kentropic
@kentropic.bsky.social
“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.” - B. Spinoza
“I live sweat, but I dream light years.” - D. Boon
“A republic, if you can keep it.” - B. Franklin
Traveling yinzer, kamaʻāina, pākehā; Appalachian forest-grown
“I live sweat, but I dream light years.” - D. Boon
“A republic, if you can keep it.” - B. Franklin
Traveling yinzer, kamaʻāina, pākehā; Appalachian forest-grown
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kentropic
@kentropic.bsky.social
· Feb 28
A small creek cascading over mossy rocks. Olympic National Park, Washington, 19 Apr 2015. #NationalParks
This is what we’re fighting for. Whose side are you on?
Bartender’s campaign theme song on a platform of full housing for all: “I need four walls around me to hold my life….”
Bartender's Blues
YouTube video by James Taylor - Topic
youtu.be
February 14, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Bartender’s campaign theme song on a platform of full housing for all: “I need four walls around me to hold my life….”
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The Wellerman - TikTok Sea Shanty mashup 2021
YouTube video by Dubbac Media
youtu.be
February 14, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Yes - you can’t make old friends, & it’s important to keep the ones you have. There’s only so many people who remember when, & that number never gets any bigger.
February 14, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Yes - you can’t make old friends, & it’s important to keep the ones you have. There’s only so many people who remember when, & that number never gets any bigger.
American hero
February 14, 2026 at 1:35 AM
American hero
Scholarship for starters, & a position on Chuck Schumer’s advisory staff.
February 14, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Scholarship for starters, & a position on Chuck Schumer’s advisory staff.
Senator Hoodie is deeply, tragically damaged, & cannot be voted out of office soon enough. If he had any honor & self-awareness, he’d resign.
He really is the weakest senator there is. Two people have been murdered, there’s been no accountability, and he believes the Senate is powerless. He believes Trump gets what Trump wants.
February 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Senator Hoodie is deeply, tragically damaged, & cannot be voted out of office soon enough. If he had any honor & self-awareness, he’d resign.
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The utter moral squalor of these people, their unspeakably callous & cruel depravity, is deeply shocking. We must bear witness, we cannot look away.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 11:20 PM
The utter moral squalor of these people, their unspeakably callous & cruel depravity, is deeply shocking. We must bear witness, we cannot look away.
To the contrary, one of the greatest obstacles to solving the multitude of existential challenges we face everywhere you look is that *everyone* has uninformed opinions about everything, based on little more than vibes & tribal affiliation. Opinions are notoriously like assholes: everybody has one.
February 13, 2026 at 6:16 PM
To the contrary, one of the greatest obstacles to solving the multitude of existential challenges we face everywhere you look is that *everyone* has uninformed opinions about everything, based on little more than vibes & tribal affiliation. Opinions are notoriously like assholes: everybody has one.
This legislation is just an old-school poll tax tricked out in 21st-century costume, pushed by the same people for the same reasons.”
February 13, 2026 at 3:57 PM
This legislation is just an old-school poll tax tricked out in 21st-century costume, pushed by the same people for the same reasons.”
No, but isn’t it pretty to think so?
February 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
No, but isn’t it pretty to think so?
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Mother Jones' activity during the West Virginia Mine Wars gets mentioned in our co-published graphic novel, Black Coal & Red Bandanas.
Check it out here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/produc...
Check it out here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/produc...
February 13, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Mother Jones' activity during the West Virginia Mine Wars gets mentioned in our co-published graphic novel, Black Coal & Red Bandanas.
Check it out here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/produc...
Check it out here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/produc...
If/when the history of this era is written, its most remarkably corrosive & poisonous feature will be how far we accepted the most blatant, obvious, shameless lying as a normal & unavoidable part of our politics.
February 13, 2026 at 3:04 PM
If/when the history of this era is written, its most remarkably corrosive & poisonous feature will be how far we accepted the most blatant, obvious, shameless lying as a normal & unavoidable part of our politics.
Looks like somebody figured out how to let Grok drop acid. Let’s all hope the experience helps it gain a broader perspective & calm the fuck down afterward, much as it does for human wetware (or so I’ve heard).
February 13, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Looks like somebody figured out how to let Grok drop acid. Let’s all hope the experience helps it gain a broader perspective & calm the fuck down afterward, much as it does for human wetware (or so I’ve heard).
Aw, HELL no. More evidence that Rooney Mara’s scene in “The Social Network” includes the truest movie dialogue ever spoken.
February 13, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Aw, HELL no. More evidence that Rooney Mara’s scene in “The Social Network” includes the truest movie dialogue ever spoken.
Everywhere I travel, I’m seeing more non-specific public toilets like this one in an Albuquerque coffee shop, whose clever sign was so notable in 2019 that I took a photo.
February 13, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Everywhere I travel, I’m seeing more non-specific public toilets like this one in an Albuquerque coffee shop, whose clever sign was so notable in 2019 that I took a photo.
There are some Peter Gabriel anecdotes in the Cat Stevens bonus episode of @andrewhickey.500songs.com ‘s encyclopedic “History of Rock Music in 500 Songs” podcast. If you haven’t heard the series yet & have any attachment whatsoever to late-20th-c. western music, I can’t recommend it highly enough.
February 13, 2026 at 1:01 PM
There are some Peter Gabriel anecdotes in the Cat Stevens bonus episode of @andrewhickey.500songs.com ‘s encyclopedic “History of Rock Music in 500 Songs” podcast. If you haven’t heard the series yet & have any attachment whatsoever to late-20th-c. western music, I can’t recommend it highly enough.
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These are efforts to make cures for multiple sclerosis, herpes — affects hundreds of millions in the US alone! — and shingles.
This is mindblowing, amazing stuff.
But these efforts for cures require a predictable regulatory environment, where decisions are made based on science & and pub health.
This is mindblowing, amazing stuff.
But these efforts for cures require a predictable regulatory environment, where decisions are made based on science & and pub health.
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM
These are efforts to make cures for multiple sclerosis, herpes — affects hundreds of millions in the US alone! — and shingles.
This is mindblowing, amazing stuff.
But these efforts for cures require a predictable regulatory environment, where decisions are made based on science & and pub health.
This is mindblowing, amazing stuff.
But these efforts for cures require a predictable regulatory environment, where decisions are made based on science & and pub health.
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This is a vivid, horribly relevant read. “She does not sleep well. And as you lift up her pajama top to check her rash one morning, you see that her breathing is labored, shadows pooling between her ribs when she sucks in air. You suffer an icy moment of realization: This is a medical crisis.”
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:35 PM
This is a vivid, horribly relevant read. “She does not sleep well. And as you lift up her pajama top to check her rash one morning, you see that her breathing is labored, shadows pooling between her ribs when she sucks in air. You suffer an icy moment of realization: This is a medical crisis.”
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30 countries use mail voting
February 12, 2026 at 9:21 PM
30 countries use mail voting
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Kalshi is interesting because we're talking someone who wants to gamble on some real niche shit. I feel like Cap'n Crunch is the right choice here. Can totally see him plunking down a whole cargo on the wrong side of a bet like whether RFK2 will choke on a raw liver before the 4th of July
February 13, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Kalshi is interesting because we're talking someone who wants to gamble on some real niche shit. I feel like Cap'n Crunch is the right choice here. Can totally see him plunking down a whole cargo on the wrong side of a bet like whether RFK2 will choke on a raw liver before the 4th of July
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In other words, long enough that habeas petitions can be filed on their behalf in Minnesota before they're whisked off to an immigration detention facility somewhere in the Fifth Circuit (where, under that court's current law, they wouldn't be eligible for a bond hearing).
Incredibly powerful opinion chronicling the awfulness in Whipple and the ways it interfered with the right to counsel.
One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest.
One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest.
February 13, 2026 at 1:03 AM
In other words, long enough that habeas petitions can be filed on their behalf in Minnesota before they're whisked off to an immigration detention facility somewhere in the Fifth Circuit (where, under that court's current law, they wouldn't be eligible for a bond hearing).
[Keith Jackson voice] "He's rumblin', fumblin', stumblin'.... Whoa, Nelly - reeeeally somethin' special."
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 13, 2026 at 1:32 AM
[Keith Jackson voice] "He's rumblin', fumblin', stumblin'.... Whoa, Nelly - reeeeally somethin' special."
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“we‘ve been working to gut the Fourteenth Amendment for generations. we are so proud”
well, there it is
February 12, 2026 at 8:15 PM
“we‘ve been working to gut the Fourteenth Amendment for generations. we are so proud”
Political malpractice, indeed. Like Merrick Garland before him, he is manifestly NOT the person this nation needs to meet a pivotal moment in a position of leadership & authority.
February 13, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Political malpractice, indeed. Like Merrick Garland before him, he is manifestly NOT the person this nation needs to meet a pivotal moment in a position of leadership & authority.