Matt Werner
@werner1.bsky.social
Story teller. Jack of all trades.
www.matthewawerner.com
Author page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00PPQMAXE
www.matthewawerner.com
Author page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00PPQMAXE
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Lilly Hiatt, “Walking Proof.”
November 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Lilly Hiatt, “Walking Proof.”
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IG em_clarkson
IG em_clarkson
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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IG em_clarkson
IG em_clarkson
Northern lights from Indiana.
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Northern lights from Indiana.
Has anyone noticed that zero legacy news media companies have gone out and interviewed people facing drastic healthcare cost increases next year?
I’m going to spend 20-25% of my disposable income on healthcare next year snd the lions share is going to insurance premium.
I’m going to spend 20-25% of my disposable income on healthcare next year snd the lions share is going to insurance premium.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Has anyone noticed that zero legacy news media companies have gone out and interviewed people facing drastic healthcare cost increases next year?
I’m going to spend 20-25% of my disposable income on healthcare next year snd the lions share is going to insurance premium.
I’m going to spend 20-25% of my disposable income on healthcare next year snd the lions share is going to insurance premium.
I’m self-employed in Indiana. I may need to marry a woman with employer-provided health insurance just to stay alive.
November 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I’m self-employed in Indiana. I may need to marry a woman with employer-provided health insurance just to stay alive.
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China Agrees To Purchase 11 U.S. Soybeans
October 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
China Agrees To Purchase 11 U.S. Soybeans
I don’t want spandex in my denim or canvas clothing, definitely not jackets, pants, or shirts unless it’s athletic apparel.
October 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I don’t want spandex in my denim or canvas clothing, definitely not jackets, pants, or shirts unless it’s athletic apparel.
It’s hard to believe tens of millions of Americans watch this stuff all day and think, Yeah, these people know what’s what, mother fucker.
Sean Duffy: "If we go to the south pole of the moon, we can set up a base. We want to put up fission power. We think we can have longterm stays on the south pole of the moon."
October 14, 2025 at 12:46 AM
It’s hard to believe tens of millions of Americans watch this stuff all day and think, Yeah, these people know what’s what, mother fucker.
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States of America.
October 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States of America.
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Pope Leo XIV: "I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor."
"Dilexi te"
"Dilexi te"
October 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Pope Leo XIV: "I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor."
"Dilexi te"
"Dilexi te"
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Cosplaying as law enforcement for good wages and looking like keystone cops in the weirdest cosplay in America.
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Cosplaying as law enforcement for good wages and looking like keystone cops in the weirdest cosplay in America.
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It’s probably a good time for people to wrap their heads around a near total monopoly of news and media by either overt fascists or fascist-friendly accomplices.
This isn’t doomerism, it’s preparing for how reality will be warped and weaponized and understanding the fight we have in front of us.
This isn’t doomerism, it’s preparing for how reality will be warped and weaponized and understanding the fight we have in front of us.
October 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
It’s probably a good time for people to wrap their heads around a near total monopoly of news and media by either overt fascists or fascist-friendly accomplices.
This isn’t doomerism, it’s preparing for how reality will be warped and weaponized and understanding the fight we have in front of us.
This isn’t doomerism, it’s preparing for how reality will be warped and weaponized and understanding the fight we have in front of us.
Called it.
I said they won’t patrol dangerous neighborhoods. ICE agents will be hanging out on Michigan Avenue, in the Gold Coast and Wrigleyville. None of them will so much as drive near a high crime rate neighborhood.And they are.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/28/a...
I said they won’t patrol dangerous neighborhoods. ICE agents will be hanging out on Michigan Avenue, in the Gold Coast and Wrigleyville. None of them will so much as drive near a high crime rate neighborhood.And they are.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/28/a...
Armed Federal Agents Patrol Downtown, The Gold Coast To Chants Of 'Shame'
The federal troops were seen in Millennium Park, on the Magnificent Mile and in the Gold Coast — days after patrolling the Chicago River in a boat. "This is another brazen provocation from the Trump a...
blockclubchicago.org
September 29, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Called it.
I said they won’t patrol dangerous neighborhoods. ICE agents will be hanging out on Michigan Avenue, in the Gold Coast and Wrigleyville. None of them will so much as drive near a high crime rate neighborhood.And they are.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/28/a...
I said they won’t patrol dangerous neighborhoods. ICE agents will be hanging out on Michigan Avenue, in the Gold Coast and Wrigleyville. None of them will so much as drive near a high crime rate neighborhood.And they are.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/28/a...
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Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work https://theonion.com/relaxing-tea-better-fucking-work-1819579209/
September 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work https://theonion.com/relaxing-tea-better-fucking-work-1819579209/
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reading a book about china. apparently the government there has sent federal forces into cities, taken shares of major private enterprises, slapped tariffs on industries, and pressured media outlets to fire people they politically disagreed with. didn’t know this.
September 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
reading a book about china. apparently the government there has sent federal forces into cities, taken shares of major private enterprises, slapped tariffs on industries, and pressured media outlets to fire people they politically disagreed with. didn’t know this.
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Good day for people to get up to speed that the vast majority of the commentary class is privileged and much, much more concerned about performing solidarity with the fascists of their class and performing "civility" in order to keep their jobs and please their employers than our rights and safety.
September 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Good day for people to get up to speed that the vast majority of the commentary class is privileged and much, much more concerned about performing solidarity with the fascists of their class and performing "civility" in order to keep their jobs and please their employers than our rights and safety.
Huh.
Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to more than 27 years in a Brazil prison for attempting a coup after losing the 2022 election.
Bolsonaro Convicted of Attempting a Coup in Brazil, Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison
Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted the former president of trying to cling to power after losing the 2022 election, including a plan to assassinate his opponent.
nyti.ms
September 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Huh.
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Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.
September 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.
If I were in charge in Chicago, I’d put huge signs at every museum and cultural center: NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS GET IN FREE!
I’d sponsor Chicago architectural boat tour, and bus tours of the city for free for guardsmen.
I’d sponsor Chicago architectural boat tour, and bus tours of the city for free for guardsmen.
September 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
If I were in charge in Chicago, I’d put huge signs at every museum and cultural center: NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS GET IN FREE!
I’d sponsor Chicago architectural boat tour, and bus tours of the city for free for guardsmen.
I’d sponsor Chicago architectural boat tour, and bus tours of the city for free for guardsmen.
Imagine if they all walked off in solidarity.
August 28, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Imagine if they all walked off in solidarity.
Game Of Thrones summary:
Power corrupts corruptly, most people blindly follow another, nothing ever really changes, you’re best marching off into the north woods to be left alone and happy.
Power corrupts corruptly, most people blindly follow another, nothing ever really changes, you’re best marching off into the north woods to be left alone and happy.
August 27, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Game Of Thrones summary:
Power corrupts corruptly, most people blindly follow another, nothing ever really changes, you’re best marching off into the north woods to be left alone and happy.
Power corrupts corruptly, most people blindly follow another, nothing ever really changes, you’re best marching off into the north woods to be left alone and happy.
For 1,000 years, this was called job training. In Indiana, it’s now considered education.
August 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
For 1,000 years, this was called job training. In Indiana, it’s now considered education.
David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it
August 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM