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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 28/09/2026

Good morning from Paris. Happy Victory Monday to all who celebrate. #BillsMafia

Have you across Paris from the 15th arrondissement looking east. The sky is cloudy pinky gray, the sun is just risen just to the right of the Pantheon, The Tour Montparnasse is on the right side of the image.

Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 15/09/2026

I would like to take a moment give thanks to wonderful neuroscientist @drdeanburbett.bsky.social for his excellent and often hilarious books on all thing brain-related. Sitting here in a café in Paris and just made everyone’s head truns and I laughed out loud so hard. Thanks, Dean! 🤣

Dean Burnett’s book “Physcho Logical” is on a small round table next to cup of coffee

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 24/08/2026

So I did these quickly choosing the darkest portion of the tests you did there as representative of what it'd look like with two coats. I'd go with sage green myself.

mockup of wall painted with newborn baby shit yellow

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 15/07/2026

This sky is this weird freaky, yellow orange color in Buffalo right now. Canadian wildfires, is that right?

The sky is a dirty, pale orange color, a yellow – orange sun visible through the clouds, there are dark trees in silhouette in the foreground

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 14/07/2026

Greetings from suburban Buffalo, New York. 😎

Photograph of a sun-dappled, backyard, surrounded by trees

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 13/07/2026

Having spent my time during the punishing heatwaves in Paris dreaming of cool Irish summers, and then finally escaping the 34ºC heat of Paris for the immense relief of 24ºC my beloved North County Dublin coast, I would have to say YES!

View looking north cross the rocks of the north end of Donabate Beach across a small bay to Portrane. The late morning sun is shining and the sky is blue criss-crossed with high hazy clouds.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 30/06/2026

Le vent emporte les fumees. Vu depuis Meudon

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 24/05/2026

"Select all squares with fire hydrants" Hydrants? No, fuck off, no square has even one hydrant. Bits of, at best.

A captcha shows an image of a single fire hydrant, the caption says "Show all squares with fire hydrants"

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 24/05/2026

I did a little change to the pedalboard this morning, putting the Ditto Looper back on. Such a great practice and composition tool, should never have taken it off! Took some work to squish the other pedals together to make room but it was fun. See ALT text for description. #guitar #guitarsky

My pedalboard. Signal chain is Peterson StroboStomp mini -> NuX Monterey Vibe -> MXR Duke of Tone -> Keeley Super Phat Mod -> Soldano SLO pedal -> Strymon EC-1 -> MXR M300 Reverb -> Mooer Trelicopter (hand painted) -> TC Electronic Ditto Looper

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 04/04/2026

Did you read the article? Here's the same map at 5PM irish time today.

Map of wholesale electricity prices across Europe today, April 4th, at 4pm IST. The price per MWhr in Ireland was 1€, less than much of Europe. France, Spain, and Portugal are -1€. In the north of Italy is 89€.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 29/03/2026

Sam, I can't read it. This is how it appears on my browsers (I'm on a mac my browsers areSafari and Vivaldi).

screen shot of the survey showing how illegible it is.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 05/03/2026

Album? Either TOTO IV or "Hello, I must be going!" I don't recall which came first. So I'll put both here.

The album cover of TOTO IV, released in 1982. Red background, there are four stone rings with gold edging, a sword runs through the rings.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 27/02/2026

Post a pic you took, to bring some zen to the feed. Dont forget to use alt text.

The sun sets over Lake Erie through a have pink sky. A child in silhouette is standing ankle-deep in the water, arms stretched out to the sky before her.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 25/02/2026

Lots of people in my feed tonight saying “Kamala should’ve done X” or “Kamala didn’t do Y” but listen, the same thing happened that happened in every US election since the 1960s: a majority of white Americans voted for the more racist candidate. White Americans saw this and liked it. 👇🏻

Lots of white people holding signs saying “MASS DEPORTATION NOW” in the 2024 Republican National Convention.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 19/02/2026

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, Love thy neighbor as thy self, Don’t be a racist prick?

Elon Musk post on X

For a country to survive, there has to be a common culture.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 29/01/2026

That’s awesome! For me the honeymoon with the EC-1 was short, in that I quickly stopped fussing with it and just got on with playing. It really sounds great.

This is a photo of DrKev’s pedalboard. There’s a power supply and eight pedals, including a tuner, a Univibe, three different overdrives, a delay, reverb, and tremolo.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 21/01/2026

Am I to believe the Biden DOJ and Dems hold more responsibility for Trump in power than the people who saw the signs at the RNC, heard what was in Project 2025, heard the naked racism and fascism spouted during the rally at Madison Square garden, and decided that they would vote for it?

A sea of signs reading "MASS DEPORTATION NOW" being held in the air by middle-aged white people at the 2024 Republican National Convention.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 18/01/2026

Story so far? #Bills are out playing the Broncos.

game stats show Bills ahead in most of teh categories.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 17/01/2026

We all saw these signs but you refused to support the *only viable way* to stop these people taking power and fucking everything up. Shame on you. SHAME ON YOU!

A sea of people at the 2024 Republican National Convention wave signs saying "MASS DEPORTATION NOW!"

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 12/01/2026

Happy Victory Monday to all who celebrate. #BillsMafia

Buffalo Bills WIN over Jacksonville Jaguars 27 - 24

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 01/01/2026

I found an app called Horika which is a Holga-style toy cam app. You have to choose your film, you get a 12 shot roll before you can change again, you have to advance the film before taking a new shot or enjoy the double exposure. It forces you to think about your shot. It’s nice!

Pedestrian space between tower blocks, the red illuminated sign of a supermarket the shape of an apostrophe pokes out from a building

The river Seine, looking north to the Tour Eiffel and some the tower blocks of Beaugrenelle quartier

Avenue de Versailles, Paris 16eme, in afternoon winter sun

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 31/12/2025

Quite repost with favorite photos you took in 2025. See alt text for descriptions.

Late evening cloudscape over suburbs of Paris, France, blue sky peeking through dark grays and warm white

The two loves of my life watching the sun set into Lake Erie

Looking north into spectacular summer cumulonimbus clouds driving on I-90 near Buffalo, NY

Low November sun shining through a tree, Newbridge Demesne, County Dublin

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 18/12/2025

New pedal day! I sold my El Capistan for the EC-1. It sounds wonderful, does what I want, possibly better than the El Capistan without the extra stuff the El Cap does that I never use. Happy boy!

Photo of a Strymon EC-1 guitar effects pedal. It is a digital recreation of a late 1950’s Echoplex EP-2 tape echo machine.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 16/12/2025

Count it and weep! Yes that’s a 24 cribbage hand.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 29/11/2025

“They baby can cry all it wants, and you’re a grown up who needs to behave, capisce?”

Pope Leo is holding a baseball bat while standing in the aisle of a crowded aircraft.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 27/11/2025

I think that’s BS. It’s whitewashing their racism. Everyone saw this!

A sea of people at the 2024 Republican National Convention waving signs that read “mass deportation now”

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 24/11/2025

Just to make the point, how guitarists judge with eyes more than ears, my current favorite pedal is the Soldano SLO pedal. Yes, it sounds amazing, but just look at it! It's bright fuschia purple anodized brushed aluminum and the retro/modern mix of Eurostile and Futura fonts just fuckin' melts me. 😍

A Soldano Super Lead Overdrive guitar effects pedal. The pedal is bright fuschia anodized brushed aluminum, black control knobs with light grey caps, and white text.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 21/11/2025

So here we are, the oldest instrument I’ve personally ever worked on. This is a late 1962 Höfner model 182 E2 bass. It was in really bad shape when I got it I’ve made it playable and I’m really happy about that!

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 15/11/2025

In the in side of the coverlet (?) I kept this business card. On the back I wrote the wavelengths of the main mercury emission lines, very handy for quick calibration of spectrophotometers using fluorescent lighting as a source

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 15/11/2025

My old 1990 scientific calculator had its one and only battery change 35 years after I bought it, but, alas, the sticky zero button is now totally non functional. Farewell, old friend. We did great science together.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 12/11/2025

An anti-immigrant account to go block.

Screenshot of the account @thedeportreport.bsky.social

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 03/11/2025

Inside the United States ONLY and see the priviso below. Outside the US, Osteopaths are as quacky as chiropractors.

One notable difference between DO and MD training is that DOs spend an additional 300-500 hours to study pseudoscientific hands-on manipulation of the human musculoskeletal system (osteopathic manipulative technique) alongside conventional evidence-based medicine and surgery like their MD peers. 8119/101 However, most DOs do not practice this manipulation.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 18/09/2025

The neck has too much relief, truss rod missing it’s nut I think too, but more importantly the headstock itself is bent upwards from string tension resulting in the back angle from a string to the but being too shallow (D & G have a string tree). Also wood worm! Lots of wood worm holes!

Photo looking down the neck of the base showing how the headstock is bent upward

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 18/09/2025

Who knows anything about vintage Höfner bass guitars? As far as I can tell, this is a model 182 from 1961 or 1962. It’s still covered in leatherette. Electronics work (mostly). Neck may not be salvageable but we’ll see.

A brown bass guitar with a black pickguard lies on floor

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 14/09/2025

Well, yes, but also no. The words calm, peaceable, moderate, remind of the passage below from Doctor King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. To wish merely for times past when white citizens could comfortably ignore racism is not good enough. Racism is after all our problem to stamp out.

Excerpt from Martin Luther King jr’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of jus-tice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who pater-nalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 13/09/2025

Just arrived here in Paris!! Thank you, @exocomics.com !

A little girl wearing pink is reading the book “Detective Beans Adventures in Cat Town” by Li Chen

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 10/09/2025

My approach to getting synthetic "realistic" sounding drums is the VST plugin in my DAW triggered by a Midi Controller with pads that I can finger drum with. Yes, there is a bit of a learning curve in the initial setup but after that it's plug and play. See alt text on the photo for details...

Macbook Pro running Reaper as my DAW, SSD5 drums plugin is running. The midi controller keyboard has colored pads assigned to different drum elements in the plugin. Purple = kick drum, light blues are snares, dark blue are toms, yellow = hi-hats, orange are cymbals.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 30/07/2025

A friend of ours gifted us the Lego Harry Potter Diagon Alley set, but he sorted all the pieces by color, which is such a pain!! Normally, lego gives you neat little numbered bags with the next pieces you need to progress. Here we have search through everything to find anything! 🙃

A giant mess of thousands of Lego pieces, arranged into loose piles sorted by color.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 30/07/2025

Updated map. More info at tsunami.gov

Map of Pacific ocean showing tsunami risk

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 27/07/2025

Hey #birdsky, any help identifying a hawk? This was taken last summer in western New York near Buffalo. I know Cooper’s hawk and sharp-shinned hawk are difficult to tell apart, but does that look like big head (Cooper’s) or a ‘normal sized head (sharp-shinned)?

A wooden bench on a lawn. A hawk is sitting on one arm of the bench. A squirrel is underneath.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 27/07/2025

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? (I've gone for two because I can't leave either one out).

Cover of Melissa Etheridge's second album "Brave and Crazy" released September, 1989.

Cover of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble's 5th and final studio album "In Step" released in July, 1989.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 15/07/2025

On just got this comments in my YouTube channel. 🥲

“Hi Kev, I hope you are feeling better these days. When I first discovered your videos I remember you said "go hug your Mom, she misses you " or something of that nature. You said that right at the end of your videos. That struck a chord at the time because i was dealing with the loss of my Mom who got sick and passed away rather quickly after that. I've been playing guitar for a number of years but your videos always strike a chord with me. I put a like and comment on em all just to help things along. I just thought you should know that your videos make me happy.”

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 05/07/2025

Hi MsGrumpyBunny, could you please stop using copy/paste text code? It doesn't display correctly for everyone, I see letters replaced with blocks of horizontal lines. It can cause issues for the visually impaired using screen readers. This screenshot shows how I see your thread...

Screenshot of this thread showing large portions of text replaced with blocks of horizontal letters.

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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev) @kevinkretsch.com · 25/06/2025

Huge thunderstorm in Paris tonight, we had 65 km/h wind gusts sustained winds of over 35 km/h. The rain was so heavy visibility was down to maybe 50 yards. Other than the giant hailstones we saw a few weeks back, this was the most Violent storm I’ve seen on 25 years living here.

Photo of the leading edge of the thunderstorm that hit Paris, France tonight. There is a bright flash of lightning, striking a building about a half a mile away from me.

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