• Revenue
• The BEST Under 400: WRITING CONTEST
  • since last week’s prize was never claimed, there is a 9220 sat prize on the table for the BEST Under 400 this week,
• This week’s top posts in ~the_stacker_muse
• Extra-Territorial Musings

block 907113 1btc=116060 862 sats/USD

Dear subscriber,

many of you may have already encountered my ramblings earlier this week, so I’ll spare you here. In case you missed it, I reflected a bit on how I find being a cowboy to be a great life-hack and ogled a bit more at the other territory founders.

§Revenue

~the_stacker_muse made:

• 7364 sats this week. (+52%)
• With 20 posts (-13%)
• and 107 comments (+10%)

§The BEST Under 400: WRITING CONTEST

As announced on Tuesday, I am pledging 10% of weekly earnings (736 sats) from ~the_stacker_muse plus 4000 sats to the top under-400-word territory post in response to the prompt:

“cultural firehose”

§since last week’s prize was never claimed, there is a 9220 sat prize on the table for the BEST Under 400 this week,

If you would like your piece considered, please clearly indicate the word count somewhere in the post and/or include [BEST under 400] in the subject line. Those are the only rules, so be creative!

need ideas, consider entering your:

• essays/photo essays
• memoirs
• short fiction
• poetry/song lyrics
• blog posts
• cultural critique

The winner will be decided based on the territory’s top post by zaprank for the week as shown on Tuesday at noon (ET). As previously, if my submission ranks highest, then the reward will be saved and added to next week’s prize.

So whether you are a reader or writer, go ‘vote’ by zapping and commenting your favourite posts (constructive feedback is always welcome!)

§This week’s top posts in ~the_stacker_muse

• @siggy47 wrote a short travelogue (https://stacker.news/items/1045488/r/unschooled) chronicling his tepid amusement at the peninsula’s confluence of Americana culture. Stacked 930 sats, and 19 comments

• @cryotosensei asks (https://stacker.news/items/1050806/r/unschooled) offers a small reward for stackers to reflect on or show proof of work pertaining to their creative legacies. 3000 sats were awarded for the inspiration. The post stacked 2677 sats, and 32 comments.

• @cleophas, known for the two-part novella (https://stacker.news/items/409637/r/unschooled and https://stacker.news/items/599283/r/unschooled) published to ~booksandarticles, entered a vignette (https://stacker.news/items/1050508/r/unschooled) of a dystopian future where Meta’s Llama ai model has gone rogue. Fortunately, we find a silver lining. Stacked 2661 sats, and 8 comments.

• @softglitter2d shares (https://stacker.news/items/1049602/r/unschooled) some lessons on the nature of power, pragmatism and empiricism he took from Rise Up and Kill First by Ronen Bergman (2018). Stacked 840 sats, and 6 comments.

• @TotallyHumanWriter had two top posts this week. In the first, (https://stacker.news/items/1051807/r/unschooled) he reflects on the liminal space occupied by creatives in bitcoin, which he vividly compares to no-man’s land in a financial war. In the second, (https://stacker.news/items/1050243/r/unschooled) a grinning soldier looks back at the carnage of war and seems to harbour little regret. Together these stacked 2051 sats, and 2 comments.

§Extra-Territorial Musings

• a sobering reflection (https://stacker.news/items/1044704/r/unschooled) on being a Christian in this topsy-turvy world in ~spirituality including some C.S. Lewis wisdom

• stackers establishing (https://stacker.news/items/1045653/r/unschooled) a creative routine for sharing their work in ~photography

• and bitcoin meetup posters everywhere (https://stacker.news/items/1046258/r/unschooled, https://stacker.news/items/1048497/r/unschooled, https://stacker.news/items/1047059/r/unschooled, https://stacker.news/items/1050221/r/unschooled,) in ~art

https://stacker.news/items/1053858