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?
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And the women’s team:
- the daughter of Chinese immigrants who rebuffed an aggressive campaign to get her to skate for China
- the daughter of an Italian immigrant embryologist mom who named her after a Michelle Pfeiffer character
- the pansexual daughter of a Texas cop (who is her biggest fan)
- the daughter of Chinese immigrants who rebuffed an aggressive campaign to get her to skate for China
- the daughter of an Italian immigrant embryologist mom who named her after a Michelle Pfeiffer character
- the pansexual daughter of a Texas cop (who is her biggest fan)
This year, the U.S. Olympic Figure Skating Men's Team is represented by:
• the son of Ukrainian Junior World Champion skaters in Florida who like Papa John's
• the son of Russian World Champion skaters in Connecticut
• the son of Uzbek Olympic skaters in Virginia
That's what makes America great.
• the son of Ukrainian Junior World Champion skaters in Florida who like Papa John's
• the son of Russian World Champion skaters in Connecticut
• the son of Uzbek Olympic skaters in Virginia
That's what makes America great.
This year, the U.S. Olympic Figure Skating Pairs Team is represented by:
• A Japanese and Chinese Hawaiian
• A Michigan guy (You'll notice a trend here)
• A Hong Kong and Taiwanese Texan
• A Japanese American and Army soldier who is studying to become a chaplain!
That's what makes America great.
• A Japanese and Chinese Hawaiian
• A Michigan guy (You'll notice a trend here)
• A Hong Kong and Taiwanese Texan
• A Japanese American and Army soldier who is studying to become a chaplain!
That's what makes America great.
February 8, 2026 at 10:12 PM
And the women’s team:
- the daughter of Chinese immigrants who rebuffed an aggressive campaign to get her to skate for China
- the daughter of an Italian immigrant embryologist mom who named her after a Michelle Pfeiffer character
- the pansexual daughter of a Texas cop (who is her biggest fan)
- the daughter of Chinese immigrants who rebuffed an aggressive campaign to get her to skate for China
- the daughter of an Italian immigrant embryologist mom who named her after a Michelle Pfeiffer character
- the pansexual daughter of a Texas cop (who is her biggest fan)
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Oh no, Ive gone down the best rabbit hole, never leaving youtu.be/tzAGqmdOBzE?...
We Are Lady Parts | “Bashir With the Good Beard” Punk Anthem Jam Session
YouTube video by Peacock
youtu.be
February 20, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Oh no, Ive gone down the best rabbit hole, never leaving youtu.be/tzAGqmdOBzE?...
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I wrote about CBS, and how its debasement is best viewed as one small part of a much larger war on informed consensus by the frightened extraction class
The New CBS Is A Clown Show
The denigration of CBS is best viewed as just part of a broader effort by oligarchs to create a propaganda-coddled permanent autocracy, propped up by a broad array of highly-paid, useful idiots.
karlbode.com
February 19, 2026 at 6:21 PM
I wrote about CBS, and how its debasement is best viewed as one small part of a much larger war on informed consensus by the frightened extraction class
“Coal has CO2 - it’s what plants crave!”
February 19, 2026 at 5:21 PM
“Coal has CO2 - it’s what plants crave!”
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A good piece, but an additional aspect is nearly everything we do exploits resources in ways we need to avoid. Which is to say the entire foundation / thrust of our technologies is often deeply flawed and does not consider ecosystems, biodiversity, etc in other than an exploitive or Disneyfied way.
The left doesn't hate technology, we hate being exploited: aftermath.site/anthropic-clau...
February 19, 2026 at 5:10 PM
A good piece, but an additional aspect is nearly everything we do exploits resources in ways we need to avoid. Which is to say the entire foundation / thrust of our technologies is often deeply flawed and does not consider ecosystems, biodiversity, etc in other than an exploitive or Disneyfied way.
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Herbie Hancock Explains the Big Lesson He Learned From Miles Davis: Every Mistake in Music, as in Life, Is an Opportunity
Herbie Hancock Explains the Big Lesson He Learned From Miles Davis: Every Mistake in Music, as in Life, Is an Opportunity
One thing they don’t teach you in parenting school is how to guide a young child into making fewer mistakes in her homework, while also communicating to her that mistakes are not “bad” but often “good...
www.openculture.com
February 19, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Herbie Hancock Explains the Big Lesson He Learned From Miles Davis: Every Mistake in Music, as in Life, Is an Opportunity
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Let’s start with the basics: A public library is a publicly-funded institution that provides access to information through materials-lending, research services, events like classes and workshops, and sometimes preservation of heritage through special collections.
It’s called a Public Library! Here’s how it works…
It’s called a Public Library! Here’s how it works…
buff.ly
February 18, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Let’s start with the basics: A public library is a publicly-funded institution that provides access to information through materials-lending, research services, events like classes and workshops, and sometimes preservation of heritage through special collections.
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😕 ugly stuff here from the nashville banner… nashvillebanner.com/2026/02/19/i...
February 19, 2026 at 4:12 PM
😕 ugly stuff here from the nashville banner… nashvillebanner.com/2026/02/19/i...
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With a UBI people can choose what work not to do 🙃
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies
www.theguardian.com
February 19, 2026 at 7:46 AM
With a UBI people can choose what work not to do 🙃
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Indigenous Nations have stewarded these lands since time immemorial.
Land acknowledgments R invitations 2 responsibility.
Small action 2day: Learn whose traditional territory U live on.
Find out here: native-land.ca
Explore Indigenous histories: www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca
Land acknowledgments R invitations 2 responsibility.
Small action 2day: Learn whose traditional territory U live on.
Find out here: native-land.ca
Explore Indigenous histories: www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca
February 19, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Indigenous Nations have stewarded these lands since time immemorial.
Land acknowledgments R invitations 2 responsibility.
Small action 2day: Learn whose traditional territory U live on.
Find out here: native-land.ca
Explore Indigenous histories: www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca
Land acknowledgments R invitations 2 responsibility.
Small action 2day: Learn whose traditional territory U live on.
Find out here: native-land.ca
Explore Indigenous histories: www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca
Current plans for launching up to a million more satellites into low-Earth orbit will also vastly increase the odds of producing a runaway, irreversible Kessler syndrome that could permanently alter the chemistry of our upper atmosphere. Yet another aspect of our accelerating #polycrisis.
Earth’s orbit is on track for a catastrophe
“Satellites in low Earth orbit reflect sunlight for about two hours after sunset and before sunrise…Projections show future satellites will significantly increase this light pollution.”
Insane.
🧪 #NightSky #Satellites
theconversation.com/too-many-sat...
“Satellites in low Earth orbit reflect sunlight for about two hours after sunset and before sunrise…Projections show future satellites will significantly increase this light pollution.”
Insane.
🧪 #NightSky #Satellites
theconversation.com/too-many-sat...
Too many satellites? Earth’s orbit is on track for a catastrophe – but we can stop it
Cultural, spiritual, and most environmental impacts aren’t taken into account when launching thousands of satellites.
theconversation.com
February 19, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Current plans for launching up to a million more satellites into low-Earth orbit will also vastly increase the odds of producing a runaway, irreversible Kessler syndrome that could permanently alter the chemistry of our upper atmosphere. Yet another aspect of our accelerating #polycrisis.
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Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.
As the pedophile führer's ICE Nazis are ordered to release people they've kidnapped, they do it in the dead of night to make sure it's as cruel and brutal as possible. Fortunately, compassionate Patriots are there to meet them and make sure they're ok and driven to their homes.
February 19, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.
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"The cops can drink as much as they want there...The bartenders serve them till they're blackout drunk and let them leave." Quote from a woman who was hit by a drunk-driving cop *while sitting in her living room.* This story from the @inquirer.com is a hell of a thing. share.inquirer.com/yynTQX
Members-only Philly cop bar has been linked to two DUIs — and a third crash kept secret, until now
Anna Wakeman still questions why 7C Lounge bartenders didn’t stop serving the officer who crashed into her house and upended her life five years ago.
share.inquirer.com
February 19, 2026 at 1:29 PM
"The cops can drink as much as they want there...The bartenders serve them till they're blackout drunk and let them leave." Quote from a woman who was hit by a drunk-driving cop *while sitting in her living room.* This story from the @inquirer.com is a hell of a thing. share.inquirer.com/yynTQX
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Record-breaking Antarctic drill reveals 23 million years of climate history swais2c.aq/media/record...
February 18, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Record-breaking Antarctic drill reveals 23 million years of climate history swais2c.aq/media/record...
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I need pure Colombian flies.
February 19, 2026 at 2:33 AM
I need pure Colombian flies.
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"We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work. In the chill climate in which we live, we must go against the prevailing wind." – Justice Thurgood Marshall
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February 19, 2026 at 1:52 AM
"We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work. In the chill climate in which we live, we must go against the prevailing wind." – Justice Thurgood Marshall
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I'd tell you to get to work because it's Wednesday but neither of you should have your jobs
February 19, 2026 at 12:55 AM
I'd tell you to get to work because it's Wednesday but neither of you should have your jobs
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New article in Nature describes a field experiment on X which shows that assigning users to an algorithmic feed pushes conservative content and demotes mainstream news.
Sounds obvious but important in light of prior claims algorithms don't cause attitudinal changes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sounds obvious but important in light of prior claims algorithms don't cause attitudinal changes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 18, 2026 at 6:42 PM
New article in Nature describes a field experiment on X which shows that assigning users to an algorithmic feed pushes conservative content and demotes mainstream news.
Sounds obvious but important in light of prior claims algorithms don't cause attitudinal changes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sounds obvious but important in light of prior claims algorithms don't cause attitudinal changes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
February 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
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Week 2 in Japan. No more shopping. No more! Settling down to tours of Buddhist temple gardens instead. 🌱
February 18, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Week 2 in Japan. No more shopping. No more! Settling down to tours of Buddhist temple gardens instead. 🌱
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DHS workers exposed to asbestos as Noem expands DC headquarters by demolishing nearby buildings
Noem is using national security secrecy to skirt safety laws around removing asbestos while workers remain unprotected!
Scoop from @pabloreports.bsky.social migrantinsider.com/p/demolition...
Noem is using national security secrecy to skirt safety laws around removing asbestos while workers remain unprotected!
Scoop from @pabloreports.bsky.social migrantinsider.com/p/demolition...
Demolition Poisons Workers at DHS Headquarters (SCOOP)
Trump’s embattled DHS secretary Kristi Noem ordered historic buildings demolished. Now her workers are inhaling asbestos on the daily — and are not happy about it.
migrantinsider.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:30 AM
DHS workers exposed to asbestos as Noem expands DC headquarters by demolishing nearby buildings
Noem is using national security secrecy to skirt safety laws around removing asbestos while workers remain unprotected!
Scoop from @pabloreports.bsky.social migrantinsider.com/p/demolition...
Noem is using national security secrecy to skirt safety laws around removing asbestos while workers remain unprotected!
Scoop from @pabloreports.bsky.social migrantinsider.com/p/demolition...
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There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.
The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns
The less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities make it harder for protesters and observers to organize.
www.theverge.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:26 PM
There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.
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A system built to eat people never stops eating people.
The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't.
They won't only be for brown and Black people.
The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.
The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.
They won't only be for brown and Black people.
The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.
The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.
February 18, 2026 at 12:10 AM
A system built to eat people never stops eating people.
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Or this bsky.app/profile/andr...
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.
www.heise.de
February 18, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Or this bsky.app/profile/andr...
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Today the Minnesota House gaveled into session for the first time since we lost Speaker Hortman, Mark, and Gilbert.
In the spirit of Melissa, we commit to doing our work with humility, grace, and compassion.
In the spirit of Melissa, we commit to doing our work with humility, grace, and compassion.
February 17, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Today the Minnesota House gaveled into session for the first time since we lost Speaker Hortman, Mark, and Gilbert.
In the spirit of Melissa, we commit to doing our work with humility, grace, and compassion.
In the spirit of Melissa, we commit to doing our work with humility, grace, and compassion.