Prof Matthew
@profmatthew.bsky.social
Media Studies, Film Studies, Game Studies Professor. I study nerd stuff.
Co Editor The Bloomsbury Handbook on Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies
Co Editor The Bloomsbury Handbook on Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies
One Battle At a Time
Without saying Sinners, name your film of the year.
November 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
One Battle At a Time
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It’s Noirvember!!!
That means @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social is on @letterboxd.social sharing some women-directed noirs “that run the gamut in setting from 1940s Norway to 1990s Chicago, and push at the boundaries of what can be labeled noir.”
That means @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social is on @letterboxd.social sharing some women-directed noirs “that run the gamut in setting from 1940s Norway to 1990s Chicago, and push at the boundaries of what can be labeled noir.”
Films Fatale: a starter pack of twenty noir features directed by women • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
Noirvember founder Marya E. Gates rings in the month of moral ambiguities and mysteries with a starter pack of twenty women-directed noir features—cigarettes and stilettos not included.
letterboxd.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It’s Noirvember!!!
That means @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social is on @letterboxd.social sharing some women-directed noirs “that run the gamut in setting from 1940s Norway to 1990s Chicago, and push at the boundaries of what can be labeled noir.”
That means @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social is on @letterboxd.social sharing some women-directed noirs “that run the gamut in setting from 1940s Norway to 1990s Chicago, and push at the boundaries of what can be labeled noir.”
Hot take. Sausage is better than bacon.
November 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Hot take. Sausage is better than bacon.
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You’ve got blood on your hands
Each and every one of you transphobic bastards have blood on your hands.
The politicians, the ‘journalists,’ the ‘academics,’ the ‘concerned parents,’ the people with ‘legitimate concerns.’
You all have fucking blood on your hands
Each and every one of you transphobic bastards have blood on your hands.
The politicians, the ‘journalists,’ the ‘academics,’ the ‘concerned parents,’ the people with ‘legitimate concerns.’
You all have fucking blood on your hands
Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."
This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."
RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...
This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."
RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...
Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack
A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.
share.google
October 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
You’ve got blood on your hands
Each and every one of you transphobic bastards have blood on your hands.
The politicians, the ‘journalists,’ the ‘academics,’ the ‘concerned parents,’ the people with ‘legitimate concerns.’
You all have fucking blood on your hands
Each and every one of you transphobic bastards have blood on your hands.
The politicians, the ‘journalists,’ the ‘academics,’ the ‘concerned parents,’ the people with ‘legitimate concerns.’
You all have fucking blood on your hands
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Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.
October 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.
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fuck ice airing commercials during dynamite, let em know:
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October 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
fuck ice airing commercials during dynamite, let em know:
help.hbomax.com/us/Feedback/
tbsnetwork.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/req...
help.hbomax.com/us/Feedback/
tbsnetwork.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/req...
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It’s worth noting that I’m pursuing freelance design full-time. If any cool people want to make cool stuff – comics or pop culture or otherwise – hit me up! I do good work and I have nice hair.
September 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
It’s worth noting that I’m pursuing freelance design full-time. If any cool people want to make cool stuff – comics or pop culture or otherwise – hit me up! I do good work and I have nice hair.
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Genre is inherently political. It captures the sensibilities of contemporary life and strategies for responding to the present that cultivate different futures
Updated/Final covers for a passion-project w/ @joshcall.bsky.social, @profmatthew.bsky.social, and @betsybrey.bsky.social
Out Jan 2026!
Updated/Final covers for a passion-project w/ @joshcall.bsky.social, @profmatthew.bsky.social, and @betsybrey.bsky.social
Out Jan 2026!
September 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Genre is inherently political. It captures the sensibilities of contemporary life and strategies for responding to the present that cultivate different futures
Updated/Final covers for a passion-project w/ @joshcall.bsky.social, @profmatthew.bsky.social, and @betsybrey.bsky.social
Out Jan 2026!
Updated/Final covers for a passion-project w/ @joshcall.bsky.social, @profmatthew.bsky.social, and @betsybrey.bsky.social
Out Jan 2026!
Superman, Superman
Does whatever a super can
Will he snake
Out your drain
Patch the roof
If there's rain
Look out
Can't find the Super Man
Does whatever a super can
Will he snake
Out your drain
Patch the roof
If there's rain
Look out
Can't find the Super Man
August 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Superman, Superman
Does whatever a super can
Will he snake
Out your drain
Patch the roof
If there's rain
Look out
Can't find the Super Man
Does whatever a super can
Will he snake
Out your drain
Patch the roof
If there's rain
Look out
Can't find the Super Man
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"How can we communicate with optimism about the future … when we're living in the here and now where American democracy is in peril? … And we're supposed to ignore it? Leave it to others to wrestle with …? No no no no no. …
"That is tonight's Last Word on my last day at the Washington Post."
"That is tonight's Last Word on my last day at the Washington Post."
August 1, 2025 at 4:01 AM
"How can we communicate with optimism about the future … when we're living in the here and now where American democracy is in peril? … And we're supposed to ignore it? Leave it to others to wrestle with …? No no no no no. …
"That is tonight's Last Word on my last day at the Washington Post."
"That is tonight's Last Word on my last day at the Washington Post."
My syllabi are in Arial, ThankYouVeryMuch.
Plus I can’t wear Chucks anymore. Not enough arch support.
Plus I can’t wear Chucks anymore. Not enough arch support.
Literally making up a guy to get mad at
July 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
My syllabi are in Arial, ThankYouVeryMuch.
Plus I can’t wear Chucks anymore. Not enough arch support.
Plus I can’t wear Chucks anymore. Not enough arch support.
Just clicked. I wonder when the private prisons they’re building are also going to end up as agricultural facilities and factories.
July 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Just clicked. I wonder when the private prisons they’re building are also going to end up as agricultural facilities and factories.
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AOC sums it up nicely.
Gotta wonder what these Republicans are hiding...and who they are protecting.
Gotta wonder what these Republicans are hiding...and who they are protecting.
July 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
AOC sums it up nicely.
Gotta wonder what these Republicans are hiding...and who they are protecting.
Gotta wonder what these Republicans are hiding...and who they are protecting.
Medical update:
Good: procedure finished the original ablation.
Bad: if swelling in foot & ankle doesn’t go down I’ll have to get procedure on vein in calf.
Ugly: they told me to wait for sterile strips to fall off. Should not have done that. Now I have bruising in the shape of an asterisk.
Good: procedure finished the original ablation.
Bad: if swelling in foot & ankle doesn’t go down I’ll have to get procedure on vein in calf.
Ugly: they told me to wait for sterile strips to fall off. Should not have done that. Now I have bruising in the shape of an asterisk.
July 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Medical update:
Good: procedure finished the original ablation.
Bad: if swelling in foot & ankle doesn’t go down I’ll have to get procedure on vein in calf.
Ugly: they told me to wait for sterile strips to fall off. Should not have done that. Now I have bruising in the shape of an asterisk.
Good: procedure finished the original ablation.
Bad: if swelling in foot & ankle doesn’t go down I’ll have to get procedure on vein in calf.
Ugly: they told me to wait for sterile strips to fall off. Should not have done that. Now I have bruising in the shape of an asterisk.
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Incredibly important piece on the current state of the race science and eugenics movement by @jasonaw.bsky.social, including definitively identifying Musk-favorite race science twitter account “Cremieux” as Texas Tech grad student Jordan Lasker.
US natalist conference to host race-science promoters and eugenicists
Details emerge about Natal conference in Austin later this month, set to feature figures linked to far-right politics
www.theguardian.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Incredibly important piece on the current state of the race science and eugenics movement by @jasonaw.bsky.social, including definitively identifying Musk-favorite race science twitter account “Cremieux” as Texas Tech grad student Jordan Lasker.
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Reporter: Why was the national weather service not pinging their phones before 7.. Was it a fundamental failure of the federal government’s responsibility to keep us safe?
Noem: Trump is currently upgrading the technology in the national weather service..
Noem: Trump is currently upgrading the technology in the national weather service..
July 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Reporter: Why was the national weather service not pinging their phones before 7.. Was it a fundamental failure of the federal government’s responsibility to keep us safe?
Noem: Trump is currently upgrading the technology in the national weather service..
Noem: Trump is currently upgrading the technology in the national weather service..
If I did Wonder Woman ink I would have one of these on my body so quick.
June 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
If I did Wonder Woman ink I would have one of these on my body so quick.
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PSA for everyone going to protests
June 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
PSA for everyone going to protests
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The libs are like "You have to protest in a way that's inoffensive to people who perceive your very existence as a physical assault 😇" and the cops are like "pew pew eat led pinko" and the libs are like "ow a bad apple shot me in the dick"
June 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The libs are like "You have to protest in a way that's inoffensive to people who perceive your very existence as a physical assault 😇" and the cops are like "pew pew eat led pinko" and the libs are like "ow a bad apple shot me in the dick"
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Btw, the way this happens is someone sends you a comms memo with sample tweets that you are supposed to tweak a little and then post. (Source: me, I've written these memos for campaigns before)
So they are all getting the same comms memo here, and I'm very curious who is sending the memo
So they are all getting the same comms memo here, and I'm very curious who is sending the memo
June 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Btw, the way this happens is someone sends you a comms memo with sample tweets that you are supposed to tweak a little and then post. (Source: me, I've written these memos for campaigns before)
So they are all getting the same comms memo here, and I'm very curious who is sending the memo
So they are all getting the same comms memo here, and I'm very curious who is sending the memo
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*Goose meme*
Who shot and killed her?
WHO SHOT AND KILLED HER, MOTHERFUCKER?
Who shot and killed her?
WHO SHOT AND KILLED HER, MOTHERFUCKER?
June 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
*Goose meme*
Who shot and killed her?
WHO SHOT AND KILLED HER, MOTHERFUCKER?
Who shot and killed her?
WHO SHOT AND KILLED HER, MOTHERFUCKER?
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Why isn't Trump's clear and open call for federal law enforcement to arrest a Democratic governor based on zero lawbreaking of any kind leading every single news site right now?
June 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Why isn't Trump's clear and open call for federal law enforcement to arrest a Democratic governor based on zero lawbreaking of any kind leading every single news site right now?
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Rocks and other objects are now being thrown onto the abandoned CHP cars
June 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Rocks and other objects are now being thrown onto the abandoned CHP cars