Chuck Smith
@chucklessmith.bsky.social
Nerd. Wine adviser. Data slinger and database evangelist. Linguistics, by letters. Used to host radio shows. ADS-B reporter. Grape smusher on occasion. Weekend beer league hockey. Cars going round! Maniac driving a Saab! Transit dork. How you get ants.
There is honest to God a lift in life when you get to look at the calendar and go “Oh, well, tomorrow we get to taste Châteauneuf du Pape”.
November 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
There is honest to God a lift in life when you get to look at the calendar and go “Oh, well, tomorrow we get to taste Châteauneuf du Pape”.
A nickel for your thoughts is how we go.
He says there’s no inflation and prices are better under Trump.
I know there’s a lot of inflationeering that makes this false, but look at what The Man is doing.
He says there’s no inflation and prices are better under Trump.
I know there’s a lot of inflationeering that makes this false, but look at what The Man is doing.
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
A nickel for your thoughts is how we go.
He says there’s no inflation and prices are better under Trump.
I know there’s a lot of inflationeering that makes this false, but look at what The Man is doing.
He says there’s no inflation and prices are better under Trump.
I know there’s a lot of inflationeering that makes this false, but look at what The Man is doing.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/
You’ve met one dumbass motherfucker, you’ve met them all.
This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:34 AM
You’ve met one dumbass motherfucker, you’ve met them all.
God help me, but I’m with Rand Paul on this.
The continuing resolution that would re-open the government also includes a provision to close a loophole in the 2018 farm bill, which allowed the sales of CBD products across the country and sparked a hemp industry. (via @lpm.org)
McConnell, Paul clash over Senate provision that critics say will destroy US hemp industry
Kentucky GOP Sens. Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell are clashing over a provision that opponents say will destroy the growing hemp industry in America.
n.pr
November 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
God help me, but I’m with Rand Paul on this.
I mean it’ll be interesting if it happens, but please remember the Republicans are fucking people over hard. You; if not you, then your neighbor; if not your neighbor, then your friend. They are in charge of workshopping how hard they can fuck you, and they will fuck you, if they haven’t already.
The White House confirms Trump officials tried to convince Lauren Boebert today to drop her support for the Epstein files discharge petition.
Once Adelita Grijalva is sworn in this afternoon, majority support will be reached on that discharge petition in the House.
Once Adelita Grijalva is sworn in this afternoon, majority support will be reached on that discharge petition in the House.
November 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I mean it’ll be interesting if it happens, but please remember the Republicans are fucking people over hard. You; if not you, then your neighbor; if not your neighbor, then your friend. They are in charge of workshopping how hard they can fuck you, and they will fuck you, if they haven’t already.
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The White House confirms Trump officials tried to convince Lauren Boebert today to drop her support for the Epstein files discharge petition.
Once Adelita Grijalva is sworn in this afternoon, majority support will be reached on that discharge petition in the House.
Once Adelita Grijalva is sworn in this afternoon, majority support will be reached on that discharge petition in the House.
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Literally every email that starts with “Charles,”
You can just go get fucked. Stop wasting my time and yours.
You can just go get fucked. Stop wasting my time and yours.
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Literally every email that starts with “Charles,”
You can just go get fucked. Stop wasting my time and yours.
You can just go get fucked. Stop wasting my time and yours.
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LaTeX has a steep learning curve but is hands down better than anything else for equation heavy documents once you do learn it. Even Microsoft figured this out eventually and incorporated LaTeX into Word
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
LaTeX has a steep learning curve but is hands down better than anything else for equation heavy documents once you do learn it. Even Microsoft figured this out eventually and incorporated LaTeX into Word
Of all the things* I do where I worry about ripping off the Omnipod before it’s done, I did not have “working at the wine shop” on the list. (Currently held on with tape, and ought to make it to expiration in ~24 hours.)
* - Excepting that first hockey game where I got blasted, and it fell off.
* - Excepting that first hockey game where I got blasted, and it fell off.
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Of all the things* I do where I worry about ripping off the Omnipod before it’s done, I did not have “working at the wine shop” on the list. (Currently held on with tape, and ought to make it to expiration in ~24 hours.)
* - Excepting that first hockey game where I got blasted, and it fell off.
* - Excepting that first hockey game where I got blasted, and it fell off.
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Think about buying a car, a fun, stress-free negotiating process that everybody loves. Now imagine that if you don’t buy a car you die and if you buy the wrong car you also die
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Think about buying a car, a fun, stress-free negotiating process that everybody loves. Now imagine that if you don’t buy a car you die and if you buy the wrong car you also die
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I mean, look, it's not wrong, is it?
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I mean, look, it's not wrong, is it?
Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Gordon Lightfoot
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Worth noting you can ping your congresscritters here about this hemp bullshit: hempsupporter.com/bill/help-st...
Help stop the congressional attempt to ban hemp products | U.S. Hemp Roundtable
Use this link to contact your members of congress: Stop Hemp-Killing Language in Congress | U.S. Hemp Roundtable
hempsupporter.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Worth noting you can ping your congresscritters here about this hemp bullshit: hempsupporter.com/bill/help-st...
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Who imposed tariffs?
Who cut immigration, destroying the ag workforce?
Who undermined the Fed?
Who halted renewable energy?
Who's running deficits?
Who cut immigration, destroying the ag workforce?
Who undermined the Fed?
Who halted renewable energy?
Who's running deficits?
Mike Johnson: "That's the reason the inflation is up, the cost of living is up so high -- because of the policies of the previous administration. Now, we're working to root those policies out and implement our own, but it takes a little time."
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Who imposed tariffs?
Who cut immigration, destroying the ag workforce?
Who undermined the Fed?
Who halted renewable energy?
Who's running deficits?
Who cut immigration, destroying the ag workforce?
Who undermined the Fed?
Who halted renewable energy?
Who's running deficits?
If any of the Democrat brain trust should want to know why people are leaving the Democrats and trucking the fuck to the left, the last 48 hours have been an abjectly instructional exercise in what Democrats do wrong. Capitulate on healthcare, puritanical CBD politics, and Chuck Fucking Schumer.
More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
oh the paul amendment is going down 78-22
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
If any of the Democrat brain trust should want to know why people are leaving the Democrats and trucking the fuck to the left, the last 48 hours have been an abjectly instructional exercise in what Democrats do wrong. Capitulate on healthcare, puritanical CBD politics, and Chuck Fucking Schumer.
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
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The National Association of the Deaf is celebrating a legal victory against the White House. A judge ordered ASL for briefings conducted by the press secretary or President Trump.
Judge orders White House to use American Sign Language interpreters at briefings
The National Association of the Deaf is celebrating a legal victory against the White House. A judge ordered ASL for briefings conducted by the press secretary or President Trump.
n.pr
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The National Association of the Deaf is celebrating a legal victory against the White House. A judge ordered ASL for briefings conducted by the press secretary or President Trump.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
I’m sleeping better knowing Tim Kaine lost the VP opportunity, given this sack of horseshit.
Tim Kaine on backlash he's getting: "I got the first good night's sleep last night that I've gotten since Oct 1, b/c I wasn't worried about being able to look Capitol Police in the eye when I walked in, or what a furloughed fed worker would say to me at church, or what somebody would say about SNAP"
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I’m sleeping better knowing Tim Kaine lost the VP opportunity, given this sack of horseshit.
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Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy.
For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.
The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.
For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.
The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy.
For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.
The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.
For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.
The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!