Matt Vancil
@mattvancil.bsky.social
writer, filmmaker, raconteur
creator of The Gamers, JourneyQuest, and Liberty Cabbage
once put an orca in a headlock
creator of The Gamers, JourneyQuest, and Liberty Cabbage
once put an orca in a headlock
ME: That's a lovely fairy house, Bubble.
BUBBLE: *sigh* It's not a fairy HOUSE.
ME: Oh? Then what—?
BUBBLE: So you know how I've been obsessed with that book about polio, right?
ME: So... it's—?
BUBBLE: An isolation ward.
ME: I see.
BUBBLE: For fairies.
BUBBLE: *sigh* It's not a fairy HOUSE.
ME: Oh? Then what—?
BUBBLE: So you know how I've been obsessed with that book about polio, right?
ME: So... it's—?
BUBBLE: An isolation ward.
ME: I see.
BUBBLE: For fairies.
October 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
ME: That's a lovely fairy house, Bubble.
BUBBLE: *sigh* It's not a fairy HOUSE.
ME: Oh? Then what—?
BUBBLE: So you know how I've been obsessed with that book about polio, right?
ME: So... it's—?
BUBBLE: An isolation ward.
ME: I see.
BUBBLE: For fairies.
BUBBLE: *sigh* It's not a fairy HOUSE.
ME: Oh? Then what—?
BUBBLE: So you know how I've been obsessed with that book about polio, right?
ME: So... it's—?
BUBBLE: An isolation ward.
ME: I see.
BUBBLE: For fairies.
How is the GOP planning to attract young voters?
October 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
How is the GOP planning to attract young voters?
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"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
July 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM
"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
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And then this shit just came out.
When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.
When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.
When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.
When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.
Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance
June 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
And then this shit just came out.
When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.
When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.
When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.
When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.
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A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa.
It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;)
It's so New York.
It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;)
It's so New York.
June 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa.
It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;)
It's so New York.
It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;)
It's so New York.
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If Democrats truly want to appeal to young men, they should probably start presenting themselves as the party that definitively *won’t* draft you into an illegal war.
June 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
If Democrats truly want to appeal to young men, they should probably start presenting themselves as the party that definitively *won’t* draft you into an illegal war.
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everything about this article is so deeply American. exiling the truth teller, wanting to know the history but not too much, inability to come to terms with its own violent history. fam, this is as American as apple pie.
June 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
everything about this article is so deeply American. exiling the truth teller, wanting to know the history but not too much, inability to come to terms with its own violent history. fam, this is as American as apple pie.
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amtrak’s marketing team gets it
June 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
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illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
June 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
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Every year that passes, I come to better appreciate just how traumatic members of the US elite find it to be yelled at by progressive young people. It is *vastly* more upsetting to them than being yelled at by reactionaries. They warp their entire identities & ideologies around it!
June 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Every year that passes, I come to better appreciate just how traumatic members of the US elite find it to be yelled at by progressive young people. It is *vastly* more upsetting to them than being yelled at by reactionaries. They warp their entire identities & ideologies around it!
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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”
Full emails below
Full emails below
June 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”
Full emails below
Full emails below
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This is an absolute betrayal of promises made by Congress to protect the people who protected American soldiers. A betrayal by people who think American greatness is based on half-assed military parades rather than being a credible ally to those that risked their lives for America.
An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.
June 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This is an absolute betrayal of promises made by Congress to protect the people who protected American soldiers. A betrayal by people who think American greatness is based on half-assed military parades rather than being a credible ally to those that risked their lives for America.
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✨👏🏾STANDING OVATION👏🏾✨
June 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
✨👏🏾STANDING OVATION👏🏾✨
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Couple things I learned today:
- Seniors are extremely fired up about this
- "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now
- People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA
- We all we got, we all we need
- Seniors are extremely fired up about this
- "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now
- People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA
- We all we got, we all we need
June 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Couple things I learned today:
- Seniors are extremely fired up about this
- "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now
- People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA
- We all we got, we all we need
- Seniors are extremely fired up about this
- "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now
- People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA
- We all we got, we all we need
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the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
June 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
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so far this week:
DHS vows to not leave California till it is "liberated" from elected reps
Opposition leaders detained illegally
Opposition leaders indicted
Opposition leaders and families murdered to wrest control of a state
military parade with tanks through US capital
Red line here yet?
DHS vows to not leave California till it is "liberated" from elected reps
Opposition leaders detained illegally
Opposition leaders indicted
Opposition leaders and families murdered to wrest control of a state
military parade with tanks through US capital
Red line here yet?
June 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
so far this week:
DHS vows to not leave California till it is "liberated" from elected reps
Opposition leaders detained illegally
Opposition leaders indicted
Opposition leaders and families murdered to wrest control of a state
military parade with tanks through US capital
Red line here yet?
DHS vows to not leave California till it is "liberated" from elected reps
Opposition leaders detained illegally
Opposition leaders indicted
Opposition leaders and families murdered to wrest control of a state
military parade with tanks through US capital
Red line here yet?
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Jesus.
The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...
The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...
June 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Jesus.
The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...
The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...
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The administration's criminalization of Dem politicians for being Dem politicians is designed to produce exactly this outcome. Their celebration & pardon of white vigilantes is designed to produce exactly this outcome.
Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"
June 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The administration's criminalization of Dem politicians for being Dem politicians is designed to produce exactly this outcome. Their celebration & pardon of white vigilantes is designed to produce exactly this outcome.
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I would like to be wrong abt this. I would like for white conservatism to accept dissent & respect the rights & ideas of others. I would love to live in an actual democracy. Until we actually address the problem of chronic right wing lawlessness, however, all the rest is just wishful thinking.
June 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I would like to be wrong abt this. I would like for white conservatism to accept dissent & respect the rights & ideas of others. I would love to live in an actual democracy. Until we actually address the problem of chronic right wing lawlessness, however, all the rest is just wishful thinking.
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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
June 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
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For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.
June 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.
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I tend to think about what is happening to America right now as the ongoing attempted murder-suicide of multiracial democracy by a white nationalist minority and it’s very frightening but what’s happening in LA feels like a good sign that we’re not going down without a fight
June 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I tend to think about what is happening to America right now as the ongoing attempted murder-suicide of multiracial democracy by a white nationalist minority and it’s very frightening but what’s happening in LA feels like a good sign that we’re not going down without a fight
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