Nate @TornadoNate Twitter profile | Pikagi

Pikagi

Nate

@TornadoNate

5,012

Followers

1,803

Following

1,617

Media

31,429

Statuses

Cows, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll

Boondocks

https://t.co/5NLWvgR9zl

Joined June 2009

Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.

Pinned Tweet

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

I turn 45 next week. Been talking with close friends, middle aged dudes- modestly successful, community oriented, good dudes working jobs of responsibility in various systems Common denominator: all the systems are broken. Everyone knows it and is doing time to pay the mortgage

112

534

4K

Last Seen Profiles

@_1MMM

@DarshawnGlynn4

@AdR_094

@MDenee72754

@kl_o__

@LKironde64186

@malaniyomc

@slc_saint

@JPTasker

@PSMusicBerlin

@73N1yzuVq3nAtpO

@Kieranparr17

@HamiltonCompany

@Drezella_966192

@Sxorpion__

@OldteaED

@JasonLeopold

@G_IDLENEVERLAND

@ValeIpanaq

@GiverRod

@buckeyesavage

@0xxnm

@ray_villafane

@JohnAdams

@Muvaa_Jaee

@JuA_YOON0321

@SteelCurtain98

@100Normalhuman

@partchlab

@LoveYouHardTV

@dearbukkie

@swaldenreporter

@kardesimbosver

@rachel_sg

@wallz1k

@veelamusic

@TornadoNate

Nate

5 months

A health insurance plan for two adults that covers basically nothing until you hit a $15k deductible costs $1300 per month w/o a subsidy. That means you would have to pay about 30k IN ONE YEAR before insurance paid a dime for anything I don't understand why we put up with this

769

1K

11K

@TornadoNate

Nate

1 year

I’m once again begging you to recognize that employment based health insurance is one of the worst ideas in America and is an entrepreneur-killing misery-hole.

101

539

5K

@TornadoNate

Nate

9 months

Almost 11 years ago we moved to this sesquicentennial midwestern family farm of my children’s great great great great grandparents. For decades a corn and beans farm, we lived here for 5 years seeing what that did For 6 years all 300 acres have been organic, with the row crops…

102

213

3K

@TornadoNate

Nate

10 months

@shagbark_hick I think where you want to live matters. Expecting everyone to just up and move away from their home ain’t it.

20

4

3K

@TornadoNate

Nate

4 months

the doomsday clock is the hokiest, lamest, dumbest gambit around. These eggheads are supposed to be good at prediction? Why?

@disclosetv

Disclose.tv

1 year

NOW - Doomsday Clock has been set to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to annihilation.

6K

3K

13K

79

74

2K

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

The cost in terms of human potential is staggering. Smart, caring and able men feel as though they are toiling and wasting prime years of life on a treadmill of dysfunction What a depressing state of affairs Here’s the thing. None of these systems are changing from the inside

7

66

1K

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

Good, capable people with experience, resources, ability and knowledge drop the fuck out and build alternatives But we’re all busy on the treadmill, bought into the rigged game just enough to make doing something different quite uncomfortable

14

54

1K

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

So young people throw themselves into it, under resourced, under powered & under supported If you’re over 40 & somewhat established and aren’t seriously devoting yourself to some sort of systemic subterfuge of one of many soul sucking institutions that are ruining life on earth

12

58

884

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

Faceless corporations making junk won’t change Healthcare systems prioritizing capital investment & growth over Human Resources & patient care won’t change Healthcare funding won’t change The structure of public Ed won’t change Our political system won’t change UNLESS

4

37

800

@TornadoNate

Nate

9 months

@themattdimitri That’s not what he’s saying and you probably know that

22

5

792

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

Also, please, please, please stop giving money to political candidates, no matter what your affiliation, and put that money to use building something that can actually challenge these godforsaken planet and life killing systems.

11

52

775

@TornadoNate

Nate

1 year

@YellowstoneNPS “Man rescues calf from drowning but is a villain ackshually because bureaucrats then were forced to shoot the baby because of regulations”

11

31

721

@TornadoNate

Nate

5 months

I'm glad the subsidies are there but they just line the pockets of the insurers, hospital admins, and pharma. The state of affairs is INSANE. In fact the subsidies in a way PREVENT reform because if you qualify for them you are unlikely to see out alternative arrangements

5

19

727

@TornadoNate

Nate

3 months

@Playboysparadox It's 2024 bro you can just be gay, its ok. No need to pretend.

6

10

705

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

I don’t want socialist utopia and I don’t want this homogenized, sterilized capitalist hellscape I want weird little places and idiosyncratic people all over the place doing their own thing, making growing and building things they think are neat

27

112

664

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

Why the fuck not? You’re shortchanging the next generation

5

21

610

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

Share this! There are plenty of resources among 40-60 year olds and the wisdom and energy to guide them to build some very very humane systems, in all areas. Don’t wait for retirement so you can golf in Florida, make an impact on your kids world now

9

26

589

@TornadoNate

Nate

5 months

I will vote for any politician who can marshal a serious constituency and put forward a significant plan to remedy this, whatever party.

19

14

544

@TornadoNate

Nate

4 months

Kinda embarrassing to view yourself as sort of a learned man but to start reading Anna Karenina at 46 years old and having your mind blown. You guys heard of this Tolstoy fellow?

76

8

525

@TornadoNate

Nate

1 year

I’m sorry, I’m having a hard time moving on from this. This is evil, pure and simple. It’s evil. And don’t dismiss it as just China, this is simply a more efficient version of how we raise hogs here. Don’t buy pork unless you know the farmer. Don’t support this.

@nytimes

The New York Times

1 year

This high-rise tower in China isn't a housing block — it's a pig farm. Each floor operates like a self-contained farm for stages of a young pig’s life. Towers like this are part of China's push to reduce its dependence on agricultural imports.

Tweet media one

344

671

2K

28

43

487

@TornadoNate

Nate

3 months

You haven’t lived until you’ve made ice cream from cream and milk that you hand milked from your own cow.

Tweet media one

41

15

484

@TornadoNate

Nate

5 months

Here is the thing: more or less, THIS IS THE COST for health insurance. Give or take, based on age, location. For those saying you have a great deal on insurance, EITHER the gov't is subsidizing it, OR your employer is depressing your wages to pay for it.

10

23

471

@TornadoNate

Nate

22 days

Cows have been a daily part of my life for about 6 years now. I’ve grown to love them. They are calm, peaceful and very interesting in their social behavior with one another. They have some fascinating aptitudes. But. My wife hates when I say this but: Cattle are stone dumb.

82

7

447

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

The American Dream has collapsed, long live the American Dream

8

23

413

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

When I was a kid in Southern Illinois, we used to go to an apple orchard every fall to pick apples It wasn’t like the u-pick places now. It wasn’t agritourism or particularly festive You drove up to Holt’s and there was a big concrete slab with a tin roof behind the farmhouse

23

75

386

@TornadoNate

Nate

1 month

Speaking of the sun, everyone who thinks about the world this way should be launched directly into the center of it.

@NBCNews

NBC News

7 years

The solar eclipse will cost America almost $700 million in lost productivity

Tweet media one

3K

2K

6K

15

53

400

@TornadoNate

Nate

11 months

If you ever wonder what experience can do, my 75 year old father moved to a new home near us LAST YEAR and this is year one of his garden My dad is a MASTER, the home I grew up in where they lived for 40 years looked for real like a botanical garden

Tweet media one

Tweet media two

Tweet media three

Tweet media four

20

20

361

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

Every summer we invite all our people over 4-5 times for movies on the barn, drive in style. We have kids here from 2 to 19, and we let our friend the 19 year old choose the movie tonight- Singing in the Rain….

Tweet media one

17

24

337

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

Good morning! Adding another thought: there’s never been a better time and place to be alive than the US right now. Which makes it all the more urgent to snap out of zombie mode and take advantage of the gifts we have. If you read this thread as defeatist, you didn’t read it well

11

18

348

@TornadoNate

Nate

14 days

if you have a very high IQ you should get on land and farm it. become curious and get innovative. way more fun and fulfilling than silly status games and inventing things that will eventually inevitably be used to kill or enslave people

@Empty_America

VB Knives

14 days

The other odd thing is that there are already far more high IQ people on earth than funded slots to appropriately occupy them. Society employs very few people in fields like fusion rockets and so forth. We have IQ 160 playing video games or messing with crypto-coins, etc.

25

26

334

21

18

356

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

I’m so sick of these control obsessed warmongering greedheads that run the fucking world, destroying beautiful things for the sake of efficiency & dividends I don’t care what you call yourself, if you like my little memory here & felt something, let’s find a way to work together

4

17

305

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

Shout out to @JoshCLC who just liked this post and also up and quit his public school teaching gig to found the Canton Learning Collaborative, the exact thing I’m talking about in this thread. My son Quinn is a charter member of the collaborative.

6

6

307

@TornadoNate

Nate

5 months

very big part of the problem right here

@OjaiMaulerjr

OjaiMaulerjr "illegitimate 2nd son of OakMauler"

5 months

@TornadoNate @monicasmaid

Tweet media one

3

3

20

16

20

307

@TornadoNate

Nate

9 months

Just finished grilling a hanger steak from an animal I raised and now the bats are out

8

2

297

@TornadoNate

Nate

13 days

Worldly ambition is so lame. Your ambition should be to learn your own nature and align it to the order of creation.

11

55

300

@TornadoNate

Nate

1 year

We should all be able to agree here. Leftish folk OBVS think this is bad, but righty folk- here’s your chance to do a MASSIVE power grab from the woke HR departments you can’t stand

3

8

284

@TornadoNate

Nate

3 months

I think that 32k is worse

@TheJackForge

Jack Forge

3 months

I think $150k - $225k has to be the worst salary range. You make too much to say “F*ck this place, I quit.” Yet not enough to be financially free without a job for any significant amount of time.

2K

1K

25K

7

2

288

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 months

@shagbark_hick Essentially you are telling people they should pick up and move to a place that is foreign to them and live in a way that is completely different, when they’ve spent their lives to this point doing what they’ve been told to do, and it feels as though the terms have been…

46

2

286

@TornadoNate

Nate

1 year

So here’s my theory, and a question. Most people would be better off doing whatever it is they were most interested in at about 8 years of age. What did YOU want to do when you were 8? You may, but don’t feel bound by, naming actual jobs

195

7

276

@TornadoNate

Nate

1 year

People think there are nearly infinite career choices but there’s not that many categories Invent Make Grow Move Fix Sell Create Heal Teach Protect Help Study What else?

85

27

276

@TornadoNate

Nate

4 months

What an insane psyop skim milk is. They keep the gold and sell you the dross.

18

16

268

@TornadoNate

Nate

5 months

Happiness is a full freezer. This is about a third of our personal stockpile, and we have a whole hog coming in a month!

Tweet media one

19

7

261

@TornadoNate

Nate

3 months

@RizomaSchool @insectbrah lol 💯 not because of this tweet

1

0

259

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

This is an explosive thing to say about someone. If someone were to include it in a thread meant to function as a character assassination, & the person reading the Tweet had no further knowledge, it would serve as a powerful confirmation of a stereotype Here’s a 🧵about this…

Tweet media one

8

53

250

@TornadoNate

Nate

1 year

A landowner in my mother in laws neighborhood recently sold a lot to Dollar General, which recently opened. Every year for decades the town has a Memorial Day parade from the fire dept to the cemetery. This year DG was able to block closing the road and effectively cancelled it.…

20

24

246

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

Around the time I went to college I heard that old Holt had died and no one cared to keep the orchard up They bulldozed the whole thing and planted corn I’m not kidding when I say that this was a major event in my sociopolitical development. This was clearly a fucking travesty

8

12

246

@TornadoNate

Nate

10 months

GOONIES. Barn movie, got about 12 families here, THIS is SUMMERTIME.

Tweet media one

19

6

241

@TornadoNate

Nate

5 months

also I'm old enough to have paid to self insure before and after obamacare, o'care AINT the problem. It didn't fix it, made some things better and some worse, but it did not cause this mess. In all likelihood I would not still be self employed if it would not have passed

14

5

237

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 months

Is it time we can just really be honest and declare, forcefully, that smartphones are an utter and complete psychological disaster for children and teens? Like, an unholy shitshow level disaster. We done FUCKED up.

22

11

225

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

I think about that orchard all the time and how we can get Fujis from New Zealand in the grocery stores in January but there’s a magical place in southern Illinois that doesn’t exist anymore because of the modern wonder of capitalist efficiency

7

15

216

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 months

The story of heartland rural depopulation is extremely simple and easy to explain. Land became a commodity rather than a home, and machines started doing the work of people. That's the entire story.

28

19

216

@TornadoNate

Nate

1 year

As someone who has worked for years with people who get close to the edge, I think that the biggest risk for suicide must be this: Repetitive pointlessness. I don’t thing there’s a harder experience for a person to bear

14

21

214

@TornadoNate

Nate

8 months

Let’s say you’re out for a nice paddle in a remote area and you’re greeted by a tribe of these meanies. Wyd?

Tweet media one

46

17

212

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 months

@HellenicVibes yeah but running 10 miles is for nerds and twinks

4

0

205

@TornadoNate

Nate

18 days

Tweet media one

12

6

212

@TornadoNate

Nate

6 months

This is all I really want.

@RoadandTrack

Road & Track

6 months

Toyota’s $10,000 future pickup truck is basic transportation perfection.

Tweet media one

355

348

4K

18

9

198

@TornadoNate

Nate

9 months

Well heck lots of people are seeing this so I might as well LITERALLY try to sell something. Need a camper?

@TornadoNate

Nate

9 months

Anybody need a camper? Everything works fine except the canopy. Dm if interested

2

1

11

3

2

199

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

Seems like a good sign to see a thread start popping like this with such a low troll ratio.

13

0

194

@TornadoNate

Nate

10 months

@shagbark_hick Yeah I don’t blame you but if a person really doesn’t want to move far and home prices are like they are some places, I don’t blame them for being mad

2

1

188

@TornadoNate

Nate

23 days

I still don’t get why I’m supposed to be happy to pay a portion of my income in taxes to then send to an Eastern European country to fight a war that doesn’t effect anyone I care about.

49

14

192

@TornadoNate

Nate

5 months

I’m just going to pop in on dink discourse here and support my friends who are stating the obvious: it’s not the childlessness that makes these videos hideous, it’s the celebration of completely vapid consumption and utter self centeredness

12

12

181

@TornadoNate

Nate

4 months

Is it me or is John Fetterman on a roll?

@EnesFreedom

Enes FREEDOM

4 months

Democrat Senator John Fetterman calls for the United States to ban the Chinese Communist Party from buying American Farmland, and suggests we should take the land back also. Do you agree with him?

Tweet media one

360

455

4K

19

5

170

@TornadoNate

Nate

27 days

sadly, you will die on this hill lonely and bitter look, not everyone is required to have children, but to dislike them? weird and creepy

@toomanyspectra

Seven Machina Rasmussen

@toomanyspectra

29 days

i will die on this hill: it’s fine and normal to dislike children

2K

595

5K

25

8

170

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 months

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Tweet media one

12

18

164

@TornadoNate

Nate

5 months

@drgurner I don't think disruption is really possible at this point given the govt-corporate axis coordinating to keep it in place...

6

1

169

@TornadoNate

Nate

5 months

WAYNE is very correct. The problem is that the cost is HIDDEN. It's ungodly expensive for EVERYONE, whether you are aware of it or not

@wrowclif

Wayne Rowcliffe 🦬

5 months

You can look on your W2 in box 12DD to see what your employer sponsored health benefits cost. We don't even have that good of insurance, but it still costs as much as I spend on literally everything else in a year.

Tweet media one

7

4

36

6

8

165

@TornadoNate

Nate

3 months

I mean holy shit this guy

@e_cdalton

Erik

3 months

This was a Large Coke in 1989

Tweet media one

86

22

500

39

4

165

@TornadoNate

Nate

7 months

GM from the Wagon Box in chilly Story Wyoming. Paradise!

Tweet media one

Tweet media two

9

4

161

@TornadoNate

Nate

3 months

A free born American man does not pee inside a house, there are trees and back porches for that very purpose.

21

13

163

@TornadoNate

Nate

4 months

People who point and sneer at “flyover country” are the biggest retards perhaps in the history of time Wide open country, fertile soil and good air to breathe. The horror. Guess I’ll get up tomorrow and take a walk through a dormant pasture to tend a healthy herd of cattle. Sad

19

7

157

@TornadoNate

Nate

8 months

“Not liking” a food is a character flaw. I mean if you are cooking or ordering go ahead and get your favorites but not eating something because you don’t like it? That is the behavior of a spoiled child.

49

7

149

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

Consider sharing this one if you feel at all moved to, so we can all continue to find each other.

13

3

147

@TornadoNate

Nate

21 days

We have a society-wide problem across multiple domains in which people who are quite disturbed, and people who are sympathetic to them, are trying to wholesale rewrite social norms around dysfunction rather than health

11

24

150

@TornadoNate

Nate

10 months

Gonna make some garden kimchi with Miles, the grower

Tweet media one

13

3

150

@TornadoNate

Nate

1 year

An option for making life decisions is to decide major things based on your values. Not on what you think will happen, the economy, or other people’s opinions. This requires lots of trust in yourself & even faith. It’s very scary but the upside is living like you really mean it

13

16

150

@TornadoNate

Nate

1 year

The masculine urge to create structures and patterns on a landscape, to interact with earth, and to create flows of energy and resources to produce abundance

6

10

148

@TornadoNate

Nate

5 months

For everyone saying butbutbut its only because its not a FREE MARKET

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

I gotta say the “invisible hand” must be preeeeetttttty good at wanking a certain type of guy right off.

12

10

96

6

3

145

@TornadoNate

Nate

1 month

Homesteading has crashed as an influencer/social media trend. The longing to inhabit the countryside and live close to the land continues unabated.

@Empty_America

VB Knives

1 month

The "homestead" fad crashed because it solves a non-existent problem. Default living standards today are very high, no one is unable to buy potatoes at Walmart. Old homesteaders were excited to live in a hole and eat jackrabbit. Alternative was starvation, homelessness.

Tweet media one

55

28

737

20

7

137

@TornadoNate

Nate

8 months

Just picked this up: $375 for this trailer with a 2k gal tank. All working order. Good deal! Just got to get it 80 miles home

Tweet media one

19

1

140

@TornadoNate

Nate

1 month

I'm no history expert, but it seems to me that the dumbest thing anyone in the history of the human species has ever done was the Japanese choosing to bomb pearl harbor- yeah?

113

5

140

@TornadoNate

Nate

12 days

OR, hear me out- instead of growing corn to feed to cars and livestock, just grow the best pasture in the world and feed cows THAT.

@PetersenFarms

Lance from the Lower St. Croix

12 days

Would a cover crop and no till cure this? I’d highly doubt it. Would a cover crop and no till reduce the amount of what we would see in this picture? More than likely.

11

2

82

15

5

142

@TornadoNate

Nate

28 days

Every grassland on earth has coevolved with ruminant animals. Ruminants convert inedible plants to food for humans, and grasslands store and pump carbon into the ground by the megaton. Only one with terminal carbon myopia can think chemically intensive grain farming is better

@TamarHaspel

Tamar Haspel

29 days

3 things everyone wants to be good for the climate, but aren't, in order of their badness for the climate: 1. grass-fed beef 2. organics 3. local food They ALL have other advantages! They're not bad things, they're just bad in the GHG equation.

95

56

326

8

9

140

@TornadoNate

Nate

1 year

@docmcliteweight @YellowstoneNPS The article in no way clarifies why the park service to write such an incendiary and misleading tweet

0

0

137

@TornadoNate

Nate

6 months

This is the endgame. It’s coming, and if you don’t join the fight now it will be too late.

@samdknowlton

Sam Knowlton

6 months

This 30-ton autonomous planter can sow 400 hectares in 24 hours. It also significantly degrades 400 hectares of soil in 24 hours. A planter of this size aggressively compacts the soil surface and pulverizes the critical soil aggregates. Just look at the plume of topsoil left in…

124

258

1K

28

20

128

@TornadoNate

Nate

1 month

this looks exactly like a road. you could drive a prius on it

@teslaownersSV

Tesla Owners Silicon Valley

2 months

Cybertruck off-roading in Southern California. This truck is unreal. My daily driver can go off road whenever I want.

4K

193

2K

17

4

135

@TornadoNate

Nate

5 months

@victoryillinois I mean that we seem to have collectively given up on even trying to solve the problem

11

0

135

@TornadoNate

Nate

1 year

Obesity is such a thorny and growing problem not because of the food people choose or sedentism or anything, it’s a problem because it’s one of the outputs of the culture that we’ve built over the last century, and as such is woven into the fabric of how we organize ourselves

9

9

135

@TornadoNate

Nate

3 months

100% one income should be a realistic standard for a family. This should absolutely be a political goal

@GordMagill

Gord Magill

3 months

The greatest crime against Western Civilization was forcing parents of small children to both have jobs to get by. You do not have a society if there is such a thing as working parents. A family ought to get by on ONE working PARENT, SINGULAR; all politics must have this goal.

34

34

398

4

7

132

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 years

Everything on this plate except the mustard was grown HERE. Beef, tomato, onion, corn, tomato. Drink is mulberry bramble made with mulberry liqueur I made with foraged mulberries. Basil garnish from the hen spiral.

Tweet media one

5

3

129

@TornadoNate

Nate

6 months

If we were really smart (we are not) we’d use ungodly amounts of fake money (debt) to build REAL things that are easy to sustainably maintain. We’d use fake money to increase our capacity for production. Then just not worry about paying it back because who cares

23

3

133

@TornadoNate

Nate

4 months

JFC how can one man just get everything so spectacularly wrong. Hey look, lets do agroforestry and ranching, completely retarded, because I do not live on earth and am in fact a cyborg

Tweet media one

37

2

128

@TornadoNate

Nate

1 year

Y’all out there worried about tent cities but I’m telling you I’m in TARGET right now and this shit is pure dystopia

2

6

124

@TornadoNate

Nate

1 year

I see a lot on here a demand by lads for guidance from young dudes on how to get chicks I’ll give you some free advice Be strong AND safe Be curious and interested Be courteous and respectful Be the best version of yourself Take responsibility There are no shortcuts

5

8

128

@TornadoNate

Nate

1 month

Ambition is a character flaw and a sign of a spiritually and emotionally damaged person

@aaron_renn

Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸

1 month

A major problem for the Midwest is that it attracts low ambition people. This used to be true for the South too but that's changed big time. Atlanta became a magnet for many of America's black elite. High finance has set up shop in Miami/Palm Beach. Austin, despite its deep…

199

17

214

20

8

125

@TornadoNate

Nate

6 months

This one is for my nerdier friends: I have a very bright and curious homeschooled 15 year old interested in agrarianism. If we were to do a deep dive into agrarian philosophy and practice, give me a reading list

71

5

127

@TornadoNate

Nate

9 months

@HDPbilly Well we’re in year 6 so that kinda tracks!

1

1

126

@TornadoNate

Nate

1 year

Im still reeling from the vibe shift

Tweet media one

2

4

122

@TornadoNate

Nate

2 months

AMERICAN WOMEN FTW. Sorry rest of the world

Tweet media one

11

3

123

@TornadoNate

Nate

6 months

So, relationship advice you probably don’t want: if you are dating for marriage, and you should be, you should probably get engaged within the first year or so. You have all the information you need by then and just need to commit. This isn’t moralistic, it’s practical.

17

3

121