Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
yooo whaaaaaaaaaaat lol
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view profile on Bluesky Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
yooo whaaaaaaaaaaat lol
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
This is the name of the next Lana Del Ray EP
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
Ugh don’t make me like him more
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s hard to get past that one side being terrible, so terrible that it’s boring to mention it, isn’t somehow enough. Clearly Dems can do better, but there is a sickness at the heart of our culture.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
I love it when people go on the *number one news network* and deride the “mainstream media”
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah the Sixth Amendment one is interesting (pretty sure he could afford an attorney). Maybe he is just piling on.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
No wonder he wore a costume.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
Think it means that his advocation for “order” is rooted in Catholicism. Pretty sure Catholicism has enough problems without being blamed for this kid’s fever for the fuhrer.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
“Cancel culture.” The kid made more yesterday in donations than he made all year so far.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess ChatGPT doesn’t know what “exclusive” means in this context.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social)
I know Billy Strings is bluegrass, but he makes me believe in rock n roll again. youtu.be/jStcHKMNvqI?...
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh someone already did bsky.app/profile/dash...
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
Someone tell @dasharez0ne.bsky.social they have a trademark infringement case
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Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
Weird that this video omits that he confused the the EU and the UK. Seems newsworthy. Maybe someone should sell a book.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you for your service
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
As part of its settlement to resolve the defamation suit by the Trump administration, The Onion has agreed to remove all linking verbs from its headlines. bsky.app/profile/theo...
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
phew
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social)
I don’t know, man, sometimes I think adults are just full of shit.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
Was there follow up to how or why these ads were “taken down”? Also the math of their proposed budget necessitates cutting Medicaid. Is math also illegal now?
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
“we gotta leave it there, Gary”
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social)
You’re watching Conclave because the Pope died. I’m re-watching The Two Popes. We are not the same.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social)
Man, if you thought my Severance theories were messed up, let me tell you what I think is about to happen in Hacks.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s gonna invite the tariffs on his podcast and say how much his kids like them.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
Optics to whom exactly? LOL he’s a convicted felon and that hasn’t affected his “optics”
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
Does he even own a suit?
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
wow I am so lucky to be born at a time when there was no one taller than me in the dating pool, so it was super easy and it never caused anyone anxiety before now.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social)
Now that Severance is over for a while, I highly recommend you ruin your weekend by watching the amazing “Adolescence” on Netflix.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social)
sometimes my main reason for listening to an album is to see what the algorithm will suggest after it
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social)
I awake in a cold sweat, not sure what’s wrong then I remember I forgot to go into a private session before streaming those Spin Doctors songs my stats … my beautiful, pristine stats … destroyed now all that remains is the dread of how Spotify will drag me for this in 9 months
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social)
my office is really just a remote and private Starbucks booth
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social)
I know Ben Stiller is a good director because I didn’t immediately gag when I heard a song by the Who post-Keith Moon.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social)
Timothée Chalamet is to Bob Dylan as John Mayer is to the Grateful Dead.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
Completely agree on that last point. Absolutely batshit times.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
Do you see power being taken away through the democratic process (sounds like maybe if so, with a 3rd party)? I get why “vote harder” can fail to persuade given recent events. Or do you see taking power away outside of the democratic process? If so what does that look like? Or some sort of mix?
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
Protest does not take anyone’s power away, it asks others to exercise their power. At least that’s how I understand it. So if changing hearts & minds is (understandably) not the goal, does taking away power occur through a democratic process? I don’t mean to suggest that’s the only moral means.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
Oof, I mean, not sure I’m internalizing anything rather than reading the room. But ok. Isn’t the way to “defeat” them by changing hearts and minds? If not theirs then enough of other people’s? Isn’t that what protests are meant to do? So yeah it definitely matters how an argument is perceived.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, that’s an indictment of white liberals. But the problem is that when you present facts you’re an out of touch elite. If you burn shit down, you are an unhinged radical. How do you wiggle between those problems? Maybe that’s why politics is just a cult of personality now. Charisma is policy.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m certainly not arguing that fat & happy white liberals have the inner fortitude it took for Black people to earn their freedom. I’m saying it’s not clear the pussy hats or “Kamala is brat” really helped. And that’s what the white liberal cultural brain trust was able to contribute so far.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
Obv everyone has their own reasons but what I see: not only are we/they demoralized, but we’ve been told by the media that our woke white knighting was part of how this happened. There is a strong sentiment of “letting go of what I cannot control” (also I have a nonpartisan job, but that’s me)
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
chart-topper lol
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mondays amirite?
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Wowee fucking zowee.
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Please understand that Rickey Henderson stole 1,406 bases during his big league career and that no active player is within 1,000 of that total.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
Sigh. The federal government is not New York.
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Made my Globe Magazine debut today with a little piece remembering the great Luis Tiant. Everybody misses him.
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Taking a pleasant morning stroll through the Tenderloin to get to federal court and wait for a light to cross Hyde and a dude crosses against the light and says to me “you only live once” and I’m like yeah I know that’s why I waited do I look like I can dodge a taxi
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Two endangered Siberian tigers, Boris and Svetlaya, were raised together as orphaned cubs in Russia, and then reintroduced to the wild separately. But scientists found that Boris walked over 120 miles to reunite with Svetlaya.
Isabel Zaw-Tun (@izzyzaw.bsky.social) reposted
The Greeks absolutely had it right when they included a chorus in their plays. They knew audiences are dumbasses who need to be told “THIS MAN IS BAD. HE IS HERE AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT *NOT* TO DO. WOE TO THE BUMPTIOUS FOOL WHO WOULD IDOLIZE HIM. YOU ARE NOT, NOR DO YOU WANT TO BE, ALEX DELARGE”
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social)
#YachtRock is the sound of about-to-be-cleaned teeth.
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social)
The only time I stop scrolling to watch when Bill Maher comes on my feed is when some other overrated personality is telling him why they don’t like him.
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Music can change how you feel about the past
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All hail the return of trad #FatherJohnMisty youtu.be/pVzu0M0LWTM?...
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People of Bluesky, let’s get to know each other better: What is one of your favorite movies? Quote share your answer in a gif! #flimsky 🎥
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social)
an anthem for your doomscrolling
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“Sorry, but starting next week syphilis is no longer free.”
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent
As some talking head once said, with 9/11, Giuliani didn’t rise to the occasion, the occasion sunk to his level.
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the people who go online every day to cyberbully NFT creators are not being compensated or appreciated by the world at large, but you should know that your work is important and people love what you're doing
Michael Edison Hayden (@michaelehayden.bsky.social) reposted
Honestly, I’m happy Elon Musk is changing the Twitter brand to “X” because it should make it easier for all of us to move on
Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social)
If AI truly wants to model my music taste, I’m going to have to introduce it to my therapist.