Matthew Taylor
@mat8iou.bsky.social
Sydney (but until recently Slough, UK) based architect and ultra-runner.
Described by Samantha Bee as the most well informed thoughtful person to ever dress like the EU flag.
@mat8iou on Twitter, Threads and Instagram
Described by Samantha Bee as the most well informed thoughtful person to ever dress like the EU flag.
@mat8iou on Twitter, Threads and Instagram
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paging @ianbetteridge.com
No, because it wouldn't be them, and no, because it's a fraud on the grieving.
No, because it wouldn't be them, and no, because it's a fraud on the grieving.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
February 1, 2026 at 9:19 PM
paging @ianbetteridge.com
No, because it wouldn't be them, and no, because it's a fraud on the grieving.
No, because it wouldn't be them, and no, because it's a fraud on the grieving.
Incredible, yet kind of predictable.
Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible
January 31, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Incredible, yet kind of predictable.
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Anything to get media coverage in an election
January 31, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Anything to get media coverage in an election
1. Demand the most extreme version of something (that most people didn't initially want).
2. When it turns out to be exactly as bad as projected, claim it wasn't done properly.
3. Claim the people behind implementing the original mess at every stage are the only ones who can get it done right.
🤔
2. When it turns out to be exactly as bad as projected, claim it wasn't done properly.
3. Claim the people behind implementing the original mess at every stage are the only ones who can get it done right.
🤔
Daily Express: NOW YOU MUST GIVE BRITAIN A PROPER BREXIT #TomorrowsPapersToday
January 31, 2026 at 1:36 AM
1. Demand the most extreme version of something (that most people didn't initially want).
2. When it turns out to be exactly as bad as projected, claim it wasn't done properly.
3. Claim the people behind implementing the original mess at every stage are the only ones who can get it done right.
🤔
2. When it turns out to be exactly as bad as projected, claim it wasn't done properly.
3. Claim the people behind implementing the original mess at every stage are the only ones who can get it done right.
🤔
Ouch
January 30, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Ouch
Update - stitches have dissolved and my head now looks less like a baseball. Still a fair way to go though with recovery (I'm still in hospital) and I'm very worried about sunburn on the scar (the perils of being bald in Australia have ramped up to the next level).
January 30, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Update - stitches have dissolved and my head now looks less like a baseball. Still a fair way to go though with recovery (I'm still in hospital) and I'm very worried about sunburn on the scar (the perils of being bald in Australia have ramped up to the next level).
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9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable
January 29, 2026 at 8:39 AM
9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable
The word of the year is Enshitificatiom after all.
January 28, 2026 at 9:41 PM
The word of the year is Enshitificatiom after all.
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It’s super awkward when some of your best friends are Nazis and you don’t want to make them feel bad
Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it
January 28, 2026 at 8:09 AM
It’s super awkward when some of your best friends are Nazis and you don’t want to make them feel bad
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Let’s try ”murderers” and ”Stasi” and see if he prefers them apples.
This is getting to the bastards.
Everyone thinks they’re heroic tough guys until grandmothers in coffee shops call them a cunt to their face, then it just doesn’t feel so great.
This is getting to the bastards.
Everyone thinks they’re heroic tough guys until grandmothers in coffee shops call them a cunt to their face, then it just doesn’t feel so great.
#GVerse Greg Bovino is openly threatening free speech.
He says if you call federal agents “kidnappers” or “Gestapo,” there will be “consequences.”
That’s intimidation.
He says if you call federal agents “kidnappers” or “Gestapo,” there will be “consequences.”
That’s intimidation.
January 27, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Let’s try ”murderers” and ”Stasi” and see if he prefers them apples.
This is getting to the bastards.
Everyone thinks they’re heroic tough guys until grandmothers in coffee shops call them a cunt to their face, then it just doesn’t feel so great.
This is getting to the bastards.
Everyone thinks they’re heroic tough guys until grandmothers in coffee shops call them a cunt to their face, then it just doesn’t feel so great.
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Air pollution kills thousands a year in the UK and abroad – why isn’t there a bigger uproar? | Devi Sridhar
Air pollution kills thousands a year in the UK and abroad – why isn’t there a bigger uproar? | Devi Sridhar
Initiatives such as London’s ULEZ can be a model for other cities. But even more could be done to save lives and protect us from deadly toxins in the air, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Air pollution kills thousands a year in the UK and abroad – why isn’t there a bigger uproar? | Devi Sridhar
Can anyone explain what ABC News (Australia) are playing at here?
Like don't these big companies use tools that let them cross post stories to multiple platforms? What real level of additional effort is involved?
Are they really wanting to focus on Twitter? They still haven't done anything here.
Like don't these big companies use tools that let them cross post stories to multiple platforms? What real level of additional effort is involved?
Are they really wanting to focus on Twitter? They still haven't done anything here.
January 27, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Can anyone explain what ABC News (Australia) are playing at here?
Like don't these big companies use tools that let them cross post stories to multiple platforms? What real level of additional effort is involved?
Are they really wanting to focus on Twitter? They still haven't done anything here.
Like don't these big companies use tools that let them cross post stories to multiple platforms? What real level of additional effort is involved?
Are they really wanting to focus on Twitter? They still haven't done anything here.
Hard to imagine a more drivel filled nexus of current events than Boris Johnson using the Beckham's to attack Starmer - and someone paying him for his efforts.
January 24, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Hard to imagine a more drivel filled nexus of current events than Boris Johnson using the Beckham's to attack Starmer - and someone paying him for his efforts.
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This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape.
Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason.
But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇
jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...
Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason.
But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇
jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...
AI nudification: the latest weapon of violence against women and girls
In Julie Burchill’s recent article in the Spectator, Does it really matter if Grok undresses us all?, she makes the argument that those who, like me, have repeatedly had their clothes removed by socia...
jessasato.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:21 AM
This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape.
Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason.
But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇
jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...
Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason.
But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇
jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...
UK feels like it has entered Australia mode....
January 24, 2026 at 8:20 AM
UK feels like it has entered Australia mode....
FAFO Chat GPT style....
January 23, 2026 at 6:52 AM
FAFO Chat GPT style....
Does AFR exist in a parallel universe?
January 23, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Does AFR exist in a parallel universe?
The rise of people who worry about the rise of wokeness as though it is an actual thing....
January 23, 2026 at 12:43 AM
The rise of people who worry about the rise of wokeness as though it is an actual thing....
Amazing how some people can be so proud of having no cultural interest in their life...
Someone sent this to me earlier.
It's a genuine Farage quote from 2015 and boy does that not say it all about the defender of British culture.
It's a genuine Farage quote from 2015 and boy does that not say it all about the defender of British culture.
January 23, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Amazing how some people can be so proud of having no cultural interest in their life...
I'm always a bit bewildered by how so many Gary Larson fans got so worked up about that one carton. Felt like they were trying to read too much into it.
January 22, 2026 at 7:11 AM
I'm always a bit bewildered by how so many Gary Larson fans got so worked up about that one carton. Felt like they were trying to read too much into it.
Why is the agreement not a public document for all to analyse?
#BREAKING 🚨 The federal Liberal–National Coalition is again no more, with David Littleproud saying Sussan Ley forced the agreement "into an untenable position"
Littleproud says his party will sit by themselves and cannot be part of a coalition led by Ley
Littleproud says his party will sit by themselves and cannot be part of a coalition led by Ley
January 22, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Why is the agreement not a public document for all to analyse?
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Classy Colin Hay.
January 22, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Classy Colin Hay.
But because of his posh accent, many commentators treated him as though he was somebody we should all be listening to.
January 21, 2026 at 8:04 AM
But because of his posh accent, many commentators treated him as though he was somebody we should all be listening to.
Felt necessary. I'm still far from caring about this story.
January 21, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Felt necessary. I'm still far from caring about this story.
The reaction of his compatriots seems a bit harsh....
imagine being the guy who accidentally said "weasel" at a weird time 2400 years ago
January 21, 2026 at 7:31 AM
The reaction of his compatriots seems a bit harsh....