Matt

@differentmatt.bsky.social

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"Transgressively ludic." —𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘈𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 proud member of a union posts here are exclusively my private opinion and are not statements on behalf of my employer, family, church, union, or anything else

Box of Red Rose tea next to an electric kettle. Red Rose tea is a sponsor of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

a double bell euphonium

Inspector Clouseau from "The Pink Panther"

Alpha Flight, Marvel's top-tier Canadian superhero team.

Clockwise from left: idk man nobody knows these guys. There's a big giant furry dude, a green elf-like woman, a dude who's clearly the First Nations representative… and a bunch of other spandex types.

Perry Bible Fellowship comic in three panels.

1) A man in a futuristic helmet carrying a medieval shield riding a zebra decapitates a Nazi with a jousting lance

2) A nuclear explosion goes of amidst a tall sailing ship and a biplane on a movie screen. "THE END"

3) Patrons in a futuristic society with flying cars leave a movie theater. The marquee reads "NOW SHOWING: WORLD WAR 2"

the cool "dark forest canopy" ceiling installation between terminals A and B at ATL

Some white vampires seduce a light-skinned Black woman with very high-quality renditions of the kind of stuff you hear on "The Thistle and Shamrock"

Hans Moleman: "I was saying 'THS THDPSSSSPS'"

APRIL — 1805

Napoleon is Master of Europe
Only the British Fleet stands before him

Stow that Wombat

Looking up at the top of the hill in Holyrood Park from the bottom

Marked Safe From

the more egregiously pointless Selig/Manfred nonsense

News blurb under a photo of a cobra swimming in a flooded field:

"Hundreds of cobras escape China snake farm amid floods"

"More than 900 snakes, including deadly cobras, escaped a flooded farm in Guangxi, China, during typhoon floods."

INTRODUCTION

Do historians inevitably come to loathe their subjects?

Lisa walks in on Bart and Michael Jackson rehearsing a song for her 8th birthday. (Michael Jackson is a fat white [yellow] dude who is actually a bricklayer from New Jersey on furlough from a mental institution.)

Gus Haynes, a journalist on Season 5 of "The Wire," correcting a junior reporter about her use of the word "evacuate," which she has inadvertently used in a way to suggest that many people were given enemas.

Or maybe they can use a white curtain. Politicians worried about this mass erasure should remember that just a few weeks ago, tens of thousands of people spent their Friday night watching workers hiding behind a white curtain strip Trump's name off the Kennedy Center after U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, successfully sued for its removal.

Lisa Simpson holding a graph showing a negative correlation between intelligence and happiness while saying "I make a lot of graphs."

Chart showing how much fun fireworks are as a multiple of the baseline show. Somewhere around 10x as big is the peak fun, after which the line plunges quickly into negative fun territory.

The Zillow marker showing the property location on an undifferentiated field of blue

an interior door that, for whatever mysterious reason, is three feet off the floor of the room

Cover of a DC Swamp Thing comic showing him carrying a cute little lamb

the flag of Cabo Verde

Lenny sits in Mr. Burns' chair, having been put in charge of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant by the bank.

Jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton (1885-1941)

Chron.com post:

"Let's meet at a barbecue restaurant and let's see how much you love barbecue."

Ken Paxton challenges James Talarico to Texas barbecue Senate debate "Let's meet at a barbecue restaurant and let's see how much you love barbecue."

"by color" with each letter in a different color

Livestream of the removal of Trump's name from the Kennedy Center. It's 9:15 PM and a scaffolding is up, with a bunch of guys in yellow vests milling around it, but no one is making any obvious move to start ripping letters off.

Billy Eichner

T-Swizzle dressed as a ballerina in the video for "Shake It Off"

Victor Hilts holding a makeshift phrenology bust he used in class (he was a historian of the human and social sciences)

Map showing Canton, NY (a six-hour drive from NYC) and Ogdensburg, NY (6:20)

Quote from a website (no context apparent in image):

This is great news for young people.

Further Reading:
Are Young People Screwed?

Kalshi chart showing a 74% chance on the question "Will Wally come to agree with Kierkegaard that our modern society is 'essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm?'"

7/24/24 tweet from this creepy-ass weirdo:

A couple of days ago, I was sitting at a cafe with my children, and I started to explain to them the effects of father absence on a daughter's menarche, along with a bunch of negative downstream effects on children's likely success. At the end of our chat, my son who is 12, looked at me and said: "I learned more in this conversation than I did in my entire elementary school education." Engage your children. Discuss important topics with them. Do not infantilize them. Have a great day everyone.

A jury summons form that has been chewed to shit by a cat

mockup of a $250 bill with Trump's face on it, which hasn't been authorized by Congress and would be illegal to print anyway due to an existing law against putting living people on currency

Two consecutive stills from Creased Comics' "Washington" cartoon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRom1Rz8OA

In the first, Washington is shown grabbing the arm of an alarmed woman. In the second, we see the bones of her hand as it dissolves in a beaker of acid.

Still from the video for "Mama Said Knock You Out," showing LL Cool J speaking into a microphone saying "Don't call it a comeback."

I added "I been here for years" but did not claim to have been rocking my peers and/or putting suckas in fear.

Fake Star Trek DS9 title screen. Episode title: "NO GARAK SUBPLOT (SKIP)"

The Doctor, a slender Doberman/GSD mix, relaxes on the grass with a rawhide toy. He is grinning at the camera like a good boy who has never done anything bad in his whole life.

Andrew Paul Jackson, convicted in March of sex crimes against children and currently serving a life sentence. He tried to bribe his victims with a share of the millions of dollars that—as it turns out—he was correct to believe Trump would try to give him.

Just months after President Trump's mass pardons for Jan. 6 rioters freed him from prison, a Florida man repeatedly sexually abused two middle-school aged children.

On Thursday, the man, Andrew Paul Johnson, was sentenced to life in prison, after a Florida jury found him guilty of five criminal charges, including molestation, lewd and lascivious exhibition and transmission of material harmful to a minor.

Police reported that Johnson, 45, tried to keep the children quiet by telling them he would share millions of dollars in restitution money he expected to receive from the Trump administration in connection with his Jan. 6 case. "He said not to tell anybody," one of Johnson's victims testified.

Brad Pitt as Billy Beane in "Moneyball"

Homer asking Apu if he's "got any of that beer that has candy floating in it?"

She goes on to talk about how cellphones used to be the size of briefcases. "At that time we had no idea how any of these technologies would impact the world and our lives. [...] These were some of the same trepidations and concerns we are now facing. But ultimately it was a game changer [emphasized in screenshot] for global economic development and the proliferation of new businesses that never existed like Apple and Google and Meta and so many others, and not to mention countless job opportunities. So being an optimist here, Al alongside human intelligence has the potential to help us solve some of humanity's greatest problems. Many of you in this graduating class will play a role in making this happen."

My late dog, The Doctor, a Doberman/GSD mix, wearing glasses as he reads my book (propped up on a stand in front of him)

Notification that "Alkimo AI" reposted this

Edgar Allan Poe, who also has a mustache and kind of a squidgy face

A Chow/Malinois mix with a green spot on her tongue approximating the remains of a lightning bug

Joseph Ducreux, "Self-portrait of the Artist in the Guise of a Mocker" (1793), showing a man grinning and pointing directly at the viewer

A Trapper Keeper®, decorated in 80s geometric pastel pinks and purples. An elegant weapon from a more civilized age.

The Z-list Batman rogue Condiment King.

Tweet from "Gad Saad"

A couple of days ago, I was sitting at a cafe with my children, and I started to explain to them the effects of father absence on a daughter's menarche, along with a bunch of negative downstream effects on children's likely success. At the end of our chat, my son who is 12, looked at me and said: "I learned more in this conversation than I did in my entire elementary school education." Engage your children. Discuss important topics with them. Do not infantilize them. Have a great day everyone. 1:02PM • 7/24/24

Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social

I'm not going to argue with those who tell me that journalism [he's referring specifically to the Post here] failed and can't be trusted, other than to congratulate you on having a President-Elect who not only agrees with you but will do everything he can to make it go away.

A current chart of gas prices trending sharply down because the image has been flipped vertically.

Lisa and Mona ("Grandma") Simpson discussing Lisa's schoolwork. Mona: "Although I hardly consider 'A Separate Peace' ninth-grade reading level."

Tweet Donald J. Trump © @realDonaldTrump

Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!

2:24 PM • Jan 6, 2021 • Twitter for iPhone

The Doctor, a GSD/Doberman mix with a faintly sighthound breed and a smoke coat.

"Cast photo" from the 1970s animated series

A Chow/Malinois mix of a certain age looks demurely at the camera. She is wearing an imitation rose blossom on her collar.