Ahhh. Tomato season is finally over. The front page picture is the last two quarts from 2026. I think I hit 26 quarts, same as last year, which represents 90+ pounds of tomatoes off of two plants. Next year I plant one. Above is the happy result of fermenting Fresno chilis. It’s got a kick. I also started a batch of red Jalapenos.
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I’m pretty much done with this twerp. Go beg to the EU.
Speaking of the EU, Europe appears to be heading into the Find Out phase.
Remember when we were all going to starve to death because the bees were dying out?
What did the doe say when she walked out of the forest? “I’ll never do that for two bucks again.”
“I swear on the bible I will never do that again.”
Okay, that’s good for today. I’m going to enjoy the evening not canning produce. Peace out, Glibbies.
Early OT. The $12,000,000 man has been benched. Finally.
The study also found that higher temperatures led to an increased number of competitive interactions, probably because nectar was drying up and plants were going into heat stress. Given that mean summer temperatures are predicted to rise by up to 4C in the UK by 2080, such competition is likely to become more frequent, said Buckle.
The Guardian is slipping. It took the whole article to get to climate change or whatever they’re calling it now.
We are in the midst of one of the great “rebrandings” that take place every generation or so for the left.
Woke 1.0 to Woke 2.0. It’s the same, but we call it something else and pretend it’s completely new!
It’s a sticky situation. Someone may sue – bee a shame if the Guardian were bankrupted
2080 now? Oh…cause 2030 is approaching fast
4 degrees is such a bullshit figure. Notice how it’s localized to the UK as well. Gosh that climate science sure is getting advanced!
For the planet the WORST case scenarios weren’t even 4 degrees by 2100. It’s funny as shit how much time and money they’ve spent on the propaganda here and they still can’t move the needle and convince a majority its real. Can’t even convince lefties in any numbers to prioritize any of this shit over real concerns.
They stopped worrying about convincing anyone a long time ago though. It’s just preaching to the converted and fueling the larger narratives they want while funneling money to the right people. So basically they unilaterally ended the argument and attempt to win people over and just said fuck it we’ll do it anyway when we get power;
But the Guardian just told us earlier today that even MAGA bots are most concerned about the climate crisis. It was right there in the pages of the Guardian.
All that tells me is that the Guardian is full of shit.
There are no bees where I live and it regularly hits 105.
None.
Never have been. I have no idea how the fruit trees get pollinated here.
Or maybe British bees are as soft as Englishmen.
Ninja bees! 🐝️
Trees can be pollinated by other insects, the wind, by birds, by humans, by themselves, all kinds of ways.
I was being scarcastic UCS. There are five or six new boxes up the road from me.
I think British Bees are simply as limp wristed as writers at the Guardian.
Sorry, you brought out a memory of the Dirty Jobs episode where the mexican guy goes up a date palm to puff pollen on the flowers.
I watched guys doing that in Iraq.
No thank you. That looks awful.
I had a NCO in Iraq who was determined to make something grow in the dirt. He was Cambodian. Literally had soil sent to him.
Nothing ever did grow.
The ancient Cambodian secrets weren’t enough.
He was Cambodian. One would think that he would know that blood blood blood made the green grass grow in the fields.
Remember remembering before a bee mass extinction there being a killer bee invasion?
Damn bees. They’re an unpredictable lot.
Those were the bigger and scarier African bees, right? And then the left pointed to those stories as proof positive of how racist the world is.
Africanized bees. 🙀
Them bees was hung.
Let’s let the AI summarize just how stupid things are:
Context and Language Controversy
• Scientific Critiques: Researchers have noted that the descriptor “Africanized” is overly broad and does not capture the diversity of over a dozen distinct African honey bee subspecies, some of which are quite gentle, such as the Ethiopian highlands honey bee (Apis mellifera monticola).
• Cultural Tropes: Some scholars argue that attaching aggressive or “killer” characteristics to an African-derived label mirrors historical Western biases that project violence onto the African continent.
• Alternative Terminology: A growing number of entomologists and researchers advocate moving away from “Africanized” in favor of more specific genetic terms like “scutellata-hybrid” or alternative geographical descriptors. Opinions on Quora and other forums are mixed, with some users supporting updated, neutral terminology while others view the established common name as a purely practical description of the hybrid’s lineage.
What’s funny is that the white man created the African bee in the first place by playing god.
This is my First. There aren’t many like it, but this one is mine.
My First is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.
Without me, my First is useless. Without my First, I am useless. I must shoot my First true. I must shoot Firster than my enemy who is trying to kill out-First me. I must First him before he Firsts me. I will …
My First and I know that what counts in Fawr [Firster War] is not the speed we First, the noise of our First, nor the light we emit. We know that it is the First that count. We will First…
Have I explain to all of you the Trinity of the First? It’s a highly complex and intricate subject with an incredible amount of nuance.
Now I have R. Lee Ermy screaming in my head. Thanks.
Get on your knees, scumbag!
“We need some advance notice of how many ballots we need to ‘find’ on election night.”
I don’t suppose a questionable joke about drone striking Zelensky is appropriate?
I can’t say how much I despise that little piece of shit. Junior partner who acts like he can lord over the US. Dude comes over here and gets argumentative and aggressive.
It’s funny because he’s not acting in Ukraine’s best interests. Trump really isn’t that hard to work with. He’s not that deep psychologically in my not so humble opinion. Kiss his ass. But Zelensky wants the adoration of a certain group of Eurocrat and that would be untoward in their eyes. So he’ll just dick around until the Democrats come back into power apparently as his people suffer. The leftists will surely repay his loyalty for thumbing his nose at Bad Orange Man!
I have never seen anything from Zelensky beyond ego. I get every sense he loves the attention he gets. And to be blunt once the war is over he loses the gravy train on top of his prestige and influence if not power. Like what incentive as an individual does he have to negotiate an end to a futile war?
Only way to stop this shit is to twist his arm to the point where he has no fucking choice.
And you have certain Republicans saying he could solve the Iran war instead.
So these clowns are basically saying just fucking end a conflict we are directly involved in to prolong (and that’s all it would do) a war between two third party countries. I don’t support anything about the decision to attack Iran twice now, but there’s sure as shit no argument that we should be prioritizing the Ukraine bullshit over a satisfactory resolution with Iran.
We have the dumbest Top Men (and Women) on the planet man. From the top to the bottom. Just complete incompetence and ignorance.
Or you get some pissant like Don Bacon saying that Congress is going to vote against funding the domestic agenda over fucking Ukraine. Which is probably even worse. Like yea we should totally be prioritizing a foreign war over our domestic policy! WAR BONER HARDER! RIGHT SIDE OF HISTOR-REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
And of course these sanctions? These would have been the sanctions that truly would have turned the tide against Russia! These were such scary sanctions that they’d do what sanctions have never fucking done at any other point in their history and brought this all to a close!
I talked about honor the other day. Letting a foreign leader like Zelensky bypass our president regardless of who or which party that person is so fucking disgusting for a sitting member of Congress that I grow weary of it. Democrats champion him because he thumbed his nose at Trump. And a class of Republican critter prioritizes Neocon anti-Russian sentiment over anything resembling reason.
Where the fuck does Zelensky get the nerve to talk about how he hopes the American public sees what’s really happening? In better times that’d turn the entire country against his ass.
Stating the obvious – but I honestly believe Bacon, Tillis and others are on-the-take. Too many protestations and a one-track mind on Ukraine.
So much money slushes around involving Ukraine that I guarantee even if it’s not direct graft their donors profit off it. And that alone is enough.
It’s all about the money. This entire fucking escapade. And Zelensky is the poster-boy of it all pretending as if he’s the noble fearless little guy standing up to Goliath. Bitch wants to complain that they throttled Starlink on them (couldn’t give two fucks if they did) and then the media comes just short of saying that Ukrainians who died over those few days were on Trump.
You DO NOT thumb your nose at your senior “partner.” In reality they are an unruly protectorate at this point and should be fed to the wolves.
Damn Bro, I was making a joke.
A fine rant, however.
After dangling the hope of NATO membership in front of Ukraine in order to git Russia – who we knew would attack because they told us they would – it
oops…
…and now I don’t remember where I was going with that.
Anyway, yes. Incompetent, evil, feckless Top Men caused this whole mess. And yes, probably for $$.
rhy, at first I read that as “…dangling the rope of NATO membership…” which somehow doesn’t seem inaccurate.
And it was all going swimmingly until the day before Gaza attacked Israel, too. I know because the entire leftist/Antifa set was proudly displaying Ukrainian flags everywhere – until the next day they all switched them out for Pali flags and Z must have known at that moment that this wasn’t going down the way he thought it would.
A pox on all their houses.
It’s not inappropriate.
What do you call a Bee hitting an airplane? A Drone Strike.
Go to your room. You know what you did.
I shpip-ed up.
But I own this house. Every room in it is my room.
Are your room hexagonal?
Even ignoring the Islamo/Antifa overlay that takes over any protest in a Western country these days, the entire cause of “protests over the cost of living” is leftist policy that the protesters want to apply harder. I don’t think they have thought this through carefully.
Fresh material for SugarFree:
Donald Trump’s Hair Takes Dramatic New Turn as Cameras Roll
JFC he just needs to go bald and goatee already, as someone showed a mock-up of which the other day. Like Walter White bad-ass.
This may be the single greatest thing I’ve ever seen.
And the left is out there trying to vilify this man!