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Mathew Kumar
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Writer of exp. magazine (https://expzine.com). Game developer for hire. He/They.

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · Sep 16
Pleased to announced that exp. 2602, a new #zine in my exploration of the 1970s releases for the Atari 2600, is available for pre-order NOW at our new online store! Read more: expzine.com/2025/09/16/a...
exp. 2602 cover. exp. 2602 contents preview.
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adambonica.bsky.social
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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January 12, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis.
www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...
ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. According to The Atlantic, they receive 47 days of training — in honor of Trump, the 47th president, naturally. Many of them, also, can barely read or write, apparently. The ones I spent the weekend following around didn’t even have proper uniforms, with some wearing sneakers. In Minnesota. In January. These dipshits are also wearing camo in the snow. They clearly do not have any training when it comes to their own weapons either. Multiple times over the last few days, I watched officers fire pepper spray balls at the feet of protestors barely a few inches away from them. These weapons are basically paintball guns full of concentrated pepper spray. So when they hit a target, they explode into the air. Which meant ICE agents regularly ended up poisoning themselves with their own weapons. I also watched two agents ask each other if a canister they were about to fire at the crowd was tear gas or a stun grenade. (It ended up being a stun grenade that then ignited the tear gas they had already shot at us, which started a fire in the street that a protestor had to help them put out.)
January 12, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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anneb.bsky.social
Folks, my mini-IBM PC is finally complete and fully documented!

I invite you to take a look at the full tutorial and a section on why and how I designed this build.

Please share this news and thanks to all who encouraged me.
adafruit-playground.com/u/AnneBarela...
Anne Barela's mini-IBM PC which emulated up to a PC with an 80386 microcontroller. Attention to detail is apparent. Shown with vintage look Vortex mini keyboard.
January 12, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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January 12, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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scarredforlife.bsky.social
In 1980, Tyne Tees' magazine show for teens, CHECK IT OUT, gave kids in the North-East of England the lowdown on nuclear war. And it's a delight from start to finish.
Future 'The Tube/Top of the Pops' producer Chris Cowey there, with the perm and mussie.
January 9, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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Although no one is calling me successful, I feel this (especially on views.) Ways to help for FREE:

- SHARE posts (no algorithm here) even better if you add your own thoughts, I welcome engagement!
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January 12, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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janus.bsky.social
i don’t wanna hear the name Mr. Beast again for the rest of my life, unless it’s about the seminal 2006 post-rock album by Mogwai
January 11, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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esnupi.me
Peanuts by Schulz: Friday, November 13, 1981
A Peanuts comic strip, drawn by Charles M. Schulz, originally released Friday, November 13, 1981
January 11, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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luinoristoutshield.bsky.social
Jesus Christ @lukeoneil47.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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markshawtoronto.bsky.social
Combat serious forms of harmful online content, specifically hate speech, terrorist content, content that incites violence, child sexual abuse material and the non-consensual distribution of intimate images, unless the website is X, in which case I guess we’ll do nothing
annabelluz.bsky.social Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 1d
It was a bigger part of the Liberal party platform during the election here in Canada… not sure what’s happening now.
January 11, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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sharkabytes.bsky.social
Hey peeps! Those who have followed me for a while will remember that I put out a regular digi-zine until depression and some other issues bit hard in August.

Well, a new issue is finally out, our 34th. And it's free-to-everyone to download and read.

betweenthescanlines.itch.io/issue-thirty...
A snap of our cover, with a PC-98 image of a blonde anime girl wearing a red wizards hat and a snazzy 80s-ey jacket, halter top, and mini skirt, and holding a magical staff.
January 10, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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ramiismail.com
Israel's murder of Hind Rajab did indeed pretty much literally prove this true. Then when we got all the evidence, they considered promoting the guy who gave the order to spokesperson of the Israeli army.
fredo.bsky.social Fredo Fabrucci: The Poster's Poster™ @fredo.bsky.social · 2d
Thinking about this once again
A tweet from me on Feb 29th, 2020: Lmao you could post a video of a cop just busting out the chaingun from doom and pumping 300 rounds into the back of a tied up 8 year old and someone will still come out of the woodwork all like "well let's not pass judgment, we haven't seen all the footage"
January 11, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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marsrover.bsky.social
A ream of norms are being shattered daily, but as a tech expert this one really shocks me. For a generation CSAM has been *THE* flaming red line for a tech platform. If they spent money on ANYTHING, it was moderating it miles away. To even have the whiff of it was a Federal kiss of death. Now? 🤷‍♂️
lorak.bsky.social Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 2d
I want to highlight this important story by my friends @nbcnews.com - www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne... "The Internet Watch Foundation said it found topless images of girls that dark web forum users attributed to xAI’s Grok Imagine." <-- the AI generated CSAM / NCII immediately escapes containment
Dark web users cite Grok as tool for making 'criminal imagery' of kids, U.K. watchdog says
The Internet Watch Foundation said it found topless images of girls that dark web forum users attributed to xAI’s Grok Imagine.
www.nbcnews.com
January 10, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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yonahfreemark.com
LA Metro is moving ahead with an automated metro subway route linking UCLA and the San Fernando Valley, providing an effective transit option in one of the most trafficked corridors in the nation.
January 10, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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tiny.baby
alright well never going there again i suppose www.avclub.com/alamo-drafth...
Following labor disputes, Alamo Drafthouse pilots second-screen ordering experience
Following labor disputes, Alamo Drafthouse pilots second-screen ordering experience
www.avclub.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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blot.city
"Political opponents" is doing some dire work here. The guy with the child sexual abuse factory is Only a Political Opponent. You don't *really* care about there being such a thing as a child sexual abuse factory, you just want to Censor his Speech because you're evil and stupid and so goddamn crazy
xavierck.com Xavier needs a job, oh my god. @xavierck.com · 2d
So how we feelin' about that Epic ecosystem nowadays?

We all feel confident that Fortnite is a good spot for kids to hang out?
@TimSweeneyEpic quotes @MacRumors' post that says "U.S. Senators Ask Apple and Google to Remove X and Grok Apps Over Sexualized Image Generation" His Tweets: 1. "Reason #42 for open platforms: to shut down every politician’s incessant demands to all gatekeepers to censor all of their political opponents." 2. "All major AIs have documented instances of going off the rails; all major AI companies make their best efforts to combat this; none are perfect. Politicians demanding gatekeepers selectively crush the one that's their political opponent's company is basic crony capitalism."
January 10, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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kartoonistkelly.bsky.social
Achtung-tied.

@theonion.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:53 PM
mathewkumar.com
You have to understand that they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger in 1973 yet with this the prize has never been more debased
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d
This is sad on so many levels — about something that was intended to celebrate the best in people.

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...
January 9, 2026 at 10:53 PM
mathewkumar.com
From the exp. archive: In 2014 I lived out my football fantasies and get signed by, uh, Dumbarton. On the excellent story generator New Star Soccer (New Star Games, 2012):
New Star Soccer (New Star Games, 2012) - exp.
For those among us who wish they got called up to play football by, uh, Dumbarton.
expzine.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:30 PM
mathewkumar.com
Fell asleep on a plane and dreamt there was a new The Streets song, where Mike Skinner rapped the chorus “comprehensively tested, fully debunked, an elephant can’t take a piss through their trunk.”
January 9, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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nickfeik.bsky.social
I wrote earlier about the catastrophic effects of pro-Israel pressure campaigns on our cultural institutions, but it seems no lessons have been learned

open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...
On the other hand, the organised pro-Israel groups backgrounding journalists or haranguing ministers or board members have faced no consequences, despite the chaos they’ve caused. They haven’t been named or called to account in any way. It’s a perverse effect of the pressure-campaign tactics: only the victims of these attacks (the pro-Palestinian artists, writers, presenters) are put on public trial. More significantly, the damage to the institutions – the damage they have done to themselves in wronging these individuals – is not being discussed. There is a common fallacy that these institutions are protecting themselves when they hang individuals out to dry. Pressure campaigns rely on this notion when in fact the opposite is true: board members and chief executives made knee-jerk decisions under the pressure of a news deadline, thinking they’d dampen the threat, only to find the repercussions were much greater. Catastrophic, in fact.
January 9, 2026 at 4:14 AM
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leyawn.bsky.social
this is your mission. roll up to this daycare in full tactical gear to harass some kids and teachers. when you get spooked by your own shadow like a panicked horse and start shooting your gun, our pedophile president will call the person you shot a terrorist. good luck soldier
January 8, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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smilingnodding.bsky.social
virgin walk virgin walk
January 8, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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supcat.bsky.social
You won’t be prepared for Sonic’s voice
ephemeralenigmas.bsky.social Ephemeral Enigmas @ephemeralenigmas.bsky.social · 4d
3. Segasonic Cosmo Fighter

This is a game meant for a kids ride, so it's over in a few minutes with nothing to it and I sure can't emulate the ride part at home either, but I played it because it has the funny Sonic voice

They should bring this voice back imo
January 8, 2026 at 10:57 PM