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Matt Trask

@matthewtrask.com

I want you to stay in Nashville and save on your electric bill after a massive storm that we didn’t scale for knocks out your power.

#nashville

Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 7d

Top officials warn widespread power outages will last at least "through the weekend."

City Anticipates Several More Days Without Full Power

Top officials warn widespread power outages will last at least 'through the weekend'

www.nashvillescene.com

January 28, 2026 at 8:57 PM

Matt Trask

@matthewtrask.com

I want you to stay in Nashville and freeze in your house for 4 days without power.

#nashville

iwantyoutostay.com

January 28, 2026 at 5:54 PM

Matt Trask

@matthewtrask.com

call me a pessimist but this is just half time. They made a few fuck ups in the first half, so they are bringing in some new players off the bench. They are going to fight harder in the second half.

January 27, 2026 at 2:26 AM

Matt Trask

@matthewtrask.com

Oh for fucks sake

Nashville Severe Weather @nashseverewx.com · 10d

1/2) NWS Nashville: "Wind gusts between 15-25 mph will be likely today and through most of the day tomorrow. These winds will exacerbate trees and powerlines that are weighed down with ice. Coupling this with a big drop in temperatures tonight means a flash freeze will be possible...

January 25, 2026 at 6:28 PM

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Sheng Slogar

@sheng.dev

this may not be much, but if anyone needs a website or help updating one for their immigration-related group or cause, especially if you’re in the Midwest, please let me know. I do this for a living. DMs are open

January 25, 2026 at 3:09 AM

Matt Trask

@matthewtrask.com

Gonna be inside all day with an ice storm. What should I read?

Four books:

The notebook - a history of thinking on paper

Three roads to Gettysburg

Agains the machine - on the unmaking of humanity

On hallowed ground - the story of Arlington national cemetery

January 25, 2026 at 12:33 AM

Matt Trask

@matthewtrask.com

ICE is out here using 5 year old kids as bait and some of yall writing a blog post about things like MCP servers and AI like nothing is going on. Wild.

#america

January 22, 2026 at 3:36 AM

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Robby Russell

@robbyonrails.com

Unpopular opinion: The best thing about a 16-year-old Rails app is that it's survived 16 years of production use.

That's not technical debt. That's battle-tested code.

January 20, 2026 at 10:13 PM

Matt Trask

@matthewtrask.com

Perfect time to level up in battlefield 6. Or read. Probably battlefield.

Nashville Severe Weather @nashseverewx.com · 15d

If you read 1 forecast paragraph today, read this from NWS Nashville: "Bottom line... we have high confidence in winter weather with impacts this weekend. Go ahead and make preparations and don't plan on traveling if you don`t need to. It is not a simple setup that gives us high confidence in (1/3)

January 20, 2026 at 8:29 PM

Matt Trask

@matthewtrask.com

The start-up graveyard: www.loot-drop.io

Loot Drop | 925+ Failed Startup Case Studies & Ideas to Steal

Explore 925+ failed startups and learn from $32.5B+ in burned venture capital. Discover why they failed, their market potential, and how to rebuild them.

www.loot-drop.io

January 20, 2026 at 5:38 PM

Matt Trask

@matthewtrask.com

Teams is the Donald Trump of communication tools

January 20, 2026 at 2:22 AM

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Mike Bifulco

@mikebifulco.com

Craftwork is hiring: we're looking for a design-minded product engineer with experience in local services. This is a contract role for the next 2-3mo.

Relevant Stack: Next.js, Tailwind, Typescript, PostHog, Google Ads.

www.ycombinator.com/companies/cr...

Design Engineer at Craftwork | Y Combinator

Position Overview We’re looking for a freelance, design-minded engineer to help us improve conversion across our marketing site and customer funnel — without compromising our brand or visual quality. ...

www.ycombinator.com

January 19, 2026 at 10:25 PM

Matt Trask

@matthewtrask.com

if I combined all of my internet presences into one feed it would be split between “Accept AI for it’s the greatest thing ever” and “we need to exercise caution with AI” and very little in between.

#ai

January 18, 2026 at 4:27 PM

Matt Trask

@matthewtrask.com

Just a reminder that no one ever writes on their tombstone saying “I wish I had worked more” nor will the majority, if any, of your coworkers will come to your funeral.

January 17, 2026 at 5:47 PM

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John Abernathy

@john-abernathy.bsky.social

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM

Matt Trask

@matthewtrask.com

Every year for MLK Day, I like to spend some time reading his “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. espedially in the current times there’s a lot to take away and sit with.

www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets...

#mlk #mlkday #resistance

www.csuchico.edu

January 16, 2026 at 5:10 PM

Matt Trask

@matthewtrask.com

GWAR covering Chappell Roan’s ”Pink Pony Club” is a bright spot in an otherwise dark week.

youtu.be/I5XR48KLE8I?...

GWAR cover “Pink Pony Club” by Chappell Roan

YouTube video by The A.V. Club

youtu.be

January 16, 2026 at 3:06 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

Jesus.

www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

January 15, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Reid Forgrave
ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then arrest workers
Federal agents detained three workers from a family-owned Mexican restaurant in Willmar yesterday, hours after four agents ate lunch there.

It was not immediately clear what the immigration status of those detained was, or whether the people detained included the restaurant’s owners or only workers.

An eyewitness who declined to give a name for fear of retribution, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that four ICE agents sat in a booth for a meal at El Tapatio a little before 3 p.m. Staff at the restaurant were frightened, said the eyewitness, who shared pictures from the restaurant as well as video of the arrest.

The arrest happened around 8:30 p.m. near a Lutheran church and Willmar Middle School as agents followed the workers after they closed up for the night. A handful of bystanders blew whistles and shouted at agents as they detained the people. “Would your mama be proud of you right now?” one of the bystanders asked.

January 16, 2026 at 2:36 AM

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Mike Bifulco

@mikebifulco.com

I am stoked as heck that there is a fresh new openapi.tools live and out in the world. Shout out to my @apisyouwonthate.com pals for getting it done! 🚀

apisyouwonthate.com/newsletter/o...

A Shiny New OpenAPI Tools

We celebrate the long-awaited relaunch of the beloved site awesome-tools site driven by our community. Also in this edition - Postman acquires another API tools company (and another!), a fresh version...

apisyouwonthate.com

January 16, 2026 at 2:14 AM

Matt Trask

@matthewtrask.com

So we’re possibly bombing Iran, maybe taking over Greenland, watching ICE do whatever the fuck they want with no abandon, and have to go to work like nothing is happening.

So cool.

January 15, 2026 at 1:56 AM

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Charlie Warzel

@cwarzel.bsky.social

apologies if this is dumb but as somebody who has been reporting pretty extensively on the grok csam hellscape and also consuming news about the darkness of american politics...i am looking for a brief respite (stupid, funny, weird, joyful stuff that maybe i can report on/think about/or just read)

January 14, 2026 at 9:35 PM