M. Cooper
@mattwritesbooks.bsky.social
Writer, painter, creative mind. I Won’t Tell Them Your Name is available on Kindle and paperback now ❤️
I don’t put up with random arguments with strangers. One reply, then block.
I don’t put up with random arguments with strangers. One reply, then block.
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like former Comcast CEO Jeff Shell, who was fired for sexual harassment, only to immediately fail upward to the position of President at Paramount
NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell fired after CNBC anchor alleges sexual harassment
Comcast ousted Jeff Shell, the head of NBCUniversal after corroborating Hadley Gamble's allegations of inappropriate conduct including sexual harassment.
www.npr.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
like former Comcast CEO Jeff Shell, who was fired for sexual harassment, only to immediately fail upward to the position of President at Paramount
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lotta men at this company who just don't understand the word 'no'
It’s a Bidding War: Paramount Attempts Hostile Offer for Warner Bros.
David Ellison calls Netflix's $82.7 billion deal value an "inferior proposal" and tells Warners shareholders that his coalition promises $18 billion more in cash.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
lotta men at this company who just don't understand the word 'no'
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If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
www.independent.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.
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Employment in oil and gas is in terminal decline and won’t be saved no matter what Carney and Smith cook up, according to new research from the Centre for Future Work provided exclusively to @nationalobserver.com.
The only responsible choice for governments is to plan for the transition.
The only responsible choice for governments is to plan for the transition.
Exclusive: Fossil fuel workers won’t be saved by Carney’s oil and gas boosterism
A new pipeline won’t lead to new jobs in the oil and gas sector, and the only question for government officials is whether or not to plan for the inevitable energy transition, according to new researc...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Employment in oil and gas is in terminal decline and won’t be saved no matter what Carney and Smith cook up, according to new research from the Centre for Future Work provided exclusively to @nationalobserver.com.
The only responsible choice for governments is to plan for the transition.
The only responsible choice for governments is to plan for the transition.
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Check out @jennymaguire.bsky.social in the Indo this morning. It's a very important article. The recordign referenced is shown below.
archive.is/T27ap
archive.is/T27ap
December 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Check out @jennymaguire.bsky.social in the Indo this morning. It's a very important article. The recordign referenced is shown below.
archive.is/T27ap
archive.is/T27ap
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welp
December 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
welp
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The best corners of the world and web are narrated, with whimsy and kindness, by one voice--
December 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The best corners of the world and web are narrated, with whimsy and kindness, by one voice--
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The “Labour” Party finds itself arguing ordinary workers, carers and others are “takers”.
Hey everyone, here's the news, if you aren't a high earner, entrepreneur or a "skilled frontline worker" (whatever the fuck that means) the "Labour" Party says you aren't contributing, you're a taker!
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The “Labour” Party finds itself arguing ordinary workers, carers and others are “takers”.
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A new CNN report uncovers that the IDF knowingly:
•Shot starving Palestinians trying to collect flour
•Bulldozed their bodies into shallow, unmarked graves
•Left them to decompose, scavenged by dogs
•Never documented these murders & tried to hide them
This is what genocide looks like. Horrific.
•Shot starving Palestinians trying to collect flour
•Bulldozed their bodies into shallow, unmarked graves
•Left them to decompose, scavenged by dogs
•Never documented these murders & tried to hide them
This is what genocide looks like. Horrific.
December 6, 2025 at 2:53 AM
A new CNN report uncovers that the IDF knowingly:
•Shot starving Palestinians trying to collect flour
•Bulldozed their bodies into shallow, unmarked graves
•Left them to decompose, scavenged by dogs
•Never documented these murders & tried to hide them
This is what genocide looks like. Horrific.
•Shot starving Palestinians trying to collect flour
•Bulldozed their bodies into shallow, unmarked graves
•Left them to decompose, scavenged by dogs
•Never documented these murders & tried to hide them
This is what genocide looks like. Horrific.
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Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
Yeah, I mean, I'm critical of any video nowadays that is trying to elicit an emotional response, especially when it's asking for subs at the end. It's weird that all the people seem to end up with the dog they want. And shelters are overflowing, where are the rooms full of people wanting to adopt?
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
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The UN Security Council resolution backing the Trump plan for Gaza is clearly illegitimate, but there are several ways that states and individuals worldwide can challenge its illegality. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/how-...
How the world can resist the UN Security Council’s rogue colonial mandate in Gaza
The UN Security Council resolution backing the Trump plan for Gaza is clearly illegitimate, but there are several ways that states and individuals worldwide can challenge its illegality.
mondoweiss.net
December 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The UN Security Council resolution backing the Trump plan for Gaza is clearly illegitimate, but there are several ways that states and individuals worldwide can challenge its illegality. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/how-...
Here’s my Tarantino take.
I wouldn’t have gained the film language to appreciate 60s or 70s cinema w/o his early work. It bridges a very different era of pacing that I struggle to otherwise acclimate younger people to now.
If you want him to go, more people need to fill that void of bridging.
I wouldn’t have gained the film language to appreciate 60s or 70s cinema w/o his early work. It bridges a very different era of pacing that I struggle to otherwise acclimate younger people to now.
If you want him to go, more people need to fill that void of bridging.
December 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Here’s my Tarantino take.
I wouldn’t have gained the film language to appreciate 60s or 70s cinema w/o his early work. It bridges a very different era of pacing that I struggle to otherwise acclimate younger people to now.
If you want him to go, more people need to fill that void of bridging.
I wouldn’t have gained the film language to appreciate 60s or 70s cinema w/o his early work. It bridges a very different era of pacing that I struggle to otherwise acclimate younger people to now.
If you want him to go, more people need to fill that void of bridging.
I’m fine with abandoning Tarantino and keeping Lillard. Lillard at least seems to have grown over 25 years.
Lillard was on stage at GalaxyCon in Ohio when he brought up Tarantino's recent attack on his career, calling it "humbling."
www.avclub.com/matthew-lill...
www.avclub.com/matthew-lill...
Matthew Lillard responds to Quentin Tarantino tearing him down: "It hurts"
Matthew Lillard responds to Quentin Tarantino tearing him down: "It hurts"
www.avclub.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I’m fine with abandoning Tarantino and keeping Lillard. Lillard at least seems to have grown over 25 years.
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Counter proposal: public hangings of tech billionaires.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Counter proposal: public hangings of tech billionaires.
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Let's be very clear that one of the major effects of the CDC no longer recommending various vaccinations is that it becomes much harder for folks who still want to be—or want their children to be—vaccinated to get their insurance providers to cover those vaccinations.
December 6, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Let's be very clear that one of the major effects of the CDC no longer recommending various vaccinations is that it becomes much harder for folks who still want to be—or want their children to be—vaccinated to get their insurance providers to cover those vaccinations.
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crazy all the websites and paypros are doing their big No Horny Allowed crackdown while every online advertisement now is iether "AI SEX HOT AI CHAT NO FILTER BOOB AI FURRY GIRLFRIEND only for adults ages 6+" or "NPR is now teaming up with Bumfights dot com to revolutionize gamified asset trading"
December 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
crazy all the websites and paypros are doing their big No Horny Allowed crackdown while every online advertisement now is iether "AI SEX HOT AI CHAT NO FILTER BOOB AI FURRY GIRLFRIEND only for adults ages 6+" or "NPR is now teaming up with Bumfights dot com to revolutionize gamified asset trading"
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landed at newark and am stuck on the runway because the whole airport is being kept at bay while “a government vip,” as our pilot described them, is granted preferential treatment. the trump era in a nutshell: “fuck everybody but us.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
landed at newark and am stuck on the runway because the whole airport is being kept at bay while “a government vip,” as our pilot described them, is granted preferential treatment. the trump era in a nutshell: “fuck everybody but us.”
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Many reporters went to Albany, Georgia, when it became one of America's first COVID hotspots.
But @propublica.org's Ginger Thompson kept returning, kept reporting.
What she uncovered reveals some ugly truths about American healthcare.
Read her new 5-part series, Sick in a Hospital Town:
But @propublica.org's Ginger Thompson kept returning, kept reporting.
What she uncovered reveals some ugly truths about American healthcare.
Read her new 5-part series, Sick in a Hospital Town:
As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined
The five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” pursues one question: Why are people in Albany so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
projects.propublica.org
December 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Many reporters went to Albany, Georgia, when it became one of America's first COVID hotspots.
But @propublica.org's Ginger Thompson kept returning, kept reporting.
What she uncovered reveals some ugly truths about American healthcare.
Read her new 5-part series, Sick in a Hospital Town:
But @propublica.org's Ginger Thompson kept returning, kept reporting.
What she uncovered reveals some ugly truths about American healthcare.
Read her new 5-part series, Sick in a Hospital Town:
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racists roll their eyes at this, they're not happy with any message short of 'send them all back' & they don't trust labour trying to pander to them. people who aren't racist recognise this as divisive patronising nonsense. labour's approval rating is 12% and i'm surprised it is that high
December 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
racists roll their eyes at this, they're not happy with any message short of 'send them all back' & they don't trust labour trying to pander to them. people who aren't racist recognise this as divisive patronising nonsense. labour's approval rating is 12% and i'm surprised it is that high
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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This man did a photo opp of himself destroying homeless people's last possessions.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This man did a photo opp of himself destroying homeless people's last possessions.
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This is uncanny right?
December 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This is uncanny right?
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Star Trek fans basically have to pretend this never happened because Worf basically tries to destroy a planet because his wife wears a one piece swimsuit lol like he’s irredeemable he needs to go on trial for war crimes
Worf suddenly becomes a complete jerk and changes the weather on Risa in order to ruin his girlfriend's vacation. It's his most beloved episode! My vid all about it is now public, please share!
youtu.be/0vZjs0BiJF4
youtu.be/0vZjs0BiJF4
December 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Star Trek fans basically have to pretend this never happened because Worf basically tries to destroy a planet because his wife wears a one piece swimsuit lol like he’s irredeemable he needs to go on trial for war crimes
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Kudos for these women for standing up and doing the right thing but they're trying to ban trans women from e-sports now? Absolutely ridiculous.
Women gamers boycott global esports tournament over trans ban
Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.
www.out.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Kudos for these women for standing up and doing the right thing but they're trying to ban trans women from e-sports now? Absolutely ridiculous.