Matt Morris
@matthewmorris.bsky.social
A sometime mathematician and software engineer who should arguably have done something else instead.
A convert to Bluesky's block-heavy approach: "But the little children, to save any bother, Let it in at one ear and out at the other."
A convert to Bluesky's block-heavy approach: "But the little children, to save any bother, Let it in at one ear and out at the other."
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Here is a thread about a true police-shooting incident that I'm going to use to pose a fun little thought problem for anyone anywhere who think there ia a single justifiable reason to ever allow a law enforcement officer to use force on a citizen and remain anonymous. From my back pages:
January 9, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Here is a thread about a true police-shooting incident that I'm going to use to pose a fun little thought problem for anyone anywhere who think there ia a single justifiable reason to ever allow a law enforcement officer to use force on a citizen and remain anonymous. From my back pages:
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but to see a woman say with kindness "I'm not mad at you" before being murdered by state authorities, who have now gone on to claim her killing was just and right, and we're here making the case she was acting with righteousness and killed unjustly
this is just Martyrdom
this is just Martyrdom
January 9, 2026 at 7:36 PM
but to see a woman say with kindness "I'm not mad at you" before being murdered by state authorities, who have now gone on to claim her killing was just and right, and we're here making the case she was acting with righteousness and killed unjustly
this is just Martyrdom
this is just Martyrdom
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starmer performing his daily struggle to make a decision like a man endlessly straining on the toilet only to hear the lonely plop of a single hard pebble
December 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
starmer performing his daily struggle to make a decision like a man endlessly straining on the toilet only to hear the lonely plop of a single hard pebble
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"The Home Secretary can revoke your citizenship for non-criminal activities" is such a dangerous line to cross and I feel like I'm going insane that the supposed natural party of government doesn't see an issue with this
December 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"The Home Secretary can revoke your citizenship for non-criminal activities" is such a dangerous line to cross and I feel like I'm going insane that the supposed natural party of government doesn't see an issue with this
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This is an expert takedown by @acollierastro.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLzE...
dyson spheres are a joke
YouTube video by Angela Collier
www.youtube.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
This is an expert takedown by @acollierastro.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLzE...
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My full page comic for the @prospectmagazine.co.uk Christmas issue. With sincere apologies.
![This is a comic pate drawn in the soft pencil style of The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
Basically the story is this:
- Keir Starmer in dressing gown presses face up to window, excited that it is snowing
- He runs outside, builds a snowman
- It comes to life, taps on his window
- He invites it in, gives it clothes (yellow trouser, green jacket, flat cap) and we realise (face close up) it looks like Nigel Farage
- Snowman takes him outside, launches off the ground
- They fly over the landscape, we see a town below
- A man ziptying a St George’s Flag to a lamp post waves at them as they pass
- As in the original, they head for the sea - we see a light by the coast
- Instead of Brighton pier as in the original, it is an Asylum Detention Center
- They land, we see people queuing behind a fence
- Snowman Farage points excitedly at a large bin marked VALUABLES
- Snowman Farage pulls a child's E-scooter out of the bin, he and Starmer look excited
- They take off again and go back to Keir’s home
- Farage resumes his place in the garden, Starmer walks back inside to go back to bed
- The next day Snowman Farage has melted, leaving only his clothes and the scooter - now with a bow and label attached to show it is a Christmas gift.
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December 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
My full page comic for the @prospectmagazine.co.uk Christmas issue. With sincere apologies.
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Martin Parr, absolute mensch.
From Colin Wilkinson, founder of Bluecoat Press, on FB
From Colin Wilkinson, founder of Bluecoat Press, on FB
December 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Martin Parr, absolute mensch.
From Colin Wilkinson, founder of Bluecoat Press, on FB
From Colin Wilkinson, founder of Bluecoat Press, on FB
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One of the biggest issues I have with turning people into AI is consent and the second biggest issue I have with it is the outsourcing and loss of every human experience to it and the sheer creepiness of it all
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
One of the biggest issues I have with turning people into AI is consent and the second biggest issue I have with it is the outsourcing and loss of every human experience to it and the sheer creepiness of it all
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just riffing on this, in 1944 my grandad's friend Paddy, who would go on to become a very distinguished writer, kidnapped a German general in occupied Crete and took him up into the mountains with a resistance team, from where he was sent on to the UK by submarine. Now, up in the mountains ...
there is not any particularly strong evidence that study of the humanities make people good people. the elites of many brutal empires were extremely well-read!
December 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
just riffing on this, in 1944 my grandad's friend Paddy, who would go on to become a very distinguished writer, kidnapped a German general in occupied Crete and took him up into the mountains with a resistance team, from where he was sent on to the UK by submarine. Now, up in the mountains ...
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Kind of hard to process how bad it is for the party of labour to say that some labour is basically useless and can fuck off
Hey everyone, here's the news, if you aren't a high earner, entrepreneur or a "skilled frontline worker" (whatever the fuck that means) the "Labour" Party says you aren't contributing, you're a taker!
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Kind of hard to process how bad it is for the party of labour to say that some labour is basically useless and can fuck off
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I can’t work out why the defunct publishers didn’t just crowdfund the debt owed to the authors from their mates, by working like dogs to persuade generous people to help out, you know like the authors did in the first place to raise the money that was stolen.
Crowdfunding idea: I crowdfund the extra deposit I need to buy a house. But the only people who contribute to the crowdfunding are the CEOs of my defunct ex-publishers. The target will be the exact sum of money my defunct ex-publishers still owe me for the seven books I wrote for them.
December 6, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I can’t work out why the defunct publishers didn’t just crowdfund the debt owed to the authors from their mates, by working like dogs to persuade generous people to help out, you know like the authors did in the first place to raise the money that was stolen.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
November 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.
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She has a point
September 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
She has a point
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Backing up or uploading the brain digitally is my terraforming Mars, in that I do not believe it will ever be possible and those throwing money at it have a fundamentally limited understanding of the thing they are trying to do.
Hey could we stop doing literal RoboCop shit for five minutes
A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”
Nectome will preserve your brain, but you have to be euthanized first.
www.technologyreview.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Backing up or uploading the brain digitally is my terraforming Mars, in that I do not believe it will ever be possible and those throwing money at it have a fundamentally limited understanding of the thing they are trying to do.
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I wrote about AI this weekend. williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-5-i...
July 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I wrote about AI this weekend. williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-5-i...
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RFK JR Announces He Will Just Go Door-To-Door Killing People To Save Time
August 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
RFK JR Announces He Will Just Go Door-To-Door Killing People To Save Time
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They should do like they did with Gerry Adams on the news
July 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
They should do like they did with Gerry Adams on the news
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“If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.”
RIP Tom Lehrer
RIP Tom Lehrer
July 28, 2025 at 7:57 AM
“If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.”
RIP Tom Lehrer
RIP Tom Lehrer
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Brilliant piece (better than the title suggests) on the continued lure of a job at the Indian railways, the tough wide ranging test to get in, the student ghettos & coaching companies that service the millions who want these jobs.
Read it - all the better in print!
www.economist.com/interactive/...
Read it - all the better in print!
www.economist.com/interactive/...
Would you pass the world’s toughest exam?
Thirty million Indians want a job on the railways, but a fiendish general-knowledge test stands in their way
www.economist.com
July 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Brilliant piece (better than the title suggests) on the continued lure of a job at the Indian railways, the tough wide ranging test to get in, the student ghettos & coaching companies that service the millions who want these jobs.
Read it - all the better in print!
www.economist.com/interactive/...
Read it - all the better in print!
www.economist.com/interactive/...
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Everything is awful but guide dogs are being trained using toy squirrels stuck to remote control cars. And you need to see it
July 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Everything is awful but guide dogs are being trained using toy squirrels stuck to remote control cars. And you need to see it