Jim
@cornwuff.bsky.social
Agronomist for a paycheck, farmer on the weekends. sci-fi reader, PC gamer, craft beer and bourbon drinker 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🇺🇸
Because I need a crazy hobby growing something that isn’t corn and soy beans I’m considering planting pawpaw trees.
September 22, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Because I need a crazy hobby growing something that isn’t corn and soy beans I’m considering planting pawpaw trees.
Oh, remember the potash thing. Belarus now says it’s fake news. Yes. Really. I cant even begin to describe how fucking stupid trump is thehill.com/policy/inter...
Belarus says no potash left after Trump claims massive deal for fertilizer
Belarus’s authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Monday that there are no available volumes of fertilizer to send to the U.S. This came after President Trump announced that he was working o…
thehill.com
September 22, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Oh, remember the potash thing. Belarus now says it’s fake news. Yes. Really. I cant even begin to describe how fucking stupid trump is thehill.com/policy/inter...
Whew. I guess.
⚠️XOM RESTARTING: big price relief coming to the states hardest hit by the power outage at the ExxonMobil refinery in Joliet, IL last week. Gasoline seeing a large 23c/gal drop and diesel down even more significantly. Price relief coming to MI, IN, OH, IL, WI soon.
September 21, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Whew. I guess.
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subscribe FREE to me on Substack. Today: The U.S. isn't short of diesel. The world is.
So would banning U.S. diesel exports actually lower prices?
It might sound like an easy fix. But once you look at refinery economics and how fuel actually moves, the answer gets complicated.
Click below.
So would banning U.S. diesel exports actually lower prices?
It might sound like an easy fix. But once you look at refinery economics and how fuel actually moves, the answer gets complicated.
Click below.
September 21, 2026 at 11:05 PM
subscribe FREE to me on Substack. Today: The U.S. isn't short of diesel. The world is.
So would banning U.S. diesel exports actually lower prices?
It might sound like an easy fix. But once you look at refinery economics and how fuel actually moves, the answer gets complicated.
Click below.
So would banning U.S. diesel exports actually lower prices?
It might sound like an easy fix. But once you look at refinery economics and how fuel actually moves, the answer gets complicated.
Click below.
Trump is apparently talking about buying potash from Belarus. Belarus is sanctioned and they have no port of their own to ship through. In my career, I have used Belarussian potash. It is usually garbage quality. Very dusty, full of fines from the many times it has to be loaded and unloaded
September 21, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Trump is apparently talking about buying potash from Belarus. Belarus is sanctioned and they have no port of their own to ship through. In my career, I have used Belarussian potash. It is usually garbage quality. Very dusty, full of fines from the many times it has to be loaded and unloaded
I received both of these newspapers in yesterday’s mail. One of them is from July. For 20 years, no delivery issues. The last two years, horrendous.
September 20, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I received both of these newspapers in yesterday’s mail. One of them is from July. For 20 years, no delivery issues. The last two years, horrendous.
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A stunning shot of a Ukrainian F-16 pilot looking back at a jet-powered Shahed he had just shot down over Kyiv with his onboard cannon.
September 19, 2026 at 10:54 PM
A stunning shot of a Ukrainian F-16 pilot looking back at a jet-powered Shahed he had just shot down over Kyiv with his onboard cannon.
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this talk of “running out” of diesel is THE madness. the U.S. is sitting on 4.08 BILLION gallons of (<15ppm) distillates today, which is up from 4.05 billion a wk ago. just bc a few stations have issues does not mean a nationwide crisis is brewing. now sit down & relax plz.
September 19, 2026 at 3:11 PM
this talk of “running out” of diesel is THE madness. the U.S. is sitting on 4.08 BILLION gallons of (<15ppm) distillates today, which is up from 4.05 billion a wk ago. just bc a few stations have issues does not mean a nationwide crisis is brewing. now sit down & relax plz.
Hah, Aliens is on Netflix. This is practically a comfort watch, I’m turning it on.
September 18, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Hah, Aliens is on Netflix. This is practically a comfort watch, I’m turning it on.
I just met a Romanian who came to our farm to buy hay. Dad somehow got on the topic of Putin, and the dude flat out declared Ukraine was not a country.
I did not know that attitude was common in Romania.
I did not know that attitude was common in Romania.
September 17, 2026 at 6:08 PM
I just met a Romanian who came to our farm to buy hay. Dad somehow got on the topic of Putin, and the dude flat out declared Ukraine was not a country.
I did not know that attitude was common in Romania.
I did not know that attitude was common in Romania.
I quit going to local barbershops because they all had Fox News blathering. The only talk radio on air for decades is massively conservative. If you want to know ‘how America could do this’ it’s because of right wing propaganda like this, constantly fed into our brains at all times
Chris Wright on Fox Business says "thank God we have President Trump with some common sense on energy" as a graphic is displayed showing diesel prices at record highs
September 16, 2026 at 6:02 PM
I quit going to local barbershops because they all had Fox News blathering. The only talk radio on air for decades is massively conservative. If you want to know ‘how America could do this’ it’s because of right wing propaganda like this, constantly fed into our brains at all times
*babbling noises*
we've reached a new milestone- the U.S. average diesel price has hit $6.301/gal while gasoline is up to $4.355/gal. I expect both of these to jump noticably over the next 48 hours. diesel could hit $6.60/gal in a few days, surpassing the inflation-adjusted peak seen in 2022.
September 16, 2026 at 2:39 AM
*babbling noises*
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This jaw-dropping story has become ProPublica's most-read article of 2026, with more than 2.2 million views in the first day, a spokesperson tells me
Read the full story for more details on the wedding and Kremlev — including his earlier years in a Russian government-backed bike gang called the Night Wolves:
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
www.propublica.org
September 15, 2026 at 4:50 PM
This jaw-dropping story has become ProPublica's most-read article of 2026, with more than 2.2 million views in the first day, a spokesperson tells me
Another thing to worry about when we park our stuff in the fields 10 miles from home in a suburban area 🤷🏻♂️
September 15, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Another thing to worry about when we park our stuff in the fields 10 miles from home in a suburban area 🤷🏻♂️
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the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
September 15, 2026 at 12:07 AM
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
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This is gold. The Bulwark did a montage of every time Trump has said he was abut to give Americans a check for a variety of reasons.
All of the promises were complete BS, of course.
#DonTheCon
All of the promises were complete BS, of course.
#DonTheCon
September 13, 2026 at 12:00 PM
This is gold. The Bulwark did a montage of every time Trump has said he was abut to give Americans a check for a variety of reasons.
All of the promises were complete BS, of course.
#DonTheCon
All of the promises were complete BS, of course.
#DonTheCon
Ope. Fell into Ore Dock brewing
September 13, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Ope. Fell into Ore Dock brewing
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Happy Caturday to everyone with love-scars. 🤷
September 12, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Happy Caturday to everyone with love-scars. 🤷
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Today, Ukrainian city of Bakhmut would’ve celebrated 455th birthday .
If Russian didn’t destroy it.
If Russian didn’t destroy it.
September 12, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Today, Ukrainian city of Bakhmut would’ve celebrated 455th birthday .
If Russian didn’t destroy it.
If Russian didn’t destroy it.
Harvest gonna be fun when we have to refill the diesel tanks
September 12, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Harvest gonna be fun when we have to refill the diesel tanks
It’s all, ‘no, no, you go first. Oh, if only someone would MAKE us stop’
Stupidest messaging
Stupidest messaging
When the biggest AI developers all agree they should slow down, they should. Less blog posts and reports. The time for federal action is now.
Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown
In a 3,800-word essay, Dario Amodei laid out the rapidly advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence and said there needed to be greater safety controls across the industry.
www.nytimes.com
September 12, 2026 at 8:42 PM
It’s all, ‘no, no, you go first. Oh, if only someone would MAKE us stop’
Stupidest messaging
Stupidest messaging
Being like @duncandahusky.wolfhusky.org Oops, I fell into a brewery!
September 12, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Being like @duncandahusky.wolfhusky.org Oops, I fell into a brewery!
I have seen two Great Lakes on the same day. Go me. Here’s Lake Superior.
September 11, 2026 at 9:37 PM
I have seen two Great Lakes on the same day. Go me. Here’s Lake Superior.
Welp
WUT?
Anthropic said it disrupted several plots this year by scientists who used its leading artificial intelligence models to conduct research that could have helped develop biological weapons. Gift link. 👇
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
Anthropic said it disrupted several plots this year by scientists who used its leading artificial intelligence models to conduct research that could have helped develop biological weapons. Gift link. 👇
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
September 10, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Welp