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Matthew Simmons

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Neutral good hedge wizard. I write about writing and games: https://matthewjsimmons.substack.com https://troublednecromancer.bandcamp.com/album/rushes

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Matthew Simmons @matthewjsimmons.bsky.social · Aug 26

A new post on A Sympathetic Destroyer! It's Notes on a Dungeon Ecology: matthewjsimmons.substack.com/p/notes-on-d...

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Matthew Simmons @matthewjsimmons.bsky.social · 1d

I think I found some sort of online tutorial that taught me to make this cosmic metal goat.

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Matthew Simmons @matthewjsimmons.bsky.social · 4d

You know, all some reporter has to do is ask Trump directly if Stephen Miller is the one actually in charge, and Trump will fire him within the week.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 5d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 4d

On This Day in History: October 11, 1924
Paris opened the Bureau of Surrealist Research at 15 Rue de Grenelle, with Antonin Artaud as director. A walk-in lab for the irrational, it invited the public to bring dreams and strange encounters, days before Breton’s first Surrealist Manifesto.

The original Bureau of Surrealist Research, photo courtesy of Grace Mvg DM

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Matthew Simmons @matthewjsimmons.bsky.social · 5d

“Just plywood fronts. ‘Decorated sheds,’ that’s what they call it. Unlike a ‘duck.’ Like from that great American book by Robert Venturi. Imagine, a building shaped like a great duck. An American duck. Back before they were laughing at us. And our burning ducks. All over our Democrat cities.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

Matthew Simmons @matthewjsimmons.bsky.social · 5d

A couple of friends and I saw a matinee of this in the theater the Saturday after it came out. And then we bought another ticket and saw it again right after it ended.

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Matthew Simmons @matthewjsimmons.bsky.social · 8d

Maybe here between job contracts, I should get into making some Etsy-ass owlbear minis?

Picture of an open walnut shell, which looks like a owl

Matthew Simmons @matthewjsimmons.bsky.social · 8d

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

Matthew Simmons @matthewjsimmons.bsky.social · 10d

Nice

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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 12d

“Personally, I believe that anxiety and dread are perfectly natural responses to the times.”

My latest for LitHub:

lithub.com/tending-to-t...

Tending to the Garden of American Democracy is Hard and Thankless Work

In Jerzy Kosinski’s 1971 novel Being There, a simple gardener named Chance is mistaken for a political guru and quickly wows the Washington D.C. power brokers and kingmakers. It’s a marvelous study…

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Matthew Simmons @matthewjsimmons.bsky.social · 11d

Oh! Oh! the Gentlemen? The series, not the movie.

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Matthew Simmons @matthewjsimmons.bsky.social · 12d

Post tattoo? Wildly busy day!

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Matthew Simmons @matthewjsimmons.bsky.social · 13d

I only really knew Brian online, but very early in my explorations of the literary community, he was kind enough to speak to me about his writing. All those early confirmations were so important and valuable to me. Seemed like such a good fella.

Matthew Simmons @matthewjsimmons.bsky.social · 13d

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Brian Beatty, The Long-Promised Interview

**UPDATE: Go here to read Brian Beatty's new McSweeney's feature, Jokes By Brian Beatty.** Brian Beatty is a poet , and a standup comedian...

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Matthew Simmons @matthewjsimmons.bsky.social · 15d

HEY!

*clap*

HO!

*stomp*

Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 15d

Crypto billionaire Brock Pierce, speaking at Fraunces Tavern in downtown Manhattan alongside Rev. Al Cockfield, says he's launching the "draft Eric back campaign" to try to get Eric Adams back in the mayoral race.

More about it here: www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/30/b...

Matthew Simmons @matthewjsimmons.bsky.social · 15d

Are we surprised that it was just an opportunity to create short form video clips of the drunk pretending to be a tough, inspiring leader?

Matthew Simmons @matthewjsimmons.bsky.social · 15d

Mick showed him.

Matthew Simmons @matthewjsimmons.bsky.social · 17d

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EDC 🇺🇦🇮🇱 @simplyedc.bsky.social · 18d

Jethro Tull - Aqualung
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#Music #MusicSky #Vinyl #VinylSky #VinylCommunity #VinylCollectors #VinylRecords #NowPlaying #NowSpinning

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HAD @havehashad.com · 19d

you gotta click through for the footnotes and thus for the full power of Kristin Gustafson's piece today, but here's enough of a teaser to make you do said clicking through...

https://www.havehashad.com/2jj6l