Charlie
@reanderthal.bsky.social
Hotelier by marriage (unclogger of toilets), permaculture by night. Dad. Mainer. Once a videographer, aikido & paleo blogger. Socialist libertarian or maybe anarchist.
I had listed more interests, but those are for post-emergency times if we get there.
I had listed more interests, but those are for post-emergency times if we get there.
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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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Um @dieworkwear.bsky.social can you please come over here a second
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Um @dieworkwear.bsky.social can you please come over here a second
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"Women won't talk to me."
There are tens of millions of illegal aliens in this country.
"No one seems impressed by my truck."
There are tens of millions of illegal aliens in this country.
There are tens of millions of illegal aliens in this country.
"No one seems impressed by my truck."
There are tens of millions of illegal aliens in this country.
November 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"Women won't talk to me."
There are tens of millions of illegal aliens in this country.
"No one seems impressed by my truck."
There are tens of millions of illegal aliens in this country.
There are tens of millions of illegal aliens in this country.
"No one seems impressed by my truck."
There are tens of millions of illegal aliens in this country.
This is the van I wanted in 2008.
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This is the van I wanted in 2008.
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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Imagine if tech companies had made a wild capex bet on chasing clean energy, instead of inventing a plagiarism machine powered by **checks notes** extending the life of coal plants
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Imagine if tech companies had made a wild capex bet on chasing clean energy, instead of inventing a plagiarism machine powered by **checks notes** extending the life of coal plants
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My “my 17 references to George Soros aren’t political” footnote is raising a lot of questions answered by my footnote.
But worry not, he has a footnote explaining why his fixation on Soros "is not political."
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
My “my 17 references to George Soros aren’t political” footnote is raising a lot of questions answered by my footnote.
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"An argument that didn't work for Calley at My Lai, an argument that didn't work for the Nazis at Nuremberg."
Fox News's Martha MacCallum makes a case for following illegal orders: "If you are in the US military, you sign up, you carry out the mission that is assigned to you. The other option is to not join the military or to leave if you feel you can't carry out an order. But the command is integral."
November 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
"An argument that didn't work for Calley at My Lai, an argument that didn't work for the Nazis at Nuremberg."
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It’s hard to top the presidential immunity decision for sheer unconstitutional awfulness, and the campaign finance and voting rights decisions are also in serious contention for Worst Roberts Thing, but what he’s done with the shadow docket is definitely up there.
Of all the terrible things Roberts has done, this was the most shocking stat: "the right-wing majority has used the shadow docket to uphold Trump’s actions roughly 90 percent of the time, repeatedly bailing him out of any obligation to follow the law"
There’s one person squarely to blame for Trump’s corruption, authoritarianism & assault on democracy: John Roberts. He’s enabled so much of Trump’s lawlessness while somehow escaping accountability for it
New cover story from @pemalevy.bsky.social & me
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
New cover story from @pemalevy.bsky.social & me
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
November 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It’s hard to top the presidential immunity decision for sheer unconstitutional awfulness, and the campaign finance and voting rights decisions are also in serious contention for Worst Roberts Thing, but what he’s done with the shadow docket is definitely up there.
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Yes. The issue is how Americans have come to view terrorism over past 25 years—from a criminal problem that might occasionally require US military response when it poses a threat to US, to something many assume *always* justifies/demands US military force. That’s what the admin is capitalizing on.
Cartels employ terrorism routinely. They kill journalists, mayors and mayoral candidates, and all manner of civilians to terrorize the rest into tolerating them. There are 99 problems with what we’re doing about them but calling them “narco-terrorists” ain’t one.
November 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Yes. The issue is how Americans have come to view terrorism over past 25 years—from a criminal problem that might occasionally require US military response when it poses a threat to US, to something many assume *always* justifies/demands US military force. That’s what the admin is capitalizing on.
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The USSS "inadvertently" deleting text messages they knew to be evidence related to 1/6 was also a completely innocent action by innocent people.
Or: "I'll take conspiracy to destroy incriminating evidence and obstruct justice for $500, Alex."
Or: "I'll take conspiracy to destroy incriminating evidence and obstruct justice for $500, Alex."
The government claims two weeks of surveillance footage from Broadview ICE Detention Center has been "irretrievably destroyed" and won’t be produced as evidence in a lawsuit against the government over abhorrent conditions there:
www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
Two Weeks of Surveillance Footage From ICE Detention Center ‘Irretrievably Destroyed’
"Defendants have indicated that some video between October 19, 2025 and October 31, 2025 has been irretrievably destroyed and therefore cannot be produced on an expedited basis or at all."
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The USSS "inadvertently" deleting text messages they knew to be evidence related to 1/6 was also a completely innocent action by innocent people.
Or: "I'll take conspiracy to destroy incriminating evidence and obstruct justice for $500, Alex."
Or: "I'll take conspiracy to destroy incriminating evidence and obstruct justice for $500, Alex."
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trump seems to think there is, for what its worth
lot of people on this app seem really committed to the notion that nothing damaging will come out of the Epstein files.
let yourself hope a little! it’s free!
let yourself hope a little! it’s free!
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
trump seems to think there is, for what its worth
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You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
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So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?
MBS claims the murder of Khashoggi was "a huge mistake and we're our doing our best that this doesn't happen again."
November 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Wow, things could really go sideways in a whole bunch of ways all at once
After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne.
So ProPublica did.
Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
So ProPublica did.
Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Wow, things could really go sideways in a whole bunch of ways all at once
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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
It strikes me that the Saudi regime wants nuclear technology for one of two reasons, neither of which say positive things for their remaining oil reserves.
We are going to hit this AI bubble at the same time we hit the peak oil bubble, and it sucks that we didn't install more renewables sooner.
We are going to hit this AI bubble at the same time we hit the peak oil bubble, and it sucks that we didn't install more renewables sooner.
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It strikes me that the Saudi regime wants nuclear technology for one of two reasons, neither of which say positive things for their remaining oil reserves.
We are going to hit this AI bubble at the same time we hit the peak oil bubble, and it sucks that we didn't install more renewables sooner.
We are going to hit this AI bubble at the same time we hit the peak oil bubble, and it sucks that we didn't install more renewables sooner.
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This is pretty accurate. My only concern is the private credit side. There's apparently so much money being borrowed to build data centers it's boosting the US economy to avoid a recession. And I guess we just...don't know?
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Yup. It would be like trying to bailout Enron. There's nothing there to bailout.
November 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
This is pretty accurate. My only concern is the private credit side. There's apparently so much money being borrowed to build data centers it's boosting the US economy to avoid a recession. And I guess we just...don't know?
bsky.app/profile/stee...
bsky.app/profile/stee...
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A machine built to eat people will eat people.
So if AI succeeds loads of people lose their jobs as they're replaced by AI, and if AI fails, loads of people lose their jobs as the economy crashes?
It’s amazing how this story has gone from 0 to 60 in UK press. There’s been no mainstream coverage to date but this morning the story is leading BBC News site & bulletins.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
A machine built to eat people will eat people.
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You don't often see this at the end of a whistleblower story:
November 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
You don't often see this at the end of a whistleblower story:
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if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove
Justice Department official told prosecutors that U.S. should 'just sink' drug boats
NPR interviews with current and former officials reveal more of the backstory around the military's strikes in the Caribbean.
www.npr.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove
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For the first time ever, I had to make a payment in crypto.
I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.
I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.
November 18, 2025 at 5:58 AM
For the first time ever, I had to make a payment in crypto.
I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.
I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.
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1. They’re giving away electricity for free in Australia because of solar
2. They’re giving away electricity for free in Australia because of solar &
3. They’re giving away electricity for free in Australia because of solar
2. They’re giving away electricity for free in Australia because of solar &
3. They’re giving away electricity for free in Australia because of solar
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
1. They’re giving away electricity for free in Australia because of solar
2. They’re giving away electricity for free in Australia because of solar &
3. They’re giving away electricity for free in Australia because of solar
2. They’re giving away electricity for free in Australia because of solar &
3. They’re giving away electricity for free in Australia because of solar