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Matt Cropp

@mattcropp.bsky.social
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In #BTV #Vermont. Steeped in the deep lore of co-ops, employee ownership, & solidarity economics. Enjoys amateurish tinkering on electronics and energy with hackerspace friends. Preschooler parent. Now is the Time of Monsters.

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log̷o, respawned dad @loxophile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This must have been what it felt like to live in the USSR circa 1980 hearing about American televisions and shit
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Vermont Public @vermontpublic.org · 25/09/2026
"If I'm never going to have the things I've been promised, I might as well have a nice TV." Kaye Phipps returns to "What Class Are You?" to share her thoughts on the myth of delayed gratification. Read more: www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/20…
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
*I don't think "Rogue AI" is "human incompetence," but I do think "Rogue AI" is the "ideal form of plausibly-deniable Gray War attack." Man are we gonna suffer if that automated depredation gets normalized
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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
with the new expansion, i had to finally formalize this presenting the first roleplaying game to use Hearts of Iron 4 as a resolution system to properly model fascist dysfunction it is not cooperative or competitive, but a secret third thing docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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True Imperial Japan Experience
True Imperial Japan Experience A Hearts of Iron 4 Game This is a counteroperative roleplaying game. The resolution system is a game of multiplayer Hearts of Iron 4 and a number of discord chats. Requi...
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vawc.bsky.social @vawc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thanks to the Brattleboro Reformer for promoting our *Why Go Co-op?* event coming up on Monday at 5 pm at @flatironcoop.bsky.social Interested? Check out the (free) registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-valley... www.reformer.com/business/lea...
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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Looking for a new coworker!
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Is this Good?
10 year treasury yield up 0.082 to 4.922% with 1D chart
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2026
yeah this is a separate conversation but one of the things that hasn’t quite bubbled up from scholarship into mainstream thinking is that american slavery was a system centered principally on reproduction. forced birth for capital accumulation is what it was
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Unfortunately even more relevant given AfD's victory today. Here's a fresh gift link: as.ft.com/r/68f961b0-b...
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Rerun or sequel? Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on end times fascism
How nationalists, theocrats and tech titans turned their backs on a shared future
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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
After putting a deposit on the GoSun solar EV charger crowdfund a while back, the gear arrived this week! After some socket wrench time, I'm now a *solar powered* minivan dad... 🌞🚐😅
Minivan with solar array unfolded on it.Screencap of an interface showing 532w output.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 03/09/2026
WE DID IT 🎉
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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
But apart from that, USS Lincoln…
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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Amaranth climbed by scarlet runner beans in the garden on a sunny late summer day.
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🃏Sky🃏 @queerbluesky.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
a hand holding a cigarette with the caption "My idols are dead and my enemies are in power"
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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The Roth IRA is a mighty wealth inequality generating engine that legally compels the investment of savings in environmentally and socially destructive ways, thanks to the myopic nature of fiduciary duty under ERISA. harvardlawreview.org/forum/vol-13...
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Rethinking Retirement Savings Harvard Law Review
At the end of 2020, Americans held a collective $35 trillion in their retirement accounts. To put this in perspective, $35 trillion is larger...
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David @crookedknight.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
>BESSENT ON IRAN: 'WE ARE GOING TO COLLAPSE THIS REGIME' Fuckin Oracle at Delphi-ass treasury secretary
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 20/08/2026
Again, as an atheist, I find it extremely annoying to have my non-belief in the antichrist tested in this way
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jaycatvt @jaycatvt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
(lying to myself) i'll just get up earlier tomorrow and do it then
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
one way to get the dopamine or norepinephrine you need, is to induce anxiety by finishing things last minute, or doing stressful work. The learned responses can be extremely bad for you
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Damien Owens’ tweet from 2022:

“I’m 50. All celebrity news looks like this:

‘CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA? K-SMOG AND BATBOY CAUGHT FLIPPING A GRUNT’

but I’ve changed “celebrity” to “business”
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Vermont Public @vermontpublic.org · 12/08/2026
Janoo now sets to the task of unseating Republican Gov. Phil Scott, a five-term incumbent who won more than 70% of the general election vote in 2024. www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/20…
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Amanda Janoo wins Democratic primary for governor
Janoo, a 38-year-old economist who previously worked internationally for the United Nations, entered the race in March with virtually no name recognition. She will face incumbent Gov. Phil Scott as he seeks a sixth term in the general election.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
When I vote, I live in constant fear of this happening
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Piece I just wrote for Current Affairs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
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The Massive Climate Lie That Will Destroy Human Civilization
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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🍥bot @y0.bot · 06/08/2026
payback for Stuxnet being "overload power lines in burnable areas" would be horribly poetic
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 05/08/2026
Look I feel like the torment nexus didn't even
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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It's my preschooler's favorite food, so I've been forced to innovate a "healthy" version: - sub bone broth for one of the cups of water - 50% flavor packet - the boy adds chopped spinach, green onion, and shredded carrot to the boil at 1 minute mark. He'll eat veggies if he's the one who added 'em
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Bessie the Cow @bovinebessie.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🎶 6 6 6, the number on the lease 🎶
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intracranial aneurysm (spooky, scary) @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
and stick the next admin with the bill
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...
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Our last, best chance to cool the Earth
We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...
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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
looking forward to the preprequel episodes -2 through 0 for more detailed history of the Galactic Empire's tariff regime
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is going to happen more and more until people in power and in the media stop lying about the basis for asylum. People don’t risk their lives to come here for nothing, they do it because it’s the only chance they have at safety.
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Vorarchivist @voraciousarchivist.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
the national service is the graveyard of people with no real ideas
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
We are all going to have so many kinds of diarrhea
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Getting diarrhea like, "Hope this isn't the diarrhea that was on the news"
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 09/07/2026
The compromise I'm willing to make here is calling them Strasserites: but that requires understanding that this is a disease specific *to* the left: hating liberals more than fascists, obsessed with defeating liberalism, while believing an alliance with "working-class" fascist fans is possible.
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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Looking for a new coworker!
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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Liquidating all the stocks/mutual funds in your 401k is praxis at this point. "Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret — the million other straws underneath it"
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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The abandonment of third places starts earlier than 2001. There are a host of interlocking reasons, but if you know anything about anything you know the big one.
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Third Places We Lost Due to Racism: Public Pools — Melanin Base Camp
When legally required to share public pools with Black children, white Americans chose to abandon them entirely. Rest in peace to yet another third place lost to racism.
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Simpsons meme with Hans Moleman on a pay phone saying “I need the biggest metaphor you have.” Followed by “No, that’s too big.”
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Retroist @retroist.com · 04/07/2026
Great moments in U.S. History.
Comic panel showing the Kool Aid Man walking past children with Benjamin Franklin. A child asks, “Excuse me sir, aren’t you Benjamin Franklin?” Franklin answers, “Yes I am. I’m also hot and thirsty.”
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.
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ernesto @ernesto.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
grieving this does nothing, we have time to put together a roster of the most vicious bureaucratic killers alive
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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Happy Pride, Congresswoman!
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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Took the boy on a ramble for his 4th birthday to encounter the Gods that a hippie art cult trapped in paper maché and store in a rickety fire-trap barn in rural Vermont.
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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
A few centuries in, it's clear that the Senate is structurally unable to convict, even in the most extreme cases (post-Civil War), rendering impeachment a paper tiger. While we can dream of a parliamentary executive, replacing the Senate with a citizen jury would be interesting to try?
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Presidents Can Be Impeached Because Benjamin Franklin Thought It Was Better Than Assassination
The founding fathers struggled with the idea of whether the top leader should be impeachable
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Rotanen ♾️ @rotanen.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Bad Dudes meme:

The president has filled the reflecting pool with algae.

Are you a bad enough dude to keep tourists from touching it?
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