Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 12hI was at a pub on Sunday and at one stage both of the 60ish guys at the table next to us were simultaneously playing different songs over their phone speakers 🫠 130
Reposted by MattSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19hNew post: "Drowning in slop" Large parts of the state are being increasingly overwhelmed with complaints, appeals, objections.... written by AI. It's gumming up every process. Britain is particularly vulnerable. How bad has it got and what can we do about it? samf.substack.com/p/drowning-i...samf.substack.comDrowning in slopCan the state survive the rise of AI? 40355124
Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 17hMan, that Sam Freedman post about people using AI to spam government departments, schools etc with complaints 🙃 000
Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I think if Paul Thomas Anderson can successfully adapt Pynchon’s Vineland then anything is possible. I demand a recursive Hexwood series. An eight -episode adaptation of Eight Days of Luke. Etc 110
Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Haha yeah, I’m about 90% certain I’ve read Fire and Hemlock but I couldn’t tell you a single plot point lol 000
Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I’ve only read People Love Dead Jews and found it very … impactful I guess. But good to hear critical views as well so thank you. 020
Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Am i actually just naming children’s books that I like… yes and what about it 010
Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Also it’s probably impossible but damn, a tv adaptation of The Homeward Bounders by Diana Wynne Jones … 230
Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Looong time since I read it but what about The Changeover by Margaret Mahy 130
Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026In general londoners who own dogs are absolutely deranged tbh 000
Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Unpopular opinion apparently but I don’t think you should let your dog sit and/or put its face or feet on the table at a restaurant! 110
Reposted by MattKiwiNewsBot @kiwinewsbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Man in custody after alleged serious dragon in Foxton 001
Reposted by MattBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026hmmm do we think maybe there's been some cheapening of the framework around genocide here if it can encompass the pro-Palestinian mayor of New York City. 431401158
Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Hey-o! the Giles Martin Rubber Soul remix with all the outtakes has dropped 000
Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Went to get my flu shot and the pharmacist was like “You live with someone who’s immunocompromised, right?” I started to correct him and he interrupted me and said, “No, you do, which means you qualify for a free shot.” Thank you sir, of course, you are correct. 010
Reposted by Mattworm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent 10161161709
Reposted by MattBen Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My key takeaway from the whole Hebrew punctuation discourse is that there's probably never been more profitable time to be a batshit insane bigot with no redeeming characteristics or inner life. 1225
Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Editing copy professionally for … 13 years now and apparently I’m still the only person in the world who cares about the difference between a percentage change and a percentage point change 101
Reposted by MattAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For those in England & Wales who don’t get them on the NHS: private flu & covid jabs are available from today. I’ve just had both at my local pharmacy. £115 for the pair. Yes, that’s expensive, but if you’re a freelancer & don’t get sick pay it’s probably a lot cheaper than taking time off. 520380
Reposted by MattJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I accidentally spent £17,700 on 400 subscriptions to the LRB for Home Office staff and now the Life in the UK test is asking applicants to rank Derek Jarman films from most to least emotionally resonant? 230775
Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Great post. Time to take a big sip of coffee and check how the UK Greens are polling under Polanski. 210
Reposted by MattThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 30/09/2026These students of international relations, they told me that all that mattered was a country’s material power—but then whah is a nuclear weapon possessed by North Korea treated differently from one possessed by the United Kingdom? 2242
Reposted by MattThomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko. 1764902484
Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Guy who gets mad at this because Hipkins isn’t a radical actually he’s a milquetoast moderate neoliberal centrist 000
Reposted by Mattmattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026*Juliet wakes up and finds Romeo has stabbed himself* Juliet: Fuck 9112437
Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026People with tickets to the Bayeux Tapestry doing soft approaches like they think I’m sort of illicit weapons enthusiast or something 000
Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The fact it came out before COVID still mildly freaks me out from time to time 051
Reposted by MattWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Counterpart not being on the top 100 shows list is an outrage. All 12 of us Counterpart fans are outraged. 301339
Reposted by MattDave Rudden's off to Fantasycon! @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My five year old has the soul of Orson Welles. We were outside school and he 'put a kiss in my pocket for later.' Extremely touched by this, I gave him two back. He dug out the second one, THEATRICALLY CRUSHED IT IN HIS FIST and said 'one is enough.' 573313428
Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Working on a project about feedback loops and finding it weirdly difficult to describe them succinctly 110
Reposted by Mattold roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 24/09/2026bildo's museum bar, daggett, michigan, 1980 1768065
Reposted by MattArchie Hall @archiehall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My latest for @economist.com: AI writing is taking over politics. 10% of what was is said in Parliament is now AI-drafted, per Pangram. Yet more in the House of Representatives, or in Australia and Canada. Link: www.economist.com/britain/202... And a 🧵 below, w/ some main offenders 811865
Reposted by MattDavid Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 23/09/2026an amazing new project launches today in new zealand: people can report sexual harm, and get matched with others who reported the same person. when you report, you get a lawyer - and lawyer-client privilege. for free. i profile the website, technology, charity, & law firm here: www.webworm.co/tika/webworm.coThis Could Change The Way Victims Get JusticeDavid Farrier's Webworm looks at Alison Mau and Zoë Lawton's Tika: a new way to report sexual harm in Aotearoa, New Zealand. 8350187
Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026i’d genuinely like to read some savvy insider reporting on this tbh. like it seems about as plausible that they’ve concluded that most people just … don’t care all that much 111
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