Matt C
@mattcivico.bsky.social
The Internet was a mistake. Blog at mattcivico.com
I’ve never watched a baseball game before. Why am I still up??
November 2, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I’ve never watched a baseball game before. Why am I still up??
Currently enforcing a strict bedtime no-fly zone.
October 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Currently enforcing a strict bedtime no-fly zone.
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this is astonishing
This Rollercoaster Tycoon video is an actual work of emotionally-gripping mad genius
Defying Gravity | Synchronized Roller Coasters (Wicked)
YouTube video by Tube Cody
youtu.be
October 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
this is astonishing
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said it forever and i’ll say it again for you guys in the cheap seats, it’s cool to be nice. being a huge dork is punk rock in its own way. be the full sized candy bars house at halloween. return the shopping carts. pick up that little piece of trash on the sidewalk. it’s cool to be mister rogers.
Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness
October 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
said it forever and i’ll say it again for you guys in the cheap seats, it’s cool to be nice. being a huge dork is punk rock in its own way. be the full sized candy bars house at halloween. return the shopping carts. pick up that little piece of trash on the sidewalk. it’s cool to be mister rogers.
Fighting with my 4yo about who gets to finish the cod liver
October 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Fighting with my 4yo about who gets to finish the cod liver
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If generations of the enslaved boldly prayed for freedom while never seeing it themselves, why am I acting like it’s the end of the world that I can’t order safety and justice to my door on an app.
September 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
If generations of the enslaved boldly prayed for freedom while never seeing it themselves, why am I acting like it’s the end of the world that I can’t order safety and justice to my door on an app.
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I still can’t believe this guy said this. What more proof do people need that this is a bubble? What exactly do you think “overbuild” means other than “the demand isn’t there”? When will everybody stop running the stupid asshole Olympics?
Hey all, quick question: is it good that mark zuckerberg’s answer to “are we in a bubble” was “yeah, maybe, but don’t worry, it’s just like the dot com boom,” a point easily-disproved? Isn’t he meant to be the guy who has a real answer? Is this good? Hello?!
www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...
www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...
September 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I still can’t believe this guy said this. What more proof do people need that this is a bubble? What exactly do you think “overbuild” means other than “the demand isn’t there”? When will everybody stop running the stupid asshole Olympics?
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“Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.”
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
“Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.”
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
I’m canceling every subscription that licks a boot.
September 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I’m canceling every subscription that licks a boot.
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A too online man came to Jesus and asked, “What must I do to receive eternal life?”
Jesus told him to keep the
commandments, to which the man replied that he had. Jesus then told him to delete his accounts and stop trolling. When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he was based.
Jesus told him to keep the
commandments, to which the man replied that he had. Jesus then told him to delete his accounts and stop trolling. When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he was based.
September 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
A too online man came to Jesus and asked, “What must I do to receive eternal life?”
Jesus told him to keep the
commandments, to which the man replied that he had. Jesus then told him to delete his accounts and stop trolling. When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he was based.
Jesus told him to keep the
commandments, to which the man replied that he had. Jesus then told him to delete his accounts and stop trolling. When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he was based.
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Whatever its merits, the internet has become a psychologically destructive force. You will be happier and healthier if you don’t spend excess amounts of time online. Stop scrolling. Water your garden. Read a book to your kids. You will not regret a life spent in this world.
September 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Whatever its merits, the internet has become a psychologically destructive force. You will be happier and healthier if you don’t spend excess amounts of time online. Stop scrolling. Water your garden. Read a book to your kids. You will not regret a life spent in this world.
Today is a good day to love your neighbour.
Yes, even that one.
Yes, even that one.
September 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Today is a good day to love your neighbour.
Yes, even that one.
Yes, even that one.
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Rising political violence is bad, even when it happens to someone I do not like, whose views I find reprehensible.
The road of endless escalation leads nowhere good for society.
The road of endless escalation leads nowhere good for society.
September 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Rising political violence is bad, even when it happens to someone I do not like, whose views I find reprehensible.
The road of endless escalation leads nowhere good for society.
The road of endless escalation leads nowhere good for society.
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I commend him to God’s mercy. Even as I do not mourn him. I pray divine grace prevents us from yet more cruelty and violence, and that God help me resist lowering myself to hatred because Kirk was himself so hateful.
May Charlie Kirk rest in peace.
Yet, it is possible to note at the same time that another Horst Wessel or Albert Schlageter is bring created.
Yet, it is possible to note at the same time that another Horst Wessel or Albert Schlageter is bring created.
September 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I commend him to God’s mercy. Even as I do not mourn him. I pray divine grace prevents us from yet more cruelty and violence, and that God help me resist lowering myself to hatred because Kirk was himself so hateful.
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Political violence signals a failure of the left to organize a coherent and effective resistance to fascism and a deepening of the spiral of violence.
September 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Political violence signals a failure of the left to organize a coherent and effective resistance to fascism and a deepening of the spiral of violence.
September 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
How does anyone post, ever? I’ve written and discarded 3 replies to that terrible Taylor Lorenz student phone ban take.
I’m gonna go eat the zucchini fritters I just made instead
I’m gonna go eat the zucchini fritters I just made instead
August 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
How does anyone post, ever? I’ve written and discarded 3 replies to that terrible Taylor Lorenz student phone ban take.
I’m gonna go eat the zucchini fritters I just made instead
I’m gonna go eat the zucchini fritters I just made instead
Listening to 4 dudes talking about how great it is to talk to ChatGPT.
“I love treating it like shit.”
“I love treating it like shit.”
August 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Listening to 4 dudes talking about how great it is to talk to ChatGPT.
“I love treating it like shit.”
“I love treating it like shit.”
About to see Hamilton live after 10 years of waiting ⭐️
August 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
About to see Hamilton live after 10 years of waiting ⭐️
The best part? It would’ve been wrong either way.
✨Dumbass Autocomplete ✨
✨Dumbass Autocomplete ✨
What’s fun about this is you can see the probabilities it worked out to cobble together this fabrication.
Star Wars
Willem Dafoe
The Last…
Jedi? No, no, better be Temptation of Christ! Because it sees the world in tokenized information, not knowledge! 🙄
Star Wars
Willem Dafoe
The Last…
Jedi? No, no, better be Temptation of Christ! Because it sees the world in tokenized information, not knowledge! 🙄
August 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The best part? It would’ve been wrong either way.
✨Dumbass Autocomplete ✨
✨Dumbass Autocomplete ✨
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From my Montreal Metro series:
Station Beaudry
📷 Leica M3
🔘 Voigtlander 15mm f4.5
🎞️ Ilford HP5
#believeinfilm #filmphotography #LeicaM3 #voigtlander15mmf45 #ilfordHP5 #ilfordphoto #Montreal #MontrealMetro
Station Beaudry
📷 Leica M3
🔘 Voigtlander 15mm f4.5
🎞️ Ilford HP5
#believeinfilm #filmphotography #LeicaM3 #voigtlander15mmf45 #ilfordHP5 #ilfordphoto #Montreal #MontrealMetro
July 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
From my Montreal Metro series:
Station Beaudry
📷 Leica M3
🔘 Voigtlander 15mm f4.5
🎞️ Ilford HP5
#believeinfilm #filmphotography #LeicaM3 #voigtlander15mmf45 #ilfordHP5 #ilfordphoto #Montreal #MontrealMetro
Station Beaudry
📷 Leica M3
🔘 Voigtlander 15mm f4.5
🎞️ Ilford HP5
#believeinfilm #filmphotography #LeicaM3 #voigtlander15mmf45 #ilfordHP5 #ilfordphoto #Montreal #MontrealMetro
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I'm convinced that Vonnegut's dictum "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be" is an indispensable piece of wisdom for our current moment, for a whole host of reasons
July 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I'm convinced that Vonnegut's dictum "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be" is an indispensable piece of wisdom for our current moment, for a whole host of reasons
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"If someone is good enough to deliver your packages or mow your grass or tar your roof or clean your house or be a nanny to your kids, then they’re damn well good enough to be your neighbor." thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/who-is-my-...
Who Is My Neighbor?
Long thoughts on characterization and fact in regional housing arguments
thedeletedscenes.substack.com
July 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
"If someone is good enough to deliver your packages or mow your grass or tar your roof or clean your house or be a nanny to your kids, then they’re damn well good enough to be your neighbor." thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/who-is-my-...
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PUT AWAY YOUR GREATSWORD, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE DESPAIR. AND YOU WILL WIN.
July 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
PUT AWAY YOUR GREATSWORD, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE DESPAIR. AND YOU WILL WIN.