Matthew Johnson
@mcjohnson922.bsky.social
He/him - Panromantic asexual - Cisgender - Autistic - Sports gamer - wannabe writer
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i fucking hate this yt thumbnail and what it has done to me bc now every time we eat rice with my gf i tell her "remember when mario tried to sell you rice?" without fail. every single time.
November 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
i fucking hate this yt thumbnail and what it has done to me bc now every time we eat rice with my gf i tell her "remember when mario tried to sell you rice?" without fail. every single time.
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poking through twitch settings and oh hey, more garbage!
it's nice how something potentially neat (voice-command clip) is paired with something awful (constantly monitoring for High Engagement). i bet this is very cheap to run, too
help.twitch.tv/s/article/au...
it's nice how something potentially neat (voice-command clip) is paired with something awful (constantly monitoring for High Engagement). i bet this is very cheap to run, too
help.twitch.tv/s/article/au...
November 29, 2025 at 5:38 AM
poking through twitch settings and oh hey, more garbage!
it's nice how something potentially neat (voice-command clip) is paired with something awful (constantly monitoring for High Engagement). i bet this is very cheap to run, too
help.twitch.tv/s/article/au...
it's nice how something potentially neat (voice-command clip) is paired with something awful (constantly monitoring for High Engagement). i bet this is very cheap to run, too
help.twitch.tv/s/article/au...
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I look forward to repurposing data centers into some of the most wicked laser tag arenas you can play.
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I look forward to repurposing data centers into some of the most wicked laser tag arenas you can play.
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
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smug ass 'your party' advocates have spent a couple months now brushing off our concerns of transphobia while condescendingly saying 'get involved! have a say at the conference!'.
most of us knew better but this is what's happened to someone who actually took that advice and tried to participate.
most of us knew better but this is what's happened to someone who actually took that advice and tried to participate.
Yorp conference doing its best to shut down anyone daring to call a transphobe a transphobe.
November 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
smug ass 'your party' advocates have spent a couple months now brushing off our concerns of transphobia while condescendingly saying 'get involved! have a say at the conference!'.
most of us knew better but this is what's happened to someone who actually took that advice and tried to participate.
most of us knew better but this is what's happened to someone who actually took that advice and tried to participate.
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Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
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I keep seeing people trying to play down the payment processor situation, saying it's only the extreme NSFW accounts getting sacked.
Well. One of the cutest SFW furry artist got banned from PayPal. What more proof do y'all need that we need to keep fighting the good fight?
Also go support Nakufin.
Well. One of the cutest SFW furry artist got banned from PayPal. What more proof do y'all need that we need to keep fighting the good fight?
Also go support Nakufin.
I'm devastated, if I don't find an alternative that works with argentinians I'm contemplating the worst, I can't do regular jobs, art was my job for around 15 years
I don't do nsfw even when people insist me to
my life was already crumbling and now I don't know what to do
I don't do nsfw even when people insist me to
my life was already crumbling and now I don't know what to do
November 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I keep seeing people trying to play down the payment processor situation, saying it's only the extreme NSFW accounts getting sacked.
Well. One of the cutest SFW furry artist got banned from PayPal. What more proof do y'all need that we need to keep fighting the good fight?
Also go support Nakufin.
Well. One of the cutest SFW furry artist got banned from PayPal. What more proof do y'all need that we need to keep fighting the good fight?
Also go support Nakufin.
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I got banned from Ko-Fi for THIS drawing. It’s absolutely not “tHe MoSt eXtReMe NsFw aCcOuNtS.” You and your community are being attacked.
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I got banned from Ko-Fi for THIS drawing. It’s absolutely not “tHe MoSt eXtReMe NsFw aCcOuNtS.” You and your community are being attacked.
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This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
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Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
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Ha! Suckers. I did my Thanksgiving EARLY! (I'm Canadian)
November 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Ha! Suckers. I did my Thanksgiving EARLY! (I'm Canadian)
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i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
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The gift that keeps on giving.
gizmodo.com/ram-prices-g...
If you are using AI in *any* capacity, even fun little ones you think don't matter, just stop, don't actively (I say actively cause it's being forced on us all...) engage at *all* on any front. Choke the beast.
gizmodo.com/ram-prices-g...
If you are using AI in *any* capacity, even fun little ones you think don't matter, just stop, don't actively (I say actively cause it's being forced on us all...) engage at *all* on any front. Choke the beast.
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The gift that keeps on giving.
gizmodo.com/ram-prices-g...
If you are using AI in *any* capacity, even fun little ones you think don't matter, just stop, don't actively (I say actively cause it's being forced on us all...) engage at *all* on any front. Choke the beast.
gizmodo.com/ram-prices-g...
If you are using AI in *any* capacity, even fun little ones you think don't matter, just stop, don't actively (I say actively cause it's being forced on us all...) engage at *all* on any front. Choke the beast.
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
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They’re doing eugenics right out in the open now, largely because Trump, RFK Jr, Dr Oz and the rest of the fascists have been pushing a eugenicist agenda since they seized control.
It’s white Christian nationalism and it’s dangerous.
Disabled people are not “imperfect”.
We are also not expendable
It’s white Christian nationalism and it’s dangerous.
Disabled people are not “imperfect”.
We are also not expendable
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
They’re doing eugenics right out in the open now, largely because Trump, RFK Jr, Dr Oz and the rest of the fascists have been pushing a eugenicist agenda since they seized control.
It’s white Christian nationalism and it’s dangerous.
Disabled people are not “imperfect”.
We are also not expendable
It’s white Christian nationalism and it’s dangerous.
Disabled people are not “imperfect”.
We are also not expendable
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Nobody's clamouring for AI games, nobody's mad that games don't feature AI, there's a total and utter lack of demand for it. The only demand is from business heads who think it'll save them money, audiences and creatives are rejecting it.
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’
“We can produce results that meet our quality standards without its assistance.”
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Nobody's clamouring for AI games, nobody's mad that games don't feature AI, there's a total and utter lack of demand for it. The only demand is from business heads who think it'll save them money, audiences and creatives are rejecting it.
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And no, it isn't just bot farms, it's the entire right-wing media infrastructure for decades, it's Rupert Murdoch's entire rotten empire, it's the Koch brothers whole network of think tanks, it's Fox News, Breitbart, hundreds of weird loser tossers like Ben Shapiro propped up by billionaires...
November 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
And no, it isn't just bot farms, it's the entire right-wing media infrastructure for decades, it's Rupert Murdoch's entire rotten empire, it's the Koch brothers whole network of think tanks, it's Fox News, Breitbart, hundreds of weird loser tossers like Ben Shapiro propped up by billionaires...
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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one of the more bleak aspects of ai chatbots is it’s starting to blow up real marriages
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
one of the more bleak aspects of ai chatbots is it’s starting to blow up real marriages
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one of the things that makes me most mad about genAI (and there are many) is we've been told there's not enough money for hiring. but there's billions poured into ai.
so not enough money to hire workers. but infinite money to pour into technology whose goal is never having to pay workers again.
so not enough money to hire workers. but infinite money to pour into technology whose goal is never having to pay workers again.
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
one of the things that makes me most mad about genAI (and there are many) is we've been told there's not enough money for hiring. but there's billions poured into ai.
so not enough money to hire workers. but infinite money to pour into technology whose goal is never having to pay workers again.
so not enough money to hire workers. but infinite money to pour into technology whose goal is never having to pay workers again.
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A lot of modern internet discourse feels like people grew up watching YouTubers who exaggerate everything for engagement and thought that was how you're supposed to behave
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A lot of modern internet discourse feels like people grew up watching YouTubers who exaggerate everything for engagement and thought that was how you're supposed to behave
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JD Vance and Peter Thiel are running a sustained operation out of the White House designed to acquire Greenland, either voluntarily or by force. Thiel has laid out plans for what he intends to do with the island nation in past writings. It doesn't entail the consent of the Greenlanders for anything.
November 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
JD Vance and Peter Thiel are running a sustained operation out of the White House designed to acquire Greenland, either voluntarily or by force. Thiel has laid out plans for what he intends to do with the island nation in past writings. It doesn't entail the consent of the Greenlanders for anything.