Kyle James Matthews
@kjmatthews.bsky.social
Teacher, reader, musician, editor, cyclist, woodworker, husband, father.
“67” is legitimately the dumbest Gen Alpha slang – it is almost always completely devoid of any meaning –, but don’t grown adults seem disproportionately angry about it?
September 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“67” is legitimately the dumbest Gen Alpha slang – it is almost always completely devoid of any meaning –, but don’t grown adults seem disproportionately angry about it?
There are many fun things about learning Hebrew, like gendered numbers and verbs that bear only passing resemblance to their infinitive, but saying “Tel Aviv meets with my approval” instead of “I like Tel Aviv” is the current winner.
April 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
There are many fun things about learning Hebrew, like gendered numbers and verbs that bear only passing resemblance to their infinitive, but saying “Tel Aviv meets with my approval” instead of “I like Tel Aviv” is the current winner.
Registering my 9-year-old for softball legit requires more proofs of residency than the DMV.
February 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Registering my 9-year-old for softball legit requires more proofs of residency than the DMV.
Speaking of Amazon and Kindles, you can download any ebooks you’ve purchased from Amazon, but only until February 27th. After that, you’re at the mercy of Amazon’s ability to revoke your access to the books you thought you owned.
February 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Speaking of Amazon and Kindles, you can download any ebooks you’ve purchased from Amazon, but only until February 27th. After that, you’re at the mercy of Amazon’s ability to revoke your access to the books you thought you owned.
Bought three books at a local bookshop and bought a not-Kindle to replace a broken Kindle. It’s a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of Amazon’s profit, but it’s something.
February 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Bought three books at a local bookshop and bought a not-Kindle to replace a broken Kindle. It’s a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of Amazon’s profit, but it’s something.
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I love that a white guy was flying the plane, a white guy was flying the helicopter, and a white guy gutted the FAA last week but somehow the blame is too much diversity.
January 30, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I love that a white guy was flying the plane, a white guy was flying the helicopter, and a white guy gutted the FAA last week but somehow the blame is too much diversity.
Teachers be like, “Have a good night” at 2:45pm.
January 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Teachers be like, “Have a good night” at 2:45pm.
Not surprising, but I’m seeing that the increasingly spineless @washingtonpost.com is also rolling back DEI initiatives. Apparently democracy dies in the hands of cowardly oligarchs.
January 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Not surprising, but I’m seeing that the increasingly spineless @washingtonpost.com is also rolling back DEI initiatives. Apparently democracy dies in the hands of cowardly oligarchs.
I want to support the Target boycott and stop buying from Amazon. Since Walmart doesn’t pay workers a living wage and is also rolling back DEI initiatives, @lor662.bsky.social raises the valid question: where to buy the random things we need?
January 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I want to support the Target boycott and stop buying from Amazon. Since Walmart doesn’t pay workers a living wage and is also rolling back DEI initiatives, @lor662.bsky.social raises the valid question: where to buy the random things we need?
Just finished @robinsloan.com’s ‘Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore’. What a delight of a book, and a delightful throwback to when Twitter was Twitter and Google’s motto was still “Don’t Be Evil.”
January 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Just finished @robinsloan.com’s ‘Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore’. What a delight of a book, and a delightful throwback to when Twitter was Twitter and Google’s motto was still “Don’t Be Evil.”
What alternative platforms exist to challenge Facebook Groups as a space for communities to organize?
January 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
What alternative platforms exist to challenge Facebook Groups as a space for communities to organize?
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I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going
January 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going
My new favorite epithet, “fetid moppet,” is surprisingly difficult to work into conversation.
January 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
My new favorite epithet, “fetid moppet,” is surprisingly difficult to work into conversation.
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Conozca sus derechos ante Inmigracion y Control de Aduanas:
www.nyc.gov
January 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Conozca sus derechos ante Inmigracion y Control de Aduanas:
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Share widely. I'm going to reply to this post with a similar document en español.
January 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Share widely. I'm going to reply to this post with a similar document en español.
Learning about 18th-century authors pillorying each other in book indexes from Dennis Duncan’s “Index, a History of the.” This is a practice we must resurrect forthwith.
January 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Learning about 18th-century authors pillorying each other in book indexes from Dennis Duncan’s “Index, a History of the.” This is a practice we must resurrect forthwith.
I mean, as headlines go, this one is a winner.
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I mean, as headlines go, this one is a winner.
Not intended as a political position, but I wonder how this government, which only recognizes two sexes, will expect intersex individuals (e.g., people with ambiguous genitalia and people with chromosomal anomalies) to define themselves. The executive order does not address this.
January 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Not intended as a political position, but I wonder how this government, which only recognizes two sexes, will expect intersex individuals (e.g., people with ambiguous genitalia and people with chromosomal anomalies) to define themselves. The executive order does not address this.
In ‘The Dawn of Everything,’ the authors write, “A properly historical event has, perhaps, two qualities: it could not have been predicted beforehand, but it only happens once.” This feels like a momentous statement that I’m not sure I agree with.
December 24, 2024 at 2:31 AM
In ‘The Dawn of Everything,’ the authors write, “A properly historical event has, perhaps, two qualities: it could not have been predicted beforehand, but it only happens once.” This feels like a momentous statement that I’m not sure I agree with.
43 years old here, still haven’t encountered any quicksand. My whole childhood was a lie.
December 22, 2024 at 10:47 PM
43 years old here, still haven’t encountered any quicksand. My whole childhood was a lie.
#Teachersky beware! The whining and umbrage re: having to do work reaches heights unseen as vacation approaches!
December 19, 2024 at 2:54 PM
#Teachersky beware! The whining and umbrage re: having to do work reaches heights unseen as vacation approaches!
🪐📚 Just beginning my Cosmere journey. I read the Mistborn trilogy (Era 1) and am part way through Elantris. I suspect this will be my reading project for the next 6 months (minimum).
December 18, 2024 at 7:35 PM
🪐📚 Just beginning my Cosmere journey. I read the Mistborn trilogy (Era 1) and am part way through Elantris. I suspect this will be my reading project for the next 6 months (minimum).
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Embarrassed David Attenborough Realizes He Spent 10 Minutes Describing Stillness Of Duck Decoy
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December 17, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Embarrassed David Attenborough Realizes He Spent 10 Minutes Describing Stillness Of Duck Decoy
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I am harboring a pet theory that the music of Taylor Swift contains a lot more melodic leaps than other pop artists (who stick more to scalar motion) and I’d really like someone to test this for me.
December 17, 2024 at 8:21 PM
I am harboring a pet theory that the music of Taylor Swift contains a lot more melodic leaps than other pop artists (who stick more to scalar motion) and I’d really like someone to test this for me.
💙📚🪐 Who can explain the attraction of Anne Leckie’s “Ancillary Justice”? It seems like 400 pages of missed opportunities to meaningfully explore the themes of gender and what it means to be human, which is raises but fails to deal with. The ideas are good, but their development is mostly mechanical.
December 13, 2024 at 11:50 PM
💙📚🪐 Who can explain the attraction of Anne Leckie’s “Ancillary Justice”? It seems like 400 pages of missed opportunities to meaningfully explore the themes of gender and what it means to be human, which is raises but fails to deal with. The ideas are good, but their development is mostly mechanical.