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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 48m

One of my current favorite forms of media are interviews that take dumb TikTokkers way too seriously. Some Ira Glass wannabe asking FuckBoi987 “so how DID you conjure the notion to put every menu item at Wendy’s in a blender and snort the mixture up your butt?” Like the kid is JD Salinger. Love it.

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 54m

But it didn’t have David Warner turning into an anthropomorphic death carousel

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 56m

The seal should be like a burnt out FBI agent in mirrored shades, holding a cup of coffee

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 57m

Mine was ET. You win.

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 58m

Niiiiiiiice

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 1h

The Alaskan tourism board should do everything in their power to make this horrible line of dialogue a viral meme. I would 100% buy an official “This is ALASKA. There is no perimeter!” t-shirt issued by them.

Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 1h

Heard an ad for a streaming series about a prison break in Alaska and one cop says to another “we need to establish a perimeter” and the dude goes “this is ALASKA. There is no perimeter” and I’d give ANYTHING for her to reply, “yeah that’s why we need to ESTABLISH one you overly histrionic bro bag.”

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 1h

Heard an ad for a streaming series about a prison break in Alaska and one cop says to another “we need to establish a perimeter” and the dude goes “this is ALASKA. There is no perimeter” and I’d give ANYTHING for her to reply, “yeah that’s why we need to ESTABLISH one you overly histrionic bro bag.”

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 15h

This is the evening you transcended to the level of a sage.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 16h

A thing most soldiers and leaders understand is there’s the order and there’s the intent and then there’s what you can TECHNICALLY get away with. There are lots of ways to interpret and benignly disregard orders should one be so inclined to do so.

💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 22h

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 18h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 17h

Deeply deeply unacceptable if not borderline criminal. Really sorry they betrayed all of your trust like that. Your family deserves better.

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 21h

He remains a horrible human with an above average social media manager.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 22h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 22h

I actually kind of like that Jeff Bridges is happy to just keep showing up in Tron movies. It’s probably that The Dude head canon where I imagine him on set telling the director, “I don’t know if you know, but I was actually IN a movie called Tron when I was a kid. That’s crazy, right?”

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 22h

Neck butt of PROTEST

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 1d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 1d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 1d

oh hahaha no, I'm sorry apparently a full half of the 3000 settlement per book goes to the publisher, so I think my total share is $3750 for stealing my work in an attempt to replace me

Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 1d

Assuming there aren't other fees or splits I'm not aware of, I will be paid $7500 for my life's work being fed into The Machine, and also they won't be removing my work from The Machine

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lilli @toomanymouths.bsky.social · 2d

this series is so, so good and brilliant and horny and surprising and everybody needs to read it immediately. and the first book available for One Dollar?? my god, what are you doing not buying it, go go go

Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 2d

EDGE OF NOWHERE is $0.99 as an ebook right now. A cranky smuggler gets hired to teleport an unconscious man. They get stranded in an alien wilderness, rely on each other to get home, and spend the rest of the book in varying states of horny panic.

books2read.com/edgeo...
or feliciadavin.itch.io...

An image of a figure in silhouette with his back to the viewer. His silhouette is transparent and the starry void of space is visible through it. The text on the cover says "Edge of Nowhere," and below that, "Felicia Davin."

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 2d

What has two thumbs and wrote a DLC that has 100% on Steam??

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A screen capture of the Steam page for the Metalhead DLC released for the video game teenage mutant ninja turtles splintered fate

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Jake Flores @feraljokes.bsky.social · 1d

We are permanently trapped at these people's mercy while forced to watch them slowly learn shit people generally figure out in 11th grade

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

The people who are sincerely in favor of freedom of expression will speak out now for the reporters.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

🚨THIS IS A BIG DEAL. Chicago journalists are suing the Trump administration for using excessive force against reporters & protestors in violation of the 1A.
The press here is doing astounding work documenting how ICE is out of control. The violence they face in doing so is obscene.

The protests at the Broadview ICE facility and the federal government’s violent
attempts to silence the protesters became a story of great interest to the local Chicago media and
was also covered in the national press. Much of the coverage described the federal officers’
abusive tactics. Defendants sought and are seeking to quash this coverage by attacking and
intimidating members of the Press on the ground there.
85. Federal immigration officers at the Broadview ICE facility have repeatedly and
intentionally singled out persons whom they know to be members of the Press for violence,
assault, and intimidation. These assaults are not incidental or unintentional. They are undertaken
by design to intimidate journalists on scene and to frustrate and suppress coverage of the federal
officers’ actions toward protesters and immigration detainees

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 1d

My brother speaks the truth.

30 years ago I was convinced I just had to lose a little weight and then I'd be accepted.
3 decades, multiple losses and gains, and the brilliant, awful, liberating truth is this:

Some people will hate you regardless of your size. Make sure you're never one of them.

Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 1d

My fellow fat folk coming up: Please yourselves. Solely. There is nothing you can do to please the public/internet. Haters on you/your body don’t give a shit about your health, well being, or what “lifestyle” you promote. They’re sick, not you. Do and be whatever/however makes you happy. For you.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 1d

My fellow fat folk coming up: Please yourselves. Solely. There is nothing you can do to please the public/internet. Haters on you/your body don’t give a shit about your health, well being, or what “lifestyle” you promote. They’re sick, not you. Do and be whatever/however makes you happy. For you.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I appreciate this. TV needs more of this. Let’s have fun again. Seriously things are so bad in the industry and everywhere. Let’s all turn on stuff at night together and go “that was insane” and then surprise there are 20 more episodes and the characters don’t remember being in orbit.

9-1-1 poster with Angela Bassett in FUCKING SPACE!

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