Matt Stevens
@mattstevens.bsky.social
Never quite old enough to know better.
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social media bans are not the solution to toxic tech platforms
and they hurt the most vulnerable kids
lgbtqia kids are NOT acceptable collateral damage
to stop these companies, kill their toxic business model at source
(e.g. Netherlands just required non-algo feeds)
everything else is theatre.
and they hurt the most vulnerable kids
lgbtqia kids are NOT acceptable collateral damage
to stop these companies, kill their toxic business model at source
(e.g. Netherlands just required non-algo feeds)
everything else is theatre.
The people who came to Brianna's vigil were the many friends, as an isolated trans girl, she had made on social media. The people who were convicted of her murder knew her in real life, and used transphobic slurs to discuss her.
January 20, 2026 at 9:46 AM
social media bans are not the solution to toxic tech platforms
and they hurt the most vulnerable kids
lgbtqia kids are NOT acceptable collateral damage
to stop these companies, kill their toxic business model at source
(e.g. Netherlands just required non-algo feeds)
everything else is theatre.
and they hurt the most vulnerable kids
lgbtqia kids are NOT acceptable collateral damage
to stop these companies, kill their toxic business model at source
(e.g. Netherlands just required non-algo feeds)
everything else is theatre.
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This is huge: For the first time since the early 1970s, coal power generation has fallen in both China & India.
It undercuts claims that decarbonisation is pointless while they expand coal. Renewables are no longer just adding capacity — they’re displacing coal.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
It undercuts claims that decarbonisation is pointless while they expand coal. Renewables are no longer just adding capacity — they’re displacing coal.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Coal power generation falls in China and India for first time since 1970s
‘Historic’ moment in biggest coal-consuming countries could bring decline in global emissions, analysis says
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:34 AM
This is huge: For the first time since the early 1970s, coal power generation has fallen in both China & India.
It undercuts claims that decarbonisation is pointless while they expand coal. Renewables are no longer just adding capacity — they’re displacing coal.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
It undercuts claims that decarbonisation is pointless while they expand coal. Renewables are no longer just adding capacity — they’re displacing coal.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Atwood: men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
The Times: and both those things are equally bad 🥺
The Times: and both those things are equally bad 🥺
January 10, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Atwood: men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
The Times: and both those things are equally bad 🥺
The Times: and both those things are equally bad 🥺
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I'm not sure I've ever been to a gig quite like Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn at The Moth Club last night. Here's why.
Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt at The Moth Club, Hackney: “Two cosmic serendipities threw down a line that started in 1982 and continued unbroken into last night.” | Pete Paphides
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December 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I'm not sure I've ever been to a gig quite like Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn at The Moth Club last night. Here's why.
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Putin has claimed Ukrainian defenders in Kupiansk were surrounded by russian troops.
He even invited international media there to verify it.
President Zelenskyy did some mythbusting, visiting the city.
Kupiansk is Ukraine.
Video by Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
He even invited international media there to verify it.
President Zelenskyy did some mythbusting, visiting the city.
Kupiansk is Ukraine.
Video by Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
December 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Putin has claimed Ukrainian defenders in Kupiansk were surrounded by russian troops.
He even invited international media there to verify it.
President Zelenskyy did some mythbusting, visiting the city.
Kupiansk is Ukraine.
Video by Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
He even invited international media there to verify it.
President Zelenskyy did some mythbusting, visiting the city.
Kupiansk is Ukraine.
Video by Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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Grok denying the Holocaust here
November 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Grok denying the Holocaust here
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So many of the refugees that I met Calais and Dunkirk in September were women fleeing the war in Amhara, Ethiopia. It is, in the West, a totally forgotten war, which I regret to say I was totally ignorant of before I met them. bbc.com/news/article...
Ethiopia's Amhara conflict: The forgotten war destroying women's lives
Thousands of women have been raped in Ethiopia’s Amhara conflict, BBC Global Women finds.
bbc.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
So many of the refugees that I met Calais and Dunkirk in September were women fleeing the war in Amhara, Ethiopia. It is, in the West, a totally forgotten war, which I regret to say I was totally ignorant of before I met them. bbc.com/news/article...
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So a weird thing happened to me in Aldi that I cdn't quite place until I was listening to Gabby Bertin talking about choking in porn on the radio this am. (NB: this is 100% not a sex thing). Having the usual polite chitchat with the cashier who is tired from working extra shifts to make £ for xmas..
November 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
So a weird thing happened to me in Aldi that I cdn't quite place until I was listening to Gabby Bertin talking about choking in porn on the radio this am. (NB: this is 100% not a sex thing). Having the usual polite chitchat with the cashier who is tired from working extra shifts to make £ for xmas..
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🚨🚨Things are just getting worse. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules
Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.
www.politico.eu
November 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
🚨🚨Things are just getting worse. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
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This spectacular @thetimes.com screw-up deserves much wider attention. It’s the second bullshit story that the “paper of record” has deleted in a week after Monday’s attempted hatchet job on @torstenbell.bsky.social. A sad descent for a once serious paper
November 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This spectacular @thetimes.com screw-up deserves much wider attention. It’s the second bullshit story that the “paper of record” has deleted in a week after Monday’s attempted hatchet job on @torstenbell.bsky.social. A sad descent for a once serious paper
Imagine being so insecure that, before going in to a meeting with President Xi, you have to order conspicuous displays of nuclear capability.
Sabre rattling at its most reckless. So vain, so stunted, so stupid.
Sabre rattling at its most reckless. So vain, so stunted, so stupid.
Trump asks Pentagon to immediately start testing US nuclear weapons reut.rs/49yrtmG
Trump asks Pentagon to immediately start testing US nuclear weapons
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he has instructed the Department of Defense to immediately start testing nuclear weapons.
reut.rs
October 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Imagine being so insecure that, before going in to a meeting with President Xi, you have to order conspicuous displays of nuclear capability.
Sabre rattling at its most reckless. So vain, so stunted, so stupid.
Sabre rattling at its most reckless. So vain, so stunted, so stupid.
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With an ally of Nigel Farage pleading guilty to taking bribes for making pro-Russian statements, it’s clear we need an in-depth investigation into Russian money in our politics.
Today I asked the Prime Minister whether he would back an investigation.
Today I asked the Prime Minister whether he would back an investigation.
October 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
With an ally of Nigel Farage pleading guilty to taking bribes for making pro-Russian statements, it’s clear we need an in-depth investigation into Russian money in our politics.
Today I asked the Prime Minister whether he would back an investigation.
Today I asked the Prime Minister whether he would back an investigation.
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What are the odds that Trump ends up owning the club?
www.thebanner.com/economy/grow...
www.thebanner.com/economy/grow...
Trump administration says IMF should sell its Germantown golf course
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has called for the International Monetary Fund to sell Bretton Woods Recreation Center, a Germantown, Maryland golf course.
www.thebanner.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
What are the odds that Trump ends up owning the club?
www.thebanner.com/economy/grow...
www.thebanner.com/economy/grow...
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Tory MP and "rising star" Katie Lam supports the mass deportation of families who came to the UK legally — a policy so unprecedented it has been compared with Idi Amin's expulsion of Asians.
But did you know Lam has drawn sartorial, as well as policy, inspiration from the brutal Ugandan dictator?
But did you know Lam has drawn sartorial, as well as policy, inspiration from the brutal Ugandan dictator?
October 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Tory MP and "rising star" Katie Lam supports the mass deportation of families who came to the UK legally — a policy so unprecedented it has been compared with Idi Amin's expulsion of Asians.
But did you know Lam has drawn sartorial, as well as policy, inspiration from the brutal Ugandan dictator?
But did you know Lam has drawn sartorial, as well as policy, inspiration from the brutal Ugandan dictator?
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Delightful doc with Mark Bonnar exploring Scottish new town public art, including the hippos of Glenrothes made by his artist dad Stan. New towns, public art, Mark Bonnar? It’s ✅✅✅ from me
Meet You at the Hippos
Mark Bonnar returns to the Scottish new towns in which he grew up to explore the street sculpture made by artists such as his dad.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Delightful doc with Mark Bonnar exploring Scottish new town public art, including the hippos of Glenrothes made by his artist dad Stan. New towns, public art, Mark Bonnar? It’s ✅✅✅ from me
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Telegraph reports that James Orr has formally joined Reform UK and is now an advisor to Nigel Farage.
He could prove to be a key force in the party’s thinking and policy making.
A Cambridge academic, he is respected by many Tories - JD Vance calls him “his British Sherpa.”
He could prove to be a key force in the party’s thinking and policy making.
A Cambridge academic, he is respected by many Tories - JD Vance calls him “his British Sherpa.”
October 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Telegraph reports that James Orr has formally joined Reform UK and is now an advisor to Nigel Farage.
He could prove to be a key force in the party’s thinking and policy making.
A Cambridge academic, he is respected by many Tories - JD Vance calls him “his British Sherpa.”
He could prove to be a key force in the party’s thinking and policy making.
A Cambridge academic, he is respected by many Tories - JD Vance calls him “his British Sherpa.”
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Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"
October 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"
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The European Convention on Human Rights is being misrepresented in the UK, says former Supreme Court President Lady Hale👇
🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com
“It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.”
#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com
“It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.”
#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
October 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The European Convention on Human Rights is being misrepresented in the UK, says former Supreme Court President Lady Hale👇
🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com
“It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.”
#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com
“It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.”
#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
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Vancouver record store owner gives recently discovered 1962 Beatles audition reel to Paul McCartney
Vancouver record store owner gives recently discovered 1962 Beatles audition reel to Paul McCartney
In the 44 years he’s owned Neptoon Records in Vancouver, Rob Frith has bought a lot of random music collections. But only one of them contained original recordings of the Beatles from 1962.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Vancouver record store owner gives recently discovered 1962 Beatles audition reel to Paul McCartney
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Happy 25th to Kid A
October 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Happy 25th to Kid A
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🇲🇩 Moldova, you’ve done it again.
No attempt to sow fear or division could break your resolve.
You made your choice clear:
Europe. Democracy. Freedom.
Our door is open. And we will stand with you every step of the way.
The future is yours.
No attempt to sow fear or division could break your resolve.
You made your choice clear:
Europe. Democracy. Freedom.
Our door is open. And we will stand with you every step of the way.
The future is yours.
September 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
🇲🇩 Moldova, you’ve done it again.
No attempt to sow fear or division could break your resolve.
You made your choice clear:
Europe. Democracy. Freedom.
Our door is open. And we will stand with you every step of the way.
The future is yours.
No attempt to sow fear or division could break your resolve.
You made your choice clear:
Europe. Democracy. Freedom.
Our door is open. And we will stand with you every step of the way.
The future is yours.
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RIP Danny Thompson. Watch the full recording of Pentangle at the Two Brewers here youtu.be/ESycWNOJ22o
September 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
RIP Danny Thompson. Watch the full recording of Pentangle at the Two Brewers here youtu.be/ESycWNOJ22o
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Sounds like the US is about to bail out Trump’s pal Javier Milei. ‘America First’ always has lots of exceptions.
September 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Sounds like the US is about to bail out Trump’s pal Javier Milei. ‘America First’ always has lots of exceptions.
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What's Nigel Farage's problem with solar panels?
September 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
What's Nigel Farage's problem with solar panels?