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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When people say stuff like this, they should just say ME-2. Maine’s got a blue house, blue senate, split federal senate seats for decades, a blue governor, and is more progressive than all but about 10-12 states. this joke is getting old.

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I wrote this. Since it published a few hours ago my main man Troy Jackson has texted me three (3) times baby.

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Heat (1995) @heatfilm1995.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Right on schedule.

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Betteridge’s Law example of all time?

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Okay, calling it now. @pablo.show is gonna find Albert Pujols’ birth certificate by the end of next week

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

New Donald Antrim has a date, a title and a cover, let's fucking GO www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752470...

McMahon meme reacting to descriptions of Donald Antrim's forthcoming "My Eliot" ... in order:

1. "Lost in the house he grew up in, haunted by the ghost of his younger sister and his strange, cruel parents, and with the love of his life, Paula, zipping around town in a sportscar"

2. the words "our narrator Donald Antrim" highlighted

3. the words "Instead of writing his book, Donald spends his time with the technicolor trees, talking to a possum named Tom, pursuing the phantom of a little boy, and trying to win back his beloved Paula."

4. "Pages: 224"

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Social Network score had a damn stranglehold on late-night writing sessions for a decade, but there's a new girl in town since 2020 and she never disappoints

TENET original motion picture soundtrack, the greatest music for writing when you're up late

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Everyone I’ve met in Jackson Hole is a

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'll do albums, even — Exile on Main Street; Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain; Maggot Brain

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Selling stuff on Facebook and observing some high school acquaintances having an extremely normal time

A Facebook post by Brian Sauve being shared (sharing user blocked out) that reads: "There is no question:
If what we’re seeing reported about Fauci true, he must be swiftly executed after a fair trial.
He is willfully complicit in mass murderer. See less"

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The most soul-affirming, earnest communication attempts on the entire internet: boomers posting comments on YouTube clips of classic rock concerts. The most depraved: Facebook comments on news posts about bicycle safety

responses on a YouTube video: "Van Morrison - Cyprus Avenue - 9/23/1970 - Fillmore East, New York, NY (OFFICIAL)"

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Wrote about failed ebike startup Rad Power Bikes for @inc.com As I was fussing with pitching this story, the company filed for bankruptcy and then a warehouse of its bikes caught on fire. Ever have a metaphor just ... land in your lap?

inc.com

Rad Power Bikes Was an E-Bike Unicorn. Then Everything Blew Up

The startup had everything: ambition, market share, a $1.65 billion valuation, diehard fans, and the wind at its back. Is that what killed it?

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

boomers love this question as the appetizer to a line of questioning wondering "how you ended up doing this," which ends with a really condescending "good for you" type attaboy and a 10% tip

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

guy takes a long voyage to save society & misses his kid's childhood. whenever he stops to rest it's on a Dunkirk beach and his men get wiped out. he's always sad bc he recalls inventing a WMD and he palms a trinket to recall home life. loses, then regains, his memory, returns home, becomes batman

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

An all time touch grass heat check and people addicted to dumbass social algorithms will prob learn nothing

Lucas Shaw
@Lucas_Shaw
Follow back
The Odyssey will open to $258M
worldwide, according to the latest projections.
The third biggest opening of the year and the biggest opening ever for Christopher
Nolan.
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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This Claude ad on Instagram reveals the story of a restaurateur who used Claude to ... move things closer to the cooks who needed those things? Why didn't the cooks just set up their mise better? What are we even talking about anymore

"When brunch was slow, Eli gave Claude his sales data and kitchen photos. It turns out the ingredients cook needed most were the hardest to reach. That week he began shifting things around, bringing his team into the process and revising as they weighed in. Food came off the line faster, servers turned more tables, and tips went up."

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/07/2026

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

When you all talk bad about Maine this is who you’re insulting

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Guys want one thing and it's disgusting

Big League Chew Bubble Gum
Ground Ball Grape

It does not say it was invented by Todd Field on the packaging, but true heads know

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Malcolm X, Network, McCabe & Mrs Miller, O Brother Where Art Thou, but only Jaws is perfectly about a type of East-Coast American hubris our the (lack of ultimate) control over nature AND takes place on the Fourth of July

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I have tremendous pride being the least picky eater I know; I love everything. Everyone else is a weenie!

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

#1 rule of wearing a cool dumb shirt with words on it is “don’t draw attention to the cool dumb shirt with words on it.” Play it cool! Let someone notice your cool dumb shirt!

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

We live in a post-metaphor society. President snoozing on live TV, bareknuckle boxing on the White House lawn, health secretary chugging unpasteurized milk and leaping into a hot tub in jeans. Robert Coover lived a very long life but I'm still sad he missed 2026.

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Look, the “Are You A Real New Yorker“ folks have absolutely nothing on Mainers when it comes to insane anti-transplant NIMBY gatekeeping and outsider hatred. very silly stuff up here.

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

80s: Do the Right Thing 90s: Heat 00s: Mulholland Drive 10s: Mission Impossible: Fallout 20s: Tar

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Harper's Letter signatories must be devastated at 60 Minutes' lack of civility and intense censoriousness toward Pelley's free speech. Why wouldn't Bari simply engage him in healthy debate?!?

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This + a National Treasure sequel every 4 years. We should be discussing the Cage replacement like we do new James Bonds

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

:: TikToker service industry story about tipping:: SewingBetsy65: No one gave ME a tip at MY job.…u should be mad at your BOSS! redTruckSteve: You don’t have to pay tax on tips because turmp? WatchGuy3849: since whens a tip based on the $$ of the bill? is it worth $10 more to bring me a steak?!

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Title or not, first finals appearance of the century for the Knicks after the Mamdani election is so powerful. He should just go ahead and take credit for it.

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"No Mow May" is a psyop organized by Big Tick and I will not be participating!

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I have the world’s least monetizable hidden talent and I love it for exactly that reason. Just did this during a Zoom meeting and have already shaken it away:

Calvin and his dad, drawn on an etch-a-sketch

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Hannity here is doing the thing where you try to prompt a child into remembering what you agreed they'd say, only they have a child's brain and now they're just riffing and your original plan might as well be vapor

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Etch-a-Sketch skills TESTED by this very fun game

picture of me drawing a pretty quality circle on this game

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This has been such a persistent issue with the @nytimes.com in particular, and criticized so often, that you really can't see it as an oversight anymore, but as a deliberate policy of contempt towards other media outlets.

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

no one on Bluesky talks about NCAA basketball transfers in May, so I logged into my (defunct, abandoned) Twitter account to take a peek at the rumor mill for my college's roster moves and MY GOD ARE THEY MAD ABOUT CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S THE ODYSSEY on that website

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Saw a @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social post on the other site about Charlie Rose, and recalled this Richard Ford interview, where only 3 minutes in, Charlie pauses, and just hits him with "your dad. did your dad die in your arms?" Charlie out there just saying WHATEVER. charlierose.com/videos/6113

charlierose.com

Richard Ford - Charlie Rose

Richard Ford on his novel, 'Independence Day.'

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Terence Howard Math as rhetorical policy

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Showing up to school drop-off feeling like I got shot out of a cannon, ready to run through a brick wall, because my 7yo daughter is obsessed with ”City Can’t Hold Us” by Macklemore and it’s all she wants to hear in the car.

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

7yo daughter lost a tooth the night before Easter while we were staying at a hotel along with 2 other families, one whose daughter ALSO lost a tooth the same day … so we all had to coordinate how each family receives Easter baskets AND tooth fairy payments, tough math

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I am overdue on filing a story and the editor is a huge Bowie fan so I bribed him with this; I'd say it's worth 24-36 more hours yeah?

Etch-a-Sketch drawing of David Bowie from the "Low" cover

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

My "My company didn't kill Matthew Perry" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

Linkedin post where one CEO is quoting another CEO and talking about them both suing the WSJ for defamatory reporting —

Quote poster:
"We're suing them for $88M for lying that we killed Matthew Perry.

That lie manipulated patients away from evidence-based care and into the arms of their big pharma advertisers.

Lying to readers for profit is evil, and evil must be fought.

Welcome to the party, Binance."

Quoted post:
"We've filed a complaint against Wall Street Journal for publishing false and defamatory reporting."

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

it’s beautiful to think One Battle inspired a whole new generation to read Thomas Pynchon’s wikipedia page

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

me: “I have an embarrassing blind spot where I have NO IDEA where to start with good sci-fi“ my buddy: “tell me what you have liked and I’ll send you some books” Some books:

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

It's fine to be bad. It's good to be good. It's worse to be nothing at all.

Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, and Edward Norton in the Italian Job, a poster that apparently predicted the Now You See Me trilogy's whole deal

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

They’re calling it the most successful Super Bowl ad of all time?

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