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@mattfnwallace.bsky.social

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I write. On purpose. Novels, video games, television. SAVAGE COMPANY & SAVAGE BOUNTY are out now in the UK! Get Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate on PlayStation and Xbox!

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · May 8

UK readers!! The second novel in my empire smashin’ swords meets super science Savage Rebellion series is out today from @solarisbooks.bsky.social! Get SAVAGE BOUNTY now!

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · May 8

🎂🎉Happy UK book birthday to SAVAGE BOUNTY, the second instalment in @mattfnwallace.bsky.social 's epic fantasy trilogy - SAVAGE REBELLION!

The empire stumbles towards its downfall...

Available to buy now from all good bookshops! geni.us/savagebounty
Buy book 1: geni.us/savagecompany.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 52m

I was on the board of Fenway and I warned the then CEO in 2023 that this would happen. This was cowardly capitulation sacrificing trans youth.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1h

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

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Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 45m

McD’s creamy chili sauce is a metaphor for life really

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 48m

I can’t decide if you meant chicken strippers or not

Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 1h

I crushed one in my big dumb hand by accident and felt the same

It’s only here for a limited time Jen

A LIMITED TIME ONLY

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 3h

Lately I have been obsessed with McDonald’s creamy chili sauce and I would put that with all forms of chicken. But otherwise I like to alternate buffalo sauce and ranch.

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 3h

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 4h

Someone asked me what I believe in and I told them a variety of dipping sauces.

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 4h

The best time to cancel Spotify was years ago, the next best time is right now.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 5h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 6h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 8h

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.

If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times

Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 18h

If you’re all staying in the same place I would totally turn it into a haunted house after they pass out and then trigger everything in the middle of the night and video the results but that’s also probably why none of my friends want to travel with me

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 19h

Conversely you could play some epic pranks on them all while they sleep

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 19h

It does not! It is a chaotic mess! But I enjoy how it naturally mixes the pb and jelly

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 20h

Big praise I am flattered

Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 20h

I’m a big Goobers guy. Strawberry or grape, as long as it’s Goobers.

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 20h

Many very fluffy and photogenic creechers I approve also thank you

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 20h

I’m sorry you composed a whole-ass paragraph in reply to something I posted that pissed you off only to find yourself blocked without receiving a response but my hope is this experience teaches you to allot your time and energy more wisely.

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 20h

Meanwhile studios who snap up the film rights for living authors’ works often sit on them just so nobody else can get at them

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 21h

Sometimes I’ll intentionally overfill a PB&J just because I know I’m going to do this.

Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 23h

Eating a sandwich over the sink is one of those top tier Good Things

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 21h

STOP adapting 80-year-old books into movies and TV series. Stop it. There are a million new novels published every year and 99% of their authors are broke. Stop giving dead people’s descendants money. Books were NOT better a century ago, they were WORSE. They were ALL
WORSE. Create in THIS century.

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 23h

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Keep it going. Get your family and friends to join
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’

After decades of being dismissed as fringe, the boycott call has been taken up by leading figures across arts, sports and politics

www.theguardian.com

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