Matt Mills
@photomatt.mills.studio
Photographer. Programmer. Vitam Impendere Vero
doing catch up on the blog, here's some photos from oct 2024 matt.pictures/post/casey%2...
Casey's Picnic at Shakespeare Garden
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December 2, 2025 at 7:58 AM
doing catch up on the blog, here's some photos from oct 2024 matt.pictures/post/casey%2...
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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
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Freedom, Safety, and Vengeance
So, I do think the Democratic party should run on a full-throated defense of immigration as innately American and how trans rights are fundamental human rights, but I also think a third plank should be impeachment, to correct abuses from impoundment and take back Congress' power
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Freedom, Safety, and Vengeance
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go the fuck outside. find a goth club. go there on a kink / queer night. go even if you think “you won’t fit in” (cheat code: just wear black).
be friendly. give yourself time. repeat as necessary. you will make exceptional friends.
life is for the living. do it scared.
🏳️⚧️🖤🏳️🌈
be friendly. give yourself time. repeat as necessary. you will make exceptional friends.
life is for the living. do it scared.
🏳️⚧️🖤🏳️🌈
October 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
go the fuck outside. find a goth club. go there on a kink / queer night. go even if you think “you won’t fit in” (cheat code: just wear black).
be friendly. give yourself time. repeat as necessary. you will make exceptional friends.
life is for the living. do it scared.
🏳️⚧️🖤🏳️🌈
be friendly. give yourself time. repeat as necessary. you will make exceptional friends.
life is for the living. do it scared.
🏳️⚧️🖤🏳️🌈
ER frequent flyer here: this is some bullshit, everyone deserves medical care full stop. The reason wait times are long are policy failures stemming from life under capitalism, which allocates resources towards profits, and not towards the greater good.
Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
October 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
ER frequent flyer here: this is some bullshit, everyone deserves medical care full stop. The reason wait times are long are policy failures stemming from life under capitalism, which allocates resources towards profits, and not towards the greater good.
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This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.
September 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.
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It's wild to think that we effectively solved the world's energy problems, but the thing we're supposed to herald as a life-changing innovation is a chatbot with less functionality than a graphing calculator
Global solar installations surge. In the first half of the year, the world added 380 GW of new solar capacity, a 64% jump from the first six months of 2024. It took until September last year to surpass 350 GW; in 2025 we crossed that threshold in June. Ember buff.ly/oSSt1r6
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September 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It's wild to think that we effectively solved the world's energy problems, but the thing we're supposed to herald as a life-changing innovation is a chatbot with less functionality than a graphing calculator
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You can't legally censor consensual "porn" without simultaneously creating the mechanism for the censorship of books and movies and education and activism and mutual aid.
The access we have to resources today — repro rights, LGBTQ+, sex ed— is directly tied to the legalizing of 'porn'
The access we have to resources today — repro rights, LGBTQ+, sex ed— is directly tied to the legalizing of 'porn'
September 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
You can't legally censor consensual "porn" without simultaneously creating the mechanism for the censorship of books and movies and education and activism and mutual aid.
The access we have to resources today — repro rights, LGBTQ+, sex ed— is directly tied to the legalizing of 'porn'
The access we have to resources today — repro rights, LGBTQ+, sex ed— is directly tied to the legalizing of 'porn'
would own like 3 of these.
The Macintosh PowerBook G3 DuoWide was the ultimate writing-free distraction machine.
August 31, 2025 at 2:47 AM
would own like 3 of these.
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire.
Bluesky silenced trans voices over J.K. Rowling, here’s why
Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire.
bit.ly
August 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
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Estimated time of arrival is 12:15 AM on July 30 at Monterey and 12:40 AM on July 30 at San Francisco. Tsunami hazard zone maps are available at www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/...
www.conservation.ca.gov
July 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Estimated time of arrival is 12:15 AM on July 30 at Monterey and 12:40 AM on July 30 at San Francisco. Tsunami hazard zone maps are available at www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/...
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yeah pretty much www.todayintabs.com/p/billionair...
Billionaires Destroyed American News Media On Purpose
It's not a conspiracy, it's simply what happened.
www.todayintabs.com
July 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
yeah pretty much www.todayintabs.com/p/billionair...
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So wild that @coyotemedia.org hit our "can we actually try to do this?" fundraising goal in under a week. Now we're upping the goal to try and get a runway, fund more freelance, and just generally hit the ground running. Become a member today! Or just toss us a few $. givebutter.com/coyotemedia
Launch Coyote Media Collective
A new alt-weekly-style publication is hitting the Bay Area
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June 26, 2025 at 2:41 AM
So wild that @coyotemedia.org hit our "can we actually try to do this?" fundraising goal in under a week. Now we're upping the goal to try and get a runway, fund more freelance, and just generally hit the ground running. Become a member today! Or just toss us a few $. givebutter.com/coyotemedia
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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This.
kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
June 8, 2025 at 5:20 AM
This.
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I'm re-activating my on the road newsletter, bigempty.photos, for my upcoming trip to Armenia, if anyone wants to follow along. I'm already going to be shooting and editing 8 hours a day, what's a couple hours of writing?
Big Empty
Hi, I’m Matt, a photographer. This is a newsletter about my travels. I post whenever I’m on a big trip, and also updates about output from those trips, so when I have an art show, put out a book of ph...
bigempty.photos
June 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I'm re-activating my on the road newsletter, bigempty.photos, for my upcoming trip to Armenia, if anyone wants to follow along. I'm already going to be shooting and editing 8 hours a day, what's a couple hours of writing?
I'm re-activating my on the road newsletter, bigempty.photos, for my upcoming trip to Armenia, if anyone wants to follow along. I'm already going to be shooting and editing 8 hours a day, what's a couple hours of writing?
Big Empty
Hi, I’m Matt, a photographer. This is a newsletter about my travels. I post whenever I’m on a big trip, and also updates about output from those trips, so when I have an art show, put out a book of ph...
bigempty.photos
June 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I'm re-activating my on the road newsletter, bigempty.photos, for my upcoming trip to Armenia, if anyone wants to follow along. I'm already going to be shooting and editing 8 hours a day, what's a couple hours of writing?
Something that occurred to me just now: the mise en place of any given job or project is just clutter for any other job.
May 30, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Something that occurred to me just now: the mise en place of any given job or project is just clutter for any other job.
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fun fact three fighter jets is roughly equivalent to the NEA’s 2024 budget
May 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
fun fact three fighter jets is roughly equivalent to the NEA’s 2024 budget
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went to a dance party a couple weeks ago matt.pictures/days_like_th...
days like this dance party at lake merritt
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April 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
went to a dance party a couple weeks ago matt.pictures/days_like_th...
went to a dance party a couple weeks ago matt.pictures/days_like_th...
days like this dance party at lake merritt
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April 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
went to a dance party a couple weeks ago matt.pictures/days_like_th...
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No amount of complicity is going to save you from fascism, so you might as well fight.
March 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
No amount of complicity is going to save you from fascism, so you might as well fight.
Spotted: two coast guard helos flying in tight formation north across the bay, towards Mt Tam. @airplaneian.com anything going on?
March 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Spotted: two coast guard helos flying in tight formation north across the bay, towards Mt Tam. @airplaneian.com anything going on?
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Let’s go www.yahoo.com/news/no-amaz...
'No Amazon, no Walmart, no fast food': What's behind the 'Feb. 28 economic blackout'
The People's Union USA, a self-described “grassroots movement” founded by John Schwarz, is encouraging Americans to refrain from making non-essential purchases on Friday.
www.yahoo.com
February 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Let’s go www.yahoo.com/news/no-amaz...