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Joel Matthys

@picklewaterfall.bsky.social
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Composer, pianist, educator, multimedia artist, game developer.

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Joel Matthys @picklewaterfall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I scanned the list three times because there's no way there's no Steven Universe on there.
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Joel Matthys @picklewaterfall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Finally, a way for men to clean themselves.
Photo of product box for "Tactical Scrubber" showing a mesh bag with "1 x tactical scrubber soap on a rope."
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026
no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind
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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
lol I just stole fire from the gods this rules. Unrelatedly my liver feels great and birdless.
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP to a legend
rob dubbin @robdubbin

MY MAN: (comes home)
ME: (nervous) how was the store
MY MAN: fine
ME: oh thank g-
MY MAN: ran into jolene
ME: oh no
MY MAN: she mentioned you left kind of an intense voicemail

12:50 AM • Jul 29, 2019
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Joel Matthys @picklewaterfall.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
post your album-cover kitties!
Black kitten mid-meow while knocking over the C from a Scrabble tile set.
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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I hate it when they call me a biter. I have a vast and rich interior life. I am not defined by my biting
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Joel Matthys @picklewaterfall.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Happy Aug. 6th Day! Whether you're Italian, German, French, or Swiss, today's the predominant day to resolve in contrary motion to an octave.
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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Me: this THC drink ain’t shit Me, 15 seconds later:
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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Happy Father's Day 🖤
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Paul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
[P] At the Reflecting Pool, and guys, this doesn't look right.
Atreyu and Artax in the Swamp of Sadness, from THE NEVERENDING STORY
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
this is what you get when you oppose the ugliest conclusions of nativism, but accept it's premises, when you don't argue your own values www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
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We Need to Get Off the Defensive About Immigration
Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.
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Joel Matthys @picklewaterfall.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
👏 "with 👏 great 👏 energy" 👏 is 👏 not 👏 a 👏 tempo 👏 marking 👏
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Mood
A limp, wet American flag hanging from a White House construction crane against a gloomy sky
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Joel Matthys @picklewaterfall.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Depluralize a movie The Taking of Pelham 1
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 04/05/2023
DARTH VADER: Luke, you will join me, the deadbeat father who killed all of your beloved parental figures, in the Dark Side, and if I can't convince you, I'm certain you won't be able to resist the seductive powers of the pasty, giggling goblin man who is my boss
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Joel Matthys @picklewaterfall.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emanuel, Johann Christoph Friedrich, and Johann Christian.
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Joel Matthys @picklewaterfall.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
You should really only be listening to whole tone music. It’s got the whole tones in it. A lot of these artists, they use semitones, which is just half of the tone and trust me, it’s not the part that’s good for you. It’s basically junk.
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Joel Matthys @picklewaterfall.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Poppyseed Doesn't Write Pretty Music
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Ethan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Either rhythm is not well theorized enough to build models around, or rhythm isn't theorizable in a way you even could build a model around; I don't know which it is
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Joel Matthys @picklewaterfall.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Old people in this hot tub at the water park are reenacting the final scene of Waiting for Godot.
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You  know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
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Joel Matthys @picklewaterfall.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Listening to a beginning bassoonist play "Hey Jude" and Farrell's "Happy" in the studio next to my office is sending me.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)
Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.
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Transportation Alternatives @transalt.org · 23/03/2026
In the amount of space that would otherwise fit just eight parked cars, this Citi Bike station on Gansevoort Street handles 255 bike share trips per day.
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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 20/03/2026
The USPS IS NOT LOSING MONEY. THE USPS IS SPENDING TAX DOLLARS ALLOCATED TO IT BY THE BUDGET. THE USPS SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED TO ZERO OUT ITS BALANCE SHEET IT IS NOT A BUSINESS IT DOES NOT HAVE SHAREHOLDERS. IF THE USPS IS OUTSPENDING ITS BUDGET IT SHOULD BE ALLOCATED MORE BUDGET.
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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
They are now refusing to state the number of American casualties in the Iran war. When regimes do this, it is a HUGE RED FLAG.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/02/2026
Learning a second language can be hard. Signing up for Pre-K and 3-K is easy. Go to myschools.nyc to apply today. Deadline is tomorrow at midnight!
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Joel Matthys @picklewaterfall.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Japan is upset because Bluesky banned haikus. Lawsuits are pending.
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Joel Matthys @picklewaterfall.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Precompositional process can still get you pregnant
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Dave Wenning @rxdavid.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This too…
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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
it's only fascism once it happens to white people until then it's a topic of debate requiring mature compromise and sober acknowledgement of political realities
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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
A broken, lost organization actively obscuring the truth and purposefully misleading its readers
NEWS ANALYSIS
With Threats to Greenland, Trump Sets America on the Road to Conquest
President Trump has declared that the only limits on his global power are "my own morality" and "my own mind." Kenny Holston/The New York Times
After a century of defending other countries against foreign aggression, the United States is now positioned as an imperial power trying to seize another nation's land.
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Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent. He and his wife, Susan Glasser, asked President Trump about Greenland during a 2021 interview for their book on his first term.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
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Nora Levine @nlevine.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Watchingamerica.com “…makes available in English articles written about the U.S. by foreigners, often for foreign audiences, and often in other languages. We are a unique window into world opinion.”
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Watching America | Discover What the World Thinks of U.S.
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Wes Flinn @wesflinn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Once again, I just referred to “L’histoire du soldat” as “The Devil Went Down To The Other Georgia.”
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Walter (🎃👻 RIP 🪦💀) @nedzeppelin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This dude rules
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Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Grad school.
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Congressman Shri Thanedar @thanedar.house.gov · 09/01/2026
The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished. I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy. Time to melt ICE.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/01/2026
On day 8 of our Administration, @governor.ny.gov and I announced the beginning of universal childcare in NYC. No longer will New Yorkers be forced to choose between starting a family and continuing to live in the city they love. This only happened because of you.
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Joel Matthys @picklewaterfall.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
All you needed was a pair of scissors to DOUBLE the storage capacity of your floppy disks.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Edward @edwardodell.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
you did not see this kitty pull a glizzy heist good morning
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/01/2026
What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things
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Joel Matthys @picklewaterfall.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Student wrote to complain that I hadn't entered a grade on Canvas for the extra credit assignment they completed. But grades are already submitted and they already received an A in the course?
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