matty

@mattio.bsky.social

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I do data visualization and user-centered design of health information, civic tech, I ride bicycles, I think about chronic diseases, I make dumb jokes, and I try to stay off the internet.

An office area with a paper cutter, and a handwritten sign (in red!) saying "please keep fingers out of paper cutter"
A bar chart of incarceration rates by NATO country. The USA is the highest, and its bar extends way past the drawn frame of the chart, as its rate is 716 per 100,000 people, with the next highest at only 147 per 100,000.
A doorway leading to another doorway. All the walls are covered with bookshelves, even above the doors. It's stunning.
tony soprano saying "you're kidding. i mean, jesus christ."
a meme of batman slapping robin. robin says "nyc is so mean" and batman is saying "shut the fuck up."
the drake meme No: Eric Adams putting garbage in a garbage can Yes: Zohran Mamdani proudly standing in front of some large street trash containers
a gothamist headline reading "would you kiss NYC dogs or smell their breath for $1k an hour?" and a picture of a dog
Scratch graffiti on a subway seat that reads, "never forget the R46."
from the Gothamist: "Gowanus in 60 seconds. 5 luxury cars boosted from brooklyn garage in overnight heist."
street-facing singleslot garages for offstreet parking in nyc.
a meme of Yeonmi Park saying "In America you have freedom of speech for 3 minutes."
a speed skating team pursuit
a headline from the Onion that reads "Chuck Schumer helps pull Democrats back from the brink of courage"
from the nytimes: "A version of this article apepars in print on Jan 12, 2026, Section A, page 19 of the New York edition with the headling: in Manhattan, 2,000 protest ICE killing."
A dour manatee
"my truck's sinusoidal, slowly decreasing gas mileage over the past ~7.5 years" with a scatterplot showing exactly that.
A pretty dog on a snowy beach with a little bit of snow on her nose
Novelty new years glasses. There are two 0s for eyes, so it reads 200 with a 26 perched on top of one of the 0s.
people carrying a christmas tree on a nyc subway platform
A tweet that reads, "Me sowing: haha fuck yeah! Me reaping: well this fucking sucks. What the fuck."
two people carrying a christmas tree down subway stairs
a nytimes headline that reads, "dog accidentally shoots and injures a pennsylvania man, police say."
an ouroboros with text: "...because standing up to him didn't work ... because we caved ..." implying circular reasoning
A line chart showing cumulative score of the 2025 UCI Track Cycling World Championship Men's Points Race. J Tarling won, P Moore got 2nd, and C Petit got 3rd.
My dog licking my foot
Excerpt from a review of Kavalier & Clay, the opera. "Does it also have the makings of an opera? The composer Mason Bates things so. His adaptation, with the librettist Gene Scheer, opened the Metropolitan Opera's season on Sunday. It was an evening that started with statements from Peter Gelb, the company's general manager, and Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, in defense of artistic expression and free speech. Gelb said that the Met was "proudly standing for freedom of artistic expression," and Schumer said that "freedom of artistic expression and even freedom of speech is under attack - you saw what they did to Jimmy Kimmel?" (They were met with a mix of boos and applause; one audience member yelled at Schumer to "do something about it.")
a dog on a rumpled pet bed, awkwardly splayed out, half in and half out of the bed. the dog is perfect, but dumb.
A road sign that says "Mianus"
A page from a book. One character says, "It wasn't the right learning environment for Lucas ... a lot of the other kids were out of control ... a lot of them are coming from homes - well, they're drinking soda and eating junk food all the time. Of course they can't concentrate."
Michael Dukakis on a tank, lookin' silly.
An iMac being booted in recovery mode.
Instagram offering "chat with AIs" for: sloppy Mustard Man, and A Literal Horse
a dog sleeping in a chair while cuddling with a stuffed frog
A rug in a hallway, around a corner. The rug is completely rumpled, showing that the dog skidded and dislodged it while running around the corner.
A meme. "Friendship ended with BD-2, now RAT is my best friend," referring to two different guitar pedals
A passage from a book that describes a common 19th century practice whereby milk producers would water down milk, re-whiten it with plaster of paris, and then add a squirt of pureed brains to mimic cream on top.
A trend chart showing 5 data series with a general downward trend. Mock data. x-axis labels are years: 2007, 2008, 2009, etc. A tooltip on the data shows: "Time: 2012-2014."
A meme of a guy sweating over a choice of two buttons. One is labelled "Lurch right in lockstep with Republicans" and the other is labelled "Civil rights."