Charlie
@reanderthal.bsky.social
Hotelier by marriage, permaculture by night. Unclogger of toilets. Learning trades one crisis at a time. Dad. Mainer. Once a videographer, 合気道 & paleo blogger. Socialist libertarian?
Nat'l news re-skeets & occasional peak oil takes & garden/chicken moments
Nat'l news re-skeets & occasional peak oil takes & garden/chicken moments
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Charlie
@reanderthal.bsky.social
· Jul 9
I found a great book on root cellaring (called Root Cellaring) by Bubel at the dump. Highly recommend if it is available at your dump.
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Not joking: has one reporter responded to his preposterous Sgt Schultz “I know nothing” schtick by immediately asking:
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Not joking: has one reporter responded to his preposterous Sgt Schultz “I know nothing” schtick by immediately asking:
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
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Consider too that relative to 11 months from now, today may look like the good times, economically and otherwise.
Ds don't seem to be getting what they need out of Nashville. But if the margin lands at R+3, that's a D+19 shift from 2024 -- we're not talking a wave, we're talking tsunami
again @gelliottmorris.com says behn still has a chance but damn 3 points in this district is 🦇💩
December 3, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Consider too that relative to 11 months from now, today may look like the good times, economically and otherwise.
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I am begging one, JUST ONE, congressional reporter to follow up with Mike Johnson by asking, "What are the American people to make of a Speaker of the House who tells us daily that he's not aware of what's happening on Capitol Hill and the White House?"
December 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I am begging one, JUST ONE, congressional reporter to follow up with Mike Johnson by asking, "What are the American people to make of a Speaker of the House who tells us daily that he's not aware of what's happening on Capitol Hill and the White House?"
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1725: Why the fuck did I lose my left hand for the same wages I earned while being 10x more productive than last year? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
2025: Why am I losing my job to a machine that encourages kids to kill themselves and can't actually do my job? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
2025: Why am I losing my job to a machine that encourages kids to kill themselves and can't actually do my job? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
1725: Why the fuck did I lose my left hand for the same wages I earned while being 10x more productive than last year? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
2025: Why am I losing my job to a machine that encourages kids to kill themselves and can't actually do my job? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
2025: Why am I losing my job to a machine that encourages kids to kill themselves and can't actually do my job? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
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I just find it hilarious that his whole cabinet is sloberring praise all over him with ridiculous hyperbole and he is falling asleep while they're doing it.
You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I just find it hilarious that his whole cabinet is sloberring praise all over him with ridiculous hyperbole and he is falling asleep while they're doing it.
You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
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i'm hearing this is great!
ORACLE’S 5-YEAR CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS JUST CLOSED AT THEIR HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE 2009.
December 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
i'm hearing this is great!
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It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
Rodents seem to have majorly screwed up our office wiring, and someone just knocked over our mailbox slipping on the black ice, and I still have 3/4 of a roof to finish, but guys, Christmas is going to happen
December 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Rodents seem to have majorly screwed up our office wiring, and someone just knocked over our mailbox slipping on the black ice, and I still have 3/4 of a roof to finish, but guys, Christmas is going to happen
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He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
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But it does worry me a little bit to see military officials angry about Bradley being thrown under the bus without a concurrent acknowledgement that he did in fact commit an obvious war crime.
December 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM
But it does worry me a little bit to see military officials angry about Bradley being thrown under the bus without a concurrent acknowledgement that he did in fact commit an obvious war crime.
The nearest Costco is an hour and a half away and I have never made the trip.
No need! I signed up online and they ship to our front door!
No need! I signed up online and they ship to our front door!
All the more reason to shop at Costco over Target or Amazon.
December 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The nearest Costco is an hour and a half away and I have never made the trip.
No need! I signed up online and they ship to our front door!
No need! I signed up online and they ship to our front door!
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If blowing up survivors in the water was the right thing to do because they are “narco-terrorists” (trust us, bro) and deserve no quarter, why did we rescue two other survivors in a different strike, fly them home, and let them go free?
December 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
If blowing up survivors in the water was the right thing to do because they are “narco-terrorists” (trust us, bro) and deserve no quarter, why did we rescue two other survivors in a different strike, fly them home, and let them go free?
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It’s important to note from a military perspective that if a subordinate is about to give an unlawful order & his senior knows about it, it’s also a requirement for the senior official to stop him from executing it. And then counsel/discipline him.
So there’s that, too.
So there’s that, too.
December 2, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It’s important to note from a military perspective that if a subordinate is about to give an unlawful order & his senior knows about it, it’s also a requirement for the senior official to stop him from executing it. And then counsel/discipline him.
So there’s that, too.
So there’s that, too.
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"AI will survive, but the speculative bubble surrounding it is a sign of a deeper structural problem — the cost of which, when finally realized, will fall most heavily on the working class." interesting analysis theconversation.com/the-ai-bubbl...
The AI bubble isn’t new — Karl Marx explained the mechanisms behind it nearly 150 years ago
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s warning of an AI bubble highlights a deeper economic problem: capitalism is producing more capital than it can profitably invest.
theconversation.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
"AI will survive, but the speculative bubble surrounding it is a sign of a deeper structural problem — the cost of which, when finally realized, will fall most heavily on the working class." interesting analysis theconversation.com/the-ai-bubbl...
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Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market. “We’re cal...
theonion.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
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👇🎯 Today in “Marginal income & wealth taxes are too low & this poses an existential threat to the Republic”
November 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
👇🎯 Today in “Marginal income & wealth taxes are too low & this poses an existential threat to the Republic”
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I think it's like 50% bribery, and 50% ideological committment to cryptocurrency guys (who are significantly tied to the sinaloa cartel).
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I think it's like 50% bribery, and 50% ideological committment to cryptocurrency guys (who are significantly tied to the sinaloa cartel).
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Part of this is just gonna be getting "Trump" and "Sinaloa" in the same tweets many times
December 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Part of this is just gonna be getting "Trump" and "Sinaloa" in the same tweets many times
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This doesn't prove a conspiracy between the Trump admin and the Sinaloa Cartel, but what it does prove is that it's very damn easy for groups like the Sinaloa Cartel to launder money and influence to protect their interests from the US government.
And it's likely many other criminals are doing so.
And it's likely many other criminals are doing so.
I got to thinking: "What if it's not about the contradiction between the Hernandez pardon and the air strikes, but about the consistency between them?"
As President of Honduras, he used the power of the government to go after certain cartels—primarily the rivals of the Sinaloa Cartel, with whom he
As President of Honduras, he used the power of the government to go after certain cartels—primarily the rivals of the Sinaloa Cartel, with whom he
December 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This doesn't prove a conspiracy between the Trump admin and the Sinaloa Cartel, but what it does prove is that it's very damn easy for groups like the Sinaloa Cartel to launder money and influence to protect their interests from the US government.
And it's likely many other criminals are doing so.
And it's likely many other criminals are doing so.
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Trump allowed 17 members of the Sinaloa cartel into the US.
In May he commuted the 6x life sentences of the leader of the Gangster Disciples, most notorious drug trafficking & murderous street gang in the US.
Now Honduran drug trafficker Hernandez.
Is Trump setting up his own drug corridor?
In May he commuted the 6x life sentences of the leader of the Gangster Disciples, most notorious drug trafficking & murderous street gang in the US.
Now Honduran drug trafficker Hernandez.
Is Trump setting up his own drug corridor?
November 30, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Trump allowed 17 members of the Sinaloa cartel into the US.
In May he commuted the 6x life sentences of the leader of the Gangster Disciples, most notorious drug trafficking & murderous street gang in the US.
Now Honduran drug trafficker Hernandez.
Is Trump setting up his own drug corridor?
In May he commuted the 6x life sentences of the leader of the Gangster Disciples, most notorious drug trafficking & murderous street gang in the US.
Now Honduran drug trafficker Hernandez.
Is Trump setting up his own drug corridor?
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i think it is sufficiently plausible given the facts that are already in evidence that i would be more surprised if it were proven false than true
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
i think it is sufficiently plausible given the facts that are already in evidence that i would be more surprised if it were proven false than true
Read this thread and ask why wouldn't this be true?
It's certainly the cleanest explaination I've seen so far for the otherwise glaring contradictions between specific pardons and boat strikes.
It's certainly the cleanest explaination I've seen so far for the otherwise glaring contradictions between specific pardons and boat strikes.
I got to thinking: "What if it's not about the contradiction between the Hernandez pardon and the air strikes, but about the consistency between them?"
As President of Honduras, he used the power of the government to go after certain cartels—primarily the rivals of the Sinaloa Cartel, with whom he
As President of Honduras, he used the power of the government to go after certain cartels—primarily the rivals of the Sinaloa Cartel, with whom he
December 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Read this thread and ask why wouldn't this be true?
It's certainly the cleanest explaination I've seen so far for the otherwise glaring contradictions between specific pardons and boat strikes.
It's certainly the cleanest explaination I've seen so far for the otherwise glaring contradictions between specific pardons and boat strikes.