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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

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RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS (Published 1981)

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 25/06/2026

Of all the music I released under my name, it appears only 1 thing made it into the jaws of the AI training beast: an unreleased song performed live only once (2011). With less than 2k views and a dozen likes, I’m not sure how this passed the threshold. Fun night, though. youtu.be/5-1LZutwLYY?...

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Matt Morris - Ghost in the Machine

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 06/06/2026

In defiance of my long-held superstition, I’m going to tell you about the daily practice I’ve had over this past month. Perhaps you’re a writer looking for inspiration, or maybe just someone curious about the writing process. Regardless, I hope this is helpful for whoever’s reading it.

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Cooking from the Pantry: My Daily Writing Routine

Writing 100 pages of lyrics in 30 days

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 01/06/2026

It’s about to get queer af up in here

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/05/2026

And this is why liberals always lose to fascists. They're so busy trying to preserve institutions that they never look up to see that the barbarians are at the gate and already set fire to those very institutions. You either fight these bastards or they will never stop.

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 30/03/2026

New favorite writer: @mitchhorowitz.bsky.social. I’ve been diving deep for nearly a month, and his work has helped to facilitate all manner of inner transformations.

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 12/03/2026

"We have to...find a way to move forward with grace, or as much grace as one can muster and continue to find purpose. To me, that is the message of this record. It's about resilience." Found this article that names my collab with Sarah. Her words give me life today. www.grammy.com/news/sarah-m...

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Why Sarah McLachlan Returned To Music With 'Better Broken' | GRAMMY.com

Upon releasing her first new album in more than a decade, the three-time GRAMMY winner talks about the legacy of Lilith Fair, her hope for humanity to rise up and come together, and how some of the ne...

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 07/03/2026

Talking with an old music industry friend who’s also feeling a renewed sense of purpose in music. As much as everyone is afraid of AI disrupting the creative process or the entertainment industrial pipeline or whatever, there are makers out here feeling excited to make stuff. We still exist.

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 07/03/2026

We can’t stop a war, but we can do our part in destroying an idol. This, at least, we have agency over. It’s our Puritan birthright. New post at A Queer Imagination: open.substack.com/pub/mattmorr...

Text: In the 2020's, it's much safer to be an iconoclast than an icon.

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 06/03/2026

My guy, @fluxinflux.bsky.social, made me into a cartoon and I love it so much.

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 03/03/2026

Creatives Intro Thread Name: Matt/Matthew Pronouns: he/they Location: A world of pure imagination I make: songs, recordings, the occasional knitted accessory, good trouble Sources of inspiration: queers, rhyming dictionaries, esotericism, paradox, the beautiful mess of ordinary life URL: in bio

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 03/03/2026

Today, I started the morning songwriting rather than immediately consuming news. I managed to get something started, which I hope to work on more later in the day. In an age of unrest, it’s easy for hypervigilance to supplant every productive, generative act. Creation is an antidote to malaise.

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 02/03/2026

We need to keep reaching for beauty. Making beauty. Longing for beauty. We can’t settle on the ugliness of violence, indifference, and casual cruelty. Justice… Love… Kindness… Equity… Bodily autonomy… The freedom to exist… There is beauty in these things. We need to seek it out and work for it.

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 02/03/2026

In the midst of the global unraveling… I found a new musician whose work I’m falling in love with: Ethan French. Rarely have I ever seen someone with this kind of musical dexterity, fluidity, strength… and also a gentleness. I’m a fan. /ethanfrenchmusic on IG, YT, TkTk Music on Spotify

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

What’s always been so absurd about discourses surrounding political violence in America is that it’s accepted, understood, agreed upon, bipartisan, mainstream that our military gets to vaporize little kids half a world away without consequence

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 28/02/2026

I’m halfway through Parable of the Talents, the Octavia Butler masterpiece. The book (as did the first in the series) feel like a warning, a prophecy, and a guide for survival. I could find no bound collection of the Earthseed wisdom, so I’m considering making one for myself.

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 26/02/2026

It’s the end of ‘25. I sit down at my desk with a yellow pad, a pen, and my guitar and I write a song. While everyone debates the legitimacy of AI tools in the creative process, I go back to the basics. In a similar but different move, I’m coming back to regular posting on social.

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 14/10/2025

I can think of few statements that are more anti-Christian than professing to the world that you are “saving God.”

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 30/05/2025

Buy gay shit from gay shops

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/05/2025

We have the first American pope now. Pope Leo the XIV.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

newsreader really buries the lede on landing one of the most baffling bits of news footage ever recorded

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NPR @npr.org · 15/04/2025

The Trump administration has drafted a memo to Congress outlining its intent to end nearly all federal funding for public media, which includes NPR and PBS, according to a White House official who spoke to NPR.

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Trump plans order to cut funding for NPR and PBS

President Trump and GOP members of Congress have accused the public broadcasters of biased and "woke" programming. The president plans a rescission, which would give Congress 45 days to approve the di...

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 13/04/2025

Gunna say this early: I’m good with the coming @bsky.app subscriptions. I’m also really intrigued by their marketplace model. I’d much rather a straightforward payment situation than data mining and copious ads.

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 09/04/2025

Helpful tips in this thread from @gwensnyder.bsky.social. Don’t panic. Plan.

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 09/04/2025

This is the first morning opening the yarn store on my own. It’s giving me a picture of what it might be like to have my own little shop, curating the space and focusing on hospitality at the start of the day.

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 09/04/2025

Looking at @skylight.social and wondering if now may be the e time to finally lean in to short-form video. Like…. #Knitting videos? #Yarn shop videos? 🧶 Singing videos? All of the above?

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Look how that Overton window just sliiiiiides First it was "illegal" immigrants criminals Then it was it was simply immigrants Then it's lawful us residents/green card holders Now it's criminal us citizens GUESS WHO'S NEXT

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 08/04/2025

I’m about a month out from my 46th birthday, and my mind has been drifting to questions of purpose, desire, and vocation—online and on-ground. Sorting out how to do something meaningful and viable in the midst of societal upheaval is tricky to say the least.

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 08/04/2025

The 2028 presidential campaign has begun.

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 07/04/2025

I wanna start following more knitting and crochet 🧶 accounts. To all my crafty folk out there… Who would you recommend?

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 02/04/2025

I miss blogs. Writing them, I mean. Or rather, I miss communication before the domination of social platforms. Or maybe what I mean is that I miss phones with cords, pads of paper and leaky pens, handwritten notes, and wearing a watch that doesn’t remind me of the news. #GenXNostalgia

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 24/03/2025

Meat never left. Tempeh won’t either. I don’t know. I’m just tired of declarative bylines that attempt to frame reality and drive commerce.

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 05/03/2025

This country is a nightmare.

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 01/03/2025

“The DHS quietly updated its policy manual earlier this month, removing LGBTQ+ identities from the section prohibiting surveillance based solely on immutable characteristics.” - The Advocate I hope all the 𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒍 𝒈𝒂𝒚 𝒈𝒖𝒚 Republicans who voted for Trump read this & gag on their vodka and Red Bulls.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Let's talk about the proposed economic boycott. I wholeheartedly embrace it as we must heal from unrestrained consumption and Neoliberal capitalism. We should participate while also recognizing other collective actions are going to be necessary. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/economic-b...

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Economic Boycott and Coalition Building: Audio From A Collapsing State

Boycotts can be effective, but to create an actual movement will require other actions as well

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 28/02/2025

Thinking of starting a #femmefriday tradition as a response to the “normal gay guy” mind virus infecting the alphabet community.

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 28/02/2025

I listened to the @gqmagazine.bsky.social article, “My Afternoon With the ‘Normal Gay Guys’ Who Voted for Trump.” Takeaway? A subset of gay men who fetishize the hypermasculine & eschew the feminine find common cause with MAGA. And—get this—Trump is a “gay icon” for them. Someone send help.

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⛈️ NAN⚡NET ⛈️ @slimecloud.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Its twin peaks day so i'm reposting this

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 20/02/2025

Calling yourself a king doesn’t make you a king. Stuffing your trousers with a silicone packer, painting on a goatee & sideburns, and strutting across the stage to George Michael’s 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒐𝒎 makes you a king.

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 08/02/2025

Every Friday I wonder if this is the day when I submit my first full Monty #fcf post….

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Matt Morris @mattmorris.net · 07/02/2025

Are you a crafty queer? Do you want to be added to this starter pack? Hit me up! 😉

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Jessie @nopantsknitter.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Hmmmm. Something naked and knitting related might be in the works in collaboration with a bloomfie. And I think it’s a project some of y’all might enjoy! More details to come!

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