Kevin Kretsch
@drkevguitar.bsky.social
Professional Guitar Nerd, ex-Physicist, Long-Covid Disabled. He/Him. Dublin, Buffalo, Paris. GO BILLS!
“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” – Angela Davis
“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” – Angela Davis
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Kevin Kretsch
@drkevguitar.bsky.social
· Jul 19
Pep talk! The Guitar Secret I learned from Bowling.
YouTube video by DrKevGuitar
youtu.be
Hey #guitar sky, I frequently get asked by students for a pep talk style video, so I did one! Enjoy!
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We don't have enough people doing what they can but I am so grateful to those who are. Thank you.
Actually taking the time to make the call, send the letter, show up to the meeting, write the check, go to the protests, do actual mutual aid. Thank you.
Actually taking the time to make the call, send the letter, show up to the meeting, write the check, go to the protests, do actual mutual aid. Thank you.
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
We don't have enough people doing what they can but I am so grateful to those who are. Thank you.
Actually taking the time to make the call, send the letter, show up to the meeting, write the check, go to the protests, do actual mutual aid. Thank you.
Actually taking the time to make the call, send the letter, show up to the meeting, write the check, go to the protests, do actual mutual aid. Thank you.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Dublin Airport this afternoon. Wind ENE, 28 knots gusting to 43 knots. That'll make for some sporty landings! 😵💫
Wind Gusts
ICAO: EIDW, Airport: Dublin Airport
Best Runway: 10R
Crosswind: -11.83
#flightsim #flight #sim #xplane #MSFS2024 #aviation #simwx https://simwx.com #weatherchallenge
ICAO: EIDW, Airport: Dublin Airport
Best Runway: 10R
Crosswind: -11.83
#flightsim #flight #sim #xplane #MSFS2024 #aviation #simwx https://simwx.com #weatherchallenge
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Dublin Airport this afternoon. Wind ENE, 28 knots gusting to 43 knots. That'll make for some sporty landings! 😵💫
Reminder, I block or mute *any* account posting AI generated images. It's just not fuckin cool at all.
#guitar #speirgorm #BillsMafia
#guitar #speirgorm #BillsMafia
November 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Reminder, I block or mute *any* account posting AI generated images. It's just not fuckin cool at all.
#guitar #speirgorm #BillsMafia
#guitar #speirgorm #BillsMafia
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
Oddly, I remember my 30 better than my teens. My 30s were a lot of fun, to be fair. My teens, kinda boring.
The Reminiscence Bump is interesting.
The older you get, the stronger your memories of late teens/early 20's become versus such as "last year" and "this morning's breakfast" and "my entire 30's"
These memories are often the last to recede under Alzheimers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminis...
The older you get, the stronger your memories of late teens/early 20's become versus such as "last year" and "this morning's breakfast" and "my entire 30's"
These memories are often the last to recede under Alzheimers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminis...
Reminiscence bump - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Oddly, I remember my 30 better than my teens. My 30s were a lot of fun, to be fair. My teens, kinda boring.
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It’s important to look at the post infection risks from COVID when you are weighing up risks. Also risk is cumulative, your risk increases of long covid every time you catch it. Effectively we are all on this road and the government aren’t doing enough to prevent the infection itself.
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
It’s important to look at the post infection risks from COVID when you are weighing up risks. Also risk is cumulative, your risk increases of long covid every time you catch it. Effectively we are all on this road and the government aren’t doing enough to prevent the infection itself.
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"Europe’s courts are now, belatedly, asking the question markets refused to ask: can an oil major expanding fossil fuel production plausibly present itself as a steward of decarbonisation?"
Obviously not. We have to stop burning fossil fuels. That's the #ClimateEmergency
www.ft.com/content/d4f3...
Obviously not. We have to stop burning fossil fuels. That's the #ClimateEmergency
www.ft.com/content/d4f3...
Letter: Europe’s courts are asking the right question of oil companies
From Mohammad Reza Allahdadi, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Finance, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway
www.ft.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
"Europe’s courts are now, belatedly, asking the question markets refused to ask: can an oil major expanding fossil fuel production plausibly present itself as a steward of decarbonisation?"
Obviously not. We have to stop burning fossil fuels. That's the #ClimateEmergency
www.ft.com/content/d4f3...
Obviously not. We have to stop burning fossil fuels. That's the #ClimateEmergency
www.ft.com/content/d4f3...
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Puffins have been found nesting on a Co Antrim nature reserve for the first time in 25 years
Puffins return to Antrim nature reserve after 25 years
Puffins have been found nesting on a Co Antrim nature reserve for the first time in 25 years.
www.rte.ie
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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I 100% agree!! And remember all lights that ends up where it’s not supposed to be represents in a very direct and real way a phenomenal waste of energy and money.
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I 100% agree!! And remember all lights that ends up where it’s not supposed to be represents in a very direct and real way a phenomenal waste of energy and money.
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I just want to note that "barely legal" and "15-year-old" are not equivalent terms, even inside the putrid logic she's trying to apply here.
November 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I just want to note that "barely legal" and "15-year-old" are not equivalent terms, even inside the putrid logic she's trying to apply here.
I don’t think it will do anything. GOP and MAGA are too wedded to him to care. More than half them think teens are fair game anyway. There is no magic bullet to getting rid of Trump, only the hard work of resistance against fascism.
At this point we have to assume that if the Epstein files are released they will
- end the Trump Presidency
- implicate many other prominent Republicans
- destroy the careers of AG Bondi and his other defenders
This is beginning to feel like the greatest scandal in American history.
- end the Trump Presidency
- implicate many other prominent Republicans
- destroy the careers of AG Bondi and his other defenders
This is beginning to feel like the greatest scandal in American history.
Trump has done enormous harm to the country.
He is a deeply corrupt and venal man.
He is wildly unpopular, his agenda more so. He's lost the consent of the governed.
He is old, infirm & clearly no longer mentally competent to run a nation.
It is time now to start talking about him moving on👇
He is a deeply corrupt and venal man.
He is wildly unpopular, his agenda more so. He's lost the consent of the governed.
He is old, infirm & clearly no longer mentally competent to run a nation.
It is time now to start talking about him moving on👇
November 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I don’t think it will do anything. GOP and MAGA are too wedded to him to care. More than half them think teens are fair game anyway. There is no magic bullet to getting rid of Trump, only the hard work of resistance against fascism.
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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1) Fossil fuel
Still no peak. Emissions are projected to increase by 1.1% in 2025, reaching 38.1 GtCO2. An all time high.
Still no peak. Emissions are projected to increase by 1.1% in 2025, reaching 38.1 GtCO2. An all time high.
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
1) Fossil fuel
Still no peak. Emissions are projected to increase by 1.1% in 2025, reaching 38.1 GtCO2. An all time high.
Still no peak. Emissions are projected to increase by 1.1% in 2025, reaching 38.1 GtCO2. An all time high.
It should not matter who the parent of a child is or was. Note that adopted children *automatically* become Irish citizens through an Irish citizen parent if the adoption is legally recognized by the state. For a biological parent to be refused citizenship for their child is clearly discriminatory.
The woman has now been given leave to bring the challenge against the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Read 👉 buff.ly/ZYMLikP #GCNnews
November 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
It should not matter who the parent of a child is or was. Note that adopted children *automatically* become Irish citizens through an Irish citizen parent if the adoption is legally recognized by the state. For a biological parent to be refused citizenship for their child is clearly discriminatory.
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Ireland-France trade up 30% since Brexit – The Irish Times
https://www.europesays.com/uk/567667/
France retains the top spot as Ireland’s biggest trading partner in the European Union, with bilateral trade levels…#uk #news #uknews
https://www.europesays.com/uk/567667/
France retains the top spot as Ireland’s biggest trading partner in the European Union, with bilateral trade levels…#uk #news #uknews
Ireland-France trade up 30% since Brexit – The Irish Times - United Kingdom
France retains the top spot as Ireland’s biggest trading partner in the European Union, with bilateral trade levels now 30 per cent higher than they were
www.europesays.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Ireland-France trade up 30% since Brexit – The Irish Times
https://www.europesays.com/uk/567667/
France retains the top spot as Ireland’s biggest trading partner in the European Union, with bilateral trade levels…#uk #news #uknews
https://www.europesays.com/uk/567667/
France retains the top spot as Ireland’s biggest trading partner in the European Union, with bilateral trade levels…#uk #news #uknews
Hey guitar players, how do you say 'Les Paul'? Less Paul, or Lez Paul? 🤔
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Hey guitar players, how do you say 'Les Paul'? Less Paul, or Lez Paul? 🤔
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You been hit by a smooth hymnal
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
You been hit by a smooth hymnal
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I feel like I understand US politics better after reading this:
Which party do you think has worse approval in America today?
Answer: Democrats—nearly 10 points worse than the GOP😳
A detailed case study, with receipts, of how corporate democrats have ruined our party and must be ousted for the party—and democracy—to survive
www.qasimrashid.com/p/why-dems-h...
Answer: Democrats—nearly 10 points worse than the GOP😳
A detailed case study, with receipts, of how corporate democrats have ruined our party and must be ousted for the party—and democracy—to survive
www.qasimrashid.com/p/why-dems-h...
Why Dems Have 35% Approval—Nearly 10 Points Lower Than Republicans
A case study of how corporate democrats have ruined our party and must be ousted for the party—and democracy—to survive
www.qasimrashid.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I feel like I understand US politics better after reading this:
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💯 I'm a city planner in my bones.
What's more important to viable cities than supporting people: Their access to healthcare, food, housing, and their basic right to flourish in all their diversity?
Fossil fuel & AI-oligarchs believe cities can exist without free-thinking people. They are wrong.
What's more important to viable cities than supporting people: Their access to healthcare, food, housing, and their basic right to flourish in all their diversity?
Fossil fuel & AI-oligarchs believe cities can exist without free-thinking people. They are wrong.
Folks have been telling me they’ve noticed I’ve gotten “a lot more political” on social media this year.
Of course I have.
The circumstances have gotten nightmarishly worse, and the consequences of inaction and staying silent infinitely more obvious.
Everyone needs to get “a lot more political.”
Of course I have.
The circumstances have gotten nightmarishly worse, and the consequences of inaction and staying silent infinitely more obvious.
Everyone needs to get “a lot more political.”
November 12, 2025 at 7:42 AM
💯 I'm a city planner in my bones.
What's more important to viable cities than supporting people: Their access to healthcare, food, housing, and their basic right to flourish in all their diversity?
Fossil fuel & AI-oligarchs believe cities can exist without free-thinking people. They are wrong.
What's more important to viable cities than supporting people: Their access to healthcare, food, housing, and their basic right to flourish in all their diversity?
Fossil fuel & AI-oligarchs believe cities can exist without free-thinking people. They are wrong.
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Really delighted by this disclaimer on spaceweather.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Really delighted by this disclaimer on spaceweather.com
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
Sadly not. The third CME has arrived and not strong enough to repeat last night’s display. Geomagnetic storm forecasts are being downgraded.
November 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Sadly not. The third CME has arrived and not strong enough to repeat last night’s display. Geomagnetic storm forecasts are being downgraded.
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So Pakistan is *paying* Qatar to *not* deliver LNG because even including this penalty payment their solar PV and battery spending is much better value for money and saves them billions.
How fascinating!
How fascinating!
November 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
So Pakistan is *paying* Qatar to *not* deliver LNG because even including this penalty payment their solar PV and battery spending is much better value for money and saves them billions.
How fascinating!
How fascinating!
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Is it just me or is the federal government attempting to push two of the 3 most popular OTC anti-inflammatories out of the market based on no actual data whatsoever.
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Is it just me or is the federal government attempting to push two of the 3 most popular OTC anti-inflammatories out of the market based on no actual data whatsoever.