Matt Blair
@mjmbca.bsky.social
He/Him. Toronto, Canada. If you can explain it to me, then I can explain it to everyone. Elsewhere at https://linktr.ee/mjmbca.
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Matt Blair
@mjmbca.bsky.social
· Nov 12
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to curate a social media feed that’s heavy on the latter.”
“Don’t get Dairygooned, kids. Or do, if that’s good.”
February 10, 2026 at 3:04 AM
“Don’t get Dairygooned, kids. Or do, if that’s good.”
I feel like I ought to have a talk with my kids about this dude, but for the life of me, I can’t figure out why.
February 10, 2026 at 3:03 AM
I feel like I ought to have a talk with my kids about this dude, but for the life of me, I can’t figure out why.
Yeah, make like a humanitree.
February 10, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Yeah, make like a humanitree.
February 10, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Jeez. Wait until Mike Johnson hears about this.
Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday he is moving forward with a plan to revive a prohibition on House votes to overturn President Donald Trump’s global tariffs.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
www.politico.com/live-updates...
Johnson moves to again block House from voting on Trump tariffs
Opposition from as few as two Republicans could derail the effort.
www.politico.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Jeez. Wait until Mike Johnson hears about this.
I told my kids tonight that the American right didn’t complain when Chris Martin did the halftime show even though he’s not American, but that was mainly because he’s also basically the whitest possible man.
February 10, 2026 at 1:53 AM
I told my kids tonight that the American right didn’t complain when Chris Martin did the halftime show even though he’s not American, but that was mainly because he’s also basically the whitest possible man.
Honestly, the only thing keeping me from asking how a foreign trade partner could even go about terminating all ice hockey played in Canada is the knowledge that it’s cruel to treat someone in Trump’s condition like that.
February 10, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Honestly, the only thing keeping me from asking how a foreign trade partner could even go about terminating all ice hockey played in Canada is the knowledge that it’s cruel to treat someone in Trump’s condition like that.
🎵 “You said China’s gonna take away our hockey / And I never saw someone say that before” 🎵
February 10, 2026 at 12:56 AM
🎵 “You said China’s gonna take away our hockey / And I never saw someone say that before” 🎵
“Mister President, Canada is moving ahead on trade with China because they no longer see us as a reasonable and dependable trading partner.”
“Well, what if I told them that the first thing China would do is take all their ice hockey away?”
“Well, what if I told them that the first thing China would do is take all their ice hockey away?”
February 9, 2026 at 11:27 PM
“Mister President, Canada is moving ahead on trade with China because they no longer see us as a reasonable and dependable trading partner.”
“Well, what if I told them that the first thing China would do is take all their ice hockey away?”
“Well, what if I told them that the first thing China would do is take all their ice hockey away?”
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The President appears to be talking about the Gordie Howe International Bridge - which, of course, China would have to immediately rename because Howe was an ice hockey player.
Trump: “The first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup.”
February 9, 2026 at 11:18 PM
The President appears to be talking about the Gordie Howe International Bridge - which, of course, China would have to immediately rename because Howe was an ice hockey player.
“Would you like to know more?”
February 9, 2026 at 11:05 PM
“Would you like to know more?”
Entirely possible, though it feels to me like variations of “Nothing to see here.”
February 9, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Entirely possible, though it feels to me like variations of “Nothing to see here.”
Okay, so we’re all in agreement that newspapers publishing “looks like they didn’t make a political statement after all” op-eds about Bad Bunny and Green Day is basically another version of NBC editing out the boos for JD Vance at the Olympics, right?
Analysis: Weeks before he set foot on the stage, Bad Bunny’s halftime performance had already become a media event.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
Analysis | Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was expected to provoke. Did it?
The Bad Bunny Super Bowl show nodded to injustices in Puerto Rico but mostly evoked wholesome family values that meshed with the more sentimental commercials.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Okay, so we’re all in agreement that newspapers publishing “looks like they didn’t make a political statement after all” op-eds about Bad Bunny and Green Day is basically another version of NBC editing out the boos for JD Vance at the Olympics, right?
I'm grateful today for a full pot of coffee, grateful for warmer temperatures throughout the week ahead, and grateful for good books written by human beings. #3Gratitudes
February 9, 2026 at 2:38 PM
I'm grateful today for a full pot of coffee, grateful for warmer temperatures throughout the week ahead, and grateful for good books written by human beings. #3Gratitudes
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It does really hit you that American artists of color continue to make these aesthetically incredible, thematically rich works of art and the white supremacists that rule this country are just complete dullards
February 9, 2026 at 3:55 AM
It does really hit you that American artists of color continue to make these aesthetically incredible, thematically rich works of art and the white supremacists that rule this country are just complete dullards
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There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.
February 9, 2026 at 1:47 AM
There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.
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All of Canada when Bad Bunny yelled CANADAAAA
February 9, 2026 at 2:43 AM
All of Canada when Bad Bunny yelled CANADAAAA
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Great politics should look like a party you want to join
February 9, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Great politics should look like a party you want to join
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i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want
February 9, 2026 at 12:45 AM
i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want
These people simply can’t handle hearing “Yeah, no, it wasn’t meant for you.”
February 9, 2026 at 2:54 AM
These people simply can’t handle hearing “Yeah, no, it wasn’t meant for you.”
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The NFL going "you know man I'm not sure everyone is a deep, profound cultural conservative again, maybe we should just take a beat for a minute and let it play out" is unfortunately why they are the best at this stuff
February 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
The NFL going "you know man I'm not sure everyone is a deep, profound cultural conservative again, maybe we should just take a beat for a minute and let it play out" is unfortunately why they are the best at this stuff
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
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I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
Well, you’ve got to know how to work a computer to do that.
Even HE isn't watching the child rock show
February 9, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Well, you’ve got to know how to work a computer to do that.