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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Putting this here as a reminder to myself. Really want to read The Strangers by Naomi Alderman.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Ha! I've been in primary care parent/school run chic since the mid 2010s. Getting harder and harder to justify

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

By the time you reach your 40s, every thought has a hinge. Maybe I'll start dressing well, you'll think to yourself and immediately will come the refrain: To what end?

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Walliams had to conduct a decades long campaign of, at best, legally dubious sexual terror necessitating the establishment of the world's loudest whisper network to get his books recalled; Rooney just had to oppose a genocide.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Faber refusing to distribute Sally Rooney's novels is exactly the sort of reductio ad absurdum that in a sane world would lead to a massive clamour for the Palestine Action prohibition to be overturned.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Bones and All is on iPlayer. Is it Luca Guadagnino's best film? Not for me to say

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

(Really this thread is aimed at the Big Five CEO reading my Bluesky posts on a Saturday morning, ideally after a sleepless night hosting three ghosts.)

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

To be clear, because I'm shooting from the hip: if your workload has been tripled through e.g. staffing cuts and you're under pressure via company directives to use an LLM, you have my sympathy. If you're issuing the directives, you're an enemy to readers and writers.

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

I truly do believe this: the only sustainable (never mind ethical) stance on using AI is zero tolerance.

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

In an increasingly post-literate age, the real job of publishers, big five et al, is building and sustaining a literary culture. If you can't see how incorporating AI into any process, internal or public-facing, is anathema to that, find a new sector to [not] work in. www.wired.com/story/book-p...

wired.com

Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting

Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Lost a friend today. Nothing to say. Too sad. Tell the people you love you love them

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

While I'm bragging, my whole life's been a oner.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don't have a lot of steadfast rules I live by but all the music I listen to is diegetic.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Urgent blood? Buddy, it's all urgent.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ironically, this was inspired by some paint that claimed to be anti-climb but was actually on the fence.

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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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

He's one of the richest men in entertainment, could be at home enjoying his wealth, but no, he's out there tirelessly, travelling the world to support those less fortunate because it's important to give something back.

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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

This is so kind, Ian. And I'll remember it the next time I'm umming and/or ahhing about blowing my little trumpet - thank you!

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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

Ha! Thank you. Don't worry, I'm 8 months clean - I just thought it was a funny joke!

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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

"Ooh he really liked that. Probably couldn't think of a verbal response because he was so disarmed."

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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

If you a) appreciate the nicheness of this reference and b) have kept up with their output post, let's say, 2012, please do direct me any "new" albums worth getting to know.

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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

Story two: speculative fiction from Nigel Farage (aged 62 and 3/4s) entitled Here's What I'll Do If My Party Wins the election. Go home, auntie, you're drunk/cheering on fascism again.

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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

This joke would have been better if I'd said "inverted Dime bar" and that's why as an artist you should trust your audience.

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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

The one my kids will never get to the bottom of is 'Who else knows how much you love pepper-depper?' (from Larry David's simultaneously underrated and not very good Sour Grapes)

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

Ha! You have to boil a potato every time they do

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

Heart button not enough to convey my appreciation of THP ref!

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

(I wonder how many parents have shown their 9-year-olds Groundhog Day in the past fortnight in the same circumstances as the summer holidays tick into their 27th week)

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