Matthew Appleton
@thetalkingmoose.net
Neurosparkly, geeky, non-normative cis hetero husband, dad, and domesticated weirdo/misanthropic secular humanist. Also fanatical about music, MST3K, Star Trek, SF&F lit, Lego, and the Phillies.
Happy Whamhalla Day to all those who, like me, choose to proactively arrive there rather than mindlessly deprive themselves of one of the greatest holiday songs ever. I arrived at 8:40 AM local time.
In case you feel the need and haven't arrived yet, here's a path to get there ASAP.
In case you feel the need and haven't arrived yet, here's a path to get there ASAP.
Wham! - Last Christmas (Official Video)
YouTube video by WhamVEVO
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December 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Happy Whamhalla Day to all those who, like me, choose to proactively arrive there rather than mindlessly deprive themselves of one of the greatest holiday songs ever. I arrived at 8:40 AM local time.
In case you feel the need and haven't arrived yet, here's a path to get there ASAP.
In case you feel the need and haven't arrived yet, here's a path to get there ASAP.
Seriously, LEGO, you couldn't have given him an Enterprise set for portraying one of the characters in the set. Wheaton has every right to go full on supervillain for what you made him do to get one of these sets.
I've been in the lego queue for 19 minutes, and have become a MASTER of the memory match game.
This is my supervillain origin story.
This is my supervillain origin story.
November 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Seriously, LEGO, you couldn't have given him an Enterprise set for portraying one of the characters in the set. Wheaton has every right to go full on supervillain for what you made him do to get one of these sets.
If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.
November 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
JFC. I just found out about the Orwellian term "device hoarding." Holy shit, it's literally impossible for our mainstream news media to whore themselves out any harder to toxic American capitalists.
Go to fucking hell, @cnbc.com, and take one of Musk's underground tunnels there while you're at it.
Go to fucking hell, @cnbc.com, and take one of Musk's underground tunnels there while you're at it.
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
JFC. I just found out about the Orwellian term "device hoarding." Holy shit, it's literally impossible for our mainstream news media to whore themselves out any harder to toxic American capitalists.
Go to fucking hell, @cnbc.com, and take one of Musk's underground tunnels there while you're at it.
Go to fucking hell, @cnbc.com, and take one of Musk's underground tunnels there while you're at it.
Stating for the public record that after arriving in NYC earlier this week, I pledged my allegiance to our future pigeon overlords. I know they will rule with far more intelligence, common sense, & decency than the political party which currently controls all the branches of the federal government.
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Stating for the public record that after arriving in NYC earlier this week, I pledged my allegiance to our future pigeon overlords. I know they will rule with far more intelligence, common sense, & decency than the political party which currently controls all the branches of the federal government.
I want to see Musk treated like Emmanuel Goldstein during a Two Minute Hate session just for what he did to the word “grok.” It used to be one of my favorite words — using it when I wanted to imply something much greater than full understanding. I don’t think I will be able to use it *ever* again.
*laughs in historian* “… ranks among the 10 minds in history, rivalling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton…”
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I want to see Musk treated like Emmanuel Goldstein during a Two Minute Hate session just for what he did to the word “grok.” It used to be one of my favorite words — using it when I wanted to imply something much greater than full understanding. I don’t think I will be able to use it *ever* again.
While getting dressed just now, my wife found something in her dress pocket, and while pulling it out asked aloud, “What’s in my pocket?”
Without skipping a beat, I quipped, “The One Ring!?”
Thank you, our two-person show in New York City lasts till Saturday.
Without skipping a beat, I quipped, “The One Ring!?”
Thank you, our two-person show in New York City lasts till Saturday.
November 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
While getting dressed just now, my wife found something in her dress pocket, and while pulling it out asked aloud, “What’s in my pocket?”
Without skipping a beat, I quipped, “The One Ring!?”
Thank you, our two-person show in New York City lasts till Saturday.
Without skipping a beat, I quipped, “The One Ring!?”
Thank you, our two-person show in New York City lasts till Saturday.
My 35-year high school class reunion is happening in two weeks, and I'm ready to enter my villain era.
35 Years Later
My 35-year high school class reunion is taking place in two weeks. Amusingly, I’ve been to more of my wife’s reunions than my own. In fact, I’ve only been to one of mine, the 10-y…
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November 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
My 35-year high school class reunion is happening in two weeks, and I'm ready to enter my villain era.
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Can confirm, I did say this, over on Threads. I stand by it here as well. And everywhere else!
“Re ‘There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!’: No there aren't, my side is the ‘People Who Don't Fuck Children’ side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?” — John Scalzi
November 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Can confirm, I did say this, over on Threads. I stand by it here as well. And everywhere else!
Leaving for a 5-night stay in NYC on Monday morning. Always excited to go there, because unlike where I currently live -- where my slightly eccentric middle-age style really sticks out -- up there I blend into the background. In NYC, I'm just a domesticated weirdo in the land of feral weirdos.
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Leaving for a 5-night stay in NYC on Monday morning. Always excited to go there, because unlike where I currently live -- where my slightly eccentric middle-age style really sticks out -- up there I blend into the background. In NYC, I'm just a domesticated weirdo in the land of feral weirdos.
Depressingly, the song is only more relevant and biting than when it was released in 2022.
The Golden Age of Doubling Down (LYRIC VIDEO)
YouTube video by Steven Page
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November 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Depressingly, the song is only more relevant and biting than when it was released in 2022.
Canceled my subscription to The Athletic, which is a NY Times product. Was disappointed I wasn't offered a way to provide a reason for cancelation - really wanted to tell them it was because of revelations that the Epstein emails showed their editors likely killing reporting on Epstein and Trump.
November 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Canceled my subscription to The Athletic, which is a NY Times product. Was disappointed I wasn't offered a way to provide a reason for cancelation - really wanted to tell them it was because of revelations that the Epstein emails showed their editors likely killing reporting on Epstein and Trump.
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Remember when MSNBC devoted months of their entire primetime lineup to the Mueller Report, hyping it as the bombshell that would bring down Trump? That's why I'm skeptical about Epstein being Trump's doom. We've been burned too many times already.
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Remember when MSNBC devoted months of their entire primetime lineup to the Mueller Report, hyping it as the bombshell that would bring down Trump? That's why I'm skeptical about Epstein being Trump's doom. We've been burned too many times already.
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I honestly don’t know what to say anymore. It is overwhelmingly clear at this point that the Republican Party has sold its soul to protect a child rapist, led by wealthy ghouls who will never have enough.
There is only one war, now and forever, and it is the class war. There must be consequences.
There is only one war, now and forever, and it is the class war. There must be consequences.
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I honestly don’t know what to say anymore. It is overwhelmingly clear at this point that the Republican Party has sold its soul to protect a child rapist, led by wealthy ghouls who will never have enough.
There is only one war, now and forever, and it is the class war. There must be consequences.
There is only one war, now and forever, and it is the class war. There must be consequences.
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[P] Grijalva, the discharge petition signed
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
[P] Grijalva, the discharge petition signed
Reposted by Matthew Appleton
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
Reposted by Matthew Appleton
I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
The two literary characters that I most identify with are Marvin the Paranoid Android and @marthawells.com's Murderbot.
Make of that what you will.
Make of that what you will.
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The two literary characters that I most identify with are Marvin the Paranoid Android and @marthawells.com's Murderbot.
Make of that what you will.
Make of that what you will.
Leaving for NYC in exactly one week. I just need to focus on that as my reward for persevering through the dumbfuckery of working for my shitsome massive corporate employer for the next five days.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Leaving for NYC in exactly one week. I just need to focus on that as my reward for persevering through the dumbfuckery of working for my shitsome massive corporate employer for the next five days.
Early last week I installed a portable CD player in my workspace & plugged a '90s vintage 5-disc CD changer into my home entertainment center. Since then, I've been making it a point to listen CDs on those devices, and I think the vinyl aficionados are on to something -- just using the wrong tech.
November 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Early last week I installed a portable CD player in my workspace & plugged a '90s vintage 5-disc CD changer into my home entertainment center. Since then, I've been making it a point to listen CDs on those devices, and I think the vinyl aficionados are on to something -- just using the wrong tech.
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
Reposted by Matthew Appleton
this strange feeling you're experiencing this morning is optimism. hang on to it, we've got a long road ahead to the midterms next year, this is what will get you there.
November 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
this strange feeling you're experiencing this morning is optimism. hang on to it, we've got a long road ahead to the midterms next year, this is what will get you there.
Reposted by Matthew Appleton
Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.
Halloween is the greatest holiday, bar none. This is when you unreservedly give strangers free candy at your front door. Is Christmas better/equal? Bitch, please. That day is reserved for people you know. On Halloween, you’re making *everybody* happy, regardless of age or how well you know them.
November 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Halloween is the greatest holiday, bar none. This is when you unreservedly give strangers free candy at your front door. Is Christmas better/equal? Bitch, please. That day is reserved for people you know. On Halloween, you’re making *everybody* happy, regardless of age or how well you know them.