Another Matt
@mattlav83.bsky.social
Recently joined, semi- annoying but Mostly Correct reply guy from The Other Place.
Interests include despairing snark about UK US and EU politics, kayaking tours and getting caught in the rain.
No relation to the Other Matts on social media.
Interests include despairing snark about UK US and EU politics, kayaking tours and getting caught in the rain.
No relation to the Other Matts on social media.
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Another Matt
@mattlav83.bsky.social
· Sep 5
very interesting in depth study with field data, confirming what you already knew...
Starmer-style pandering on immigration does nothing to help you win RW votes,
but it DOES make your own supporters hate you and turn against you,
whilst raising the salience of the (RW) issue
Great Work Keir!
Starmer-style pandering on immigration does nothing to help you win RW votes,
but it DOES make your own supporters hate you and turn against you,
whilst raising the salience of the (RW) issue
Great Work Keir!
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All the shit they put out to make it seem like Elon Musk has any normal human interests or pursuits is like "his favorite books are the dictionary and the Bible and his favorite food is grain"
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
All the shit they put out to make it seem like Elon Musk has any normal human interests or pursuits is like "his favorite books are the dictionary and the Bible and his favorite food is grain"
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If Dershowitz was the most informed advisor to Obama on this issue before John Kerry came along to fix things for him then it's not a surprise that Obama only ever saw a map of the settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank for the first time in the winter of 2015.
Obama used to know Rashid Khalidi and Edward Said personally, and he still sought out Dershowitz concerning Palestine lol
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
If Dershowitz was the most informed advisor to Obama on this issue before John Kerry came along to fix things for him then it's not a surprise that Obama only ever saw a map of the settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank for the first time in the winter of 2015.
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One of the real revelations of the Epstein emails is that Epstein himself was not especially bright, dispelling the "genius" tag that had always seemed ill fitting.
It's almost like there was some other reason rich and powerful men were drawn to him, some other skill he had. Weird.
It's almost like there was some other reason rich and powerful men were drawn to him, some other skill he had. Weird.
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
One of the real revelations of the Epstein emails is that Epstein himself was not especially bright, dispelling the "genius" tag that had always seemed ill fitting.
It's almost like there was some other reason rich and powerful men were drawn to him, some other skill he had. Weird.
It's almost like there was some other reason rich and powerful men were drawn to him, some other skill he had. Weird.
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A fun thing to remember about Megyn Kelly is that she is at least notionally an attorney
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
A fun thing to remember about Megyn Kelly is that she is at least notionally an attorney
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“Reporters, as a general rule, are not encouraged to give strategic PR advice to public figures about whom they might be writing, whether or not their interlocutor is a convicted sex trafficker.”
Blurred lines: how Michael Wolff aspired to be part of elite circles he wrote about
The writer who features prominently in newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails has achieved extraordinary access but faced questions about his journalistic ethics
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
“Reporters, as a general rule, are not encouraged to give strategic PR advice to public figures about whom they might be writing, whether or not their interlocutor is a convicted sex trafficker.”
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I gotta say, thirteen years after it was published, I think this holds up
bookshop.org/p/books/twil...
bookshop.org/p/books/twil...
Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
America After Meritocracy
bookshop.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I gotta say, thirteen years after it was published, I think this holds up
bookshop.org/p/books/twil...
bookshop.org/p/books/twil...
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A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
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The government’s plan to deliver change without ever actually change anything is somehow not working, to their apparent shock.
November 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The government’s plan to deliver change without ever actually change anything is somehow not working, to their apparent shock.
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I am putting my bets on Summers being the first Epstein correspondent to be interviewed by Chotiner: he has exactly the right mix of arrogance and self-righteousness
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I am putting my bets on Summers being the first Epstein correspondent to be interviewed by Chotiner: he has exactly the right mix of arrogance and self-righteousness
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So I guess the idea is that Ghislaine Maxwell got transferred to a country club prison that someone with her sentence would never go to and gets all sorts of perks but that’s completely coincidental, that just happened unrelatedly
November 14, 2025 at 12:53 AM
So I guess the idea is that Ghislaine Maxwell got transferred to a country club prison that someone with her sentence would never go to and gets all sorts of perks but that’s completely coincidental, that just happened unrelatedly
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If Epstein hadn’t been in prison, he probably would’ve fallen out a window or down a flight of stairs instead
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
If Epstein hadn’t been in prison, he probably would’ve fallen out a window or down a flight of stairs instead
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I know people have become numb to the hypocrisy of it all, but I would like to see all the things GOP complain the Dems do (that they actually do not do) and then line it up with the GOP doing those exact things.
Probably enough to fill a whole magazine.
Probably enough to fill a whole magazine.
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I know people have become numb to the hypocrisy of it all, but I would like to see all the things GOP complain the Dems do (that they actually do not do) and then line it up with the GOP doing those exact things.
Probably enough to fill a whole magazine.
Probably enough to fill a whole magazine.
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It’s not over but when it is I will never, ever forget the “serious people” who buckled and compromised and abetted the torture and crime and murder for a fascist lottery ticket.
I think the core point is that trump had a honeymoon in which capital/media/political opposition all decided he was the one true voice of america. he did a lot of horrible things with that (including murdering 100s of thousands), but didn't consolidate power...
November 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
It’s not over but when it is I will never, ever forget the “serious people” who buckled and compromised and abetted the torture and crime and murder for a fascist lottery ticket.
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"attachments photos.pptx and honorkillings.doc"
I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS...
I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS...
November 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
"attachments photos.pptx and honorkillings.doc"
I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS...
I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS...
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I think it's really bad for our souls to just have these monstrous crimes as the white noise of our era, like a clip from Woodstock to establish something takes place in the 60s
Enten: "Trump is 39 below water on the Epstein case. 39 points in the negative! My goodness gracious. What Trump has been selling on the Epstein files, the Epstein case, the American people have not been buying at all ... less than half of Republicans are buying it. This is his worst issue by far"
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I think it's really bad for our souls to just have these monstrous crimes as the white noise of our era, like a clip from Woodstock to establish something takes place in the 60s
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MIT senior turns waste from the fishing industry into biodegradable plastic news.mit.edu/2025/mit-sen...
Jacqueline Prawira’s innovation, featured on CBS’s “The Visioneers,” tackles one of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.
Jacqueline Prawira’s innovation, featured on CBS’s “The Visioneers,” tackles one of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.
MIT senior turns waste from the fishing industry into biodegradable plastic
MIT student Jacqueline Prawira’s invention, a biodegradable plastic made from fishing industry waste, tackles one of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges and was recently featured on CBS...
news.mit.edu
November 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
MIT senior turns waste from the fishing industry into biodegradable plastic news.mit.edu/2025/mit-sen...
Jacqueline Prawira’s innovation, featured on CBS’s “The Visioneers,” tackles one of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.
Jacqueline Prawira’s innovation, featured on CBS’s “The Visioneers,” tackles one of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.
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Also, the physics of her and the child and the dog, all connected to each other, ragdolling together, all affected by each other's momentum?
I'm not saying youre definitely wrong but a lot of this is VERY VERY difficult.
Its certainly not an AI alone. It would need Houdini or something similar.
I'm not saying youre definitely wrong but a lot of this is VERY VERY difficult.
Its certainly not an AI alone. It would need Houdini or something similar.
November 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Also, the physics of her and the child and the dog, all connected to each other, ragdolling together, all affected by each other's momentum?
I'm not saying youre definitely wrong but a lot of this is VERY VERY difficult.
Its certainly not an AI alone. It would need Houdini or something similar.
I'm not saying youre definitely wrong but a lot of this is VERY VERY difficult.
Its certainly not an AI alone. It would need Houdini or something similar.
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I'm not convinced you're correct about this.
That's a LOT of object permanence, physics modelling and continuity going on for a transformer model.
There are people crossing the road and driving in the background, that are still there, in the right place, after the car crossed them.
VERY hard.
That's a LOT of object permanence, physics modelling and continuity going on for a transformer model.
There are people crossing the road and driving in the background, that are still there, in the right place, after the car crossed them.
VERY hard.
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'm not convinced you're correct about this.
That's a LOT of object permanence, physics modelling and continuity going on for a transformer model.
There are people crossing the road and driving in the background, that are still there, in the right place, after the car crossed them.
VERY hard.
That's a LOT of object permanence, physics modelling and continuity going on for a transformer model.
There are people crossing the road and driving in the background, that are still there, in the right place, after the car crossed them.
VERY hard.
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Good morning with good news: Global solar grew by 498 TWh (+31%) in Q1-Q3 2025, compared to 2024, "the largest increase ever over a nine-month period."
Global solar output in first 3 quarters of 2025 already surpassed total output in all of 2024.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig... #energysky
Global solar output in first 3 quarters of 2025 already surpassed total output in all of 2024.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig... #energysky
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Good morning with good news: Global solar grew by 498 TWh (+31%) in Q1-Q3 2025, compared to 2024, "the largest increase ever over a nine-month period."
Global solar output in first 3 quarters of 2025 already surpassed total output in all of 2024.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig... #energysky
Global solar output in first 3 quarters of 2025 already surpassed total output in all of 2024.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig... #energysky
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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Buddy it is wild as fuck that the Epstein emails they’ve put out aren’t even the Really Bad Secret Ones.
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Buddy it is wild as fuck that the Epstein emails they’ve put out aren’t even the Really Bad Secret Ones.
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More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.