm remain distinct categories.

Reformed folks should naturally understand this. We already know how to distinguish between God's descriptive and prescriptive wills.

How God has providentially ordered history must never be taken as warrant for establishing morally binding duties without explicit instruction in Scripture.

Made a friend today at work: ...

2026-08-24T21:30:29Z

Made a friend today at work:

If any small collection of entities can delete your voice it was ...

2026-08-24T05:11:19Z

If any small collection of entities can delete your voice it was never yours.

quoting
nevent1q…0jpp
If one company can delete your voice it was never yours.

Dunson is definitely more readily digestible. Tomes took some ...

2026-08-23T20:38:00Z

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Dunson is definitely more readily digestible. Tomes took some work to translate into something I could wrap my mind around, but the substance was worth the effort in my estimation.

Where do I find the new highlight feature in #Amethyst? This is ...

2026-08-22T21:41:00Z

Where do I find the new highlight feature in #Amethyst?

This is what I get when I long press in a long-form note:

And this is what I get when I select text in the built-in web browser:

These are the areas I would have expected to find the option to create a highlight.

Not a bad idea. It's pretty short and sweet by comparison.

2026-08-23T04:12:02Z

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Not a bad idea. It's pretty short and sweet by comparison.

#Boris is looking really good on a tablet @nprofile…9ccm. ...

2026-08-22T21:23:12Z

#Boris is looking really good on a tablet Gigi (nprofile…9ccm).

@nprofile…3xxg , I would be interested in your take on it, but ...

2026-08-22T05:13:36Z

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freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg (nprofile…3xxg) , I would be interested in your take on it, but don't feel obligated. It's nearly 10,000 words.

This was easily the best article I have read on the subject of ...

2026-08-22T03:39:52Z

This was easily the best article I have read on the subject of #Kinism to date. Tomes does a fantastic job of acknowledging its legitimate concerns and placing them within their proper context, while also criticizing its excesses and where it goes astray, lacking a more robust moral and theological framework.

It's a long read, but well worth the time spent, because it has application outside of the Kinist controversy, too.

https://postnuance.substack.com/p/after-kinism

I apologize for the highlight spam tonight. Trying out Boris with ...

2026-08-22T01:34:38Z

I apologize for the highlight spam tonight. Trying out Boris with a particularly good, and long, article on the errors and legitimate concerns of Kinism.

I am 85% of the way through. Hang in there, and I hope you have a client that allows you to filter your feed by note kind. If not, you should.