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My Hive Post Index
Time to get organized! I've been thinking about doing this for a while, but a recent post by @alex-rourke prompted me to get it done: I'm going for a much simpler approach without using third party platforms.
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Satsman's Auto Army Builder Is About to Get Busy
I made this video earlier today to take a closer look at one of the most talked-about benefits of becoming a Pro Max Founding Member of Satsman: the Auto Army Builder. I think it could have a greater impact
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Using Satsman to Introduce My Audience to Snapie and Hive
In this video I explain how I’m using the Snapie.io microblogging platform alongside Satsman to earn a little extra crypto from something I’m already doing every day: earning sats by completing my Satsman
hirohurl
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The Blood-Boltered Herd Splinterlands Guild Now Has A Monster Library!
Use our library to add monsters to your Splinterlands Brawls!
hirohurl
alive
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On Reading the First English Translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
What on earth does the Anglo-Zulu War have to do with Pushkin's Russian verse novel, Eugene Onegin?
hirohurl
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My First 8 Months Earning Bitcoin As A Satsman "Pro Maxer"...
I joined Satsman towards the end of December 2025. Since then, I've earned a total of 346,000 sats on the platform. This isn't something that has required hours of work every day. In fact, the daily missions
hirohurl
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Is Satsman Pro Max Worth It? My Results After 7 Months...
I've been earning satsoshi with Satsman as a Pro Max member for seven months now, so here's my latest video showing my own results and my thoughts on the value proposition that is Satsman Pro Max. Lifetime
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Today, I Gave Away My England Shirt
It's not what you might think... Yes, I got up at 3:50am here in Japan to watch England lose to Argentina in the World Cup semi-final, and a few hours later I gave away my England shirt, but NOT because
hirohurl
aliveandthriving
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The Mythic Patterns Hidden in Shakespeare's Plays, According to Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was an English poet with a deep sense of the "shamanic" power of myth. He believed he had uncovered a structural mythic pattern in fourteen or fifteen of Shakespeare's
hirohurl
aliveandthriving
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While teaching, I learn from my student
Two classes I teach at a vocational college in Hiroshima are English Literature and Public Speaking. Several students attend both classes and today I'll talk about one of those students and what she has
hirohurl
alive
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Iroha Karuta 21: Adding Insult to Injury
The twenty-first syllable in the iroha hiragana sequence is na (な), represented in both of my two iroha karuta sets by the same proverb: 泣き面に蜂 Naki tsura ni hachi or, in fuller form: 泣き面に蜂が刺す Naki tsura
hirohurl
proofofbrain
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If I were Keir Starmer, this is what I'd do...
He he, this is the moment when I start to (kind of) "root for" one, the Right Honourable Sir Keir Rodney Starmer, Prime Minister (of the U.K.), and offer him some rich Machiavellian advice. Actually,
hirohurl
alive
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Fat Man at the Station: A Short Story by My 16-Year-Old Self
A Schadenfreude fantasy on a damp station platform somewhere in twentieth century England.
hirohurl
alive
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Iroha Karuta 20b: Of Cats and Coins
What is gold to a cat, or a cat to gold?
hirohurl
alive
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Rethinking English Seminars: Stories and Games in a Japanese Vocational College Classroom
Why I've stopped pretending my English seminars are academic - and what I'm doing instead!
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Iroha Karuta 20a: The Japanese Virtue of Double-Checking Everything
It’s been a while since I last posted about the Iroha Karuta here on Hive. In fact, this is my first post in the series this year. I'm chilling out at home during the Golden Week season of consecutive
hirohurl
Threespeak
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How Fast Can You Earn 1 Bitcoin?
Here's my latest Satsman-related video looking at a simple question: how fast can you realistically get to 1 Bitcoin by earning rather than buying? If you rely on ordinary "faucet" sites, the
hirohurl
Threespeak
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How Much Can You Really Earn with Satsman? A Full-Year Breakdown (With Bitcoin Price Scenarios)
If you’ve ever wondered whether small daily Bitcoin rewards can actually add up to something meaningful, this post will give you a clear answer. I recently ran the numbers on Satsman.com to see what a
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Another attempt at a 90 second #deadhang
This was my fifth and final dead hang challenge of March 2026. My record dead-hang until then was 81 seconds... Would I be able to beat it? I took along a countdown timer to see if it would help me stay
hirohurl
Liketu
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Waxing Moon Over Illuminated Cherry Blossom
The cherry trees are out in blossom and lots of people are enjoying "hanami" (花見) parties all over Japan right now. In many places the petals are already falling like spring snow, but that won't
hirohurl
Liketu
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Let's Go "Fuku Fuku!" (ふくふく)
Just to be clear, whatever you might be thinking, "fuku fuku" (ふくふく) is a Japanese onomatopoeic expression meaning something like "soft and plump," or "well fed," and is
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