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Matthew D Albertson

@matthewthe1337.bsky.social
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It's a tall order for a writer to actually write something, isn't it? In so many words, I'm a leftist, a Saganite, and I guess a writer.

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Matthew D Albertson @matthewthe1337.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 10/05/2025
I think about this comic at least once a week
- I want things to be different 
- *smashes everything*
- oh no
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A.L. Garcia @almaandthehorde.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Also wanted to say, the success of and general reception of films like Sinners and Nosferatu is truly giving me hope for art and humanity. Vampire movies truly always save us but also and still and always #teamvampire (now, invite me in) 💀🪦🥀
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/04/2025
complete batshit insanity
"Good luck to the Great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America. No more artificially drawn line from many years ago. Look how beautiful this land mass would be. Free access with NO BORDER. ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE! America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!"
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Matthew D Albertson @matthewthe1337.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
While the next to follow will be their own man with their own agenda, one thing we can say is, based on that 110 of the 138 members of were appointed by Francis, the next pope will likely share priorities with the last.
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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Andrew Cuomo's policy paper on affordable housing, released this weekend, was written with the help of ChatGPT and was released rife with typos, in some parts devolving into unintelligible gibberish. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...
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Andrew Cuomo Used ChatGPT For His Housing Plan
"Addressing New York's Housing Crisis" features garbled text and a citation from ChatGPT.
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Matthew D Albertson @matthewthe1337.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
paper merengue let the ink dance each step so intimately shadows the soul
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Matthew D Albertson @matthewthe1337.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Defenestrate decorum!
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Matthew D Albertson @matthewthe1337.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Writing inspiration: Don’t fret about poor writing #writingtip #writingtips #BraveWrite #AuthorLife #writers
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Writing inspiration: Don’t fret about poor writing
Allow yourself to write “poorly.” Most writer’s block is caused by fear that you lack talent. This probably occurs because you’re unfairly comparing the body of what you’ve written to your fav…
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Matthew D Albertson @matthewthe1337.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Just planted a bunch of peas—here's hoping the anti-slug efforts hold up
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The goal is to terrorize federal workers into quitting. That’s it. Constant changes. Canceling work from home then closing offices. Laying off probationary employees. It’s designed to break the government. Then privatize it for profit. It’s not efficiency. It’s collapse. Only peasants will suffer.
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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Many forget that before “The Birth of a Nation”, KKK membership was dwindling. But the movie depicted them positively and was even praised by President Wilson. Membership exploded. Endorsing and praising white supremacists and nazi sympathizers by the President today can lead us down the same road.
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Matthew D Albertson @matthewthe1337.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I know it's a college lit mag, but I'm celebrating this win; there's a ton of competition for Pathos—and I'm not in any English or Writing major.
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A child died from it today. It’s been 10 years since someone has died from measles.
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Matthew D Albertson @matthewthe1337.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
CW: poem about sui Written after Bushnell's act of extreme protest. Thought I'd share.
Written after Bushnell's act of extreme protest.


25-02-2024

A child of peace, long weaned on faith
That forebears, all, shun enmities,
A child of war, now weaned on deith,
So long forborne of niceties,
First met, without, in sea of streams,
Deluded lives well dramatized,
Now meet within a sea of screams,
Dispelling minds well hypnotized.
Their pain, once seen, coagulates
In vain, for efforts can’t align
Ere volunteer self-immolates,
To spark, perchance, free Palestine.
  A martyr ashed, a choice extolled,
  But can it cleanse our mired souls?
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🌺🌺 Cynbad 🌺🌺 @cyynbadd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
THIS IS WHAT WE NEED 3.5% or 11 million of us standing with the Vets is all we need to affect change! 👇👇👇👇
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Matthew D Albertson @matthewthe1337.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Apostasy O, hallowed, wisend one above, Why deign you daily test resolve Thy faithful legislate thy love Our piety may soon dissolve Apostates, Four, fel borne of Chan Now rip and rend thy government Directed by some fallen man Of emerald glow and Muskie scent (1/2)
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Matthew D Albertson @matthewthe1337.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Trump idolizes and wants to teturn to the guilded age, huh? And to think my Con Law professor said that Substantive Economic Due Process is a dead doctrine. Guess we'll see veneration of liberty of the contract as a fundamental right again!
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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Matthew D Albertson @matthewthe1337.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
It looks like cussing proves to be a fix for ridding your search results pf the AI overview. You may want to mix up the cuss in certain searches. I can see "f*cking great tits" not working as an ornithologist intends.
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Matthew D Albertson @matthewthe1337.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Ehat are You that luminous You here with me now? the void calls, Ehat, and though i stride forth spritely into certain oblivion i shall carry Your name through annihilation and extol it to what gods lounge and laze beyond this neglected firmament, lies providence at my core i beam still i tremble
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Lunacy
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Excellent reporting. I was NOT familiar with RFK Jr.’s race “science” stuff, which sounds like straight-up Nazi-style eugenics: “Now we know that, you know, we should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that’s given to Whites, because their immune system is better than ours”
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025
It is very easy to call your representatives’ offices. They have to log your calls and the call numbers are meaningful. You don’t even have to try to convince anyone; just call and tell them your concerns. They are there to represent you. Let them know what that means. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
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Find and contact elected officials | USAGov
Use USAGov’s Contact Your Elected Officials tool to get contact information for your members of Congress, the president, and state and local officials.
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H-P Ontto-Panula @hplehk.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Now that people are joining bluesky in large numbers I'll share this old comic of mine. I made it for Twitter, but as you can see, people over there never listened. Maybe this time... So just block, don't dunk on bigots!
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Matthew D Albertson @matthewthe1337.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Saw a bee (honey, I think) at my place. She was looking about for flowers that haven't bloomed yet. Hope she eventually finds my rosemary's still producing.
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Please repost! We’re trying hard to sort out rumors from truth + would like to hear from anyone affected by the new federal orders + NIH pause. Patients, scientists, health equity researchers: please contact us below. We won’t share anything without your permission. www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...
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Are you affected by the Trump administration’s pause on health communications, science meetings, and reviews?
Have you been affected by the Trump administration’s pause on communications, science meetings, and reviews? @statnews would like to hear from you.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
And you haven’t heard about this, because Trump has banned ALL external communication from the CDC and FDA. They can no longer notify the public about any health crisis. www.cjonline.com/story/news/p...
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Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history
Kansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Very moving @nhpr.bsky.social interview with a Jan 6er from Keene, NH, who rejected Trump’s pardon and sounds like he has grown tremendously in 4 years. “One thing I did not believe in was change before this experience…And now I believe change is necessary for survival.” www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
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Keene man arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 rejects Trump’s pardon
On his first day in office this week, President Donald Trump pardoned all rioters at the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Jason Riddle served time in jail for his participation in the 2021 riot.
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Matthew D Albertson @matthewthe1337.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Hypersonically, Yuki chirped, "and these big kittens think were *solitary*." Dil's ear flicked, "What? But we very clearly hang!" "I know!" "It's not all caterwauling!" "I knoow!" "We even cuddle!" "I knooow!" "So why?" "They chose dogs; we chose them. They know not our ways." "Guys! Found a bug!"
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Krugman confirming what I reported back in early December: www.status.news/p/paul-krugm...
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This is VERY serious. The Supreme Court will decide whether a Catholic school can be a public school. And no, instruction would not be secular. The Oklahoma Supreme Court already decided this violates state and federal laws. (Disclosure: My wife was one of the attorneys involved in prior suit)
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Oklahoma Supreme Court Blocks Nation's First Religious Public Charter School - Education Law Center
OKLAHOMA CITY — Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the American Civil Liberties Union, Education Law...
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Matthew D Albertson @matthewthe1337.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Not gonna lie, I smell a schism brewing in the evangelical sphere—one possibly with jingoist elements. It smells like cheap steak with ketchup.
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Matthew D Albertson @matthewthe1337.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Some folks think they're in Plato's allegory of the cave, but really they just have their head up their bung.
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Trump can "accomplish" so much in a day because it can take months or years to build a building and only moments to demolish it
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Matthew D Albertson @matthewthe1337.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Godwin's Law: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." The same Godwin:
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Hey, did you know that if you use a public library computer, the moment you sign out everything is wiped? And if you use a guest pass, they can't track anything to your account, not that a library would share patron info anyway.
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Matthew D Albertson @matthewthe1337.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Posted as a reminder:
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Matthew D Albertson @matthewthe1337.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Well. I didn't expect it, but I'm happy to hear about this response from Reddit.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Elon Musk biographer here. The "missing context" from the op-ed below is that Musk has been spreading racist and antisemitic memes, screenshots, graphs, charts, unsourced narratives, tropes, and buzzwords for 18 months now. Publicly. Daily. The Post either knows this or should not be in business.
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | The missing context from the Elon Musk salute
We can’t have a functioning democracy if we think our opponents are evil.
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Matthew D Albertson @matthewthe1337.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Things over on Instagram are going about as well as I'd expect.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Holy Toledo, The Times of Israel was reporting that Elon Musk gave the Nazi salute _twice_ at the Trump Victory Rally and I went and checked and yes, he did it twice. This was not a mistake.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 20/01/2025
Besides "content" being a gross word for art, music, literature, journalism, etc. ... "Creators" is a terrible catch-all for the people who produce such things. "That Van Gogh, man, he was a heckuva creator."
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Ruairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
#FreeLeonardPeltier #A.I.M
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Marc Lefebvre @craazylife.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
📚 Lyrisme, une tonalité Un registre artistique Un habit privilégié Enveloppe de l'expression poétique L’exaltation des sentiments personnels Redingotes des idiots Fourrures des passions Exaltations des visions Voiles des vents ML 🍒 #MesÉcrits ⚔️ #Fool #Cloak #Vss365
Image générée par l'IA 🪄
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
NPR reporting that aggrieved TikTokkers who fled to RedNote are learning Mandarin on Duolingo out of SPITE was not on my 2025 bingo card. 😹🇨🇳🫠
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
fuck effortlessness. fuck that. try really hard and let everyone see. —Mitski
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MJA Editor-in-Chief @editor.mja.com.au · 14/01/2025
For reference, the case report that described this toxicicity mentioned in this @australia.theguardian.com piece was by Dhayalen Krishnan and Matthew C Kiernan and was published in 2023 in @mja.com.au www.mja.com.au/journal/2023...
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Neurotoxic risks from over‐the‐counter vitamin supplements
A 40-year-old man was referred to the neuromuscular clinic with generalised fasciculations
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