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Matt Jacobs
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I am a generalist, currently employed as a front-leaning, ¾-stack engineer at Fastly. I have a double major in political science and film theory, aka the Oliver Stone. I live in Denver. I can smell the onions and the mustard.
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The president should never joke about American cities getting bombed.

Don’t normalize his constant pathetic, insane, and completely unhinged behavior.
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Trump on Iran: Let 'em take out Los Angeles and San Diego, it's a small price to pay
October 6, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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My Friday just got better! luv2compost
denverite.bsky.social Denverite @denverite.bsky.social · 5d
Starting this week, the City of Denver is accepting food-soiled paper products in composting bins, including pizza boxes, coffee filters, tea bags and chopsticks. Before, those items had to go into the trash.
You can now put that pizza box (and other food-soiled paper) in the compost
But keep anything with plastic coatings or used with cleaning products in the trash.
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October 2, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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I fear I am going to die by Cubs collapse.
October 1, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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I’m watching Eephus and I love these guys. I wish this was like Seven Up where they just came back every 7 years for another game.
September 26, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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I am excited for playoff baseball, but even more excited I get to root for PCA (and Caleb) for the next decade.
September 24, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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Resident Evil was so good.
September 24, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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I am already angry at the NYT top 100 shows and I am at 97.

There are 96 better shows than Halt and Catch Fire??!!!?!
September 23, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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I got a new phone and I need a case that’s more about grip than protection. What’s your fave brand?
September 23, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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Hello. They are going to try to fuck with your vote, and we are NOT going to let them. Last week I pinged my friend Dana Chisnell, who knows how elections work, and said "Hey, let’s make it hard for them to fuck with us.” Today, we are very proud to announce the HOW TO VOTE zine.
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How to Vote / Cómo Votar
A free field guide to what stops people from voting, and what to do about it. English and Spanish, ready to print.
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September 15, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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Ed Sheeran has fuck you money. This is a time to say fuck you.

At the very least, don’t let a billionaire censor an artist YOU chose to stand beside. Show your fans what it means to stand up and fight.
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24d
New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran.

Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.
I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour. But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families. The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that. Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened. Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues. Ed was in … What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me. And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability. I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed. Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation. When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic: لا شكر على واجب "La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty. That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human. Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…
September 14, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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I’m considering upgrading my  Watch Ultra. If I do, should I’m trying to decide if I should switch to the Trail Loop. Does anyone have/like it?
September 14, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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sports can occasionally be fun
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Highstep, by Emma Amos, 1983, 📸 by @tiltoncreative
September 14, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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Opus 4.8 can’t reliably identify my active git branch and coding is supposed to be SOLVED. I’m gonna put my money on the 90%.
A screenshot of a quote tweet between two AI developers. The original: “The people building Al earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear" The tweet from the quoter: “Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe Al could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.”
September 11, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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This will never happen, but it would be real helpful if Democratic leadership could just say, “We cannot support the current Israeli government.“ There will always be unappeasable religious zealots, but this shouldn’t be difficult thing!

Just hang the banner, “Genocide = bad, Jews = good!“
September 3, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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Fascists aren’t hiding anymore—they feel completely emboldened in today's political climate. At Orlando’s Kia Center, an MMA fighter with SS lightning bolt tattoos won to cheers and Nazi salutes from unmasked bigots. Ban extremist fighters and purge this hate! End fascism now!

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August 31, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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New Ty Segall is good.
August 31, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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A still from Spaceballs of Mel Brooks sniffing from a can labeled Perri-air
August 31, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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hey claude, bring back choco taco
August 27, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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Very disorienting to see this after watching episode 7 of Furious.
brianmfloyd.bsky.social Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · Aug 24
well this is obvious
August 24, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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He’s been fantastic the whole series, but his performance in last night’s episode was fantastic. I hope he gets nominated.
nymag.com New York Magazine @nymag.com · Aug 17
‘Please let this whole experience be the new benchmark,’ says ‘Furious’ star Steve Way. ‘I’m getting stopped on the streets all the time. People want to see disabled characters. They want disabled stories. The proof is there.’
Steve Way Hopes Furious Sets a New Bar for Disabled Characters
‘Please let this whole experience be the new benchmark,’ says ‘Furious’ star Steve Way. ‘I’m getting stopped on the streets all the time. People want to see disabled characters. They want disabled stories. The proof is there.’
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August 17, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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I have something I need to confess. My model has NOT broken containment. I’m so sorry.
August 7, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”
August 6, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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Janelle Monae.
August 5, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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Dear god, it’s me, Matty. Please don’t milkshake-duck Pete Crow-Armstrong. I don’t think I could stomach it.
August 5, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging.

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July 30, 2026 at 1:04 PM