Filemaker Pro developer, ex-Helium cult member, crypto fan, trophy husband, arguably the best dad my kids have ever had, and part-time crypto influencer. $BTC
Woodinville, WA
Joined May 2009
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Keith Rettig retweeted
Astra - Tailored
I forgot to upload it after adding english subtitles 😅
Only 3 takes were re-generated. It was a near one-shot.
Keith Rettig retweeted
We're all paying the price after Republicans increased the cost of living - look no further than an order at Waffle House.
youtube.com/watch?v=Y3Jm03nD…
Yo' Seth, this is the kind of story we need....
@LateNightSeth
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How is the butterfly sea slug not the mascot for every rave?
vp.nyt.com/video/2026/09/14/…
clip from Igor Adameyko
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Keith Rettig retweeted
With @SpaceX ramping up its carrier, we’ll see even more consumer access to direct-to-cellular (D2C), which is awesome. It’s a huge boon for remote areas and rural communities.
But what about indoors? 70-80% of mobile use happens inside where satellite doesn’t reach very well. In large commercial spaces you either can’t get on the Wi-Fi, or you can, but can’t get anything through.
So, satellite still rocks, but it’s not the silver bullet. The next era of wireless means shared interoperable networks and decentralized deployment. @helium’s been building it for years.
And it’s more relevant than ever…
What the @SpaceX wireless plan gets right, and the 80% it leaves out...
Satellite coverage closes gaps cell towers never could: across oceans, rural areas, supply lines.
But 80% of mobile data lives indoors, where signals from space can fail.
That's where Helium comes in.
ALT What SpaceX’s Wireless Plan Gets Right, and the 80% It Leaves Out.
Keith Rettig retweeted
So basically @Starlink needs "terrestrial" (lol) mobile coverage to be able to provide signal indoors, closest to where people actually dwell....
@Gwynne_Shotwell heard of @helium? Global decentralized network, built by people? We should chat 💅
.@SpaceX just spent $19.6B on 65 MHz of spectrum and said it will build its mobile network with small cells on rooftops instead of towers, saying explicitly, “you deploy that as you need it.”
Sound familiar?
The most valuable private company in the world looked at the macro tower model and...passed.
Their plan? Distributed radios on buildings, deployed incrementally, close to where people actually use data.
It’s an endorsement of decentralized networks by the biggest challenger to traditional telco.
Do satellites solve the universal connectivity problem? Not entirely on their own.
Satellites are are good at covering things like oceans, highways, rural dead zones, and disaster areas. But what physics will not let them do is deliver capacity indoors, where most mobile data is actually consumed. Satellite signals do not pass through buildings, and 65 MHz stretched across a continent cannot carry a city at rush hour.
Indoor connectivity has to be built from the ground up. Radio by radio, building by building, by people who are already there. It is the hardest part of wireless to replicate and the one part satellites fall short.
So to @SpaceX @Starlink @Gwynne_Shotwell, welcome to decentralized wireless infrastructure! You handle the sky and when your customers walk inside, the @helium Network is already there for a smooth handoff 🤝.
Source: fierce-network.com/wireless/…
Keith Rettig retweeted
.@SpaceX just spent $19.6B on 65 MHz of spectrum and said it will build its mobile network with small cells on rooftops instead of towers, saying explicitly, “you deploy that as you need it.”
Sound familiar?
The most valuable private company in the world looked at the macro tower model and...passed.
Their plan? Distributed radios on buildings, deployed incrementally, close to where people actually use data.
It’s an endorsement of decentralized networks by the biggest challenger to traditional telco.
Do satellites solve the universal connectivity problem? Not entirely on their own.
Satellites are are good at covering things like oceans, highways, rural dead zones, and disaster areas. But what physics will not let them do is deliver capacity indoors, where most mobile data is actually consumed. Satellite signals do not pass through buildings, and 65 MHz stretched across a continent cannot carry a city at rush hour.
Indoor connectivity has to be built from the ground up. Radio by radio, building by building, by people who are already there. It is the hardest part of wireless to replicate and the one part satellites fall short.
So to @SpaceX @Starlink @Gwynne_Shotwell, welcome to decentralized wireless infrastructure! You handle the sky and when your customers walk inside, the @helium Network is already there for a smooth handoff 🤝.
Source: fierce-network.com/wireless/…
Keith Rettig retweeted
So basically Mitch McConnell is a vegetable on life support in the hospital rn and bc his wife fled to China there’s no one with power of attorney to pull the plug or give up his seat…
Which is likely by design bc if the seat were vacated before August 3rd the election would become a special election which would allow Thomas Massie to run as an Independent and potentially win.
And the entire Republican Party is going along with this sick charade bc they are wholly owned by a foreign country who views Thomas Massie as a serious threat to their power.
A lot of people are asking “why hide McConnell’s state? Not like a Dem would win the special election?”
If McConnell vacated before August 3rd cut off it’d be a special election and any one can register as an independent…
Including Massie.
Which would split the Republican vote, giving him or maybe even the Dem the chance at the plurality.
But, if McConnell’s seat is not vacated before the 3rd by legally stepping down or a signed death certificate, then it’s too close to the next election and rules prevent a special election which bars any new registrations at this point.
With McConnell’s wife having travelled to China AFTER he was hospitalized, the next of kin isn’t available to sign off and so the bar for ending life support is extremely high (would require full brain stem death, which is not present in some patients who are never coming back)
So all they have to do is drag their feet until August 3rd, then tell you that he didn’t make it.
And in turn block Massie from disrupting an otherwise safe Republican seat.
Just like that fucking old turtle would have wanted.
Thanks to @Safeway (Duvall, WA), for treating me like a valued customer and letting me buy my @SNAPPLEicedTEA in bulk once again; and while on sale no less. Very appreciated.
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Keith Rettig retweeted
She made it!
Kelsey Pfendler just shattered records by completing her solo, unsupported row from Monterey, California to Honolulu, Hawaii — a grueling ~2,400-mile journey across the Pacific.
In just 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes, the 32-year-old became:
-The fastest person ever (beating the men's record by ~7-9 days)
-The fastest woman (crushing the previous record by over 40 days)
-The first American woman to do it solo
-The youngest woman to achieve the feat.
She’s one of only a handful of people to conquer this epic mid-Pacific row. What an incredible achievement! 🇺🇸🚣♀️
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The Great McVote 2025 is upon us!
To all those folks with $TOKE in their wallet…please vote to unlock the vault. We are so close to success this year.
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Yo movie studios;
If @mgyllenhaal comes to you and asks for money to write, star, or direct a film, don't be stupid. Just give her whatever she asks. She is the fucking bomb. #TheBrideMovie was so well directed & fabulously written. The acting by Buckley & Bale was brilliant.
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