Dirt Dork.
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Illinoisan. Likes plants. Posts are whatever crossed my mind, reposts are things I thought anyone who willingly signed up for Matt Thoughts would also find interesting.
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· Jan 4
Aviso - Wikipedia
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Just gonna make a running thread of things I've looked up on Wikipedia lately.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviso
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I successfully helped dismember Provence and annexed Nevers, everything's coming up de Bourgogne.
Alright, bored with Online. Going to give EU4 another shot.
February 8, 2026 at 2:53 AM
I successfully helped dismember Provence and annexed Nevers, everything's coming up de Bourgogne.
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LA face with an Oakland booty
LA face with an Oakland booty
LA face with an Oakland booty
Put ‘em on the glass
LA face with an Oakland booty
LA face with an Oakland booty
Put ‘em on the glass
February 8, 2026 at 1:57 AM
LA face with an Oakland booty
LA face with an Oakland booty
LA face with an Oakland booty
Put ‘em on the glass
LA face with an Oakland booty
LA face with an Oakland booty
Put ‘em on the glass
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(to the tune of “Drunken Sailor”)
LA face with an oakland booty
LA face with an oakland booty
September 10, 2024 at 6:06 PM
(to the tune of “Drunken Sailor”)
LA face with an oakland booty
LA face with an oakland booty
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an underratedly cyberpunk thing was when that one sysadmin went insane in 2008 and locked the entire city of SF's network down because people weren't listening to his suggestions. my dad couldn't get paid for some stuff for a few days. Gavin Newsom had to meet him in prison to get the city passwords
February 8, 2026 at 1:22 AM
an underratedly cyberpunk thing was when that one sysadmin went insane in 2008 and locked the entire city of SF's network down because people weren't listening to his suggestions. my dad couldn't get paid for some stuff for a few days. Gavin Newsom had to meet him in prison to get the city passwords
Alright, bored with Online. Going to give EU4 another shot.
February 7, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Alright, bored with Online. Going to give EU4 another shot.
Illinoisans are not the worst drivers but we are *pricks.* I think we can win this one dirty.
coming up with a new idea called "driving like shit olympics". no more bland, unprovable statements like "california drivers are the WORST" allowed. whichever state wins every 4 years gets a moonshot-sized public transit investment to get those fuckers off the road
February 7, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Illinoisans are not the worst drivers but we are *pricks.* I think we can win this one dirty.
I overheard someone at my LGS the other day say that he put a big sticker of the Mexican flag on his truck for this reason. Just as at level of fuck you and friction, I bet there's a ton of this kinda of thing going on, big and small.
February 7, 2026 at 7:01 PM
I overheard someone at my LGS the other day say that he put a big sticker of the Mexican flag on his truck for this reason. Just as at level of fuck you and friction, I bet there's a ton of this kinda of thing going on, big and small.
woke 1 was deontology woke 2 is virtue ethics send skeet
February 7, 2026 at 6:47 PM
woke 1 was deontology woke 2 is virtue ethics send skeet
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Can't ban inhumane weapons at the Geneva Conventions until you have a Geneva Conventions, and you can't have a Geneva Conventions until you win the war.
on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.
February 7, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Can't ban inhumane weapons at the Geneva Conventions until you have a Geneva Conventions, and you can't have a Geneva Conventions until you win the war.
Genuinely, an American Friends of Canada starter pack couldn't hurt.
Do I need to write a form letter that people can send to their Congressperson?
it's kind of depressing that no one on the Democratic side of Congress has written to the state department to ask about the meeting with AB seperatists
February 7, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Genuinely, an American Friends of Canada starter pack couldn't hurt.
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These federal buildings have cells designed to hold a few people for a brief period; like a holding cell at a police station. Supposed to be 12 hours max, usually less.
People are being held in them for 7-10 days, jammed in like sardines. It’s a nightmare.
People are being held in them for 7-10 days, jammed in like sardines. It’s a nightmare.
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.pressherald.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:55 PM
These federal buildings have cells designed to hold a few people for a brief period; like a holding cell at a police station. Supposed to be 12 hours max, usually less.
People are being held in them for 7-10 days, jammed in like sardines. It’s a nightmare.
People are being held in them for 7-10 days, jammed in like sardines. It’s a nightmare.
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Oh look, apparently multiple commanders have decided to play out their inner General Edwin Walker.
Walker actually resigned from the Army after being reprimanded, and it looks really bad on a politicization of the military. And it augers that there has to be some sort of post-Trump separations.
Walker actually resigned from the Army after being reprimanded, and it looks really bad on a politicization of the military. And it augers that there has to be some sort of post-Trump separations.
MAGA-aligned military commanders are pressuring enlisted service members to go to the Melania movie and bring their families. Troops at 8 different bases have complained. www.businessinsider.com/us-military-...
February 7, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Oh look, apparently multiple commanders have decided to play out their inner General Edwin Walker.
Walker actually resigned from the Army after being reprimanded, and it looks really bad on a politicization of the military. And it augers that there has to be some sort of post-Trump separations.
Walker actually resigned from the Army after being reprimanded, and it looks really bad on a politicization of the military. And it augers that there has to be some sort of post-Trump separations.
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Lord forgive me, but it's time to go back to the old me: Trying to get dudes on the Internet to say "patriarchy" about the Epstein files:
You Know, You Can Just Say "Patriarchy"
These analyses of the Epstein case are... missing something.
jude-doyle.ghost.io
February 7, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Lord forgive me, but it's time to go back to the old me: Trying to get dudes on the Internet to say "patriarchy" about the Epstein files:
Yeah, it was pretty good. I hadn't seen an opera since our 6th grade field trip to see Barber of Seville. Got goosebumps during the final sequence.
Wanted an excuse to wear cufflinks, so beloved spouse and I are seeing Salome at the Lyric.
February 7, 2026 at 6:08 AM
Yeah, it was pretty good. I hadn't seen an opera since our 6th grade field trip to see Barber of Seville. Got goosebumps during the final sequence.
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honestly, hoult could do it, too, and they ought to do more things together — i would love to see someone cast them together in a pre-code style slapstick
February 7, 2026 at 1:37 AM
honestly, hoult could do it, too, and they ought to do more things together — i would love to see someone cast them together in a pre-code style slapstick
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I hate that my reaction to "the guy in charge of American public health dug for fossils illegally on tribal lands with notorious pedophiles" is
yeah, sounds about right
yeah, sounds about right
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Dakotas with child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
RFK Jr.’s Bizarre Trip With Epstein and Ghislaine Exposed in Files
The trip took place on a Native reservation where collecting fossils without explicit tribal permission is considered looting.
trib.al
February 7, 2026 at 2:42 AM
I hate that my reaction to "the guy in charge of American public health dug for fossils illegally on tribal lands with notorious pedophiles" is
yeah, sounds about right
yeah, sounds about right
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Note the figures for Denmark in particular. Until only a few years ago the most pro-American country in Western Europe; now the most hostile, by some distance.
Some really striking numbers in this new survey showing the flip in European public opinion about America.
But bear in mind this is only Western Europe. In Eastern Europe, it has been harder to take the blinders off peoples' eyes.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
But bear in mind this is only Western Europe. In Eastern Europe, it has been harder to take the blinders off peoples' eyes.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
February 6, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Note the figures for Denmark in particular. Until only a few years ago the most pro-American country in Western Europe; now the most hostile, by some distance.
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this is important and i don't want to be glib. dunk and egg stories are great because dunk is not dumb! he is simple in his thinking, because his thinking is that the strong should protect the weak and a knight should be what people expect a knight to be. he is wonderful.
February 7, 2026 at 4:27 AM
this is important and i don't want to be glib. dunk and egg stories are great because dunk is not dumb! he is simple in his thinking, because his thinking is that the strong should protect the weak and a knight should be what people expect a knight to be. he is wonderful.
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Reddit: Poop Knife?
Blue Sky: Alf Hog!
Blue Sky: Alf Hog!
a man with a mask on his face is standing in a forest .
ALT: a man with a mask on his face is standing in a forest .
media.tenor.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Reddit: Poop Knife?
Blue Sky: Alf Hog!
Blue Sky: Alf Hog!
Wanted an excuse to wear cufflinks, so beloved spouse and I are seeing Salome at the Lyric.
February 7, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Wanted an excuse to wear cufflinks, so beloved spouse and I are seeing Salome at the Lyric.
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Blueskyese and Xian share an obvious common root as both being Twitteric languages, the difference is that after the split Xian became a hybrid Twitteric/Channer-linkedin tongue, while Blueskyese changed less overall but did pick up some tumbleric and redditor loanwords
yeah Bluesky is primarily a Tumblric language
February 6, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Blueskyese and Xian share an obvious common root as both being Twitteric languages, the difference is that after the split Xian became a hybrid Twitteric/Channer-linkedin tongue, while Blueskyese changed less overall but did pick up some tumbleric and redditor loanwords
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Worth noting that any time a cop is accused of potentially criminal misconduct, it is usually BIA who conducts the investigation.
The police superintendent is acknowledging they lack trust to handle this case, but why then are they entrusted to conduct investigations into, say, domestic abuse?
The police superintendent is acknowledging they lack trust to handle this case, but why then are they entrusted to conduct investigations into, say, domestic abuse?
“When it comes to the Chicago Police Department, there’s always going to be this trust factor. So the question is, would anybody in here believe that it’s a fair investigation if the Bureau of Internal Affairs is doing that work? I would think not.” @wttw.bsky.social
Top Cop: COPA Should Probe Chicago Police Conduct During Immigration Raids Because No One Would ‘Trust’ Internal Affairs
“When it comes to the Chicago Police Department, there’s always going to be this trust factor,” Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling said.
news.wttw.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Worth noting that any time a cop is accused of potentially criminal misconduct, it is usually BIA who conducts the investigation.
The police superintendent is acknowledging they lack trust to handle this case, but why then are they entrusted to conduct investigations into, say, domestic abuse?
The police superintendent is acknowledging they lack trust to handle this case, but why then are they entrusted to conduct investigations into, say, domestic abuse?
Despite being a Forumic language, proximity, trade and intermarriage have resulted in a Reddit-Bluesky sprachbund.
yeah Bluesky is primarily a Tumblric language
February 6, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Despite being a Forumic language, proximity, trade and intermarriage have resulted in a Reddit-Bluesky sprachbund.