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Matt Monagle

@monagle.bsky.social

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Co-founder of Certified Forgotten (www.certifiedforgotten.com), a writer-owned horror publication. Find my work at IGN, Polygon, Inverse, Dicebreaker, and more. Rehomed Alaskan living in Philadelphia.

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Matt Monagle @monagle.bsky.social · 2d

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Matt Monagle @monagle.bsky.social · 39m

Facing Tarik Skubal in a deciding Game 5 is like the worst thing I can think of.

Matt Monagle @monagle.bsky.social · 45m

I was raised Catholic and a Seattle Mariners fan. Both were masterclasses in being taught that no matter how bad you feel, you could always feel a little worse. Anyways, one inning at a time.

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Matt Monagle @monagle.bsky.social · 53m

THIS is the brand of Mariners baseball I grew up watching.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1h

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1h

"We took freedom of speech away" is probably the most honest thing Trump has said or done in a long time

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 2h

any random moderately successful small restaurant creates 20 jobs

imagine how many little businesses that $38 million could spawn if we *correctly* allocated that capital to *actual job producers* (which are always small business)

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 7h

"For instance, CNBC found that one Microsoft data center in Illinois received more than $38 million in data center sales tax exemptions but created just 20 permanent jobs."

www.cnbc.com/2025/06/20/t...

In race to attract data centers, states can forfeit hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue to tech companies

Amazon, Meta and Google are among the beneficiaries of state tax exemptions for data centers that help power AI.

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Xtine @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social · 4h

I also enjoyed HIM
So I look forward to listening

Matt Donato @donatobomb.bsky.social · 1d

In a shocking turn of events, I'm not the only Matt at @certifiedforgot.bsky.social who digs HIM?

In our latest 30-minute Uncertified episode, @monagle.bsky.social and I delve into why the heavily derided football-horror mashup resonated with us (and not many others, lol).

Uncertified: HIM

Podcast Episode · Certified Forgotten · 10/03/2025 · 36m

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Matt Monagle @monagle.bsky.social · 3h

"But for all the Etsy witches hard at work in their labs, perhaps the most magical sensation in the world is the Mariners winning not because of charming, random bullshit, but because the team is legitimately performing well." Hello to my new favorite @defector.com article.

What Mariners Magic Looks Like Now | Defector

It felt impossible, after fine margins decided the first two games of their ALDS series, that the Seattle Mariners would be capable of winning a game comfortably, and yet here we are. They weathered T...

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Patrick Cotnoir @patrickcotnoir.bsky.social · Sep 2

The GLTS doc is being released on Blu-ray by @kinolorber.com. You can pre-order it now. It has a record-breaking 55 audio commentaries and over 100 hours of bonus features. Please make this worth the last year of my life putting this insanity together.

Get it here: Imgeorgelucas.com

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Certified Forgotten @certifiedforgot.bsky.social · 5h

"It’s no wonder a murderous serial killer would see Laurie, all alone and dressed up in a borderline infantile costume, and perceive her as the perfect victim. Too bad for the killer; he’s just falling right into a trap." Here's another October favorite, this time from @mollyhenery.bsky.social.

Sex, Teeth, and 'Trick 'r Treat' | Certified Forgotten

In her latest Uterus Horror column, Molly Henery explains how Michael Dougherty's 'Trick 'r Treat' finds teeth in sexual awakening.

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Matt Monagle @monagle.bsky.social · 5h

Don't be like me: spending all your time crawling on eBay to find the limited edition variants of your favorite comics. DON'T BE LIKE ME.

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Matt Monagle @monagle.bsky.social · 5h

Careful, my friend, once you start falling in love with variant covers you can kiss any money you once had goodbye.

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Matt Monagle @monagle.bsky.social · 5h

I accidentally preorder this one at two separate comic book shops when I was trying to figure out their preorder systems! Welp, guess I gotta go ahead and snag 'em.

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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 7h

A streaming release is finally heading to the big screen. PREY and this year’s brand new movie PREDATOR: BADLANDS will play in AMC Theatres as a special Predator Double Feature on November 5:

‘Prey’ Will Play in Theaters for the First Time With ‘Predator: Badlands’ Double Feature

When it was released back in 2022, the one bummer about Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey is that it was a straight-to-Hulu release rather than a theatrical release, with many fans still begging to be able to e...

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Matt Monagle @monagle.bsky.social · 7h

Alaska has an aging population, a cost of living crisis (particularly healthcare), and has an economy tied to a sinking oil industry. If Alaska is going to pull out of its current death spiral, it's not going to be under Republican leadership, that's for goddamn sure.

Matt Monagle @monagle.bsky.social · 7h

Alaska's politics are complicated - there's a reason Lisa Murkowski could win there in a write-in campaign. When people write it off as a Republican state, I always want to tell them it's more complicated than that. Things like this give me hope for a state that, frankly, has tough years ahead.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 8h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Certified Forgotten @certifiedforgot.bsky.social · 8h

"I like Rothe as a performer. I want her to make more movies. And when your target audience is already predisposed to cheering for one-third of a three-hander, that gives your horror movie a pretty safe floor." Here's @monagle.bsky.social on the new Jessica Rothe vehicle AFFECTION.

'Affection' Review: Jessica Rothe Remains a Scream Queen

BT Meza's 'Affection' offers another blend of horror and sci-fi for star Jessica Rothe, who remains one of the great Millennial scream queens.

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 19h

You ever think about how there were dudes that probably saw loads of combat in WWII and then 20-odd years later were playing henchmen on BATMAN

Two middle-age dudes playing henchman on Batman

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👻🦇Sarah🧛🏻🎃 @13thgravegypt.bsky.social · 19h

He deserves this

The fan with the dump 61/62 here shirt got to meet Cal after the game and get a bat and ball autographed by Cal.

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Matt Monagle @monagle.bsky.social · 19h

When I was seventeen years old, my friend’s dad called me DURING A SHIFT AT MY RESTAURANT JOB just to dunk on me about the Yankees beating the Mariners because he knew his son and I had been talking shit about the game.