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The Balkans 2001 (2): Skopje & The Worst Hotel in the World!

14 Aug 2026 4 minute read 1 comment rah $0.07

Yesterday I shared about how, after leaving Albania, we had entered Macedonia on our way to Kosovo and arrived in Tetovo just about exactly when a Macedonian counter offensive began. I then described how we, that being George, two Americans (whose na...

A beautiful, warm day and more natural surprises

14 Aug 2026 1 minute read 0 comments madventure $0.08

Today was a standard walk, nothing particularly strenuous. I can feel yesterday's trip to the Jura in my legs, especially my tendons. Besides having to bend down a lot to pick mushrooms (we picked a lot), I also took a photoshoot. With a heavy backp...

The Digital Leash (Original Poetry)

14 Aug 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk $0.05

You cut off your umbilical cordto attach one from a different sourcemisaligned,twisted,loaded with worshiping codestracing back to a silicone lord. Data centers polluting Earth’s gridbuilt to feed the tentacles of the beastunable to create,manifest,a...

Marcel's story

14 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments Lester08 $0.03

The Day He Stopped Waiting At 63, Marcel finally had everything he had always wanted.A quiet little house. A car that still worked perfectly. Some money in the bank. Children who had grown up. And most importantly, time. The problem was… he no longer...

How to Raise Free Thinkers in a Programmed World

14 Aug 2026 5 minute read 4 comments Learn With Hatty $0.27

There is a precise, jarring moment when the reckless invincibility of youth quietly packs its bags and leaves. For most of us, it doesn’t happen in a dramatic flash. It creeps up on a random Tuesday afternoon while you are watching your kid navigate...

I Opened My Phone for One Thing. 47 Minutes Later, I Was Still There.

13 Aug 2026 2 minute read 0 comments TheEverydayMind $0.01

Doomscrolling, short-form content, and the strange feeling of being online without actually enjoying it. I opened my phone to check one message. One. Forty-seven minutes later, I was watching a stranger make a tiny chair for a hamster. I don't own a...

‘It was for us, not them’

13 Aug 2026 3 minute read 6 comments LiaRio $0.09

El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment turns 5 This post offers hope, that there is a way to not succumb to the Universal Law of Stupidity. It all started with a Beach called Bitcoin It was early 2021, on noise.cash, that I became aware that there was a B...

I'm happy without a clone

13 Aug 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Les90 $0.02

Hello everyone!!!  I hope so you all are fine and happy 😀   I believe in one life that this is what you've to do in this just one life and personally sometimes i think that i could only live a single life but sometimes i imagine what I've another ch...

HunterX is getting to the point where I can finally say something I actually care about: People are not just looking at it anymore. They're downloading it.

13 Aug 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Ahmed Awad ( NullC0d3 ) $0.02

The repository has now crossed 1,700+ Docker pulls, and the GitHub traffic is showing something even more interesting: people are cloning the project, exploring the code, and going deeper than the README. So let me answer the question I keep getting:...

Combined walk - part in the Jura, part in the park

13 Aug 2026 1 minute read 0 comments madventure $0.06

Today I decided to go mushroom picking in our favorite spot in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. We had one goal: mushroom picking. According to what the village head told us over the phone, there are no mushrooms! If there aren't any, we'll come. Here...