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For reference, the mistaken name there was damus which was ...

2026-10-31T10:33:47Z

For reference, the mistaken name there was damus which was autocorrected to amusing. Which is, in and of itself, amusing.

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Ditto, Nostr Vault on ios, Plume, Feather, Amusing, YakiHonne, Amethyst, Primal ios, Nostrich, Dark Wisp.

Just a few of the client tags I see as I scroll through the feed.

Each one different. Different features, methods, layouts and options.

Yet all speaking the same language. Mostly. (Kind 1111 reference, for digs).

#nostr is amazing.

Going to adapt this, tonight or tomorrow, so you can pull up and ...

2026-10-31T19:37:33Z

Going to adapt this, tonight or tomorrow, so you can pull up and view the interactions between the account you're viewing and the people you follow. Quick and easy. Doesn't need AI and the associated cost, either.

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I ditched the followers metric because it was utterly unreliable and a poor metric for anything beyond feeding ego.

This is better. It's not entirely accurate, it only reaches out and checks so far, but should, over time and interactions, provide more useful insight when viewing accounts than accounts which once clicked follow.

This isn't a WoT thing, btw.

I ditched the followers metric because it was utterly unreliable ...

2026-10-31T16:55:36Z

I ditched the followers metric because it was utterly unreliable and a poor metric for anything beyond feeding ego.

This is better. It's not entirely accurate, it only reaches out and checks so far, but should, over time and interactions, provide more useful insight when viewing accounts than accounts which once clicked follow.

This isn't a WoT thing, btw.

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2026-10-31T16:33:53Z

He's out 🥳👍

I just accidentally brought and ate two meals at the hospital ...

2026-10-31T15:47:44Z

I just accidentally brought and ate two meals at the hospital restaurant. Rice with chicken and a damn good chilli. I didn't realise it was meant to be two meals. Scoffed the bloody lot though. Paid double what I thought I would, so I wasn't leaving anything behind.

Sat here giving my mate shit, it's such a relief to see him ...

2026-10-31T12:58:15Z

Sat here giving my mate shit, it's such a relief to see him healing up. I've missed being able to give him a hard time, tbh. 🥳

Happy White Paper Day folks. Curiously, thanks to CSW, who is not ...

2026-10-31T09:42:18Z

Happy White Paper Day folks.

Curiously, thanks to CSW, who is not Satoshi, as far as I can remember there's still technically a court order in effect which prohibits people from hosting links to the white paper. Or was it the actual links to Core? I can't remember.

Either way, thanks Satoshi.

And Craig can fuck off. Still.

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Happy Bitcoin Whitepaper Day.

Get yours here: satoshiwallpaper.com/downloads/

#abct27

In long form editors can the banner image be insterted via a ...

2026-10-31T10:29:16Z

In long form editors can the banner image be insterted via a naddr of a kind 20 post? Or from a blossom link direct from my blossom server?

The only MP I'll give a few seconds to. He might not be of ...

2026-10-31T10:24:09Z

The only MP I'll give a few seconds to. He might not be of the common stock, but he does appear to be for us.

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One of these is NOT a nostr client name, yet. Autocorrect fucked ...

2026-10-31T10:18:16Z

One of these is NOT a nostr client name, yet. Autocorrect fucked me up there.

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nevent1q…f02f
Ditto, Nostr Vault on ios, Plume, Feather, Amusing, YakiHonne, Amethyst, Primal ios, Nostrich, Dark Wisp.

Just a few of the client tags I see as I scroll through the feed.

Each one different. Different features, methods, layouts and options.

Yet all speaking the same language. Mostly. (Kind 1111 reference, for digs).

#nostr is amazing.

Ditto, Nostr Vault on ios, Plume, Feather, Amusing, YakiHonne, ...

2026-10-31T10:17:06Z

Ditto, Nostr Vault on ios, Plume, Feather, Amusing, YakiHonne, Amethyst, Primal ios, Nostrich, Dark Wisp.

Just a few of the client tags I see as I scroll through the feed.

Each one different. Different features, methods, layouts and options.

Yet all speaking the same language. Mostly. (Kind 1111 reference, for digs).

#nostr is amazing.

Brilliant. Amethyst, leading the pack as usual. #nevent1q…fsv0

2026-10-30T11:16:17Z

Brilliant. Amethyst, leading the pack as usual.

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nevent1q…fsv0
Doom as a nostr nApplet running inside of Amethyst? So be it.

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2026-10-31T01:38:12Z

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Right, done all I wanted to for now with the location thing. ...

2026-10-31T00:38:28Z

Right, done all I wanted to for now with the location thing. I'll be able to expand on that at a later date and make it even more useful, but for now it does what I need it to do.

Next task is to change the followers list. By change, I mean, remove. What's the point of it? What does it actually tell you about a person? Nothing useful, really, given the number of dead accounts on here, as well as lurkers. So I'm going to experiment with interaction scoring, a sort of WoT type model, I guess, but it's not a WoT, it's just...activity metrics. But, again, it'll be extensible, like the location thing I just added.

That first test didn't work how I wanted it to, so I'm ...

2026-10-30T23:51:55Z

That first test didn't work how I wanted it to, so I'm making some changes, but now I'll test the other method

https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.79254&mlon=-1.02722#map=15/50.79254/-1.02722

I've added automatic meta data stripping to images on Plume ...

2026-10-30T23:48:29Z

I've added automatic meta data stripping to images on Plume (video next) along with appropriate notifications.

I've also added a pin to the compose boxes, as well as replies, so you can manually place a map object in a note, or kind 20 image, or video. Being able to share place information is useful and could be built on further later on. I decided to do it this way because reasons.

This note is just a test, btw. The map data should be stored as a tag in the note and will possibly (probably) only render in Plume atm, so I've added an option to encode it directly in the note instead.

Rofl🚁 #nevent1q…237m

2026-10-30T21:11:18Z

Rofl🚁

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LMAO Chainalysis got hacked. 😂

Women just ain't like they used to be... #nevent1q…p8k2

2026-10-30T20:55:57Z

Women just ain't like they used to be...

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My attempt to add geo locations didnt work initially, and I know ...

2026-10-30T15:48:46Z

My attempt to add geo locations didnt work initially, and I know why, but I've adapted the idea. Simply going to add optional geo locations to all notes.

Right, I'm doing it. Let's see how quick the clanker is. ...

2026-10-30T14:18:12Z

Right, I'm doing it. Let's see how quick the clanker is. I've got to leave to get to the fiat pit in 40 minutes...

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Just trying with an idea. I see most people setting their clients up to strip meta data from image and video uploads, which seems smart.

However, I'd like to be able to actually share that info sometimes.

So I'm considering an opt in, so you can share a geohash of the location an image was taken and then Plume and any compatible client could display a map or satellite view of the location.

I reckon I'd use that, and I reckon I'd enjoy seeing the places where some photography is shared from.

Could then collate that in to a global view of great locations for getting the best shots and be able to plan trips out to those places to try my own hand.

Thoughts, #nostr?

This question is especially for the #photography crowd on #nostr. ...

2026-10-30T11:33:47Z

This question is especially for the #photography crowd on #nostr. There's some amazing shots shared here from beautiful locations.

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nevent1q…rrvu
Just trying with an idea. I see most people setting their clients up to strip meta data from image and video uploads, which seems smart.

However, I'd like to be able to actually share that info sometimes.

So I'm considering an opt in, so you can share a geohash of the location an image was taken and then Plume and any compatible client could display a map or satellite view of the location.

I reckon I'd use that, and I reckon I'd enjoy seeing the places where some photography is shared from.

Could then collate that in to a global view of great locations for getting the best shots and be able to plan trips out to those places to try my own hand.

Thoughts, #nostr?

Just trying with an idea. I see most people setting their clients ...

2026-10-30T11:28:50Z

Just trying with an idea. I see most people setting their clients up to strip meta data from image and video uploads, which seems smart.

However, I'd like to be able to actually share that info sometimes.

So I'm considering an opt in, so you can share a geohash of the location an image was taken and then Plume and any compatible client could display a map or satellite view of the location.

I reckon I'd use that, and I reckon I'd enjoy seeing the places where some photography is shared from.

Could then collate that in to a global view of great locations for getting the best shots and be able to plan trips out to those places to try my own hand.

Thoughts, #nostr?

Slowly coming around to adding payment targets in Plume. Slowly.

2026-10-30T11:17:37Z

Slowly coming around to adding payment targets in Plume.

Slowly.

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2026-10-30T06:43:49Z

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Picard passing before Kirk was not something I imagined as a kid ...

2026-10-29T20:54:02Z

Picard passing before Kirk was not something I imagined as a kid watching Generations at the cinema with my old man.

Just updated the follow pack creator in Plume, the fields were ...

2026-10-30T10:45:29Z

Just updated the follow pack creator in Plume, the fields were there but there were no hints about what to put in them...anyway, it now works, properly 🥳

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2026-10-30T09:24:17Z

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Crock of shit game anyway Ghost👻 (npub18dy…ndjr) 😂

Just heading back up the hospital in a mo...but you know those ...

2026-10-30T09:17:43Z

Just heading back up the hospital in a mo...but you know those days where you wake up with a heavy head and no amount of coffee lifts the fog? Yeah, I'm having one of those. Could quite happily just curl back up and go back to sleep right now. Still, onward. Swinging the pick at the fiat mine later, so can't sit around.

Gm #nostr friends 🥳☕️🙏 It just occured to me that I ...

2026-10-30T07:21:48Z

Gm #nostr friends 🥳☕️🙏

It just occured to me that I don't have a purple ostrich emoji - is there an emoji pack with one available?

NIght, nostr friends. I'm done. Thanks for being entertaining ...

2026-10-29T00:15:28Z

NIght, nostr friends. I'm done. Thanks for being entertaining and stuff 🙏

My friend is in recovery. He's suffering, he's in pain, ...

2026-10-29T19:35:19Z

My friend is in recovery.

He's suffering, he's in pain, he knows the next 48 hours are going to be as miserable as sin.

But he's alive.

Praise be to God.

What was true 140 years ago almost, in 1891, is as just as true ...

2026-10-29T09:26:51Z

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What was true 140 years ago almost, in 1891, is as just as true now, in 2026.

“I would ask any too genteel reader, who cannot endure to have said what everybody nowadays thinks and feels, to remember a well-worn sentence of St. Jerome’s: If an offense come out of the truth, better it is that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.”

— Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman — Chapter 1 lix

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Chapter LIX

Explanatory Note to the First Edition

The main portion of the following story appeared—with slight modifications—in the _Graphic_ newspaper; other chapters, more especially addressed to adult readers, in the _Fortnightly Review_ and the _National Observer_, as episodic sketches. My thanks are tendered to the editors and proprietors of those periodicals for enabling me now to piece the trunk and limbs of the novel together, and print it complete, as originally written two years ago.

I will just add that the story is sent out in all sincerity of purpose, as an attempt to give artistic form to a true sequence of things; and in respect of the book’s opinions and sentiments, I would ask any too genteel reader, who cannot endure to have said what everybody nowadays thinks and feels, to remember a well-worn sentence of St. Jerome’s: If an offense come out of the truth, better it is that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

T.H.

_November_ 1891.

Author’s Preface to the Fifth and Later Editions

This novel being one wherein the great campaign of the heroine begins after an event in her experience which has usually been treated as fatal to her part of protagonist, or at least as the virtual ending of her enterprises and hopes, it was quite contrary to avowed conventions that the public should welcome the book and agree with me in holding that there was something more to be said in fiction than had been said about the shaded side of a well-known catastrophe. But the responsive spirit in which _Tess of the d’Urbervilles_ has been received by the readers of England and America would seem to prove that the plan of laying down a story on the lines of tacit opinion, instead of making it to square with the merely vocal formulae of society, is not altogether a wrong one, even when exemplified in so unequal and partial an achievement as the present. For this responsiveness I cannot refrain from expressing my thanks; and my regret is that, in a world where one so often hungers in vain for friendship, where even not to be wilfully misunderstood is felt as a kindness, I shall never meet in person these appreciative readers, male and female, and shake them by the hand.

I include amongst them the reviewers—by far the majority—who have so generously welcomed the tale. Their words show that they, like the others, have only too largely repaired my defects of narration by their own imaginative intuition.

Nevertheless, though the novel was intended to be neither didactic nor aggressive, but in the scenic parts to be representative simply and in the contemplative to be oftener charged with impressions than with convictions, there have been objectors both to the matter and to the rendering.

The more austere of these maintain a conscientious difference of opinion concerning, among other things, subjects fit for art, and reveal an inability to associate the idea of the sub-title adjective with any but the artificial and derivative meaning which has resulted to it from the ordinances of civilization. They ignore the meaning of the word in Nature, together with all aesthetic claims upon it, not to mention the spiritual interpretation afforded by the finest side of their own Christianity. Others dissent on grounds which are intrinsically no more than an assertion that the novel embodies the views of life prevalent at the end of the nineteenth century, and not those of an earlier and simpler generation—an assertion which I can only hope may be well founded. Let me repeat that a novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest; as one is reminded by a passage which occurs in the letters of Schiller to Goethe on judges of this class: “They are those who seek only their own ideas in a representation, and prize that which should be as higher than what is. The cause of the dispute, therefore, lies in the very first principles, and it would be utterly impossible to come to an understanding with them.” And again: “As soon as I observe that any one, when judging of poetical representations, considers anything more important than the inner Necessity and Truth, I have done with him.”

In the introductory words to the first edition I suggested the possible advent of the genteel person who would not be able to endure something or other in these pages. That person duly appeared among the aforesaid objectors. In one case he felt upset that it was not possible for him to read the book through three times, owing to my not having made that critical effort which “alone can prove the salvation of such an one.” In another, he objected to such vulgar articles as the Devil’s pitchfork, a lodging-house carving-knife, and a shame-bought parasol, appearing in a respectable story. In another place he was a gentleman who turned Christian for half-an-hour the better to express his grief that a disrespectful phrase about the Immortals should have been used; though the same innate gentility compelled him to excuse the author in words of pity that one cannot be too thankful for: “He does but give us of his best.” I can assure this great critic that to exclaim illogically against the gods, singular or plural, is not such an original sin of mine as he seems to imagine. True, it may have some local originality; though if Shakespeare were an authority on history, which perhaps he is not, I could show that the sin was introduced into Wessex as early as the Heptarchy itself. Says Glo’ster in _Lear_, otherwise Ina, king of that country:

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport.

The remaining two or three manipulators of Tess were of the predetermined sort whom most writers and readers would gladly forget; professed literary boxers, who put on their convictions for the occasion; modern “Hammers of Heretics”; sworn Discouragers, ever on the watch to prevent the tentative half-success from becoming the whole success later on; who pervert plain meanings, and grow personal under the name of practising the great historical method. However, they may have causes to advance, privileges to guard, traditions to keep going; some of which a mere tale-teller, who writes down how the things of the world strike him, without any ulterior intentions whatever, has overlooked, and may by pure inadvertence have run foul of when in the least aggressive mood. Perhaps some passing perception, the outcome of a dream hour, would, if generally acted on, cause such an assailant considerable inconvenience with respect to position, interests, family, servant, ox, ass, neighbour, or neighbour’s wife. He therefore valiantly hides his personality behind a publisher’s shutters, and cries “Shame!” So densely is the world with any shifting of positions, even the best warranted advance, galls somebody’s kibe. Such shiftings often begin in sentiment, and such sentiment sometimes begins in a novel.

_July_ 1892.

The foregoing remarks were written during the early career of this story, when a spirited public and private criticism of its points was still fresh to the feelings. The pages are allowed to stand for what they are worth, as something once said; but probably they would not have been written now. Even in the first short time which has elapsed since the book was first published, some of the critics who have provoked the reply have “gone down into silence,” as if to remind one of the infinite unimportance of both their say and mine.

_January_ 1895.

The present edition of this novel contains a few pages that have never
appeared in any previous edition. When the detached episodes were
collected as stated in the preface of 1891, these pages were
overlooked, though they were in the original manuscript. They occur in

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2026-10-28T07:46:40Z

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Not 100% sure how this will render, tbh, but it's a naddr for ...

2026-10-28T22:37:51Z

Not 100% sure how this will render, tbh, but it's a naddr for a music playlist I just compiled. I've now got it plumbed in to Plume and can listen to my favourite tunes without having to keep scrolling and searching them out. I suspect some clients will handle it properly and I'll just have to fix my own site

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Good question #asknostr #nevent1q…nm5g

2026-10-28T20:49:45Z

Good question #asknostr

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Just wondering if there's any #UK based craftsmen on nostr ?
I remember a woodworker popping on here about a year ago. But #UK based nostrichers seem rare..
#Brits #craftsmen #catpenter #blacksmith #essential #crafts

The view of the #sunset from the hospital the other day, just ...

2026-10-28T20:11:28Z

The view of the #sunset from the hospital the other day, just before the storms.

#photography

Still waiting for him to come back to the ward. Went for a walk ...

2026-10-28T19:07:00Z

Still waiting for him to come back to the ward. Went for a walk up The Hill while I wait.

It's not actually called The Hill, it's Portsdown Hill, part of the beautiful South Downs.

But in Pompey we only have one hill and it's pretty obvious what we're talking about, hence "The Hill".

Anyway, the view is lovely, sometimes. But it's bloody steep.

I've walked up and down it more than a few times recently. I'm nit sure if I've extended or reduced my lifespan, but it's taken a lot of effort, either way.

I may have had too much coffee.

Just added list feed to Plume, which actually makes lists useful ...

2026-10-28T17:10:26Z

Just added list feed to Plume, which actually makes lists useful to me again now. Book lists appear to be interoperable with #Alexandria now, which is nice, now music playlists. Then a few cosmetic changes.

Before then though, I must go back to the hospital and inspect the butchers work.

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2026-10-28T15:28:32Z

Watching npub1de6l09erjl9r990q7n9ql0rwh8x8n059ht7a267n0q3qe28wua8q20q0sd livestream while I read Tess Of The D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy brought to nostr by npub1l5sga6xg72phsz5422ykujprejwud075ggrr3z2hwyrfgr7eylqstegx9z , coz this is how I #nostr.

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2026-10-28T15:04:24Z

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Mate's finally in for his op, so while I'm waiting ...

2026-10-28T13:23:23Z

Mate's finally in for his op, so while I'm waiting I'm going to carry on fixing things in Plume and see if I can't make better use of lists.

There's a casualty in every storm down here. ...

2026-10-28T08:24:37Z

There's a casualty in every storm down here.

Gm #nostr - got lucky last night, wind changed so I didnt have to ...

2026-10-28T07:11:53Z

Gm #nostr - got lucky last night, wind changed so I didnt have to get up and adjust the lines. Meant I was able to just sleep through and wake up in a very quiet calm environment. Honestly, there's sod all noise down here atm. It's glorious.

Hope you're all well 🙏 ☕️

Hey, can anyone pull the video from this link please? 🙏 ...

2026-10-27T20:50:58Z

Hey, can anyone pull the video from this link please? 🙏

https://x.com/Stano589/status/2115144232302420055?a=jdXLC5h6AecXUx_TsqA&s=19

Bloody hell...I'm back on the boat, big tides expected ...

2026-10-27T20:33:38Z

Bloody hell...I'm back on the boat, big tides expected tonight, but I've got to be up when the tide's falling to pull her lines a bit tighter and empty the bilge. Storms always make me nervous, she's been damaged in three storms now and I'm constantly chasing repairs. Still, it beats living in the city, despite the effort. I can tolerate town for short periods but those periods are getting shorter and shorter as the years roll on.

Come on #nostr do your thing #nevent1q…kapu

2026-10-27T15:45:16Z

Come on #nostr do your thing

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Yes or No?

Gm #nostr ☕️ 😊 🙏 Another day, another chance. How lucky ...

2026-10-27T07:13:50Z

Gm #nostr ☕️ 😊 🙏

Another day, another chance. How lucky are we?

Oh behave, come on...6? Should'a slept on it... ...

2026-10-27T00:09:07Z

Oh behave, come on...6? Should'a slept on it...

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