mattcropp.bsky.social
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Enjoyer of cooperatives, employee ownership, history, gardening, DIY solar projects, etc.
I'm a toddler parent, so am usually tired... ;)
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Retaliating by depriving millions of Americans of our God-given right to air conditioning on a 100+ degree day would probably do a lot more to sap morale than wasting a few unlucky 19 year olds on a base in Iraq.
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You did a bit of writing from some years back that I've found useful in an ongoing way around dynamics of social capital concentration as power concentration, which seems upstream of celebrity/parasocial dynamics.
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Eventually, if things continue apace, they will need to not go on. But it is ever so hard to personally discern the tipping point... 🫠
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a good deal of people that otherwise would have identified as being more moderate can’t be because the president and musk have made it untenable.
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bsky has a lot of issues ideologically but i think what a lot of people are upset about is less those issues and more reality that they’re being forced to make a choice rather than occupy a comfortable niche suspended in between
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Having the single most economically powerful individual in the world be a Hungry Ghost turns out to really suck...
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I was there on the patio for the Vermont Employee Ownership Conference after-party! It went up incredibly quickly. Fortunately the fire station is like 3 blocks away... #btv
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"In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the True is a moment of the False..."
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Once there are identifiable path through said communities for cranks to achieve meaningful (state) power, recreational ideas start to have consequences (ex.: RFK and "wellness" people running HHS), and loosey-goosey epistemology is no longer low-risk...
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I wonder if such "communities" are sustainably possible only when the direct stakes are low because said community holds minimal power. Pre-Fall discoursing while mostly-offline adults ran the Institutions, etc.
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Counterpoint: preschoolers love building cardboard spaces... :P
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The more I read about barriers to housing construction, the more I'm convinced we need to stop exempting primary residences from capital gains tax.
Gain in property value (profit off neighbourhood scarcity) = share some of that with the public. Lose property value = receive subsidy from public
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and so in 1932 she writes a poem to the archives and the memory they hold of those who fought and left behind their words and deeds for others
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Meshtastic LongFast channel. 👀
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From Fetterman to Feinstein, the Democratic Party is slowly becoming a multiverse of Weekends at Bernie’s
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An enormous triple-decker Museum of Catholic Ethnics with Italian, Irish, and Polish floors.
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Just shared with my dad, who attended the first demonstration of his life last month at the age of 74.
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Can't wait to do 20 years and have to pay restitution to SodaStream for not buying a product that I wasn't going to use anyway
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Maps are helpful and usually make things better than they would be in their absence, but there are so many elements of lived experience that can never be fully communicated symbolically.
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youtu.be/ZaomLvwS8Rw?...
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May you one day recover your moral center, and thereby cease twisting yourself into pretzels to rationalize conscience-shattering horrors abroad and the normalization of fascism at home.
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My 2yo takes it from me, replaces it with a toy car, and then puts it in my pocket. 😅
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Did it only take 2 weeks for this to stop being satire?
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Me approaching 40 looking at the insurmountable to-do list I keep lying to myself about taking on "after the kid is in bed."
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Really enjoyed it; thanks for making the trek!
P.S. if you do make it back to Vermont in temperate weather, the Bread and Puppet museum barn would be an interesting destination for you, I suspect...