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Matthew

@playnotfight.bsky.social

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Here for RPGs and other fun nerd shit. But also... Trans rights are human rights. Bigots of all varieties GTFO. The existence of billionaires is a societal failure. I'd rather play, not fight, but I will fight. He/They

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Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · Sep 22

Important reminder from @jamellebouie.net on TikTok.
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Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 3h

And if you want to get a head start you can also listen to my favorite Thanksgiving song, Coming Home, also by Peter Mayer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0JE...

Coming Home

YouTube video by Peter Mayer - Topic

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Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 3h

No. Murderbot has a conscience and tries to help people.

Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 3h

My favorite Halloween song.
John's Garden, by Peter Mayer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG1n...

John's Garden

YouTube video by Peter Mayer - Topic

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Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 20h

He is literally tearing down the White House? Something tells me that the people who want to preserve Confederate statues are having no trouble coming up with reasons why this is ok.

Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 1d

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Biden should have done this the second the immunity ruling came down and he should have picked up Roberts and 3 or 4 other justices as well. Fucking establishment Dems cry "Emergency!" when they want $5 but won't actually do what the moment requires!

Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely believe that the next president should arrest Trump first thing. Simply make a national security determination - a thing which falls within the "core powers" of the presidency! - and dare Roberts to overturn his own ruling

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Here's a fun little nugget from Trump's demand that DOJ pay him, personally, $250 million: In his memo, he argues that prosecutors "should have foreseen" that he has "immunity from prosecution for officials acts." Thank you John Roberts, great rule of law-ing, sir! static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 1d

It's absolutely WILD that anyone would post this on social media and not expect to be vilified for what it says about them and their company. Also WILD that they don't fear being investigated for labor violations and we don't expect that to be a problem for them either.

JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 1d

Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag

“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.

Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless

A tweet by Mark Kretschmann showing two photos of the xAI office on Grokipedia release day. The office is filled with small camping tents set up between desks and along hallways, suggesting that engineers have been sleeping there while working late. The caption notes it’s early morning and the engineers are still in their tents, joking that a good night’s sleep does wonders.

Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 1d

They're trying to apply the classic conservative tactic of "I am willing to hurt myself to hurt someone I don't like more." but trying to make it appeal to the left by targeting rich people, and it just seems so fucking stupid because it's obvious that rich people dgaf about bus fare.

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Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 1d

You have an impressive resume in the tabletop space and an obviously formidable intellect, but you are very humble and approachable, so maybe 3?

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Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 1d

Racism aside (big aside) the fact that they can't see how the AI "performances" are objectively worse, even in this short clip, means they shouldn't be allowed to make these decisions.

Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 1d

White people learned that racism was bad but selfishly remained bad at identifying racism and its effects.
Same thing here with Tolkien. Tech bros know it's cool to reference it but not why.

Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 1d

I'm mostly being facetious, of course - I do think that art is important. It's funny to imagine that we're just brainwashed to think so, but the number of insufferable technocrats who want to cut art (or worse, let the AI handle it all) and only do STEM proves it isn't true.

Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a scientific study that shows the negative outcomes correlated with scientific illiteracy? Unfortunately, AI will tell you how great AI is. 🙄
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Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 1d

There are countless poems about poetry, songs about music, and plays about the theater, but when was the last time a history book actually showed how important a knowledge of history is to a society? Has math ever proved that math is important?
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Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure, but I suspect it's in a comedy and the character thinks they're street smart but really they are just stupid and delusional.
This reminded me of an idea I come back to occasionally. Are the arts really that important or are they just really good at hyping themselves?
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Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 2d

A painted flag of the United States of America, done in a sort of imperfect folksy craft style that is sometimes called "Americana".
Underneath the flag, in cursive script, it says, "Ceci n'est pas America." (This is not America.)
This is a reference to a famous piece of art by the Belgian surrealist, Magritte: a picture of a pipe with the words, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe." (This is not a pipe.)
The most basic explanation of the piece is that it's not a pipe; it's a picture of a pipe.
See also the phrase, "The map is not the territory."

Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 2d

Assuming you like a little heat.

Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 2d

Have you got the Hot Ones Pringles? The Verde one is the best Pringle that has ever existed.

Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 2d

Many people are saying he should.

Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 3d

Nevermind. Fuck off Nazi!
bsky.app/profile/soci...

Erdogan Gwan Delilah @socialconcarne.bsky.social · 3d

Okay brother I think we're done here jewishinsider.com/2025/10/grah...

Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, well fuck that guy!

Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 3d

I think he's saying he didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo and just thought it was a generic skull and crossbones until now. It's plausible but certainly worth a 🤨
What he says, and more importantly, does next is important.

Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 3d

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fwiw, he says that he just learned what it is, but afaik he hasn't done the removal yet. I'm glad I don't live in Maine so I don't have to think too hard about how much I believe him. Even a 1% doubt would be too high for me to ever risk voting for a nazi.

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Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 3d

FWIW:
"...he and other Marines went to Croatia, where they got 'very inebriated' and decided to get tattoos...'We chose a terrifying skull and crossbones off the wall because we were Marines and skulls and crossbones are a pretty standard military thing'”
themainemonitor.org/platner-tatt...

Maine’s Platner says the worst is behind him

The besieged Democratic Senate candidate said he doesn’t expect more damaging social media posts to resurface.

www.politico.com

Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 3d

I ran across a few of his vg vids a while back and never watched enough to know he was a wingnut because of his non-stop rancid loser vibes. If this is what passes for an important right wing influencer then they are more desperate than I thought.

Matthew @playnotfight.bsky.social · 3d

The Louvre heist has "RPG session where the party had a terrible plan but rolled like gods" written all over it.