Matt Baldwin
@thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social
Writer, photographer, cyclist, naturalist, martial artist, tall ship sailor. The Pirate Guy of Blue Sky, apparently. Mexican-American. No kings in America. He/him. San Diego, CA.
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Have picked up a lot of new followers recently, so: a (re)Dedication of Principles:
1) this is a diverse and queer-friendly place, inc. trans people
2) zero tolerance for anyone sharing, defending, or promoting AI "art"
3) I have a lot of interests, so expect posts covering a wide rage (con't)
1) this is a diverse and queer-friendly place, inc. trans people
2) zero tolerance for anyone sharing, defending, or promoting AI "art"
3) I have a lot of interests, so expect posts covering a wide rage (con't)
Well. Well, well, well.
JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
February 1, 2026 at 5:58 AM
Well. Well, well, well.
I do believe, genuinely, that all of this is the death rattle of this era of white supremacy.
But it is a very loud one.
But it is a very loud one.
February 1, 2026 at 3:09 AM
I do believe, genuinely, that all of this is the death rattle of this era of white supremacy.
But it is a very loud one.
But it is a very loud one.
Reposted by Matt Baldwin
Sh*un King trying to cozy up to conservative fascists.
Briahna Joy Gray spouting anti-semitic talking points.
Noam Chomsky kicking it with white supremacists and pedophiles.
The 2010's internet left has fully horse shoed.
Briahna Joy Gray spouting anti-semitic talking points.
Noam Chomsky kicking it with white supremacists and pedophiles.
The 2010's internet left has fully horse shoed.
January 31, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Sh*un King trying to cozy up to conservative fascists.
Briahna Joy Gray spouting anti-semitic talking points.
Noam Chomsky kicking it with white supremacists and pedophiles.
The 2010's internet left has fully horse shoed.
Briahna Joy Gray spouting anti-semitic talking points.
Noam Chomsky kicking it with white supremacists and pedophiles.
The 2010's internet left has fully horse shoed.
So A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS is just A KNIGHT’S TALE in Westeros, huh?
January 31, 2026 at 9:10 PM
So A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS is just A KNIGHT’S TALE in Westeros, huh?
oh my
If I have the right Nellie Bowles, the partner in question is Bari Weiss
January 31, 2026 at 6:16 PM
oh my
I mean, I'm old enough to remember when Jerry Seinfeld's teenage girlfriend, whom he would sometimes pick up from school, was considered an eccentric quirk.
"Befriending Jeffrey Epstein" was just a thing rich and influential people did, like going to Davos or Aspen, vacay in St. Bart's, owning a megayacht, receiving a sinecure at an Ivy. Along with access to all that, it appears to have simply been understood that wealth and status made pedophilia okay.
January 31, 2026 at 5:58 PM
I mean, I'm old enough to remember when Jerry Seinfeld's teenage girlfriend, whom he would sometimes pick up from school, was considered an eccentric quirk.
Related to last re-skeet:
Gonna flat out admit that I am gorging myself on the schadenfreude of seeing so many of the misery merchant “leftists” who have spent *years* on this site posturing about how righteous they are absolutely lose their shit at Stancil doing actual praxis. So many hit dogs, howling in a chorus.
January 31, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Related to last re-skeet:
Reposted by Matt Baldwin
I am *fascinated* with how insecure & defensive Stancil actually publicly living his values out on the streets of his community is making some people on this site.
January 31, 2026 at 12:44 AM
I am *fascinated* with how insecure & defensive Stancil actually publicly living his values out on the streets of his community is making some people on this site.
I have been manning a stockade on this hill for fuckin’ YEARS.
There is a direct, unbroken, straight line between the modern antivaxx movement and Oprah Winfrey.
Among a multitude of other sins.
There is a direct, unbroken, straight line between the modern antivaxx movement and Oprah Winfrey.
Among a multitude of other sins.
Someday—probably after she’s gone—we’ll hopefully be able to have an honest reckoning of Oprah’s outsized, decades-long role in poisoning our culture by elevating and mainstreaming reactionary grifters and pseudoscientific woo woo wellness bullshit.
January 31, 2026 at 6:31 AM
I have been manning a stockade on this hill for fuckin’ YEARS.
There is a direct, unbroken, straight line between the modern antivaxx movement and Oprah Winfrey.
Among a multitude of other sins.
There is a direct, unbroken, straight line between the modern antivaxx movement and Oprah Winfrey.
Among a multitude of other sins.
Today in Questions I Already Regret Asking Before I've Even Said Them:
.....who the fuck is "m00t"?
.....who the fuck is "m00t"?
January 31, 2026 at 4:47 AM
Today in Questions I Already Regret Asking Before I've Even Said Them:
.....who the fuck is "m00t"?
.....who the fuck is "m00t"?
Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.
January 31, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.
Reposted by Matt Baldwin
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
Biology 30: Human Sexuality & Reproduction (aka “Dirty Thirty”)
Witch Trials in America
Race, Self, and the Other in Science Fiction (film theory)
Post-Modern International Literature
The Old West & Gender
Biology 30: Human Sexuality & Reproduction (aka “Dirty Thirty”)
Witch Trials in America
Race, Self, and the Other in Science Fiction (film theory)
Post-Modern International Literature
The Old West & Gender
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
Race and Romanticism
Shakespeare
Jackie Robinson
Modernism
Holocaust and Film
Race and Romanticism
Shakespeare
Jackie Robinson
Modernism
Holocaust and Film
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
Religion and Ethics
U.S. 1861-1865
History of Slavery
History of the Vietnam War
History of Cold War Foreign Policy
Just the ones that come immediately to mind
Religion and Ethics
U.S. 1861-1865
History of Slavery
History of the Vietnam War
History of Cold War Foreign Policy
Just the ones that come immediately to mind
January 31, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
Biology 30: Human Sexuality & Reproduction (aka “Dirty Thirty”)
Witch Trials in America
Race, Self, and the Other in Science Fiction (film theory)
Post-Modern International Literature
The Old West & Gender
Biology 30: Human Sexuality & Reproduction (aka “Dirty Thirty”)
Witch Trials in America
Race, Self, and the Other in Science Fiction (film theory)
Post-Modern International Literature
The Old West & Gender
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
Biology 30: Human Sexuality & Reproduction (aka “Dirty Thirty”)
Witch Trials in America
Race, Self, and the Other in Science Fiction (film theory)
Post-Modern International Literature
The Old West & Gender
Biology 30: Human Sexuality & Reproduction (aka “Dirty Thirty”)
Witch Trials in America
Race, Self, and the Other in Science Fiction (film theory)
Post-Modern International Literature
The Old West & Gender
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
Race and Romanticism
Shakespeare
Jackie Robinson
Modernism
Holocaust and Film
Race and Romanticism
Shakespeare
Jackie Robinson
Modernism
Holocaust and Film
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
Religion and Ethics
U.S. 1861-1865
History of Slavery
History of the Vietnam War
History of Cold War Foreign Policy
Just the ones that come immediately to mind
Religion and Ethics
U.S. 1861-1865
History of Slavery
History of the Vietnam War
History of Cold War Foreign Policy
Just the ones that come immediately to mind
January 31, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
Biology 30: Human Sexuality & Reproduction (aka “Dirty Thirty”)
Witch Trials in America
Race, Self, and the Other in Science Fiction (film theory)
Post-Modern International Literature
The Old West & Gender
Biology 30: Human Sexuality & Reproduction (aka “Dirty Thirty”)
Witch Trials in America
Race, Self, and the Other in Science Fiction (film theory)
Post-Modern International Literature
The Old West & Gender
Sigh. Got a “we’re officially on a work stoppage on Monday, we’ll see about Tuesday” email about half an hour ago.
BREAKING: Senators pass a deal on government funding — but not in time to avoid a shutdown
www.ms.now/news/senator...
www.ms.now/news/senator...
Senators pass a deal on government funding — but not in time to avoid a shutdown
Friday night’s shutdown deadline will pass without a funding law enacted. But House members have a chance to approve a Senate-backed deal and quickly limit the damage.
www.ms.now
January 30, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Sigh. Got a “we’re officially on a work stoppage on Monday, we’ll see about Tuesday” email about half an hour ago.
WELP it's 12:30 p.m. PST and I still don't know if I'm actually working on Monday or not, this is fun.
Love to be scanning the news headlines asking, "are we shutting down or not?" while I calculate how far I can stretch the remaining discretionary income from my last paycheck.
January 30, 2026 at 8:30 PM
WELP it's 12:30 p.m. PST and I still don't know if I'm actually working on Monday or not, this is fun.
So help me, for some reason my brain is interpreting every single "Catherine O'Hara, who starred in HOME ALONE, has died" mention in the announcements as "Catherine O'Hara has died alone in her home" which is just making it worse STOP IT STUPID BRAIN
January 30, 2026 at 6:54 PM
So help me, for some reason my brain is interpreting every single "Catherine O'Hara, who starred in HOME ALONE, has died" mention in the announcements as "Catherine O'Hara has died alone in her home" which is just making it worse STOP IT STUPID BRAIN
*yawns*
January 30, 2026 at 3:51 PM
*yawns*
tick tick tick tick
Starting the stopwatch to see how long it takes for one of the Harper's Letter signatories to speak out about the (apparently extrajudicial?) arrest of Don Lemon while he was doing his job.
January 30, 2026 at 3:50 PM
tick tick tick tick
Well at least it’s finally Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil, we made it that far at least.
January 30, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Well at least it’s finally Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil, we made it that far at least.
Starting the stopwatch to see how long it takes for one of the Harper's Letter signatories to speak out about the (apparently extrajudicial?) arrest of Don Lemon while he was doing his job.
January 30, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Starting the stopwatch to see how long it takes for one of the Harper's Letter signatories to speak out about the (apparently extrajudicial?) arrest of Don Lemon while he was doing his job.
Three quarters of this website have poster's madness, I swear.
January 30, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Three quarters of this website have poster's madness, I swear.
Love to be scanning the news headlines asking, "are we shutting down or not?" while I calculate how far I can stretch the remaining discretionary income from my last paycheck.
January 29, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Love to be scanning the news headlines asking, "are we shutting down or not?" while I calculate how far I can stretch the remaining discretionary income from my last paycheck.
Especially since Ken Burns & Co. just did the exact same thing without resorting to that, on a PBS budget, and it looks AMAZING.
The fact that Darren Aronofsky made an entire series based on the Revolutionary War using AI and voice actors is surprising, disheartening, and disgusting. As an artist, he should know better and he should definitely be embarrassed.
January 29, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Especially since Ken Burns & Co. just did the exact same thing without resorting to that, on a PBS budget, and it looks AMAZING.
Reposted by Matt Baldwin
nintendo is going to drone strike the data center responsible for this
Google’s new world AI model tool let me generate a bunch of Nintendo-inspired games. Including one featuring Link with a paraglider! Gift link: www.theverge.com/news/869726/...
January 29, 2026 at 5:52 PM
nintendo is going to drone strike the data center responsible for this