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Matt Shipman (he/him)
@shiplives.bsky.social
9K followers 1.6K following 5.2K posts
Writer. Comms person.
Mostly sci/tech/health.
Sometimes music/food/culture.
Lifelong Eagles fan from the South. (We exist!)
Let’s make the South better, y’all.
Stuff I write for fun here: https://medium.com/@shiplives
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Cool. Mine too. Also, I attended a conference this month and actually have a recent photo so folks can spot me at CupAJoe. I’m in the aqua sweater, with my fellow panelists.
Four science writers; one of whom is a guy with grey hair and glasses.
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Wearing today’s feelings.
Middle-aged white guy wears a shirt that says “in collusion with the first amendment”
October 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Good news, everyone!

I found a new life coach.
A photo shows a dog wearing sunglasses. A headline reads: take it easy. A caption under the headline say: fuck your job. Money is fake. Society isn’t natural. And the sun is going to explode.
October 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Two recent headlines. Can you spot why this is scary?
Headline: openai admits ai hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws Headline: law enforcement is using ai to synthesize evidence. Is the justice system ready for it?
October 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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I’m sorry, what?
Spelling Bee screengrab says “backbeat” is not in its word list.
September 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Inside you there are two wolves.
A brown cartoon dog hugs a grey cartoon dog wearing a red hat. It is Scooby-Doo and his cousin, Scooby Dum.
September 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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My list of favorite horror movies is long, but not that long. Curious to see how far I get.
One like = one favorite horror movie
July 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows.
a cartoon white dog wearing a sweater vest and a pork-pie hat stands on a terra cotta tile roof and gesticulates while talking to a giant purple ape wearing a green baseball cap and short-sleeved jacket. The dog is Beegle Beagle. The ape is Grape Ape.
June 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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I support this Big Bill.
Black and white photograph of Big Bill Broonzy. Image shows a handsome young Black man wearing a nice suit and holding an archtop acoustic guitar
June 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Be kind.
Be brave.
Be compassionate.
Be true to yourself.
Don’t be a jerk.
Respect people.
Celebrate love.

Today and every day.
#HappyPride
White letters spell out y’all means all against a black backdrop. A rainbow flag waves behind the word “means”
June 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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mike tyson drinks from a straw with his fists wrapped in training tape
May 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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chuck norris sips from a straw that is in a large plastic cup
May 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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a photo of Donald Trump sipping a drink through a straw while wearing a tuxedo
May 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Touch grass.
View up a grassy hill at a blue sky with thin white clouds.
April 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Having raised three children, I assure you that this is a word (small) people use.
Screengrab of the Spelling Bee game. It shows the word “poophead” labeled as not being a word.
March 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Best Star Trek crew. Wrong answers only.
Black and white photo of four white men dressed in the style of 1970s British punks. The band is The Clash. From left to right: Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Joe Strummer, Topper Headon.
March 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Mental health break.
Afternoon sun reflecting off a lake with a tree’s branches hanging over the water
March 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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A thing I still don’t understand is how so many people who are Gen X or older think the current crime rate is high.

It’s like, were you not also alive in the 90s? (Or 80s? Or 70s?)

The country is SO MUCH safer than when I was a kid and into my 20s. But there’s more crime panic.
Chart shows homicide rate from 2950-2019. The numbers in the 1970s, 80s and 90s were much higher than anytime since. Chart shows violent crime rate in the United States, 1990-2023. It was much higher in the 90s, declining significantly. There a slight increase in 2022-3, but still substantially lower than anything between 1990 and 2004.
February 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Go Birds!
An old guy in an eagles jersey flashes the thumbs up sign.
February 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Happy new year, from my sofa.
Guy with white hair sits on a sofa next to a dog with white fur.
December 31, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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“You will be visited by three spirits”

The three spirits:
Three figures stand side by side. On the left is an athletic woman with her arms raised over her head; she is wearing a unitard and gold bracelets. In the center is a white guy with bangs who is wearing a fur vest, fur short-shorts, and holding a glowing sword. On the right is a tall, muscular humanoid wearing black briefs. It has ears and a mane like a lion, and it has fangs, but it doesn’t have a snout. They are characters from Thundarr the Barbarian: Ariel, Thundarr, and Ookla.
December 24, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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Me facing 2025
A white man wearing Buddy Holly-style black glasses, black and white wingtip shoes, and a dark suit leaps down as if from above. The man is wielding an unsheathed sword in his left hand and has an electric guitar slung over his back. It is the title character from the 90s cult film Six-String Samurai.
December 21, 2024 at 2:41 AM
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99.9% of the world has no idea what this is. The remaining 0.1% are from the same part of the world as my wife, who just gave me this shirt.
Black t-Shirt has the words Michael Stanley Band printed on it in red and yellow letters
December 12, 2024 at 12:35 AM
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An excerpt from Nikki Giovanni’s “No Complaints,” which was written after the death of the wonderful Gwendolyn Brooks. It seems apt.

Thank you for your poetry, ma’am.

The full poem is here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/90181/...
and yet . . . there can be no complaints in this passing . . . no sorrow songs . . . no if onlys . . . it is all here: the work the love: the woman: who gave and gave and gave . . . no complaints of too long or too hard . . . no injustice of accident or misunderstanding of disease . . . just one great woman moving to the next phase . . . and us on the ground . . . giving Alleluias
December 10, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie
Black background features white scrolling text that says y’all means all. The word all is superimposed on a rainbow flag
December 6, 2024 at 1:47 AM