PetulantMoose

Lives in #Alaska. Husband. Father. Software Developer. Former Army officer. Over-caffeinated most of the time.

[PetulantMoose @PetulantMoose]

@FischerKing64 If they go too hard on impeachapalooza it could help conservatives in 2028, but that’s a big if. I’m very concerned about the state level elections where I am (AK).

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@JesseKellyDC Even if @eviljayofficial is correct, voting is easy enough to just go and do it on the off chance it has an effect.

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@JesseKellyDC Yea. If we had the Democratic Party from the 80s I might think about sitting this out. But no. Unfortunately it looks like my state of Alaska is going to fall to the socialists this year.

[PetulantMoose @PetulantMoose]

@CyberGreen09 @kwstewart94 Pagans

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@JesseKellyDC Most adult decisions can be boiled down to “which bad option amongst this set of bad options sucks the least?”

[PetulantMoose @PetulantMoose]

@desitechsuppoat That’s the sad joke with all of these RTOs. Remote workers pack up and move back to the big blue city they hated, so they can sit in a cubicle and do meetings over zoom with offshore teams, only to be laid off a few months later.

[PetulantMoose @PetulantMoose]

@JesseKellyDC Western governments think a world war is the solution to thwarting the rise of populist parties in their countries.

The oldest political strategy in the world. Political problems at home? Afraid of losing your grip on power? Start a war.

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@RetroCoast @desitechsuppoat You will never get a “sorry, I was wrong” out of Trump. What you can sometimes get is a quiet policy pivot. So, ok.

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@theblaze Wilson and FDR near the top? Seriously??

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@Inevitablewest Ok, Spain. You placed your own people in an untenable position that forces them to oppose you. So now you have “justification” to crush your own citizens. Congrats, you’re a bunch of psychopaths.

[gracey4journey @Jennifer_Gracey]

Cloud Seeding & Alaska:

Behold …. the CEO of (wait for it)
🥁

@RainmakerCorp

In his own words…
Augustus Maximus here took certain liberties as Chief Big Rain by deciding Alaska is a great place for his [checks notes] “atmospheric science project”.

Did not decide it was worth consulting Alaskans in South Central regarding their opinion about being experimented on.

He probably does not have a qualified PR person. 🙄

If he did, this would not have happened and he would have been better educated about local culture before airdropping into AK like he owns the place.

He has however, done an excellent job creating a scenario in which Alaskans can illustrate exactly why they are fed up with outsiders deciding what is good (or not) for us.

[Ethan C7 @ECaliberSeven]

With the latest Alaska update, GOP narrowly takes the 4th place slot in AK Senate!

Periodic reminder, even in RCV, you want as few spoiler candidates on the ballot as possible, due to the sheer number of ppl who only rank one person.

ATM, Sullivan would have two spoilers.

[PetulantMoose @PetulantMoose]

@ECaliberSeven RCV working as intended.

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@FischerKing64 No, everyone knows the parties switched again after the 2028 election. That was all the doing of conservatives.

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@JesseKellyDC Some “reform” full of so many loopholes as to be useless will be passed. Trump will sign it while talking about how great he is, and the destruction of our critical industries and economy will continue.

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@907Honest California tech bros using Alaska as their laboratory.

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@itsolelehmann We on the Kenai peninsula don't appreciate you using our home as your laboratory. Why don't you do this crap in California?

[Virgil Bierschwale @VBierschwale]

I don't want to burst anybodys bubble, but most of you that are seeking answers have only found it hard to find work the last 2 or 3 years.

The reason why can be seen in the right 5 bars in this chart.

As you can see, it grew substantially worse in 2025.

If this continues, which I believe it will, most of you will find yourselves like me 25 years later having never worked again unless you gave up and took a convenience store job working for a indian owner who will find ways not to pay you.

This is wrong, and it is the reason I've spent the last 23 years fighting it, but if you're depending on the government to save you and put you back to work, they will not do it until they reach a point where they can no longer say you don't exist.
https://t.co/q7MvqbzXRy

[907Honest @907Honest]

A skeptical Alaskan looks at Rainmaker’s latest claims.

On August 22–23, 2026, the California-based company Rainmaker flew two “Elijah” drones over the Kenai Peninsula and released roughly 374 grams of silver iodide into the clouds.

According to its own “validation report,” the three-hour operation generated an estimated 57.6 acre-feet, about 19 million gallons, of “net new” precipitation.

The company calls this the first time any firm has “provably” produced rain or snow in Alaska and points to seven radar “seeding signatures” on the PAHG NEXRAD as proof, using methods it says follow NCAR guidelines.

Yet Rainmaker had previously stated it was not conducting commercial cloud-seeding operations in Alaska. Now the same company is publicly celebrating a multi-million-gallon experiment in a state where it maintains no office, no permanent staff, and no local point of contact.

Alaskans who might want answers, about potential effects on fisheries, snowpack, wildlife, or simply who authorized the flights, have nowhere obvious to turn. Accountability is thin when the operator is thousands of miles away and the only detailed accounting comes from the operator itself.

The numbers rest on a 27-member radar ensemble that subtracts a 5 dBZ “background” and then integrates the remaining reflectivity. Signatures B and C are said to have produced more than half the total. Whether those radar patterns truly separate seeded precipitation from ordinary Gulf of Alaska weather remains an open question that independent Alaskan scientists have not yet had the chance to examine.

The drones operated between 3.57 km and 4.27 km.

Rainmaker frames the Kenai flight as a “proof of concept” for larger projects in the Colorado River Basin and the Great Salt Lake, plus future glacier “restoration.”

For many Alaskans, the more immediate issue is simpler: a private firm conducted atmospheric intervention over public airspace in Alaska, produced what it claims is 19 million gallons of extra water, and did so after indicating it would not run commercial seeding here, all with virtually no local presence or clear channel for public questions.

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