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I thought to myself, "that doesn't sound like one of the regular helicopters," and I guess that's LeBron James flying past my house.

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 01/10/2026

Our internet was out for longer than made sense, so I went to reset the router. First, I unplugged the modem, but when I went to unplug the router, the power supply was laying on the floor. The cameras out front didn't catch anyone going in, but I noticed something on the interior camera.

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 29/09/2026

Because it's important to keep up with different perspectives, I visit the Drudge Report. Ignoring any Overton Window discussions for the moment, I have to call out the unmistakable influence of @rob-sheridan.com and his visual concepts of corruption and discomfort, all over the site at this moment.

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 24/09/2026

This morning, I spotted a Cybertaxi while talking to our builders. I've been seeing Waymo cars around for the better part of a year, but I didn't realize Tesla was testing Philadelphia too. Ugh.

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 23/09/2026

I have so little patience for trolls anymore. My social media routine now involves blocking people who say dumb shit mid-thread. I suppose I should create a public block list and just start adding to that.

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 22/09/2026

I saw the post, and had to come back to share this, courtesy of a Facebook post by my uncle

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 21/09/2026

Whatever gender stereotypes there are about cat ownership, it's definitely kept exactly the right people out of my life, apparently.

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 20/09/2026

Philadelphia sure does love fireworks. I was hanging outside on Friday when the tell-tale booms echoed across the sky. It really is amazing what kind of pictures you can take from a modern mobile phone.

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 15/09/2026

There appears to be some remnant of shame

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 14/09/2026

What fresh hell is this? More evidence that someone has tampered with the timeline 🤢

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 12/09/2026

Kinda thought this was a Wawa ad at first, so I felt the need to scroll through your media tab.

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 11/09/2026

It looks more dynamic from a visual analysis POV, but music that was a warm hug in a smokey room now has a shrill, icy feel to it. Maybe it'll sound different on vinyl (an option not previously available) but even if not... that's ok. I have the CD, and I was glad to buy the album directly again.

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 10/09/2026

TFW you find out General Mifflin's headquarters is now an adult education center in Harvard Square and you can just walk right in. One day my real career will end, and with any luck, I can go full-time history nerd.

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 08/09/2026

As for making the existing lamps completely fail, they seem like a tough nut to crack - they're original to the 1970s infrastructure. The city replaced all the lighting around us in 2021. I'd even take two of the scrapped heads over what we have now!

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 08/09/2026

My last reply to PennDOT included a before/after of old/new lighting mentioned how the broken lights made it difficult to identify a pair of child abductors back in February. Haven't gotten a reply to that one yet!

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 08/09/2026

Good news/bad news - the good news is, you can't even tell the guy threw something at the window of the second car. I think I ultimately made the right choice. The bad news is he sure made a mess out of the first car. PennDOT recently told me they won't fix the lighting here until about 2033.

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 29/08/2026

Ages ago, Levi's had this black tweed jacket with red trim (which was more appealing to me before things got so Nazi here) - the catch? It was a 49ers Jacket. Eventually they blew it out at $35. I threadpicked the logos; they slashed the fabric underneath! Fixed it with a patch of Lars Ulrich's dad.

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 29/08/2026

I just got an ad for a $275 "DIY" Dead Kennedys trucker jacket, and I hope a wormhole opens up in the warehouse and sucks all of this garbage into outer space

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 25/08/2026

From the moment the Department of Homeland Security was given its name, people were calling out the authoritarian undertones that it gave off.| Anyway, here we are, a quarter century later, and it's as bad as we all said it would be, and it's going to get worse, like we've been saying.

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 25/08/2026

Maybe try not being shitbirds - that might prove influential "...for the second survey in a row just 33% of respondents ‌said they approved of the Republican's ⁠performance in the White House, the lowest level in Reuters/Ipsos polls in Trump's first or second term" Sucks to suck, get off my screen!

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 25/08/2026

Reporting every page they throw up, knowing that I'm setting myself up for future detention by the Fascist States of America's Thought Police

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 25/08/2026

There is no reason any of this should be in my Facebook feed. I've been on that platform for nearly two decades. It's deliberate, and if it's happening to me, I don't see why it's not happening to everyone. More than ever, I'm convinced we are firmly on the path to a North Korea style government.

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 18/08/2026

Truly living in the age of buttholes in tech design

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 16/08/2026

I think I'm done with the editor for a while, now it's time to organize some files, wee. After that... Music?

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 13/08/2026

I've been an avid Pixel Pro user for years. Most of the updates they've released in "Pixel drops" were just useless, but these two will very specifically make the internet a worse place.

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 09/08/2026

I've been building out a patch editor and sound/beat/project librarian for my favorite drum machine, and it's been so satisfying. There was a lot of boring manual data-capture work up front, but turning that into a usable interface has been the most fun I've had doing web nerd stuff in a long time.

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 31/07/2026

Coming home from a road trip, we stopped in a Wendy's drive through. I ordered a cheeseburger deluxe, "hold the onions" As we drove off, I opened the box to find the bun had a patty and onions, that's it. Guess they heard "only onions!" but I wanted to get home more than I wanted to return my food.

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 29/07/2026

Maybe that's a Harrisburg Poseidon

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 28/07/2026

Between two airports and three itineraries, I was unable to fly home today. Rumor has it that ATC in Philly is turbofucked

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 28/07/2026

Peoria has its little surprises

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 26/07/2026

Adventures in midwestern public transportation. One dollar to get to downtown Peoria from the airport, because none of the two Lyft drivers want to come out here I guess, and I'm not calling the local taxi.

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 23/07/2026

We put our couch on the curb this morning, "Free Sofa!". An Amazon delivery guy saw it while dropping off Melissa's order, sized it up, and came back later with his wife and an SUV. There's no such thing as "bulk trash day" in the city and I love that.

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 21/07/2026

I was walking through the Milwaukee Art Museum this weekend, saw this and said "This is a painting of @basicchunnel.bsky.social and I am going to send it to him"

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 16/07/2026

Via web.education.wisc.edu/nwhillman/in...

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 06/07/2026

For just a moment, the clouds opened up after the storm, and the vibrant blue sky gave light to the reflection in the stormwater basin. Just as I took this picture, clouds cast themselves over the sun, and the colors all went gray again

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 05/07/2026

Lightning, fireworks, and cops!

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 02/07/2026

But my best options have been "Play coop video games during office hours" or "At-home cocktail mixing kit, after hours" and I just can't. Photo contests get some traction, but no one wants Snappy dropship trash. Oh boy, headphones by a dead camera company! A cutting board! A shitty speaker!

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 02/07/2026

A colleague asked me to be a "Chief Excitement Officer" for the 'remote' contingent, and friends, it's not easy. We can't send gift cards to people, we have to use "Snappy" - did you win the green week contest? Let's send you landfill! Would you like Allen keys or a Mario Lopez toothbrush?

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 02/07/2026

Scenes from a lunch break

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 02/07/2026

A century ago today, the Delaware River Bridge opened to the public. When the bridge was dedicated on July 5, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world. Since renamed The Benjamin Franklin Bridge, I've had the good fortune to look out upon that same bridge every morning for nearly a decade.

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 30/06/2026

Somewhere near you, several times a month, a group of 20/30 somethings are singing challenging, beautiful music about pain, love, politics, and the cosmos, to two dozen people with an average age of "retired". Sounds swirling about in a beautiful room, with no amplification. You should go more often

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 11/06/2026

Today, signing into eBay, I discovered that I might be a robot

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 03/06/2026

I have the day off because we're going to Colonial Williamsburg to give a presentation this week. I turned off my alarm and was hoping to sleep in, but woke up to a cop ringing my doorbell camera, asking if I had footage of, well, this:

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 31/05/2026

Today I found myself in the wilds of Philadelphia, camera in hand

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 20/05/2026

A sweaty evening of intermittent train travel comes to a close in a tiny room on the ground floor of a Chinatown hotel, and though it may take me an hour to dry off after that journey, there's a cart selling meat on a stick just a block away, and it hits just right.

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 19/05/2026

This seems like the appropriate moment to take a selfie in my favorite bootleg NIN shirt

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 13/05/2026

Happy Random Fireworks Day! Philadelphia fucking loves fireworks.

A burst of colorful fireworks explodes in the background of a river scene featuring old piers and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, lit up green tonight in celebration of unfettered greed.

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