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Matthew Kenerly

@mattk-fs.bsky.social

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Fresno -> Baltimore. Writing center coordinator. Wife guy. JD Vance thinks I'm his enemy for some reason? Enjoys Mexican food, reading, hiking, playing pool, tasty beverages, baseball, and football.

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · Jan 17

To borrow from Anne Lamott, here's my "shitty first draft" of a Bluesky starter pack for writing center folks. No clue how many other interested parties are out there, but let me know if you'd like to be added because I'd love for this to be representative of the field!

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1d

every time you read a story about how no-strings-attached direct payments to vulnerable, marginalized or otherwise needy people are a big net profit to the society disbursing them, and you ask "why doesn't america do that?", please know that this is the answer why

mac from always sunny saying "but who versus? who are we doing it versus?" because he cannot understand a plan that does not have a victim

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 19h

Bane, from The Dark Knight Rises, saying, "...then you have my permission to die."

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 23h

With all the caveats about anonymous posters, this is still staggering, a revelation of what a sliver we see reported across mainstream & alt media combined; and this itself is obviously just a sliver. www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 1d

"Everything in moderation" really is solid guidance.

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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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes a user will post a joke and then that very same user will post something sincere. And I as the reader am expected to understand this, using my brain?

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: As Linda McMahon guts the Dept. of Education, she’s operated in what she calls “a parallel universe” to radically shift how future kids will learn -- seeking to dismantle the public school system in favor of private and Christian schools or homeschooling.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 1d

This UNC/Hulu thing makes me think about my own experience writing an MFA thesis on what ended up becoming Fresno State football's worst season ever. I still need to try and turn that into an actual book someday.

Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 1d

Belichick and UNC got sloppy with the Hulu documentary stuff. CFB is rife with documentary shoots for things that will never get made, because the coaches or athletic departments retain editorial privileges. I know of one right now that may never see the light of day because the team's bad

Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 1d

Not everything has to be about money. Literature certainly isn't.

Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 1d

It's real.

rickhutzell.bsky.social @rickhutzell.bsky.social · 2d

In Maryland’s largest city, Edgar Allan Poe is the stuff of stage productions and street festivals, wreath layings and end zone dances. He is the rubber duck “Edgar Mallard Poe.” Is all this Poe-ishness real, or just another thing to sell Baltimore?
www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

Does anyone really like Edgar Allan Poe? Or is it just a Baltimore dream?

Edgar Allan Poe would have loathed and loved what Baltimore has done with him. “I have great faith in fools,” he wrote. “My friends call it self-confidence.”

www.thebanner.com

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 4d

"A.I." is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists leading to a world devoid of meaning or art.

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 4d

Billion dollar idea: Grey's Anatomy, but it's a creative writing MFA program.

Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 4d

If I have never played the original Final Fantasy Tactics, is it worth investing in the new version that debuted recently?

Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 6d

Oh, EA is gonna be toast.

charles (young QB agnostic) mcdonald @fourverts.bsky.social · 6d

welp www.rockpapershotgun.com/eas-new-owne...

EA's new owners are making "a huge bet" on generative AI cost-cutting to help repay a $20 billion loan, claims report

It isn't hugely surprising to hear that generative AI is a big part of the vision for EA's second coming as a private company, as reported by insiders.

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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 6d

It’s not even true. AI is out here fucking everybody.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 6d

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human
Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI.

A picture of some AI girl standing on an AI landscape with an AI monster behind her. I'm gonna be so real: she looks about 14

By Tyler Cowen

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 7d

Look at how they're massacring my boy. I'm pretty sure you can even see the trademark being violated in this shit.

Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 7d

The official Fresno State football booster club is posting AI slop these days. Look at this shit. Grim.

Look at this shit. It's a fucked up looking TimeOut.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 7d

*Xzibit cawing intensifies*

Hourly Videogame Box Art @vgboxart.bsky.social · 7d

MADDEN NFL 2001

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 9d

Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social!

Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology

Now available for pre-order: Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology, edited by Ander Monson and Megan Campbell, coming with Split/Lip Press on March 31. Image shows a yellow book cover with a dubbed cassette tape, upon which the title of the book has been written.

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 8d

Way ahead of you there, and hell yeah.

Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 8d

Living in Baltimore rocks because it's actually pretty easy to support local. And there's always so much of it!

Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 8d

20 local spots where you can sit down or grab a full meal for $30 or less. baltimorebeat.com/baltimores-b...

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 8d

Quit your job, social media person. It isn't worth this.

Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 8d

What the fuck

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 8d

Bomb threats reported at Towson, Morgan State universities

Towson and Morgan State universities are both responding to bomb threats they received this morning.

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 8d

So what he's saying overall is... war is peace? Do I have that right?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."