Matthew A. Hoffman
@matthewahoff.bsky.social
You may be a Hoff, but I am the Hoff. The definite article, you might say
No? I genuinely don’t see why people like it
Only recently got into watching Inspector Morse. He's great, isn't he?
January 29, 2026 at 12:06 AM
No? I genuinely don’t see why people like it
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"its scary and powerful and you need to understand that its too good, the thing im selling, like how when the cheetohs became dangerously cheesy. this is as serious as the dangerously cheesy cheetohs gambit. god help us, ya know?"
‘Humanity needs to wake up’ to dangers of AI, says Anthropic chief www.ft.com/content/c309...
‘Humanity needs to wake up’ to dangers of AI, says Anthropic chief
Dario Amodei posts 20,000-word essay detailing potentially catastrophic risks from powerful technology in years to come
www.ft.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:19 PM
"its scary and powerful and you need to understand that its too good, the thing im selling, like how when the cheetohs became dangerously cheesy. this is as serious as the dangerously cheesy cheetohs gambit. god help us, ya know?"
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This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit.
It's all white supremacy and greed.
It's all white supremacy and greed.
January 25, 2026 at 2:03 AM
This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit.
It's all white supremacy and greed.
It's all white supremacy and greed.
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Training is not a panacea for a system whose purpose is the application of violence in the name of “law and order.” “More training” is a red herring that police say they need instead of meaningful reform and dismantling.
January 24, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Training is not a panacea for a system whose purpose is the application of violence in the name of “law and order.” “More training” is a red herring that police say they need instead of meaningful reform and dismantling.
Budget constraints! BUDGET CONSTRAINTS?!
Funny how there’s always money for the bloody football games, hmm?
Funny how there’s always money for the bloody football games, hmm?
America has tried to be a real multiracial democracy for just over 60 years and that attempt has been contested at every step along the way.
The dinner has been held every year, without fail, since 1969.
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
The dinner has been held every year, without fail, since 1969.
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Indiana University Cancels MLK Celebration Dinner
Indiana University in Indianapolis canceled a dinner in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. hosted annually in January by the Black Student Union, Mirror Indy reported.
www.insidehighered.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Budget constraints! BUDGET CONSTRAINTS?!
Funny how there’s always money for the bloody football games, hmm?
Funny how there’s always money for the bloody football games, hmm?
Pam Whitten had snipers pointed at your kids. Go Hoosiers.
January 20, 2026 at 5:23 AM
Pam Whitten had snipers pointed at your kids. Go Hoosiers.
My football take is that the worst thing that can happen to a university is for sports to be good. None of that money goes towards the land grant university that is the foundation of the middle class. They use every win to whittle away more money from the teaching and research that actually matters
January 20, 2026 at 5:06 AM
My football take is that the worst thing that can happen to a university is for sports to be good. None of that money goes towards the land grant university that is the foundation of the middle class. They use every win to whittle away more money from the teaching and research that actually matters
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Wait!! It’s dangerous out there! Take one of these:
January 15, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Wait!! It’s dangerous out there! Take one of these:
Pedocon theory is a theory in the way gravity is a theory
Rep. Carlos Gimenez: "The United States has demonstrated to the people around the world that we can touch you anywhere at any time or our choosing"
January 15, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Pedocon theory is a theory in the way gravity is a theory
Finishing watching TWBTLATS, thoughts in no particular order:
The bad guys are American and French military working on British soil with the cooperation of the UK government. Are they meant to be NATO? Is this show anti-NATO?
The bad guys are American and French military working on British soil with the cooperation of the UK government. Are they meant to be NATO? Is this show anti-NATO?
January 12, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Finishing watching TWBTLATS, thoughts in no particular order:
The bad guys are American and French military working on British soil with the cooperation of the UK government. Are they meant to be NATO? Is this show anti-NATO?
The bad guys are American and French military working on British soil with the cooperation of the UK government. Are they meant to be NATO? Is this show anti-NATO?
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The Redcoats murdered Crispus Attucks for throwing snowballs at them.
Protesters throw snowballs at officers in Minneapolis, after ICE fatally shoots Minneapolis driver during immigration-related operation.
January 8, 2026 at 2:00 AM
The Redcoats murdered Crispus Attucks for throwing snowballs at them.
Annoyed with @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social for a clue tonight in which they say Phillipa Foot invented the trolley problem. No she didn’t! As I consistently stress to my students in teaching her paper, she does not present this as a “problem” to be solved.
January 7, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Annoyed with @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social for a clue tonight in which they say Phillipa Foot invented the trolley problem. No she didn’t! As I consistently stress to my students in teaching her paper, she does not present this as a “problem” to be solved.
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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
20 years ago was freedom fries. 20 years ago was jokes about W’s intelligence. 20 years ago was a government run by lying racist Christian supremacists. The only difference now is they don’t lie as much and the fascism is more blatant. If you can’t recognize that, shut up about American politics.
20 years ago we were serious people.
January 6, 2026 at 2:12 AM
20 years ago was freedom fries. 20 years ago was jokes about W’s intelligence. 20 years ago was a government run by lying racist Christian supremacists. The only difference now is they don’t lie as much and the fascism is more blatant. If you can’t recognize that, shut up about American politics.
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My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM
My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind
January 1, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind
I hope everyone cheering about Indiana University football also cares about Indiana University the university. Universities are not sports clubs, they are centers of learning and research, and the people who hate knowledge and learning want to placate you with sports.
January 1, 2026 at 10:52 PM
I hope everyone cheering about Indiana University football also cares about Indiana University the university. Universities are not sports clubs, they are centers of learning and research, and the people who hate knowledge and learning want to placate you with sports.
All right, that’s enough of 2026. Let’s move on to 2027
January 1, 2026 at 5:09 AM
All right, that’s enough of 2026. Let’s move on to 2027
Quite aside from everything everyone else is rightly saying, this is just a puff piece for a reactionary think tank. Why is NPR giving them any column inches?
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
Majority of Gen Z swipe left on dating people with opposite political views
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
n.pr
December 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Quite aside from everything everyone else is rightly saying, this is just a puff piece for a reactionary think tank. Why is NPR giving them any column inches?
Watching #twbtlats is just me asking Google increasingly weird questions about fish as I wonder why Salt is just a human with some scales. Why is this the design they decided on? (Unfortunately the answer is almost certainly “because she has to look fuckable”)
December 31, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Watching #twbtlats is just me asking Google increasingly weird questions about fish as I wonder why Salt is just a human with some scales. Why is this the design they decided on? (Unfortunately the answer is almost certainly “because she has to look fuckable”)
The message of It’s a Wonderful Life is that the guy who’s had memory issues since around the same time his brother died of a stroke maybe shouldn’t be in charge of depositing cash, or doing anything that requires short-term memory
To watch a “It’s a Wonderful Life” for the 50th time is to confirm that MAGA is totally bogus.
Even in 1946 nobody was rooting for Mr. Potter.
#MerryChristmas
Even in 1946 nobody was rooting for Mr. Potter.
#MerryChristmas
December 26, 2025 at 5:34 AM
The message of It’s a Wonderful Life is that the guy who’s had memory issues since around the same time his brother died of a stroke maybe shouldn’t be in charge of depositing cash, or doing anything that requires short-term memory
My favorite version of this is how every year I lived in the U.K., friends were surprised that we don’t have Pancake Day in the U.S. So I, an American Jew, had to explain to secular Christians what Fat Tuesday is and why I don’t celebrate it (yes we have Mardi Gras, that’s still a religious holiday)
I'm sorry, but this is the stupidest fucking talking point.
Guys, it's a holiday celebrating the birth of (from my perspective, and being blunter than I normally would given the context) a dead Jewish carpenter y'all somehow think is/was God incarnate
You can't make that non-religious, sorry.
Guys, it's a holiday celebrating the birth of (from my perspective, and being blunter than I normally would given the context) a dead Jewish carpenter y'all somehow think is/was God incarnate
You can't make that non-religious, sorry.
December 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
My favorite version of this is how every year I lived in the U.K., friends were surprised that we don’t have Pancake Day in the U.S. So I, an American Jew, had to explain to secular Christians what Fat Tuesday is and why I don’t celebrate it (yes we have Mardi Gras, that’s still a religious holiday)
Here’s an example of what I mean when I say Christianity is antisemitic: Christians call other Christians bad by calling them Jews
December 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Here’s an example of what I mean when I say Christianity is antisemitic: Christians call other Christians bad by calling them Jews
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Having a cat is so cool. There is a little creature in my bed who loves me and vibrates like a tiny motorcycle and is so fuzzy and wants to snuggle. How could I want anything else
December 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Having a cat is so cool. There is a little creature in my bed who loves me and vibrates like a tiny motorcycle and is so fuzzy and wants to snuggle. How could I want anything else