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Matt Brown
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I make stuff at @slack.engineering

London-born, Brooklyn now

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Fact-check: true
Mamdani giving a speech while people in the foreground take selfies
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Also @catherine-vaughan.bsky.social took this v good Zohran pic yesterday
A photo of Zohran Mamdani with palm trees in the background. Mamdani is holding a microphone and smiling.
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Hey it’s mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
A photo of Zohran Mamdani standing beneath a coconut tree giving a speech A photo of Zohran Mamdani giving an evening speech outside, smiling and holding a microphone
November 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Also I love this panic-inducing loading animation
November 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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I think this was a mistake
November 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Oh no the AP has written 260,000 articles about me
September 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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One of these men is gonna be mayor (photos by me)
Zohran Mamdani, smiling, posing with three women at the West Indian Parade Andrew Cuomo looking grumpy at the West Indian Day parade
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Got into an argument with a guy in a WhatsApp group for my friend’s wedding and he came out with this absolute banger. I thought it had to be a copypasta, but no!
Screenshot that reads: “the errors in your thinking and language are so numerous and replete, i am afraid further discussion would only lead to your further perpetuating misrepresentations and continually remaining insensate to basic perception of and correct construal of empirical evidence. this would not be a constructive use of my time. good luck to you.”
August 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Ha ha yes sickos meme but with the word [sic]
July 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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New York baby
A pic of the New York skyline at dusk
July 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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These vibes
A picture of the botched “potato Christ” fresco restoration
July 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Killing baby MySpace Tom
Wesley Snipes holding gun while crying meme
July 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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A colourful firework explodes near the World Trade Center A woman struggles during a hot dog eating contest A woman is crowned the winner of Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest
July 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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I am not mad but can you fix this messed up kerning on iOS
A zoomed-in screenshot of the Bluesky iOS client centred on the word “what” with too much space between the h and the a
July 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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wait there are more
June 29, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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look what he posted about JFK SMDH
June 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Coney Island
A large firework explodes in the distance watched by a family in the foreground A couple holding a human-sized stuff banana watch fireworks
June 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Toronto is an extremely violent city. I just witnessed this guy beat up three guys and nobody around him did ANYTHING. People seemed numb to it. And then he did it AGAIN.
Pic of Jack Reacher standing under umbrellas
June 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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DeBlasio had lots of connections in NY politics from more than a decade of experience in New York politics. AOC is a better comparison — her incumbent opponent was endorsed by the party establishment (including DeBlasio)
Screenshot of a Wikipedia article about the 2018 New York's 14th congressional district election, which reads: Governor Cuomo endorsed Crowley, as did both of New York's U.S. Senators, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, as well as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, 11 U.S. Representatives, 31 local elected officials, 31 trade unions, and groups such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the Working Families Party, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, and others.
June 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Love some dive bar salsa dancing
June 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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v good blog
Screenshot of an article that reads, in part, "There is very little that aggravates me more than watching people who are either evil or stupid poorly manipulate holy texts for their own gain. I was raised in the evangelical church in Texas. My father is a minister. I have read the Bible more than probably any other book I will ever read. And I have watched, for my entire life, people who want power and glory for themselves rip out the pages and make origami swans with them in order to get the words to line up just how they want them to be, so they can justify their own actions."
June 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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the front page of the Sunday Times
June 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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June 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Though I completely agree that their ad inventory sucks. I got this when clicking an ad from the front page.
A screenshot of a misleading ad saying "Press/Click Here to Continue, Click Now to Continue" with two buttons "Close" and "Open"
June 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Here Lionel Bently suggests that AI training is *probably* legal under copyright law — but the outputs are likely not copyrightable. Definitely does not seem to be an open-and-shut thing among legal scholars.
Screenshot of a podcast transcript that reads, in part: And at one level, to train an Al system, you have to make some temporary reproductions of the work, but you're doing it in a different way, probably, than most reproductions, because the reproductions are not really for the expressive form of the work. They're being made so that the Al system can analyze the work and generate connections between different aspects of the work.
May 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM