Matt Baldwin
@thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social
Writer, photographer, cyclist, naturalist, martial artist, tall ship sailor. The Pirate Guy of Blue Sky, apparently. Mexican-American. No kings in America. He/him. San Diego, CA.
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Have picked up a lot of new followers recently, so: a (re)Dedication of Principles:
1) this is a diverse and queer-friendly place, inc. trans people
2) zero tolerance for anyone sharing, defending, or promoting AI "art"
3) I have a lot of interests, so expect posts covering a wide rage (con't)
1) this is a diverse and queer-friendly place, inc. trans people
2) zero tolerance for anyone sharing, defending, or promoting AI "art"
3) I have a lot of interests, so expect posts covering a wide rage (con't)
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One day Stephen Miller will outlive his usefulness to the gutter bigots and white nationalists he’s cozied up to in his pursuit of personal power and they will turn on him for being Jewish, and I hope I’m still around to see it when it happens.
November 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
One day Stephen Miller will outlive his usefulness to the gutter bigots and white nationalists he’s cozied up to in his pursuit of personal power and they will turn on him for being Jewish, and I hope I’m still around to see it when it happens.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Cougar
Blue whale
Southern white rhino
Secretary bird
Tuatara
Cougar
Blue whale
Southern white rhino
Secretary bird
Tuatara
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Golden Eagle
Elk
Black bear
Moose
Bull snake
Golden Eagle
Elk
Black bear
Moose
Bull snake
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Cougar
Blue whale
Southern white rhino
Secretary bird
Tuatara
Cougar
Blue whale
Southern white rhino
Secretary bird
Tuatara
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Got one for your blocklists this morning: a steaming bolus of human excrement having fun going “well actually, Stephen Miller has a point” at people today.
Block and report.
Block and report.
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Got one for your blocklists this morning: a steaming bolus of human excrement having fun going “well actually, Stephen Miller has a point” at people today.
Block and report.
Block and report.
People love to call politicians like Newsom "weathervanes" as pejorative, because they only turn the way the wind blows.
Well, here's the thing...
We're the wind.
Well, here's the thing...
We're the wind.
I find the 'the Democrats won't do anything' doomer line annoying, because the Democrats will be who you make them - look how much the GOP changed over the past decade!
Right now the party feels immovable but the moment it has a presidential nominee, it will be whatever that person is.
Right now the party feels immovable but the moment it has a presidential nominee, it will be whatever that person is.
November 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
People love to call politicians like Newsom "weathervanes" as pejorative, because they only turn the way the wind blows.
Well, here's the thing...
We're the wind.
Well, here's the thing...
We're the wind.
Most cartoons were just 20-minute toy commercials and yet every episode of Transformers, G.I. Joe, and He-Man still featured a bit at the end where the characters turn to the viewer and teach a moral lesson or give life advice.
And people will really go “we didn’t have woke messages in children’s shows when ~I was a kid”
November 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Most cartoons were just 20-minute toy commercials and yet every episode of Transformers, G.I. Joe, and He-Man still featured a bit at the end where the characters turn to the viewer and teach a moral lesson or give life advice.
Got one for your blocklists this morning: a steaming bolus of human excrement having fun going “well actually, Stephen Miller has a point” at people today.
Block and report.
Block and report.
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Got one for your blocklists this morning: a steaming bolus of human excrement having fun going “well actually, Stephen Miller has a point” at people today.
Block and report.
Block and report.
One day Stephen Miller will outlive his usefulness to the gutter bigots and white nationalists he’s cozied up to in his pursuit of personal power and they will turn on him for being Jewish, and I hope I’m still around to see it when it happens.
November 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
One day Stephen Miller will outlive his usefulness to the gutter bigots and white nationalists he’s cozied up to in his pursuit of personal power and they will turn on him for being Jewish, and I hope I’m still around to see it when it happens.
Followed up yesterday’s New Dog Pal adventures by spending the night at my sister’s house, where one of her cats slept alongside me on the couch, and occasionally on top of me, which was really cute except for waking up a couple of times to her making biscuits *on my throat*.
That feeling when you’re at a holiday party with a dog that “doesn’t like people”, but then your Animals Like Me superpower kicks in and he’s your new best friend even though he still hates everyone else.
November 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Followed up yesterday’s New Dog Pal adventures by spending the night at my sister’s house, where one of her cats slept alongside me on the couch, and occasionally on top of me, which was really cute except for waking up a couple of times to her making biscuits *on my throat*.
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Honestly "Don't Engage, Just Block" has transformed my social media experience so profoundly that it's hard for me to describe. It's just so much better to be online now.
i also liked the fact that most of us who had come from the other site had the mentality of not giving "bad actors" the benefit of the doubt on here , and told all to block, not mute, an move on
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Honestly "Don't Engage, Just Block" has transformed my social media experience so profoundly that it's hard for me to describe. It's just so much better to be online now.
I think he wants to come home with me, been sticking with me like glue for the last two hours.
That feeling when you’re at a holiday party with a dog that “doesn’t like people”, but then your Animals Like Me superpower kicks in and he’s your new best friend even though he still hates everyone else.
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I think he wants to come home with me, been sticking with me like glue for the last two hours.
That feeling when you’re at a holiday party with a dog that “doesn’t like people”, but then your Animals Like Me superpower kicks in and he’s your new best friend even though he still hates everyone else.
November 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
That feeling when you’re at a holiday party with a dog that “doesn’t like people”, but then your Animals Like Me superpower kicks in and he’s your new best friend even though he still hates everyone else.
Someone let me know when the SINNERS Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade float comes by.
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Someone let me know when the SINNERS Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade float comes by.
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The annual thanksgiving meme returns
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The annual thanksgiving meme returns
Good breakdown by Asher here on what's really at stake with the Nuzzi/Lizza feud.
The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Good breakdown by Asher here on what's really at stake with the Nuzzi/Lizza feud.
This may be the first year I've ever seen Darth's annual hibernation announcement and thought, "nooooo, take me with you!"
ok it is time for me to hibernate for the season
i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year
be well
i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year
be well
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This may be the first year I've ever seen Darth's annual hibernation announcement and thought, "nooooo, take me with you!"
Oh hi there, Scut.
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Oh hi there, Scut.
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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are on the Muppet Show tonight
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are on the Muppet Show tonight
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are on the Muppet Show tonight
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are on the Muppet Show tonight
And not even that obscure, he straight lifted one of the most import sections (and a whoooooooole lot of the plot and aesthetic) of KILL BILL from LADY SNOWBLOOD, a film that is prominently in the Criterion Collection and is pretty easy to find.
maybe suzanne collins did rip “battle royale” off, but is quentin really the best messenger for not ripping off obscure asian movies? 🏙️🔥 www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/11...
Quentin Tarantino Slams ‘Hunger Games’ as ‘Battle Royale’ Ripoff: “Sue Suzanne Collins For Ever F—king Thing She Owns” — World of Reel
“Hunger Games” author Suzanne Collins has long denied any direct connection to the Japanese film — a claim that grows harder to buy each time the similarities are stacked side by side.
www.worldofreel.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
And not even that obscure, he straight lifted one of the most import sections (and a whoooooooole lot of the plot and aesthetic) of KILL BILL from LADY SNOWBLOOD, a film that is prominently in the Criterion Collection and is pretty easy to find.
Once again: do not let it escape your notice even for a moment that, despite the salaciousness and the broader political implications, Ryan Lizza is still running the GamerGate playbook on his ex-fiancee.
November 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Once again: do not let it escape your notice even for a moment that, despite the salaciousness and the broader political implications, Ryan Lizza is still running the GamerGate playbook on his ex-fiancee.
Wait, what?
Ooof, that's a *big* whiff from this creative team.
Ooof, that's a *big* whiff from this creative team.
An Anthropologist's perspecive on Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age after finishing it:
Excluding humans is rewriting the Ice Age as a "Pristine world free of humans." This is damaging and simply incorrect. There are millennia of Indigenous interactions between humans and other species all erased here.
Excluding humans is rewriting the Ice Age as a "Pristine world free of humans." This is damaging and simply incorrect. There are millennia of Indigenous interactions between humans and other species all erased here.
November 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Wait, what?
Ooof, that's a *big* whiff from this creative team.
Ooof, that's a *big* whiff from this creative team.
Yeah, like the thing here is that every single one of these people is a monster, and they all completely deserve each other.
To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
November 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Yeah, like the thing here is that every single one of these people is a monster, and they all completely deserve each other.
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Saying "Olivia Nuzzi or Israel/Palestine. Call it." at the Thanksgiving table in the Anton Chigurh voice
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Saying "Olivia Nuzzi or Israel/Palestine. Call it." at the Thanksgiving table in the Anton Chigurh voice
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Deliberately curating a neurological reward path in your own brain around doing harm to others free of consequence is a guaranteed way to morally rot yourself from the inside out, and will inevitably lead to you harming people you actually care about.
“Bullying” is bad by definition. It’s not a value neutral tool to be deployed positively toward good ends. It’s so fucked up that people want so badly to reclaim this thing, and are so eager to do it that they want to brand things that aren’t bullying as bullying.
"Some people deserve to be bullied" is always wild to see because it's so deliberately childish as to make it difficult to imagine the person saying it has the moral capacity of an adult human being.
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Deliberately curating a neurological reward path in your own brain around doing harm to others free of consequence is a guaranteed way to morally rot yourself from the inside out, and will inevitably lead to you harming people you actually care about.
Just managed to score a $6 matinee ticket to WAKE UP, DEAD MAN on Saturday!
a cartoon of milhouse from the simpsons says everything 's coming up milhouse !
ALT: a cartoon of milhouse from the simpsons says everything 's coming up milhouse !
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Just managed to score a $6 matinee ticket to WAKE UP, DEAD MAN on Saturday!
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The image on the left: what I have in my head when I go to a figure drawing session.
The image on the right: what I actually leave the figure drawing session with a few hours later
(Back Terry's book!)
The image on the right: what I actually leave the figure drawing session with a few hours later
(Back Terry's book!)
I am doing conventions in 2026 and I promise I will try harder on my con sketches.
November 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The image on the left: what I have in my head when I go to a figure drawing session.
The image on the right: what I actually leave the figure drawing session with a few hours later
(Back Terry's book!)
The image on the right: what I actually leave the figure drawing session with a few hours later
(Back Terry's book!)