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Matthew Garvey
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"An excessive commitment to Good may in itself become the greatest Evil: real Evil is any kind of fanatical dogmatism, especially that exerted in the name of the supreme Good."

- either Kurt #Vonnegut Jr or Slavoj #Žižek I don't remember
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So I recently detoxified my "following" list by unfollowing like 400 individuals and basically starting over.

And my experience here has been much better since then.

#neuroaffirmative influx of potentially irrelevant details incoming/
Here I am being annoyed at an Oscar-bait Holocaust movie that just came out that I saw 5 weeks ago:
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A ★★ review of Nuremberg (2025)
There are some interesting Questions about the inception of International War Crime Prosecution and figuring out quote-unquote "the exact moment" "the Nazi Problem" "got out of hand" for the purposes ...
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November 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Here I am explaining why anime is bad while writing down how I feel about Spirited Away:
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A ★★★★½ review of Spirited Away (2001)
I think I have a little bit of time to write down how I feel about this film. This must be my 8th or 9th time watching, but my first time watching it with subtitles, instead of the Disney dubbed versi...
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November 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Spontaneously decided to get a new phone. Upgraded to a Pixel 10 from a Pixel 6.
October 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I've done it.

I've added all 32 Monday Mystery Movies and the days on which I saw them over the past two years to my Letterboxd Diary:
August 1, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I've really been off of social media and avoiding society in general given continued newly discovered Heights of anxiety and depression, but I must say I do feel a little bit healed by #SouthPark in recent days
July 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Does anyone know how I was Supposed to open this #PS5 headset?
April 29, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Honestly, me too.
An important message.
April 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Finally some light-hearted news #groundnews #gunviolence #oreo
March 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Something tells me #BongJoonHo was expecting/wanting a certain someone to lose a certain recent US presidential race

#mickey17
March 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Here's a video: youtu.be/3ZGTT_Vy_Bw?...
How Cults Use Language to Control | Otherwords
YouTube video by Storied
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March 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
February 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Kendrick Lamar Awarded Nobel Beef Prize theonion.com/kendric...
February 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
February 15, 2025 at 5:35 AM
So I've been consuming news with a sort of occasionally effective detachment recently. But this one I found too gravely offensive to feel dispassionately about:

White House limits #AP access to Oval Office, Air Force One indefinitely over the use of ‘Gulf of Mexico’
Ground News - White House limits AP access to Oval Office, Air Force One indefinitely over the use of ‘Gulf of Mexico’
The Trump White House said Friday that The Associated Press is banned from the Oval Office and Air Force One indefinitely. The AP, one of the world’s biggest n
ground.news
February 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I did my #taxes today. It looks like my federal return amounts to a whopping $1.

Which is 1,200 more dollars than last year...

But look at how accurate my default paycheckly tax contributions have been! That's something...
February 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Also I (and one other) went to the new #Amoré in #FortWayneIN and had a time.

I already knew going in that it was going to be a "quality over quantity" deal. So I ordered a bunch.

But gosh, as delightfully tasty as all of the items were, maybe I'll save this place for special occasions only
February 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"Mr #Kellogg, the man who created #CornFlakes, produced the cereal in the late 19th century and marketed it as a “healthy, ready-to-eat #anti-masturbatory morning meal”."

Here's this fun history/commercial fact in case anyone was on the verge of forgetting about this:
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February 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
"Well, that was weird."

"Well, I could have done without the Kennedy family reference. I'm trying to escape here."

"Well, that was weird."

"Well, that was horrifying."

"Well, that was weird and horrifying."

-Me, finishing the second half of season 2 of the original #TwinPeaks
February 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"Well, that was thoroughly and profoundly horrifying"

- Me watching #twinpeaks for the first time
January 28, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Convicted US Capitol rioter turns down pardon

Here's some news:
Ground News - Convicted US Capitol rioter turns down Trump pardon
Pamela Hemphill, who served prison time for actions she took on Jan. 6, 2021, said she will not accept President Trump’s pardon and that his supporters were “wr
ground.news
January 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"Well, that was weird"

- Me watching #TwinPeaks for the first time
January 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
So I recently detoxified my "following" list by unfollowing like 400 individuals and basically starting over.

And my experience here has been much better since then.

#neuroaffirmative influx of potentially irrelevant details incoming/
January 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Reposted by Matthew Garvey
Chess Zoo xkcd.com/3036
January 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM