Matt Thompson, PhD
@ma77th0mps0n.bsky.social
Anthropologist librarian. Chicano from Texas, alumni of the late great New College of Florida.
Meanwhile, in the Chthulhucene…
October 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Meanwhile, in the Chthulhucene…
Has anyone applied Benjamin’s mechanical Turk to AI yet?
July 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Has anyone applied Benjamin’s mechanical Turk to AI yet?
Subsidized internet for libraries and rural areas can continue for now apnews.com/article/supr...
Supreme Court OKs fee that subsidizes phone, internet services in schools, libraries and rural areas
The Supreme Court has upheld the fee added to phone bills to provide billions of dollars a year in subsidized phone and internet services in schools, libraries and rural areas.
apnews.com
June 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Subsidized internet for libraries and rural areas can continue for now apnews.com/article/supr...
* modular synth sounds *
The pope posted this this morning and I’m thinking a lot about it
June 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
* modular synth sounds *
Huge democracy nerd even votes in primaries
June 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Huge democracy nerd even votes in primaries
New in nonfiction…
June 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
New in nonfiction…
HHS is currently every C student that ignores the bibliography section on the term paper
An epidemiologist at Columbia had to issue a statement saying the research article RFK Jr. cited with her name is FAKE. It’s not real. The paper itself doesn’t EXIST.
Yall this is fascism. FAKE scientific articles used by the government to influence policy is FASCISM. This is horrifying.
Yall this is fascism. FAKE scientific articles used by the government to influence policy is FASCISM. This is horrifying.
May 31, 2025 at 1:49 AM
HHS is currently every C student that ignores the bibliography section on the term paper
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my dad: people today are too sensitive
me: u bitches cried when dylan went electric
me: u bitches cried when dylan went electric
May 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
my dad: people today are too sensitive
me: u bitches cried when dylan went electric
me: u bitches cried when dylan went electric
As the horror of book bans continues apace, I find it revealing that the offense material is not only predominantly race and/or gender content but also “children’s butt and fart books”
Library Collection Decisions Not Protected by First Amendment Says Fifth Circuit Court
www.libraryjournal.com/story/librar...
www.libraryjournal.com/story/librar...
Library Collection Decisions Not Protected by First Amendment Says Fifth Circuit Court
In a judgment that is likely to impact freedom to read challenges across the country, Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that library collection decisions are “go...
www.libraryjournal.com
May 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
As the horror of book bans continues apace, I find it revealing that the offense material is not only predominantly race and/or gender content but also “children’s butt and fart books”
Reposted by Matt Thompson, PhD
HACK! Replace 15 minutes of doom scrolling with 15 minutes of reading a book from a university press 📖
May 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
HACK! Replace 15 minutes of doom scrolling with 15 minutes of reading a book from a university press 📖
Reposted by Matt Thompson, PhD
At the core of the counterargument to Trumpism is the ideal that we are all in this together. There is no one who deserves neglect or suffering from the government because of their political views. Not even if they voted for the suffering of others.
If your response to this is “red states got what they voted for,” your indifference to human suffering makes me sick.
SCOOP— FEMA essential functions are at "high risk" of not functioning properly just days before hurricane season because of staffing shortages, per a recent internal memo obtained by The Handbasket.
These deficiencies "may disrupt life-saving and life-sustaining program delivery."
Full story here:
These deficiencies "may disrupt life-saving and life-sustaining program delivery."
Full story here:
May 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
At the core of the counterargument to Trumpism is the ideal that we are all in this together. There is no one who deserves neglect or suffering from the government because of their political views. Not even if they voted for the suffering of others.
I got to meet Mychal Threets
May 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I got to meet Mychal Threets
New Book-it prize will be digital image of personal pan pizza arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/c...
Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books
Reading list in advertorial supplement contains 66% made up books by real authors.
arstechnica.com
May 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New Book-it prize will be digital image of personal pan pizza arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/c...
There are so many reasons to encourage young people to participate in sports: making friends, alleviating boredom, creating healthy habits for life. But consistently adults who target trans kids focus on one thing: winning. Imagine telling your kid the only thing they can do w any value is to win
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
There are so many reasons to encourage young people to participate in sports: making friends, alleviating boredom, creating healthy habits for life. But consistently adults who target trans kids focus on one thing: winning. Imagine telling your kid the only thing they can do w any value is to win
Reposted by Matt Thompson, PhD
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
As a public libraries professional, Alexandra Lange’s work on design and how children use public space sounds exactly like what I need to be reading. Kudos to the author
www.pulitzer.org/node/alexand...
www.pulitzer.org/node/alexand...
May 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
As a public libraries professional, Alexandra Lange’s work on design and how children use public space sounds exactly like what I need to be reading. Kudos to the author
www.pulitzer.org/node/alexand...
www.pulitzer.org/node/alexand...
If you have children, you NEED a will. Don’t do some generic Nolo will either, many employers offer a prepaid legal plan in their benefits package. Use this to get a bomber will good for your state at a discount price.
Have a frank conversation with your parents about what’s in their wills.
Have a frank conversation with your parents about what’s in their wills.
If you’re over 30, quote this with some life advice 🤌🏼
May 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
If you have children, you NEED a will. Don’t do some generic Nolo will either, many employers offer a prepaid legal plan in their benefits package. Use this to get a bomber will good for your state at a discount price.
Have a frank conversation with your parents about what’s in their wills.
Have a frank conversation with your parents about what’s in their wills.
New in nonfiction
May 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
New in nonfiction
Ask any nonwhite person with tattoos how they’ve been treated by police, they all have stories of unwelcome touching and picture taking. If you’re nonwhite with tattoos you are in a gang and it has been that way since The Wild One.
Mark Joseph Stern on the DOJ's insufficient answers on the Venezuelan migrants deportations, saying how tattoos like "simple innocent images were essentially rebranded as gang affiliation. It's absurd...it shows why this admin. did not want to grant these men any due process" #SaturdayShow
March 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Ask any nonwhite person with tattoos how they’ve been treated by police, they all have stories of unwelcome touching and picture taking. If you’re nonwhite with tattoos you are in a gang and it has been that way since The Wild One.
City fire and rescue is doing a big push to get free Narcan to the public, so I’m headed in early for Narcan training. What I want to know is, if it’s so easy a child can do it why do I need a one hour training?
March 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
City fire and rescue is doing a big push to get free Narcan to the public, so I’m headed in early for Narcan training. What I want to know is, if it’s so easy a child can do it why do I need a one hour training?
Someone should do an oral history of the Arsenio Hall Show, I would read the heck out of that
March 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Someone should do an oral history of the Arsenio Hall Show, I would read the heck out of that
New in nonfiction….
March 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
New in nonfiction….
One of my more ridiculous everyday tasks is helping people forge doctor’s notes for work. Changing the dates, etc. Hey, I’m just here to help people with the computers, it’s not up to me what they do with them!
March 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
One of my more ridiculous everyday tasks is helping people forge doctor’s notes for work. Changing the dates, etc. Hey, I’m just here to help people with the computers, it’s not up to me what they do with them!
On my way to Family Place Institute training in Long Island, but currently stuck in Baltimore as the whole airport has just lost power
March 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
On my way to Family Place Institute training in Long Island, but currently stuck in Baltimore as the whole airport has just lost power