Quinine
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Quinine
@solanum72
Yes. Well, maybe. Probably.
Ennui, Texas Katılım Aralık 2016
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Just a small hamster with big dreams.
11 months in, 650M+ total views across all platforms, about to hit 50k on IG
Poki 2026. @traderpow
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I just lived through my worst nightmare in a decade. X offered me the opportunity to join the Creator program. To do that, I had to connect my Stripe account to X.
I do all my online business using Stripe, just so you understand the situation better.
So, I connected my Stripe account to X, and THIS DEACTIVATED MY MAIN BUSINESS ACCOUNT.
I couldn't sign in with my username and password: Stripe wouldn't accept the Authenticator app's code.
ChapterPal started rejecting subscriptions. The error message was that the user doesn't exist.
I reached out to Stripe support over chat, and the first associate who assisted me said he sees only my X account, that Stripe is nothing but a payment processor, so he doesn't understand what online business I just lost am I talking about, and I must now deal with X.
The X account on Stripe was empty.
So, I had to say something like, "Please understand that my entire online business was just erased. What do I say to my customers?"
After this, he transferred me to a different person while I already started to think about what kind of failure I will look like when I announce to my customers that their subscriptions are gone.
Long story short, I managed to find the account ID for my main account in my browser history, and this other associate managed to locate it in the system. Without knowing this account ID, they saw nothing except the empty X account.
They said the account was just there, up and running, but I know it wasn't because ChapterPal returned this error message. Then magically, it started to work again.
The moral of the story: Your online business is with you until the very first glitch in a database you don't control. Luckily, Stripe seems to keep deleted accounts. I wasn't that lucky when Amazon deleted my Kindle Direct Publishing account three years ago, and I lost all my books and book revenue without the possibility to restore the account. Amazon didn't even recognize the account existed; it was wiped out from all their databases with dedication.
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tick tock
capybara
bob@bobdotjpg
not a mid cap, but @thecapytoken has clearly bottomed here. I’ve been running the CTO since early July. I plan to keep working on this as long as it takes for it to reach escape velocity and beyond. Coinbase is the goal. Pretty simple thesis, people love capybaras and there has never been a successful capybara meme coin in crypto. I want to establish this as ~the one~ also check the latest post on the X page, over 1.2 million impressions 👀
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@cjs214 @TracesofTexas Last time I went through, it was a remote port of entry. Not sure if it is open now, times being what they are.
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@solanum72 @TracesofTexas Isn’t Boquillas now a port of entry? Haven’t been there in forever
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Dry as it appears to be, there are 92 known springs in Big Bend National Park. That's according to one NPS hydrology report that I read earlier.
A couple of caveats:
1) “92” is a count of mapped or known springs, not a permanently fixed number. But, over time, some springs go dry or become intermittent, and new springs or minor springs may be found/mapped. So this number is (stop me now) .... fluid.
2) This number includes all kinds of springs – not just the well-known hot springs on the Rio Grande, but also small hillside seeps, canyon springs (like in the Chisos and the major canyons), and river-adjacent springs and seeps, like the famous hot springs shown in this photo.
Consider this a bonus Arcane Texas Fact of the Day!
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@cjs214 @TracesofTexas Looks like Boquillas Hot Springs. Right on the river. Magical spot, when it isn't underwater.
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Did you know that the artist behind $poki is also the one who is behind a lot of CT’s $USDUC pfp’s?
@jessicakomori is always doing something amazing
jessicakomori@jessicakomori
Not a meme but maybe a cult @usduc_official $USDUC
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@KenBarrettHQ Yes - with a countersink bit
Teak is hard and it goes way faster if you have your drill set up with the countersink bit, and then your impact with the screw bit at the same time
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reader: I you know how this works because you read about it in business school, but here’s what it looks like IRL:
you spend 2 years doing something over and over and over again until you can get good enough to charge market pricing / top of marketing pricing
then you spend another 2 years doing it over and over again, but this time you’re generating a consistent operating profit
During these two years, you take all of those operating profits and make sensible investments in people and process and tools
and then entering year 4 those investments will gradually start to pay off (more revenue, more operating profits)
and then in year 5 you can start to hit the gas and watch things take off (at this point you might even already have a fairly dominant market position) 😤
🚀
(disclaimer: you will hit the failure point and “die” several times a year in the first few years. It’s ok to hang it up when this happens. Doesn’t make you weak, or less capable: quitting might even be the sensible thing to do. If you do decide to grind it out, a defibrillator might be a good investment)
jameson (big deck energy)@jamesonhaslam
you grind and grind and grind and then one day you break through
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@cokiramirez $poki community is small but strong
Once you’re in the hamster horde there is no leaving
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I realize I don’t talk about my overall bag too much
If you wanted to know I’ve condensed down to just a few for awhile
My current memes are
$poky $chonky $mog & $rosecoin
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