Matt Weber

Roses are red,
Violets are good luck,

If you've never checked out Kaleidotrope's starter packs of the fantastic authors and artists who've appeared in the zine over the years, now would be a good time to do so, since they've just been updated—and not just so I can finally pin a new post to my profile that doesn't have a typo in it! 😜

Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against the hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more, and that’s why webuyuglyhouses.com will buy it from you TODAY for cash on the barrelhead!

a cartoon character with a hoodie on his head is looking out a window Alt: The Great Cornholio, announcing the requirements of his bunghole.

[U is 14.]

U: benvolio?

U: is he the guy who pulls his shirt over his head?

ME: what

ME: … oh

ME: jesus

IN WHICH we contemplate the procedural generation of knightly adventure.
www.cobblerandbard.com/gillen-rossi...

Ify, Katie, and Brennan, inadvertently re-enacting the Virtuous Economic Cycle on Game Changer.

(This is in no way a knock on the OP, just the usual complaint about how Goodhart’s law has broken the world.)

POSTER: psa guys, when you say “ok google fix my slides” it spawns a torment nexus in the bathroom

INTERNET, ONE MILLION TIMES: dadgum if it doesn’t do just that, i just shat five paring knives and a potato peeler

GOOGLE EARNINGS CALL: engagement with our “fix my slides” button is through the roof

Paging Dr. @joannarifkin.bsky.social

a cartoon character says " i 'm not crying you 're crying " to another character Alt: GIF of Buford from Phineas & Ferb transferring a tear from his face to Baljeet’s. Caption: “I’m not crying, you’re crying.”

Buford?

Twin Peaks opening with text reading Kaleidotrope

Damn fine cup of coffee!

My only thoughts and solidarity are for the 90 million Iranians, who I have more common cause with than I could ever have with either one of the regimes that oppress us all

What I Learned from MasterClass - Cal Newport Last fall, I filmed a course for MasterClass. It’s mainly based on my book Slow Productivity, but there’s some Deep Work in there too. It’s ... Read more

Cal Newport name-checking @dropout.tv was not on my bingo card for today. calnewport.com/what-i-learn...

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

And see also bsky.app/profile/sara...

The Means-Testing Industrial Complex As Republicans tightened work requirements and eligibility rules for Medicaid and SNAP last year, Equifax’s CEO openly celebrated the profits to be made from administering this deprivation.

Just putting related material in one place: lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...

We genuinely need a revival of virtue in the United States.

In my view, that’s almost as critical a project as any other structural reform project necessary in the wake of trumpism. We should become a society that actually values human life such that we would feel shame about this.

post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

The first paragraph of an article by Peter Chen of New Jersey Policy Perspective: “New Jersey has cut its state workforce by more than 25 percent since 2006, eliminating nearly 20,000 positions even as the state’s population has grown.[1] This can have concrete consequences for New Jersey residents, including longer wait times at government offices, delayed benefits, fewer inspectors for nursing homes and polluting factories, and less oversight of how schools and local governments spend public dollars.”

Mostly for my own notes, here’s Peter Chen of New Jersey Policy Perspective: www.njpp.org/publications...

A screenshot from Cory Doctorow’s blog, PLURALISTIC, published on February 24, 2026: Turning governments into businesses has been an unmitigated failure. After decades of outsourcing, the government hasn't managed to shrink its payroll, but government workers are today primarily employed in wheedling private contractors to fulfill their promises, even as public spending has quintupled: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/is-government-too-big-reflections-on-the-size-and-composition-of-todays-federal-government/ Instead of having a government employee do a government job, that govvie oversees a private contractor who costs twice as much…and sucks at their job: https://www.pogo.org/reports/bad-business-billions-of-taxpayer-dollars-wasted-on-hiring-contractors

Cory Doctorow’s most recent post on PLURALISTIC has a lot to say about Zohran and sewer socialism, but I’m here for the bits on government outsourcing: pluralistic.net/2026/02/24/m...

BROKE: cottagecore

WOKE: mildin’ out

I cannot express how much I love this series! Illegal dragon-rider racing with FEATHERED dragons, in an amazingly unique setting, featuring an epic forged-family.

love love LOVE!!!

(Wolfe, Tiptree, Leiber, Murakami, Mieville, Cheever, Ellison, Jackson all groaning “pick me”; me, tears streaming down my face, sobbing “too old, too old”)

Name 5 authors you’ve read 3 short stories by. (And don’t say me.) Stories have to be published within the last 10 years.

Saeed Teebi
Ken Liu
Ted Chiang
Sofia Samatar
Martha Wells

… this was hard 🥵

This was the race I was most interested in, so my runner-up: NJ-12 Democratic primary. (I was expecting it to come down to Reynolds-Jackson vs. Zwicker, which I’m already wrong about… so I have no priors any more.)

Well, my daddy left home when I was three
And he didn’t leave much for Ma and me,
Just this old guitar and a half-burned lump of coal.

Now I don’t blame him ‘cause he run and hid,
‘Cause he couldn’t stand the thought of the kid
Locked up and doomed to torment in the Omelas hole.

Roses are red
Violets are blue
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There are so many good clowns on this earth and yet we gotta put up with these ones

Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered is great advice even outside of New Jersey, just rules for living really