Irrigation Regardless

Just put sprinklers everywhere. In your lawn, in your house, who cares

Feb 11, 2026

Not my circus, not my duckstack

Welcome to The Duckstack petting zoo. What’s that? Another duck to pet. Walk down the road and what do you find? Another. And Another! What a sight. You’ve pet the ducks, now take a short stroll down to the stream, where you will find several ducks lounging, suntanning, and taking a “dip1” in the water. What a marvelous find! Continue on and you will find a duck by the road. He is so friendly! Walk a little further and you will find the pride and joy of our petting zoo: Four ducks, jousting. You made it to the duck stack.

Duckstack Military Strategy: Supply Chains

I expect all of you to be generals when you grow up

Every Napoleon2 will tell you, a supply chain is vital in war. You can’t war without it. A supply chain has two parts:

First, the chain. This is vital for all sorts of military weaponry, from nunchucks to tractor hitches. For seafaring campaign, you have to supply chain the anchor, otherwise it will just fall right off the boat and not do anything3. What do you do with prisoners of war? You put them in supply chains to make sure they don’t run away4. Supply chains are the swiss army knives of war.

Secondly, the supplies. A Japanese man was once hired for a warehouse stock managing position. After some time had passed, the owner came by for inspections. Naturally, he asked about the new employee, and the receptionist told him “he’s great, he comes in every day, very friendly, goes back to the warehouse. Only problem is, we’re running low on items.” The owner continues his walk through, reaches the sales floor, asks about the new employee. “He’s great, comes in every day right on time, very friendly, goes back into the warehouse and we never see him again. Only problem is, we’re running out of stock to sell.” “You never get anything?” “We never get anything.” The owner continues his walkthrough and eventually reaches the warehouse. He opens the door, walks in, and the Japanese man jumps out from behind a bunch of boxes. “Supplies!”

Why Is The Rum Gone

Every movie and painting is about woke nonsense now

I wrote three years ago about the deficiencies in Christian art when compared against so-called “pagan” movies and fantasy. If you don’t remember, please re-read the entire Duckstack corpus up to January 18 2023 to make sure you’re up to date5.

Some new information has come out since then, namely that leftists have been being given billions of dollars for free to make art or patronize each other and even small time leftist studios take welfare grants from the government for the sole purpose of making propaganda and leftist board seats are given to people with basically no qualifications because they’re democrats. So that sucks.

I would say, offhand, that I think leftists are slightly better at making art than rightists. They’re less practical and more boundary pushing and so more fearless at exploring concepts, albeit way, way more preachy about it. The most heavyhanded Christian movie about owning an atheist professor in a college debate couldn’t dream of being as heavyhanded as that one brooklyn 99 episode about coming out to your republican parents about being bisexual. The reason I initially got into anime was specifically to avoid left wing art.

But it turns out, a huge reason we are swamped with left wing art, is because left wing artists are funded en mass and therefore have more time to practice. Practice is a very important thing. You can overcome all sorts of personality deficiencies with practice. You can have the worst idea in the world and get away with it if you’re a skilled artist. Rightists, with their jobs and families, don’t have nearly as much time to devote to honing their skills, and also they have to worry about getting cancelled, which is something we saw in the ~2020s, where basically anyone conservative in the film industry was unceremoniously fired. In other words, basically the only play to create marginally right wing art is to be self taught, self published, self advertised, self networked, self started, self funded, and then your art has to be visionary enough to go viral, or shamelessly pander (diluting the honesty of the art.) Those are table stakes. And its not like there isn’t “money” in the republican party- but if you talk to any RW artist who has made investor pitches, the only thing ideologically aligned investors care about is making money. “What’s your monetization plan? What’s your profit margin? How well will this sell?”

The left doesn’t care about any of this. They will literally pay billions of dollars to produce live action disney remakes that four people will watch just to give their artists experience and resume items. They will set money on fire for even a chance at getting closer to power. They will set themselves on fire. The right cares about power the way a wine snob cares about power. The left cares about power the way an alcoholic cares about power.

And occasionally, powerful and rich rightists will recognize this imbalance, and they will say: “Stop whining, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, get a job at panda express and work your way up to manager.” This is what Chris Rufo said after it came out that he’d given a ~$150,000 journalism contract to a militant leftist ex-pornstar. He actually taunted people online, telling them they needed to get good and that none of them displayed merit and their capabilities sucked.

The work-life balance of right wingers implies a dual dearth. Not only are the artists low on free time, but the creators and buyers are usually small, one-off projects, because the creators themselves are just doing things in their free time as they have energy and drive. My friend, Thomas O Bethlehem, recently produced a children’s storybook, and he said it was a nightmare finding artists, and for various reasons the short project stretched years before completion. That’s either a lot to finance or very little to live off of.

Now, the reason leftist artists isn’t really that they have really generous patrons. Leftists are generally speaking incredibly stingy and given to infighting. The reason leftist artists get funded is that they have captured beurocratic networks, and thus hold purse strings that don’t really belong to them. Businesses, including the federal government, tend to have incredibly deep pockets. So one possible solution would be to normalize, through either tax incentives, social pressure, or some other system, a way for companies to pay for their employees chosen patronage recipients. Companies should be paying for a premium $5 subscription to your favorite twitch streamer, and the reason companies should be doing this is because there is a tax write-off. Or favorite substack writer. Or favorite artist broadly. Leftists would support this too, because there are a lot of leftist artists. If companies get a small tax write off for doing this, they will do it, and companies will happily add it to their benefits packages on job listings. Corporate art credits or tokens would go a huge way towards turning our culture back towards beauty and away from ugliness. The only roadblocks would be modest measures to prevent abuse such as giving your art tokens to themselves.

In every domain of life, producers and consumers have difficulty finding each other. For something as thoroughly cancelled from the mainstream as right wing art is, this goes triple, and the first thing everyone who is ready to hire someone for something does is go “uh. Anyone know any artists?” This needs to be mitigated, and can be done via contests.

There are, of course, already freelance websites for everything imaginable, but people don’t know about them, just like people don’t know any good artists. There is a huge market for a service that facilitates connections, especially on an ideological basis, which is why I propose a social media integrated system, where you post a bounty, people bid, and you are able to clearly see their social media history and even a portfolio of previous works. That’s the easy part. The hard part is gatekeeping. Freelance websites are flooded with artists and barren of work, and so the average job goes for pennies, and so the only people who take the jobs live in third world countries. Tariffs solve this, meaning you have to restrict the pool of potential artists/buyers (art can be a broad term for anything from video to music to writing to coding).

So what you need is artists to be grouped by tags and community affiliation. This provides the shortest possible in-network filter that I can think of. If I have the choice obviously I will want to give money to my friends, but how do I know who is my friend? Most people will happily tell you6!

The people who rise to power are often not the creatives, or the people who are strong or visionary, but the people who are “connectors”, the people who are skilled at linking like minded people to each other. This was nearly the entire appeal of old twitter, and it remains a high demand service today that it is unlikely AI can ever replace.

A problem with government is that the government positions that hold pursestrings rarely pay well enough to be staffed by anyone other than third world communists, so government contracts easily flow to communist causes. In Utah in ~2018, we had an ocean wave of “LGBT rallies” and transexual strip shows and protests, and these events were all approved by public parks and city officials, and one of DezNat’s pet projects was attaching names and faces to who was giving these things a pass, and what we found was every coordinator and permission granter had a hispanic last name. Not that all hispanics are communists, but for whatever reason they seem to have little incentive to be conservative. Increasing funding for these positions is not very viable, but it might be possible to build something that increases the transparency of these positions in a simple way to interested parties. Ideally I think conservatives would just get someone in control of these levers and start using them in the same blatantly partisan ways that leftists have been, but it seems more viable to me that conservatives instead be warned in advance of impending government contracts so that vying for them is more simple.

If you can’t be a creator and you can’t be a financer, you can be a connector, increasing transparency and learning and simplifying opaque processes to help people who need it get where they’re going. You can observe that people hate tech recruiters and similar people who fill this role, but its because they miss the crucial part- tech recruiters aren’t your friend. They don’t care about you, they aren’t personal, they aren’t actually doing their job, which is why the vast majority of people land careers through referrals instead. Everybody wants help getting to new and better vistas.

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“this game is called the bus kills everybody.” "what are we teaching this kid, he’s got a murder bus!” The kid thought that was funny: “haha, murder bus!” and we tried to correct him “how about something nice, like kindness?” and I cut in with: “yeah, kill them with kindness.” And our son replied “No… Kill them… with murder. 😈”

Our baby toddler has learned to talk! Her corpus is7 “mama” (only when asked to say papa), “papa” (only when asked to say mama) and “duck” (every single animal no matter what including the chickens in our yard). She’s basically the perfect daughter

Asked the boy to put on a shirt, and he said “but, but”, (drops on floor, rolls under bed) “I'm under your bed?” Why didn’t I think of that

The kids have a set of fighting robots that punch each other and their heads launch off. They will happily smash and violently explode them into each other. And then we will find them both swaddling the things in literal blankets and putting them to bed. Killer robot dollies.