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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 15/09/2026

“College is a scam” (tiny graffiti written in grout above a urinal on campus)

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 19/05/2026

There are now legal adults who were born after the creation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 16/05/2026

Certain things really do get better with age, like, I’ve gotten so much better at wrapping a really big burrito.

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 13/05/2026

It has now been more than one million hours since the sinking of the Titanic.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Imagine having so much swag that your death causes a bad bitch succession crisis

A E! News graphic with Jane Fonda and Barbra Streisand and the text "I wanna know how come Streisand was up there doing that for Redford? She only made one movie with him. I made four. I have more to say."
-Jane Fonda jokingly shares her thoughts about Barbra Streisand's emotional tribute to Robert Redford during the 2026 Oscars

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 27/02/2026

Join us for the Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference March 19-20! ctdh.io #AcademicSky #DH #Libraries #Museums #Archives #History #PublicHistory #TextAnalysis #Mapping

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 22/02/2026

Lowkey one of the most sociopathic things I’ve ever heard.

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 18/02/2026

It feels like the convergence of the starts of Lent, Ramadan, and the Chinese New Year should have been treated like a bigger deal.

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 13/02/2026

TFW three days in a row are all holidays

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 11/02/2026

Men in Black was released closer to the first moon landing than to today.

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 10/02/2026

“Why isn’t there a movie where Iron Man fights Godzilla?” “What would you do if a ghost abducted me?” “When can I have a VR and my own Minecraft server?” I don’t know, kiddo, are you sure you don’t want to talk about Neil Patrick Harris’s husband?

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Steve @otter272.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

“If all the names in the Epstein files are released then our entire system will collapse.” Works for me.

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 07/02/2026

Gonna send this to my students with the comment, “If she can provide documentation confirming the reason for the extension, then so can you.”

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/02/2026

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 04/02/2026

Look, I’m not some amateur when it comes to crastinating.

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 22/01/2026

I just thought everyone should see this

Dr Kareem Carr
man: i wish to publish
@kareem_carr
Jan 21
reviewer 2: your paper is no good
man: i'll do anything to improve
reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini
man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini
Andre Pagliarini
@apagliar
Jan 21
a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini
Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 22/01/2026

After Natalie Portman, Kiera Knightley, Sofia Coppola, and Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rose Byrne is now the fifth member of the Naboo royal court to be nominated for an Oscar.

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

How about a nationwide solidarity strike?

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 15/01/2026

For fun I made a collage of modern riffs on the Universal Monsters.

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 06/01/2026

Call for Proposals for the 2026 Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference! Please share widely! For more info: ctdh.io #DH #DigitalHumanities #AcademicSky

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 19/12/2025

“I hate this trend where young people are just saying some random, meaningless number.” — People in 1908 talking about “23 Skidoo”, probably

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 26/09/2025

Please share widely! ctdh.io

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I know there's a lot of controversy about the Cracker Barrel logo, so I worked up a new option that should be good with everyone... The barrel is back, but it's now guarded by Scubble, The Cracker Goblin. I also worked up a new slogan for the company!

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 23/08/2025

The shape of milk jugs recently changed slightly and I’m still a little thrown off every time I grab the milk, which I guess means that milk has gone woke?

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 20/07/2025

I hate the word “grooming.” I hate it when the right uses it & when the left uses it, like I’ve come to hate “woke” & “trigger warning” & so many other thought-killing cliches that are dropped in sentence-fragment comments on social media posts. I’m exhausted by the parataxis of internet discourse.

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 19/07/2025

“If you have a problem with management you can talk to HR.” Management and HR:

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 18/07/2025

Stephen Colbert should join up with Conan O-Brien to create an unstoppable multimedia variety show hosting/podcasting empire. Team ColCo? Team Coco-Colbert (but in like the Coca-Cola font)?

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 18/07/2025

Wild that "conscious uncoupling" is no longer the funniest piece of relationship drama that Chris Martin has been a part of.

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 10/07/2025

"Our research shows that students find running difficult and frequently avoid doing it, so we are offering wheelchairs that can easily be integrated into your curriculum." "But I'm a gym teacher and this is a track & field class." This is what talking to EdTech vendors about A.I. is like.

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 26/06/2025

Question for Academic Bluesky: Sorting Things Out is 25 years old--what is a more recent work that examines categories and classification, building on Bowker and Star?

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

A federal officer cannot be “doxxed.” The public has a right to know who is operating in our government, especially if they have the power to imprison someone.

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 24/06/2025

A lot of D'Onofrio characters would probably endorse Cuomo. Gomer Pyle, Carl Rudolph Stargher, Vic Hoskins, Wilson Fisk.... Something tells me Abbie Hoffman would go a different way though.

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 24/06/2025

Not only an issue with programming--building, maintaining, & fixing systems are 3 mutually reinforcing processes, & when you outsource any 1 of those you undermine your ability to do the other 2, which is a fundamental danger that gen AI poses to some (not all! but probably many) kinds of work.

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 05/06/2025

I've officially been granted tenure and promoted to the rank of Associate Librarian.

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 25/03/2025

Do me a favor and vote for Spike Lee here so my favorite movies podcast will cover his films.

blankcheckpod.com

MARCH MADNESS — BLANK CHECK

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/02/2025

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/02/2025

the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 05/02/2025

I’m celebrating my 41st birthday today and Trayvon Martin should be celebrating his 30th birthday today.

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 28/01/2025

If this were France we'd be on general strike and flooding the streets by now.

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 28/01/2025

It is definitely worth everyone's time to make a few quick phone calls. This is horrifying and must be loudly opposed.

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Brian Matzke @briansmatzke.com · 25/01/2025

See also: Roseanne’s recent rap song, “Daddy’s Home”. The world is burning because of the unresolved trauma of septuagenarian child abuse survivors.

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NotQuietMode_M.D. @notquietmodemd.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Tom Morello was right. And now, we are living in the bonafide Rage Against the Machine era. It is time to organize. Our government is not failing us, it is actively trying to destroy us. #ResistForRealThisTIme

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Tip from @snowjob.bsky.social If you have a whitehouse.gov link you want to access and it is down, try replacing "www.whitehouse.gov" with "bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov" The national archives is still doing its job for now.

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