Matt Thompson
@mvthomster.bsky.social
PhD in Plant Physiology. Building platforms for Agriculture. E-bike commuter.
->Plant trees EVERYWHERE<-
LBCA-raised, he/him, 3 kids
#trees #plantscience #agriculture #culturalevolution
->Plant trees EVERYWHERE<-
LBCA-raised, he/him, 3 kids
#trees #plantscience #agriculture #culturalevolution
keep seeing a well-padded face with a tight cut beard and some eyeliner on my feed and, wow, that guy must be cool
November 14, 2025 at 4:34 AM
keep seeing a well-padded face with a tight cut beard and some eyeliner on my feed and, wow, that guy must be cool
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Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
blows my mind how every weird hang-up or criticism I have around cycling, and every dumb idea I heard growing up about where I should be allowed to ride my bike, all come down to one ideologue
This really is an exceptional video and provides a huge service to the urban biking conversation around the world, and particularly here in North America and places like Australia/New Zealand. The length may scare you a bit, but if you really want to understand, it’s worth it.
I even have a cameo.
I even have a cameo.
WATCH: If you REALLY want to understand a BIG reason why cycling [aka riding a bike] is so dangerous in North America, and one of the biggest villains in the origin story of our unsafe status quo, invest some time watching this one, by NOT JUST BIKES (aka @theurbanistagenda.com here). Then share it.
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
blows my mind how every weird hang-up or criticism I have around cycling, and every dumb idea I heard growing up about where I should be allowed to ride my bike, all come down to one ideologue
useful metric for current level of "cope" processing ->
Google Trends
Explore search interest for ephebophilia by time, location and popularity on Google Trends
trends.google.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 AM
useful metric for current level of "cope" processing ->
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Nunca lo olvides: la dependencia del coche es lo opuesto a la libertad.
Never forget, car dependency is the opposite of freedom.
What’s more “free” than cars, you ask?
Choices.
What’s more “free” than cars, you ask?
Choices.
November 14, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Nunca lo olvides: la dependencia del coche es lo opuesto a la libertad.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
some extremely soviet shit, right here
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
some extremely soviet shit, right here
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The whole god damn election was about emails that didn't exist and what they might have said... when the newspaper had these emails that did exist and could have reported what they actually said!
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The whole god damn election was about emails that didn't exist and what they might have said... when the newspaper had these emails that did exist and could have reported what they actually said!
very very excited to soon have the sound of rain outside my office window
November 14, 2025 at 12:34 AM
very very excited to soon have the sound of rain outside my office window
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Man this is so true. No one has done more to convince the public that the Democratic Party is overrun by leftists than the centrist consultant class.They've been saying it in basically the same terms since I started paying attention around 2000 -- & they have the biggest megaphones!
November 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Man this is so true. No one has done more to convince the public that the Democratic Party is overrun by leftists than the centrist consultant class.They've been saying it in basically the same terms since I started paying attention around 2000 -- & they have the biggest megaphones!
getting Trump to offer cover for the failing reputation of American evangelical christianity is probably not the kind of effective comms strategy they were hoping for
Trump: "Christians and more, think of this, more than twice as likely foster care they'll adopt the general population. They adopt to it so easily. When they get out, they adopt to it like it's become second nature. It's amazing."
November 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
getting Trump to offer cover for the failing reputation of American evangelical christianity is probably not the kind of effective comms strategy they were hoping for
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Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...
When a trans woman first accused Jeffrey Epstein of rape, the media mocked her - LGBTQ Nation
The New York Post called her a "man" and a "gender-bend shocker."
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...
fart-sniffing thug
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
fart-sniffing thug
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I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
was *just* thinking someone must have put in the work to make this Python-accessible
this is what's in the .dat file for the file dump, converted to csv from the (sort of heinous) ediscovery format
gist.github.com/segyges/aff3...
gist.github.com/segyges/aff3...
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_009.csv
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
was *just* thinking someone must have put in the work to make this Python-accessible
Edgar Maddison Welch brings an AR-15-style rifle into Comet Pizza on Connecticut Ave NW, Dec 4 2016, fires off a couple of rounds, scares the shit out of a bunch of small kids, finds the "hidden" door to the Comet Pizza "basement", but comes back, announcing, "It's only ephebophilia! My bad!"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Edgar Maddison Welch brings an AR-15-style rifle into Comet Pizza on Connecticut Ave NW, Dec 4 2016, fires off a couple of rounds, scares the shit out of a bunch of small kids, finds the "hidden" door to the Comet Pizza "basement", but comes back, announcing, "It's only ephebophilia! My bad!"
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Plants are under-appreciated as projectile launchers.
“To maintain the drag-minimizing and edge-on orientation [for] greater distances, the plant launches its seeds at about 10 m/s with a backspin of > 1200 Hz. That frequency makes hairyflower wild petunia seeds the fastest-rotating natural thing on Earth.” 🧪
physicstoday.aip.org/quick-study/...
physicstoday.aip.org/quick-study/...
How plant seeds fly
Although plants often rely on wind and water to carry their seeds and spores, some have evolved extraordinary launch mechanisms to disperse them.
physicstoday.aip.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Plants are under-appreciated as projectile launchers.
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We love seeing and interviewing all the great ebike parents in Chicago - like the fabulous @mollyfleck.bsky.social, who we talked to a year ago and is featured in Daniel's article!
chiwho.bike/interviews/43
chiwho.bike/interviews/43
November 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
We love seeing and interviewing all the great ebike parents in Chicago - like the fabulous @mollyfleck.bsky.social, who we talked to a year ago and is featured in Daniel's article!
chiwho.bike/interviews/43
chiwho.bike/interviews/43
every new "thing" seems like it came out of a writers room
Jeffrey Epstein was developing a series, moderated by @lkrauss1.bsky.social, to bring scientists and celebrities together. The first season would include an episode where "Woody Allen talks about the human condition with Linguist Noam Chomsky."
drive.google.com/file/d/14Sla...
drive.google.com/file/d/14Sla...
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023123.txt
drive.google.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
every new "thing" seems like it came out of a writers room
NYT leadership and editors watching as the surprisingly large reputational step-change they've experienced over the last decade cures into amber
the New York Times is utterly finished as an organization in my opinion. we have moved beyond the need for the New York Times
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
NYT leadership and editors watching as the surprisingly large reputational step-change they've experienced over the last decade cures into amber
always lying always always lying
anything a Republican leader claims would be "a good idea" should be taken as founded all or in part on a whole stack of lies mainlined by 10s of millions of people for generations, with a robust ideological lineage directly to American slavery and its defense
anything a Republican leader claims would be "a good idea" should be taken as founded all or in part on a whole stack of lies mainlined by 10s of millions of people for generations, with a robust ideological lineage directly to American slavery and its defense
Brooke Rollins: "SNAP is a broken program. SNAP is full of corruption. We found 186,000 dead people."
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
always lying always always lying
anything a Republican leader claims would be "a good idea" should be taken as founded all or in part on a whole stack of lies mainlined by 10s of millions of people for generations, with a robust ideological lineage directly to American slavery and its defense
anything a Republican leader claims would be "a good idea" should be taken as founded all or in part on a whole stack of lies mainlined by 10s of millions of people for generations, with a robust ideological lineage directly to American slavery and its defense
I'm much more interested in what sounds like a completely accurate and ruthless summary of Trump's business model, at the end
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I'm much more interested in what sounds like a completely accurate and ruthless summary of Trump's business model, at the end
"Sometimes we let 22-yr-old groypers steal it at the direction of a drug-addled psychopath ... sometimes we just destroy it for vandalism's sake. I mean, data ... what is it, anyway?"
Kevin Hassett on the October jobs report: "We'll maybe be able to concoct something, but we'll never actually know for sure what the unemployment rate was in October."
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"Sometimes we let 22-yr-old groypers steal it at the direction of a drug-addled psychopath ... sometimes we just destroy it for vandalism's sake. I mean, data ... what is it, anyway?"
yay!!! it me!!!!
This week I wrote about the rise of the e-bike dad - this piece was originally going to run alongside the story I did in September about the bike boom in general, and we didn't have space in print, but here it is:
www.economist.com/united-state...
www.economist.com/united-state...
Parents on e-bikes are transforming the school run
They’re smug, snug and often faster than drivers
www.economist.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
yay!!! it me!!!!