Matt Blair
@lsws.bsky.social
Words. Music. Sound as Signal. Monteverdi fan. Appreciator of rain. I aspire to multitudes. (In the Whitman sense of the word.) Formerly elsewisemedia on the dead bird app. (Lost some vowels along the way.) Continuously pregrieving these days. he/him
Reposted by Matt Blair
The Epstein response is shaping up to be the same as the climate change response: a Zeno's paradox play. No matter how damning the evidence, it only gets us halfway to proving anything. Every new round of evidence? Sure, it's interesting, but there's so much more we don't know! Repeat forever.
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The Epstein response is shaping up to be the same as the climate change response: a Zeno's paradox play. No matter how damning the evidence, it only gets us halfway to proving anything. Every new round of evidence? Sure, it's interesting, but there's so much more we don't know! Repeat forever.
Reposted by Matt Blair
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
Reposted by Matt Blair
I think we should bring back vibe spelling. Just add extra letters wherever, as you feel ‘em. Things can be frantick or hectick if you need that superfluous ’k’ edge. Resist the tyranny of received orthography!
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I think we should bring back vibe spelling. Just add extra letters wherever, as you feel ‘em. Things can be frantick or hectick if you need that superfluous ’k’ edge. Resist the tyranny of received orthography!
Reposted by Matt Blair
Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.
We’re listening to an early 90s playlist while making dinner, and these random semi-tone ascent key changes are just bowling me over every time. “Is your song boring? What if you just ignored that, and created tension by singing it a half tone higher? “ 🫠
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
We’re listening to an early 90s playlist while making dinner, and these random semi-tone ascent key changes are just bowling me over every time. “Is your song boring? What if you just ignored that, and created tension by singing it a half tone higher? “ 🫠
Reposted by Matt Blair
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
October 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
Reposted by Matt Blair
An audience member asked about how we’ll fix things “after Trump.” Wrong q in a room full of historians. There isn’t a whole lot of “afterward” in US history. Massive paradigms linger. Sometimes for good—New Deal—sometimes not—Reaganism. Or, for that matter, the Civil War, never fully over. 4/
October 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
An audience member asked about how we’ll fix things “after Trump.” Wrong q in a room full of historians. There isn’t a whole lot of “afterward” in US history. Massive paradigms linger. Sometimes for good—New Deal—sometimes not—Reaganism. Or, for that matter, the Civil War, never fully over. 4/
Reposted by Matt Blair
Super rich people spend their money on the dumbest stuff. Mega yachts and tacky jewelry.
I'd buy a Rothko and a Hopper and an Asawa. And an apartment that walked out to a garden or big terrace.
And a fuck ton of medical debt.
I'd buy a Rothko and a Hopper and an Asawa. And an apartment that walked out to a garden or big terrace.
And a fuck ton of medical debt.
October 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Super rich people spend their money on the dumbest stuff. Mega yachts and tacky jewelry.
I'd buy a Rothko and a Hopper and an Asawa. And an apartment that walked out to a garden or big terrace.
And a fuck ton of medical debt.
I'd buy a Rothko and a Hopper and an Asawa. And an apartment that walked out to a garden or big terrace.
And a fuck ton of medical debt.
Reposted by Matt Blair
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Reposted by Matt Blair
Switching the frog from a right-wing meme to a left-wing meme would inspire an entire generation of semioticians
October 13, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Switching the frog from a right-wing meme to a left-wing meme would inspire an entire generation of semioticians
Reposted by Matt Blair
"If we were even to suppose the national rulers actuated by the most ungovernable ambition, it is impossible to believe that they would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs."
Oh Alexander, honey.
Oh Alexander, honey.
Quoted by Judge Perry today in her opinion in Illinois v Trump
October 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
"If we were even to suppose the national rulers actuated by the most ungovernable ambition, it is impossible to believe that they would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs."
Oh Alexander, honey.
Oh Alexander, honey.
Closest thing I saw to fire on a two mile walk in Portland this morning
October 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Closest thing I saw to fire on a two mile walk in Portland this morning
Reposted by Matt Blair
AI videos being sent to him by Miller, Noem et al, right?
Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."
October 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
AI videos being sent to him by Miller, Noem et al, right?
Reposted by Matt Blair
Important alert for people who like working while a light white noise is playing in the background, there is a family of whales singing next to the Moss Landing Marine Lab hydrophone right now and you should listen! radio.garden/visit/moss-l...
Listen to live Moss Landing CA radio on Radio Garden
Listen to live Moss Landing CA radio on Radio Garden
radio.garden
October 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Important alert for people who like working while a light white noise is playing in the background, there is a family of whales singing next to the Moss Landing Marine Lab hydrophone right now and you should listen! radio.garden/visit/moss-l...
Reposted by Matt Blair
Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.
But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.
But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.
October 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.
But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.
But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.
Reposted by Matt Blair
I encourage all the media outlets who are about to send people to ”war ravaged” Portland to think twice. Some of the strongest extremism reporters in the country live in this region; journalists who understand the culture of the Northwest and the history of activism here. Do it right this time okay?
September 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I encourage all the media outlets who are about to send people to ”war ravaged” Portland to think twice. Some of the strongest extremism reporters in the country live in this region; journalists who understand the culture of the Northwest and the history of activism here. Do it right this time okay?
If, in 2025, you claim only “Western” culture has contributed to humanity, you are telling me you are: undereducated, incurious, willfully ignorant, biased, and obtuse. Read more books. Travel, observe, learn. Renew your sense of wonder at the breadth of human experience and expression.
September 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
If, in 2025, you claim only “Western” culture has contributed to humanity, you are telling me you are: undereducated, incurious, willfully ignorant, biased, and obtuse. Read more books. Travel, observe, learn. Renew your sense of wonder at the breadth of human experience and expression.
Reposted by Matt Blair
To commemorate 10 years of SOPHIE's debut, World Cafe put together a mix of "proto-hyperpop" tracks.
10 songs that were hyperpop before the subgenre was born
To commemorate 10 years of SOPHIE's debut, World Cafe put together a mix of "proto-hyperpop" tracks.
n.pr
July 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
To commemorate 10 years of SOPHIE's debut, World Cafe put together a mix of "proto-hyperpop" tracks.
Reposted by Matt Blair
I went to college in 1997. My mother was a widow, a refugee, and couldn’t help me pay for it. There is no way I would be able to afford college if it was 2025 & the bill US Congress just passed was the law of the land. There are millions of people like me. What a shame.
July 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I went to college in 1997. My mother was a widow, a refugee, and couldn’t help me pay for it. There is no way I would be able to afford college if it was 2025 & the bill US Congress just passed was the law of the land. There are millions of people like me. What a shame.
Be unsummarizable
This is correct.
Receipts included.
Axios: “Publishers facing existential threat from AI, Cloudflare CEO says.”
Axios: “Publishers facing existential threat from AI, Cloudflare CEO says.”
Publishers facing existential threat from AI, Cloudflare CEO says
Search traffic referrals have plummeted as people increasingly rely on AI summaries.
www.axios.com
July 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Be unsummarizable
Reposted by Matt Blair
Since it is Juneteenth, I will share a lil something...
My ancestors were slaves in Texas & were freed on June 19, 1865. They came together to meet with other ex-slaves & formed the Limestone County 19th of June Organization. They bought 30 acres of land on Lake Mexia.
My ancestors were slaves in Texas & were freed on June 19, 1865. They came together to meet with other ex-slaves & formed the Limestone County 19th of June Organization. They bought 30 acres of land on Lake Mexia.
June 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Since it is Juneteenth, I will share a lil something...
My ancestors were slaves in Texas & were freed on June 19, 1865. They came together to meet with other ex-slaves & formed the Limestone County 19th of June Organization. They bought 30 acres of land on Lake Mexia.
My ancestors were slaves in Texas & were freed on June 19, 1865. They came together to meet with other ex-slaves & formed the Limestone County 19th of June Organization. They bought 30 acres of land on Lake Mexia.
No kings, and no caesars. 👎👑
June 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
No kings, and no caesars. 👎👑
Reposted by Matt Blair
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Reposted by Matt Blair
Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
May 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
Reposted by Matt Blair
May 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM