Matt
@laughandargue.bsky.social
As a teenager I worked in a supermarket, and the uniform had a vest. I got really good at tossing the last coin of a customer's change in the air and catching it in the vest pocket.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
December 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
As a teenager I worked in a supermarket, and the uniform had a vest. I got really good at tossing the last coin of a customer's change in the air and catching it in the vest pocket.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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The gift horse saying and the Trojan horse legend give us conflicting perspectives on whether or not to check the insides of a free horse
October 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The gift horse saying and the Trojan horse legend give us conflicting perspectives on whether or not to check the insides of a free horse
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[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit
September 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit
This right here...this is the guy.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
August 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This right here...this is the guy.
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would that our Democratic Party leadership had half the moral courage of a Martha's Vineyard pierogie vendor
August 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
would that our Democratic Party leadership had half the moral courage of a Martha's Vineyard pierogie vendor
August 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Racists and abuse apologists have taken me from “Mamdani is cool, I hope he does well” to “fuck yes crush their hopes and dreams, let everyone opposed to him wither.”
July 8, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Racists and abuse apologists have taken me from “Mamdani is cool, I hope he does well” to “fuck yes crush their hopes and dreams, let everyone opposed to him wither.”
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i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
January 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
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Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing
February 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing
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so these homeschool clonetank claremont institute guys thought "grants" was just shit that went to the Woke University Basketweaving College For Dyed Hair Bisexuals Who Won't Fuck Me and not the way that, like, 90% of government programs worked, huh
January 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
so these homeschool clonetank claremont institute guys thought "grants" was just shit that went to the Woke University Basketweaving College For Dyed Hair Bisexuals Who Won't Fuck Me and not the way that, like, 90% of government programs worked, huh
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Then you should know exactly what you can do to yourself
January 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Then you should know exactly what you can do to yourself
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I am unbelievably excited for the daily stories quoting Trump supporters saying, “We didn’t think he’d actually do that.”
January 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I am unbelievably excited for the daily stories quoting Trump supporters saying, “We didn’t think he’d actually do that.”