Matt Alston

@mcribsisback.bsky.social

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I'm Matt. Maine writer with bylines with Business Insider, The Nation, GQ, Wired. Copywriter for work-work. Weirdly good at Etch-a-Sketch. Not bad at disc golf. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/graham-platner-maine-senate-susan-collins/

"When brunch was slow, Eli gave Claude his sales data and kitchen photos. It turns out the ingredients cook needed most were the hardest to reach. That week he began shifting things around, bringing his team into the process and revising as they weighed in. Food came off the line faster, servers turned more tables, and tips went up."
Big League Chew Bubble Gum Ground Ball Grape It does not say it was invented by Todd Field on the packaging, but true heads know
Sammy fabelman skipping toward the horizon, which is centered vertically for one more second
frog (not my wife)
DS9 title card that says “Pine Barrens”
Calvin and his dad, drawn on an etch-a-sketch
picture of me drawing a pretty quality circle on this game
Invasive green crabs: If you can't beat them, eat them. The crustaceans, non-native and fierce, are taking over the Gulf of Maine. Could eating them help draw down the population?
twitter post from the dude who wrote the AI/Universities piece: "Bluesky really is the weirdest social media site ever created. It’s like the most toxic liberals built themselves a prison and then locked themselves up in it and now have 10 riots a day. Why would you do that lol."
Cover for the Robert Coover novel “The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.”
Etch-a-Sketch drawing of David Bowie from the "Low" cover
Linkedin post where one CEO is quoting another CEO and talking about them both suing the WSJ for defamatory reporting — Quote poster: "We're suing them for $88M for lying that we killed Matthew Perry. That lie manipulated patients away from evidence-based care and into the arms of their big pharma advertisers. Lying to readers for profit is evil, and evil must be fought. Welcome to the party, Binance." Quoted post: "We've filed a complaint against Wall Street Journal for publishing false and defamatory reporting."
Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, and Edward Norton in the Italian Job, a poster that apparently predicted the Now You See Me trilogy's whole deal
Anton chigurh being dismissive about AI
Draper pitch meme, whiteboard says “Adam Driver and Kesha?”
a woman on Facebook named Megan writing "Always wait for more truth to be revealed" and sharing a post from someone named Ryan Fournier that says · 🚨BREAKING: New footage just dropped and it completely flips the script on the narrative we've been fed. This is what the media DOESN’T want you to see: 1. THE ASSAULT: The new video appears to show the man who was shot actually ASSAULTED A WOMAN moments before. 2. THE REACTION: It is now crystal clear that the federal agent saw a direct threat, forcing him to pull his weapon FAST. He was reacting to what was right in front of him. 3. THE FIGHT: The man was STILL fighting and moving even after the first shot was fired. This raises massive questions about who actually pulled the trigger first. THE TRUTH IS COMING OUT! 🔥
RHJ: As a puzzle maker, you’re highly aware of the solver. It demands a very literal form of readerly engagement. Is your relationship with your solvers more adversarial or collaborative? RM: My goal with the clues is to make you laugh. A smile is okay, a bit of a chuckle is acceptable, but I really want the all-out laugh. Try this one: “Sign for and take $100 off recreational vehicle on beach (9).” Take C (one hundred in Roman numerals) off CAMPER (“recreational vehicle”) on SAND (“beach”). Do you see the definition? “Sign for and.” AMPERSAND. Could it be more obvious?
The bottom panel of the Harper's Puzzle from a few years back, when I won, with the following circles: "The winner of the November puzzle, 'Foursomes' is Matthew Alston, Falmouth, Maine."
Cheerwine can
Ben Mendelssohn asking Christoph Waltz for the Django best supporting actor Oscar that should belong to Mendelsohn for his fluid, embodied, preternatural performance in Place Beyond The Pines
"two thumbs down" two more great reasons to see ... a film by David Lynch LOST HIGHWAY [now showing, etc]
“Does Trump know the price of milk” op ed headline in the gray lady
Tenet (2020)
michael scott from the office screaming "i declare ... bankruptcy!"
Me, dressed up as Bob from one battle after another, and I’m the only one with the idea
Barry Keoghan's character from Banshees of Inisherin with the overlaid subtitle of his dialogue: "Well, there goes that dream"
Instagram add for a credit card offering “3% back in bitcoin on every slice🍕”
guy rubbing hands meme with a measles virus as the head.
trump on roof
"Van Morrison rules" type comments on youtube that were posts below a video of his
a bunch of YouTube comments below/celebrating the song Willin' by Little Feat. last one is special ... "I grew up with this it never gets old but I sure did peace and love"
TubaPeter.com apologizing to Ed Zitron. He was blocked and wants to not be blocked; here's hoping Ed sees it.
Two pointing spidermen meme, but their heads are both “the worst person you know made a good point” onion guy
Picture of cassian andor in prison, overlaid is a dril tweet that reads “im actualy, probably, the most superbly relatable and normal person in this jail cell as of right NOw”
Luthen telling cassian andor “you appeared when I needed you”
Andor telling luthen “I make my own decisions” in a conversation in andor s2e9
norman rockwell freedom of speech guy. in reference to my town council meeting where everyone is an insane maniac
It’s Barry Lyndon
Egg case almost completely empty at my hannaford
Bob Dylan playing at the 1998 GRAMMYs while a shirtless man with SOY BOMB painted on his chest stage-crashes/dances next to him. inexplicably not covered in A Complete Unknown
it's barb and star, from barb and stat go to vista del mar
the parents in first class and settling into their long flight to Paris before they realize they’ve left Kevin at home (alone), and I just looked him up to confirm his name and realized that he, John Heard, died in 2017 dammit, he was amazing on the Sopranos and it looks like he married Margot Kidder for only six days? Oh no, looks like he might have been a creep. Shit. Anyway, he’s reading a book by Thomas McGuane, an author who is cool