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Matthew

@robinsonpost.bsky.social

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Dad, #runner, #travel addict, #antifascist. Live in Seattle, work in tech. You can expect: travel/run photos, #history, #politics, #book and #film reviews, sass and sarcasm. Always looking for the next #runwithaview. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇮🇪🇬🇧🇩🇪🇨🇿🇫🇷🇧🇪🇨🇭🇦🇹🇱🇮🇱🇺🇳🇱🇨🇷 so far…

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Matthew @robinsonpost.bsky.social · 2d

Moral of the story, you can't reach people who don't want to be reached. You can debate policy, you can debate opinions, but you can't debate faith with people whose identity is wrapped up in a cult.

Matthew @robinsonpost.bsky.social · 2d

I was 99% sure this would be a waste of time, but gave it a go, providing nearly 20 examples for him. He didn't reply, just unfriended me, then (weirdly) re-added me. I assume he thought of a zinger we wanted to deliver, but chickened out and instead blocked me.

Matthew @robinsonpost.bsky.social · 2d

This is a great example of why many of us have given up on trying to "reach people on the other side." I'm always happy to have a discussion with people if it's in good faith, but claims of genuine curiosity from folks in the MAGA cult are, in my experience, anything but genuine. Dude blocked me 😂

This is a screenshot of a facebook post that reads "To be really clear, we’re past debating if this administration is racist. It is, and I’m heartbroken that so many Americans remain, at best, willfully ignorant, and at worst, complicit."
Someone replies with "racist? How so? Truly curious."
The original poster replies with examples.

Matthew @robinsonpost.bsky.social · 2d

Gas prices: Up.
Energy costs: Up.
Job growth: Stalled.
Income: Stalled.
Savings: Falling.
Fascism: Gaining.

Are we great yet?

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 19d

That’s totally how science works

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Matthew @robinsonpost.bsky.social · 25d

Man, Ezra has lost the whole plot.

Matthew @robinsonpost.bsky.social · Sep 29

Why is my humor so broken?

Matthew @robinsonpost.bsky.social · Aug 28

From my run on Alki a few nights ago. Man I’m going to miss summer. #runwithaview

Looking across the Puget Sound at dust. A ferry boat can be seen in the distance, with the silhouette of the Olympic Mountains against a red/rust sky.

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Axios @axios.com · Aug 7

United Airlines flights were temporarily grounded across the U.S. this evening due to a "technology issue" that the company said has now been fixed, but hundreds of travelers still face delays.

United flights across U.S. hit by FAA ground stops after "technology issue"

"We expect additional flight delays this evening as we work through this issue," United said.

www.axios.com

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Matthew @robinsonpost.bsky.social · Aug 6

My new favorite response to people who share fake stats to back up their "white replacement" panic.
"Wow, those stats would be concerning if they were true and I was racist."

Matthew @robinsonpost.bsky.social · Jul 27

Picked up 2 books from my favorite local shop today. They are both timeless &, given the current state of things, timely. I’ve read them both, having checked them out from the library, but immediately decided I needed them in my home. Thank you, Ta-Nehisi Coates and @timothysnyder.bsky.social

Two books. The Message, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · Jul 17

There is an institutionalized culture of “unity” nostalgia that characterizes the Democratic Party. It is a core part of Democratic political identity that the responsibility to uphold the norms, protect the institutions, demonstrate bipartisanship lies almost exclusively with them.

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Matthew @robinsonpost.bsky.social · Jul 16

LAX is the absolute worst! It’s even worse than Denver.

Matthew @robinsonpost.bsky.social · Jul 11

The only thing we know for sure right now is that Ken Paxton definitely wasn’t on the Epstein list that doesn’t exist.

Matthew @robinsonpost.bsky.social · Jul 7

"The Party seeks to control the present by mandating the destruction of all records of the past through memory holes." - George Orwell, "1984"

Matthew @robinsonpost.bsky.social · Jun 27

Soulless Gestapo pigs. Absolutely shameful.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jun 27

I’m choked up seeing this—it’s shameful.

Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood.

We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?

Matthew @robinsonpost.bsky.social · Jun 26

I love how Duolingo is like “if you have time to poop you have time to practice.”

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Jun 25

#ANewHope

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Matthew @robinsonpost.bsky.social · Jun 22

There’s always a tweet. #Iran