Matthew Olwell

Is it just me or does Hegseth look like the kind of guy who’d try to sell you a particularly shitty car at a terrible interest rate?

Every day of life under Trump is waking up to a headline like, “Wyoming is missing”

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I’m very much looking forward to joining the faculty at Acadia Trad Fest in June to teach some flatfooting and clogging and other percussive dance offerings. The lineup is stellar. Hope you can join us!

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Seems fine, right? What could go wrong?

Qanat - Wikipedia

Iran is home to some of the oldest and most ingenious water distribution networks in the world, the qanat systems of underground aqueducts. Worth whatever prayers you indulge in as the USA viciously destroys desalination plants and other critical infrastructure. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.

They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

Justin Fox Deposition (Part 3) in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit about the NEH YouTube video by ModernLanguageAssoc

It's stunning how ignorant the DOGE bros were who were sent into agencies. Justin Fox cannot even articulate in his own words what his "present understanding of DEI" is: he can't even formulate a coherent sentence about it. I wouldn't hire him for basic tech support. #NEH
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The food was good, but not fancy: autumn pears and russet apples, nuts and raspberries, hot redcurrant pancakes, soft spice bread, cheeses, and mint tea, with flagons of cordial for those who wanted it.

Solid. I like it.

There is something weirdly satisfying but also strangely difficult to say about words that have “ump” in them if placed back to back.

Try “Thumping stump umpire bumping a pumpkin crumpet,” and you’ll see what I mean.

Thanks for letting me share this important discovery with you.

You know who else loves “order?” Sauron. That’s who.

This is the face of a man who just started a war but has no fucking *clue* what’s going on.

I’m not great with numbers, but Google’s own search summary says $100 million is 0.07% of thier annual profit for 2025, in case anyone was curious.

Less than 1/10 of one percent. That’s how much Google cares about climate change.

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Not today, Satan.

America’s golden goose could be strangled quite a bit and still have an utterly unethical and wildly disproportionate amount of resources.

If we halve Musks net worth, he’d still be rich enough to equal a U.S. family’s median household income for approximately 3.5 million years. It’s barbaric.

I can think of at least 10 reasons why I would *not* in fact like to do that and why crypto can go fuck itself, so no thanks, Venmo.

84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

Isn’t it cool that we have to live like this just so we can sell plastic to each other in a variety of ways

Anthropic rejects Pentagon terms for lethal use of its chatbot Claude Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei said the company could not permit its technology to be applied to domestic mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons.

Breaking news: Anthropic said that it will not concede to the Pentagon’s terms for full access to its AI tool Claude, saying it cannot loosen its restrictions against use in fully autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance.

"SLOPPINESS": The Trump administration claimed that a man detained by ICE had a criminal convictions for marijuana possession in 2009.

The judge pointed out that the man was 4 years old at the time.
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These two goofballs. They are the best.

The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.

Wow, I don’t like *that.*

If the US had a representative government, we'd have:

* Cracked down on gun violence
* UBI
* Universal paid family and medical leave
* Universal healthcare
* Only defensive military
* No aid to other fascist regimes

Large banner of Trump unfurled at Justice Department headquarters The DOJ has traditionally operated with a degree of separation from the White House to prevent the department's powers from being abused for political purposes.

“Hanging that banner should put to rest any doubt that Donald Trump has hijacked the independence of the Justice Department. He — not the American people — is the only client DOJ’s current leadership serves." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Nothing to see here, just a little light graft and corruption from the party that endlessly whines about morality and “values.”

This probably hits a lot harder if you’re familiar with Cake’s song “The Distance,” so if you’re not, you might want to listen to that first. Mad respect to these guys. Satirical solid gold.

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Update: gamification continues well. I’ve hit 117km, putting Frodo and Co. at Crickhollow, which means it is time for me to sing you Bilbo’s bath song.

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