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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This post just made me wonder for the first time: how do we know dinosaurs had tongues? How do we guess how big they were? What’s the history of tongue evolution? What a marvelous, weird device. (Might’ve also had some good scotch tonight.)

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Please give me 5 game series on easier to stream options

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How are Chet & JDub paid more than SGA?

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's underdiscussed, but a huge driver for the GOP's descent into chud-dom is the fact that they can win control of Congress and the Presidency, not to mention the Supreme Court, by appealing to a small but intense coalition of American voters.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It would be a monumental improvement for America, but especially for the Republican Party, if we elected the President through a plurality vote.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it's evidently too much to ask the rw justices to consider the irreparable harm to individuals treated to such inhumanity. they are complicit in this criminality. shame on all six of them. and shame on us for having a system that allows this illegality.

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We had good luck finding different truck sizes and pay rates on TaskRabbit recently. Dude we hired was pro

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Texans, heads up: I got caught up in this when I moved this summer and changed my address for my drivers license, which never updated. I was still registered, but at my old address. Check and update here: goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/...

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 24/09/2026

this makes me angry. But more than that, even, this makes me so sad in a way I find hard to articulate.

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(New Account) Owl @empowlractual.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The best thing anybody can do to get democrats elected is volunteer to get democrats elected. It's a way to get active, connected and involved in your community, while beating back the horrors a tiny bit through being singleminded at the task. Posting through it is not enough.

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How good are the Pacers? Everything in the East ripples out from there if they’re contenders again, and I feel like it’s a bit underdiscussed

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Good news: a federal judge just paused Wilber's deportation. The government shouldn’t be allowed to shoot you from an unmarked vehicle and then cover it up by deporting you. Keep speaking out, it's working.

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Man, KD still looks weird in a Rockets uni to me for some reason

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Proposed: we give some power back to experts, academics, thinkers, even snobs. Conceded: they have to go by names like Tater Salad.

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I enjoy how the piece repeatedly reminds us Rogan claims to know nothing about the most high profile events in the news - and yet his tossed off opinions set the trajectory of those events. Real Twilight of the Elites/Death of Expertise stuff until Tater Salad appears.

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My kids and I drove around the police blockade for this yesterday. I’ve lived nearby for a decade+, but that was the first time we’ve ever had to drive by the scene of a shooting. And it was a damn federal agent shooting a delivery driver in the back. JFC

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

yep, just passed by and 50 person line this morning. get that money 👍

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026

That’s a pretty interesting point.

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Would love to know the political scientis’s recommended language for this 😂 “Yeah, man… uh, what even is the point, eight? I’m not standing in line to help either of them out…”

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Great point, It’s in the DNA of all spots in the city limits downstream of Franklin’s www.texasmonthly.com/bbq/of-meat-... My other favorite smaller drama is the complicated backstory between the couple that founded Madam Mam’s

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Of Meat and Men

John Mueller was the heir to one of the great Texas barbecue dynasties. Aaron Franklin was an unknown kid from College Station who worked his counter. John had it all and then threw it all away. Aaron...

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh, man, Dr Wilks made an account on here but never posted, I believe. @comparatista.bsky.social One of the greats!

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

*squints in Futurama* which funding offer is you?

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

starting my day on Bsky not all concerned. full thread: bsky.app/profile/segy...

Screenshot of the linked thread with two posters who work in AI discussing the real threat of regulatory capture by the current assholes of the moment

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 18/09/2026

this thread turned out to be much longer than I intended if you have the ability to spend $39 on funding a kick-ass feminist media brand for a year, here's the link, I'm hoping to recruit 9 more new @theflytrapmedia.com subscribers before I zZZzzZZ tonight www.theflytrapmedia.com/no-slop

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

it’s the old Turnstile space

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I never post about work, but we’re workin’ on something that’s getting close in North Austin

Sign for the Hold Out Bar & Grill with the building in the back

Biscuit sandwich with a sunny egg peeking out of a wrapper with a drawing of a smiling sun on it

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh hell yeah, love that for them. My gf and I were just talking about how we wished they’d open earlier and venture into breakfast tortas, so maybe expanded hours 🤞

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It got me the credential for the only viral photo I’ve ever taken: bsky.app/profile/matt...

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

2nd Annual Endorsement: This Is A Great Internship

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You can be unhappy with Talarico's statements, you can even vocally criticize him for it. But I've spoken with the families that Ken Paxton has terrorized and I'm amazed at anyone who would avoid the opportunity to throw him in the metaphorical dustheap of our politics

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

That’s a good point. And if that is somewhat true it also sheds light on what everyone hates about centrists’ canards that if we just compromise our values a little bit to make this policy concession, the political landscape will actually shift

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I don’t read this as helplessness the way yall do. I’m pretty sure he would have him on the show if he would appear. I think it’s a general statement about the floor-level ability to engage with policy to maybe get elected senstor has changed a lot in ten - and exactly ten years- years

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

AI this, fascism that, and then this British illustrator I follow pops in the TL with…

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This actually happened? I assumed all the posts about it were jokes

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Coyote reading an issue of the NYer in the motel lobby was a nice hat tip

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm giving instructions like these. It improved phrasing a bit, but the summaries of completed work still meander

How to talk to me

Plain statements, no emphasis scaffolding. Four specific patterns to drop:

- **"worth"** — "worth noting", "worth knowing", "worth watching", "worth having". Say the thing.

- **"you should"** — "you should look at", "you should note". Either it's an instruction, in which case say what to do, or it's information, in which case just give it.

- **Emphasis for emphasis' sake** — "importantly", "critically", "note that", "keep in mind", "the key thing here". Same family as "load-bearing", which was retired for the same reason. The problem was uniformity: when everything got the same emphasis phrase, nothing stood out and I couldn't tell critical from nice-to-have.

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Nice, thanks, bookmarking to review next week at work. My coworker, who is also learning as we go, just switched to GPT largely because of Claude voice. But I'm getting such good output for cheap on Opus 5 at medium effort that I'm putting up with it while looking for my next model.

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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hmm this looks much more straightforward than what I’m getting. Those paragraphs follow from each other and directly answer the question, instead of throwing off caveats and 8 things “worth knowing”. Any specific instructions you give or model choice?

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