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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

L.A.! Some German pals just brought their family of four (mama, papa, two kids) over for a three-month guest lecture role at UCLA got ghosted on housing and have nowhere to stay. Anyone with any leads for 3-month rental? I know it's a stretch, but desperate times and all that...thanks y'all!

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I wear a 48-star U.S. flag patch next to the antifa stuff on my backpack. I don't wear it to celebrate our violent past: I wear it because I have a responsibility to try to bear its weight into a more kind, more just, and more fearless future. crmatheny.net/index.html#p...

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"I'm not saying [insert maniac dictator] is good BUT he's more trustworthy than [insert US/UK/EU leader] on [insert topic unrelated to dictator's dictator-y-ness]." Anyone else share my impression that this thought pattern is a lot more common today than it was +/- 10 years ago?

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This interview in Paste paints a decent map of how I position myself in the contested social and political territory of the 2020s. crmatheny.net/index.html#p...

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

My new record Unified Field is out. Here’s where to get it or stream it. crmatheny.net#post/unified...

E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I wrote a review of a review of Unified Field, sent with gratitude and respect to @RosyOverdrive. crmatheny.net#post/a-revie...

E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

EMPEROR X PODCAST GUEST ERA BEGINS with my old high school pal Andrew Gill on Rock That Doesn't Roll. Is Unified Field Christian rock? Probably not, but let's talk about it anyway. pod.link/1703257857/e...

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The 2020s U.S. party realignment is nearly complete. About 90% of Republicans -- since the '50s a reliable military interventionist party -- just opposed Russian sanctions and military aid to Ukraine, while 95% of Dems -- historically peaceniks -- supported it. It's a new world.

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

There's music as inexhaustible human activity for joyfully experiencing a bewildering ever-novel world together. Then there's music as sick distraction, like Nazis playing Mozart to prisoners marching unknowingly to gas chambers. AI Ozzy is in between, but closer to the latter.

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Raise your hand if platform algorithms keep serving you posts and videos that try to convince you you're not in control of your decisions. ✋

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Does this make anyone else's stomach feel weird?

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Rejecting the LLM sentence version was the right call. Use LLMs to nuke tedious tasks. Use LLMs to analyse your work. Use LLMs to explore an idea-space. But never trick yourself into thinking LLM output beats your text or, worse, IS your text. Type until your fingers bleed.

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Song of the summer just dropped several weeks early. It's "Gray Glow" by Anthony Calonico, who is in a band called Total Blue that I am apparently supposed to know about already. But who cares this jaaaaaaaam music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/track/gray-g...

music-from-memory.bandcamp.com

Gray Glow, by Anthony Calonico

from the album Spacious Heart

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Kyiv. Beirut. Right now. Fellow insulated Westerner, whatever you're complaining about, whatever you're sad about, whatever you're worried about, imagine on top of it that this was what Thursday looked like. Enjoy your Thursday. But don't look away.

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Superbus competition is getting lit.

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

New E.X song: "Superbus" from Unified Field (out 6/26) Listen/order: lnk.to/superbus_emp... NEW ASCII TEXT BUS RACE GAME: SUPERBUS! (out now) Play: bar-none.tv/superbus

lnk.to

Emperor X - Superbus

Listen to Superbus by Emperor X.

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This bus, it is super. A kind of "super bus," if you will.

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

My Horse shall outlive my children, and my children's children. For lo, He shall be called Horse Matheny, Bringer of Sun and Plenty, & to say His reign, compared to a mortal's life, shall be as the size of a grain of barley compared to the volume of Jupiter, would not begin to convey Its magnitude.

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Pes Patron would absolutely obliterate Cheburashka in the octagon.

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I save every penny I can but with things the way they are I'm starting to wonder if I'm ever going to be able to buy a horse.

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

See you soon with a full band, North America! crmatheny.net/board/2026/0...

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

"Praise Jesus! Hail Reagan!" is out everywhere including a video we shot in DC last week with Maxwell Wood and Carly Hoskins. New album Unified Field out in June on @barnonerecords. Pre-order here: lnk.to/praisejesush...

lnk.to

Emperor X - Praise Jesus! Hail Reagan!

Listen to Praise Jesus! Hail Reagan! by Emperor X.

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

PRAISE JESUS! HAIL REAGAN! ALWAYS CONCEAL YOUR ATM PIN. lnk.to/praisejesush...

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

New month, new power pop song about war and complacency and flashlight piss. 2026 delivers! Pre-save to hear it this Wed. 4 Feb. here: bar-none.tv/blyat

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

BRIAN SELLA + EMPEROR X = !!! (TIX LINK IN PROFILE)

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

This is a great example of the incoherence of nationalist sovereignty arguments against internationalism. "Screw internationalism! All nations for themselves! All nations that believe this should get together in an alliance of united nationalist nations! Let's call it the UN!"

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Possibilities: 1- It's real, Europe fights back, we get intra-NATO war & it collapses, Russia invades Baltics. 2- It's real, Europe under-reacts looking weak, Russia invades Baltics. 3- This is fake & meant to distract from something else. Anyone see alternatives? x.com/atrupar/stat...

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Stephen Miller Does Not Rule Out Force to Take Greeland

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Knowing about important developments is good. We pinpoint where we are in unfolding historical processes and can then navigate well. Freaking out about the so-called news is bad. We panic about unfolding historical processes and lose mental bandwidth needed to navigate at all.

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Blog blog blog bloggity blog blog I blog again, I blog again bloggity bloggity blog. crmatheny.net/board/2026/0...

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

This is the opposite of justice. We should have unseated Maduro/PSUV, but legally, and with clear humanist intent. On the bright side, if Trumpo-Chavism is the endgame, my Maduro-curious leftist colleagues and our Vichy GOP foes both shed moral credibility like snakes molt skin.

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Brieskow holds! Stay warm and strong, friends.

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The nihilistic dehumanization some folks in DIY/indie music are displaying in response to a guy's neck exploding in front of 100s of impressionable college kids is...I've been ashamed of this subculture before, but never like this. You are being brittle, tiny-souled ghouls.

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

It doesn't matter what his stances were today. Mocking Charlie Kirk's extrajudicial execution before the body's cold is callous dehumanization. If you treasure human life like I do but can't see that, you're playing into the hands of our worst opponents, and you've lost your way.

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Don’t Let the Scene Go Down on Me! Collective @dltsgdom.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

LOCALS ADDED: King Blue Heron + Times New Wrestlers will join @emperorx.bsky.social 9/27 at @bottlerocketpgh.bsky.social!! TICKETS: app.opendate.io/e/emperor-x-...

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Don't worry, being an antimonarchist is going to be just as fun as being an antifascist.

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

In 2025 we fight *monarchism*, a political philosophy that says those with power deserve it because they have it (social Darwinism) or because God ordained it (divine right of kings). It threatens the rights we've enjoyed for centuries, and it's winning (Putin, Trump, Bibi, Kim.)

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

These two tyrants want the same thing: a world where might makes right, power is hyper-concentrated at the top, and bloated nation-states carve up the globe into amoral mini-empires locked into ceaseless squabbles that impoverish most but enrich an unaccountable elite.

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

A classic authoritarian move: oblique provocation designed to justify itself retroactively. Prob obvious, but we need to scream this, do something responsible about it, and stop rolling our eyes like it's a tacky shirt. Red alert territory. www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...

foxnews.com

Trump takes control of Metro Police, deploys National Guard to take on Washington crime

President Donald Trump recently promised Washington would be "LIBERATED" from "Crime, Savagery, Filth, and Scum."

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Reverb viola hip hop beats, cartoon cha-cha-cha on MIDI orchestra xylophones, infinite harmonically linear vi-IV-I-V loops, etc.: we underestimate how drastically the childish musical aesthetics of NPR shows and liberal podcasts undermine their credibility.

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Remember when you were a scared teen and thought that being cruel in public to people below you in status was the same thing as being funny? Some people grow past that, some don't, and those two groups are the nuclei of a new political divide that cuts across left and right.

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

There's room for all kinds of friends on European trains. 🇪🇺

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Thank you, Mark Lipsitz. crmatheny.net/board/2025/0...

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E.X || Chad R. Matheny @emperorx.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Happy Independence Day. Take nothing for granted. Empire looms eternally.

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