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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Every single Jason Statham movie since THE TRANSPORTER has just been a series of entries in one guy’s incredibly weird and violent life.
What are everyone’s most nonsensical headcanons with no grounding in anything whatsoever? Mine is that in the DC Comics universe, both Gar Logan and Stephanie Brown will be elected president, Gar will actually do a good job, but only because his sole policy is letting Vic Stone be really in charge.
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Every single Jason Statham movie since THE TRANSPORTER has just been a series of entries in one guy’s incredibly weird and violent life.
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When nature takes him, as it takes us all, perhaps his entire obituary will simply read “quiet, piggy”
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 AM
When nature takes him, as it takes us all, perhaps his entire obituary will simply read “quiet, piggy”
Teddy Ruxpin, no!
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Teddy Ruxpin, no!
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"This won't change anyth––" *backhand slaps you*
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"This won't change anyth––" *backhand slaps you*
Every single Jason Statham movie since THE TRANSPORTER has just been a series of entries in one guy’s incredibly weird and violent life.
What are everyone’s most nonsensical headcanons with no grounding in anything whatsoever? Mine is that in the DC Comics universe, both Gar Logan and Stephanie Brown will be elected president, Gar will actually do a good job, but only because his sole policy is letting Vic Stone be really in charge.
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Every single Jason Statham movie since THE TRANSPORTER has just been a series of entries in one guy’s incredibly weird and violent life.
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Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow
I think it's safe to say that the ship is no longer leaking at this juncture, and is now actively taking on water.
! Chuck @schumer.senate.gov asks unanimous consent that the Senate immediately read and pass the bill to release the Epstein files, un-amended, "as soon as it comes over from the House." No objections. Motion succeeds. Bill is deemed to the Senate unanimously, will go to Trump to become law.
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I think it's safe to say that the ship is no longer leaking at this juncture, and is now actively taking on water.
I am fascinated by the people responding to this like Keith is making some sort of redemption argument here, rather than commenting on how these three women – all avowed anti-feminists! – appear to be accidentally, involuntarily recreating early-stage feminism from scratch within their movement.
I'd be really curious if someone better versed in feminist theory wrote about what's happening on the right. Because between Greene, Mace, and Bobert, we've got this bloc forming of women who seem tired of serving a patriarchy of sex criminals. And their rhetoric is starting to lean that direction.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for 6 years for. I gave him my loyalty for free. I've never owed him anything. Let me tell you what a traitor is -- a traitor is an American that serves foreign countries."
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I am fascinated by the people responding to this like Keith is making some sort of redemption argument here, rather than commenting on how these three women – all avowed anti-feminists! – appear to be accidentally, involuntarily recreating early-stage feminism from scratch within their movement.
Can’t stop thinking about the bamboo today.
November 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Can’t stop thinking about the bamboo today.
One my personal "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills" things is that I VERY CLEARLY remember a 10ish year-long phase of her career where she very actively demurred or otherwise politely refused to answer the question "are you a feminist?", and pivoted away from that only fairly recently.
Stop trying to pretend Taylor Swift isn’t like other billionaires. Her scummy merch practices make it clear that she is **exactly** like other billionaires.
Everything sells out immediately on purpose. She’s using scarcity marketing to get fans to panic-buy low quality merch at obscene prices.
Everything sells out immediately on purpose. She’s using scarcity marketing to get fans to panic-buy low quality merch at obscene prices.
November 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
One my personal "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills" things is that I VERY CLEARLY remember a 10ish year-long phase of her career where she very actively demurred or otherwise politely refused to answer the question "are you a feminist?", and pivoted away from that only fairly recently.
Been threatening to for a while, but just dropped the axe on my Hulu subscription. The returns have been diminishing for a while, and since Disney already announced they're killing it next year anyways, might as well start saving myself the $19/month.
(You're on deck, Netflix!)
(You're on deck, Netflix!)
November 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Been threatening to for a while, but just dropped the axe on my Hulu subscription. The returns have been diminishing for a while, and since Disney already announced they're killing it next year anyways, might as well start saving myself the $19/month.
(You're on deck, Netflix!)
(You're on deck, Netflix!)
Ken Burns & co. getting Paul Giamatti do to the John Adams voiceover bits for their new AMERICAN REVOLUTION doc is a nice touch.
November 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Ken Burns & co. getting Paul Giamatti do to the John Adams voiceover bits for their new AMERICAN REVOLUTION doc is a nice touch.
A month ago I was walking around sunny 55F Portland in a light ling-sleeve button down with the sleeves rolled up. Now I’m sitting in overcast 58F San Diego in a long-sleeved t-shirt and thick sweatshirt.
Regional acclimatization is a heck of a thing.
Regional acclimatization is a heck of a thing.
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
A month ago I was walking around sunny 55F Portland in a light ling-sleeve button down with the sleeves rolled up. Now I’m sitting in overcast 58F San Diego in a long-sleeved t-shirt and thick sweatshirt.
Regional acclimatization is a heck of a thing.
Regional acclimatization is a heck of a thing.
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I long for a world where I am not *constantly* reminded, entirely and utterly against my will, of the icky sex proclivities of random mediocrities with money.
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I long for a world where I am not *constantly* reminded, entirely and utterly against my will, of the icky sex proclivities of random mediocrities with money.
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Sleeping with older politicians as a young woman journalist is like beating a video game in god mode
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Sleeping with older politicians as a young woman journalist is like beating a video game in god mode
So....Olivia Nuzzi very clearly thinks she's Carrie Bradshaw from SEX & THE CITY, right?
November 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
So....Olivia Nuzzi very clearly thinks she's Carrie Bradshaw from SEX & THE CITY, right?
Walt Disney was not a good person by any stretch, but at least he was creative and strove to do something new each time. The company that now bears his name is now nothing more than a snake endlessly eating its own tail.
Live-action remakes of animated movies might be the most creatively bankrupt Hollywood trend of my lifetime. Nothing worthwhile about them.
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Walt Disney was not a good person by any stretch, but at least he was creative and strove to do something new each time. The company that now bears his name is now nothing more than a snake endlessly eating its own tail.
Imagine Monica Lewinsky writing something like that Nuzzi excerpt about Bill Clinton in 1998. People would have justifiably had her involuntarily committed. It’s the kind of thing you find in a stalker’s letter.
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Imagine Monica Lewinsky writing something like that Nuzzi excerpt about Bill Clinton in 1998. People would have justifiably had her involuntarily committed. It’s the kind of thing you find in a stalker’s letter.
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A giant vulture has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos has a new job.
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
A giant vulture has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.
If you don’t recognize that that Raskin message about Majorie Taylor Greene is directed solely at Trump, for the purpose of further fracturing his political coalition, maybe you should refrain from opining about politics for a day or two.
November 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
If you don’t recognize that that Raskin message about Majorie Taylor Greene is directed solely at Trump, for the purpose of further fracturing his political coalition, maybe you should refrain from opining about politics for a day or two.
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
Continually baffles me how anyone thinks this woman is a good writer.
November 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Continually baffles me how anyone thinks this woman is a good writer.
A giant vulture has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos has a new job.
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
A giant vulture has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.
Today is once again the anniversary of of the trial, and subsequent hanging, of John “Calico Jack” Rackham, one of the last remaining holdouts of the “pirate republic” of Nassau. And here’s the thread I posted on this bit of history last year, which went *wildly* viral.
Yo ho, yo ho.
Yo ho, yo ho.
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: John "Calico Jack" Rackham and several shipmates were tried & convicted for piracy in Spanish Town, Jamaica. Rackham was executed in Port Royal on Nov. 18, 1720, 304 years ago. His body was then gibbetted on a small islet known to this day as "Rackham's Cay."
November 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Today is once again the anniversary of of the trial, and subsequent hanging, of John “Calico Jack” Rackham, one of the last remaining holdouts of the “pirate republic” of Nassau. And here’s the thread I posted on this bit of history last year, which went *wildly* viral.
Yo ho, yo ho.
Yo ho, yo ho.
Muting my own shitpost because the non-stop mentions are forcing me to think about it too much.
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Muting my own shitpost because the non-stop mentions are forcing me to think about it too much.