Matt Dunphy
@leviathant.com
Citizen archaeologist, solutions engineer, electronic musician. I call Philadelphia home.
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Matt Dunphy
@leviathant.com
· Nov 13
Hello again, Bluesky. I'm a hyperlocal historian & citizen archaeologist hailing from Philadelphia. I'm a musician & sometimes photographer, a founder of several internet communities revolving around NIN, an enterprise ecommerce guy, and I clean up the trash on my street.
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Still thinking about this story. Imagine how cooked your brain has to be on Fox News -- how terrified you have to be, every day in your isolated suburban castle -- to start *shooting* when you see brown people at your door, before the door is even open. We're such a nation of terrified cowards.
Cleaning worker who mistakenly went to wrong home fatally shot: Police
The shooting victim died from a gunshot wound to the head, the coroner's office said.
abcnews.go.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Still thinking about this story. Imagine how cooked your brain has to be on Fox News -- how terrified you have to be, every day in your isolated suburban castle -- to start *shooting* when you see brown people at your door, before the door is even open. We're such a nation of terrified cowards.
We're really just going to do the Boston Massacre again, aren't we?
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
We're really just going to do the Boston Massacre again, aren't we?
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Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
Some EXCELLENT thunder tonight. I kind of want to set my mics up to record it, but that's a little silly. There are lots of "good recordings of thunder" out there, and they all actually kind of suck. You don't ever get the house-shaking rumble like the real thing provides.
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Some EXCELLENT thunder tonight. I kind of want to set my mics up to record it, but that's a little silly. There are lots of "good recordings of thunder" out there, and they all actually kind of suck. You don't ever get the house-shaking rumble like the real thing provides.
I don't think the people who tagged the Boghouse in the comments even saw this detail, but guys I think I'm about to make a new friend
November 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I don't think the people who tagged the Boghouse in the comments even saw this detail, but guys I think I'm about to make a new friend
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“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”
Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge"
"Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."
www.publicnotice.co
November 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”
Every time my dishwasher misbehaves, I look up the problem, buy a replacement part, and fix it. It usually works out. But eight years in, I am starting to understand the impulse to just buy a whole new one.
This is kind of what it's like for people who are afraid of using a screwdriver, isn't it?
This is kind of what it's like for people who are afraid of using a screwdriver, isn't it?
November 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Every time my dishwasher misbehaves, I look up the problem, buy a replacement part, and fix it. It usually works out. But eight years in, I am starting to understand the impulse to just buy a whole new one.
This is kind of what it's like for people who are afraid of using a screwdriver, isn't it?
This is kind of what it's like for people who are afraid of using a screwdriver, isn't it?
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Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
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Today's newsletter is about the awful and extremely political decision to gut Teen Vogue for parts www.readtpa.com/p/teen-vogue...
Teen Vogue's Award-Winning Journalism Was Too Much Trouble for Condé Nast
The outlet just won recognition for speaking truth to power. Condé Nast responded by eliminating its entire politics staff and folding it into Vogue.
www.readtpa.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Today's newsletter is about the awful and extremely political decision to gut Teen Vogue for parts www.readtpa.com/p/teen-vogue...
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Every election, chuds from the suburbs drive to the highway exit on the edge of center city to put up huge vinyl banners for Republicans running hopelessly in Philadelphia. A mere block away from my house.
Maybe one day we'll make tote bags out of it all.
Maybe one day we'll make tote bags out of it all.
November 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Every election, chuds from the suburbs drive to the highway exit on the edge of center city to put up huge vinyl banners for Republicans running hopelessly in Philadelphia. A mere block away from my house.
Maybe one day we'll make tote bags out of it all.
Maybe one day we'll make tote bags out of it all.
It's the kind of sky that makes your camera's automatic white balance panic
November 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
It's the kind of sky that makes your camera's automatic white balance panic
The election results were a shot in the arm, but what I really like to see is the Supreme Court tapping the brakes on presidential power, and Republicans cautioning against the elimination of the filibuster in the Senate. That's a concrete fear of losing big in the next election or two.
November 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The election results were a shot in the arm, but what I really like to see is the Supreme Court tapping the brakes on presidential power, and Republicans cautioning against the elimination of the filibuster in the Senate. That's a concrete fear of losing big in the next election or two.
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Mamdani: My message to I.C.E. Agents and to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate the law, you must be held accountable.
November 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Mamdani: My message to I.C.E. Agents and to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate the law, you must be held accountable.
I don't miss the daily train ride in and out of the city (it's cool for about two years, and then it becomes kind of a drag), but Downingtown was a good place to call home during our time there. I still keep in touch with folks from our old neighborhood. I'm glad to see news like this!
Erica Deuso is the first openly transgender person to be elected mayor in Pennsylvania.
The longtime Democratic advocate defeated Republican Rich Bryant Tuesday to serve as the next mayor of Downingtown.
🔴 Live election updates: www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...
The longtime Democratic advocate defeated Republican Rich Bryant Tuesday to serve as the next mayor of Downingtown.
🔴 Live election updates: www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I don't miss the daily train ride in and out of the city (it's cool for about two years, and then it becomes kind of a drag), but Downingtown was a good place to call home during our time there. I still keep in touch with folks from our old neighborhood. I'm glad to see news like this!
The printer in the voting machine sounds like the whistle on the El #Philadelphia
November 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The printer in the voting machine sounds like the whistle on the El #Philadelphia
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Conservatives 2016-2024: dumb libs think words are violence
Conservatives in 2025: mean words are literally violence bsky.app/profile/robe...
Conservatives in 2025: mean words are literally violence bsky.app/profile/robe...
From Bovino's deposition: (1) he calls protestors "violent" if they articulate views hostile to ICE, even if no violence is manifested; (2) he instructs his forces to attack and arrest protestors who express "hyperbolic comments," which is to say, criticism of ICE and Bovino.
November 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Conservatives 2016-2024: dumb libs think words are violence
Conservatives in 2025: mean words are literally violence bsky.app/profile/robe...
Conservatives in 2025: mean words are literally violence bsky.app/profile/robe...
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
In 1994, Dick Cheney predicted the outcome of George W Bush's war in Iraq
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1994 Clip of a C-SPAN Interview with Dick Cheney
YouTube video by C-SPAN
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November 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
In 1994, Dick Cheney predicted the outcome of George W Bush's war in Iraq
youtu.be/w75ctsv2oPU?...
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Turn the nostalgia machine off before it starts
Dick Cheney Doesn’t Deserve Your Heartfelt Eulogies
Former Vice President Dick Cheney died Monday night. Now is not the time to whitewash his bloody legacy of war and destruction.
theintercept.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Turn the nostalgia machine off before it starts
Philadelphia after sunset
November 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Philadelphia after sunset
Congratulations on the win?
LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @shoton35mm.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Congratulations on the win?
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Obama: When I think back to a year ago, I remember talking to some people, who would say, this election doesn't matter all that much. That however the next president ended up being, it wasn't going to matter to them. If nothing else, the last nine months should have cured us of that idea.
November 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Obama: When I think back to a year ago, I remember talking to some people, who would say, this election doesn't matter all that much. That however the next president ended up being, it wasn't going to matter to them. If nothing else, the last nine months should have cured us of that idea.
I can never take anyone who uses the phrase "inner cities" seriously.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) actually told the press that Democrats would be the ones hurt most by losing SNAP.
To be fair, since he lives in Florida instead of the state he represents, maybe he doesn’t realize 752,000 Alabamians rely on SNAP—14.6% of the state’s population.
To be fair, since he lives in Florida instead of the state he represents, maybe he doesn’t realize 752,000 Alabamians rely on SNAP—14.6% of the state’s population.
November 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I can never take anyone who uses the phrase "inner cities" seriously.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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