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@matt-finish.bsky.social
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So many hobbies, so little time. Sewing, nalbinding, knitting, some dabbling in other fiber arts. Society for Creative Anachronism, historical re-creation, historical fencing. Etc.

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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 19h
Following the money? Are there people buying up .si URLs in a sort of economic bubble, hoping that changing AI to SI catches on? I don't know. But, I now know that .si is the country code for Slovenia. Hmmm...
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putawomanincharge.bsky.social @putawomanincharge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Times Sq station announcement: "Due to an event at Madison Square Garden tonight..." I love the no-fucks-given approach. If you don't already know what's going on, you probably don't care. You just need to know how it's affecting the subway. 👍 MTA.
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I managed to find a concise summary of this...whatever this is. But, enjoy the commentary here, too. www.vulture.com/article/why-...
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Afroman Wins Victory for Free Speech, Trolling
An Ohio jury ruled on the side of comedy Wednesday evening.
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
For some reason, I'm feeling like watching this old movie this week: www.imdb.com/title/tt0120...
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Wag the Dog (1997) ⭐ 7.1 | Comedy, Drama
1h 37m | R
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
OK, but why don't the British use all those spices they invaded all the world to get? :-)
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Travis R. Eby @travis-robert.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Blows my mind it hasn't even been a full year of congestion pricing in NYC yet. Years of cranks whining about it and then you just DO IT and everything is instantly better and everyone gets used to it and moves on. We should do good things more often! PS - T-minus 12 days to Streets Mayor Mamdani!
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.  August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Hannah Arendt: “The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lies will now be accepted as truth, and the truth be defamed as lies, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world...is being destroyed.”
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
It's unfortunately difficult to find places to donate used good in many localities. But, please don't support Salvation Army by donating stuff for them to sell in their stores, either.
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Date night last night-saw the new Nuremburg movie. While watching it, I thought it was too heavy-handed an allegory for current events. Discussion over dinner afterward suggests it was far too subtle.
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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I named my fists John and Cage because you're not going to be doing anything for the next four minutes and thirty three seconds
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Things I've neverthought about: cruise ships run on diesel. Even in port they still burn it for electric, adding pollution to the area. They could plug in to electric grid on land, but most terminals don't have that infrastructure: w42st.com/post/our-res...
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“Our Residents are Suffocating” — Pols Push For Cruise Ships to Switch Off Engines and Plug In
The cruise business is booming — and so is air pollution on the West Side. The statistics are enough to take your breath away.
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
It was bound to happen sooner or later, but this is the first report I've seen of it. NYPD responded to call for carjacking, but it was ICE: gothamist.com/news/nypd-sa...
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NYPD says 2 officers injured during Washington Heights ICE chase
NYPD officials said officers were unaware the people were federal immigration officers as their clothing concealed their identities.
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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/11/2025
Mamdani has won more votes than the entire population of any of the 5 smallest states.
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I kind of love that BBC World Service, reporting on NYC mayor election, called Mamdani a "left-leaning Democrat". Not "left-wing", not "leftist", not "socialist". I'm pretty sure no American news outlet would ever use that phrase.
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Eulogy for another victim of gun violence
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Just tried watching Ezra Klein’s latest NYT podcast episode on how the U.S. got to this point where vaccines are so politicized. It’s pretty clear that Klein and his guests—David Wallace Wells and Rachael Bedard—really do not understand why/how the political right turned on vaccines.
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Came across this little post randomly the other day and I can't stop thinking about it. Maybe I should wait until Monday (Labor Day) to share? But, I don't want to forget. Sometimes a needle is more than just a needle. www.moderndailyknitting.com/community/th...
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The Cost of a Needle – Modern Daily Knitting
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
This is the sort of thought that can provoke a depressive spiral. And yet, it is an important thing to consider.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18/06/2025
BREAKING: U.S. regulators have approved the world's only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV.
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FDA approves the world's only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the world’s only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV. In two groundbreaking studies, Gilead Sciences’ shot nearly eliminated new infections in people at high risk of HIV.
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Click through to read the whole thread...
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Clearly the fire department doesn't have anything better to do... hellgatenyc.com/fdny-ice-hea...
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The FDNY Sped to ICE Headquarters for a Bogus 911 Call: 'They Used Us'
After the fire truck pulled up to the federal building where more than 100 people are being held, a van of the sort ICE uses to transport detainees sped out past protesters.
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
My husband just called an éclair a "sugar hot dog" and I can't decide if it's brilliant or idiotic.
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I had some ponnish this morning, but it settled down into teluge after a nap.
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
An owl with one wing folded and one wing partially extended to its side - presenting a silhouette similar to a matador presenting his cape.
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Heauxtin @heauxtin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Thought of the day: Kilmar is Gen Z's Mumia
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority @mta.info · 02/04/2025
Say hello to a new subway map! 🗺️ Today, the MTA unveiled a new subway diagram that provides riders with essential travel information in an easily readable, bright, and orderly manner.
2025 version of the NYC subway map
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 30/03/2025
it's remarkable how quickly "tren de aragua" went from something i had never heard of to a crisis so urgent centuries-old safeguards of liberty and due practice had to be cast aside, even at the acknowledged cost of some innocents getting pressed into indefinite detention and enslavement.
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
It's almost as if Trump were a life-long crime boss protecting his own.
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 22/03/2025
It’s really tedious to argue with these fascist ignorant assholes but over 4 million riders take the subway each day. I doubt Sean Duffy is ever one of them, and he’s just shitting on NYC based on NY Post headlines and Fox News stories to score points with Trump’s racist base.
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
She was disappeared because the CPB "had a feeling" That's it. Her profession is portable, so they decided she MUST be planning to make some money while she was here. And she was dropped in a oubliette. www.kpbs.org/news/border-...
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German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility
The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 24/02/2025
This is just to say I have stolen the bars of gold that were in Ft. Knox and which the U.S. was probably saving for its reserve Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
There is still no specific treatment for measles encephalitis.
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
www.fiftyfifty.one
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50501 — 50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement
Join the movement to uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach. 50 protests, 50 states, 1 day: #50501.
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
@quatoria.bsky.social Anna, I don't know you, but it would make my week to learn that you have a long simmering rivalry with someone called Nora Pinephrine.
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I'm not looking for a new job, but I get emails every day. Today's was more explicit than usual. It is 100% accurate, but, wow, way to make me question my career choices...
Typical Working Conditions:

Exposure to communicable diseases, toxic substances, and ionizing radiation.
Requires standing, walking, lifting (up to 50 lbs), and manual dexterity.
Work under stressful conditions and irregular hours.
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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2025
Behold.... the DSNY bike lane plow! It has a brine tank in the back. #bikenyc #BikeTooter #nyc #bikelanes
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I suppose it's just because I'm "of a certain age" that this week's news just makes me think of this: media1.tenor.com/m/3NFTSWLpf6...
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 31/01/2025
Fuck these fascists.
A conversation on Reddit. The OP says: ”Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes ... Families are torn apart: men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find their parents have disappeared.”

A smoothbrain dipshit replies "Yes. It's a consequence of uncontrolled borders. It's to be expected. Grow a backbone; it's what we voted for." 

OP replies that they quoted the diary of Anne Frank, and asks "Now what does that say about you and your party that you could not tell the difference?"
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Chicago has been so effective at getting Know Your Rights info out that ICE has been publicly frustrated they can't make all the arrests they want to. Good to see it in other places too! Keep it up, folks. Resist ICE everywhere. 👊
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I've seen suggestions for code words to alert ppl to ICE agents. I'm a little surprised none yet have been "code yellow" ("ice" in Spanish is "hielo" which side kinda like "yellow")
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
1. Trump's immigration crackdown is premised on the idea that the US is experiencing a massive surge in violent crime According to Trump the crime wave is especially severe in cities THIS IS A LIE New data shows crime is LOWER than when Trump left office in 2020, and below pre-pandemic levels
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Trump's fake crime wave
On January 19, during a rally held in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump claimed that “crime has gone through the roof” and that it “was up like 40%.” He claimed that violent crime is especially...
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It is amazing how well this has worked out so far, by the numbers and also just in terms of what you see at the river crossings and in midtown. No greater proof of how cowed/dorky/incompetent New York Democrats are that none of them can even find it in themselves to take any credit for it.
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Not-Shiny :-) @matt-finish.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Too many people who think they're critiquing MAGA views on immigration are falling into a trap and you all need to stop. Not all brown/Asian/Latin people in the USA are immigrants. For public figures this isn't even hard to check. 1/4
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