Matt Uhler
@matt-uhler.bsky.social
San Francisco fanboy, former editor, current nonprofit exec, wanderer, and sometimes poet. Frequent seeker of kindness and nuance.
How big is 1 trillion?
1 million seconds = 11.574 days
1 billion seconds = 31.7 years
1 trillion seconds = 31,688 years
1 million seconds = 11.574 days
1 billion seconds = 31.7 years
1 trillion seconds = 31,688 years
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
How big is 1 trillion?
1 million seconds = 11.574 days
1 billion seconds = 31.7 years
1 trillion seconds = 31,688 years
1 million seconds = 11.574 days
1 billion seconds = 31.7 years
1 trillion seconds = 31,688 years
Remember that time advertisers threatened to leave Twitter?
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Remember that time advertisers threatened to leave Twitter?
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Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
October 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
Reposted by Matt Uhler
October 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
#NoKings just getting started in #SanFrancisco. We got beats in the streets
October 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
#NoKings just getting started in #SanFrancisco. We got beats in the streets
About to kick things off with my dear auntie Fa and others here in #SanFrancisco #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
About to kick things off with my dear auntie Fa and others here in #SanFrancisco #NoKings
This made me want to write my own version.
From the author’s note:
“Maybe it’s like this: if life is a series of leavings, love is the longing to return.”
From the author’s note:
“Maybe it’s like this: if life is a series of leavings, love is the longing to return.”
it’s been a minute since i’ve published anything, so i’m especially grateful that @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social gave this little musing on love + leavings a home.
you can read the full piece here: matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/departures
you can read the full piece here: matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/departures
October 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
This made me want to write my own version.
From the author’s note:
“Maybe it’s like this: if life is a series of leavings, love is the longing to return.”
From the author’s note:
“Maybe it’s like this: if life is a series of leavings, love is the longing to return.”
Anyone going to the #SanFrancisco #NoKings rally know where we can pick up our Soros checks or our hate America back wages?
Is it City Lights? Or did the move HQ to the Haight?
#SF50501
Is it City Lights? Or did the move HQ to the Haight?
#SF50501
October 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Anyone going to the #SanFrancisco #NoKings rally know where we can pick up our Soros checks or our hate America back wages?
Is it City Lights? Or did the move HQ to the Haight?
#SF50501
Is it City Lights? Or did the move HQ to the Haight?
#SF50501
The Rebellion Lives
October 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The Rebellion Lives
Oof… this short read packs a punch.
Heartbreaking flash essay by Helen Collins Sitler via @short-reads.org. 💔 www.short-reads.org/i-want-a-do-...
I Want a Do-Over
by Helen Collins Sitler | The limits of change.
www.short-reads.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Oof… this short read packs a punch.
Good thread worth checking out.
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Good thread worth checking out.
“The world might set on fire
but here it has not yet.
The grills are lit–come
& eat with us. Come to
our table without handcuffs.”
but here it has not yet.
The grills are lit–come
& eat with us. Come to
our table without handcuffs.”
September 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
“The world might set on fire
but here it has not yet.
The grills are lit–come
& eat with us. Come to
our table without handcuffs.”
but here it has not yet.
The grills are lit–come
& eat with us. Come to
our table without handcuffs.”
Definitely felt that one.
JUST IN: An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 jolted the San Francisco area awake shortly before 3 a.m. on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.
4.6 earthquake centered in Berkeley jolts Bay Area
An earthquake has struck the S.F. Bay Area, centered near Berkeley. A sharp jolt was widely felt.
bit.ly
September 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Definitely felt that one.
Reposted by Matt Uhler
Every edition of @thesunmagazine.bsky.social has something that breaks & mends me. It is a thrill to share something of mine there. Now go get a subscription!
A Good House
Two days before our family moved into a boxy, modern, three-bedroom home—our first house, forty miles outside Boston and across the highway from the poetically named Long-Sought-For Pond—the painters ...
www.thesunmagazine.org
July 31, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Every edition of @thesunmagazine.bsky.social has something that breaks & mends me. It is a thrill to share something of mine there. Now go get a subscription!
Remembering and celebrating the poet Andrea Gibson today. Rest in peace.
“I know most people try hard / to do good and find out too late / they should have tried softer.”
youtu.be/f77CqY-MMtg?...
“I know most people try hard / to do good and find out too late / they should have tried softer.”
youtu.be/f77CqY-MMtg?...
Andrea Gibson - The Year of No Grudges (Official Video)
YouTube video by Andrea Gibson
youtu.be
July 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Remembering and celebrating the poet Andrea Gibson today. Rest in peace.
“I know most people try hard / to do good and find out too late / they should have tried softer.”
youtu.be/f77CqY-MMtg?...
“I know most people try hard / to do good and find out too late / they should have tried softer.”
youtu.be/f77CqY-MMtg?...
Yip yip yip yip. #NoKings #SanFrancisco
June 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Yip yip yip yip. #NoKings #SanFrancisco
What more proof do we need that the liberals control the weather 😉
June 14, 2025 at 1:18 AM
What more proof do we need that the liberals control the weather 😉
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The heart paints as fast as it can—remember, remember, hold this fast—but there’s no catching up, no getting it back, no going home. One breath after the next, we are home. Inside our transformations. Inside our stories.
The blur is a brushstroke
A meditation on dusk, Edward Hopper, & what can't be held
open.substack.com
June 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The heart paints as fast as it can—remember, remember, hold this fast—but there’s no catching up, no getting it back, no going home. One breath after the next, we are home. Inside our transformations. Inside our stories.
While not a child in England, I’m feeling a little called out by this.
June 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
While not a child in England, I’m feeling a little called out by this.
I decided to celebrate Bay Area poets with a few purchases at Booksmith on independent bookstore day
April 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I decided to celebrate Bay Area poets with a few purchases at Booksmith on independent bookstore day
Could “potentially undermine”? Kinda like a private citizen meeting with Orban or chatting with Putin undermine?
April 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Could “potentially undermine”? Kinda like a private citizen meeting with Orban or chatting with Putin undermine?
April 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM