Matt Smith

@smithmatt.bsky.social

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Comics enthusiast, policy wonk. Cat/dog person, PC Gamer, avid devourer of politics and legal ephemera. Opinions my own, not my employer. Pōneke. He/him. PFP @exocomics

3x3 grid of old game covers showing the following games. Zeliard. Super Solvers Outnumbered. Dune 2 the building of a dynasty. Paganitzu. Sim City 2000. Warcraft 2 Tides of Darkness. Sid Meier’s Civilization. Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri. Starcraft.
A picture of a round door handle with a dent in it.
A photo of a page of a book showing a chapter heading ‘Dividing the Sky’ with the sub heading ‘Un-Locke Human Potential’ referring to political philosopher John Locke
A screenshot from Tiktok of a person holding one of Australia’s limited edition Bluey themed $50 notes.
4 panel comic. First three panels show illustrations of currency from Japan, the USA, and the UK, each with serious people’s faces. Panel 1: By its very nature printed money needs to look serious. Panel 2: A somber look. A somber feel, somber theme, and somber presentation…. All of that reinforces the “seriousness” of a country’s money system. Panel 3: But not every country chooses that path. The final panel is of a mock Australian note, with a multicoloured layout and a moustachioed man grinning. The note reads “Five Australia fun bucks! Good for one Fosters” Panel 4 caption: … We’re looking at you Australia!
6 panel comic of two dogs on a date. Dog Waiter: May I offer you a select room of beverages? Dog 1: Sure. Dog waiter: We specialise in fine bowl water, but if that’s not to your liking we also have the hose. Dog 1 lights up at the suggestion of the hose. Then squints, thinking to himself: No. I gotta act sophisticated to impress her. Dog 1: Bowl… Dog 2 interrupting: Hose sounds great! Shows a feminine looking dog sitting opposite dog 1, with surrounded by a glow and the words “The One”. Final panel: Both dogs excitedly knocking the table over and jumping to get at a stream of water from the hose.
Meme of Peter Griffin from Family Guy being held up against a set of skin colour swatches. The whiter tones read: “Has a right to defend themselves.” The darker tones read: “Must not respond to this provocation.”
Meme from Parks and Rec. “I’ve done nothing wrong in my life.” “I know this, and I love you.”
Screenshot from old game Zeliard, showing a figure with a sword and shield in a green leafy setting.
White man in a suit with the caption Jamie Arbuckle List MP
Movie poster for Footrot Flats: the Dog’s Tale. Showing the various characters running at high speed out of the page. Principally Wal holding Dog led by Rangi holding a rugby ball.
Yellow line graph on a red background in the shape of a repeating set of golden arches from McDonalds. The y axis at the peak of the arches reads: "I'm lovin' it". At zero it reads: "Never again."
Screenshot of two tweets from Jersey Mike’s Subs sandwiches. First tweet: “How do you top your sub?” Second tweet:”blocked. Blocked. Blocked. You’re all blocked.”
A realistic circular calendar of seasons for New Zealand: January to March: Summer March to May: Autumn June to August: Winter August: Spring 1 September to December: Shitsville December to January: Spring 2
Part 1 of 3 of a screenshot of a Twitter thread by Adam Johnson. Reads - My contribution to the “we still have to vote for Biden discourse” is this: I think the popular debate suffers from a flawed premise that this is some abstract trolly problem without political context. That Trump “would be worse” is a reasonable position in the abstract ofc but it’s secondary to the CONTEXT of the debate which everyone keeps avoiding but I think it’s the far more interesting and urgent question. What function does the specter of massive vote withholding have? 6 months before the election in question, media influencers and progressive politicians pledging their partisan fidelity serves no functional purpose other than undermining the SINGLE point of leverage powerless angry anti-genocide voters have, which is Team Biden’s fear of losing in November.
A screenshot of Inigo Montoya from the movie The Princess Bride
Far Side comic by Gary Larson. Caption reads: “Donning his new canine decoder, Professor Schwartzman becomes the first human being on Earth to hear what barking dogs are actually saying.” All of the barking dogs in the image are only saying “Hey! Hey! Hey!”
The viewer is lying down on a couch and there are two cats asleep in his lap, curled into each other.
A screenshot of Count von Count from the Muppets holding a big number eight.
Screenshot of the website Is Henry Kissinger Dead .com showing a picture of three skeletons in a graveyard and the words “Henry Kissinger is - now and forevermore - dead.”
A screenshot from website is Henry Kissinger dead .com incorrectly stating that he is still alive.
A sleepy tortoiseshell cat next to a fluffy sleeping dog.
A black cat stretched out asleep on the viewer’s blanketed legs.
View of a crowd of several thousand pro Palestine protesters rallying in Civic Square
A cavalier King Charles spaniel, in a little blue coat on a lead outside a house.
Snapper card with an ‘I voted’ sticker from the 2020 election, partially covered by a newer cursed ‘I voted’ sticker showing the orange election golem in a sexy pose
Three cats sitting on a persons legs from the perspective of that person sitting down. With a small dog sitting next to the viewer.
Screenshot of a blond moustachioed man from a “What the fuck” meme.
A black and a grey cat asleep on a blanket, curled into one another in near identical shapes.
Image of a black cat asleep on the viewer’s lap
A selfie of a middle aged white guy in a fluffy top with a black cat in his lap staring up at him