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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey Josh, off topic but could you address/what's your opinion on Yahoo's move aligning with NBA injury designations and eliminating IL+?

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I just wasted 10 minutes fantasizing about the heckling I would do at an American Ed Sheeran concert

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Indie film about a down on his luck Sixers season ticket holder in the summer of 2026 who

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Both England and the US in World Cup knockout action tonight -- what are immigrants like me & @wendling.bsky.social to do? Queue up the latest episode of the podcast by, for + about Americans in England, featuring guest global politics/football expert Joey D'Urso: www.buzzsprout.com/2545190/epis...

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15: Football shirts and soccer jerseys ft. Joey D'Urso - Notes from a Small (Cold, Dark, Miserable) Island

We're currently in the thick of the World Super Cup of Soccerball and wow, has the 2026 tournament been a doozy.This week we're joined by Joey D'Urso - dedicated footie fan, political journalist and a...

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Have the captains of the wind and solar energy industries considered just bribing the president?

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

If you haven't yet dived (dove) in to my and @wendling.bsky.social's pod by, for and about Americans in the UK and would like an entry point, I've started a Clips channel on YouTube for shorter bits, including our origin story: youtu.be/R93tu2KTAJM?...

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NOTES... Pod Clips: Mike & Matt’s Origin Story (Episode 1)

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

New Cold Dark Miserable episode! On our recent run this spring, we've ticked (checked) off some big topics -- Sport(s), Holidays (vacations), Politics, and now Language with special guest professor & author @byagoda.bsky.social. Get chuffed here: www.buzzsprout.com/2545190/epis...

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13: Oxford American Dictionary ft. Ben Yagoda - Notes from a Small (Cold, Dark, Miserable) Island

Brits fiercely gatekeep their language, which they haughtily named "English" after some of their people, and Americanization is hated almost as much as the invasive gray squirrel. Or grey squirrel?Any...

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Kenny Atkinson saying "Analytically, we're winning the series" is actually his noble attempt to get us to forget our darling boy Jarrett Allen's "The lights were brighter than expected" as the most embarrassing #Cavs playoff quote of all time. Thank you for your service, Kenny. #LetEmKnow

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I didn't write the linked article Ernesto, but I promise I'll read it!

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The snooze button should gain an additional O every time you hit it.

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Just saw an ad that makes me think that yeah, maybe there is still hope for global mainstream culture: Hello Kitty Ninja Turtles Mashup Happy Meal. Either that, or these are truly the end times.

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Taking the tree down the lift to the bins season in London

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Love to friends and allies up in beautiful MPLS. Goddammit why does this keep happening to you?

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

When my dear old friend (and respected journalist!) @wendling.bsky.social suggested doing a podcast about being an American in London, who was I to say no? Instead I said all sorts of stuff. We're 3 eps in now; today's new one is a bumper Xmas edition! Link to all the services, please sub, etc... x

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Notes from a Small (Cold, Dark, Miserable) Island

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Dad's Friday night in by himself... Just brought these back from the States, which to open first?? #nowplaying #nowspinning #wutang #thisaintinstagram

Vinyl copies of Liquid Swords by GZA/Genius and Tical by Method Man

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

That is, if this is the sort of daily occurrence of government overreach, racism and injustice you might like to shine a light on...?

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

(Bono voice): This is a song Jonathan Demme stole from Tom Petty... Tonight, we're stealing it back. #OneBattleAfterAnother

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Meanwhile, can we also have some local news stories on the havoc and hardship these dumbass capricious tariffs are bringing to workers and our precious small business owners?

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Stay strong Chicago, miss being there but not really right now. I hope for your sake you're the temporary distraction.

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Wow and he started with such a tiny penis to begin with

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I'm happy with this tatty-covered £12 original press from @flashbacklondon.bsky.social Fond millennium memories of many CD spins, their first post-ODB and last pre-9/11 LP. The guests all legends and I'm still very much pro-"Gravel Pit." #wutang #nowplaying #vinylsky #nowspinning

https://www.discogs.com/release/225674-Wu-Tang-Clan-The-W

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I know there's a lot worse villains in the world right now, but I'm really rooting for something embarrassing to happen to oasis on this pillaging-ass tour

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Here's my poem for the fourth of July Why won't he just fucking die

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Zydeco's ranking in my list of favorite musical genres is remarkably similar to its place alphabetically

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

He was runner-up to Atkinson for the Cavs job last summer, so this is at least a basic competency level interview invite by the Knicks, well done guys

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Up to maybe 350-400 (?) expats and friends of democracy

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Well, shit. But thanks for so much joy, Sly #nowspinning

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Any of yr friends & neighbors who support ICE & think for a second the protesters or the people getting deported are remotely a threat to anybody's community comparable to the threat of these dunderheaded spineless coward monster energy drink bros should fuck directly off, & you should tell them so

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Rogue One + Andor > original trilogy Yeah I said it

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Both Hawks and Magic have had success and felt themselves vs #Cavs in last couple seasons, so I conspiratorially wouldn't be surprised to see some small scale tanking in the first East #PlayIn game to dodge the Celtics.

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

So much of the #NBA this season has seemed to have been devised by the scheduling team on a weekend peyote retreat, but all 30 teams playing with 5 Western seeds TBD on the last day is a pretty watchable result... Enjoy it, childless #LeaguePass subscribers!

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

..."Heaven Help Us All" which was also an election night theme, for me, back in 2016. The drumming on "Sugar" to end the side, presumably Stevie, is a sample mine waiting to happen. Side 2 can't keep up the wild momentum but is a fine ride out, esp r anthemic "I Gotta Have a Song." #NowSpinning

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

#NowPlaying: I know the consensus "classic run" of #StevieWonder albums begins with Music of My Mind in 72, but I think we can safely stretch it back to Signed Sealed in 70. Maybe not taken as seriously because of the corny cover or Obama associations? It opens with 4 absolute rippers, including...

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Based on what received nominations, I would have been happy with Best Picture nominations for any of these: Challengers (maybe my 1B?) Sing Sing A Real Pain Queer The Piano Lesson The Wild Robot Kneecap Hundreds of Beavers (possibly the greatest film of all time?)

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

So fwiw, my final #Oscars #BestPicture favorites scorecard: (I saw Wicked on stage in 2006; I'm good.) 9. The Substance 8. Dune 2 7. Emilia Perez 6. A Complete Unknown 5. Conclave 4. The Brutalist 3. Anora 1. I'm Still Here 1A. Nickel Boys

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

And the Chickie Pete scene -- best of the year? youtu.be/-2qZ429rUZw?...

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

And while the latter impressed me by telling its vital story from the distant past in rock-solid traditional style, RaMell Ross's daring first-person perspective + juggled timeline mixed with historical footage works just as feelingly, with the added thrill of seeing something formally inventive.

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Now maybe my recency bias is on full blast, but I finally saw Nickel Boys, and now I've got a #1 and 1A for my Best Picture Oscar vote, along with I'm Still Here. #NickelBoys

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

So yeah, looking at images and reporting of creeping/surging craziness from voting booths to town halls to attacks on human services, I hope we won't let the bastards win. And whilst the fight is taking place, movies like I'm Still Here show how we can persevere with togetherness and joy.

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

And the film is beautifully executed top to bottom -- performances (Fernnda Torres is unshowily fantastic), casting, cinemotography, art direction, editing, score, music supervision, rhythm and coherence, highlighted by alternately big and quiet moments of earned dramatic tension.

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Republicans, right wingers & straight-up fascists worldwide are seeing how much they can get away with; so Brazil's Walter Salles, his country emerging from a right-wing resurgence, crafting a true-life period drama detailing human costs of a prior military dictatorship definitely has my attention.

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Matt Pierce @mattpierce75.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I'm primarily programmed to process the world and its weirdness through film and plays, and so in These Terrible Times, my theoretical Best Picture Oscar vote unconditionally goes to I'm Still Here. #ImStillHere

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