Matthew Colwell

Matthew Colwell

@matthewcolwell.com

choking on my own spit like it's too important to swallow

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Matthew Colwell reposted

We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

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the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic.

I don’t trust the mainstream media, but I feel like the primary alternate model, getting the news from the posts of a 14 year-old Romanian schizophrenic shitposter named “G00n3R the Swamp Pervert,” is not necessarily a superior alternative.

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Replying to @helldude.bsky.social

americans, my one big hope for you, and i am really rooting for all of us here on this one, I want you to remember you really can just take control of your society. you don't have to worship money and police and domination and elites. you can despise them and penalize them

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I think the replacement of describing feelings with chemicals instead is a way of distancing yourself from the illogical (womanish) feelings by placing the blame on the imperfect machinery of your brain

Elizabeth Lopatto@lopatto.bsky.social

seriously though you can just say you're chasing "pleasure" (dopamine is not synonymous with pleasure!!)

Matthew Colwell reposted

every time you write overly defensively you should remember that you are pursuing a strategy of writing careful sentences specifically for people who demonstrably either won't or can't read them

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I beg you to stop screenshotting and quoting the dumbest posts on the protocol, I have just this one human life and I want to see your posts and not theirs

The thing about getting into a new hobby is all of sudden you find yourself having strong opinions about insane things like line spacing (7mm! And the line should go all the way across the page!).

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Replying to @lopatto.bsky.social

what if we simply put every person who works in marketing on an island with no way to communicate with all us normal people

I, for one, love paying for The Verge's ethics policy and think you should, too.

nilay patel@reckless.bsky.social

THE THING YOU BUY WHEN YOU SUBSCRIBE TO THE VERGE IS THE ETHICS POLICY WHICH PROHIBITS US FROM INVESTING IN THE COMPANIES WE COVER

Matthew Colwell reposted

Whack-ass conspiracy theorists used to make their own websites and have at least a passing knowledge of HTML. Now they just post on social media. Nobody wants to work anymore.

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A sign of how fundamentally broken and inadequate to the moment our information and media ecosystem is when the president is deploying the military to crush protests against his mass kidnapping scheme, and the question is whether those who oppose it are being nice enough.

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"Abolish ICE" and "defund the police" are both reasonable and correct on the merits but were absolutely neutered by centrists smearing them as radical activist overreach.

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We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

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if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually

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A while ago a lovely German man appeared at our church. He came a few times to look around during our Saturday opening hours, before asking if the piano abandoned in the corner worked. I told him it was horrendously out of tune, and the cathedral piano tuner had deemed it not worth sorting out.

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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

i love how punditry always boils down to "what if I've never had a second order thought about [topic] in my entire life?" just absolute bozo shit 24/7

Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦@deonandan.bsky.social

If progressives want to win back young men, then they must talk to them and address their needs, instead of constant scolding. All the finger wagging just drives them to Rogan, Peterson, and the Tate brothers. And they DO talk to young men.

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By the way, people should understand that the admin doesn't have to shoot or gas people to kill them. If you pile people in military-run camps in Gitmo and the Panamanian jungle without adequate food or healthcare and just wait, people will die

Felipe De La Hoz@felipedlh.bsky.social

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths