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Matt Brignall

@mattbrignall.bsky.social

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Record collector, jazz student, primary care provider. Think I am funnier than I am.

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Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 26d

Scene: summer 2027, me standing on a hill overlooking another US city burning to the ground. Speaking to no one in particular as the gun battle inches closer.
"You know, the world was a much better place when we had a mainstream media that most people accepted as truth."

Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 16h

Now do boner pills

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 16h

Oh, so now these sociopaths trust science and our ability to measure trace amounts of chemicals.

Under Trump, E.P.A. Explored if Abortion Pills Could Be Detected in Wastewater

www.nytimes.com

Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 1d

www.newsweek.com/its-time-sci...
"We" - from a first year med student.

It's Time for the Scientific Community to Admit We Were Wrong About COVID

Intellectual elitism, credentialism, and classism must end. Restoring trust in public health—and our democracy—depends on it.

www.newsweek.com

Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 1d

Oh sure, too many to remember all, but if you look at my follows, you'll find em.
@queencityjamz.bsky.social is the boss hoss though. From there, you'll find the rest of em.

Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 1d

BTW, ain't exactly the selling out as much as not being surprising. That Swans Burning World LP from the same time cleaned up the band, but was a banger.

Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 1d

They do seem like the hipsters from the college radio station who were into your favorite band from the first demo tape etc etc.

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Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 1d

Related: I was personally offended at the time by Don't Tell a Soul, and record which has aged gracefully to my ears.

Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 1d

I may be an outlier here, but the shift from Daydream to Goo kinda summed up my disappointment with dozens of my faves as 80s->90s.

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Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 1d

Goo by Sonic Youth. That was the minute the underground started to curdle.

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Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 2d

Post you from a different era (1985).
Note, im rocking a similar cut for 2025.

Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 4d

Hands up doctors if you've received threatening communication from a patient or rando radicalized by Kennedy and his ilk.
Hines should have been checking her husband's browser history.

CBS Philadelphia @cbsphiladelphia.bsky.social · 4d

Actor Cheryl Hines says she lived in constant fear for her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s safety during his 2024 presidential campaign.

Cheryl Hines says she feared for RFK Jr.'s safety during his 2024 campaign: "I knew our lives would never be the same"

Actor Cheryl Hines says she lived in constant fear for her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s safety during his 2024 presidential campaign.

www.cbsnews.com

Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 4d

www.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/u...
This seemed wrong at the time, but way worse a near decade since

Donald Trump’s More Accepting Views on Gay Issues Set Him Apart in G.O.P. (Published 2016)

www.nytimes.com

Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 5d

Whats amazing is that all these edgelords have their hair on fire about "the problem," but they dont seem to have any agreement about what the problem is. What if things were generally OK in 2023? Some inflation, houses too $, but possible to be happy?

Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 6d

ChatGPT will tell you CIRS is a real health condition.

Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 6d

x.com/jordanbpeter...
*shakes head slowly in acknowledgment that a new BS diagnosis is in town*
Whats neat is that you can find a number of self preferential review articles in pubmed on this, including treatment protocols.

Dr Jordan B Peterson on X: "RT @MikhailaFuller: Hey guys, JBP is taking some time off of everything. He was diagnosed with CIRS (chronic inflammatory response synd…" / X

RT @MikhailaFuller: Hey guys, JBP is taking some time off of everything. He was diagnosed with CIRS (chronic inflammatory response synd…

x.com

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Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 9d

I miss the old days of music twitter. I met him at a big ears show cause he was tweeting pics from 3 feet away from me.

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Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 9d

He should be on here.

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Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 9d

Do you know the CERCLA database? It went down in Trump 1, I think, but you may still find it around. Lots of human epi there

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Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 9d

Awfully sad to think about the art Clifford Brown would have made going into the advances in harmony and technology in the golden age of late 50s-early 60s. There were only a couple trumpet players who bridged the era from Parker to fusion

Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 9d

I just learned that the biggest healthcare system in my area is dropping all medicaid patients on January 1st, and this guy is gonna blame lack of access on immigration. False witness, dog.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 10d

No man can eat 50 oysters

Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 10d

What do you think of our guy, Dan Wilson? He kept his team close enough to win with a late surge, but his in game management seems a bit suspect.

Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 10d

I think red and blue coded halftime shows would be neat. Is Up With People still together?

Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 10d

Aw man a tour of Dead with this version of the Neverending tour band.....

Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 11d

The worst production quirk of the 80s: that clanky new string bass sound in all of those AmRep bands. Throw some early digital reverb on the drums and you've got the starter kit.

Matt Brignall @mattbrignall.bsky.social · 11d

My college kitchen job made me clean grease traps and hoods at the end of the night. I'd walk home in dead of winter covered in grease and walk by the house where the Laughing Hyenas were inventing grunge.