Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Posts by Matt From Salem
Holy. Shit. This is Reid Wiseman's video he took with his iPhone while at the moon 🌙
One of my finer pandemic moments :)
Misty morning
In these times when Americans are struggling, the Speaker of the House spends his time speaking to the people, hearing about their challenges and devising new ways to help th… nah I’m just kidding, he spends his time convincing Paw Paw to delete his offensive tweets
"The researchers found a positive association between feeling bothered by the news article and expressing disbelief in the allegations. Participants who experienced higher levels of mental discomfort were more likely to claim the accusations were fabricated. ...
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Are we great yet?
I watched it one and a half times. Saw it in the theater. Decided to watch it when it came out on streaming just because I’d convinced myself it couldn’t have been as bad as I thought it was.
But it was actually worse than I’d remembered
Dave Chappelle's show was comedy that was actually socially conscious & aware & on the edge of confronting whiteness & power. He chose to commit himself to getting as rich as he can be & hating marginalized people. He didn't fulfill the promise of what he was when he came out & we owe him nothing.
Speer of Influence.
I’ll show myself out, sorry
They also say it’s stood for 10,000 generations, because they’re so dumb they don’t know the difference between years and generations
Vance says Pope should "stick to matters of morality." 1: we can't consider mass slaughter of humans by other humans a moral issue? "Thou shalt not kill," is one of God's commandments, yes? 2: If Pope Leo isn't entitled to discuss matters of politics, Vance should stop talking about God so much.
willaswondersart.etsy.com
My girl had a pretty great little
Etsy biz going before her surgery.
She told me I wasn’t allowed to (a) read too much into her reopening the shop or (b) cry about it, but I was allowed to (c) plug her shop on social media. In fact, she kind of insisted I do.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
An old article, but ever more relevant
Extraordinary ability to plagiarize speeches
Charles Barkley is currently in an inordinate number of commercials
How strange it is to be anything at all
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RIP to a pioneer
When I took my PSATs, I accidentally filled in the wrong bubble on my first name, and for years after I got recruitment mailings for Natthew
The US has ignored compelling evidence that Russia has been helping Iran to target US bases in the Middle East because it “trusts” Vladimir Putin, according to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
The only I’m looking forward to is an obituary
Motherfucker doesn’t even end the illegal wars he starts before getting a boner to kill brown people elsewhere
Look at all that DEI sending astronauts around the moon.
If you havent seen this, make sure you read.
When did this weird fixation on protein start? Protein infused refreshers! Protein rich snacks!
It just that it sits so firmly triangulated between obnoxious, privileged and lead-poisoned.
“God bless the great people I just said I will erase from existence.”
sent it at the speed of light back to Earth where it was shared to an interconnected network of machines including the tiny glass rectangle in your hand. Imagine trying to explain any of that to, say, George Washington. (2/2)