Matthew Terrill
@matthewterrill.bsky.social
Poetry, art, music, urbanism, justice. Runner for sport and cyclist for transport. Arts & Culture finance leader. Learning to thrive with ADHD. Finding the sacred all around. (he/him)
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Good riddance to Nico Harrison, the personification of everything that’s going on. Blew up something good because he didn’t understand it and it didn’t conform to his vision of toughness. One of the clearest pictures of Everyone Is 12 Now ever produced. Untold damage to my psyche. Enjoy podcasting.
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Good riddance to Nico Harrison, the personification of everything that’s going on. Blew up something good because he didn’t understand it and it didn’t conform to his vision of toughness. One of the clearest pictures of Everyone Is 12 Now ever produced. Untold damage to my psyche. Enjoy podcasting.
Remembering my grandfather — my best ancestor and relentless cheerleader — on Veterans Day. He served in the Air Force between WW2 & Korea. He passed on this date in 2004, and I still miss him.
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Remembering my grandfather — my best ancestor and relentless cheerleader — on Veterans Day. He served in the Air Force between WW2 & Korea. He passed on this date in 2004, and I still miss him.
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I (along with many of my cousins) was in the third generation of those who served in my family. The next generation served too. The choice to serve for black folk has not tended to be the patriotism of white folk. We have our own investment in this country built on our bones cemented with our blood.
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I (along with many of my cousins) was in the third generation of those who served in my family. The next generation served too. The choice to serve for black folk has not tended to be the patriotism of white folk. We have our own investment in this country built on our bones cemented with our blood.
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I'm mad about the shut down and worried about healthcare, but not letting people starve is a pretty good reason to cave on this bureaucratic fight, the more I think about it. So just say that: Republicans wanted you to starve rather than compromise, so we let this one go.
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I'm mad about the shut down and worried about healthcare, but not letting people starve is a pretty good reason to cave on this bureaucratic fight, the more I think about it. So just say that: Republicans wanted you to starve rather than compromise, so we let this one go.
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Exactly this. Republicans were exhibiting a classic hostage-taking strategy. Call them out on this. It's a monstrous thing to do to use starving kids as a political tool, but *especially* when you consider they did it to ensure that healthcare costs would go up. Truly evil shit.
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Exactly this. Republicans were exhibiting a classic hostage-taking strategy. Call them out on this. It's a monstrous thing to do to use starving kids as a political tool, but *especially* when you consider they did it to ensure that healthcare costs would go up. Truly evil shit.
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Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next
Helpful context. If I'm reading correctly, it seems like this does *NOT* ban CBD products at all, and only bans *synthetic* THC products?
Here are the facts. As you might expect, it’s more complicated. www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/hemp/news/15...
Hemp Product Ban Included in Deal to Reopen Government
Intoxicating hemp products would be prohibited under a three-bill spending package the Senate negotiated in a plan to end the government shutdown.
www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Helpful context. If I'm reading correctly, it seems like this does *NOT* ban CBD products at all, and only bans *synthetic* THC products?
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"The new limits “will eliminate 100 percent of the hemp products in our country,” Ron Paul said.
“Every (hemp) plant in the country will have to be destroyed.”"
“Every (hemp) plant in the country will have to be destroyed.”"
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"The new limits “will eliminate 100 percent of the hemp products in our country,” Ron Paul said.
“Every (hemp) plant in the country will have to be destroyed.”"
“Every (hemp) plant in the country will have to be destroyed.”"
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It’s disturbing and discomforting to examine but there are several anti-phone and anti-social media initiatives weaponizing murders and suicides of teens, leveraging grieving parents, and exaggerating or inventing causation to try and limit speech online and restrict tech freedoms
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It’s disturbing and discomforting to examine but there are several anti-phone and anti-social media initiatives weaponizing murders and suicides of teens, leveraging grieving parents, and exaggerating or inventing causation to try and limit speech online and restrict tech freedoms
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They used to give these away free in Burger King en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_So...
iPod Socks - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
They used to give these away free in Burger King en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_So...
wut
It's a sock, for your phone! It costs two hundred and thirty real life dollars!
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
wut
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Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity
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Trump is *unilaterally* giving massive tax cuts to private equity, crypto, and foreign real estate investors.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Trump is *unilaterally* giving massive tax cuts to private equity, crypto, and foreign real estate investors.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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The new Republican plan same as the old Republican plan: Fucking die already.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The new Republican plan same as the old Republican plan: Fucking die already.
The Chair Company has turned the Tim Robinson of it all up to 11. Idk yet if it’s “good” or not but it sure is weird as hell.
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The Chair Company has turned the Tim Robinson of it all up to 11. Idk yet if it’s “good” or not but it sure is weird as hell.
Wemby. Sheesh.
First 35+ pt, 10+ reb, 5+ 3pt FG, 5+ ast, 5+ block game in NBA history
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Wemby. Sheesh.
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we're an unwell country and culture and you can tell because so many people can't help but watch the NFL
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
we're an unwell country and culture and you can tell because so many people can't help but watch the NFL
A guy whose hips reach mid-chest height on most other NBA players should not have handles, crossover, & step back like that. It’s hazardous to other players’ health!
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
A guy whose hips reach mid-chest height on most other NBA players should not have handles, crossover, & step back like that. It’s hazardous to other players’ health!
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I am not a crazy ideologue. I just think that the richest society in human history has a moral responsibility to welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, treat the sick, and house the homeless. If doing that requires forcing comfortably-housed people to accept neighborhood change, I'm ok with that.
Probably the key part of this piece. It comes down to the following: "What does prioritizing millionaire homeowners’ aversion to change over the needs of the poor and unhoused do to our souls?"
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I am not a crazy ideologue. I just think that the richest society in human history has a moral responsibility to welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, treat the sick, and house the homeless. If doing that requires forcing comfortably-housed people to accept neighborhood change, I'm ok with that.
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Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.