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JKrotkov
@jkrotkov.bsky.social
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Montana. Back-country hike, ski, etc. Weirdo underground house in the mountains. Pottery. #mtleg #mtpol. Motivated to Love Thy Neighbor (no exceptions). Quaker.
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Let there be light.

... BTW, @northwesternenergy.bsky.social , when will my power be back on?

to be honest, I like a good power outage, when I get to cozy up to the woodstove and read a book by headlamp. But it will be nice to be able to pump water again.

#photography #Montana
close up of maple tree seeds hanging from a leafless twig, with sunlight filtering through from the back, illuminating all the veins close up of a pine cone part sitting on top of glassy snow, with sunlight twinkling in the pores of the snow
December 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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What in hell is happening.
cartoon showing a man in an easy chair, holding a newspaper, talking to a dog, who is scratching at fleas: "I'd just like to know what in hell is happening, that's all! I'd like to know what in hell is happening! Do you know what in hell is happening?"
December 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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#SilentSunday

#Photography #Montana
close up view of a straw colored, thorny, dried seedhead with spikey snowflakes resting in the crevices. Background of windblown snow over a snowy meadow
December 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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The road outta here.

#Montana #winter #photography
a snow covered road winds through tall, snow-flocked fir trees which are interspersed with grey clouds and mist
December 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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today's ski was windy and wintry.

#photography #Montana
a skier crosses a windswept meadow before a line of snow-flocked conifers. The wind is swirling snow all through the air, and the snowy field and sky are both a uniform light grey color.
December 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Hello, #Winter. Nice to see you again.

#Montana #photography
Sun shines from behind fluffy grey and white clouds, casting dark shadows of snow covered trees on newly fallen snow snow clings to the seeds of a solitary grass, bent over by the weight of snow, in front of a snowy forest The bare branches of a dead tree form an oval frame, inside which is a distant snowy forested hillside, under dense, gray, foggy sky The sun weakly lightens a patch of dense, grey clouds above a stand of conifer trees flocked with snow. One small pine tree is bowed under the weight of a complete cover of rime
December 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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#MountainMonday. Had my first short ski of the year.

Still HATE my #Scarpa boots. Came back limping.

#photography #Montana
The bright sun behind lacy cirrus clouds glistens on hoarfrost on the snow collected on a rail fence, amid a sparse conifer forest
December 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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#silentSunday

#photography
close view of a japanese maple with bright orange leaves backlit by a setting sun a mounded japanese maple tree with bright orange leaves stands under a blue sky and sunburst of colorful rays
November 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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#FootpathFriday

#photography
a calm, low woodland creek reflects the blue sky flecked with white clouds, along with yellow leaved hardwood trees an open hardwood forest with lingering yellow leaves has a hiking trail running through it
November 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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The army used to warn soldiers about the perils of fascism.
The army was Antifa.

archive.org/details/Army...
header for war department memo on fascism, dated 24 March 1945.
October 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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The winds coming down the east side of the continental divide let us know exactly who is in charge.

#photography #canada #mountainmonday
mist fills the air on a bright sunny day, with green, roiled lake waters, low hills with pine and yellow aspens, and distant tall rocky and snow=flecked mountains under a bright blue sky yellow, orange and red shrubs fill a valley before low forested hills and distant snow=flecked mountains mist fills the air on a bright sunny day, creating multiple lens refractions, with green, roiled lake waters, low hills with pine and yellow aspens, and distant tall rocky and snow=flecked mountains under a bright blue sky mist fills the air on a bright sunny day, with green, roiled lake waters, low hills with pine and yellow aspens, and distant tall rocky and snow=flecked mountains under a bright blue sky
October 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another’s trouble,
Courage in your own.

-Adam Lindsay Gordon, poet (19 Oct 1833-1870)
A hiker walks on a red earth path through autumn colored shrubs in a forest of burned, standing trees, beneath a towering rocky snow-flecked mountain
October 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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#NoKings

I'd be there, except that I'm here.

#photography #mountains
Clouds gather around the sun above a tall, snow-dusted rocky mountain peak.
October 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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The US Capitol Visitor Center is closed due to rapid unplanned disassembly of US democracy

#uspol #democracy
photo of the us capitol, and a sign in front of it saying the us capitol visitor center is closed due to a lapse in appropriations.
October 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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What if scarcity is just a social construct, a fiction that fences us off from a better way of life?

Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry
wizened red hawthorn berries in the sunlight, with yellow and green leaves around them
October 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Mine's Alfonso. With an "f".
a chinstrap penguin hops from one rock to another in front of a tall iceberg
October 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Sad, decaying fall colors/democracy.
yellow and brown leaves lie face down on a forest floor, with all their veins starkly outlined in frost
October 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. 1-877-447-4487
October 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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#SilentSunday

#Montana #photography
foreground of yellowed grass and sagebrush, mid ground with a straight line of bright yellow cottonwood trees and background of a hillside covered in solid dark green pines
October 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Mum's the word.

#autumn #Montana
orange, red, white and yellow chrysanthemums bloom in a bunch
October 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Rambling the #autumn hills of central #montana

#photography #bloomscrolling
rolling hills with green to yellow grasses, orange and red shrubs, looking down a valley to smoke-shrouded blue forested mountains a chokecherry bush with blue berries, yellow, red, orange and green leaves, stands before a receding valley of the same autumn colors grassy hillside with yellow red and orange leaved forbs and grasses, and some tall white wildflower seedheads close up of creamy colored tufts of flower seedheads
September 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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photo of a llama and a pack of goats looking up with their mouths open. Speech bubble from the llama reads: What James Comey did is truly one of the most severe assaults on our freedoms and liberties that has occurred in the whole history of this nation."
September 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Hawthornes.

#Montana #photography #autumn
red, wrinkly hawthorne berries amid yellow leaves with filtering sunshine close up of a hawthorne stem with huge thorns. Background out of focus is a thicket of hawthrone stems a thicket of hawthrone stems puzzled together Hawthorne and other bushes in red, orange, yellow and green, with one shrub forming an arch, under which an old, rusty round culvert sits, with pockmarks of shotgun holes, through which the light shines
September 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Mood today.
woman at a protest holding a big black sign with small gold writing that says NOPE
September 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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a llama and some goats all lift their heads with their mouths openappearing to shout. The speech bubble says “What do YOU HAVE? You have NOTHING, you are nothing. You are wickedness, you are jealousy, you are hatred, YOU ARE NOTHING. You can build nothing, produce nothing, create nothing."
September 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM