Matt Bornski
@mattbornski.bsky.social
Wine enthusiast and promoter. Diplo-groupie. Tech startup vet.
As someone who wrote lots of software to do things like this I liked to use easily recognizable but within-bounds things as fallbacks. Geolocation to the Rose Garden, sure thing. Localization in Klingon, no problem. Lunar timezone, got it boss.
It's not even the White House in general, it's specifically the rose garden! It's done this for the 15 years since we moved here! It cracks me up every time
August 24, 2025 at 4:13 AM
As someone who wrote lots of software to do things like this I liked to use easily recognizable but within-bounds things as fallbacks. Geolocation to the Rose Garden, sure thing. Localization in Klingon, no problem. Lunar timezone, got it boss.
Been doing a bit of the old genealogical research and hooboy. Irish ancestors have fewer children challenge: difficult. Irish ancestors use more than 3 names challenge: impossible.
July 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Been doing a bit of the old genealogical research and hooboy. Irish ancestors have fewer children challenge: difficult. Irish ancestors use more than 3 names challenge: impossible.
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I saw this story breaking about Mike Waltz and noticed something weird about his phone in that he isn’t actually using “signal” as in the secure messaging app but is using something MUCH worse that I haven’t seen reported on yet. Quick thread but it’s an Israeli intel guy behind it
May 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I saw this story breaking about Mike Waltz and noticed something weird about his phone in that he isn’t actually using “signal” as in the secure messaging app but is using something MUCH worse that I haven’t seen reported on yet. Quick thread but it’s an Israeli intel guy behind it
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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"all empires fall but it's rare you see one jump"
March 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"all empires fall but it's rare you see one jump"
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NY Times, Feb. 11, 1933.
February 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
NY Times, Feb. 11, 1933.
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Oh hey Mr. Canary, you takin' a little canary nap? You deserve it, workin' so hard down here in the dark.
February 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Oh hey Mr. Canary, you takin' a little canary nap? You deserve it, workin' so hard down here in the dark.
UK was all like "oof, Brexit, huge regrets, pretty big self own" and the US went "hold my beer and get your stopwatch"
January 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
UK was all like "oof, Brexit, huge regrets, pretty big self own" and the US went "hold my beer and get your stopwatch"
What the hell is this chyron, like they're the evil ones?
January 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
What the hell is this chyron, like they're the evil ones?
If this was an AITA post everybody would be going "what aren't you telling us that everybody wants you out of their life".
December 29, 2024 at 7:41 PM
If this was an AITA post everybody would be going "what aren't you telling us that everybody wants you out of their life".
Can't wait for the butter/margarine wars on this one
Tech bros know what every parent wants: children who sleep less
December 12, 2024 at 2:09 AM
Can't wait for the butter/margarine wars on this one
I mean when you put it that way
Helen Mirren thinks it's "magical" that dancing in orbit around the earth are a hundred robots singing (at 1575Mhz, one eternal note held halfway between B♭ and B, 21 octaves above middle C), and any time you can hear four of them sing at once you know exactly where in the universe you are
every day, I too grieve the fact that Kurt Cobain never experienced GPS
October 25, 2024 at 3:42 AM
I mean when you put it that way
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I think a lot about how the Nazis were voted into office. But that outcome wasn't inevitable—people could've made a different choice. Fascism is like a vampire; you must first invite it inside.
The UK and France just proved that getting out and actually voting makes a difference. Don’t let anyone ever tell you differently.
July 7, 2024 at 7:26 PM
I think a lot about how the Nazis were voted into office. But that outcome wasn't inevitable—people could've made a different choice. Fascism is like a vampire; you must first invite it inside.
This whole Willie Mays/Rickwood Field moment has made me power through my incredible discomfort at saying "negro". Not really sure what to make of that.
June 21, 2024 at 1:52 AM
This whole Willie Mays/Rickwood Field moment has made me power through my incredible discomfort at saying "negro". Not really sure what to make of that.
What is the scam where two numbers call you at the exact same time? One or both are usually flagged already (but let's be honest, isn't any phone call in this completely irredeemable wasteland suspicious?) Is scam call center software broken or is there a deeper trick happening?
June 17, 2024 at 6:10 PM
What is the scam where two numbers call you at the exact same time? One or both are usually flagged already (but let's be honest, isn't any phone call in this completely irredeemable wasteland suspicious?) Is scam call center software broken or is there a deeper trick happening?
Outside the hotel waiting for my car and the valet is over in the little valet-closet doing a voice-memo breakdown of the Lamar/Drake beef "I'm seeing a lot of you don't understand, in an organization there's usually one guy who takes all the heat, that's the fall guy..." Where's he going with this?
May 10, 2024 at 8:46 AM
Outside the hotel waiting for my car and the valet is over in the little valet-closet doing a voice-memo breakdown of the Lamar/Drake beef "I'm seeing a lot of you don't understand, in an organization there's usually one guy who takes all the heat, that's the fall guy..." Where's he going with this?
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"Can't happen here," say the complacent.
The sort of democratic backsliding we've seen recently in Hungary, Turkey, India—and in the South post-Reconstruction—couldn't possibly happen here.
Even though they tried a coup already, and have spent four years plotting to remove barriers that thwarted it.
The sort of democratic backsliding we've seen recently in Hungary, Turkey, India—and in the South post-Reconstruction—couldn't possibly happen here.
Even though they tried a coup already, and have spent four years plotting to remove barriers that thwarted it.
if they get power again they are never going to give it up
May 4, 2024 at 2:35 PM
"Can't happen here," say the complacent.
The sort of democratic backsliding we've seen recently in Hungary, Turkey, India—and in the South post-Reconstruction—couldn't possibly happen here.
Even though they tried a coup already, and have spent four years plotting to remove barriers that thwarted it.
The sort of democratic backsliding we've seen recently in Hungary, Turkey, India—and in the South post-Reconstruction—couldn't possibly happen here.
Even though they tried a coup already, and have spent four years plotting to remove barriers that thwarted it.
Hard agree. It's like the memory of infamous sports betting/fixing/throwing scandals just timed out and everybody just went full Gordon Gekko.
(I think US professional sports leagues embracing gambling and racing to set up franchises in Vegas is a very bad idea and that they’re complicit in everything that happens next!!!!)
March 21, 2024 at 12:17 AM
Hard agree. It's like the memory of infamous sports betting/fixing/throwing scandals just timed out and everybody just went full Gordon Gekko.
I feel like this captures the moment incredibly well
Ezra Klein is basically right here. Gen Z is reacting to the only Israel they’ve ever known, and it’s a Bibi-led Israel that makes no bones about its anti-democratic and anti-Palestinian commitments. That, more than anything, is driving the shift in generational attitudes.
Opinion | Gen Z Is Listening to What Netanyahu Is Saying. Is Biden?
Israel is losing the support of a generation, not just a few student groups. And it is losing it because of what it does, not what it is.
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2024 at 2:50 PM
I feel like this captures the moment incredibly well
What a great indictment of qualified immunity
I want to write a think piece about how the thirst for presidential immunity is part of a larger authoritarian sentiment leading to things like qualified immunity and thin blue line mentality and this mf just tweets it out
January 18, 2024 at 4:45 PM
What a great indictment of qualified immunity
The Craft Sequence is a deeply enjoyable read and has numerous books so you will not have to re-enter the boring real world too soon
I love this series and this is one of my fave books in it. Necromancy as Contract law is just brilliant
Three Parts Dead is $1.99 on all your e-book sites.
Tara, junior associate at an international necromancy firm, has her first assignment: to resurrect a dead god.
Kick off the Craft Sequence & catch up in time for WICKED PROBLEMS, coming this March! www.amazon.com/Three-Parts-...
Tara, junior associate at an international necromancy firm, has her first assignment: to resurrect a dead god.
Kick off the Craft Sequence & catch up in time for WICKED PROBLEMS, coming this March! www.amazon.com/Three-Parts-...
January 4, 2024 at 12:55 AM
The Craft Sequence is a deeply enjoyable read and has numerous books so you will not have to re-enter the boring real world too soon
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The Constitutional Crisis is already here. You've been living in it since (at least) the 2000 recount. It cannot be averted, and thus reset US government to the midcentury bipartisan consensus, but it can be won or lost.
December 29, 2023 at 3:35 PM
The Constitutional Crisis is already here. You've been living in it since (at least) the 2000 recount. It cannot be averted, and thus reset US government to the midcentury bipartisan consensus, but it can be won or lost.
The more perspective I have on the arc of history the more I think we have wronged the luddites in our mainstream historical understanding
December 20, 2023 at 8:45 PM
The more perspective I have on the arc of history the more I think we have wronged the luddites in our mainstream historical understanding