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Matthew Terrill
@matthewterrill.bsky.social
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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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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
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two weeks is classic Trump code for "complete and utter bullshit he made up just to sound vaguely like he's doing something"
triptych of stills from Arrested Development, each showing GOB Bluth 1. He looks down at Michael. "I said 'That's why you're no longer president.'" 2. He has a crazed look and has pumped his right fist hooking under his face "Two week. Let's do it in two weeks! HEEEEYYYY!" 3. He has both arms raised and has done a magic trick to dump a bunch of pennies on the conference table.
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Coming back to this, because I took a break from my desk to spend a few moments with one of my favorite “dispatches from real places,” an early Rembrandt masterwork that so clearly shows Caravaggio’s influence in its composition
Light green fabric on a wall, with an elaborate gilded frame surrounding a mostly dark self portrait of young Rembrandt, lit from the left of the image an arc of light bends across his shoulder, bisects his face in light on the left and shadow in the right, and the arc curves up along the same line as the black feather emerging from his beret cap. Golden cords sparkle on the shoulder, on the cap, and in a gauzy blue scarf around his neck. Rembrandt gases softly but directly and intently at the viewer.
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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“He's got a point.
The fair thing for us to do is
just keep on giving up
more and more stuff we want, unilaterally,
until this demon is finally happy.”
—The Good Place
He's got a point. The fair thing for us to do is just keep on giving up more and more stuff we want, unilaterally, until this demon is finally happy.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Look at my sweet dog, basking in a sunbeam. 🥰
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis (2008) / Frankenstein (2025)
November 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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I migrated my playlists yesterday in about 3 minutes. You can do it directly in iPhone Settings —> Music —> Transfer
November 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Only right for a mafioso’s final form to be Neapolitan
November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Exactly! Nothing wrong w the slide, it’s just built for children, not adults! And too many white adults saw a cop demonstrate that and said
November 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Best thing I’ve read this week. A fullhearted defense of real, human art.

“The truth is I had come looking for this. That my days and maybe yours too all feel terrorized by the synthetic, by impostors, by preening frauds spouting homilies… I had come looking for dispatches from real places.”
It is a blockbuster. It feels like something holy and cataclysmic is happening on that wall but also a little like walking in on a mob hit. There is dread, seething rage, chaos, shock and bodies bent in horror, passion, vulgarity, cowards fleeing, a mess of limbs, violence and desperation, pure panic barfing up out of the face of a young girl, all of it all at once. The crumpled Saint Matthew looks up as an innocent, heavenly cherub reaches the palm of martyrdom down for him. The truth is I had come looking for this. That my days and maybe yours too all feel terrorized by the synthetic, by impostors, by preening frauds spouting homilies, terrible kings of our crooked age making their own shady deals, by commercials and terrible minimovies and nu-tech demonstrations, factory-farmed gigabytes of television that no one will watch. Cheap art, glitching art, fake art, art that is proud that you know it is fake, can you imagine all the possibilities for commerce? I had come looking to have my ass handed to me, is what I'm saying. I had come looking for dispatches from real
November 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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November 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Fox News Wimp Lo
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Losing is actually winning
November 6, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Evening dog walks might be fully dark now, but at least I got this cool photo of @lynnae.bsky.social looking like a phantom under a streetlit tunnel of fall colors.
November 6, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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I love Boston. I've made it my home for 13 years -- even if I haven't yet been able to *buy* a home. I can't stand the mentality in so many Eastern MA suburb and exurb towns that amounts to "if you weren't born here, don't come here. I got mine, you can't make me change, screw you."
November 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Yes to fuck AI — my Halloween costume was the AI bubble, also made without AI.
November 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Same. She’s been curled up next to or on me for about 3 hours now. I both love it and actually need to get up, but she’s more important, lol.
November 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Halloween 2025 and the AI bubble
November 1, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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October 31, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Seen in Portland.
“Good God get a grip girl.”
A mural on the side of a brick building is mostly painted black with a lot of green, white, and red, at the bottom two-thirds. But the top shows in white letters “Good God get a grip girl”
October 31, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Process Theologians may have gotten me. 😉 Also @lynnae.bsky.social dropped a major bar “worship music” = “worship of whiteness, the same today as it was yesterday.”
October 31, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Today in everyday poetry: a 7-Eleven in Portland, Maine has been blasting opera all day and I love whatever aesthete is responsible for it.
October 30, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Guess my meme is going to remain grotesquely relevant.
October 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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“There's no need – ever – for a swollen federal agency with a settled internal culture of sadism, secrecy, deception, & racial profiling… that understands itself to operate under no legal or moral constraints, to exist at all. To tolerate such an agency is already to live under tyranny, full stop.”
I can say, for example, that the freedom to move seems as basic as the right to speak, worship, marry, or exist; I can say that the immigrant is one of the biblical writers' favorite types, right up there with the orphan and the widow, for "person you have to be good to." But the mental gesture by which I classify millions of other people as examples of the issue of immigration, even for the purpose of defending them, also deadens me to what matters here. Suddenly we're debating not this threatened lady, this malnourished baby, this scarred man, but immigrants, people who raise a grave issue that must be balanced against other issues like homogeneity or social cohesion or whatever. Homogeneity is for gallons of milk, not communities of people, and social cohesion is something we create every day through our behavior, not something we guarantee in advance by making sure that everybody is the right kind of White person. We have only to translate this language into particulars to see how ridiculous the debate is. On the one hand, this young person wishes to escape persecution, to live near family, or simply to have a job; on the other hand, it makes Grandpa uncomfortable when people speak Spanish at the grocery store. In any case, we must get immigration right. like it much. We don't like seeing pastors shot with pepper spray while masked goons laugh. We don't enjoy seeing three-year-olds ziptied on the sidewalk while an entire apartment building is trashed. We don't love being menaced by costumed men who won't show a badge or identify themselves in any way—who cannot be distinguished from an unusually evil biker gang and like it that way, who consider you a criminal if you hesitate before obeying their every whim, and with whom the current administration entirely agrees on this point. We'd rather that they not burst into our cars while we're waiting to pick up our children from schools, whether or not our paperwork is in order. We had a vague idea that the Constitution proscribed this sort of thing. The depredations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has emerged as the president's private masked army, have been so extreme that "abolish ICE" is rapidly becoming the common-sense, middle-of-the-road, boring Democratic Party position. There's no need— ever-for a swollen federal agency with a settled internal culture of sadism, secrecy, deception, and racial profiling, an agency that understands itself to operate under no legal or moral constraints, to exist at all. To tolerate such an agency is already to live under tyranny, full stop.
October 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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And her great uncle’s lovingly-restored 1963(?) Mercury Montclair
October 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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A perfect turquoise BelAire and a cherry tomato 67 Corvette Stingray
October 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM