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Matty
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we'll do the list with periods thing
historian. musician. photographer.
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Remember—Billionaire philanthropy is PR

$6.25B is a lot of money. It’s also only 4.1% of the $152B Michael Dell has hoarded. If Dell paid the 37% tax rate on the wealthy he'd pay $56.25B—and still have nearly $100B, more than he'd ever need

Taxation of billionaires > philanthropy from billionaires
December 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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"Elon Musk is personally responsible for the deaths of at least 400,000 children" is a stat that should be cited every time he and his pervert fanboys start yapping about birth rates
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”

People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Trump is welcoming MBS, the Saudi crown prince, to the White House. This is the dictator who had a U.S. columnist murdered for criticizing the Saudi royal family.

Sadly, we have a president who prefers the Saudi model — an autocracy run by a trillionaire family — to democracy.
November 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
i am a domestic antifa
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Trump's upcoming National Security Strategy identifies the "homeland" as its top priority (above even China!) sources who have seen the strategy tell me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-nation...
ICE, National Guard Deployments Just the Beginning
Upcoming national security strategy makes “homeland” top priority
www.kenklippenstein.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???
November 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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After the AI bubble I hope the next bubble is Laser Tag. Laser tag arenas on every street corner. Blacklight lit battlefields propping up every sector of the economy. A one story building by the side of the highway called “Blast Zone: Pizza & Arcade” valued at $2.7 trillion
November 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
a cabin in sweden, a hotel in turkey

#xh2s
September 15, 2025 at 3:46 AM
you can tell the difference between a rough day and a dark soul usually
September 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
do NOT pay your medical bills !!!
September 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
STOP PAYING YOUR STUDENT LOANS !!!
September 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
we really ought to all just stop paying our student loans huh
September 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
maybe stop the precedent of absolving all preceding presidents of their purely putrid actions
September 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
August 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back.
"The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
August 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Michelle Carter was convicted of manslaughter for the death of Conrad Roy by encouraging his suicide btw
I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today

This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be

OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business
August 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
third wave coffee has finally hit istanbul. having the most interesting cortado of my life in kadiköy rn
August 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
so cool to have people sing and dance along to a song you helped write ☺️
August 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
there were nazis in the bathrooms
now they're on the news
August 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
it's official, after more than two weeks, my last little film has finally finished processing in 8k. why? I really am not sure.
youtu.be/OSQ1L1pv9E4?...
turkey, again - reflections on an old religion and time spent with old friends
YouTube video by Matthew Neiman
youtu.be
August 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Sea stars—26 species—have been dying by the billions from Mexico to Alaska, their arms tearing off, their bodies dissolving, w/huge consequences for the sea.

Experts finally figured out why— and gave @biographic.bsky.social exclusive access.

Can we save them? www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...
Unmasking the Sea Star Killer
After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?
www.biographic.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM