Matt Hewes

Bluesky has five kinds of users

My favorite memory of Walter was on the Star Trek cruise in 2022 and due to random chance my partner and I, as well as @granades.com and @misty.granades.com, ended up having a private dinner with him. He was gracious, engaging, and genuinely interested in what we did. deadline.com/2026/10/walt...

Not for nothing, there are few things as radicalizing as getting involved in childhood hunger issues. Once you realize how cheap it is to feed kids in need, how valuable it is to do so, and how often in the US we just choose not to do so, you get passionate about the issue fast.

i wonder what percentage of the electorate now understands that this man and maybe 75 other people like him are actively trying to destroy our lives. that he is the biggest national security threat we have faced, even moreso than bin laden or whoever. its got to be dawning on more and more people

Star Trek Prodigy was insanely good, season two was very important to Trek continuity (both Picard and Voyager), and not enough people know this. #startrek

"I think I found something but I can't be arsed to check, can someone else handle that bit but give me credit anyway?"

Hit me with the first line of your novel, published/finished or not: "The ogre looked like a Christmas tree, but instead of ornaments, some joker had hung three cops on his boughs." From WOLFMAN CONFIDENTIAL published by @candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social #writingcommunity #writesky #writing

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Okay sorry I think we're done with "Tell me [] without telling me []." It had its time. It was always condescendingly smug but now it's also unbearably tedious; I think we can move on.

I'm not saying it was a quest hook, I'm just saying I'd feel pretty stupid if I ignored it and missed the beginning of my adventure.

The is a really big deal, the number of green stars in the Universe will be very small! www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1...

Ha! Here’s a joke mission patch for a Jupiter rover I sketched back in 2017.

It's not that it turns out we live in a simulation, that we are all simulations, self-aware and thinking and feeling though we might be. It's not even that the simulation is shutting down. It's that it's shutting down because all the AI data centers we built use too much data. It's too stupid.

"Am I depressed because my periods are ending, or did my boss use my emails to train my AI replacement and then fire me with no severance the day before I was supposed to have spleen surgery?" buff.ly/oLdL54C

If I could walk away from Harry Potter you can too. Don’t believe me? Listen to this podcast episode and just let the franchise die out.

My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"

"You say you dislike AI, and yet you keep unwillingly having to endure it being forced into literally everything that exists. Curious!"

Important to note that the left despised her for years and this never happened. The INSTANT the right turned on her, the threats started

How is this real?

Man named Hitler Mussolini elected mayor in Peru

Currently at the bathroom at NYCC having the worst shit of my life and someone outside of my stall says "Erica Henderson is here" and it takes me a few seconds to realize they mean the con and not the toilet

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Okay how in the Hello Dolly is everyone else pronouncing raspberry.

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

Starbucks’ rollback of its climate commitments is just the latest example of why voluntary climate standards like net zero are only useful when coupled w/ credible threats of regulation or (gasp!) *actual* rules on climate action. Mini 🧵

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI futurism.com/artificial-i...

she had to hide and be stealth, it’s never mentioned the character is trans but there’s something truly magic in knowing that the next time i rewatch TNG, i will see her there and i will know that someone like me helped make the show that ignited my lifelong love of Star Trek 😭

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula

Don't stop there, keep shelving!

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

SUPER excited for this, after a year of chasing the angle, 30 minutes of waddling around up and down a parking garage, and over 6 hours of editing: A murder of crows flies towards the camera, in front of the full Moon, set to Blind Guardian's "Nightfall" and the sound of the crows themselves. 🪶 🐦‍⬛

GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

"I'm just playing the devil's advocate" and "but it's what my character would do" is the same sentence.

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

Democratic consultants are frantically trying to figure out how to prevent a blue wave

Can own the libs or your farm. Can't own both.

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

to start: -a decade of Clean Air Act violations at Tesla's Fremont plant -multiple stealth recalls and other auto safety law violations -a long record of systematic workplace abuse -blatantly buying votes to throw the last presidential election -DOE loan fraud -interference in US foreign policy