Matthew
@manicmaelstrom.bsky.social
Photographer, Producer, Pedant, and other P words.
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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It's got less spyware. It doesn't have a subscription. It has buttons. It generally works and if not is easier to repair. It's not as easy to get hacked. They don't get constant pop ups and ads.
They're fucking right too. Tech has just become rent seeking bloatware.
They're fucking right too. Tech has just become rent seeking bloatware.
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Gen Z are going retro, with studies showing a resurgence in people buying tech in the modern age that can be dated back decades.
www.bbc.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It's got less spyware. It doesn't have a subscription. It has buttons. It generally works and if not is easier to repair. It's not as easy to get hacked. They don't get constant pop ups and ads.
They're fucking right too. Tech has just become rent seeking bloatware.
They're fucking right too. Tech has just become rent seeking bloatware.
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based on my profile pic, you might be surprised by my answer but it's this
May 19, 2024 at 3:58 PM
based on my profile pic, you might be surprised by my answer but it's this
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Let me get this straight: we trained this guy to be an elite killer, abandoned his country to the Taliban, isolated him, arbitrarily banned him from working and so left his family unsupported.
I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.
I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.
Alleged D.C. Shooter Begged CIA for Help as He Tried to Find Work newrepublic.com/post/203784/... via @newrepublic.com
Alleged D.C. Shooter Begged CIA for Help as He Tried to Find Work
The National Guard shooting suspect felt abandoned by the CIA after working together for so long, his fellow unit member said.
newrepublic.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Let me get this straight: we trained this guy to be an elite killer, abandoned his country to the Taliban, isolated him, arbitrarily banned him from working and so left his family unsupported.
I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.
I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.
End of November offering
December 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
End of November offering
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![A float of Goku from Dragon Ball Z, smiling and holding his hand to his head with two fingers extended. There is a caption that says [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] overlaid on top of him.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r3jz2av542vhxbsouxvzrwe2/bafkreigoci7n3zt72bjp6xhr7g7g7h5gbte2bovkgomwmd5ircmjersx4m@jpeg)
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really solid essay, gets into why it's not nearly as simple as more or less CGI
This is a really remarkable video essay on contemporary film and the theories of Laura Marks. It's making me think about movies in a new way.
Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
YouTube video by Like Stories of Old
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
really solid essay, gets into why it's not nearly as simple as more or less CGI
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these people have no moral center at all, their ethics are entirely situational, and that is the only accurate way to describe them. They’re not zealots or true believers, they’re opportunists protecting their turf
Epstein: ken, would take a stab at the article for the law journal. ? thx
Ken Starr: "In the spirit of the bedrock American belief in second chances, that unhappy chapter in Jeffrey's otherwise-magnificent life should be allowed to close once and for all."
Ken Starr: "In the spirit of the bedrock American belief in second chances, that unhappy chapter in Jeffrey's otherwise-magnificent life should be allowed to close once and for all."
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12/15/2018 6:40:52 PM
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Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]; Kathy Ruemmler
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Darren Indyke
Also think there should be a line in there somewhere which clearly confirms that JE understands and recognizes that he did something wrong
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On Dec 15, 2018, at 12:03 PM, Michael Wolff <
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Seems very good. Is there reason or opportunity here to evoke JE's Clinton connection? He had been publicly connected to the former President and became a proxy for the considerable anger at high levels of the Federal government that still surrounded Clinton. Likewise now, one reason to revive the story is that it is a way to tar a Trump administration official, who, in the normal course of his duties, happened to deal with the case.
On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 11:28 AM J <jeevacation@,gmail.com> wrote: thoughts.
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Here goes:
"Sweetheart deal! " So goes the critique of the resolution of a long-ago case involving our former client -- and now-friend -- Jeffrey Epstein. The critique is profoundly misplaced, supported neither by the law or the facts, nor by the structure of our constitutional republic. To the contrary, Jeffrey was subjected to an unprecedented federal intrusion into a quintessentially local criminal matter in south Florida. His offense to the social order --involving sex for hire -- was entirely a matter entrusted to laws of the several States, not the federal government. His conduct - a classic state offense --was being treated exactly that way by able, honest prosecutors in Palm Beach County, but the overweening federal government intruded where it did not belong. And now, over ten years after the fact, the current assault on federal decision-makers at the time, including now-Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta (then the United States Attorney in south Flo…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tsveacqzpqosfuahoqgsfu4a/bafkreifar5zmwmxqu4mpkceln5rninlk2kficvndbnp6muhraqfnqtgtm4@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
these people have no moral center at all, their ethics are entirely situational, and that is the only accurate way to describe them. They’re not zealots or true believers, they’re opportunists protecting their turf
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mark it: 2025 will be the year of the OUYA
January 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
mark it: 2025 will be the year of the OUYA
Mid November offering
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Mid November offering
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just learning about the united states democratic party
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
just learning about the united states democratic party
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died. He leaves behind a legacy of war, torture and impunity.
“The Dark Side”: Dick Cheney’s Legacy from Iraq Invasion to U.S. Torture Program
Dick Cheney, the former vice president and one of the key architects of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, died Monday at age 84. Cheney served six terms in Congress as Wyoming’s lone representative befo...
www.democracynow.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died. He leaves behind a legacy of war, torture and impunity.
Mid October offering
October 21, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Mid October offering
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thinking about john bolton and geraldo rivera and like
when do moustache men 'lock in'
when do moustache men 'lock in'
October 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
thinking about john bolton and geraldo rivera and like
when do moustache men 'lock in'
when do moustache men 'lock in'
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yeah this is child abuse sorry
Some parents are letting their kids talk to ChatGPT in the guise of characters. Some are using it to tell bedtime stories or create coloring books.
"My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”
"My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”
‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?
Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:29 AM
yeah this is child abuse sorry
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This is the 1st episode scene of a fantastically filmed and scored neo-noir. very rare, music by Tangerine Dream, masters lost to the universal fire. TG considered this underscore of their favorite works. a world class stunt bike rider. continuation Michael Mann's Thief cinematography: Street Hawk 🧵
September 26, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This is the 1st episode scene of a fantastically filmed and scored neo-noir. very rare, music by Tangerine Dream, masters lost to the universal fire. TG considered this underscore of their favorite works. a world class stunt bike rider. continuation Michael Mann's Thief cinematography: Street Hawk 🧵
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We don't *know* for sure this is fake, but if we assume it's real, 1) he missed all his targets, 2) he hit only people he was supposedly trying to help, 3) his slogan game is incredibly weak, and 4) he was too lazy to do it for more than one bullet, making him the worst political assassin in history
Hours after a shooting of ICE detainees, the FBI says “early evidence” of messages on the rounds are “anti-ICE in nature.”
Here is a picture FBI Director Kash Patel just tweeted of “the unspent shell casings recovered…engraved with the phrase ANTI ICE.”
Here is a picture FBI Director Kash Patel just tweeted of “the unspent shell casings recovered…engraved with the phrase ANTI ICE.”
September 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
We don't *know* for sure this is fake, but if we assume it's real, 1) he missed all his targets, 2) he hit only people he was supposedly trying to help, 3) his slogan game is incredibly weak, and 4) he was too lazy to do it for more than one bullet, making him the worst political assassin in history
Mid September offering
September 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Mid September offering
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“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy
September 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy