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Matt Henry 🥄
@matthenry.fyi
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Tech, law, philosophy, and abolition. Web optimist. I build design systems for governments. This is (obviously?) a personal account. he/him
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gm to this bird who hung out on my barbell between sets
A small bird sits on top of a 20kg bumper plate in a garage gym
October 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Bucky wants things
A dog looks expectantly at the camera. In the foreground is a bowl of buttery popcorn. In the background, Gru from Despicable Me makes a similar face to the dog A small fuzzy dog looks with longing at the camera. A blurry banana is in the immediate foreground.
October 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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🎵 I heard there was a sacred thread
A SovCit for its return had pled
But you aren’t in the proper venue
Are you 🎶
A brief court order reads: In this post-judgment matter, a third party pleads for the return of a sacred thread, among other requests not always coherently stated but which appear to have been denied in actions pending in other jurisdictions, all these requests for relief now being made to all judges and senators and others beside (Dkt. No. 267). This court lacks jurisdiction to consider any of these requests. The third-party filing is DISMISSED. IT IS SO ORDERED.
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Day 1 of furlough
Ben Wyatt (from Parks & Rec) shrugs, looking disheveled in his iconic Letters to Cleo t-shirt
October 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Karl Rove of all people told us it’s the French theorists’ world we’re all living in
The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.
September 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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There was some context behind making this but I feel like it's a iykyk thing anyway you slice it
A modifed dril tweet says "This Whole Thing Smack of Gender," i holler as I hand write some CSS
September 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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I love Claire Rousay and Merce Lemon but it was magical being here when Rousay played to almost empty club.
Claire Rousay plays to an almost empty club Merce Lemon plays to a much fuller club.
September 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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I hope Guild gives Dana E. a commission from this review
A Reverb.com review of a guitar says: ***** Amazing budget guitar that punches way above it's weight Dana E. This is an incredible model that Guild just released in 2024 and it sounds and feels way more expensive than it's price tag. Easy to play, sounds woody and vibey, and very fun to record with i all different kinds of tunings and acoustic styles. Nick Drake fans will especially love this guitar!
August 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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unfortunately this reminds me of one of the best (read: worst) bits in The Stand
a book excerpt reads: "Stuart!" she cried, and waved to him, smiling. Lesbian? he thought doubtfully. "I understand you're off on a little trip," he said.
August 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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I promise he wasn’t actually this sad
A pencil sketch of a shaggy, bearded dog looking very sad
August 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Not me writing citation signals in my notes about software
A note about some web component architecture includes a citation signal: "see, e.g."
July 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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I use that site all the time for myself for the use case it says on the tin. And it's very good if you have a particular trigger you want to check for. But even that site doesn't always have enough context. I'd argue this misses quite a bit of context about why the scene in question is upsetting.
A screenshot from doesthedogdie.com shows a question: "Is there gun violence?" and the answer "A man is shot and killed"
July 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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How I feel going outside even briefly
A man in a bulky costume with a blank, dejected expression says “I don’t even want to be around anymore.” (ie the Karl Havoc meme)
July 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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More like Hard Pass amirite?

Seriously though this sucks.
An episode of the Hard Fork podcast is titled “a mind-bending conversation with Peter Thiel”
July 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Gotta hand it to @stephenking.bsky.social for imagining that, at the end of the world, the techies would flock to the side of evil incarnate.
"Why do you think we'd get most of the people?" "For a very unscientific reason," Glen said, riffling his tonsure of hair with one hand. "I like to believe most people are good. And I believe that whoever is running the show west of us is really bad. But I have a hunch..." He trailed off. "Go on, spill it." "I will because I'm drunk. But it stays be- tween us, Stuart." "All right." "Your word?" "My word," Stu said. "I think he's going to get most of the techies," Glen said finally. "Don't ask me why; it's just a hunch. Except that tech people like to work in an atmosphere of tight discipline and linear goals, for the most part. They like it when the trains run on time. What we've got here in Boulder right now is mass confusion, everyone bopping along and doing his own thing ... and we've got to do something about what my students would have called 'getting our shit together.' But that other fellow ... I'll bet he's got the trains running on time and all his ducks in a row. And techies are just as human as the rest of us; they'll go where they're wanted the most. I've a suspicion that our Adversary wants as many as he can get. Fuck the farmers, he'd just as soon have a few men who can dust off those Idaho missile silos and get them operational again. Ditto tanks and helicopters and maybe a B-52 bomber or two just for chuckles. I doubt if he's gotten that far yet-in fact, I'm sure of it. We'd know. Right now he's probably still concentrating on getting the power back on, re-establishing communications ... maybe he's even had to indulge in a purge of the fainthearted. Rome wasn't built in a day, and he'll know that. He has time. But when I watch the sun go down at night-this is no shit, Stuart-I get scared. I don't need bad dreams to scare me any-more. All I have to do is think of them over there on the other side of the Rockies, busy as little bees."
July 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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God I love philosophy open.substack.com/pub/newworki...
The screamed vocals problem: Why do appreciators of emotional hardcore music value screamed vocals, to the point of positively delighting in hearing them, while acknowledging that it would be inappropriate to hold similar attitudes towards their sonically similar everyday counterpart, i.e. actual human screaming?
June 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I love this from @caseyjohnston.bsky.social’s book so, so much. I’ll never be a great lifter, but I don’t have to be great to love it. It’s a thing I do that’s just for me, and it’s totally changed my relationship with my own body.
It was that I'd finally been everywhere it felt reasonable to go in my bodily journey; I had finally found like minds and support and acceptance. I also had a firm sense that there wasn't some preternaturally gifted athlete inside me waiting to leap out and achieve, which was the kind of pressure under which I'd done everything up until then. Instead, I was filled with a small, tender little seedling of this relationship with myself, with this movement, that mattered only to me and was only for me, and most importantly, I did not care for it to matter to anyone else.
May 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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My 6yo asked me yesterday what philosophy is and as much as I love this description, it probably would’ve raised more questions than it answered (typical of philosophy, tbh)
David Hills (who teaches at Stanford) describes philosophy as “the ungainly attempt to tackle questions that come naturally to children, using methods that come naturally to lawyers.”
May 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Key & Peele college football-ass name
An elder scrolls oblivion character is named “Contumeliorus Florius“
May 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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I haven’t watched it, but I hope he acknowledged his own complicity in driving those narratives. He at least did so at the time.
Bill Clinton, for instance. had spent so much of his career bashing civil servants that afrer the Oklahoma City bombing, he actually felt moved to remind Americans that public servants were human beings unto themselves, and promised never to use the word "bureaucrat"again
April 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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The banana wanter
A shaggy blonde schnauzer/chihuahua mix sits patiently, looking up at the camera with a pleading face. A blurry banana is just visible in the frame
April 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Boss Baby vibes
A tweet by Twitter user @afraidofwasps reads: Guy who has only seen The Boss Baby, watching his second movie: Getting a lot of 'Boss Baby' vibes from this...
April 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)
A Duolingo exercise asks the user to translate the German sentence “Man soll nie lügen.” The answer below is: “you should never lie”
April 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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reader, it broke everything
A CircleCI build status message says: Uh-oh, this workflow did not succeed. The associated commit message says: does this break everything? let's see!
April 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Choosing to believe he’s singing along because he’s into it
April 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM