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That Film Nerd with the Book
@thatmatt.bsky.social
Yo - semi-retired zinester and minicomics maker, now a dad and comics fan always looking for a little more drawing time on the side. Illustrator/graphic designer by day. He/him.
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To quote bastion of journalistic ethics Bari Weiss: this is 60 Minutes, and we need to be able to get the principals on the record
February 17, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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Phil Gonzalez from CBS, welcome to the Verge’s background policy www.theverge.com/policy/88000...
February 17, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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YOU GUYS THERE'S A LONGER VERSION bsky.app/profile/gigi...
February 14, 2026 at 4:14 AM
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THIS MAN IS YOUR FRIEND.
HE FIGHTS FOR FREEDOM.
February 13, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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February 14, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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This is the greatest thing I've ever seen
February 15, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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👋 EFF's team of activists, lawyers, and technologists regularly take on multiple threats to digital rights and privacy. We've noticed, we're not distracted, and we'll be fighting back.
Zuck taking advantage of every opportunity, I guess. "World's going to shit? Well, I guess EFF will be too busy opposing fascism to notice that we launched surveillance glasses!"

Cool, cool.
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
February 13, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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Heck yeah!

Also need this energy and action for @discord.com BS partnership with Persona AND IDs check ins. Screw the surveillance state!
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Flock off
buff.ly
February 13, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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New episode of #TheBackdrop up at @SecondWindGroup.com.

This week, @janjozone.bsky.social and I look at how #Fallout argues that, in this post-apocalyptic hellscape, we’re all just NPCs to the billionaires who think they’re going to live forever.

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In the Second Season of Fallout, Who Gets to Live Forever? | The Backdrop
YouTube video by Second Wind
youtu.be
February 10, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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Make Art (1/4)
February 10, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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none of it is making you safer, it's just giving you Nextdoor Brain
February 9, 2026 at 6:09 AM
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99% of modern security products are just some company going "would you like this app that gamifies paranoia" and you going "yeag" like just don't do it. just turn it off
why do you need to observe your house if you're not in it. you are giving yourself an opt-in mental illness. no one has to live like this
February 9, 2026 at 6:08 AM
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Like seriously, rewatch the Ring ad. It's worth outlawing and then breaking up Amazon. This is surveillance state technology the worst authoritarian dictatorships of the past always dreamed of.
February 9, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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Seriously. “My wife just left me. Find her.”
February 9, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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The nice commercial about helping kids find their lost pets was the scariest thing I've seen in my life
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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February 7, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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Art by Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestami | www.instagram.com/neyestanimana
February 7, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 10:09 AM
"Wow, the president keeps doing things that could be construed as racist. I wonder what that means," NYTimes asks.
February 6, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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Really enjoyed chatting more with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social about how the federal government is weaponizing private data. Privacy has become a life-and-death issue, and I have a plan to rein the government in. Thread:
February 4, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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This is an incredible article if nothing else for the joy of reading about creatives sniping at each other in blog comments

But this made me do a snort laugh on the train home
February 2, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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7. Political messaging is lagging regular people’s sense that tech has gone rogue. There is an opportunity to tap into fear about government overreach and economic insecurity. That would tie together several threads of political structures of opportunity — from occupy to environmental racism
February 3, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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Share five things you've seen
* The Thing (1982)
* The Thing reboot prequel
* Thing from Addams family 90s films
* Thing 1 (cat in the hat)
* Thing 2 (cat in the hat)
Share five things you’ve seen
* fire
* rain
* sunny days
* lonely times
* you, again
Share five things you've seen

* I have seen evil!
* I have seen horror!
* I have seen the unholy maggots which feast in the dark recesses of the human soul!
* I have seen all this, Officer.
* But until today, I had never seen... you!
January 31, 2026 at 4:39 PM
This is a big deal and deserves some notice
👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.
January 31, 2026 at 3:24 AM