Matt Lyons
@mattlyonsking.bsky.social
🇨🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇬🇱 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ Husband, cat dad, treehugger, humanist, INFP, transit/urban planning geek, native gardener, empathy is good. Love your neighbor as yourself.
A postmortem on the RFK stadium deal: ggwash.org/view/101899/...
A postmortem on the RFK stadium deal
May the DC government ignore opposition to legalizing apartments everywhere the way it ignored all the evidence against paying for a football stadium.
ggwash.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A postmortem on the RFK stadium deal: ggwash.org/view/101899/...
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THREAD: The FDA has made it difficult to find where medications are made. Today we're changing that with our latest tool.
With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.
Here's how you can use it. 1/
With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.
Here's how you can use it. 1/
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
THREAD: The FDA has made it difficult to find where medications are made. Today we're changing that with our latest tool.
With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.
Here's how you can use it. 1/
With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.
Here's how you can use it. 1/
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I have decided that I refuse to feel ashamed for feeling deep, sometimes debilitating grief for what is happening and that this grief has made me less productive. It seemed silly at first, but this is real and human and natural. If this is you too, feel free to join me.
December 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I have decided that I refuse to feel ashamed for feeling deep, sometimes debilitating grief for what is happening and that this grief has made me less productive. It seemed silly at first, but this is real and human and natural. If this is you too, feel free to join me.
Can we please leave AI out of everything that can be monetized? Just leave it for helping with vaccines and finding alien signals and what not.
The rise of AI tech is a crisis and it’s time everyone publicly came out against this shit. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
The time has come to declare war on AI
"It's now in everything, even if you don't want it there."
www.sfgate.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Can we please leave AI out of everything that can be monetized? Just leave it for helping with vaccines and finding alien signals and what not.
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity
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Keith Boykin solves the Trump Problem in under 2 minutes.
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Keith Boykin solves the Trump Problem in under 2 minutes.
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my heart wants a beautiful, neatly arranged home like the ones featured in architectural digest. but my spirit wants to adopt as many cats and dogs as my living space humanely allows. very difficult dilemma.
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
my heart wants a beautiful, neatly arranged home like the ones featured in architectural digest. but my spirit wants to adopt as many cats and dogs as my living space humanely allows. very difficult dilemma.
Dear @vanhollen.senate.gov , please DO NOT agree to any deal in which ACA subsidies are not included. Maryland voters will not forget.
November 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Dear @vanhollen.senate.gov , please DO NOT agree to any deal in which ACA subsidies are not included. Maryland voters will not forget.
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The things we do for love
November 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The things we do for love
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It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.
October 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.
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There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power.
The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.
The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.
September 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power.
The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.
The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.
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Serbian architect and Belgrade mayor, Bogdan Bogdanovic, argued the history of the west could be seen as a war waged by the city haters against those who love the city and its diverse cosmopolitanism. I think about that a lot
Zohran's campaign is overtly pro-immigrant and even pro-cosmopolitan.
One overlooked thing in the vids is the eating while walking on sidewalks, the sharing of ethnic foods. There's a profound vision of the city at work here. 5/
(h/t @lioneltrolling.bsky.social)
newrepublic.com/article/1984...
One overlooked thing in the vids is the eating while walking on sidewalks, the sharing of ethnic foods. There's a profound vision of the city at work here. 5/
(h/t @lioneltrolling.bsky.social)
newrepublic.com/article/1984...
July 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Serbian architect and Belgrade mayor, Bogdan Bogdanovic, argued the history of the west could be seen as a war waged by the city haters against those who love the city and its diverse cosmopolitanism. I think about that a lot
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“You look happier.”
“Thanks, I’m on Bluesky.”
“Thanks, I’m on Bluesky.”
July 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“You look happier.”
“Thanks, I’m on Bluesky.”
“Thanks, I’m on Bluesky.”
Blue jeans are uncomfortable. Also, men should never wear flip flops more than 100 meters from the beach.
Okay, lets do this.
One like, one opinion that's not on politics.
One like, one opinion that's not on politics.
July 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Blue jeans are uncomfortable. Also, men should never wear flip flops more than 100 meters from the beach.
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Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
July 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
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As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]
July 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]
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25 things we’ve learned in this glorious quarter-century. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
25 Harsh Truths About the 21st Century (So Far)
The more innocent 1999 versions of ourselves would never believe what we've experienced.
www.esquire.com
July 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
25 things we’ve learned in this glorious quarter-century. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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I hate to say it but the nineties were the pinnacle of human civilization. I would like to be proven wrong on this and I fear the only thing that will allow for that to happen is some sort of large scale EMP.
July 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I hate to say it but the nineties were the pinnacle of human civilization. I would like to be proven wrong on this and I fear the only thing that will allow for that to happen is some sort of large scale EMP.
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This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.
June 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.
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Big service improvements are coming to #YourMetro this Sunday!
⌚️Longer weekend hours on rail
🔴⚪️ More frequent Red and Silver Line service during peak times
🚇 New split Silver Line service
Here’s everything you need to know: wmata.com/about/news/M...
⌚️Longer weekend hours on rail
🔴⚪️ More frequent Red and Silver Line service during peak times
🚇 New split Silver Line service
Here’s everything you need to know: wmata.com/about/news/M...
June 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Big service improvements are coming to #YourMetro this Sunday!
⌚️Longer weekend hours on rail
🔴⚪️ More frequent Red and Silver Line service during peak times
🚇 New split Silver Line service
Here’s everything you need to know: wmata.com/about/news/M...
⌚️Longer weekend hours on rail
🔴⚪️ More frequent Red and Silver Line service during peak times
🚇 New split Silver Line service
Here’s everything you need to know: wmata.com/about/news/M...
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Today, the sun reaches its northernmost point in the sky, marking the summer solstice! Take a moment to enjoy the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the official start of summer. Step outside, feel the warmth of the sun and appreciate the natural world that sustains us all! 🌱🌞
June 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Today, the sun reaches its northernmost point in the sky, marking the summer solstice! Take a moment to enjoy the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the official start of summer. Step outside, feel the warmth of the sun and appreciate the natural world that sustains us all! 🌱🌞
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"What we’re seeing playing out today, a quarter of a century after 9/11, is the final act of that day. The difference between then and now is the introduction of a pervasive, non-localized fear into the American bloodstream." michaelianblack.substack.com/p/the-only-t...
The Only Thing to Fear
I’m not sure where I’m going with this as I begin to write, but I’m trying to put myself in the mind of my younger self.
michaelianblack.substack.com
June 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"What we’re seeing playing out today, a quarter of a century after 9/11, is the final act of that day. The difference between then and now is the introduction of a pervasive, non-localized fear into the American bloodstream." michaelianblack.substack.com/p/the-only-t...
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I feel like it's underappreciated that the more climate pollution we emit, the more harmful it becomes to continue emitting. Climate harm is at least quadratic in temperature rise, and likely more strongly nonlinear. A gigaton emitted in 2025 is much more harmful than a gigaton emitted in 2005 was.
June 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I feel like it's underappreciated that the more climate pollution we emit, the more harmful it becomes to continue emitting. Climate harm is at least quadratic in temperature rise, and likely more strongly nonlinear. A gigaton emitted in 2025 is much more harmful than a gigaton emitted in 2005 was.