Matthew Downs

ME: What’s the first rule of bite club? DRACULA: Is it biting? ME: That’s right, Dracula, it’s biting. RATTLESNAKE: [quietly to himself] I was gonna say biting.

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

My Portuguese might be a little rusty, but to all my Brazilian followers I’d like to say: “You’ve reached your monthly usage limit. Purchase more credits to continue using Claude”

April 1 upload: “It's the rare outlet of this establishment that actually meshes with the rest of the street frontage, ironic since we're like one block from the under-construction White House ballroom, which by all accounts actually looks more like a Cheesecake Factory than this restaurant does”

I want to hear @nerd4cities.bsky.social’s thoughts on the current Cheesecake Factory discourse. They’re the expert here.

Watching ManUnited lose is fun.

This woman has been protecting a pedophile for so long she ended up looking like one.

So, the Leafs are fun to watch again! Go Leafs! Go!

Up until a few years ago, I’d always been gambling-neutral. Like, it wasn’t my thing but my buddies seemed to like it whatever. But holy fuck has the past few years of ads for “gambling all day, every day” and “gambling on everything under the sun” turned me into an anti-gambling zealot.

The corrupt billionaires ransacking our tax dollars and destroying our country are the same guys saying it’s the fault of immigrants, trans people and people of color. It’s never been more blatantly obvious.

History doesn't reset the day after Trump. It's not automatic back to normal, yay democracy won. We will still have a republic that is gravely wounded and bleeding out. Defeating the current assailant doesn't mean you've stopped the bleeding. The wounds are still there and still potentially fatal.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

The cool thing about voting early is that it makes you better than everyone else. Remember that

it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

Two seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission are on the ballot in this year’s election, and the outcome could see Democrats controlling the powerful commission for the first time in decades. This story is available through @wabe.org and @grist.org.

I guess Rick Jackson has bought all political ad spots for ESPN+ in Georgia cause that’s all I see (along with shitty prediction market apps…seriously fuck those all the way to the sun too) during commecial breaks while watching hockey.

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Do you disavow the McKenzie Brotherhood?

Happy National Joe Jackson's Steppin' Out Appreciation Day to all who celebrate.

Do ya’ll grandfathers know you be gambling on your phone like a bitch instead of going to the local bookie and putting your life in danger with the mob?

October 16, 1968

Americans, please don’t worry about your child coming home from school a different sex. Worry about your child not coming home from school because they were shot to death.

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on October 16, 1859.

Can you see why AI is not necessary?

The next Democratic administration must nationalize SpaceX and Starlink since Musk poses a national security risk to the U.S.

If you support this, you are an evil person. No tie of blood, friendship, history, or money will make me respect you. You have chosen to make yourself a moral outlaw.

Everyone who is fighting to stop Prop 40 is your enemy, in a genuine physical sense

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Leafs!!

We’re going to a sunless place. And we hear it's full of... g-g-g-ghosts?!? This week we’re joined by @maggiemaefish.bsky.social to talk ANDOR Episode 10 and and breakdown Luthen Rael’s iconic monologue down in the dregs of Coruscant! 🧠🚫🌞😴👻 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

This concert was a true labor of love for many months! I'm so glad to get to share it with everyone today!! 💖💖💖

When I say Butlerian, you say Jihad. Butlerian! Jihad! Butlerian! Jihad!

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

Storing sniper ammo and drones in the triumphal arch is stupid. If we had a sane president the arch would function as the upper legs of a capitol defense Voltron combining all the DC monuments

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

The next president actually should blacklist basically the entire WHCA membership because their conduct under Trump has shown they’re unworthy of the public trust. Bring in reporters from, like, the Philly inquirer and shit