I did a couple days ago and more today. I’m always full of beans but now my pantry is too

Its carob’s time to shine

I remember this story from the Irish potato famine. Then, even with the blight, Ireland produced enough food for the population, but British landlords forced export of food as cash crops and a million people starved.

Somewhere in a forgotten attic there is a portrait getting drier and drier.

The Persian gulf was already ecologically stressed, but by the time the smoke clears on this conflict and however many tankers have leaked their contents into the sea, it will be a dead zone.

I want to share and believe plenty of things too, but my stronger belief is that the newsmega is better if we exercise some level of incredulity. Keep an eye out and if there is a more substantiated source then the crabs will be ready here

Lori Idlout really pulled a fast one seeing as last week she was campaigning with Avi Lewis in the NDP leadership campaign (he’s campaigning as a more demsoc leader), and then this week she’s jumping ship to join the Liberals, who are at best center-right, but under Carney are endorsing austerity, militarism, and abandoning climate change promises. I’m sure she’s getting some good promises about northern military spending masquerading as infrastructure funding in Nunavut though. also, yet another reminder of the limits of identity politics, as she’s one of Canada’s relatively few federally elected reps who are Indigenous. to be fair, the NDP is in a tough spot, but still grim to walk openly into carney’s arms.

Confirmed by who? Is anyone else reporting this? We don’t want to disappoint the crabs

but don’t worry folks, we’re bringing the factorials back to America. we’re not just going to make numbers great again, we’re going to make them great again!

FTFY

…doesn’t just double the economic pain — it multiplies it exponentially, logarithmically increasing the pain at a geometric rate to the nth degree

I for one have an excellent feeling about testing the ability of the LCS to do minesweeping/mine removal using novel systems in a highly contested naval space

New special forces podcast style just dropped

One thing to get ready is to learn to make decent tasting food out of simpler ingredients. Even if you are living in a place that is more insulated from scarcity, shit will get more expensive. Learn to cook plant based stuff, especially with low complexity ingredients (e.g. Flour, dried beans, rice, frozen veg, not so much fresh vegetables or prepackaged/processed things). Learn to grow a garden - even balcony sized outdoor spaces can make a lot of kale or other hardy greens. Better still, actually be vegan because it’s the right thing to do even if this war wasn’t happening.

Then eat mujadara in solidarity

https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20260310113000504

Machine translated:

While the South Korean and US military authorities are keeping quiet about this, President Lee Jae-myung stated at a cabinet meeting held at the Blue House on the 10th, "We are opposing the USFK’s withdrawal of some air defense weapons for our country’s military needs, but it is also a stark reality that we cannot fully enforce our opinion."

a good pull in today’s MoA (certified reactionary brainworm free by hexbear patriots)regarding the potential for US seizure of kharg island, the little island that Iran routes most of it’s oil exports through for lack of deepwater ports on mainland Iran. apparently trump has been thinking about kharg since not long after phantom of the opera opened on broadway.

In an interview with a British newspaper back in 1988, an up-and-coming New York property mogul named Donald Trump was asked about his plans for the future. True to form, he had plenty to say, boasting that he might one day run for president and vowing to win back “respect” for America on the world stage. He also had stern words for Iran’s Islamic Republic, already a sworn enemy of America in the wake of the 1979 US hostage crisis.

“They’ve been beating us psychologically, making us look a bunch of fools,” Trump told The Guardian. “One bullet shot at one of our men or ships, and I’d do a number on Kharg Island. I’d go in and take it.”

taking kharg island makes me think of snake island in ukraine. both ukraine and russia got fucked out of holding that one at various times over their war. kharg is bigger but not wildly so. it is also actually valuable, so Iran would fight for it harder.