mat olson
@mathewolson.com
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mathewolson.com
my plan for tomorrow is sleep all day and then walk one block over from my place to a little repertory movie house that’s playing event horizon at 8pm. this is where i live btw
the future utopia meme image with all the shiny buildings and flying cars juxtaposed with a green park
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construct.goblinmo.de
Seeing people post awful AI slop of journalists being arrested
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jonbois.bsky.social
i've never been inconvenienced before and i hope i never will be. it sounds terrible
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
mathewolson.com
maybe in like 20 years when microsoft or at least xbox has been sold off for parts we’ll be able to get a truly good halo again. perhaps even without incurring more human suffering in the making of it
thespaceshipper.com
Halo Studios art director Glenn Israel (Halo 3 ODST, Infinite): "No illusion of security nor promise of wealth or fame or power is worth trading away your health, your dignity, your ethics or values - and no one can force you to. Stay strong, take evidence when necessary, and find where you belong."
eurogamer.bsky.social
Halo art director leaves studio after 17 years with ominous message alluding to discontent

www.eurogamer.net/halo-art-dir...
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janus.bsky.social
Peter Thiel is obsessed with the Antichrist in the same way Senator Sheev Palpatine is obsessed with the story of Darth Plagueis the Wise
mathewolson.com
god i fuckin hate andrew cuomo. and if he doesn't disappear forever after losing this election he deserves whatever embarrassment or misfortune befalls him next. he should spend the rest of his life followed by a trail of cartoon stink lines
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therafischwartz.bsky.social
Hi. If you don't think see this as an overt, stochastic call for someone to do something horrible to the people protesting next week, idk what to tell ya, man.
atrupar.com
Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "
mathewolson.com
hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov the statements but maybe you should be spending your time on this bullshit if you’re really About That
unraveledpress.com
Several Illinois state troopers out here now with pepper ball launchers of their own.
mathewolson.com
it’s incredible stuff
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ryannorth.ca
In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life
mathewolson.com
Watching Bari Weiss & company take over CBS News is like watching a business school case study on how to make money on journalism. Amazing that at some level it is so basic! Lesson one: make your new employees explain their jobs to you.
oliverdarcy.bsky.social
News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."
mathewolson.com
I need to Toad the fuck up
frogandtoadbot.bsky.social
“Frog,” said Toad, “if I wash my dishes right now, then I will not have to wash them tomorrow, will I?”

“No,” said Frog. “You will not have to.”

Toad washed and dried his dishes. He put them in the cupboard.
Toad washes his dirty dishes and puts them away. What a clean Toad!

From "Tomorrow"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*
mathewolson.com
bookmark this for the next time meta redesigns their avatars to somehow make them look even more lifeless and uncool
josephcox.bsky.social
New from 404 Media: an internal Meta message we obtained tells employees on its metaverse team that they should be using AI to “go 5x faster”. That's 5 times faster, not 5 percent more.

www.404media.co/meta-tells-w...
Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’
Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."
www.404media.co
mathewolson.com
greg bovino can't be that guy's real name. you mean to tell me that the guy who looks like a stupid racist cow is called that? no
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oregonian.com
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
mathewolson.com
the pokemon red and blue versions of sophistipop or whatever we're calling it
mathewolson.com
i was going to make a joke about these two being in the running for best side one of an album released in 1985 but then i realized they also both came out in june, only 12 days apart... what the fuck...
scritti politti's cupid and psyche 85 prefab sprout's steve mcqueen a.k.a. two wheels good
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hollywoodsteve.bsky.social
Steely Dan, unlike antifa, has ringleaders
frankconniff.bsky.social
Antifa, like Steely Dan, is not really a group.