Apparently the secret to beautiful copper waffles is adding >15 year past date green food coloring to the batter on a whim.

I've been avoiding updating my laptop for months, last night when I shut it down I wasn't given the option to just shutdown, had to update + shut down. This morning the thing I'd been avoiding happened: copilot was installed on my laptop. Uninstalled it immediately, Microsoft can go fuck themselves.

Making an xmas list is a lot harder than it used to be, given that in the era of streaming the only media I actually buy and thus can put on a list now is books.

In 2016 my dad, who had never once talked politics to me before that, summed up trump's character thusly, "He cheats at golf." I don't know how the hell his reputation for cheating at golf made it to the middle of the country, but he must be prolific. There's a lot of degrees of separation there.

This week we hit a TTRPG bucket list item in Pathfinder 2e...

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Thinking of moving to a small town and trying to get the people riled up about how the utility company is putting dihydrogen monoxide in the pipes.

I stopped using google search when I looked up the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner on the 4th of July and the entire first page of results were for a different song. That was just over 2 years ago.

Hades II might be the first game I've played on release day since Halo 2.

Somehow I (a very tall man, a true ogre of a human) made it all the way to today before a stranger asked me to get something off a high shelf for them at the grocery store.

Hate to be a broken record, but the spicy late night comedy shows disappeared in Putin’s Russia as he consolidated power

Thinking of the Shadowrun novel Changeling where large portions of the population are not literate, but rather iconerate--they know icons and some words, but can't fully read.

Just put the REfinishing touches (with a printer friendly version) on TWPF my @onepagerpgjam.bsky.social submission, many thanks to @indeathdelectable.bsky.social and @alephtwo.bsky.social for their help.

Just put the finishing touches on Tag Walls Punch Fascists, a one-page TTRPG (for the itch-dot-io one-page game jam) inspired by JSRF, Hover, and Mirror's Edge where you play as a runner with rocket-powered roller skates and a gift for graffiti. thepowersmattbe.itch.io/tag-walls-pu...

I once was getting a haircut and the guy in the chair next to me referred to my hometown (which was about half that size) as "the big city."

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Do you think they'll stop being afraid of Trump if he dies? Or will all the Dems and Repubes still be afraid of his fucking ghost?

National Ice Cream Day is just a made up holiday for Hallmark to sell more cards.

No Republican should be welcome anywhere, ever again. Not in a home or a public space.

The Zohran Mamdani thing is the trans people in women's sports thing. A bunch of people who never cared about women's sports/who's the mayor of New York only think they care now because what they deem as the 'wrong' type of person is suddenly visible in that space. It's boring busybody bigotry.

Republican Nazis want to create a snitch state so badly. Like every fucking month there's a new "report undesirables" line popping up either at a federal agency or in some red (gerrymandered) state.

Had the bear dream again last night. The one where you're a bear, and you're scratching out the words "It's me, Matt" as well as your ursine claws can manage, and your friends are completely ignoring the message and criticizing your pawwriting.

A college athlete's episode-one-Bill-Seacaster level coach-dad said, "My darling boy's a top five pick." And the entire braindead, hype-prone, analysis-averse sports "journalist" corps just said, "Yes, that is fact, thank you for giving us something to not think about." What a fucking joke.

For real who was clamoring for a re-release of by far the worst elder scrolls main game? How long did they spend on this when they could have been working on VI?

Sometimes I think about how I went to a state university in '06, dropped out after a bit because I didn't know what I wanted to do, went back in '16 to a comparable state university in the same state (arguably a slightly 'better' one), and the price of tuition had doubled, but wages were stagnant.

Musicians naming themselves after famous gangsters/boxers/outlaws/etc and companies naming themselves after famous inventors who have been dead for the better part of a century should both be seen as stolen valor.

Someone should have told that idiot musk that Wisconsin hasn't been for sale since Scott Walker was voted out.

We should create a socialist/communist party in America and call it something like "The American Moderate Party" (AMP) so idiot Americans who fetishize moderates/centrism will vote for a party that actually helps people.

Being an American is so embarrassing these days, I can't believe someone would admit to it.

The run of Pi Day -> Ides of March -> Lithuanian Book Smugglers Day -> St Patrick's Day might be the greatest in the calendar.

FDR once bragged to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that the richest people in the nation hated him and “I welcome their hatred.” Just weeks later, he was re-elected with 61% of the vote in a 523-8 blowout in the Electoral College. Voters *like* politicians who make the right enemies.

A thing that really annoys me about how a lot of people talk about MLK jr and Gandhi is how the majority of people think non-violence was their goal Wrong Justice, equality, the end of imperialist occupations. Those were their goals (among others). Non-violence was their METHOD.

Consumerist Capitalism Purity Culture 🤝 The perception of something as "used" renders it worthless

Reminds me of how Tolkien thought about good and evil. How evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good has invented or made. Fascism/conservatism is the same, it can only look and move backwards, never forward.

Had a beer named after Elliot Ness the other day, which got me thinking how weird it is that he's famous for NOT being the guy who got Al Capone.

What level of enshittification are we at when google filters its own emails into my gmail's spam inbox?

But if I take the picture in black-and-white, it's art.

I've been pondering how to refer to my brother's dog when not calling him by name, I think I've landed on fur-nephew, but then I run into the problem of what do I call my mom in relation to him? Skin-grandma? Flesh-nana? Am I meat-uncle?

Last few years I've been watching a lot of films from outside the anglosphere. One big thing you notice in retrospect is how gray American film has become. South-and-East Asian films are so colorful. Seriously, watch Dune II, then watch the indian equivalent Kalki 2898 AD. So much more color.

I was watching college women's volleyball yesterday, and one of the commentators said, "She forced an unforced error." and it completely reinforced my belief that (a) sports 'journalism' is a joke and (b) none of them should be paid (c) they should all be thrown into a volcano

Some things that suck about being a giant dude is that (a) Most of the world seems to think your giantness tells them everything they need to know about you (tough, stoic, etc) b) When you're in public and need help, none will be forthcoming, because you don't look vulnerable enough to need it

Preying on every CEO tonight.

Changing my student loan's name to Hunter Biden so that loser Joe will make good on his word and forgive them.

There was a question on the subreddit for my local area about what the best buffet in the area was. While there's no beating the buffets for calories per $$$, it's practically asking which slop trough is the best.

Found out the other day that my Kevin Bacon number is 4, because a guy who used to celebrate xmas at my grandparents' house when I was a kid was in a movie with Sid Caesar.

The sheer volume of political mailers I'm getting in the mail in a swing state feels like harassment. Leave me alone.

Went to donate blood at the library earlier and saw this mask in the grass, and when I got out it was in my car. Weird, huh?

It really came as no surprise to me when the most ardent Trump cultist in my extended family turned out to also be the only deadbeat dad in my extended family. Piece of shit literally ran away and hid in Florida taking cash only gigs for decades to avoid paying child support.

The Blue Angels are at an air show near me this weekend. I fucking hate it. So goddamn loud even when you're miles from the airport and such a pointless waste of tax dollars and fuel.

The murderer is not the victim here.