Joel Matthys

@picklewaterfall.bsky.social

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Composer, pianist, educator, multimedia artist, game developer.

Movie poster for What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Black and white poster for the film Battle of Algiers.
HEADLINE: Moon base could cover 'hundreds of square miles' in size. We're now hearing from the program executive of the moon base, Carlos Garcia-Galan, who says they envision it will be "hundreds of square miles", with various assets. That's typically the size of a large city. NASA has broken the move into phases, starting with phase one, which has "already started".
Michael McDonald on a jumbotron playing keyboards with the Doobie Brothers
Screenshot of Jumpman Junior, a 1980s Commodore 64 platformer. Green platforms, blue ladders, brown bullets and the player in yellow.
Box art of Kirkland-brand nut bars
Excerpt from Jacob Shell's faculty profile with text that says, "Currently (2020), I am at the early stages of two projects: one on the ecological advantages of..."
Dora the Explorer with a mystical third eye and using a CPAP machine.
My partner was learning to code in R at the time, and she asked me “How do you name your variables?” I went on some rant about casing, using descriptive words, underscores, etc. She waits until I am finished and says “I like to call mine thunk”. I thought that was just about the funniest thing I had ever heard
Danny DeVito in a suit and top hat from the film Dumbo.
Screenshot from Wikipedia: Frederick Delano Newman (June 17, 1935 – July 3, 2011) was an American psychotherapist and left-wing political activist. Newman and Lois Holzman created a therapeutic modality, Social Therapy. Newman insisted "that there was nothing wrong with psychotherapists having sex with patients". Along with Lenora Fulani, Newman controlled several socialist and progressive political, therapy, and dramatic collective groups across the USA. These groups promoted "friendosexuality", which encouraged members to sleep with each other. Newman strongly objected to the classification of these groups as a "cult", and argued that "there is no such thing as a cult".