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Matt Urban

@urbanblight.bsky.social

Husband. Son. Cat dad. Gardener. Baseball fan. Music lover. Cinephile. Star Wars geek. Former software developer. Out-of-practice stage director. Currently practicing attorney at lol.

created July 11, 2023

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Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent

yooo whaaaaaaaaaaat lol

31/8/2025, 3:30:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent

This is the name of the next Lana Del Ray EP

16/8/2025, 3:33:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent

Ugh don’t make me like him more

14/8/2025, 2:49:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

12/8/2025, 5:00:38 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent

I love it when people go on the *number one news network* and deride the “mainstream media”

28/7/2025, 4:37:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

24/7/2025, 1:51:04 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent

No wonder he wore a costume.

22/7/2025, 6:53:41 PM | 57 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

22/7/2025, 3:31:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent

“Cancel culture.” The kid made more yesterday in donations than he made all year so far.

22/7/2025, 2:45:54 PM | 21 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess ChatGPT doesn’t know what “exclusive” means in this context.

19/7/2025, 4:40:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social)

I know Billy Strings is bluegrass, but he makes me believe in rock n roll again. youtu.be/jStcHKMNvqI?...

16/7/2025, 12:50:10 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh someone already did bsky.app/profile/dash...

10/7/2025, 4:00:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent

Someone tell @dasharez0ne.bsky.social they have a trademark infringement case

10/7/2025, 3:59:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent

That tracks.

Melania’s “I Really Don’t Care Do U?” jacket
4/7/2025, 11:21:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/6/2025, 3:50:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

17/6/2025, 3:20:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you for your service

5/6/2025, 8:22:46 PM | 70 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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...

23/5/2025, 3:58:06 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent

phew

22/5/2025, 3:25:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social)

I don’t know, man, sometimes I think adults are just full of shit.

29/4/2025, 10:44:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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?

29/4/2025, 3:08:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent

“we gotta leave it there, Gary”

27/4/2025, 3:28:37 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

22/4/2025, 7:19:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

Smoking hard.
11/4/2025, 3:58:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s gonna invite the tariffs on his podcast and say how much his kids like them.

3/4/2025, 9:33:02 PM | 23 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent

Optics to whom exactly? LOL he’s a convicted felon and that hasn’t affected his “optics”

3/4/2025, 9:31:46 PM | 34 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent

Does he even own a suit?

29/3/2025, 4:38:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

24/3/2025, 3:00:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

21/3/2025, 7:31:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social)

sometimes my main reason for listening to an album is to see what the algorithm will suggest after it

20/3/2025, 7:05:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

6/3/2025, 3:22:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social)

my office is really just a remote and private Starbucks booth

13/2/2025, 6:44:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

1/2/2025, 5:48:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social)

Timothée Chalamet is to Bob Dylan as John Mayer is to the Grateful Dead.

26/1/2025, 4:51:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent

Completely agree on that last point. Absolutely batshit times.

26/1/2025, 1:53:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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?

25/1/2025, 10:39:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

25/1/2025, 8:55:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

25/1/2025, 6:58:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

25/1/2025, 5:51:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

25/1/2025, 5:49:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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)

25/1/2025, 5:31:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent

chart-topper lol

20/1/2025, 6:25:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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mondays amirite?

20/1/2025, 3:58:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Caroline Framke (@carolineframke.bsky.social) reposted

Today’s glimmer of hope brought to you by the creator of Watch Duty, LA’s nonprofit fire map that’s been such a lifeline for so many. More of this, please! www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Screenshot of Hollywood Reporter interview: “I don’t want to sell this. To who? No one should own this. The fact that I have to do this with my team is not OK. Part of this is out of spite. I’m angry that I’m here having to do this, and the government hasn’t spent the money to do this themselves,” Mills says. “So, no, it’s not for sale. No, I’m not open to change all of a sudden, and I just don’t give a shit.”
14/1/2025, 3:41:56 PM | 6074 1820 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent

Wowee fucking zowee.

6/1/2025, 9:40:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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something something 2025 energy etc youtu.be/nSMapuOLn20?...

1/1/2025, 7:01:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Codify Baseball (@codifybaseball.bsky.social) reposted

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.

22/12/2024, 12:06:31 AM | 1220 201 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social) reply parent

Sigh. The federal government is not New York.

22/12/2024, 4:11:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture Peter Abraham (@peteabeglobe.bsky.social) reposted

Made my Globe Magazine debut today with a little piece remembering the great Luis Tiant. Everybody misses him.

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Profile picture More Abstract Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) reposted

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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Profile picture The New York Times (@nytimes.com) reposted

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.

11/12/2024, 6:09:21 PM | 1083 199 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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”

9/12/2024, 4:12:23 PM | 18951 2251 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Urban (@urbanblight.bsky.social)

#YachtRock is the sound of about-to-be-cleaned teeth.

4/12/2024, 3:03:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

3/12/2024, 5:50:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Conversation U.S. (@us.theconversation.com) reposted

Music can change how you feel about the past

2/12/2024, 10:04:00 PM | 37 17 | View on Bluesky | view

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All hail the return of trad #FatherJohnMisty youtu.be/pVzu0M0LWTM?...

24/11/2024, 12:58:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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 🎥

18/11/2024, 7:38:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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an anthem for your doomscrolling

18/10/2023, 10:03:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture More Abstract Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) reposted

“Sorry, but starting next week syphilis is no longer free.”

18/9/2023, 11:30:00 PM | 579 82 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

25/8/2023, 7:49:49 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture drewtoothpaste (@drewtoothpaste.bsky.social) reposted

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

25/7/2023, 2:07:18 PM | 1687 267 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

23/7/2023, 5:35:29 PM | 10 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

14/7/2023, 5:25:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view