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.
Reminds me of the number of Weird Al parodies I heard as a kid long before I heard their referents...
November 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Reminds me of the number of Weird Al parodies I heard as a kid long before I heard their referents...
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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...
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.
Hard to imagine it having had the same character if the Obama stimulus has gone as hard as the COVID one...
November 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Hard to imagine it having had the same character if the Obama stimulus has gone as hard as the COVID one...
So, many of the hardcore participants experienced OWS more as a developmental moment/milestone rather than a movement in the traditional sense, and then radiated out into a wide universe of different things in ways that are still informed by those experiences.
November 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
So, many of the hardcore participants experienced OWS more as a developmental moment/milestone rather than a movement in the traditional sense, and then radiated out into a wide universe of different things in ways that are still informed by those experiences.
I also think a key piece that was not explicit, but core to it, is that the foot soldiers were under- and un-employed Great Recession Millennials who had little to lose dropping out of their shitty temp jobs for a few months to express their rage while getting an organizing crash course.
November 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I also think a key piece that was not explicit, but core to it, is that the foot soldiers were under- and un-employed Great Recession Millennials who had little to lose dropping out of their shitty temp jobs for a few months to express their rage while getting an organizing crash course.
It's once again temporary exterior architectural light shelf season...
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
It's once again temporary exterior architectural light shelf season...
...particularly in the context of them receiving blanket pardons en masse on Trump's way out the door.
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
...particularly in the context of them receiving blanket pardons en masse on Trump's way out the door.
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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.
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Lettuce exploding off the shoulder of my ironed uniform. I watched pickles glitter in the dark near the Vanderbilt Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
a close up of a man 's face with blood running down his face .
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with blood running down his face .
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November 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Lettuce exploding off the shoulder of my ironed uniform. I watched pickles glitter in the dark near the Vanderbilt Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
They also did some early credit union development work/funding in the 1910s before Filene/20th Century Fund fully took up the cause in the 20s.
November 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
They also did some early credit union development work/funding in the 1910s before Filene/20th Century Fund fully took up the cause in the 20s.
Why did Frankenstein not have a wide release? My wife and I had childcare lined up, and it turned out that the nearest theater was 60+ miles away.
November 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Why did Frankenstein not have a wide release? My wife and I had childcare lined up, and it turned out that the nearest theater was 60+ miles away.
If you care enough about this to divest, move your money to blue state municipal bond funds.
November 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If you care enough about this to divest, move your money to blue state municipal bond funds.
Anything that is an index fund will be providing a fraction of your capital to djt... bsky.app/profile/matt...
The logic of index funds makes great sense below a certain threshold of market penetration, and embody new and exciting forms of never-before-seen economic dysfunctions above said threshold...
November 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Anything that is an index fund will be providing a fraction of your capital to djt... bsky.app/profile/matt...
The logic of index funds makes great sense below a certain threshold of market penetration, and embody new and exciting forms of never-before-seen economic dysfunctions above said threshold...
November 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The logic of index funds makes great sense below a certain threshold of market penetration, and embody new and exciting forms of never-before-seen economic dysfunctions above said threshold...
Batheing every vein in fweet liquer...
November 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Batheing every vein in fweet liquer...
