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Mattholland Drive Winkie's Alley Dot Com

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Glorious amateur. Writer. Pulp Idol 2023 finalist. He/Him Website: http://matthollandauthor.com/ Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@gallaetha_matt/videos Books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0753GZ52J?binding=kindle_edition&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tkin

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Mattholland Drive Winkie's Alley Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · Nov 15

You can find almost all of my writing on my website: matthollandauthor.com One of the few surviving websites that doesn't have ads or pop-ups of any kind. Everything on there is free, but it is Patreon supported if you feel like paying for it. No pressure though: patreon.com/gallaetha_matt

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Mattholland Drive Winkie's Alley Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 1h

Oh hell yeah! I loved season 1 and was wondering when they'd do this. Gonna have to cook up/order some gyozas and rewatch it to remind myself what happened though

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Mattholland Drive Winkie's Alley Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 1h

Always the way, the last thing you need always decides to go on a last minute holiday right when you need them again

Mattholland Drive Winkie's Alley Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 2h

As happy as I am for other authors when they get a publishing deal, I also get such immense FOMO about it. I want that to be me so badly!

Gonna try to hack out some time next week to start submitting to agents again, I reckon

Mattholland Drive Winkie's Alley Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 2h

Ah, I see that the Podcasting Awards are an organisation that rewards failure

Mattholland Drive Winkie's Alley Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 2h

Immortal Space Captain Matt Holland Author Dot Com does have a ring to it if you pronounce it with the right flourish

Mattholland Drive Winkie's Alley Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 2h

The one thing that puts me off option 1 is the "no opt out". And that's only because I don't want to be endlessly drifting through space forever at the heat death of the universe. But then, I'd also have an eternity to lawyer myself into an opt out clause or invent a spaceship or something

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Mattholland Drive Winkie's Alley Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 3h

James's fundraiser is only two and a half grand from reaching its goal. It's a lot of money for any one of us, but small amounts from a lot of us might push it over. If you can spare anything I'm sure it'll be appreciated massively

www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4h

Caitlin Flanagan
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I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Mattholland Drive Winkie's Alley Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 5h

News like this makes me think the next thing I write should be a suicide note, not necessarily for myself either

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 6h

honestly why do we even bother

Substack post from Lincoln Michel:

"Alchemised debuts at #1 with massive sales, making it the THIRD Harry Potter Draco-Hermione friends-to-enemies fan fic to be turned into a bestselling novel in 2025. It's easy to say that publishers are just feeding readers slop, but harder to admit that they... enjoy it. They’re going to keep publishing it if people gobble it up by the ton."

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 9h

Never forget the core thing funding the sheer scale of the spending spree of AI investments is primarily due to the turborich wanting to solve the “problem” of having to pay wages.

Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 9h

"Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this."

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Mattholland Drive Winkie's Alley Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 6h

I get this. I despise shopping. Even if I go out with a list, all of it falls out of my head the instant some numbnuts blunders into me while staring at their phone

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 8h

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Mattholland Drive Winkie's Alley Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 7h

Proper British cocktails, none of that forrin muck

Mattholland Drive Winkie's Alley Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 8h

Frog! Frog!! Frog!!! FROG!!!!

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 17h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Mattholland Drive Winkie's Alley Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 9h

So tired that my eyes are doing that "blinking one at a time" thing. Where the fuck was this enthusiasm for sleeping at 4am last night?

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 10h

As a lifelong hate-watcher of #BBCQT it's been incredible to see the tone shift in last night's prog with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on. It should have never been that hard to call for common sense - and actually popular - policies. Someone is actually doing it.

Quick 🧵

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Mattholland Drive Winkie's Alley Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 18h

Can't believe I forgot about this show until just now. Wilfred was great. It's long, long overdue for a rewatch

Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · Apr 3

Three stills fron the television show Wilfred all showing Wilfred in Ryan in conversation outside. Text on first panel reada "we all have to make sacrifices, Ryan. Like the story of Jesus Christ". Text on the second panel reads "I'm sure the roman soldiers wanted to hang out at the pantheon and stare at tit's all day...". Text for the third panel reads "but they knew they had a duty to kill jesus"

Mattholland Drive Winkie's Alley Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 19h

yep

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Kill James Bond! @killjamesbond.bsky.social · 1d

here’s the notes app speech we would have given ✊

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Mattholland Drive Winkie's Alley Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 22h

Feels like I'd rather go to an Insult Cafe, but only if the reservation list for my own execution was too long

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 1d

This 'The Bear'-esque dining experience puts you in the center of the kitchen chaos

At Speakeasy Society's 'Family Meal,' curse words are thrown, recipes are slandered and it all makes for fun, irresistible drama.

www.latimes.com

Mattholland Drive Winkie's Alley Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 22h

I get this. Word limits are absolutely crushing. It feels like trying to drive with the handbrake still on

Mattholland Drive Winkie's Alley Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 23h

I'm not normally a fan of a lot of white wine (I like it, but it doesn't like me) but the reds sound like the sort of thing I'd like

Mattholland Drive Winkie's Alley Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think I've ever tried any Portuguese wine, that's definitely something I'll need to change

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InterfaceLeader @interfaceleader.bsky.social · 1d

Global maternal fatality rates are at their lowest ever level: ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

Global maternal mortality rates have fallen by almost 60% since 1985

One of the most tragic beginnings in life for a child is to lose their mother during childbirth.

ourworldindata.org

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