The plebs will win, I take this as considerable proof of that.

Ok #Nostr, this one is near and dear to my heart. We sat down with Christian Westbrook, The Ice Age Farmer, now Unshadowed.org to talk about what happened, what is happening, and the most important part, the solutions. I hope yall enjoy this one as much as we did. Much love to you all. "I'm willing to go to bat, let's save humanity. But when it starts hurting my children, maybe I've missed the boat somewhere." Christian Westbrook, the researcher and homesteader formerly known as Ice Age Farmer and now publishing as UNSHADOWED (unshadowed.org), sits down with Havok and LX for a campfire episode that starts with the real reasons behind his hiatus and ends with the deepest lever of control there is: food. The story you have not heard in full: a rebrand born from two collisions at once. A fluoroquinolone antibiotic (levofloxacin) left him with mitochondrial damage that a year of doctors, supplements, and willpower could not undo. And a broadcast that grew loud enough to attract "the wrong parties," locking him out of financial accounts and pulling his family into the fight. Both taught him the same lesson: you can never prep, broadcast, or save hard enough to force reality to conform. So he stopped. That is what Unshadowed is. Then the world cooperated with his return by validating all of it. The IEA rolled out energy crisis policy papers within weeks of the Strait closure. The FAO announced a food crisis tied to fertilizer, because most fertilizer is a byproduct of fuel refining and the majority of the world eats fertilized crops. The UN declared full "water bankruptcy" and recommended canceling water rights. Governments that usually say "we've got it under control" have started, two to three per day, telling citizens to stockpile. Meanwhile a historic PHP vulnerability wave just dubbed 40 to 70 percent of the internet instantly insecure, and yes, Europe's freezers (and apparently some Pentagon ones) got hacked. Christian's take: this is the perfect Halloween show, because nobody has to invent the ghosts. Havok brings the tinfoil hat and the systems thinking: pandemic scripts that fizzled, Ukraine and Russia as the breadbasket, Yemen choking the Bab el-Mandeb and fertilizer with it, and the Kissinger line as the punchline. If virus control got busted, maybe food scarcity is the new lever. Christian goes deeper still, to Mathias Desmet's argument that technocratic totalitarianism is the necessary endpoint of a materialist worldview, and to the one plant that explains his whole philosophy: the green shoot splitting two slabs of concrete. Collapse awareness without the black pill. Then it all lands where it always should, in the Ice Age Farmer solution groups, years of chicken-leg splints and canning wisdom, Havok's "daily white pill," amaranth that pops like popcorn, and the Asch conformity experiments: one person saying what they see frees everyone else to do the same.

SpaceTomatoes • Collapse Aware Not Black Pilled Christian from Unshadowed-IAF on Food Water and Control • Watch on Fountain

"I'm willing to go to bat, let's save humanity. But when it starts hurting my children, maybe I've missed the boat somewhere." Christian Westbrook,...

OK Nostr, I am pretty excited about the episode release tomorrow. We had Ice Age Farmer, Christian Westbrook on the show, now rebranded as Unshadowed (unshadowed.org). The conversation was amazing, and I think one of our best to date. I hope yall enjoy it and choose to tune in, if not, I hope your day goes so exceedingly well that you are left smiling for no reason and looking like a loon to others.

https://relay.spacetomatoes.net/0587249bad1b601562c1dea7ed5006e70857c9a91de386f1378aae28d6a977d4.webpIf the sticker was truthful...

One of our recent clips features @Constant the person that not only introduced me to Nostr, but made it understandable in a way I am not certain I would have gotten without this episode. I would also like to give him a big shout out for all of the assistance he has given and still continues to give willingly. Awesome guy, and I am extremely happy to have made his acquaintance.

Just ordered more @npub1n880...teq3 and some of those amazing Strawberries from @Permanerd 🌱 💻 at @npub1krt6...kr8e because this particular economy needs more spending if it's to be the thing that replaces the fuggery of the fiat system. Support your local, or not so local, Nostrich! Now if I could get @Oshi to make more Silly Nodes... 😁

Keith Barton spent 16 years and a lot of dollars in lawyers inside America's family court system. When he stopped hiring lawyers, he won his own appeal pro se. Then he wrote the fix in 5 pages, and now he is running for Congress in Texas to make states fund fathers instead of custody wars. The math behind the mission: 22 million kids flow through family court every year, and studies he cites put 70 to 85 percent of violent crime behind people raised by a single parent. Equal parenting means higher earnings, less abuse, less welfare, less crime. His fix: judge checklists, written rulings, and federal incentives that respect the 10th Amendment. Then we nerd out on the Proximal War series. Real Marine Corps air ground tactics 5,000 years in the future. What actually happens when humanity meets a Type II civilization. Liquid-born silicon aliens with triple helix DNA, Dyson rings built from dismantled moons, warp corridors that fold space like paper, and zero hand-waving (he did the orbital mechanics himself). Plus Huey war stories only a naval aviator can tell: under the Golden Gate Bridge, inside Mount Pinatubo, low over DC, a Huey with no hydraulic fluid on the floor is a Huey you get out of, 15 mission sets to the C-130's 9, and call signs you earn by messing up (his: Krusty, with a K). Author of the Proximal War series, the Joey America children's books, and the travel read series. 20 year Marine Corps veteran, Huey pilot, congressional candidate, family court reform advocate.

SpaceTomatoes • 22 Million Kids a Year - A Marine's 5-Page Fix for Family Courts • Watch on Fountain

Keith Barton spent 16 years and a lot of dollars in lawyers inside America's family court system. When he stopped hiring lawyers, he won his own ap...

No guests this week. Just Havok and LX in pure host only chaos. Local AI agent that drafts clips and schedules posts (while we still hand-edit everything), Instagram confusion, why digital price tags can get bent, LX’s eGym adventures, cats that refuse to be house pets, and the reverse OnlyFans idea that got shut down immediately. Unscripted, zero filter, plenty of tangents.

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SpaceTomatoes • No Guests Just Chaos | Space Tomatoes S3-EP16 • Watch on Fountain

Havok and LX go full host-only chaos no guests, no script, just two homesteaders talking about the weird, practical, and mildly unhinged side of ru...

Covid: They canceled the concerts, the weddings, and the paychecks. George Fontes kept a 27-year events company alive with church LED walls and sheer stubbornness. New Space Tomatoes with Havok & LX: Locked stages. Real line arrays. Dio was actually cool. Auto-Tune country is a crime. The economy caught up years later. Plus crowd psychology, data-center water fights, and why the monitor engineer is the one actually sweating. Full episode up now.

SpaceTomatoes • Dead Stages George Fontes on Surviving the Shutdown and Changes S3-EP13 • Watch on Fountain

They shut down the weddings, the concerts, the corporate blowouts, and the paychecks. George Fontes (World Ablaze Podcast) ran a 27-year live event...

Just ordered from thema couple of weeks ago, I didn't know this part. The meat is excellent quality though, the Tri Tip was amazing, the elk tenderloin satisfied a craving I have had for a few years, on of the best meats on the planet imho. View quoted note →