Matt
@noteseer.bsky.social
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i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
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i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
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No question seeing Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia changed my life, esp this line: “We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
The Language of Tom Stoppard, Ablaze With Energy and Urgency
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM
No question seeing Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia changed my life, esp this line: “We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
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The vibe shift today is, I think, due to the fact that New Yorkers were on the offensive instead of the defensive.
Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma.
1/
Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma.
1/
November 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The vibe shift today is, I think, due to the fact that New Yorkers were on the offensive instead of the defensive.
Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma.
1/
Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma.
1/
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ICE is STILL stuck inside the parking garage in lower Manhattan, and they seem pretty grumpy about it.
November 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
ICE is STILL stuck inside the parking garage in lower Manhattan, and they seem pretty grumpy about it.
Sketch 2 from Museum of Classical Archaelogy. Overall pretty happy with this one
#art #drawing #classical
#art #drawing #classical
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Sketch 2 from Museum of Classical Archaelogy. Overall pretty happy with this one
#art #drawing #classical
#art #drawing #classical
Sketch + reference photo from the Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology. I was reasonably happy with the feature likeness here but I couldn't see why it didn't quite match the original until I looked at them side by side and then its obvious that the proportions are not quite right.
November 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Sketch + reference photo from the Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology. I was reasonably happy with the feature likeness here but I couldn't see why it didn't quite match the original until I looked at them side by side and then its obvious that the proportions are not quite right.
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy
The Decemberists
KT Tunstall
Old 97s
REM
Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy
The Decemberists
KT Tunstall
Old 97s
REM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Phish
Monks of Doom
Elvis Costello
Ween
Space Pussy
(these are the posters over my desk)
Phish
Monks of Doom
Elvis Costello
Ween
Space Pussy
(these are the posters over my desk)
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Arcade Fire
Brigitte Calls Me Baby
Soul Coughing
Wilco
Youssou N’dour
Arcade Fire
Brigitte Calls Me Baby
Soul Coughing
Wilco
Youssou N’dour
November 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy
The Decemberists
KT Tunstall
Old 97s
REM
Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy
The Decemberists
KT Tunstall
Old 97s
REM
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There's a pretty great Tumblr post about this:
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
There's a pretty great Tumblr post about this:
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
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I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
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happy whatever the fuck day it is
November 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
happy whatever the fuck day it is
I find your lack of faith disturbing, Charlie Brown
Ah, you think darkness is your ally, Charlie Brown?
Is it safe, Charlie Brown?
November 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I find your lack of faith disturbing, Charlie Brown
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I am currently, because I know how to enjoy a Saturday morning, writing some guidance for people on filling this consultation in. As I do several things are highly apparent. Before I go through them though I don't want this to put people off of filling it in. It is important to do so nonetheless. 1/
Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
November 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I am currently, because I know how to enjoy a Saturday morning, writing some guidance for people on filling this consultation in. As I do several things are highly apparent. Before I go through them though I don't want this to put people off of filling it in. It is important to do so nonetheless. 1/
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since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.