Brian Matzke
@briansmatzke.com
Digital humanities librarian and literary historian. I enjoy books and movies, especially science fiction. Also website design, data visualization, digital preservation, and other similarly nerdy things.
September 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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I know there's a lot of controversy about the Cracker Barrel logo, so I worked up a new option that should be good with everyone... The barrel is back, but it's now guarded by Scubble, The Cracker Goblin. I also worked up a new slogan for the company!
August 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I know there's a lot of controversy about the Cracker Barrel logo, so I worked up a new option that should be good with everyone... The barrel is back, but it's now guarded by Scubble, The Cracker Goblin. I also worked up a new slogan for the company!
The shape of milk jugs recently changed slightly and I’m still a little thrown off every time I grab the milk, which I guess means that milk has gone woke?
August 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The shape of milk jugs recently changed slightly and I’m still a little thrown off every time I grab the milk, which I guess means that milk has gone woke?
I hate the word “grooming.” I hate it when the right uses it & when the left uses it, like I’ve come to hate “woke” & “trigger warning” & so many other thought-killing cliches that are dropped in sentence-fragment comments on social media posts. I’m exhausted by the parataxis of internet discourse.
July 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I hate the word “grooming.” I hate it when the right uses it & when the left uses it, like I’ve come to hate “woke” & “trigger warning” & so many other thought-killing cliches that are dropped in sentence-fragment comments on social media posts. I’m exhausted by the parataxis of internet discourse.
“If you have a problem with management you can talk to HR.”
Management and HR:
Management and HR:
July 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“If you have a problem with management you can talk to HR.”
Management and HR:
Management and HR:
Stephen Colbert should join up with Conan O-Brien to create an unstoppable multimedia variety show hosting/podcasting empire.
Team ColCo?
Team Coco-Colbert (but in like the Coca-Cola font)?
Team ColCo?
Team Coco-Colbert (but in like the Coca-Cola font)?
July 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Stephen Colbert should join up with Conan O-Brien to create an unstoppable multimedia variety show hosting/podcasting empire.
Team ColCo?
Team Coco-Colbert (but in like the Coca-Cola font)?
Team ColCo?
Team Coco-Colbert (but in like the Coca-Cola font)?
Wild that "conscious uncoupling" is no longer the funniest piece of relationship drama that Chris Martin has been a part of.
July 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Wild that "conscious uncoupling" is no longer the funniest piece of relationship drama that Chris Martin has been a part of.
"Our research shows that students find running difficult and frequently avoid doing it, so we are offering wheelchairs that can easily be integrated into your curriculum."
"But I'm a gym teacher and this is a track & field class."
This is what talking to EdTech vendors about A.I. is like.
"But I'm a gym teacher and this is a track & field class."
This is what talking to EdTech vendors about A.I. is like.
July 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"Our research shows that students find running difficult and frequently avoid doing it, so we are offering wheelchairs that can easily be integrated into your curriculum."
"But I'm a gym teacher and this is a track & field class."
This is what talking to EdTech vendors about A.I. is like.
"But I'm a gym teacher and this is a track & field class."
This is what talking to EdTech vendors about A.I. is like.
Question for Academic Bluesky: Sorting Things Out is 25 years old--what is a more recent work that examines categories and classification, building on Bowker and Star?
June 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Question for Academic Bluesky: Sorting Things Out is 25 years old--what is a more recent work that examines categories and classification, building on Bowker and Star?
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A federal officer cannot be “doxxed.” The public has a right to know who is operating in our government, especially if they have the power to imprison someone.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons: "If you look before January 20, and even after January 20, the men & women of ICE did not have to have masks on their face. Me personally, I don't want those officers having to wear masks bc it's hot, it's dangerous. But ICE agents are being doxxed at a horrible rate"
June 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
A federal officer cannot be “doxxed.” The public has a right to know who is operating in our government, especially if they have the power to imprison someone.
A lot of D'Onofrio characters would probably endorse Cuomo. Gomer Pyle, Carl Rudolph Stargher, Vic Hoskins, Wilson Fisk....
Something tells me Abbie Hoffman would go a different way though.
Something tells me Abbie Hoffman would go a different way though.
we're getting word that the bug has endorsed cuomo
a man in a white apron is walking down a street in front of a green dumpster that says fast
ALT: a man in a white apron is walking down a street in front of a green dumpster that says fast
media.tenor.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
A lot of D'Onofrio characters would probably endorse Cuomo. Gomer Pyle, Carl Rudolph Stargher, Vic Hoskins, Wilson Fisk....
Something tells me Abbie Hoffman would go a different way though.
Something tells me Abbie Hoffman would go a different way though.
Not only an issue with programming--building, maintaining, & fixing systems are 3 mutually reinforcing processes, & when you outsource any 1 of those you undermine your ability to do the other 2, which is a fundamental danger that gen AI poses to some (not all! but probably many) kinds of work.
The *moment* chatgpt regurgitates some slop code, it becomes code the programmer has no mental model for, and definitely can't be fucked to read instead of giving it another pass through the bullshit machine.
The programmer cannot maintain code, which is like 90% of what programming *is*
The programmer cannot maintain code, which is like 90% of what programming *is*
June 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Not only an issue with programming--building, maintaining, & fixing systems are 3 mutually reinforcing processes, & when you outsource any 1 of those you undermine your ability to do the other 2, which is a fundamental danger that gen AI poses to some (not all! but probably many) kinds of work.
I've officially been granted tenure and promoted to the rank of Associate Librarian.
June 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I've officially been granted tenure and promoted to the rank of Associate Librarian.
Do me a favor and vote for Spike Lee here so my favorite movies podcast will cover his films.
MARCH MADNESS — BLANK CHECK
www.blankcheckpod.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Do me a favor and vote for Spike Lee here so my favorite movies podcast will cover his films.
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seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism
February 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism
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the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!
February 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!
I’m celebrating my 41st birthday today and Trayvon Martin should be celebrating his 30th birthday today.
February 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I’m celebrating my 41st birthday today and Trayvon Martin should be celebrating his 30th birthday today.
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![Witness said a bus driver told an ICE agent to "gargle [his] balls" when the latter requested to enter the bus.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jky6uuetr73nlbaml6ytlzbi/bafkreibjh2gbp75z5bojibdoefdpfdwlclxwspai2i7qfjotajpraru3zm@jpeg)
If this were France we'd be on general strike and flooding the streets by now.
January 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
If this were France we'd be on general strike and flooding the streets by now.
It is definitely worth everyone's time to make a few quick phone calls. This is horrifying and must be loudly opposed.
![YOU: Hi, my name is [NAME]. I’m calling from [ZIP CODE].
YOU: I am calling on [HOUSE MEMBER/SENATOR] to speak out against President Trump’s actions on Monday in freezing all federal aid. This is blatantly illegal; the Executive Branch can’t unilaterally decide to ignore laws that were passed by Congress, especially when it comes to financial aid.
YOU: MOC must take action, and clarify how they will stop the freeze and ensure that the millions who are directly impacted by financial aid will not be harmed.
YOU: [OPTIONAL COMMENT]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vdabazxnghujbebpi2ektqgi/bafkreia6t55htxgj6v4nxv5uys3mklsp7lgba2qajqxb6c542lp2gf4gq4@jpeg)
January 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It is definitely worth everyone's time to make a few quick phone calls. This is horrifying and must be loudly opposed.
See also: Roseanne’s recent rap song, “Daddy’s Home”. The world is burning because of the unresolved trauma of septuagenarian child abuse survivors.
On the one hand I think psychoanalysis is congenitally misogynist, and its popular reemergence is a symptom of backlash that will ultimately be wielded against the cause of women’s freedom. On the other hand, conservatives keep saying shit like this.
January 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
See also: Roseanne’s recent rap song, “Daddy’s Home”. The world is burning because of the unresolved trauma of septuagenarian child abuse survivors.
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Tom Morello was right.
And now, we are living in the bonafide Rage Against the Machine era.
It is time to organize.
Our government is not failing us, it is actively trying to destroy us.
#ResistForRealThisTIme
And now, we are living in the bonafide Rage Against the Machine era.
It is time to organize.
Our government is not failing us, it is actively trying to destroy us.
#ResistForRealThisTIme
January 25, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Tom Morello was right.
And now, we are living in the bonafide Rage Against the Machine era.
It is time to organize.
Our government is not failing us, it is actively trying to destroy us.
#ResistForRealThisTIme
And now, we are living in the bonafide Rage Against the Machine era.
It is time to organize.
Our government is not failing us, it is actively trying to destroy us.
#ResistForRealThisTIme
Very cool.
The Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social will open its digital library system to the public next week.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-vid...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-vid...
The Video Game History Foundation makes its digital library available to the public next week | VGC
The library will include promotional artwork and more than 1500 out-of-print magazines…
www.videogameschronicle.com
January 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Very cool.
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Tip from @snowjob.bsky.social
If you have a whitehouse.gov link you want to access and it is down, try replacing "www.whitehouse.gov" with "bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov"
The national archives is still doing its job for now.
If you have a whitehouse.gov link you want to access and it is down, try replacing "www.whitehouse.gov" with "bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov"
The national archives is still doing its job for now.
January 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Tip from @snowjob.bsky.social
If you have a whitehouse.gov link you want to access and it is down, try replacing "www.whitehouse.gov" with "bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov"
The national archives is still doing its job for now.
If you have a whitehouse.gov link you want to access and it is down, try replacing "www.whitehouse.gov" with "bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov"
The national archives is still doing its job for now.