Matt Seden
@mattseden.bsky.social
Honestly one of the worst, most brain-rotten headlines I've ever seen in my life. Not only making a false and dangerous claim, but doing it extremely clumsily and with utterly cowardice.
If you support Trump and MAGA just say so, instead of performing this 'both sides' charade.
If you support Trump and MAGA just say so, instead of performing this 'both sides' charade.
December 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Honestly one of the worst, most brain-rotten headlines I've ever seen in my life. Not only making a false and dangerous claim, but doing it extremely clumsily and with utterly cowardice.
If you support Trump and MAGA just say so, instead of performing this 'both sides' charade.
If you support Trump and MAGA just say so, instead of performing this 'both sides' charade.
I mean, the people putting focus on the stuff he did at Dulwich College know full well who he is. They're trying to convince others to see him for who he is. Is that weird/bad/confusing? What else are they supposed to do? It's self-evident to them and to you, but not to others. So then what?
December 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I mean, the people putting focus on the stuff he did at Dulwich College know full well who he is. They're trying to convince others to see him for who he is. Is that weird/bad/confusing? What else are they supposed to do? It's self-evident to them and to you, but not to others. So then what?
I agree with the spirit of this, but I also don't think it's surprising that in an environment where racism is systematically explained away, being able to (potentially) pin him to harder-to-explain-away racist things in his past has some currency.
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I agree with the spirit of this, but I also don't think it's surprising that in an environment where racism is systematically explained away, being able to (potentially) pin him to harder-to-explain-away racist things in his past has some currency.
Very much not the point but on 'Would I Lie to You' Henning Wehn shared that he has zero mirrors in his house (spoiler alert - it was true) and I've not stopped thinking about it since
October 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Very much not the point but on 'Would I Lie to You' Henning Wehn shared that he has zero mirrors in his house (spoiler alert - it was true) and I've not stopped thinking about it since
Famously high but depending on where you look NYC rent is 30-40-50% more. Same on salaries. People's mental models are slow to update. Up until the late 90s the UK and US were a lot more even economically. Just not the case any more, and people are disinclined to notice it / believe it
September 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Famously high but depending on where you look NYC rent is 30-40-50% more. Same on salaries. People's mental models are slow to update. Up until the late 90s the UK and US were a lot more even economically. Just not the case any more, and people are disinclined to notice it / believe it
I think New Yorkers would be shocked at what many highly-qualified people in London think of as a good salary. And I think if many Londoners knew what they could get paid in NYC they'd be equally shocked. For many industries it's a 30-40-50% cut from there to here (have experienced this first hand)
September 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I think New Yorkers would be shocked at what many highly-qualified people in London think of as a good salary. And I think if many Londoners knew what they could get paid in NYC they'd be equally shocked. For many industries it's a 30-40-50% cut from there to here (have experienced this first hand)
To your point, a New Yorker thinks of $3-4k rent as normal, and I just think that scans very differently here. There are whole sections of youngish urban society in the US on $200-300-400k salaries, it exists here too of course but it's nowhere near as common
September 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
To your point, a New Yorker thinks of $3-4k rent as normal, and I just think that scans very differently here. There are whole sections of youngish urban society in the US on $200-300-400k salaries, it exists here too of course but it's nowhere near as common
Didn't mean to suggest anything about you personally (apologies if it came off that way), but lived in NYC myself for 6 yrs before coming back to the UK and there's a big difference in salaries and lifestyle - bigger than most people on both sides think, in my experience
September 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Didn't mean to suggest anything about you personally (apologies if it came off that way), but lived in NYC myself for 6 yrs before coming back to the UK and there's a big difference in salaries and lifestyle - bigger than most people on both sides think, in my experience
We've seen this movie before and it doesn't end well. Suspect part of the psychology of this is unwillingness to confront one's own impotence. By being the angel in the US President's ear UK PMs can maintain illusion of global power/influence
September 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
We've seen this movie before and it doesn't end well. Suspect part of the psychology of this is unwillingness to confront one's own impotence. By being the angel in the US President's ear UK PMs can maintain illusion of global power/influence
The steely desire to represent the far-right's campus speech critique as a good faith, principled argument is almost impressive in its determined, almost willful wrong-headedness. Fascinated/horrified by the collective psychology of this
September 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The steely desire to represent the far-right's campus speech critique as a good faith, principled argument is almost impressive in its determined, almost willful wrong-headedness. Fascinated/horrified by the collective psychology of this
Saw that and thought they were well-meaning. Trying to have your back by saying if you leave a permanent paper trail it's worse for you. Don't think they at all meant don't do it, the opposite in fact. Overly cautious maybe but I thought on your team
August 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Saw that and thought they were well-meaning. Trying to have your back by saying if you leave a permanent paper trail it's worse for you. Don't think they at all meant don't do it, the opposite in fact. Overly cautious maybe but I thought on your team
If you think all these people are united only by Trump at this stage I think you're massively missing the point
August 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
If you think all these people are united only by Trump at this stage I think you're massively missing the point
It doesn't have to be coherent
August 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
It doesn't have to be coherent
Exactly. Vance might fall apart in days, weeks, months, whatever. There will be ugly infighting. But at some point someone will pop up and move the thing forward. At this point it's more a movement looking for a leader than a leader cultivating a movement. That's the bit some don't seem to get.
August 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Exactly. Vance might fall apart in days, weeks, months, whatever. There will be ugly infighting. But at some point someone will pop up and move the thing forward. At this point it's more a movement looking for a leader than a leader cultivating a movement. That's the bit some don't seem to get.
Would have agreed with you in his first term, not now. The coherence of the political platform is a secondary consideration at best, and Trump's role in the movement overstated at this point. Yes there'd be some infighting for a period, but the overall direction is clear, with or without him
August 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Would have agreed with you in his first term, not now. The coherence of the political platform is a secondary consideration at best, and Trump's role in the movement overstated at this point. Yes there'd be some infighting for a period, but the overall direction is clear, with or without him
This may have been somewhat true in 2016, but not now. It's no longer a cult, it's a fundamental shift. The population is way further right than it used to be. People believe in this stuff in a way they didn't then, and the levers of power have been taken over. Trump dying isn't going to change that
August 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This may have been somewhat true in 2016, but not now. It's no longer a cult, it's a fundamental shift. The population is way further right than it used to be. People believe in this stuff in a way they didn't then, and the levers of power have been taken over. Trump dying isn't going to change that
It's way past that point - the horse has bolted, American democracy is toast. If anything it's likely to morph into something even more sinister, with or without Trump
August 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
It's way past that point - the horse has bolted, American democracy is toast. If anything it's likely to morph into something even more sinister, with or without Trump
It's such an obviously morally bankrupt position. And even from a purely pragmatic political perspective it's a huge own goal. It won't win them more than a handful of votes from the right and it's alienating huge swathes of people to the left
August 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
It's such an obviously morally bankrupt position. And even from a purely pragmatic political perspective it's a huge own goal. It won't win them more than a handful of votes from the right and it's alienating huge swathes of people to the left