matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 18/09/2025la times, gone. washington post, gone. paramount, gone. disney, might as well be gone. warner, soon to be gone. twitter, gone. tiktok, soon gone. where the f*** are lefty billionaires? 150
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 16/09/2025youtu.beAll The Presidents Men Courtroom SceneYouTube video by SatNightWorkChill 030
Reposted by matty karasBo Diddley Beat @bodiddleybeat.bsky.social · 18/08/2025The Hardkiss "Дівчина" 🇺🇦youtu.beTHE HARDKISS - Дівчина (official audio)YouTube video by The HARDKISS 021
Reposted by matty karasMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 13/08/2025there are much worse problems. that said, as someone who loves writing reviews & has written thousands & is proud of that & thinks reviews are important, seeing culture coverage, critics & reviews constantly take it on the chin for the past decade--esp last few years--has been really fucking hard. 953070
Reposted by matty karasRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Dropkick Murphys Warped Tour Long Beach 435192615493
Reposted by matty karasDada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 27/07/2025One reason I regard the Reader + other regional pubs/crits as guiding lights is, as musickers, they hear what's going on locally before anyone else, which young/unestablished artist to consider, and the listing is the natural first piece of coverage, an introduction and an invitation. #LoveThisJob 072
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 27/07/2025a) yes!!! b) but the attempt to blame the decline of listings on poptimism is weird and waaaay off c) there are others, in addition to the amazing @nightafternight.bsky.social, doing the crucial work of keeping listings culture alive in nyc. see, for example, the amazing @dadastrain.bsky.social 131
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 24/07/2025what's with all these characters on "the bear" who use iphones without cases? is that a thing people do? 100
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 22/07/2025fill the world with ozzy and never ever ever say die 🖤🖤🖤youtu.beBLACK SABBATH - Never Say Die (1978) Top Of The Pops UK TVYouTube video by Pablo Bobadilla 131
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 22/07/2025dear @redsox.com: just sayin'...mlb.comHow the Blue Jays use a 4-man outfield 000
Reposted by matty karasBo Diddley Beat @bodiddleybeat.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Dearest Darlings, I used to be over there. Now I am here.youtu.beBo Diddley "Bo Diddley" on The Ed Sullivan ShowYouTube video by The Ed Sullivan Show 262
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 17/07/2025youtu.beLove To Love You BabyYouTube video by Donna Summer - Topic 000
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 13/07/2025still fascinated by this weird quirk of professional tennis as i watch alcaraz and sinner try to navigate corridors and doorways with heavy, oversized bags hanging from both of their shoulders on their way to centre court 120
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 09/07/2025i am extremely late on this but i have just learned that mamdani is a POPPY SEED GUY. i am henceforth doubling my donations to him. we need this, new york!!! (but the fuck does he mean he has his orange juice "on the side"? does he think other people pour their OJ on their bagel???)forward.comI ranked the NYC mayoral candidates exclusively based on their bagel ordersTo toast or not to toast? A bagel order can say a lot about a person in New York, and the city’s mayoral candidates aren’t all on the same page. 110
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 09/07/2025pouring one out tonite for one for one of the kindest hearts to ever bless the new jersey music scene -- and one of its most adventurous souls and ferocious voices. you were a force for good in the world, tim cronin 💔💔💔 040
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 03/07/2025share a photo of one or more of your music reference books 130
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 01/07/2025fun luke kornet fact #1: his 4-yr spurs contract is gonna pay him nearly double what larry bird earned in his *career* fun kornet fact #2: he earned it. gonna miss that goofy gangly gamer 010
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 27/06/2025random/first thoughts on bruce springsteen's the lost albums as they pop, freight-train-like, into the middle of my head: 110
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 17/06/2025huge shoutout to the #karenread jury for continuing to insist on short workdays. these seven women and five men know how to live 161
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 13/06/2025there are six sentences in the "about this candidate" description of zohran mamdani. three of them are about israel and gaza. unless i'm missing something, israel/gaza isn't mentioned anywhere else in this lengthy piece about why nor why not to vote for nine candidates 110
Reposted by matty karasJeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 09/06/2025While there’s a riot goin’ on 1193
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 09/06/2025you're the underdog and you've got to be twice as good 💔💔💔youtu.beUnderdogYouTube video by Sly and the Family Stone - Topic 140
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 05/06/2025and six of the nyc mayoral candidates did *not* say their first international trip would be to israel. but only one of them got the followup question "would you visit israel?" guess which one? (hint: it was the one who gave by far the best answer to the original question) 140
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 31/05/2025i don't think most people have processed the single most amazing thing about the taylor swift catalog story: the fact that she -- or any artist in any medium at any time ever -- could come up with that much $$$ she is an absolutely sui generis force in both music *and* the music business 040
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 22/05/2025tnt post-game show. no notes: kenny complains about the "slow music" they're playing at madison square garden ernie: "by the way that's billy joel, new york state of mind" kenny: "no no ... if they woulda won it woulda been the nas version of new york state of mind" 010
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 22/05/2025good name for a boston hardcore band: karen read ceiling fan #karenread #karenreadtrial 130
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 21/05/2025the good news is that under new fda guidelines, being a democrat is considered a pre-existing condition 000
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 20/05/2025so this hapless forensic analyst without a college degree has spent more time testifying to the #karenread jury about how two clocks might be out of sync by 15 or 20 seconds than any of our current supreme court justices spent testifying to congress before being confirmed 140
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 16/05/2025dynamic pricing for concert tickets is wrong 100 percent of the time 0184
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 28/04/2025ZEVON!!!!! a couple decades too late, obviously, but if you can't take the punches, it don't mean a thing, i guess 👊 140
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 20/04/2025love this 🏈🎶youtu.beHow ESPN created the distinctive 'Ten Notes' NFL Draft chime 🎵 | SC FeaturedYouTube video by ESPN 010
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 12/04/2025good morning!youtu.beGalactic and Irma Thomas " How Glad I Am" (Official Audio)YouTube video by Galactic 011
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 09/04/2025jon bon jovi is an absolutely good and decent human being. the mayor of toms river, it goes without saying, gives new jersey a bad namenj.comN.J. mayor bashes Bon Jovi’s makeshift restaurant the needy in townJon Bon Jovi opened his first JBJ Soul Kitchen in 2011. Since then, it's added four other locations to its roster, including the pop-up restaurant that opened this winter in Toms River. 152
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 05/04/2025a focus group of seven average americans according to the ny times: five trump voters, one harris voter, one jill stein voter 010
Reposted by matty karasJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Ivan Sigal writes that many of us, caught in the amnesia of our endless scrolling, seem to have forgotten that we control our attention. But if enough of us act, he says, we will create the demand signal that builders of technologies that privilege human agency need to validate their work.techpolicy.pressTo Build a Better Democracy, Start by Rethinking Your Relationship to the Internet | TechPolicy.PressIvan Sigal writes that many of us, caught in the amnesia of our endless scrolling, seem to have forgotten that we control our attention. 09438
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 22/03/2025[VERY VERY MILD SEVERANCE SPOILER] helly's walz-ian "god you're fucking weird" is up there w/ logan roy's "you are not serious people" as a perfect distillation of everything we know about their respective worlds... and a very useful phrase to have in our pockets in this world 000
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 16/03/2025i imagine this shall happen to each of us once in our lives. for me, 'twas today. gonna be all downhill from here Wordle 1,366 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 220
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 13/03/2025a true patriot, and one of the only consistently excellent pieces of a team that's been lost at sea for much (though thankfully not all) of his great career (see also: new england's other longtime snapper of balls, who arrived the same year, 2015) 000
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 12/03/2025if the times had figured how to put an S in the spelling bee with no possible plural words, THEN i would have been impressed 010
