Matt Butler
@matt4something.bsky.social
I guess I'll be listening to Comfort Eagle on my way home.
Greg Brown, Cake founding guitarist who wrote breakout hit 'The Distance,' dead at 56
Greg Brown, Cake founding guitarist who wrote breakout hit 'The Distance,' dead at 56
Greg Brown, a founding member of Sacramento alt-rock outfit Cake, has died. Friends honored the guitarist, who wrote the band's enduring hit 'The Distance.'
www.latimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:59 AM
I guess I'll be listening to Comfort Eagle on my way home.
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this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
February 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
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Hi Tomhoman, thanks for the thoughtful suggestion that we locals in MN end the resistance.
We’ve considered it and would like to make a counteroffer. To wit:
1) No
2) Never
3) Fuck you
4) You, Bovino, Noem, etc go to prison for decades.
Sound good? Great. Here’s $50k in a takeout bag.
…Kidding!
We’ve considered it and would like to make a counteroffer. To wit:
1) No
2) Never
3) Fuck you
4) You, Bovino, Noem, etc go to prison for decades.
Sound good? Great. Here’s $50k in a takeout bag.
…Kidding!
In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”
“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers
In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.
interc.pt
February 9, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Hi Tomhoman, thanks for the thoughtful suggestion that we locals in MN end the resistance.
We’ve considered it and would like to make a counteroffer. To wit:
1) No
2) Never
3) Fuck you
4) You, Bovino, Noem, etc go to prison for decades.
Sound good? Great. Here’s $50k in a takeout bag.
…Kidding!
We’ve considered it and would like to make a counteroffer. To wit:
1) No
2) Never
3) Fuck you
4) You, Bovino, Noem, etc go to prison for decades.
Sound good? Great. Here’s $50k in a takeout bag.
…Kidding!
Absolutely not. Kill your doorbell.
The showed us cute missing dogs & we consented to turning our doorbell cameras into a mass human tracking system.
Mark my words, Ring's Search Party will become the next Flock.
Only instead of just being sketchy cameras installed in parking lots, it will be everywhere. That's their play.
Mark my words, Ring's Search Party will become the next Flock.
Only instead of just being sketchy cameras installed in parking lots, it will be everywhere. That's their play.
February 9, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Absolutely not. Kill your doorbell.
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The Super Bowl could not compete with tape-delayed Olympic curling: defector.com/the-super-bo...
The Super Bowl Could Not Compete With Tape-Delayed Olympic Curling | Defector
Nobody else in my house likes football, and we are believers in democracy at least as far as concerns the television. And so it was that, Sunday evening, I had the Super Bowl streaming on my li’l…
defector.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:52 PM
The Super Bowl could not compete with tape-delayed Olympic curling: defector.com/the-super-bo...
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I wanted to be Scorpion. This game sucks
February 9, 2026 at 8:18 PM
I wanted to be Scorpion. This game sucks
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Senate passes @adamebbin.bsky.social bill to have Virginia join the National Popular Vote Compact, after @ssurovell.bsky.social refers to the Electoral College as an idea having "arrogant, aristocratic and racist origins."
February 9, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Senate passes @adamebbin.bsky.social bill to have Virginia join the National Popular Vote Compact, after @ssurovell.bsky.social refers to the Electoral College as an idea having "arrogant, aristocratic and racist origins."
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friend of mine can't dance so he pretended he's republican and stormed out of the room before bad bunny comes on
February 9, 2026 at 1:19 AM
friend of mine can't dance so he pretended he's republican and stormed out of the room before bad bunny comes on
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Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me
February 6, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me
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when will I learn to only post extremely obscure remarks that inspire no one to repost & attract no new readers
February 8, 2026 at 10:46 PM
when will I learn to only post extremely obscure remarks that inspire no one to repost & attract no new readers
The AI saves the family farm.
February 8, 2026 at 10:56 PM
The AI saves the family farm.
Hell yeah, now you can prompt generate all those memories. "Grok me a picture of my wife looking into my child's eyes for the first time." "Ok Google, make a picture of my daughter graduating kindergarten." Glad these guys are driving our economy.
February 8, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Hell yeah, now you can prompt generate all those memories. "Grok me a picture of my wife looking into my child's eyes for the first time." "Ok Google, make a picture of my daughter graduating kindergarten." Glad these guys are driving our economy.
And, again, as usual, Bill gets at the fundamental truth of America better than the last 50 years of Democratic Politicians.
Absolutely. Yes.
Most respectable politicians, pundits and business people like to give bland tribute to Martin Luther King Jr, but ignore how directly he addressed this. And he did not mince words. Just one quote attached (from Goodreads) but he came back to the themes repeatedly!
Most respectable politicians, pundits and business people like to give bland tribute to Martin Luther King Jr, but ignore how directly he addressed this. And he did not mince words. Just one quote attached (from Goodreads) but he came back to the themes repeatedly!
February 8, 2026 at 10:47 PM
And, again, as usual, Bill gets at the fundamental truth of America better than the last 50 years of Democratic Politicians.
What, and I ask this seriously, is this owl everyone is taking about?
Go Seahawks, I guess, sigh, shrug.
Go Seahawks, I guess, sigh, shrug.
February 8, 2026 at 9:17 PM
What, and I ask this seriously, is this owl everyone is taking about?
Go Seahawks, I guess, sigh, shrug.
Go Seahawks, I guess, sigh, shrug.
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man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you
February 8, 2026 at 4:42 AM
man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you
The only way to end gerrymandering is to remove the ability to do it from lawmakers. The only places that are attempting to do that are blue states. This creates even more incentive for bad actors in red states to keep it up.
National redistricting by population, regardless of state lines.
National redistricting by population, regardless of state lines.
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 3:20 PM
The only way to end gerrymandering is to remove the ability to do it from lawmakers. The only places that are attempting to do that are blue states. This creates even more incentive for bad actors in red states to keep it up.
National redistricting by population, regardless of state lines.
National redistricting by population, regardless of state lines.
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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 2:35 PM
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.
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Clapping my flippers together and honking like a harbor seal when a Super Bowl ad for a condiment or gambling app featuring two celebrities unexpectedly reveals a third celebrity as its punchline. Bouncing a ball around on my snout. My wife has to throw me a herring to get me to calm down.
February 6, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Clapping my flippers together and honking like a harbor seal when a Super Bowl ad for a condiment or gambling app featuring two celebrities unexpectedly reveals a third celebrity as its punchline. Bouncing a ball around on my snout. My wife has to throw me a herring to get me to calm down.
I dunno, Bari, I'm guessing you will, since your wife was good friends with the pedophile, but me, personally, my position is, gross, these people should go away.
Tell me you're afraid for yourself or your friends in a headline:
February 6, 2026 at 6:46 AM
I dunno, Bari, I'm guessing you will, since your wife was good friends with the pedophile, but me, personally, my position is, gross, these people should go away.
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YOU - Where the hood, where the hood, where the hood at?
SHIVERS - HAVE A BROTHER IN THE CUT. WHERE THE WOOD AT?
SHIVERS - HAVE A BROTHER IN THE CUT. WHERE THE WOOD AT?
February 5, 2026 at 6:27 AM
YOU - Where the hood, where the hood, where the hood at?
SHIVERS - HAVE A BROTHER IN THE CUT. WHERE THE WOOD AT?
SHIVERS - HAVE A BROTHER IN THE CUT. WHERE THE WOOD AT?
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folks who are saying "this is serious" might think about what the countermoves to it might be- if you're upset about it, what can be done? like if we know this is part of their plan nine months out, there are specific ways to organize against it and let's start talking about those
i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections
Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...
www.democracydocket.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:19 AM
folks who are saying "this is serious" might think about what the countermoves to it might be- if you're upset about it, what can be done? like if we know this is part of their plan nine months out, there are specific ways to organize against it and let's start talking about those
"I'm a moron, and you can too."
We don't need ICE. We don't need a militarized CBP. We don't need reforms, we need to abolish them.
We don't need ICE. We don't need a militarized CBP. We don't need reforms, we need to abolish them.
February 5, 2026 at 1:26 AM
"I'm a moron, and you can too."
We don't need ICE. We don't need a militarized CBP. We don't need reforms, we need to abolish them.
We don't need ICE. We don't need a militarized CBP. We don't need reforms, we need to abolish them.