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Daniel - Desert Apostate

@hcexvangelical.bsky.social

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Product Manager. Proud Papa. In love and married. Learning viticulture and oenology. Brewer. Ex-evangelical apostate. Returning to life in the Rio Grande valley.

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Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · Nov 25

Here is my intro thread 🧵 since I ended up on a couple of starter packs. So, Hi! My name is Daniel. I typically post about two things:

Toxic Christian Theology
Fermenting things, typically beer and wine

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Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 4h

Plenty of big/fat guys have wives, girlfriends, lovers. They get laid and have active love lives. Ain't no reason to try and tie fat to Nazi. There are lots of skinny Nazis as well.

Signed, a guy who has been fat but never a Nazi.

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 5h

Behind every self-described "ultra-masculine-racist-alpha" trolls online is an unfuckable obese dude who looks like these Nazi young Republicans.

This is why they never put their faces on their accounts. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 5h

LOL. As someone not that far from the border, which is largely unmanned due to CBP being diverted to do Kavanaugh stops and secret police duty far from the border, it's more likely the cartela are paying the signing bonuses for ICE and CBP to keep the drug lanes open.

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 5h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 6h

Qualifications for becoming a Republican elected. Choose at least one:

1- guilty of sexual assault
2- be a pedo
3- cheat on spouse
4- caught on camera for public perversion
5- Nazi beliefs
6- restraining order for sex crimes
7- cover up sex crimes for yourself or others

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 7h

I'll have to try and find it. I have a good beer store, even though I'm just on the populated side of the middle of nowhere. Thanks for the rec!

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Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 7h

P.S. Silly names and labels are fun, and IPAs are good, even for an old, dark ale drinking curmudgeon like me. I may roll my eyes sometimes, but I'm a hypocrite. I love a good IPA from time to time (Like Santa Fe's 7K IPA) and I make silly labels for my beer.

A label for homebrewed Black Otter Porter with a cartoon of a otter dressed as a wizard - It reads Black Otter Porter - GriffinBrew - Rio Grande Valle - 5 gallons - 5.3% ABV

A glass of 7k IPA from Santa Fe Brewing and the can it was poured from.

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Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 7h

6/6 I want to know what's working and for who. I don't really want to read another tear stained article lamenting that IPAs are still popular and castigating goofy labels. Get me excited about successes in a changing market.

Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 7h

5/6 There are still plenty of craft drinkers, and the refrigerators that I see are almost always getting emptied out by drinkers are the "pick six" coolers where people can grab 1 or 2 or 6 singles to try new brews. So there is still plenty of curiosity out there.

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Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 7h

4/6 Costs are up, tariffs making it worse, changing drinking patterns in younger generations, healthy living, a glutted market, big beer taking back the market, no great transit to and from taprooms and nobody wants a DUI, recession ... analyzing everything would be a PhD worthy dissertation.

Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 7h

3/6 So what's hurting the craft brewing industry? Well . . .

a man in a black and white sweater says maybe just a smattering of everything

ALT: a man in a black and white sweater says maybe just a smattering of everything

media.tenor.com

Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 7h

2/6 I also don't think the craft industry is dying or will die. Adjust, yes, die no. I definitely wouldn't become a pro brewer right now in the U.S., and I had the opportunity. It's just not a good time.

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Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 7h

🧵1/6 This is just not helpful. It makes sense for someone like me to be inspired to brew again because I was tired of IPAs saturating the beer fridge, who fancied himself to be "too good" for silly labels. But that ain't killing craft brew.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...

Opinion | Wacky Labels and Silly Names Are Killing Craft Beer

www.nytimes.com

Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 8h

I'll admit, I thought it was stupid back in the 90's when my favorite tiny brewery in the tiny town of Carrizozo, New Mexico rebranded their handsome labeled beers as "Alien Amber" and other such nonsense but now they are a pretty big brewery with silly names and seem to be doing alright.

Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 9h

"Whacky labels and silly names are killing craft brewing" I growl as I search the beer store for my beloved Moose Drool ale in silly green cans which has been around since 1995, killing the craft beer industry for thirty years.

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Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 15h

"I'm sorry, everyone" I say to the C level employees I'm presenting to. "I'm not having audio problems. The bunny is thumping because she's real mad I didn't give her breakfast yet. I've been giving her strawberries while we go over quarter four plans, but she doesn't like my divided attention."

Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 15h

My timezone being what it is means my day starts really early which leads to weirdness when you work for an international company. "I'll be late to discuss the upcoming webinar. I just need to tend my chickens and harvest my veggies before the sun comes up while I get my kid ready for school."

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Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 1d

I blocked that jerk Gandalf the Grey for criticizing how I post and scroll Bluesky.

A picture from The Lord of the rings showing saruman with his hand over the palantir.

Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 1d

Friend: What's the weirdest thing you learned on social media?
Me: I learned from a shirtless man posting thirst traps how to fold a fitted sheet
Friend: What?! Prove it
Me: Okay, but I'm not taking off my shirt.

A fitted sheet spread out on the foot of a bed

A fitted sheet with the corners tucked into themselves

A fitted sheet laid and folded into a large rectangle across the foot of a bed

A fitted sheet folded into a perfect square on the foot of a bed

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Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 1d

Me, the primary cook in the house: I have enough leftovers in the freezer so I don't have to cook all week!

My family, with sadness in their eyes: You have enough leftovers in the freezer so you don't have to cook all week.

Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 1d

Nice strong fermentation already going. I'll probably have to switch to blowoff later today. Fermenting using Omega Irish Ale in the low to mid range of its recommended temps for a bit of complexity.

Two fermenters full of orange colored beer with a large head of foam known as krausen. The fermenters have airlocks on them and fermentation is active.

Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 2d

Shake a hormone at God

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Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 2d

Approved. I have used a Bowie knife to open a pack of AAA batteries.

Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 2d

If these cops walk, who will shoot innocent dogs? Who will beat innocent people? Who will scream "stop resisting" as they violate the fourth amendment rights of calm and compliant people? Who will ignore investigating actual crimes?

We must reckon with this!

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry to hear that. May peace come to you soon and may the memories you have be a treasure.

Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 2d

Me as a teen imagining my battle cry when the country is falling: WOLVERINES!!!!

Me as an adult with the actual battle cry when the country is falling: INFLATABLE FROG!!!!

Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 2d

A nice brew day and ten gallons of wort to show for it. It smells delicious already. Brewing this beer was a good way to relax and reset on a Sunday.

Two 6 gallon fermenters each filled with 5 gallons of unfermented beer. They are sitting on a coffee table in front of a couch.

A test tube full of orange wort (unfermented beer) with a hydrometer to measure the specific gravity.

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