Matt Alston
mcribsisback.bsky.social
Matt Alston
@mcribsisback.bsky.social
I'm Matt. Writer with bylines with Business Insider, The Nation, GQ, Wired. Copywriter for work-work. Weirdly good at Etch-a-Sketch. Not bad at disc golf.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ai-mcdonalds-disney-slop/
Slophouse
December 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
And protecting us lol
December 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
when you've got an ego like a Chait or Sullivan, you can't imagine a world where your status wasn't self-earned and entirely derived of your unique brilliant mind. then you move up/into celebrity, get WAY fewer edits, fewer notes, and your nitwit mind is exposed, because editors were protecting you
December 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Stealing a movie with Mahershala Ali, Rose Byrne, Ryan Gosling, Bruce Greenwood, Ray Liotta, Eva Mendes, and Dane DeHaan. I'm glad he's getting to wear capes and devour entire episodes of Andor and such now, he deserves the world. Thanks for listening.
December 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
It is so fluid, embodied, natural, naked, honest, but still unshowy? Someone like Ryan Gosling or Cooper (as is their job) knows how to find the camera, as Tom Hanks describes. They embody the movie's needs first, "reality" second. Mendelsohn genuinely feels like they found this guy at Waffle House.
December 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
my face when I see another dingbat riding around in the woods really fast and decide to make them my robbin' friend
December 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
At the bar I worked at in Greenpoint for a few years, someone had left behind their PLACE BEYOND THE PINES crew hoodie, which sat in out lost-and-found bin in the basement for years, and now I wish I'd snagged it so I could go door to door spreading the gospel of Ben Mendelsohn's Robin
December 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Leave earlier
December 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The point you make is right and a huge bummer, but worth saying I’m also in the bubble of people who like your work, especially Devil House!
December 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Shit yes, saving to read this afternoon, thank you!
December 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I'd like to see AI do this —

:: runs for a loose ball, slips on some mud next to the court, smashes face on nearby chain-link fence, breaking my nose into 20 new smaller noses and I never breathe the same again::
December 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
:: Students keep cutting across the quad instead of taking the sidewalks::

This MUST mean there is NOT enough TIME between classes to safely and comfortably walk from building to building?!?!
December 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
on my list of capitalism fears, one of the biggest is not knowing if we're in late. what if this is just the middle!
December 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I've been working on a reported piece about Monotype before all this; wanna chat? DM me.
December 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
it's this generation's cigarettes
December 4, 2025 at 4:40 AM
paging @hels.bsky.social the queen of the double stock
December 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
My favorite editor unfortunately always answers this question with his voice rising at the end, a la “oh, let’s have a draft by next Friday?” and all my dumb brain hears in that implied question mark is “he doesn’t care, take forever”
December 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
God damn, Memoirs of Hadrian is so good
November 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is right. If Lizza had had *truly* valuable reporting about anyone besides his ex and RFK a year ago he would’ve converted that valuable reporting into money for himself by selling it!
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM