Matthew Stillman
@stillmansays.bsky.social
Creativity, play, relationality, culture and beauty making, teacher of “Committed To Heart, Committed To Memory” poetry course. Boo to conspiracy thinking and collapsed epistemologies. Stillmansays.substack.com
@hels.bsky.social loved your Bong review. Must go! I used to be an exec at Food Network 25+ years ago & I loved finding places like that to tell stories about. Also trading in our Makenna connection…wanted to share an online thing I’m doing on Tuesday nights in October poetshouse.org/event/commit...
Remote 4-Week Intensive: Matthew Stillman: Committed To Heart, Committed To Memory - Poets House
10/7-10/28: Learn the art of poetry memorization with Matthew Stillman!
poetshouse.org
September 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
@hels.bsky.social loved your Bong review. Must go! I used to be an exec at Food Network 25+ years ago & I loved finding places like that to tell stories about. Also trading in our Makenna connection…wanted to share an online thing I’m doing on Tuesday nights in October poetshouse.org/event/commit...
If you’ve ever wondered if taking up the dusty (but vitally human) skill of being in relations with poems was possible or for you …come on down all the Tuesday evenings in October to my course “Committed To Headt, Committed To Memory” with Poets House poetshouse.org/event/commit...
Remote 4-Week Intensive: Matthew Stillman: Committed To Heart, Committed To Memory - Poets House
10/7-10/28: Learn the art of poetry memorization with Matthew Stillman!
poetshouse.org
September 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
If you’ve ever wondered if taking up the dusty (but vitally human) skill of being in relations with poems was possible or for you …come on down all the Tuesday evenings in October to my course “Committed To Headt, Committed To Memory” with Poets House poetshouse.org/event/commit...
@aestallings.bsky.social professor, I sent an email message to you through your website. Is that the best place to contact or is BlueSky better? Good luck on the big zoom meeting and glad the earthquake was minor!
September 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
@aestallings.bsky.social professor, I sent an email message to you through your website. Is that the best place to contact or is BlueSky better? Good luck on the big zoom meeting and glad the earthquake was minor!
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Are you a book nerd looking for community and wondering how the existential fear of death leads to systems of oppression?
I've got you covered.
#booksky #mindfulness #deathdoula #APdoula #contemplative #presence #socialjustice
rowecenter.org/radical-mind...
I've got you covered.
#booksky #mindfulness #deathdoula #APdoula #contemplative #presence #socialjustice
rowecenter.org/radical-mind...
Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming Fear of Death is Politically Vital
This is not your typical book club. Beginning September 14th, the Rowe Center will host a weekly online gathering to explore Radical Mindfulness by author James K. Rowe. In 90 minute sessions, we will...
rowecenter.org
September 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Are you a book nerd looking for community and wondering how the existential fear of death leads to systems of oppression?
I've got you covered.
#booksky #mindfulness #deathdoula #APdoula #contemplative #presence #socialjustice
rowecenter.org/radical-mind...
I've got you covered.
#booksky #mindfulness #deathdoula #APdoula #contemplative #presence #socialjustice
rowecenter.org/radical-mind...
Reposted by Matthew Stillman
“The use of ignorance to establish oneself as a greater authority than the expert” is something I’ve seen as a problem for a long time, but I’ve never seen it expressed as well as it is in this essay.
I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...
Your Ignorance Doesn't Make You An Expert
Let's go chasing waterfalls.
www.the-reframe.com
September 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
“The use of ignorance to establish oneself as a greater authority than the expert” is something I’ve seen as a problem for a long time, but I’ve never seen it expressed as well as it is in this essay.
@dangregor.bsky.social old UCB player here. You and I were in classes together at UCB/Magnet. Just got back from Naked Gun. Magnificent. Smart and funny. Too good. Glad your comic capacity is still burning bright.
August 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
@dangregor.bsky.social old UCB player here. You and I were in classes together at UCB/Magnet. Just got back from Naked Gun. Magnificent. Smart and funny. Too good. Glad your comic capacity is still burning bright.
Reposted by Matthew Stillman
Statement from @wgaeast.bsky.social @wgawest.bsky.social
Fact: on July 15, Stephen Colbert called the 60 Minutes settlement a “big fat bribe” to bag the Paramount-Skydance merger.
Fact: on July 17, Paramount canceled the Colbert Show.
We call on NYS AG Letitia James to investigate.
Fact: on July 15, Stephen Colbert called the 60 Minutes settlement a “big fat bribe” to bag the Paramount-Skydance merger.
Fact: on July 17, Paramount canceled the Colbert Show.
We call on NYS AG Letitia James to investigate.
July 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Statement from @wgaeast.bsky.social @wgawest.bsky.social
Fact: on July 15, Stephen Colbert called the 60 Minutes settlement a “big fat bribe” to bag the Paramount-Skydance merger.
Fact: on July 17, Paramount canceled the Colbert Show.
We call on NYS AG Letitia James to investigate.
Fact: on July 15, Stephen Colbert called the 60 Minutes settlement a “big fat bribe” to bag the Paramount-Skydance merger.
Fact: on July 17, Paramount canceled the Colbert Show.
We call on NYS AG Letitia James to investigate.
Reposted by Matthew Stillman
I don't want them to be better at building concentration camps, but i do want everyone to understand that they are a) building concentration camps and b) terrible at it
so "alligator alcatraz" has already flooded with standing water over electrical cables after a rainstorm of 1.5 inches eh
July 3, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I don't want them to be better at building concentration camps, but i do want everyone to understand that they are a) building concentration camps and b) terrible at it
Time for @scottstringernyc.bsky.social @bradlander.bsky.social @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social to drop out and coalesce behind @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social who is great in his own right but also to change the Cuomo narrative
“It’s disturbing beyond belief. It’s incredibly bleak to me that he’s back at all…He has no shame. But, of course, we live in a time and place that so few bad men in power have shame. Shamelessness seems to be their unique superpower.” - Lindsey Boylan www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew...
The ‘Democratic Party’s Own Donald Trump’ Is Getting Another Chance
As Andrew Cuomo emerges as the front-runner in New York City's mayoral race, several women who accused him of sexual harassment just three years ago say they feel betrayed and forgotten.
www.huffpost.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Time for @scottstringernyc.bsky.social @bradlander.bsky.social @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social to drop out and coalesce behind @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social who is great in his own right but also to change the Cuomo narrative
This needs to be on the Conspirituality beat soon. The self delusion/importance vector that the speed and smoothness of AI has intrinsically greases the wheel towards inducing pseudospiritual experience … cc @matthewremski.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies
Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT
www.rollingstone.com
May 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This needs to be on the Conspirituality beat soon. The self delusion/importance vector that the speed and smoothness of AI has intrinsically greases the wheel towards inducing pseudospiritual experience … cc @matthewremski.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
To find out more about the curious case of FBI chief Kash Patel receiving $25,000 from a Ukrainian-Russian-American filmmaker who was part of a Putin-financed propaganda operation, I knocked on the door of a house in Beverly Hills.
Here's what happened.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5-C...
Here's what happened.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5-C...
The Curious Case of Kash Patel's $25,000
YouTube video by Mother Jones
www.youtube.com
April 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Flock of Seagullibles #MAGAbandnames
April 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Flock of Seagullibles #MAGAbandnames
Duran DuranTheEconomyIntoADitch #MAGAbandnames
April 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Duran DuranTheEconomyIntoADitch #MAGAbandnames
MetallicantAvoidCorruption #MAGAbandnames
April 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
MetallicantAvoidCorruption #MAGAbandnames
Paging @flintdibble.bsky.social or @sdhaddow.bsky.social someone who does real archeology to help sort out this “new scans that change everything we know about the pyramids”. My head has hit the desk a bunch of times already. gregreese.substack.com/p/sar-scan-o...
SAR Scan of Khafre Pyramid Shows Huge Underground Structures
One of the greatest mysteries just got bigger
gregreese.substack.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Paging @flintdibble.bsky.social or @sdhaddow.bsky.social someone who does real archeology to help sort out this “new scans that change everything we know about the pyramids”. My head has hit the desk a bunch of times already. gregreese.substack.com/p/sar-scan-o...
Am beyond lucky and chin to my chest in gratitude by the invitation from the venerable New York poetry institution @poetshouse.bsky.social to teach my introductory course on all the Tuesday evenings online in April in just a few weeks. Check it and come on!
poetshouse.org/event/matthe...
poetshouse.org/event/matthe...
March 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Am beyond lucky and chin to my chest in gratitude by the invitation from the venerable New York poetry institution @poetshouse.bsky.social to teach my introductory course on all the Tuesday evenings online in April in just a few weeks. Check it and come on!
poetshouse.org/event/matthe...
poetshouse.org/event/matthe...
It’s on y’all! Come on down not just for me but for beauty making in time that needs it.
March and April workshop sign-ups are available! ☀️
Our online and in-person workshops with established and accomplished poets will stretch and inspire your poetry skills! ✨
Featuring @kgapoetwriter.bsky.social, @stillmansays.bsky.social, and @ds-waldman.bsky.social!
Our online and in-person workshops with established and accomplished poets will stretch and inspire your poetry skills! ✨
Featuring @kgapoetwriter.bsky.social, @stillmansays.bsky.social, and @ds-waldman.bsky.social!
February 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It’s on y’all! Come on down not just for me but for beauty making in time that needs it.
A counsel of delight in the face of fear and an absolute defense of love. Beautymaking as a mandatory response to troubled times
💚🍃🌿
The ancient art of Aleppo soap-making survives in exile. One family’s journey encapsulates the struggle to preserve Syria’s heritage, and the challenges of returning home after the war
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/th...
The ancient art of Aleppo soap-making survives in exile. One family’s journey encapsulates the struggle to preserve Syria’s heritage, and the challenges of returning home after the war
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/th...
The Resilient Artisans Keeping Aleppo Soap Alive
Displaced from Syria by war, the makers of laurel soap, known as ‘sabun ghar,’ preserve their craft in exile
newlinesmag.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:41 AM
A counsel of delight in the face of fear and an absolute defense of love. Beautymaking as a mandatory response to troubled times
Mission complete when shared with flat earthers
The Space Force shares a photo of Earth taken by the X-37B space plane
The Space Force shares a photo of Earth taken by the X-37B space plane
A rare in-space glimpse at (part of) the X-37B.
buff.ly
February 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Mission complete when shared with flat earthers
These kind of poetic responses are vital!!
School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content".
In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival.
www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...
In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival.
www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...
After Censorship, Santa Rosa Students Write Their Own Play — and Take the Gold | KQED
A state festival awarded top honors to ‘REDACTED,’ which ruthlessly lampooned district officials.
www.kqed.org
February 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
These kind of poetic responses are vital!!
DEI killed the Radio Star
DEI killed Hugh the x-Borg.
DEI killed Jadzia Dax
January 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
DEI killed the Radio Star
Every word. I’m here for it. Bless your sacred rage @elienyc.bsky.social
Thank you. May there be ears that hear this
Thank you. May there be ears that hear this
Democrats cannot simply respond institutionally to Trump. We need Extra-judicial, anti-institutional responses to meet the morality of the moment.
My latest in @thenation.com
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-should-abandon-institution-based-resistance/
My latest in @thenation.com
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-should-abandon-institution-based-resistance/
Institutional Resistance Is Futile
It’s time for the Democratic Party to abandon its staid, rules-based resistance to Trumpism and wage a fierce, moral response.
www.thenation.com
December 19, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Every word. I’m here for it. Bless your sacred rage @elienyc.bsky.social
Thank you. May there be ears that hear this
Thank you. May there be ears that hear this