Matthew Murray 🦇

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

Mr Laos. Just when you though this year was a bit quiet on the insanely huge, bedazzled, symbolic costumes along comes Mr Laos and blows everyone else out of the water. This is insane, but it's also *so* good.

The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for

this is your fucking job that you're being paid to do. Imagine asking your plumber to stop your dishwasher from flooding your apartment and he's like "well what exactly do you want me to do?" The specifics are your part dog idk!

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

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trade offer meme template. Man is labelled with "my cat" on his forehead Trade offer I receive: Scritches You receive: Getting to give me scritches

I'm not sure if my cat is a terrible or incredible negotiator.

Imagine if academia wasn't wholly reliant on extractive labor practices, constantly asking us to do more with less. Imagine if academia wasn't rooted in vocational awe, where saying "no" to requests isn't considered a moral failing

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

I mask to protect myself and my community, yes. But I also mask as a form of swanky af resistance in the face of fascism. Look at these majestic mask options. LOOK AT THEM! 😻

Just had my first-ever experience of a delivery guy needing to collect a tariff from me in order to give me my package. Only a bank or cashier’s check is accepted, so no way for me to pay, I have to go to the bank tomorrow and the postman will try again. Very cool new system, America is great again

One day I'd like to do a presentation on "pirate preservation."

I maintain that if the profession is going to allow genAI, we have to be okay with torrenting of media too.

People think the first thing Gutenberg printed was the Bible. This is false. The first things he printed were a political prophecy, propaganda about the Turks’ threat to Christendom, & a popular school text. If you want a parallel to AI, that’s it: making $ from conspiracies, racism, & school slop.

hey, white friends, in case you thought being white and normie lookin' was gonna keep you safe from our fascist secret police, it will not.

it matters that they are coming for ANYBODY

we must fight their stealing ANYONE

AND: all our liberations are, as always, intertwined.

NYCC ’25: DC Comics to complete Rick Veitch’s scuttled run with SWAMP THING 1989 In 1988, Rick Veitch left Swamp Thing after DC decided not to publish a controversial story, but now he will finish with Swamp Thing 1989.

NYCC ’25: DC Comics to complete Rick Veitch’s scuttled run with SWAMP THING 1989

In 1988, Rick Veitch left Swamp Thing after DC decided not to publish a controversial story, but now he will finish with Swamp Thing 1989.

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast: Episode 219 - Vampire Fiction It’s episode 219 and time for us to talk about the genre(?) of Vampires! We discuss the difference between thralls and familiars, why vampires love math, whether it’s possible to not read vampire stor...

It’s episode 219 and time for us to talk about the genre(?) of Vampires! We discuss the difference between thralls and familiars, why vampires love math, whether it’s possible to not read vampire stories, how much blood is too much blood, and more!

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SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Oh yes, an alt Halftime Show is going to do great in a nation where “The Single Guy” lasted two full seasons simply because that’s how much people hate changing the channel.

The heart on the image symbolizes the courage and love needed when people with privilege (those with citizenship) stand up to protect undocumented community memb ers

New print from Nicolas Lampert in the shop! "Workers deserve respect, dignity and safety, not ICE terror. An injury to one is an injury to all." justseeds.org/product/bloc...

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America 404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

. @404media.co is investigating book bans. They could use your pointers on where to be looking. You can do it anonymously.

"We need help deciding... which school districts and cities to seek public records from and... where we should point our reporting efforts. "

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Where's Cyborg Grey???

Jean Grey dies and suddenly there's a teen Jean, a cosmic force flying around in a Jean Grey suit, a evil duplicate Jean, and the last daughter of Grey.

Feel like “ongoing CONCACAF situation” could describe anything from this to full societal collapse.

Siancong War 2 minor appearance(s) of Siancong War 3 image(s) of Siancong War

I think that since Disney owns The Simpsons, he served in the Siancong War.

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Does the sliding timeline on the Simpsons mean that Skinner served in Afghanistan or Iraq?