Matthew Colwell
@matthewcolwell.com
choking on my own spit like it's too important to swallow
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I don't want to be a "I'm not surprised" guy but covid made it clear that a substantial part of the population wants the freedom to do whatever they want even if it kills them and/or others
strangers are fighting to the death in my menchies over this pretty innocuous take and slinging devastating counterarguments like “what if I had to run away from a murderer” and “I like speeding”
one of my longstanding takes is that car manufacturers should be forced to install mandatory speed limiters in every new vehicle and people react to that like I'm advocating to strip them of their right to free speech
December 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I don't want to be a "I'm not surprised" guy but covid made it clear that a substantial part of the population wants the freedom to do whatever they want even if it kills them and/or others
I, for one, love paying for The Verge's ethics policy and think you should, too.
THE THING YOU BUY WHEN YOU SUBSCRIBE TO THE VERGE IS THE ETHICS POLICY WHICH PROHIBITS US FROM INVESTING IN THE COMPANIES WE COVER
November 18, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I, for one, love paying for The Verge's ethics policy and think you should, too.
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Whack-ass conspiracy theorists used to make their own websites and have at least a passing knowledge of HTML. Now they just post on social media. Nobody wants to work anymore.
November 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Whack-ass conspiracy theorists used to make their own websites and have at least a passing knowledge of HTML. Now they just post on social media. Nobody wants to work anymore.
fix your hearts or die and America chose die
November 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
fix your hearts or die and America chose die
it's a good day on the internet when we can all talk about one of the greatest foods, the humble sandwich.
November 7, 2025 at 5:01 AM
it's a good day on the internet when we can all talk about one of the greatest foods, the humble sandwich.
Pedophiles endorse rapist
Coalition of 150 NYC faith leaders endorses Andrew Cuomo for mayor
Coalition of 150 NYC faith leaders endorses Andrew Cuomo for mayor
The clergy members cited Cuomo’s previous leadership as governor, his plans to “rebuild trust” between communities and law enforcement and to expand access to affordable housing a…
buff.ly
October 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Pedophiles endorse rapist
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Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job
August 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job
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The Republican platform is simple: they want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it.
July 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The Republican platform is simple: they want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it.
the phone website is consistently doing politics better than the politics websites
Why are liberals cozying up to race scientists?
Why are liberals cozying up to race scientists?
“Race realists” are finding unexpected allies in the Abundance movement.
buff.ly
July 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
the phone website is consistently doing politics better than the politics websites
republican supreme court justices
June 28, 2025 at 3:42 AM
republican supreme court justices
Dude is one post away from getting on his knees and oinking like a little piggie
June 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Dude is one post away from getting on his knees and oinking like a little piggie
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A sign of how fundamentally broken and inadequate to the moment our information and media ecosystem is when the president is deploying the military to crush protests against his mass kidnapping scheme, and the question is whether those who oppose it are being nice enough.
June 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A sign of how fundamentally broken and inadequate to the moment our information and media ecosystem is when the president is deploying the military to crush protests against his mass kidnapping scheme, and the question is whether those who oppose it are being nice enough.
"Anti-wokeness" is just grievance politics. Its central conceit is being a whiner. Lame weirdos, the lot of them.
June 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"Anti-wokeness" is just grievance politics. Its central conceit is being a whiner. Lame weirdos, the lot of them.
Final Fantasy Tactics without a moment of hesitation.
If you could only play one PS1 game for the rest of your life, what would it be?
May 16, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Final Fantasy Tactics without a moment of hesitation.
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"Abolish ICE" and "defund the police" are both reasonable and correct on the merits but were absolutely neutered by centrists smearing them as radical activist overreach.
"ICE is a rogue federal agency operating with impunity-destabilizing families, terrorizing neighborhoods, and eroding the very principles of justice it claims to defend. What happened yesterday ... is not an accident-it is the deliberate outcome of a system sliding deeper into authoritarianism."
Providence City Councilor Justin Roias: “Yesterday, ICE tased & detained a Providence resident with a pregnant U.S. citizen wife & a green card interview that same day.”
April 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"Abolish ICE" and "defund the police" are both reasonable and correct on the merits but were absolutely neutered by centrists smearing them as radical activist overreach.
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We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.
April 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.
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if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually
April 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually
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A while ago a lovely German man appeared at our church. He came a few times to look around during our Saturday opening hours, before asking if the piano abandoned in the corner worked.
I told him it was horrendously out of tune, and the cathedral piano tuner had deemed it not worth sorting out.
I told him it was horrendously out of tune, and the cathedral piano tuner had deemed it not worth sorting out.
March 31, 2025 at 10:25 AM
A while ago a lovely German man appeared at our church. He came a few times to look around during our Saturday opening hours, before asking if the piano abandoned in the corner worked.
I told him it was horrendously out of tune, and the cathedral piano tuner had deemed it not worth sorting out.
I told him it was horrendously out of tune, and the cathedral piano tuner had deemed it not worth sorting out.
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[bluesky timeline]
me: [chanting] blogs, blogs-
other users: blogs, BLOGS
bluesky staff: [pounding their computers] BLOGS, BLOGS, BLOGS!
me: [chanting] blogs, blogs-
other users: blogs, BLOGS
bluesky staff: [pounding their computers] BLOGS, BLOGS, BLOGS!
the internet starting to re-fragment into having Actual Websites again as centralized social media self-destructs is unironically one of the absolute best, most positive things happening rn
March 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
[bluesky timeline]
me: [chanting] blogs, blogs-
other users: blogs, BLOGS
bluesky staff: [pounding their computers] BLOGS, BLOGS, BLOGS!
me: [chanting] blogs, blogs-
other users: blogs, BLOGS
bluesky staff: [pounding their computers] BLOGS, BLOGS, BLOGS!
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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
i'm a millennial in the way that sometimes i just need medium sized screen to do certain tasks
March 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
i'm a millennial in the way that sometimes i just need medium sized screen to do certain tasks
i love how punditry always boils down to "what if I've never had a second order thought about [topic] in my entire life?"
just absolute bozo shit 24/7
just absolute bozo shit 24/7
If progressives want to win back young men, then they must talk to them and address their needs, instead of constant scolding. All the finger wagging just drives them to Rogan, Peterson, and the Tate brothers. And they DO talk to young men.
March 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
i love how punditry always boils down to "what if I've never had a second order thought about [topic] in my entire life?"
just absolute bozo shit 24/7
just absolute bozo shit 24/7
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
March 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
what if we all do it at the same time?
Not since Prohibition have so many Americans wanted to commit the same crime at once
March 1, 2025 at 3:04 AM
what if we all do it at the same time?