Matthew of Philadelphia
@mattofphiladelphia.bsky.social
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And just for the record, it's
The Master
Under the Skin
No Country for Old Men
High Life
13 Assassins
The Fellowship of the Ring
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Aniara
Black Coal, Thin Ice
The Handmaiden
The Master
Under the Skin
No Country for Old Men
High Life
13 Assassins
The Fellowship of the Ring
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Aniara
Black Coal, Thin Ice
The Handmaiden
December 4, 2025 at 3:29 AM
And just for the record, it's
The Master
Under the Skin
No Country for Old Men
High Life
13 Assassins
The Fellowship of the Ring
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Aniara
Black Coal, Thin Ice
The Handmaiden
The Master
Under the Skin
No Country for Old Men
High Life
13 Assassins
The Fellowship of the Ring
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Aniara
Black Coal, Thin Ice
The Handmaiden
@scumbelievable.bsky.social I’m dying at this. What a god Mantel is. I very likely would never have picked Wolf Hall up but for your rec of them. Truly you do the lord’s work
December 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
@scumbelievable.bsky.social I’m dying at this. What a god Mantel is. I very likely would never have picked Wolf Hall up but for your rec of them. Truly you do the lord’s work
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Pardon me, but recent scholarship disputes this. The earliest attestations of the legend Eoin Mac Gille Eathain and the Tower of Broken Glass are by monks centuries after Christianization. Whatever connection the legend may have had to solstice celebrations is tenuous and speculative! ☝️🤓
December 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Pardon me, but recent scholarship disputes this. The earliest attestations of the legend Eoin Mac Gille Eathain and the Tower of Broken Glass are by monks centuries after Christianization. Whatever connection the legend may have had to solstice celebrations is tenuous and speculative! ☝️🤓
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the hardest part of writing politically charged fiction is that a good villain needs to be complex, cool and about as right as the protagonist; while evil people in real life are lame, cruel, childish morons motivated by greed or not wanting to look at minorities
November 29, 2025 at 8:04 AM
the hardest part of writing politically charged fiction is that a good villain needs to be complex, cool and about as right as the protagonist; while evil people in real life are lame, cruel, childish morons motivated by greed or not wanting to look at minorities
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Got an hour to kill, brain reduced to mush by three days of socializing. Let's do some questions.
Ask me anything!
Ask me anything!
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Got an hour to kill, brain reduced to mush by three days of socializing. Let's do some questions.
Ask me anything!
Ask me anything!
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I'm doing first-timer-friendly reviews of Twin Peaks in its entirety for @popheist.com — nothing that spoils anything that's coming. If you've never experienced the best show of all time I'd love for you to watch and read along
'Twin Peaks' Series Premiere Recap: The Departed - Pop Heist
In these 94 minutes, the best pilot in TV history, Lynch and Frost create a world, a liminal place that is singular and inimitable.
popheist.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I'm doing first-timer-friendly reviews of Twin Peaks in its entirety for @popheist.com — nothing that spoils anything that's coming. If you've never experienced the best show of all time I'd love for you to watch and read along
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The "Larry Summers complained to Jeffrey Epstein that MeToo went too far" and "Olivia Nuzzi committed crimes on behalf of the fascist she masturbated with while reporting on him" are the same story: American elites have no ideology other than "I should be untouchable." Society is run by empty husks
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The "Larry Summers complained to Jeffrey Epstein that MeToo went too far" and "Olivia Nuzzi committed crimes on behalf of the fascist she masturbated with while reporting on him" are the same story: American elites have no ideology other than "I should be untouchable." Society is run by empty husks
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The only pertinent thing about this story is that everyone involved is responsible for the murder of millions of infants and children. I don't care about Cum Poetry, I care that these are serial murderers
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The only pertinent thing about this story is that everyone involved is responsible for the murder of millions of infants and children. I don't care about Cum Poetry, I care that these are serial murderers
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November 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
another Lizza article is circulating, which reminds me to tap the sign reminding you to please support independent, worker-run, billionaire and felch-free news outlets when and how you can. if you can spare some $, here's some w/NewsMatch, which will 2x your donation through the end of the year!
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My books do pretty well, but the backbone of my income is from film and television criticism on my Patreon, so I'm a full-time writer, but I'm doing two separate careers.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
My books do pretty well, but the backbone of my income is from film and television criticism on my Patreon, so I'm a full-time writer, but I'm doing two separate careers.
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🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
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You will never guess what this is in reference to.
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
You will never guess what this is in reference to.
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hey if you missed it me and @stefansasse.bsky.social had an extremely fun discussion about Revenge in A Song of Ice and Fire for the Boiled Leather Audio Hour podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
BLAH 213 | Revenge in ASOIAF, with Grant Piercy (Heathen King)
Podcast Episode · The Boiled Leather Audio Hour · 11/06/2025 · 55m
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November 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
hey if you missed it me and @stefansasse.bsky.social had an extremely fun discussion about Revenge in A Song of Ice and Fire for the Boiled Leather Audio Hour podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Writing an op-ed saying the future of the Democratic Party is centrist politicians and publishing it *this week* shows that you can do anything when you unlock your <Big Bird voice> imagination!
November 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Writing an op-ed saying the future of the Democratic Party is centrist politicians and publishing it *this week* shows that you can do anything when you unlock your <Big Bird voice> imagination!
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After writing this I realized this project is going to be intense, haha
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
After writing this I realized this project is going to be intense, haha
They pushed Hedge Knight at GRRM’s request so it wouldn’t walk on his announcement that he finished The Winds of Winter
November 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
They pushed Hedge Knight at GRRM’s request so it wouldn’t walk on his announcement that he finished The Winds of Winter
My 5 y/o repeatedly singing the part of the Ghostbuster song he remembers while trick or treating: “Busting makes me feel good!”
November 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
My 5 y/o repeatedly singing the part of the Ghostbuster song he remembers while trick or treating: “Busting makes me feel good!”
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AR-PHARAZÔN THE GOLDEN: What you have to remember also is he appeared in fair form.
CHOTINER: The next time the invasion of Valinor and the destruction of Númenor come up, I'll keep in mind that Sauron was handsome when it happened.
AR-PHARAZÔN: He was. Not that that excuses it.
CHOTINER: Right.
CHOTINER: The next time the invasion of Valinor and the destruction of Númenor come up, I'll keep in mind that Sauron was handsome when it happened.
AR-PHARAZÔN: He was. Not that that excuses it.
CHOTINER: Right.
October 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
AR-PHARAZÔN THE GOLDEN: What you have to remember also is he appeared in fair form.
CHOTINER: The next time the invasion of Valinor and the destruction of Númenor come up, I'll keep in mind that Sauron was handsome when it happened.
AR-PHARAZÔN: He was. Not that that excuses it.
CHOTINER: Right.
CHOTINER: The next time the invasion of Valinor and the destruction of Númenor come up, I'll keep in mind that Sauron was handsome when it happened.
AR-PHARAZÔN: He was. Not that that excuses it.
CHOTINER: Right.
3 billionaires pay everyone’s tab to make sure they can leave the restaurant alive.
This isn’t news, it’s pro-billionaire propaganda.
October 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
3 billionaires pay everyone’s tab to make sure they can leave the restaurant alive.
Just to save people time, I looked it up. Triceratops horn-hilted daggers are not a thing
October 31, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Just to save people time, I looked it up. Triceratops horn-hilted daggers are not a thing
Which will we get first: the Epstein files or The Winds of Winter?
October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Which will we get first: the Epstein files or The Winds of Winter?
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Immortality is a child's answer to death anxiety, not a real thing with which humanity will ever have to contend. No king's alchemist ever granted him eternal life, and it isn't going to start happening now just because of Computer.
October 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Immortality is a child's answer to death anxiety, not a real thing with which humanity will ever have to contend. No king's alchemist ever granted him eternal life, and it isn't going to start happening now just because of Computer.
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Sam watching helplessly as Frodo starts to identify with Gollum, a weird, transparently insane bald freak in a diaper who eats live birds and mutters about murdering Sam and Frodo all the time, was a mood without a strong modern parallel until people started falling for AI.
October 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Sam watching helplessly as Frodo starts to identify with Gollum, a weird, transparently insane bald freak in a diaper who eats live birds and mutters about murdering Sam and Frodo all the time, was a mood without a strong modern parallel until people started falling for AI.