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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 10h

@bustedride.bsky.social Not exactly busted, but the temporary fix for a stuck thermostat on a Rolls Royce is funny.

Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 12h

It's just so weird. She can't do much about her nose, but in that still image in the red dress, she's skeleton thin and for some reason then had all the fat sucked out of her face, and topped it all off with a very unnatural boob job and eyebrow treatment. <shrugs>

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 12h

Heating oil - If the product and the pricing are the same, I wonder how a customer chooses. Perhaps a free wall calendar is the decisive factor?

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 14h

Wow! All the money in the world and she decided to look like that?

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 15h

When I was a young boy in Ohio, I read about Mozer's part in the scandal and that he went to Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. I thought the city name was a funny typo. Later, I was transferred to Kennewick about an hour away from Walla Walla. I visited once, ate some sweet onions. The End. 🙂

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 17h

No surprise Texas is the outlier with 35% of respondents preferring independence. Their "glorious" past was in fact a very short-lived failure, but it's probably not taught that way in schools.

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 17h

Given Doug Burgum's respect for the natural environment, I bet he thought about it.

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 17h

The rest of the world is paying a LOT more for crude oil than the United States. Yesterday DOE-EIA reported Brent at $29/barrel premium to WTI. Ouch! Nearest futures contract price, Tue settle: WTI $89.50/barrel Brent $100.50 Spot (now) price: WTI $96.25 Brent $125.50

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Related: the WSJ reporters and editors have never left Manhattan. ;-) "Corrections & Amplifications Mesabi Metallics will transport its iron ore by railroad to the Iowa plant. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said that it would transport the ore using the Mississippi River."

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Useless trivia: Cargill will sell Maine all the road salt they need. It comes from one of the largest salt mines in the world under Lake Erie. #ClevelandRocks I think there is a Morton mine also, a little farther away from Cleveland. Don't know if it's still open.

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Does he mean 90 pct of pumpkins for food production?

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A combined service *could lead* to higher prices. I think that should be a Kalshi event contract. I might even sign up and lay my money down on HELL YES IT WILL.

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How bad are things in Cuba? So bad that the U.S. has sent them 6.8M dozen eggs in the first half of 2026. For context, there are very few entries going back to 1989.

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Nearly 80% of the voters in farming dependent counties (USDA definition) chose this. Map in link is worth a look b/c ag production (at farm level) is really important in small grain & beef counties, less so in corn & soy Midwest. www.investigatemidwest.org/trump-electi...

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hot off the press: the DOE-EIA Winter Fuels Outlook. If you click around on the 2nd link (expenditures) you'll find an eye-popping estimate for heating oil (close to diesel in composition and price): ~$2000 v. ~$600 for nat gas. www.eia.gov/outlooks/ste... www.eia.gov/outlooks/ste...

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's on the decline but until air-source heat pumps became viable in N. climates (ground source was $$), if you ripped out a coal furnace and didn't have access to utility nat gas, then you installed heating oil or propane. Propane can be quite expensive too in an older, poorly insulated home.

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If I were a consultant and my candidate was worth $11M to $38M (filings), and the cost of living was a large legit issue, and farmers were whining about profitability (evergreen), I wouldn't arrange a speech on a *4000 acre* crop and pig farm in front of a v. expensive tractor.

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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#OnThisDay Oct 6 2005: Minnesota Vikings players charter 2 boats on Lake Minnetonka, hire sex workers, and engage in wild, public misconduct in front of the largely underage staff of Al & Alma's boat rentals. The "Love Boat Scandal" remains the low point for the franchise to this day.

One of the boats the "Miss Chievious" underway on the Lake.

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Vintage McDonalds = A.I. training on Fiesta tableware website

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That sounds like the fluff put out by frustrated former art majors who write copy for Pantone's "color of the year"

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Here, hold my beer: www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/ana... (last updated Nov 18, 2009. uses the "inverted L" information format from let's say the beginning of the internet until ____?

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Climate Prediction Center - Monitoring & Data: Degree Days Statistics

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thanks for the long-ago recommendation. I may pick up one of his books. I always passed over the TV mini series (and spin offs) b/c I thought they were mostly fictional romances. Cattle, mountains, rivers, occasional dead person... Taylor Sheridan just updated and made more violent and more $$$.

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

speaking of rural Nebr, I finally watched original Lonesome Dove TV series. Acting, scenery, showing misery 👍 BUT I have a bone to pick. I couldn't figure out why they spent so much time digging a well (or spring fed stock tank) when they only had a few animals and could walk to the Rio Grande.

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Learn something new every day. I would have guess Spillville, Iowa b/c of Antonín Dvořák.

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I should do that too and/or buy an emergency or full size spare for longer trips. I don't know what the pct is, but more cars are shipped w/o a spare and a compressor and plug kit isn't going to do much good with a ruined tire in Timbuktu.

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nat Gas: short term pricing, transportation and storage is another world. The prices in highlight are ~50% of the cost of production and within a month or two they can easily be $4; in the middle of winter a multiple of that. But, if you needed it for Sat/Sun/Mon you got a super deal.

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thanks for the photos. Can't grow corn there, but it's beautiful country. 😀 Just curious -- the Lexus(?) that had a tire problem, was it something so specialized that they couldn't even find a safe, suitable temporary replacement?

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Don Carr @doncarr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bipartisan consensus! [HENDERSON] Chris Jones, what’s your view of the president’s decision to import beef to lower the price of ground beef for consumers? [JONES] It’s one of the stupidest ideas I’ve ever heard of. [HENDERSON] Mike Naig? [NAIG] It’s a bad idea

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you ever wanted to be a shipping magnate, here's a lower risk way to get your foot in the door. First, make a lot of money speculating on freight rates. Second, finance a barely seaworthy rusty tub, then another, become corrupt, buy a Greek island.

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Crude oil and diesel, properly vented, will burn not explode, I think. So I'd do those. Gasoline, LNG, some fertilizers: NOPE!

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And because of small farming, other small businesses (a lot of it done in cash) AND large families I imagine they pay little in tax. And... Haven't had to worry about conscription since Vietnam. Finally, their pie and baked goods aren't anything special!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/10/2026

It's only the first round but I can't believe Brazil did everything right going after Jair Bolsanaro over his attempted coup only to be on the verge of electing his corrupt dipshit son.

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A LOT of diesel will be used in US ag the next two months for harvest/transport/some tillage. Like Tommy Boy's head, it leaves a mark in consumption stats. *corn *soybeans *cotton *peanuts *sorghum (aka milo) *sugar beets *sunflowers Wheat, rice, barley and oats are generally finished by mid-Sep.

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Oil Was Pouring Through the Strait of Hormuz Again... BUT Iran’s targeting of ships has improved...making transits through the Strait of Hormuz riskier" Free link and comment from @roryjohnston.bsky.social Landed values at final destination must be 💲🚀 www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I use March 2000. My brother was an exec at this start-up. About a yr later telecom crashed. I think they hobbled along for a couple more years, but were two decades early for today's massive data centers. ;-)

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Spuds might be only other food you can buy in a store at less than a buck a lb. Walmart sells them for 65 cts but you have to buy 5 lbs. Amazing efficiency in LatAm plantations v. spuds and everything else w/ more labor, special vessels, Canal fees, cross country freight, highly perishable, etc.

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Kroger University must be like CostCo U: "we'll kill you if you raise the price of bananas too much (hotdogs, at all). Background: 35 cts/lb in 1980 is $1.41/lb in 2026 dollars (US BLS CPI rate). Current retail is 65 cts, wholesale is 50 cts at a US port.

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

P.J. Fleck is the Pete Hegseth of college football: stupid slogans, bad fashion choices, a bit player when he was briefly in the game, but today, always the center of attention, not the larger institution he works for.

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lasted a year. Setting aside the foul mouths, misogyny and lies, I wonder if some of these guys are aging out of the bro culture demographic? Portnoy turns 50 in March, Rogan is 59 and 55 y/o Musk has firmly embedded himself into the govt grift machine. If you're old enough to be a grandfather...

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

IDK much about cattle but I do know 1) you shouldn't see their ribs and 2) you should be making bank on them the last couple of yrs, not going bankrupt. Also, if the guy only farms 200 acres, a 4 y/o tractor valued at $225K and the grain handling equipment on bal. sheet is nuts for that operation.

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The bucket bunnies! For two summers of H.S. I was a lineman's helper/go-fer/tree trimmer/street light changer at my small town utility. No bucket bunnies, but in H.S., who needed them!

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Maybe they'll think about getting vaccinated after their mutual aid contributions put the hurt on them for an easily preventable disease. Two wks in a hospital incl time in an ICU ain't cheap and they sure as hell don't deserve taxpayer funded charity care.

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

and axle grease to hold the combover in place, esp. over the left ear (it looks disgusting)

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Poor Mamdani. Now he needs to take a shower, burn his clothes and head to the vet to be checked for fleas. (Sliwa lives/lived in a 1BR NYC apt with 17 cats)

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Interest rates are STILL too low! (although if you're buying from the univ and the fair mkt value is stainless steel scrap price, I suppose the diff. might be a charitable contribution)

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Brighton Capital @brightoncap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a good, newish account (pun unintentional, I promise) for agricultural things. Some of the data comes from: www.amis-outlook.org/home (FAO/UN, regular stats, occasional articles) farmdocdaily.illinois.edu (does what it says on the tin) All three are 👍

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