Matthew Olwell
@mattolwell.bsky.social
Journeyman fluthier at Olwell Flutes. Trad-music nerd, semi-professional cat petter, and pickle enthusiast. Neurodivergent malcontent. Best not to ask me about Tolkien unless we have some time on our hands. www.olwellflutes.com
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Nerd alert! Been adding up my total run distance since 1/1, plotting position on a map of the routes taken by Bilbo & Frodo on their respective journeys. About 55km so far, which means I’m between Frogmorton and Whitfurrows and have just encountered my first Nazgûl on the Stock road.
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well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’
February 12, 2026 at 1:10 PM
well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’
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Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you
February 12, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you
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I don't know if it's really clear, outside of coverage of Mpls and pockets of organizing elsewhere, that hundreds of thousands of people are actively and at every level of society fighting our government as it abducts and imprisons and torments our neighbors.
February 12, 2026 at 1:09 AM
I don't know if it's really clear, outside of coverage of Mpls and pockets of organizing elsewhere, that hundreds of thousands of people are actively and at every level of society fighting our government as it abducts and imprisons and torments our neighbors.
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More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 AM
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
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Anytime I see Jeff Bezos mentioned I remember the time he flew to space with William Shatner and when a very emotoinal Shatner was trying to describe the experience Bezos interrupted by spraying champagne like an idiot child
February 8, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Anytime I see Jeff Bezos mentioned I remember the time he flew to space with William Shatner and when a very emotoinal Shatner was trying to describe the experience Bezos interrupted by spraying champagne like an idiot child
Like hell I will. Listen, if someone reading this makes these kind of decisions: we don’t want this and it can go fuck itself. Find a better way to use your time.
February 8, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Like hell I will. Listen, if someone reading this makes these kind of decisions: we don’t want this and it can go fuck itself. Find a better way to use your time.
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Haven't gotten divorced and have friends who actually like me so...yeah
February 7, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Haven't gotten divorced and have friends who actually like me so...yeah
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Current state of Republican Party politics: The president posted an image of the first black president and First Lady as apes; no one at the White House will publicly say that is not appropriate; the most likely person to face consequences is the party’s sole black senator — for calling it “racist.”
February 7, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Current state of Republican Party politics: The president posted an image of the first black president and First Lady as apes; no one at the White House will publicly say that is not appropriate; the most likely person to face consequences is the party’s sole black senator — for calling it “racist.”
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Regardless of one’s feeling about it, such a public response to a political leader is news, and deliberately failing to mention it is self-censorship. It’s like if reporters agreed not to report on the man who threw a shoe at George Bush. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast
The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Regardless of one’s feeling about it, such a public response to a political leader is news, and deliberately failing to mention it is self-censorship. It’s like if reporters agreed not to report on the man who threw a shoe at George Bush. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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my dad's libertarian friend gave me $175 in crypto for my college graduation and was like "don't pull it out, it's gonna go up." i left the flash drive in a box and forgot about it, i checked it the other day and its worth $26 now lmfao
February 5, 2026 at 8:36 PM
my dad's libertarian friend gave me $175 in crypto for my college graduation and was like "don't pull it out, it's gonna go up." i left the flash drive in a box and forgot about it, i checked it the other day and its worth $26 now lmfao
Call me petty, but I hope the manic little creep has actually done something wrong and that they absolutely nail him for it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok
Elon Musk's X and Grok platforms are facing increased scrutiny from authorities on both sides of the channel.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Call me petty, but I hope the manic little creep has actually done something wrong and that they absolutely nail him for it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
February 6, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
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"Epstein and company weren't specifically preying on youth." OK, but if this is true, please give me a list of the 45-year-old women who they were trafficking. I'll wait.
This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.
February 5, 2026 at 9:47 PM
"Epstein and company weren't specifically preying on youth." OK, but if this is true, please give me a list of the 45-year-old women who they were trafficking. I'll wait.
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I hope all 23 Democratic Attorneys General open up simultaneous investigations into Elon's extraordinary lawlessness and depravity.
To increase Grok’s popularity, xAI embraced making sexualized material, rolling back guardrails and ignoring internal warnings about the risks of producing such content, according to more than a half-dozen former employees of X and xAI.
Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator
Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:08 AM
I hope all 23 Democratic Attorneys General open up simultaneous investigations into Elon's extraordinary lawlessness and depravity.
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I hate the demonization of UBI as a thing for the lazy.
It covers basic housing and food.
Pretty much everyone will still work.. cause people will want better food or housing, or clothing, or games/books, or vacations, etc. #cdnpoli
It covers basic housing and food.
Pretty much everyone will still work.. cause people will want better food or housing, or clothing, or games/books, or vacations, etc. #cdnpoli
Billionaires Are Full Of S***
YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
youtu.be
February 5, 2026 at 5:44 PM
I hate the demonization of UBI as a thing for the lazy.
It covers basic housing and food.
Pretty much everyone will still work.. cause people will want better food or housing, or clothing, or games/books, or vacations, etc. #cdnpoli
It covers basic housing and food.
Pretty much everyone will still work.. cause people will want better food or housing, or clothing, or games/books, or vacations, etc. #cdnpoli
Friends, for the love of all that is holy: if your email is more than a few sentences, please observe conventions for line breaks and paragraphs. If you send someone a long-ass email with no breaks, I guarantee it will take them significantly longer to answer it.
February 6, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Friends, for the love of all that is holy: if your email is more than a few sentences, please observe conventions for line breaks and paragraphs. If you send someone a long-ass email with no breaks, I guarantee it will take them significantly longer to answer it.
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My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
February 4, 2026 at 7:40 PM
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
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While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
January 15, 2026 at 7:57 PM
While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
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pizzagate and qanon were not onto something, they were orchestrated by pedophiles to make accusing people of pedophilia make you look insane so that they could continue doing pedophile shit. fucking christ
January 31, 2026 at 7:46 PM
pizzagate and qanon were not onto something, they were orchestrated by pedophiles to make accusing people of pedophilia make you look insane so that they could continue doing pedophile shit. fucking christ
Basically, just pause and think for about thirty seconds before you reshare a post? The days of blithely assuming that “it’s true because I saw it” need to be well and truly over, friends.
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Pro tip: some of these things are relatively easy to do yourself even if you aren’t a trained journalist. A reverse image search might show you where else and when an image has been posted, for instance.
youtube.com/shorts/nodpN...
Pro tip: some of these things are relatively easy to do yourself even if you aren’t a trained journalist. A reverse image search might show you where else and when an image has been posted, for instance.
youtube.com/shorts/nodpN...
How we verify a video with BBC Verify. #BBCNews
YouTube video by BBC News
youtube.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Basically, just pause and think for about thirty seconds before you reshare a post? The days of blithely assuming that “it’s true because I saw it” need to be well and truly over, friends.
Love this!
Pro tip: some of these things are relatively easy to do yourself even if you aren’t a trained journalist. A reverse image search might show you where else and when an image has been posted, for instance.
youtube.com/shorts/nodpN...
Pro tip: some of these things are relatively easy to do yourself even if you aren’t a trained journalist. A reverse image search might show you where else and when an image has been posted, for instance.
youtube.com/shorts/nodpN...
How we verify a video with BBC Verify. #BBCNews
YouTube video by BBC News
youtube.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Love this!
Pro tip: some of these things are relatively easy to do yourself even if you aren’t a trained journalist. A reverse image search might show you where else and when an image has been posted, for instance.
youtube.com/shorts/nodpN...
Pro tip: some of these things are relatively easy to do yourself even if you aren’t a trained journalist. A reverse image search might show you where else and when an image has been posted, for instance.
youtube.com/shorts/nodpN...
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It’s pretty fucking wild that the DOJ is releasing files that include accusations that the President of the United States raped underage girls, to distract from the fact that the DOJ is covering up murders of US citizens by their own government.
January 30, 2026 at 8:00 PM
It’s pretty fucking wild that the DOJ is releasing files that include accusations that the President of the United States raped underage girls, to distract from the fact that the DOJ is covering up murders of US citizens by their own government.