Brighton Capital
@brightoncap.bsky.social
Asset management with a focus on energy, agriculture and Pez dispensers. Minneapolis, MN.
My brother is visiting Minneapolis. He called this morning inviting me to the Four Seasons for breakfast.
I responded, "Should I bring a tuxedo or a rake and a shovel?"
I waited FIVE years to use that line and he barely chuckled. No respect, I tell ya'
I responded, "Should I bring a tuxedo or a rake and a shovel?"
I waited FIVE years to use that line and he barely chuckled. No respect, I tell ya'
December 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
My brother is visiting Minneapolis. He called this morning inviting me to the Four Seasons for breakfast.
I responded, "Should I bring a tuxedo or a rake and a shovel?"
I waited FIVE years to use that line and he barely chuckled. No respect, I tell ya'
I responded, "Should I bring a tuxedo or a rake and a shovel?"
I waited FIVE years to use that line and he barely chuckled. No respect, I tell ya'
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"Corn ethanol requires millions of acres that could instead be used for food crops or more efficient energy sources. One recent study found that solar panels can generate as much energy as corn ethanol on roughly 3% of the land."
Corn’s clean-energy promise is clashing with its climate footprint
Corn dominates U.S. farmland and fuels the ethanol industry. But the fertilizer it relies on drives emissions and fouls drinking water.
floodlightnews.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"Corn ethanol requires millions of acres that could instead be used for food crops or more efficient energy sources. One recent study found that solar panels can generate as much energy as corn ethanol on roughly 3% of the land."
"The Town Mouse & the Country Mouse" - an updated version of the fable.
Context: Facebook buyer of coins was an hour late. No text or phone, just a FB msg later. It's sunny, mid-day, everyone has GPS, and while urban area has 2.7M people, the "battleground" of Mpls is only 430K. <shrugs>
Context: Facebook buyer of coins was an hour late. No text or phone, just a FB msg later. It's sunny, mid-day, everyone has GPS, and while urban area has 2.7M people, the "battleground" of Mpls is only 430K. <shrugs>
December 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"The Town Mouse & the Country Mouse" - an updated version of the fable.
Context: Facebook buyer of coins was an hour late. No text or phone, just a FB msg later. It's sunny, mid-day, everyone has GPS, and while urban area has 2.7M people, the "battleground" of Mpls is only 430K. <shrugs>
Context: Facebook buyer of coins was an hour late. No text or phone, just a FB msg later. It's sunny, mid-day, everyone has GPS, and while urban area has 2.7M people, the "battleground" of Mpls is only 430K. <shrugs>
We used to be a serious county, No. 872 in a series:
"Part of an ongoing commitment from Nabisco in the 1960s to make meat-flavored party snacks."
"Part of an ongoing commitment from Nabisco in the 1960s to make meat-flavored party snacks."
Nabisco Tang-O Chips (1962-circa 1965): Snack crackers that were made to taste like seasoned roast beef. Part of an ongoing commitment from Nabisco in the 60's to make meat-flavored party snacks.
December 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We used to be a serious county, No. 872 in a series:
"Part of an ongoing commitment from Nabisco in the 1960s to make meat-flavored party snacks."
"Part of an ongoing commitment from Nabisco in the 1960s to make meat-flavored party snacks."
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doctor operated on my anal glands instead of my adrenal glands because he forgot about dre
November 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
doctor operated on my anal glands instead of my adrenal glands because he forgot about dre
I am now going to win so many "is it safe" debates w/ my wife.
"A food & science writer used a sealed liquid 3 years past the best by date. Check mate, baby!"
P.S. I push dates, esp. dry and canned goods, and even I would be skeptical of 3 yrs, but I don't know much about aseptic pkg.
"A food & science writer used a sealed liquid 3 years past the best by date. Check mate, baby!"
P.S. I push dates, esp. dry and canned goods, and even I would be skeptical of 3 yrs, but I don't know much about aseptic pkg.
December 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I am now going to win so many "is it safe" debates w/ my wife.
"A food & science writer used a sealed liquid 3 years past the best by date. Check mate, baby!"
P.S. I push dates, esp. dry and canned goods, and even I would be skeptical of 3 yrs, but I don't know much about aseptic pkg.
"A food & science writer used a sealed liquid 3 years past the best by date. Check mate, baby!"
P.S. I push dates, esp. dry and canned goods, and even I would be skeptical of 3 yrs, but I don't know much about aseptic pkg.
Rotten eggs at USDA? On the left, recent Indiana HPAI outbreaks labeled as commercial layers. On the right, USDA uses catch all definition, typically for much smaller flocks. Odd.
-Bad records?
-IN doesn't distinguish btwn duck & chicken layers?
-USDA trying to hide 460K dead chicken layers?
-Bad records?
-IN doesn't distinguish btwn duck & chicken layers?
-USDA trying to hide 460K dead chicken layers?
December 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Rotten eggs at USDA? On the left, recent Indiana HPAI outbreaks labeled as commercial layers. On the right, USDA uses catch all definition, typically for much smaller flocks. Odd.
-Bad records?
-IN doesn't distinguish btwn duck & chicken layers?
-USDA trying to hide 460K dead chicken layers?
-Bad records?
-IN doesn't distinguish btwn duck & chicken layers?
-USDA trying to hide 460K dead chicken layers?
She thicc. Also, Caterpillar mining division has several openings in their marketing & sales dept.
November 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
She thicc. Also, Caterpillar mining division has several openings in their marketing & sales dept.
stable genius, who bankrupted a CASINO and several other businesses, broadcasts to the world that he doesn't understand a simple truth about prices and percentages.
(and perhaps believes lower drug prices alone will fix our ridiculous healthcare & health insurance systems)
(and perhaps believes lower drug prices alone will fix our ridiculous healthcare & health insurance systems)
Dem leaders should just call him a lying sack of shit.
First, it’s memorable.
Second, it’s true
First, it’s memorable.
Second, it’s true
November 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
stable genius, who bankrupted a CASINO and several other businesses, broadcasts to the world that he doesn't understand a simple truth about prices and percentages.
(and perhaps believes lower drug prices alone will fix our ridiculous healthcare & health insurance systems)
(and perhaps believes lower drug prices alone will fix our ridiculous healthcare & health insurance systems)
Breaking: Ohio State's head football coach overcomes the yips and OSU finally beats Michigan. #GoBuckeyes
November 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Breaking: Ohio State's head football coach overcomes the yips and OSU finally beats Michigan. #GoBuckeyes
And the winner is:
"No, kid, some Hail Marys ain't gonna cut it. You've been kicking my chair for three hours straight"
November 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
And the winner is:
In addition to everything else about this incompetent, law-breaking !@#$%^, he's not only violating the US Flag Code but he must be colorblind and can't count either (the shade of blue is wrong and so is the star pattern).
It looks like he shoved a dollar store napkin in his pocket.
It looks like he shoved a dollar store napkin in his pocket.
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
In addition to everything else about this incompetent, law-breaking !@#$%^, he's not only violating the US Flag Code but he must be colorblind and can't count either (the shade of blue is wrong and so is the star pattern).
It looks like he shoved a dollar store napkin in his pocket.
It looks like he shoved a dollar store napkin in his pocket.
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Sound on
November 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Sound on
TIL that Santa Claus punched an opposing bishop in the face and Santa's side of the debate carried the day (+1700 years).
Interesting article (it's short).
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Interesting article (it's short).
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
The Answer to a 1,700-Year-Old Christian Mystery Lay in a Lake in Turkey
Pope Leo XIV is visiting the ruins of a basilica that archaeologists now say hosted an important early Christian council.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
TIL that Santa Claus punched an opposing bishop in the face and Santa's side of the debate carried the day (+1700 years).
Interesting article (it's short).
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Interesting article (it's short).
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
Good "get off my lawn" material here.
Everyone puts plastic bags inside other plastic bags, re-uses Country Crock or whatever plastic tubs to store leftovers, and puts the letter "S" on the end of store names!! Do you really think that only people in "American Region X" do those things??
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Good "get off my lawn" material here.
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
The "salad" below could be straight from a Lutheran Church Basement Ladies cookbook (or an idea from a woman's magazine circa 1950s, so ~same thing).
November 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The "salad" below could be straight from a Lutheran Church Basement Ladies cookbook (or an idea from a woman's magazine circa 1950s, so ~same thing).
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That was close!
Glad they Ducked🤭
Glad they Ducked🤭
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
That was close!
Glad they Ducked🤭
Glad they Ducked🤭
@maaronweber.bsky.social
A. In today's email, "take a look at the 2026 BMW X7 ALPINA XB7 for the low, low price of $164,575"
B. The vibes of most modern high-end SUVs, esp. BMWs.
A. In today's email, "take a look at the 2026 BMW X7 ALPINA XB7 for the low, low price of $164,575"
B. The vibes of most modern high-end SUVs, esp. BMWs.
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
@maaronweber.bsky.social
A. In today's email, "take a look at the 2026 BMW X7 ALPINA XB7 for the low, low price of $164,575"
B. The vibes of most modern high-end SUVs, esp. BMWs.
A. In today's email, "take a look at the 2026 BMW X7 ALPINA XB7 for the low, low price of $164,575"
B. The vibes of most modern high-end SUVs, esp. BMWs.
It's been a rough 17 months for Novo Nordisk.
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It's been a rough 17 months for Novo Nordisk.
Points for creativity, but pigeons and Canada geese often begin to ignore counter-measures once they learn they're harmless.
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Points for creativity, but pigeons and Canada geese often begin to ignore counter-measures once they learn they're harmless.
TIL about the origins of Paleo Bro.
* Link: contains a mention about a radiologist's 1985 paper.
* Image: from the 1995 archives section of today's "Milling & Baking News"
... and here we are 40 or 30 years later.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley...
* Link: contains a mention about a radiologist's 1985 paper.
* Image: from the 1995 archives section of today's "Milling & Baking News"
... and here we are 40 or 30 years later.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley...
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
TIL about the origins of Paleo Bro.
* Link: contains a mention about a radiologist's 1985 paper.
* Image: from the 1995 archives section of today's "Milling & Baking News"
... and here we are 40 or 30 years later.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley...
* Link: contains a mention about a radiologist's 1985 paper.
* Image: from the 1995 archives section of today's "Milling & Baking News"
... and here we are 40 or 30 years later.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley...
The market HATES consumer packaged goods right now, Conagra stock is at a 12-year low, and here's a little Q&A between Wall St analyst (a VP, whoohoo!) and CFO & CEO about exiting a large flour milling JV that has been doing fine. Decisions, decisions...
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The market HATES consumer packaged goods right now, Conagra stock is at a 12-year low, and here's a little Q&A between Wall St analyst (a VP, whoohoo!) and CFO & CEO about exiting a large flour milling JV that has been doing fine. Decisions, decisions...