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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Raiding the resources required for infrastructural upkeep to mitigate short-term crises is what catabolic collapse looks like...

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log̷o, reanimated 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 · 18/09/2026

The US joining the ICC, and sending a significant chunk of the current regime to it, needs to be table stakes for Dem 2028 contenders. Manifesting crowds of MAGA toadies at Dulles trying to cram their way onto the last flight to Buenos Aires as the US Marshals close in...

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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wealth below a certain threshold is deferred future consumption. Above that threshold, it is quantified sociopolitical power.

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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Looking for a new coworker!

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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🍁👊 My minivan is ready... bsky.app/profile/matt...

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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We could have addressed the climate crisis in an incremental, virtually painless way that would've decentralized the global energy system. But we didn't. Chickens coming home to roost...

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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2023)

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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I've long thought that there's an interesting alternate history financial thriller to be written about a quaker abolitionist financier engineering a panic in the SC slave markets in coordination with John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry...

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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

...was leapfrogged in industrial development by systems with free(er) labor.

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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It did increase production of commodities in the short run by increasing the intensity of labor, and, until the late period, externalizing the cost of workforce reproduction. In the longer run, it didn't create the conditions for significant and efficient augmentation of labor with capital, so...

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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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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

...a site of capital accumulation, and so slave women exercising agency in limiting their reproduction flipped into a potential site of resistance. It's hard to maintain popular memory how truly horrific the early modern chattel slavery system was, because so many details are trauma-inducing.

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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One horrifying contrast is that, for Caribbean sugarcane plantations, it was more financially "efficient" to work slaves to death and then replace them with new imports when fully depreciated. So owners actively encouraged infanticide/abortion. With the trade cut off, slave reproduction became...

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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 · 01/09/2026

I do wonder if it "stop doing memes" is something that American regime apparatchiks are psychologically capable of at this point...

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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

...had to be transcripts because neither faction trusted the other to take notes. When the aging hippies won, the new General Manager who steered the transition was a former Bread and Puppet puppeteer...

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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

One of the electric co-ops in Vermont became one of, if not the, first utilities in the US with a fully renewable portfolio. This came about because the board was taken over by back to the lander leftists in the late 80s/early 90s. The campaign was contentious enough that board meeting minutes...

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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Actual "mutual aid" can significantly increase in recessions with high unemployment, because those unemployed people have the unencumbered time and skills to engage in it. Charity-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off "mutual aid" involving cash transfers is another story. bsky.app/profile/matt...

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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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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Also, media coverage of the biafra war in nigeria was an og TV-mediated humanitarian cause that created a durable frame/schema that has been reproduced many times since.

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Matt Cropp @mattcropp.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Similarly, a helmet is why I don't have a TBI after a mechanical failure in 2020 sent me head first into the pavement. Two chipped teeth and a badly broken arm, but my brain still works... I get the point being made *and* protect your gourd, folks!

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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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