Matthew Story
@mattstorymusic.bsky.social
Local musician in SE Wisconsin. Ex-Ohioan. Prolific reposter. Educator. Dad. Bad Destiny 2 player. Reluctant Dungeon Master. Polyamorous. Unsophisticated whiskey drinker. Milwaukee Bucks fan. He/him.
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My band Ghosts in the Gravel played a great show at UW Parkside last month. To see the full video, and eventually more from this show, you can go to youtube.com/@ghostsinthe... or Facebook.com/ghostsinthegravel.
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Oh. Cool. Just as the President is using every power he can to suppress dissent and stifle speech, @whitehouse.senate.gov and the @judiciarydems.senate.gov are trying to hand Trump a new tool to suppress speech online.
What a joke.
What a joke.
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.
December 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Oh. Cool. Just as the President is using every power he can to suppress dissent and stifle speech, @whitehouse.senate.gov and the @judiciarydems.senate.gov are trying to hand Trump a new tool to suppress speech online.
What a joke.
What a joke.
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It’s all hands on deck today for the MAGA mob threats and intimidation.
December 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It’s all hands on deck today for the MAGA mob threats and intimidation.
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it always breaks my brain to watch them vote in a way they will 100% be punished for, when they already know they will, when voting the other way would cost them personally nothing, and the only thing they get is... hurting people.
imagine what has to be in your heart to do that.
imagine what has to be in your heart to do that.
The GOP just blocked extending the ACA subsidies - again.
Making people’s healthcare skyrocket while you control the White House and both chambers of Congress seems like a great move for the midterms.
Making people’s healthcare skyrocket while you control the White House and both chambers of Congress seems like a great move for the midterms.
December 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
it always breaks my brain to watch them vote in a way they will 100% be punished for, when they already know they will, when voting the other way would cost them personally nothing, and the only thing they get is... hurting people.
imagine what has to be in your heart to do that.
imagine what has to be in your heart to do that.
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we got another one for the Don't Ever Become Too Attached To An Artist or Athlete file
SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power.
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary
The Taken actor can be heard calling mRNA COVID vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news
December 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
we got another one for the Don't Ever Become Too Attached To An Artist or Athlete file
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the democrats made economic gains but were practically embarrassed to talk about it. we're spiraling into econ fail under the gop and the tactic is to reboot the covid follies: just pretend it isnt happening at all.
December 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
the democrats made economic gains but were practically embarrassed to talk about it. we're spiraling into econ fail under the gop and the tactic is to reboot the covid follies: just pretend it isnt happening at all.
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McAfee as “a best-man toast that never ends” is perfect.
December 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
McAfee as “a best-man toast that never ends” is perfect.
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There's something very inflection point about watching all the prestige institutions whose opinion once mattered a lot to people systematically embarrass themselves to the point of losing all credibility and ending their own influence
December 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
There's something very inflection point about watching all the prestige institutions whose opinion once mattered a lot to people systematically embarrass themselves to the point of losing all credibility and ending their own influence
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Remember that guy who argued with me for half a day that poor people in food deserts would be fine just using Walmart delivery?
Anyway.
Anyway.
Instacart got caught running real-time price experiments on shoppers — same groceries, different prices.
Workers know this game well: Instacart’s algorithm does the same thing to their pay.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
Workers know this game well: Instacart’s algorithm does the same thing to their pay.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Remember that guy who argued with me for half a day that poor people in food deserts would be fine just using Walmart delivery?
Anyway.
Anyway.
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"Every disturbing news report about a wrongful deportation or military-style raid of an apartment building should come as a reminder that the US government is using its prosecutorial discretion—it is *choosing*—to normalize casual cruelty and overt racism."
A year of hell for immigrants
In the first Trump administration, cruelty was the point. Now, it is the norm.
www.motherjones.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"Every disturbing news report about a wrongful deportation or military-style raid of an apartment building should come as a reminder that the US government is using its prosecutorial discretion—it is *choosing*—to normalize casual cruelty and overt racism."
Others have said this before, but I'd be less annoyed at Democrats for focusing on the economy (rather than on Trump's crimes) if they had anything worthwhile to say about the economy.
December 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Others have said this before, but I'd be less annoyed at Democrats for focusing on the economy (rather than on Trump's crimes) if they had anything worthwhile to say about the economy.
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Rage Against the Machine Learning
December 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Rage Against the Machine Learning
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"Trump is an outright racist and he appeals to 10s of millions of US citizens who are also outright racists" is both fundamentally, obviously true ... and something that mainstream journalism has decided is impermissible to say.
December 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"Trump is an outright racist and he appeals to 10s of millions of US citizens who are also outright racists" is both fundamentally, obviously true ... and something that mainstream journalism has decided is impermissible to say.
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This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.
McDonald's has taken down a Christmas ad made with AI following online backlash
The company said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI"
The company said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI"
McDonald's pulls AI-generated Christmas advert following backlash
McDonald's said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI".
www.bbc.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.
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Bluesky historians and political scientists: has anyone done any research on whether there have been upswings in grand juries no-billing cases during times of political and social upheaval?
December 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Bluesky historians and political scientists: has anyone done any research on whether there have been upswings in grand juries no-billing cases during times of political and social upheaval?
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I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
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In spirit, content and intent, this was really no different to a Klan rally.
The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media.
This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.
The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media.
This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
In spirit, content and intent, this was really no different to a Klan rally.
The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media.
This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.
The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media.
This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.
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Watching people humanize ChatGPT while dehumanizing literal small human children is one of the most fucked things about this era.
I don’t care if your book has a Paint cover. I don’t care if you have typos. I don’t care if you took the cover photo with your phone. But I do not want to read a book YOU DID NOT WRITE.
Writing requires you to write. To feel. To think. To impart that. That is step one to Being a Writer.
Writing requires you to write. To feel. To think. To impart that. That is step one to Being a Writer.
December 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Watching people humanize ChatGPT while dehumanizing literal small human children is one of the most fucked things about this era.
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Things in media can be multifaceted. The Borg are both a metaphor for fascism in that they are creatively sterile and must steal and plunder both the technology and the bodies of other cultures to survive, and a metaphor for how it would be really hot if you were nonconsensually TFed into a cyborg
December 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Things in media can be multifaceted. The Borg are both a metaphor for fascism in that they are creatively sterile and must steal and plunder both the technology and the bodies of other cultures to survive, and a metaphor for how it would be really hot if you were nonconsensually TFed into a cyborg
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1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
Kushner and Saudis back hostile takeover of Hollywood giant
Jared Kushner is funneling $24 billion from Middle Eastern governments to back a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery—all while advising President Trump on foreign policy.
popular.info
December 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
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I love books but is reading really doing all that much for you if it hasn't taught you not to characterise systematic societal issues as personal moral failings
December 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I love books but is reading really doing all that much for you if it hasn't taught you not to characterise systematic societal issues as personal moral failings
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How bad do people have to think the Jets are where you can beat them 34-10 and the folks making the power rankings drop you a spot
December 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
How bad do people have to think the Jets are where you can beat them 34-10 and the folks making the power rankings drop you a spot
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ICE trying to ORDER a church to REMOVE A NATIVITY SCENE is one of the most astonishing First Amendment violations I've seen in ever
ICE’s acting director ordered a Boston Catholic parish to tear down its Advent Nativity scene—stripped of baby Jesus and branded with the message “ICE WAS HERE.” The parish priest is refusing, citing he pope’s call to stand with migrants. It's another chapter in Kristi Noem's war on Christians.
“ICE Was Here”: Pope Leo-Inspired Nativity Scene Sparks MAGA Outrage
A Nativity scene missing Jesus — and marked with an “ICE was here” sign — has triggered cries of “politicizing Christmas.” The parish priest says he’s answering Pope Leo's call to welcome stranger.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
ICE trying to ORDER a church to REMOVE A NATIVITY SCENE is one of the most astonishing First Amendment violations I've seen in ever
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immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
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Congress seeks committed to letting them
The Supreme Court appears to have forgotten an entire brach of government
The Supreme Court Wants You to Believe Congress Does Not Exist
The conservative justices aren’t concerned about unaccountable federal agency heads. They are concerned about federal agency heads who aren’t accountable to their favorite president.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Congress seeks committed to letting them
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You can mock people for thinking the leopards would dine elsewhere but it is unequivocally good that the demo that reeeeeally helped put trump back in the wh is seeing what is happening and apparently reacting accordingly
For the first time in nearly two decades of our surveys of U.S. Latinos, most say they think the situation of Hispanics in this country has worsened in the last year. And about a third of Latinos say they have considered leaving the country in the last six months. www.pewresearch.org/...
December 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
You can mock people for thinking the leopards would dine elsewhere but it is unequivocally good that the demo that reeeeeally helped put trump back in the wh is seeing what is happening and apparently reacting accordingly