Matt Ciarelli

it amazes me how much is still done thru emailing excel spreadsheets around. That's no way to operate in the year of our lord 2025

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

We just finished watching House of Guinness on Netflix. Really hoping it continues.

Translation: “I don’t even know where those places are on a map, man.” When you’ve lost Fox News, wow…

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

It should be the best of times for the tech world, supercharged by the AI boom. But a shadow has fallen over Silicon Valley. With few exceptions, its leaders are responding to Donald Trump by either keeping quiet or actively courting the government.

State Terror A brief guide for Americans

"State Terror: A brief guide for Americans"
Revisiting a piece I wrote in April 2025
"In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms... the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness."
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

My six-year-old gaming laptop is slowly dying. I really don’t want to replace it right now. I have already bought a new car and a new phone this year. I don’t even really play games any more. Maybe I should just buy a mid-level business laptop and call it a day. 🤔

I spent puberty daydreaming about girls, but what do I know? 🤷

a man in a bathrobe is sitting in a bathtub with his eyes closed . ALT: a man in a bathrobe is sitting in a bathtub with his eyes closed .

There is not enough coffee in the universe.

Pssh, whatever Hoover’s faults were, Patel isn’t fit to hold his hat. (Hi there, Doug, btw. 👋 Been a while!)

Fortunately, I am a desktop guy, not a server guy. 🤣

Awesome. 💪

Somewhere, Jen Psaki is watching this and thinking to herself, NOW that clown finds his brain, instead of when *I* was up there? 🙄

Gotta love how the muzzles of each of those rifles are pointing almost exactly at the left foot of the person next to them... 🤣

I’ve had a bottle of Schramsberg on standby since the last extended absence… 🤞🤞🍾

What she said. 👇Do a lot better, NPR. Cripes.

Thanks, Morgan! You too. 😎By the way, I realized the other day, to my horror, that I never told you how much I loved The Understudy. It was great! It made me want to go watch Barbarella again, haha. I hope we'll all be reading your next book soon!

I was thrown in Threads jail last night, so I've decided to set up here. I know some of the cool folks I met on Twitter are here, and I hope to reconnect with them. If you don't know me, I have been a boring presence on the Internet for 31 years, and I don't think that's ever really going to change.