Matt Meuse

@mattmeuse.online

169 Followers 113 Following

newsroom ronin

A comment from YouTube user "Stinsonator2". It reads: And you may find yourself, performing at Coachella And you may find yourself, touring around the world And you may find yourself in a Nardwuar interview And you may ask yourself, "Wait, how does he know that?!"
Two men sharing a coffee on a pier, one's face wide with laughter
A list of locations in the latest Android weather app, with so much negative space added that a list of seven locations, which used to fit in one screen, now requires scrolling
A partial screenshot of my home screen on the latest version of Android. The bottom row of icons is crammed right up next to the bottom search bar, with a huge gap between the next set of icons, leaving everything looking unbalanced.
Screenshot from a post by @KrangTNelson that reads: "no no no you misunderstood. I said "fuck YOUR feelings". MY feelings are very important and must be handled gently, like a tiny baby hummingbird"
A screenshot of a Facebook post from "City of Vancouver - Local Government". The text reads: "We love love! Looking for your perfect proposal spot in Vancouver? We've got cute lovers' seats with the best view in town! This image was created using AI". Below is a clearly AI-generated image of a bench on a platform in some sort of wooded glen or perhaps copse, surrounded by bouquets of flowers and a topiary arch. I can't think of anywhere in Vancouver that looks even remotely like this.
A screenshot from Office Space (1999). Michael and Samir are sitting at their desks. Michael: "No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."
A product photo of a box of breakfast cereal. The box is a pleasant, forest green. In large letters, the name of the cereal: "Kellogg's Just Right." A profile shot of a spoonful of the cereal, a delightful golden yellow mixture. The tagline: "A perfect combination of four delicious grains that you can see & taste."
Mark Carney speaks at a campaign rally
A screenshot of a text message exchange that reads: A: "what's going on with the stock market" B: "lmao" B: "don't worry about it babe" A: "okay ❤️" A: "yay ❤️"
A screenshot of the Activity Monitor in macOS after starting and stopping a "legacy" screensaver about a dozen times. The "legacyScreenSaver" process is sitting at a healthy 25.2% CPU usage and 9.8% GPU usage. Not pictured is that the screensaver itself gets increasingly more bugged out with each subsequent launch
The mane style selection menu in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023), from which you can select a number of customization options for your in-game horse. Possible options include a "Mohawk Mane" and a "French-Braided Mane"
A woman sitting at a desk with some sort of stock ticker on her giant monitor, looking at her phone, exasperated
Special Agent Dale Cooper driving through a wooded area, speaking into a handheld tape recorder. Closed captioning reads: "Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks."
A quote from an article in the Financial Times: "I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' without the fear of getting cancelled ... it's a new dawn."
An aerial view of Delfino Plaza from Super Mario Sunshine (2002)
"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It's the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them." — Brian Eno
A screenshot from the music video for Limp Bizkit's "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)". Frontman Fred Durst, in his signature backwards red hat and white t-shirt, mugs at a fisheye lens. Backup dancers are in the background in similar outfits. A lyric caption reads: "Hey, ladies! (Where you at?) / Hey, fellas! (Where you at?) / And all the people that don't give a fuck! (Where you at?)"
"So a good rule of thumb is that if you see a slang term used in a CBC article, chances are it's no longer cool."
A screenshot from the Adult Swim cartoon Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Master Shake says to Meatwad: "I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this."
Jordan Peterson in a recent video
A screenshot of what happens on Facebook when I try to post a link to a CBC News story about the evacuation of Yellowknife due to wildfires: a popup says "This post can't be shared. In response to Canadian government legislation, news content can't be shared." The post button is greyed out.
A screenshot of a tweet from Hideo Kojima about his appreciation for My Chemical Romance's iconic 2006 album The Black Parade