Matthew Walker
@notmatthew.bsky.social
Kāi Tahu, vegan, parent, tramper, pro-capsaicin. Fond of living things.
Working with Copilot to understand quartz crystals and I’ve explained repeatedly it’s mixing up metres and millimetres. So smart yet so not smart.
March 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Working with Copilot to understand quartz crystals and I’ve explained repeatedly it’s mixing up metres and millimetres. So smart yet so not smart.
Black lives don’t matter under Trump.
D.C.'s Black Lives Matter mural will be erased. Look back at the iconic street painting
Over the past five years, Washington, D.C.'s iconic Black Lives Matter street painting has served as a powerful symbol of activism and a gathering place for joy and resistance.
www.npr.org
March 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Black lives don’t matter under Trump.
72% of the world lives under authoritarianism. Democracy votes itself out.
The world is becoming increasingly authoritarian - but there is hope
For the first time in two decades, there are more closed autocracies than liberal democracies in the world, but the future is not entirely bleak. This is shown in this year's democracy report from the...
www.gu.se
March 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
72% of the world lives under authoritarianism. Democracy votes itself out.
I was writing something earlier and I ran it through Copilot and it came back with some suggestions. All the suggestions it came back with made my prose more generic and less surprising. And I was so comforted by this fact.
February 27, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I was writing something earlier and I ran it through Copilot and it came back with some suggestions. All the suggestions it came back with made my prose more generic and less surprising. And I was so comforted by this fact.
So… Teslas are Nazi cars now. That escalated.
January 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
So… Teslas are Nazi cars now. That escalated.
Did you know there’s a plant genus, Hebejeebie? “The name refers to the anxiety these plants have often caused taxonomists.”
January 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Did you know there’s a plant genus, Hebejeebie? “The name refers to the anxiety these plants have often caused taxonomists.”
“From 2019 to 2021 almost half a million animals were bred for science, never used, and killed.”
Bunnies used for science at Auckland University need forever home
Thousands of rabbits are used for science every year, most not making it out alive - but these seven lucky little bunnies are now in search of their forever home.
i.stuff.co.nz
November 4, 2023 at 11:18 PM
“From 2019 to 2021 almost half a million animals were bred for science, never used, and killed.”
I was telling my hoamahi about the plot of the children’s book, The Peppermint Pig, which I read as a 10yo, and which is probably why I stopped eating animals, now I think of it. What an ending.
November 3, 2023 at 12:36 AM
I was telling my hoamahi about the plot of the children’s book, The Peppermint Pig, which I read as a 10yo, and which is probably why I stopped eating animals, now I think of it. What an ending.
This is terrifying.
Mob storms Dagestan airport in search of Jewish passengers from Israel
Airport in Russia’s Muslim southern region closed after hundreds storm tarmac and climb on to planes
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2023 at 10:26 PM
This is terrifying.
3195 children dead in Gaza; 1000 missing.
GAZA: 3,195 children killed in three weeks surpasses annual number of children killed in conflict zo...
The number of children reported killed in Gaza in just three weeks has surpassed the annual number of children killed across conflict zones
www.savethechildren.net
October 29, 2023 at 5:20 PM
3195 children dead in Gaza; 1000 missing.