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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 1h

Apropos private thoughts, I wish people understood that "Jews disagree" is not the gotcha or breaking news they think it is.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The world can feel like an intolerant place so it's worth remembering that most paint is *pro* climb

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asnaturalasrain.bsky.social @asnaturalasrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(scolding Lionel Hutz voice) “There’s industrial scale fraud” (cheery Lionel Hutz voice) “and there’s industrial scale fraud!”

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reading the Premier League statement and it seems like the only thing Man City are guilty of is fraud at an industrial scale. So if that's a crime, sure, throw the book at them.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Rowan Atkinson is rightfully heralded for his comedic acting but remains unappreciated for his charity work. All those hours of sitting for street caricaturists ? Totally pro bono.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good night's sleep. Squashed three mosquitos before bed but, crucially, left one alive to tell its friends what it had seen.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hard to consider yourself your own harshest critic when you've published some books and Goodreads exists.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is no greater theory of mind breakdown than the discrepancy between how I imagine my friends' faces as they reply with the crying laughing emoji and my knowledge of my own face when I deploy it.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It cost two zloty to use the toilets at Auschwitz: no zloty, no potty. A tour guide once told me a story about going with a survivor who, on learning this, rolled up his sleeve and told the attendant 'Last time I was here, we didn't have to pay.'

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Daniel Tunnard @danieltunnard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Still, could be worse

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Blue Heron (on Mubi). Deeply affecting and formally inventive, two modes that seem at first to be pulling in opposite directions, as if to tell the story straight is too much for the filmmaker to confront. But the third act throws that concern out the window. Really good on the texture of memory. 4*

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My father was a man of contradictions. He wore suncream to the tanning salon.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Not to be all The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas but someone needs to keep breaking Beck's heart every twelve years so we can keep getting new sad Beck albums.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot might have something to say about it but all these years later I think we can mostly agree Wilco were right that they are equal to or less than A Ghost Is Born.

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's so great, right? I'm constantly being hung up on the idea that "immediacy is the negation of mediation", which has me noticing the various forms of mediation that I'd not noticed previously, and realizing all the good stuff in life comes out of a mediation process.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

On Falling (currently on iPlayer) is so good on the isolating effects of modern labour, the cost to our humanity and the degree to which we are all now serfs. Highly recommend

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

BBC news headlines just now. Story one: Reform found guilty of breaking donation rules. One (1) comment from editor of The Spectator: an opportunity for them to professionalise/fall in line with the "sensible voices" in the party.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If I'm ever murdered and disfigured beyond recognition they'll have to identify me by my reminder that you're overdue an appointment with the hygienist.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Someone should invent a Dime bar with two strips of caramel and call it a Caramellogram.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It would be reductive to call this a Jewish Sopranos, but that's how good it is, and it might make someone pick it up.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Watched Groundhog Day with the 9-year-old (big hit). Previously thought of it as a film about stasis, the lure of depression, the promise of renewal and the necessary difficulty of real inner change, but this time is seemed like a study on the psychic damage of having to continually wake up at 6am.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

On the one hand, the turn of the century was yesterday, it's the long summer after school ends and I'm still barely out my teens, and on the other Jack Wilshere is now manager of Luton.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm seriously concerned reading a second day of tributes and realising she was involved in basically every social, cultural and scientific advancement of the last 50 years that she was the one thing holding us together. Thought I knew what a legend she was but I didn't know the half of it.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Ah man. What a life. And maybe worth saying because with so many great deeds you'd be forgiven for forgetting it but what a god tier songwriter

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Any excuse to share this. Art Spiegelman once gave the greatest response to an interview question you'll ever hear. When asked if he thought a comic book about Auschwitz was in poor taste: "I thought Auschwitz was in poor taste."

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

William Carlos Williams was challenged to write the saddest poem he could in less than fifty words. "I only need five," he replied. For breakfast: frozen plums, eaten

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

For sale: babies shoes, condition: Like New. £30 ONO (RRP £40, note: these are a brand new item, never worn.) P&P £4.99 (allow 3-5 business days.) Details in description. No time wasters.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Also, I'm off to see Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma tonight, and god isn't great going to the cinema.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Do you know what's really nice? When you see a kid in a film and they're really good and they go on to have a brilliant career, constantly challenging themselves and confounding expectations. This is in ref to Will Poulter, who I've had a soft spot for since Son of Rambow. Just a lovely thing to see

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In my experience, Jews don't believe in traitors. We believe in two Jews, three opinions

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is appalling and tragic. Cambridge University, the media, and those far right 'scholars' and hangers on who sought to capitalise on this case for social media clout surely bear responsibility for what feels like an entirely predictable outcome. www.lbc.co.uk/article/jaso...

lbc.co.uk

Former Cambridge professor Jason Arday found dead aged 41 | LBC

Mr Arday is understood to have been found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea on Friday afternoon

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Anyone wanna buy a pinhole projector?

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Enjoyed that. Unfancied minnow standing up to a PL giant with much bigger resources. Proper magic of the cup

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Already annoyed t all the johnny come latelies who'll be jumping on the bandwagon later. Some of us carry colanders with us to point at the sun every day, not just once every 30 years

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

One day, if you're very, very lucky, you might have the privilege of being copyedited, but unless you've been copyedited by @bcdreyer.social you won't know true generosity xx

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Lambchop aren't my favourite band but sometimes I wonder why not

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

So ravaged by mosquito bites that last night I woke up to one goading a newcomer like Daniel Day Lewis to Paul Dano at the end of There Will Be Blood

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It's good, I think, every couple of years to pick up a book everyone is raving about, read a few pages then quietly and respectfully return it to the library box it came from having concluded, with enormous restraint and magnanimity, that you are not the target readership.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Oh oh oh but *this* is magic. The depth of it but way he writes, like it's carried on the breeze. @saltpublishing.com releasing some absolute gems

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Dooneen by @rid9way.bsky.social is such a special book. Makes most modern fiction seem anemic in comparison. It's completely inimical, but I think Christian Petzold's adaptation of Transit by Anna Seghers (another masterpiece) would make a good companion piece. Anyway, the point is: read it.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Second viewing of Marty Supreme. I can't tell you how moving it is to see a deeply flawed Jewish character, who faces, historically, what are only homeopathic levels of persecution, get to the end and decide "Nope, I've absolutely had enough of this antisemitic bullshit." A masterpiece.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Couldn't agree more. The amount we're getting is an insult. 91% take-up because we'll never see another penny from these thieves and we can't afford not to, but if you'd have offered us 10x to help build the illiteracy engine, 91% of us would've told you to go fuck yourself.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Momentous day: just showed the nine-year-old the Brian Butterfield Detective Agency sketch.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Trying to cut down on my reading so I can spend more time sitting on hay bales listening to travelling troubadours

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

They should invent 4-step authentication but only for if you're trying to order a pizza with no tomato sauce

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The thing is I am actually quite a thoughtful and engaged person who believes in thinking critically and giving real consideration to what I say but I do also think - and I absolutely refuse to expand on this - that the fact I'm expected to have an Instagram account is fascism.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It's nice to be wrong about things. I didn't like the first two episodes but The Comeback S3 is really, really good, and Lisa Kudrow's central turn remains an all-timer.

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