Reposted by FatMattyPeter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026OMFG I am completely destroyed by this LinkedIn post by Michael White, the father of Magnus White (a very promising junior racer who was killed at the age of 17 in 2023 by a young woman who was eventually convicted of vehicular homicide). 1524440
Reposted by FatMattytoilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately 190113293085
Reposted by FatMattyDr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” ~President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936. Image: Universal History Archive/Getty Images. 6803216
Reposted by FatMattyMichael Bazaco @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Just posting this cover of the fantastic Failure track, Stuck on You, by the amazing and wonderfully incredible Hayley Williams for no particular reason, today.youtu.beStuck On YouYouTube video by Paramore - Topic 154
Reposted by FatMattyMatthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 01/10/2026Anyway, the death penalty is cruel and monstrous whether it goes right or wrong and any society still imposing it should be ashamed 3265
Reposted by FatMattyPostcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Fritz has an ENORMOUS collection of fossils in his cellar. 536039
Reposted by FatMattyPaul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What the front page of an actual newspaper looks like (as opposed to a tax-dodging billionaire's political tool staffed by shills and bootlickers) 03811
Reposted by FatMattySpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 21275852507
Reposted by FatMattyWorld Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Probably the greatest parallel parking you’ll ever see. #WorldBollardAssociation 781900316
Reposted by FatMattyAlan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 27/09/2026While well-remunerated professional MSM journalists have been cowardly and sycophantic throughout the Trump years, student journalists have been heroes. 1184
Reposted by FatMattyPeter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Venn diagram of folks who can't stop pondering the horrors of a trans person using a public toilet and folks who have nothing to say about what happened at Cornell. 0183
Reposted by FatMattyWaitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 27/09/2026Note: I've never had to worry about a book "hallucinating." 3243
Reposted by FatMattyLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 26/09/2026"What if the connection between reactionary MAGA politics and the sexual abuse of children is deeper than we want to admit?" (from July 2025) www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...liberalcurrents.comWe Need to Talk About Pedocon TheoryThe connection between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics. 210529
Reposted by FatMattyGaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026They’ve finally released pictures of the White House in 2037 4397
Reposted by FatMattyAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.opb.orgOregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new reportA first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities. 7931171842
Reposted by FatMattyTaylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Sometimes you gotta say something! Rare Merc op-ed on the recent cop tweet kerfuffle: 712518
Reposted by FatMattyrichard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Can you imagine the press reaction if Palestine Action were forcing Ambulance Stations to close? Or the Socialist Workers Party were shutting Fire Stations? No, of course not, cos it wouldn't fucking happen. These people are terrorists and should be treated as such. Ban, arrest, imprison. 12256102
Reposted by FatMatty👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Personally I would not pick this fight with the youtube guy who demonstrates all the ways he can nail you with an arrow at 200 yards using his feet while wearing 12-inch Pleasers, whose wife can also kill you with her bare hands, and has 9 billionteen followers who are all trans women with swords. 4149131665
Reposted by FatMattyAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It’s not an “impossible position”. Sheeran is a very wealthy, successful musician who was asked by a stadium owner to kick a fellow musician off his tour for political reasons. He could choose to kick Macklemore off or to say no thanks, we’ll play elsewhere. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...independent.co.ukEd Sheeran in an ‘impossible position’ over Macklemore Gaza row, says Lisa Nandy 36771150
Reposted by FatMattyIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour 3257531533
Reposted by FatMattyRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers. 1052352687
Reposted by FatMattyPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comPiddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plansPiddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby 1663523839
Reposted by FatMattyPaul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Someone tell Sheeran that this is what having principles looks like 2389
Reposted by FatMattyCycling Weekly @cyclingweekly.com · 14/09/2026'Imagine a world where women are seen for what they can do not just what they look like': Olympic champion Sophie Capewell speaks out against Sydney Sweeney ad www.cyclingweekly.com/news/olympic...cyclingweekly.com'Imagine a world where women are seen for what they can do not just what they look like': Olympic champion Sophie Capewell speaks out against Sydney Sweeney adDecorated Olympian spoke out about ad which featured the athlete mostly naked 0173
Reposted by FatMattyMatthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 06/09/2026Contrast the police statements about the Dover blockade yesterday with the Just Stop Oil protests in 2022 9528284
Reposted by FatMattyJonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026I can’t wait to read the NYT op-ed from Renee Good’s wife about grief on the one year anniversary of her death. Surely the NYT will extend the same grace to Becca Good—whose partner died protesting against state power—as it has to Erica Kirk—whose partner died defending white supremacy 62949684
Reposted by FatMattyAnti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"The main difference between Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts and the lot we saw in Dover yesterday is that Mosley's lot, for all their faults, weren't afraid to show their faces. Either way, the parallels are deeply uncomfortable. Mosley's mo ..." www.facebook.com/TruthAgainst... via Truth Against Hate 1012250
Reposted by FatMattyPeter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Here are 5 questions the NYT isn't asking -Is Mitch McConnell alive and/or functioning? -Why haven't the Epstein files been released? -Did Clarence Thomas take illegal gifts without reporting them? -Why is ICE allowed to murder people? -Why is the White House allowed to lie on a daily basis? 1324
Reposted by FatMattyDomestique @domestiquecycling.com · 25/08/2026Vuelta hotel flooded with five star reviews after 🇸🇮 Tadej Pogacar leads peloton to shelter 📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/vuel... 📸 Cor Vos 06214
Reposted by FatMatty"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 22/08/2026On the one hand, I shouldn't wish my country ill. On the other hand, Canada's grandfathers bled with my grandfathers fighting the Nazis. When we were attacked on 9/11, we asked Canada to send their sons and they bled with our troops in Afghanistan. To betray that bond - we'll deserve what we get. 271628279
Reposted by FatMattyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Foreign students don’t get UK student loans. Stupidest party in the world with the most gullible followers. 1151476441
Reposted by FatMattyDr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Attacking the First Amendment freedom of the press of the newspaper read by men and women who are voluntarily risking their lives to preserve/protect/defend the Constitution? Irony is hard. And hypocrisy is disgusting. 19527
Reposted by FatMattyAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm. 13975931650
Reposted by FatMattyBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Intellectual property rights of firms like Disney & academic publisher Elsevier? Inviolable. Don't even think of pirating their content or it's prison for you. Intellectual property rights of individuals like academics and artists? Don't even think of enforcing them or Sam Altman will cry about it. 28124
Reposted by FatMattyChance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 4645461568
FatMatty @fatmatty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Hey @pflax1.bsky.social what do you think of these? I've never seen racks like these before. Seen in Girona. 100
Reposted by FatMattyDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 19/08/2026As I research and write I can feel my brain changing and growing. It's an incredible feeling. I look down on people who write and research using AI. It's gross and evil and you are missing the point of living. 232533
Reposted by FatMattyShooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 18/08/2026#ResistanceRoots Mae West was born on this day in 1893 in Brooklyn. She began her career as a child star and found fame as a Hollywood sex symbol. Behind the sashaying hips was a talented writer and independent woman who fought discrimination against African Americans and LGBTQ+ people. /1 13528135
Reposted by FatMattyNed Boulting @nedboulting.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Never. Never. Never buy books from Amazon. I mean, try not to buy anything from there, but never ever books. They are destroyers of the thing I hold dearest. futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comAmazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AIAn investigation by 404 Media found that Amazon bought a shipment of rare books so it could scan and destroy them to train AI. 1519272
Reposted by FatMattyCraig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 17/08/2026A reminder that we don't lack national health in this country because it would cost too much. It would actually save tons of money. We lack it because it would not enrich businesses and their executives like the current system does. bsky.app/profile/jent... 16858273
Reposted by FatMattyAlan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Also: Americans’ deep aversion to the idea that there might be some sort of equality of outcome in any aspect of life. 1174
Reposted by FatMattyWorld Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Yes, it’s a BMW. #WorldBollardAssociation 601596147
Reposted by FatMattyGlennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 16/08/2026People criticise cancel culture but why would you want the most awful people saying and doing the most evil stuff in any part of your life? Cut them out. Fuck them. 4386
Reposted by FatMattyProf Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Oh my god what TF is wrong with #BBC #BroadcastingHouse? They have got KATHLEEN STOCK on to do the review, SPECIFICALLY to talk about Jason Arday. When she was one of the most egregious examples of the pile on, just days ago. I have turned the radio off. Shame on you BBC. 1053742768
Reposted by FatMattyPeter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I have felt too sad to post anything constructive about Finlay Tarling's death. But I just read this...and feel like this is a pretty unacceptable statement. That and all the "tragic accident" headlines are making me sick. 5282
Reposted by FatMattyGrant Tanaka @granttanaka.bsky.social · 15/08/2026still think daily about the time I was at Arby's and the person in front of me asked what the "healthy option" was, and the cashier responded "leaving" 136261958
Reposted by FatMattyDr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 16/08/2026“This is…a species of a political cant, whereby the crime of treason might be covered with a counterfeit varnish of patriotism, so that the precipitators of the rebellion might go down in history hand in hand with the defenders of the government… .” ~Gen. G.H. Thomas, 1868. Image: Public domain. 47416