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Matthew Bellows
@mbellows.bsky.social
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Investing in fintech, martech and media at Grit.vc. Started, built and sold three software companies. Proudest of being a husband and a dad. Writing about startups, meditation and more at bellowsand.co
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I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...
American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming
The Frog is owning the president.
www.theverge.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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bagleycartoons.bsky.social
An illustration for our times
September 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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I always read @timferriss.bsky.social
Friday email, but this edition is particularly good: Lucid dreaming for beginners, Mob Land, Via Negativa Philosophy (eg not doing dumb things). Lots to explore! 🙏 #5BulletFriday
September 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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“keeping promises we make to ourselves is the ultimate form of empowerment”
July 16, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Turns out “Vote for the abuser or the rich people will leave” is not a great campaign slogan.
June 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Dear @myrmidia.bsky.social I see your page says Commissions Closed but if you ever take them up again, I would love to commission a Vajrayogini image to hang above my meditation shrine.
April 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
mbellows.bsky.social
If you elected a billionaire to appoint billionaires to fix the system that made them billionaires… you must be some special kind of stupid.
April 7, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Being famous is SO overrated.
March 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Aw! They miss us!
February 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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lethalityjane.bsky.social
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
mbellows.bsky.social
Rolling thunder review is a New Year’s Eve movie
January 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Insta-translate in emails is magical:
December 12, 2024 at 11:40 AM
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Sometimes our anthropocentric assumptions about how intelligence "should" work (like using language for reasoning) may be holding AI back. Letting AI reason in its own native "language" in latent space could unlock new capabilities, improving reasoning over Chain of Thought. arxiv.org/pdf/2412.06769
December 10, 2024 at 2:59 PM
mbellows.bsky.social
My neighbor just signed off her email to me with “If you have a diagnosis for neurodiversity/ADHD, telling us might help.”

What am I supposed to do with that? Please advise…
December 5, 2024 at 1:12 AM
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People say that the proliferation of media is a bad thing because we binge too much but GD is it amazing to see David Bowie perform Ziggy Stardust as filmed by D.A. Pennebaker.
December 3, 2024 at 4:13 AM
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I love how everyone is saying BlueSky is a haven for all the lefties when it's mostly scientists posting research and folks sharing what video games they like.
December 2, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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Heart popped and mind blown by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings tonight in Boston. Top five concert of my life. I've never cried so many tears of beauty at a concert before. Go see them www.gillianwelch-davidrawlings.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:51 AM
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Founders: for your own good pls double check name spelling in your email. It’s a bad look to misspell the person who made an intro for you. Slow down to speed up.
November 30, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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Journal writing while my dog chews sticks:
Journal writing while my dog chews sticks
November 30, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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I'm not shopping today. Between my mother-in-law's funeral and a fractured (but sweet) Thanksgiving, it's time to turn the page. Best ways to do that: long walk in the woods, long meditation session, long journal entry, as much time with the kids as they will tolerate.
November 29, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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Super helpful. Thanks @lexsokolin.bsky.social !
lexsokolin.bsky.social Lex Sokolin @lexsokolin.bsky.social · Nov 28
This thread will document the starter packs that I have followed. My feed has been delightful and informative.
November 28, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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Last night heard Adrianne Lenker (www.adriannelenker.com/music). Tuesday it was slavicsoulparty.com. Great start to the week!
Music — adrianne lenker
www.adriannelenker.com
November 14, 2024 at 2:54 PM