Matt
@mattagnello.com
UX designer on League of Legends; game designer; PhD in progress bars; poly; Philly expat; he/him.
Reposted by Matt
Republicans vote overwhelmingly to pretend they want the Epstein Files released. www.axios.com/2025/11/18/h...
House votes to force DOJ release of Jeffrey Epstein files
While the vote marks an important step in backers' crusade to get the files released, significant barriers remain.
www.axios.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Republicans vote overwhelmingly to pretend they want the Epstein Files released. www.axios.com/2025/11/18/h...
Reposted by Matt
jesus, I REMEMBER this discourse, this show’s era, maybe even this TWEET, and thinking as a baby journalist — YEAH! this depiction of young women reporters sucks! this stereotype is harmful!
[chuckles darkly, drags on cigarette]
[chuckles darkly, drags on cigarette]
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
jesus, I REMEMBER this discourse, this show’s era, maybe even this TWEET, and thinking as a baby journalist — YEAH! this depiction of young women reporters sucks! this stereotype is harmful!
[chuckles darkly, drags on cigarette]
[chuckles darkly, drags on cigarette]
Reposted by Matt
In case anyone here is wondering what they're missing over on Elon's site...
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
In case anyone here is wondering what they're missing over on Elon's site...
Locally OWNED you mean
"The B2 bomber. Stealth. They never saw them" -- Trump is now ranting about military strikes on Iran during his speech to McDonald's franchise owners
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Locally OWNED you mean
“I’m not owned. I’m not owned.”
Trump on if he'll sign an Epstein files release bill: "We have nothing to do with Epstein. The Democrats do. All of his friends were Democrats. You look at this Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, Clinton... all I want is I want for people to recognize the great job I've done on pricing, on affordability."
November 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
“I’m not owned. I’m not owned.”
Reactionaries of the 2080s:
Our forebearers drowned in irony. They lived, if you can call it that, amongst memes instead of mentors. Why, when I was a young one, my grandparents showed me a tweet that, quite literally, predicted this speech, in its entirety, as a joke. They would say “as a treat.”
Our forebearers drowned in irony. They lived, if you can call it that, amongst memes instead of mentors. Why, when I was a young one, my grandparents showed me a tweet that, quite literally, predicted this speech, in its entirety, as a joke. They would say “as a treat.”
November 17, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Reactionaries of the 2080s:
Our forebearers drowned in irony. They lived, if you can call it that, amongst memes instead of mentors. Why, when I was a young one, my grandparents showed me a tweet that, quite literally, predicted this speech, in its entirety, as a joke. They would say “as a treat.”
Our forebearers drowned in irony. They lived, if you can call it that, amongst memes instead of mentors. Why, when I was a young one, my grandparents showed me a tweet that, quite literally, predicted this speech, in its entirety, as a joke. They would say “as a treat.”
I’ll talk, in person, in a way that never quite completes a thought. I’ll get about 3/4 in then jump forward. Very frustrating for those around me. Writing, though, and editing, allows me to sculpt instead of shoot.
I adore writers who can do a lot with a little. I know they started with a lot.
I adore writers who can do a lot with a little. I know they started with a lot.
November 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I’ll talk, in person, in a way that never quite completes a thought. I’ll get about 3/4 in then jump forward. Very frustrating for those around me. Writing, though, and editing, allows me to sculpt instead of shoot.
I adore writers who can do a lot with a little. I know they started with a lot.
I adore writers who can do a lot with a little. I know they started with a lot.
In the current moment, the President is insane. The U.S. President remains one of the most powerful individuals on the planet. Yet, even while this President is nuts, the whole still functions.
I do NOT want to minimize the suffering he’s caused. Only to point out, he’s still one cog in a system.
I do NOT want to minimize the suffering he’s caused. Only to point out, he’s still one cog in a system.
Trump on healthcare: "I've had personal talks with some Democrats about paying large amounts of dollars back to the people. This was my idea ... why don't we just pay this money directly to the people of our country and let them buy their own health insurance?"
November 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
In the current moment, the President is insane. The U.S. President remains one of the most powerful individuals on the planet. Yet, even while this President is nuts, the whole still functions.
I do NOT want to minimize the suffering he’s caused. Only to point out, he’s still one cog in a system.
I do NOT want to minimize the suffering he’s caused. Only to point out, he’s still one cog in a system.
Reposted by Matt
The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark
Reposted by Matt
Trump's policies are inflicting so much harm even his allies can see it. Yet he's mostly doing exactly what he promised to. If they revolt over policy, they'll reveal they were fools to back him in the first place. They need a *moral* reason to abandon him. The Epstein files provide just that.
November 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Trump's policies are inflicting so much harm even his allies can see it. Yet he's mostly doing exactly what he promised to. If they revolt over policy, they'll reveal they were fools to back him in the first place. They need a *moral* reason to abandon him. The Epstein files provide just that.
And start ending it with “for them”
Just a thought, but what if we stop asking “how much worse can it get?”
November 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM
And start ending it with “for them”
Civ 7: RECEIVED A GREAT WORK
It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
November 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Civ 7: RECEIVED A GREAT WORK
New pen day (better photo)
November 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
New pen day (better photo)
I think I am watching Frankenstein the right way: stopping right after “Victor’s Story” and anticipating the rest
November 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I think I am watching Frankenstein the right way: stopping right after “Victor’s Story” and anticipating the rest
I love that the huge list of policies that Ratigan rolls out at the end of The Great Mouse Detective, when he thinks he’s become King, is basically Project 2025.
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I love that the huge list of policies that Ratigan rolls out at the end of The Great Mouse Detective, when he thinks he’s become King, is basically Project 2025.
This is the opening shot of the documentary about the 2020s
November 16, 2025 at 4:08 AM
This is the opening shot of the documentary about the 2020s
These people are SO FUCKING WEIRD
November 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
These people are SO FUCKING WEIRD
Reposted by Matt
jrpg main character: *wakes up*
game:
game:
November 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
jrpg main character: *wakes up*
game:
game:
An idea from the deep antiquity of the 90s: having values and sticking to them.
This is perhaps the only way I am a small c conservative: I think there are ways people ought to act, in line with their values, with honor and fairness, even in the face of overwhelming cultural forces to the contrary.
This is perhaps the only way I am a small c conservative: I think there are ways people ought to act, in line with their values, with honor and fairness, even in the face of overwhelming cultural forces to the contrary.
For folks who remember the concept of "selling out", I wrote this a few years ago so you can explain it to younger people who are not familiar with what the idea meant within culture. www.anildash.com/2023/04/18/w... It's hard to explain why someone would not license their song for a commercial.
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
An idea from the deep antiquity of the 90s: having values and sticking to them.
This is perhaps the only way I am a small c conservative: I think there are ways people ought to act, in line with their values, with honor and fairness, even in the face of overwhelming cultural forces to the contrary.
This is perhaps the only way I am a small c conservative: I think there are ways people ought to act, in line with their values, with honor and fairness, even in the face of overwhelming cultural forces to the contrary.
Here’s what I love, no matter what, about any Civ game, because they all deliver on this:
I WANT to play the menus game
::downloads EU5::
I WANT to play the menus game
::downloads EU5::
November 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Here’s what I love, no matter what, about any Civ game, because they all deliver on this:
I WANT to play the menus game
::downloads EU5::
I WANT to play the menus game
::downloads EU5::
Completed a whole game of Civ 7, on an easier difficulty to learn the systems. It seems like an evolution of Civ 6’s last update with worse UI, a lot of really interesting swings, but no one home run, and the systems ultimately weigh each other down. 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Completed a whole game of Civ 7, on an easier difficulty to learn the systems. It seems like an evolution of Civ 6’s last update with worse UI, a lot of really interesting swings, but no one home run, and the systems ultimately weigh each other down. 🧵
✊ Dare to be stupid
Everything so stupid but I have faith it can get stupider
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 AM
✊ Dare to be stupid
Reposted by Matt
They hit Pomona hard today. Across the Southland they are kidnapping 60+ people every week from bus stops, grocery stores, or just off the street. They took a flower seller today.
The disappearances in Los Angeles continue. Boyle Heights is a neighborhood in East L.A., not far from the part I grew up in. It is a majority Mexican/Central American heritage community.
boyleheightsbeat.com/boyle-height...
boyleheightsbeat.com/boyle-height...
Worker at Boyle Heights auto shop taken by immigration agents
A manager at an auto mechanic shop was taken by federal immigration agents Thursday morning in Boyle Heights, according to rapid response teams.
boyleheightsbeat.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
They hit Pomona hard today. Across the Southland they are kidnapping 60+ people every week from bus stops, grocery stores, or just off the street. They took a flower seller today.
I'm in this tweet and I don't like it
reminder: throw away the box your phone came in, you will never use it.
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I'm in this tweet and I don't like it
Reposted by Matt
The rational thing to do is to prevent MAGA supporters from being allowed onto school property at public schools across the country. I think any organized child predation ring would not be tolerated.
Wild to watch playbook run cover for this particular Trump scandal
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The rational thing to do is to prevent MAGA supporters from being allowed onto school property at public schools across the country. I think any organized child predation ring would not be tolerated.