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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 27/01/2026

Just dropped a sick reference to an episode of Arrested Development that is only *checks* 22 years old in June and total crickets! What's going on?!

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 27/01/2026

In 2025 I turned 41 and got my first salaried job with colleagues for over a decade. When did everyone else get so young?

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 21/05/2025

Feels increasingly relevant.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 21/05/2025

Hello everyone. Dropping in to tell you I've opened an Etsy shop. I'm starting off by selling 3D printed backlit photos... or at least, I'd love to get my first sale and review to get things kicked off. They make lovely gifts, should you be shopping for one! Shop at www.etsy.com/uk/shop/3DPr....

A sample 3D printed backlit photo available from my Etsy store at https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/3DPrintedGroup.

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Claire C @wotclaire.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Immediately suspicious of these spring rolls

Deliveroo menu item labelled “normal spring rolls”

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Jim Cummings @jimmycthatsme.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This is the hardest I’ve laughed in a long time.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 29/01/2025

If I ever hire a celeb on Cameo, it'll be to tell the person I know who likes them the most to stop being a dickhead.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 29/01/2025

He's a lovely boy, was very pleased to pick one up on release. Now just wondering if / when SS86 Prime will ever again be available to buy in the UK.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 26/01/2025

Most bored of marketing platitudes?

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 08/01/2025

Google always understates links.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 07/01/2025

All back to usenet, I reckon.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 31/12/2024

Me listening to my normy friends' opinions on Transformers One.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 31/12/2024

I mean, I just Googled "True Romance" and you're two spots below Rotten Tomatoes..

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 31/12/2024

Hey, me again. Professional curiosity... how do you think you could have lost all your traffic from your retained Google rankings? Where could it have gone?

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 31/12/2024

This website has just been "reactivated" in the last 24 hours after "Google shut it down". They say they'll be posting fewer news articles and focus on "complex commentary, recommendations, discussion, and opinions". No mention of their plan for ongoing celebrity nude content.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 31/12/2024

This site is still begging for donations under threat of closure. They're about 33% of the way toward the target they NEED to hit or they'll shut down FOREVER, tomorrow! I predict (a) they fail to hit their target, (b) they don't shut down and (c) they'll run the same grift this time next year.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 19/12/2024

Continuing down the "sad independent publisher" rabbithole... I've just seen the publisher of this site asking for donations since their traffic has, supposedly, dropped from 100,000 visits a day to 700. Can't claim to have checked all their rankings but those I have seem to be holding up.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 19/12/2024

It's a SEMRush graph, so take with a pinch of salt. But traffic to this site for terms including the word "nude" seem as strong as it ever was. I guess Google has just decided that this site now is a premier source of info on celebrity nudes and decided to ignore everything else. Boo fuckin hoo.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 19/12/2024

There's an "independent publishing" guy on the other site complaining that his "independent entertainment news and geek commentary" site has lost most of its traffic and that means SEO is dead. Thing is, this site has been bolstering its traffic by optimising for celebrity nudes for years.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 18/12/2024

Had this exact same experience a couple of years ago at my daughter's Christmas play at school. I had no idea what was happening, why all the children had suddenly started singing in Spanish.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 18/12/2024

I switched my handle by doing the domain verification thing but Google seems to be taking a while to catch up.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 18/12/2024

Now that *is* weird!

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 18/12/2024

What search term did you use to get that result? Mine was "matt davies SEO".

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 18/12/2024

@rustybrick.com A pal of mine just suggested this might be the sort of thing you'd be interested in. Ever seen anything like this before?

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 18/12/2024

Got my Bluesky ranking (bye bye Twitter). My handle is a .me domain that redirects to my business site. Interestingly (for people who's job it is to be interested) Google has described the listing with the opening paragraph from my business site. No doubt someone clever than me can explain why.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 18/12/2024

The response to this story over on LinkedIn has been WILD to witness. So many business wankers circling the wagons to protect one of their princes.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 17/12/2024

Big fan of SEO consultants that tell other SEO consultants that the trick to being a good SEO consultant is to stop doing SEO and become a brand consultant. Very helpful people.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 16/12/2024

I have unapologetically loved so much of the Marvel series. Even as the reliability has dropped off in recent years, I'm all in on it. But it will be so funny to watch James Gunn and DC totally eat their lunch in 2025.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 13/12/2024

Like, you know how they show those "buy silver" and "miracle product" ads in the middle of the day to target the doddery pensioners that they know are watching?

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 13/12/2024

Found myself having to explain to my own mother why he wasn't actually someone I held in high regard as a business person 😬 Didn't help that I don't typically use the word "cunt" around her.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 13/12/2024

There's probably a discussion to be had about the general audience of podcasts and the utter bullshit that is sold on so many of them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Steven Bartlett sharing harmful health misinformation on Diary of CEO podcast

Disproven health claims are accepted with little challenge by host on number one podcast, BBC investigation finds.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 12/12/2024

0.04mm layer lines through a 0.2mm nozzle. About 24 hours to print all the parts.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 12/12/2024

Tory Desk now, with Colin Poppshed.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 12/12/2024

Just completed a productive working lunch while eating a steak, as one does when they are not a wimp.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 12/12/2024

That's a gender neutral "guys" please don't kick me off Bluesky.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 12/12/2024

My printer can do Warhammer, too. 3D printing is awesome, guys.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 06/12/2024

Sufficed to say, probably won't be spending hundreds of pounds on the toy that I think is a bit more bad than the one I already own.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 06/12/2024

I don't generally have many opinions about transforming toys these days but I find the way this new toy is a bit bad to be a bit more bad than the way the older toy was a bit bad. If you see what I mean.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 04/12/2024

Not trusting that "total listens" number though. I've definitely been made to listen to those ruddy critters more than 7 times this year.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 04/12/2024

It's all computer game critters and Black Country punk this year I'm afraid.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 03/12/2024

So I hear there's a new car from Jaguar.

The "He got a reaction out of you" meme originates from a sketch in the Scottish comedy series Limmy's Show, created by and starring Brian "Limmy" Limond. In this particular sketch, Limmy portrays a character who, after being pranked, is confronted by an older man. The man points out that the prankster's primary goal was to elicit a reaction, emphasizing, "Well, he got a reaction out of you." This line underscores the idea that responding to provocations often gives the instigator exactly what they desire.

The meme typically features an image of the older man from the sketch, accompanied by the caption "He got a reaction out of you." It's used online to highlight situations where someone has been successfully provoked or baited into responding, thereby fulfilling the provocateur's intentions.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 02/12/2024

I suspect that, to make this work, you'd have to provide more than just a list of URLs and titles tags (like I said, I only spent a couple of hours on this!), and the time needed to add the context needed would pretty much nullify the time saved by involving AI in the first place. For now...

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 02/12/2024

Anyone managed to make an AI platform do a good job of keyword mapping? Spent a couple of hours last week trying to get ChatGPT to review a list of keywords and assign them to the pages on a site but it was either beyond its capabilities, or my prompting skills were lacking on that occasion.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 02/12/2024

Upgraded the printer so I can now print in multiple colours. Set it to work on a figure of Unit 01. The head alone took nearly 12 hours overnight 😬

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 26/11/2024

Random strangers on the internet can be so friendly. Day made.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 26/11/2024

It's not usually this easy to find THE source image the AI used. Georgia should sue for plagiarism and David for misrepresentation of his chin dimple.

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Matt Davies @mdavies.me · 26/11/2024

@dannyashton.com You've probably seen this already but I did a double take last night while watching We're In Hell's video on the dead internet and BAM, outta nowhere, you're on my screen, stretching over some air purifiers. youtu.be/5gNLViWfCA0?...

youtu.be

The Internet is All Over

YouTube video by We're In Hell

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