Matt Cropp
@mattcropp.bsky.social
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.
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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So long as you’re making things up …
December 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
So long as you’re making things up …
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torrenting was always morally righteous and strategically sound.
logging onto limewire under dark of night to download 60 minutes
December 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
torrenting was always morally righteous and strategically sound.
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there is no theory of everything you can commit to with 100% sincerity.
December 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
there is no theory of everything you can commit to with 100% sincerity.
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Solstice on a Spinning Earth apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...
Can you tell that today is a solstice by the tilt of the Earth? Yes. At a solstice, the Earth's terminator -- the dividing line between night and day -- is tilted the most.
Can you tell that today is a solstice by the tilt of the Earth? Yes. At a solstice, the Earth's terminator -- the dividing line between night and day -- is tilted the most.
December 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Solstice on a Spinning Earth apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...
Can you tell that today is a solstice by the tilt of the Earth? Yes. At a solstice, the Earth's terminator -- the dividing line between night and day -- is tilted the most.
Can you tell that today is a solstice by the tilt of the Earth? Yes. At a solstice, the Earth's terminator -- the dividing line between night and day -- is tilted the most.
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Hey #BTV, the monthly #RepairCafe is this Saturday, 12/20, from 11a-3p at 12 North Street. Bring your broken things.
Then on Saturday 1/10 from 10-12p we'll be partnering with #DadGuild for a "Repair Cafe Junior" for kids to fix toys that got broken over the holidays (gonna be a lotta epoxy). #VT
Then on Saturday 1/10 from 10-12p we'll be partnering with #DadGuild for a "Repair Cafe Junior" for kids to fix toys that got broken over the holidays (gonna be a lotta epoxy). #VT
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Hey #BTV, the monthly #RepairCafe is this Saturday, 12/20, from 11a-3p at 12 North Street. Bring your broken things.
Then on Saturday 1/10 from 10-12p we'll be partnering with #DadGuild for a "Repair Cafe Junior" for kids to fix toys that got broken over the holidays (gonna be a lotta epoxy). #VT
Then on Saturday 1/10 from 10-12p we'll be partnering with #DadGuild for a "Repair Cafe Junior" for kids to fix toys that got broken over the holidays (gonna be a lotta epoxy). #VT
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It's Weird Al's time
December 17, 2025 at 3:55 AM
It's Weird Al's time
The 3 year old has discovered drinking pickle brine...
December 16, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The 3 year old has discovered drinking pickle brine...
If the media environment has absurdly cursed us to be forevermore led by celebrities, President Weird Al is someone I'd trust to helm "Reconstruction II: Finishing the Job".
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
If the media environment has absurdly cursed us to be forevermore led by celebrities, President Weird Al is someone I'd trust to helm "Reconstruction II: Finishing the Job".
Where the bluesky #ERISA discoursers at?
The framing I've come to is that ERISA has created a framework that financially penalizes non-wealthy people unless they trade the agency inherent to the capital they own for a maginally higher level of future consumption.
And not just via increased tax, but also via benefit cliffs, etc.
And not just via increased tax, but also via benefit cliffs, etc.
December 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Where the bluesky #ERISA discoursers at?
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This piece by @janelleorsi.bsky.social is required reading for anyone looking to mobilize retirement savings for solidarity economy work.
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...
harvardlawreview.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This piece by @janelleorsi.bsky.social is required reading for anyone looking to mobilize retirement savings for solidarity economy work.
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Cut and paste the anti-Chinese angle with 'fossil fuel infrastructure' and this piece accurately reveals there is close to no ethical investing under capitalism.
And that the $46 trillion in US retirement accounts is a powerful tool. For what, is the question.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/o...
And that the $46 trillion in US retirement accounts is a powerful tool. For what, is the question.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/o...
Opinion | How My Retirement Savings Are Betraying America
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Cut and paste the anti-Chinese angle with 'fossil fuel infrastructure' and this piece accurately reveals there is close to no ethical investing under capitalism.
And that the $46 trillion in US retirement accounts is a powerful tool. For what, is the question.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/o...
And that the $46 trillion in US retirement accounts is a powerful tool. For what, is the question.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/o...
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it's so funny that Games Workshop went in twenty years from a company that made games you got beaten up in middle school for enjoying to now being the 67th most valuable company in the United Kingdom
incredible victory for kids who spent ages 11+ with a crust of super glue on their fingertips
incredible victory for kids who spent ages 11+ with a crust of super glue on their fingertips
December 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
it's so funny that Games Workshop went in twenty years from a company that made games you got beaten up in middle school for enjoying to now being the 67th most valuable company in the United Kingdom
incredible victory for kids who spent ages 11+ with a crust of super glue on their fingertips
incredible victory for kids who spent ages 11+ with a crust of super glue on their fingertips
I'm guessing COVID killed #Vermont's DMV-not-being-Kafaesque-nightmare exceptionalism, huh?
December 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I'm guessing COVID killed #Vermont's DMV-not-being-Kafaesque-nightmare exceptionalism, huh?
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Holy fire from @damiengwalter.com about how the Singularity is just the Jackpot with a marketing gloss.
Worth watching just to hear him use the word ἀγάπη to describe my favorite scene from one of my favorite films.
Worth watching just to hear him use the word ἀγάπη to describe my favorite scene from one of my favorite films.
Science fiction's most terrifying prediction
YouTube video by Science Fiction with Damien Walter
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Holy fire from @damiengwalter.com about how the Singularity is just the Jackpot with a marketing gloss.
Worth watching just to hear him use the word ἀγάπη to describe my favorite scene from one of my favorite films.
Worth watching just to hear him use the word ἀγάπη to describe my favorite scene from one of my favorite films.
December 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The largest #WorkerCoop in #Vermont is raising community investment to fund the renovation of their newly-purchased building. If you're a Vermont resident and want to put your $$ to work building Vermont's solidarity economy, details here: www.nsmvt.org/fundraising
#vt #vtbiz #coop
#vt #vtbiz #coop
Invest & Donate | New School of Montpelier
www.nsmvt.org
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The largest #WorkerCoop in #Vermont is raising community investment to fund the renovation of their newly-purchased building. If you're a Vermont resident and want to put your $$ to work building Vermont's solidarity economy, details here: www.nsmvt.org/fundraising
#vt #vtbiz #coop
#vt #vtbiz #coop
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Whenever I engage in politics talk with someone left of center, it is readily apparent who still has an active twitter account and who doesn't
November 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Whenever I engage in politics talk with someone left of center, it is readily apparent who still has an active twitter account and who doesn't
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Desperately trying to commune with the AGI machine-god while the creditors are ramming down the door
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Desperately trying to commune with the AGI machine-god while the creditors are ramming down the door
Discovered tonight that my preschooler is 100% down for a Friday night hard electronica living room rave...
November 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Discovered tonight that my preschooler is 100% down for a Friday night hard electronica living room rave...
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I sometimes wonder about our ancestors' annihilation of the megafauna as a pre-historic Foucault's Boomerang?
The techniques developed to take down the mammoth turned inwards...
The techniques developed to take down the mammoth turned inwards...
November 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I sometimes wonder about our ancestors' annihilation of the megafauna as a pre-historic Foucault's Boomerang?
The techniques developed to take down the mammoth turned inwards...
The techniques developed to take down the mammoth turned inwards...
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Biggest subsidy is the 30 year mortgage. It’s a loan no bank ever would write in large volumes. Much less with terms like fixed rates, fully amortizing, with little to no recourse. Undoing that is probably approaching “undo social security” levels of toxicity.
November 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Biggest subsidy is the 30 year mortgage. It’s a loan no bank ever would write in large volumes. Much less with terms like fixed rates, fully amortizing, with little to no recourse. Undoing that is probably approaching “undo social security” levels of toxicity.
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Hey #btv, own something broken?
Stop by the ONE Repair Cafe today at 12 North Street. Goes until 3pm, generally good to start repairs by 2.
Stop by the ONE Repair Cafe today at 12 North Street. Goes until 3pm, generally good to start repairs by 2.
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hey #btv, own something broken?
Stop by the ONE Repair Cafe today at 12 North Street. Goes until 3pm, generally good to start repairs by 2.
Stop by the ONE Repair Cafe today at 12 North Street. Goes until 3pm, generally good to start repairs by 2.
So this is just a lightly cloaked Assassination Market, right?
November 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
So this is just a lightly cloaked Assassination Market, right?
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Welp, reports indicate the Sandwich Assault jury is currently breadlocked.
November 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Welp, reports indicate the Sandwich Assault jury is currently breadlocked.