Matt Smoot

@electrolemon.bsky.social I teach in Omaha, my school has a math opening next year if comedy doesn't work out #crowdcontrol

Luke Bryan is ruining one of my favorite subset of songs, "Songs that are just lists of things" (i.e., We Didn't Start the Fire, My Favorite Things, Don Giovanni's Catalogue Aria, 1985 by Bowling for Soup...). Turns out simply listing things is not what makes a song great after all.

Beginning to think Johnny Blue Skies/Sturgill Simpson might actually be Johnny Silverhand from Cyberpunk 2077. Anti-capitalist musician named Johnny Adjective Noun, right period of time, legitimate combat training, and not to mention Sturgill's entire album about techno-future samurai stuff.

Tiny mushroom popping out of the soil in Terry's enclosure while an isopod investigates. Very cute.

Fun fact: the time between Cleopatra and the release of the iPod Nano is now shorter than the time between the release of the iPod Nano and today.

Scary Terry isn't looking so scary this morning. What a cutie.

Was doing some searching about my boa - man, AI has really empowered people to be as lazy as possible. The people running this website didn't see ANY issues with the snake donuts?

Meet the isopods of Scary Terry's enclosure: (see alt text for more info!) 1. Gray Boi 2. Samurai 3. Cloud 4. The Orange Army Which is your favorite? #isopods #bioactive #snakes

Boi was THIRSTY #snake #bioactive

Snail pt. ii (ft. big stretch)

Look at this little cutie in the snake terrarium! #snail #snake #bioactive #reptile

As LBJ said 60 years ago, freedom is not just opening the gates of opportunity. True freedom is ensuring everyone has the ability to walk through them.

how it sounds arguing with die hard capitalists.

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/contro... #smbc

Tuba time! Brass quintet is always fun, but it's better with a big ol' organ.

El Solitario or "Terry" is rapidly earning the nickname "Scary Terry" - roughly 50 strikes at me, and although he's small, 2 or 3 have managed to break the skin! Hopefully this new hide I designed for him gives a dark corner he can feel safe in and help manage that aggression. #snakesky #snakes

New Colombia Rainbow Boa! His name is El Solitario, or "Terry", "Elso", or "Rio" for short! Or a million other stupid nicknames I'm sure he will be given.

This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.

on the department of efficiency… or something like that…

Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Tesla’s autopilot would detect it and well…

Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

How Elon Musk planned for DOGE: Our investigation found that he raised the idea in 2023, becoming fixated on gaining insider access to federal systems. By Dec., he chose USDS as a landing place, and future DOGE members began applying for jobs there. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

Trump tabbed analyst under investigation as acting Social Security commissioner: report www.rawstory.com/trump-social...

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

60 MINUTES: “Utter nonsense. The most accountable aid agency in the world is USAID… DOGE fired their top 58 officials within an hour of arriving…” This was never about efficiency. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGLXa9r...

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

Nice of the trending feature to put together a story so succinctly.

Ahoy! I love all the details LEGO included on this build 😍 finished her up last night! #lego

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

Very proud to announce the Department of Health will now process all requests to change gender designation on birth certificates within three business days. Previously, there was as much as a 10 month wait.

This little cutie came as a bonus in another set we got recently. #lego

It Only Tuesday theonion.com/it-only...

New today: Who wins and who loses with vouchers? PTA president Lenora Boulton interrogates the sinister profit motive behind dismantling Texas public schools.

D&D Adds Two New Books to 2025 Slate, Including New Eberron Book: Wizards of the Coast is adding two Dungeons & Dragons books to its 2025 slate, including Eberron: Forge of the Artificer in August and an unnamed mystery book in October. Eberron: Forge of the Artificer will include the… #ttrpg #dnd

The reason companies want to put AI in everything even though we actively hate it, is the same reason they were all in on Bitcoin, and crypto, and NFTs, and quantum computing. It's because these companies can no longer make the line go up selling us products. They've maxed out on that.

"are you in legal trouble?" opposite. i'm in legal paradise. I'm studying shangri law

Band Director life hack: #band #banddirector

i’m definitely the best shopper in this dunning-kroger

Well that's not a surprise.

So, speaking as a fully cis man who pays attention... No, supporting trans rights is NOT the reason we lost the election. Not even a little bit. But--and this is the important part... Even if that HAD been the reason we lost, IT WOULD STILL BE WRONG TO ABANDON THAT FIGHT.

Don't know if I have room to hold space for the lyrics of Defying Gravity when it's all taken up by the choreography of Loathing.