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Matthew Hurst
@matthurst.bsky.social
Recovering social media geek in Hoboken, NJ
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For all the birds flocking away from the storm:
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I know I’m just pointlessly driving myself insane, a broken record screaming into the void, but just imagine the headlines if Obama had been too bored to hear about threats to the country.
May 31, 2025 at 10:55 PM
If I buy Active Greens at Costco, do I need to retroactively buy every YouTuber’s subs on Patreon as payment?
June 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Every single LamePro joke published in GamePro magazine between 1993 - 1999: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kHR...
LamePro in the 1990s: A Comprehensive Look at GamePro's April Fools Pranks - Defunct Games
YouTube video by Defunct Games
www.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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How Digital Archivists Are Saving Public Information from the Memory Hole
➡️ spectrum.ieee.org/digital-arch...
Can We Trust Our Government to Safeguard Vital Research Data? Meet the Digital Archivists Battling to Keep Information Accessible!
Through clever usage of APIs, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School has created an archive of Data.gov, home to 311,000 public datasets
spectrum.ieee.org
April 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Sonic says…

#PSA #AprilFools
April 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Jurassic masquerade
March 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
RIP Joey Ramone
March 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The thought police are back
Federal government agencies have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, including clean energy, climate crisis, climate science, environmental quality, and pollution.

These words literally refer to the quality of our life support system on Earth.
The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump (Gift Article)
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
www.nytimes.com
March 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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This might be the most relevant line in pop culture history. #StarWars
a man and a woman are standing next to each other with the words so this is how liberty dies
ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other with the words so this is how liberty dies
media.tenor.com
January 22, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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They'll bounce back.
January 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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dusted off my years of mining experience to parse a reason trump’s people say they want greenland: rare minerals

if you want to understand why, i get into it. but i also dive into how we don’t need to take it over to get these minerals at all.

cc @heatmap.news

heatmap.news/sparks/trump...
One Reason Trump Wants Greenland: Critical Minerals
The island is home to one of the richest rare earth deposits in the world.
heatmap.news
January 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Young people from working-class backgrounds are being “blocked” from entering the creative industries, which remain “elitist” and inaccessible, according to research.
Young working-class people being ‘blocked’ from creative industries, study finds
Sutton Trust calls for improved access to creative education and industry dominated by upper middle-class
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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it is extraordinary to see ostensibly professional political observers essentially lying about the campaign we all just witnessed
Can't imagine why this guy would have a chip on his shoulder about language policing
November 13, 2024 at 4:11 PM
November 13, 2024 at 2:24 PM
For all the birds flocking away from the storm:
November 13, 2024 at 2:22 PM
When is someone going to bring the John Titor story to the big screen? www.documentaries.org/films/john-t...
November 8, 2023 at 5:24 AM
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Six months after leaving Twitter…not a lot has changed for NPR. My latest: niemanreports.org/articles/npr...
October 11, 2023 at 6:39 PM
Remember when we were all scared about how #DeepFake videos would poison politics? Now accelerate that with AI app.voicemy.ai/voice?textID...
voicemy.ai
Create your AI voice or song. Share and inspire!
app.voicemy.ai
September 26, 2023 at 1:55 PM
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when i compare what i remember of how the '94 baseball strike and the '07 writers' strike were talked about in public versus how these recent labor actions were received, i come again to the conclusion that the upper class really shot themselves in the dick when they destroyed the newspaper business
September 25, 2023 at 11:31 AM
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Today, you can order four free COVID tests.

Go here: www.covid.gov/tests

Pass it on.
September 25, 2023 at 10:03 AM
Possibly the first composer to unintentionally optimize for keywords? youtu.be/-rh8gMvzPw0?... #GoodMorning
Edvard Grieg: "Peer Gynt - Morning Mood"
Peer Gynt es un drama del escritor Noruego Henrik Ibsen. Fue escrito en 1867, e interpretado por primera vez en Oslo (entonces llamada Christiania) el 24 de ...
youtu.be
September 24, 2023 at 12:38 PM
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Whoever got to Drew’s wikipedia is a hero
September 13, 2023 at 2:36 AM
Thank you @beatgrrrl.bsky.social for the invite! You can follow her for a fun mix of art, music, pop culture, and politics.
August 27, 2023 at 12:35 PM
There ain’t a cloud in sight open.spotify.com/track/2RlgNH...
August 26, 2023 at 1:45 PM