Timeline cleanser: I just published a mini-documentary about paddling Great Slave Lake in NWT, the deepest lake in North America, and only a short distance from the Arctic treeline: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyYM...

Everybody is worried about bears in the outdoors, but they’re totally missing the real danger. From episode 437 of The Strenuous Life Podcast

Just a reminder that we have the evangelical church to blame for Donald Trump getting elected, and it started with Jerry Falwell Jr. from Liberty “University” see goodness in Trump’s heart. Or, more accurately, covering up his cuckolding fetish www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The great @lukethomas.bsky.social on the Fighting Matters podcast on the UFC betting scandal youtu.be/y95VCx8Y4AY?...

UPDATE: by this time next year, every American will have lost 347 pounds

I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you dailyboulder.com/panic-spread...

My friend, Adam Shoalts on the universal allure of wild places. Episode 437 of The Strenuous Life Podcast, available on YouTube and anywhere you get your audio podcast from. youtu.be/VKJnszQ1lmo?...

If you gas out in #bjj competition but not in training…

I know, I know. I’ve been a little tapped out lately. Thanks for the messages and check ins. Life is lifing; A LOT, & the US is on fire. So aside from catching up on Twitter here & there, checking in here-I’ve been a little overwhelmed w/news (& under the weather). All is well, I promise Xoxox -J

Just because you can use AI doesn’t mean you should use AI. Worst podcast pitch ever.

Please watch.

Congratulation MAGA, the Libs are so owned

Nobody is just going to let you finish the Kimura without resisting, so here are my favorite ways of breaking through that defense! www.youtube.com/watch?v=whRs...

Explaining the so-called "last mile problem" and how it applies to Jiu-Jitsu: youtu.be/njclOP6rVyw

Tax the billionaires

Welcome to the Dunning-Krueger decade

BJJ, Judo and Aikido black belt Roy Dean came onto episode 435 of The Strenuous Life Podcast to talk about the history of martial arts in North America. He was an absolute delight to talk to.

Great piece on incorporating the punk rock ethos into BJJ roughhands.substack.com/p/infusing-t... by @roughhandsbjj.bsky.social

BJJ Mental Models Ep. 361 is now live! @stephankesting.bsky.social teaches the Kimura as both a submission and a positional system. Listen now by searching for BJJ Mental Models in your podcast app, or visit this link: bjj.plus/361

Great Slave Lake is gigantic and beautiful and dangerous and remote. If you have the skills then I 10/10 recommend. Longform video about this trip coming soon to the Essential Wilderness channel on YouTube here: youtube.com/@essentialwi...

Did my best to explain how and why underhooks work. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Here’s one of my concepts for next summers expedition. I don’t know if it’s possible, and even if it is, it will be gut wrenching. Might not be a good idea but I like it…

Day 3 of quoting Bible verses to Christian nationalists who worship billionaires and don’t read the Bible

Most people think of the Kimura as just a submission. Most people are wrong! #BJJ

The Department of Labor ladies and gentlemen. Does this artwork remind you of any particular era in history?

In this brand new video I break down your T Kimura attack options based on two simple variables: what direction your opponent moves in, and how you can bring your top leg into play. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkyw... #BJJ

Strange how the crowd that wants to post the 10 commandments in classrooms leaves out this other verse from Exodus: “Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.”

A properly executed Kimura should be a threat from any position and should allow you to chase your opponent through many different positions. Check out the Kimura Roadmap live today for 50% off at www.grapplearts.com/kimura

A little taste of the Kimura Roadmap project I’ve been working on for months now. It should go live tomorrow if all goes well.

Are you a MAGA but not millionaire? If so, then you’ve been duped. newrepublic.com/article/2018...

And you thought they were just coming for abortion? Oh sweet summer child: birth control is next www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

But “dRaiN thE sWamP”, amiright?

It’s just a joke… don’t take it so seriously… you’ve got trump deranged syndrome. Ok whatever. Just read this and let me know what you think www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

THIS is why “position over submission” is such a powerful approach in #BJJ

The fact that this photo could be controversial is a sad testament to the power of misinformation in society

The fundamental lie of tradwife fantasy is that if Nara Smith gets dumped by her husband she’ll be just fine financially with her 15 million followers. The average woman who has tradwife aspirations? Not so much.

Ahhhh, BJJ YouTube comments…

i’ll never get over this

I'm doing an AMA on solo wilderness travel for the next few hours on reddit. Here's the link if you want to hop on and chat: www.reddit.com/r/AMA/commen... #outdoors

Gordon Ryan has come into my comment section and shat all over me multiple times. He has like 1 million followers on Instagram and sends his fans to attack people he doesn’t like. F bullies. youtu.be/ccjxS5bePyw?...

Why everyone feels so incredibly strong in #BJJ competition. From ep 434 of The Strenuous Life Podcast, available on all audio podcast platforms, and on YouTube as well youtu.be/GSTvUNpi51I?...

This short podcast episode is an amazing rebuttal to the latest Gish gallop of lies from RFK Junior

For no particular reason, here is the German memorial to Reichstag politicians first vilified and then killed by the Nazis

The butterfly guard to X guard transition, now and then. #bjj

People tend to write off Alex Jones as a clown, a lunatic, or both, but if you pay attention to the spread of conspiracy theories it's amazing how often a slightly different version of his insanity ends up on the Joe Rogan Experience...

The NIJ study that demonstrated that right-wing domestic terrorism is almost 10x more common than left-wing or Islamic domestic terrorism. It's an archived copy because - shockingly - the MAGA administration pulled it down from government servers a few months ago: web.archive.org/web/20250911...

If you do #BJJ then you should know this detail for the butterfly guard

To anyone who thinks that MAGA won't use drones on its own citizens consider that not that long ago, in Philadelphia in 1985, the cops dropped a bomb on house they were besieging that ended up burning down a whole block: www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

"Trump’s politicization of the Department of Justice is a backward-looking expression of hurt feelings. It’s also another step in a forward-looking plot to shred the rule of law in order to pervert the next election and protect his corruption from accountability." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

If you live in the USA and are gay, or trans, or have ever registered as a Democrat, or have ever posted anything critical of the regime, get your passport now. The time might come when you need to run for it, and you can’t assume it’ll be possible to get a passport when that time comes