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Musician, fiction writer (occasionally). Likes cats, some people. He/him matthewschickele.bandcamp.com
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I call out fellow northerners when they use a southern accent to convey ’dumb’ or ‘backwards’. It’s annoyingly common and we need to stop

The MAGA Movement in one, simple to understand comic strip.

Of course this is the one i made

Helpful write up on what’s happening to us, psychologically and physically, and what we can do

Putting a face to what you read in the news. Until last Friday, I served our nation working as a Research Ecologist with the US Geological Survey (USGS). As a federal scientist, I provided robust, defensible information to support good decisions in natural resource management.

lovely new tunes from @squidocto.bsky.social -- "Get Up" particularly made me grin

New EP 🎶 “Look At Them Fly Away” is six new songs. Listen for free (and/or purchase) at bandcamp, or stream on any of the stream places… where streaming.. you know what i mean matthewschickele.bandcamp.com/album/look-a...

NEW: Trump’s FEMA administrator just sent out an email ordering all employees to stop sending things to the media without prior authorization. It was immediately sent to me by a FEMA employee without prior authorization to share with you.

Great quote from @philplait.bsky.social ’s newsletter today

I looked at this closely, as I inner-tubed this river in Phoenicia in ‘78, maybe’79. (Alas I’m not in the pic)

Today, for every purchase, Bandcamp will donate their fee to Southern California wildfire relief. Good day to buy music! matthewschickele.bandcamp.com/music

Today, for every purchase, Bandcamp will donate their fee to Southern California wildfire relief. Good day to buy music! matthewschickele.bandcamp.com/music

Our town held an online contest to name our new snowplow and the winner is… Snowtorious B.I.G.

Our town held an online contest to name our new snowplow and the winner is… Snowtorious B.I.G.

Always love the anti-fascist graffiti in #Bristol. Spotted this while waiting in traffic today 😆

Good news

Action Blep

Here’s a #CopingTip Listen to Connie Converse. Her music is so relaxing

One. Somehow I never even set foot in a blockbuster

Over the holidays i was loaned both an autoharp and a hammer dulcimer. Until now i never realized how closely related they are, both being in the “christ this takes so long to tune fuck me is it even worth it” family of musical instruments

NY State Supreme Court justice removed from office after “a racially offensive, profane, public diatribe outside a high school graduation party… repeatedly invoked her judicial office, threatened gun violence, and pledged favored treatment for the police.” www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/l...

NY State Supreme Court justice removed from office after “a racially offensive, profane, public diatribe outside a high school graduation party… repeatedly invoked her judicial office, threatened gun violence, and pledged favored treatment for the police.” www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/l...

Please PLEASE go comment in favor of this rule. The subminimum wage for disabled folks is vile and evil and *must* be eliminated. The poverty rate of disabled folks is astronomical compared to abled folks. There is no doubt this disgusting discriminatory policy is part of the reason why.

Oooh, new public domain image library just dropped 🖼️ pdimagearchive.org

The very noisy climate science denier Tom Nelson is on Bluesky. This is where Bluesky's nuclear block comes in handy. Use it. Don't give this person a foothold.

general and extremely gentle reminder that the steller’s jay is a clown and an ass. I have updated the graph i made about him for the new year

If you’re annoyed with the general nonsense of organised skepticism, may I point you in the direction of @skeptic.org.uk who are on the right side of history and whose tagline is ‘reason with compassion’.

lmao one parade commentator was like “is it retweeting still? Or x-ing?” and the other parade commentator was like “it doesn’t matter. so as you can see, there’s a working train on this float,” yes. love this energy for 2025

My nephew is telling me how one of his college applications asks the question “what three words best describe you” and I’m trying very hard to convince him to answer “dumbest question ever”

schrödinger: cat with a gun: I said get in the box

My nephew is telling me how one of his college applications asks the question “what three words best describe you” and I’m trying very hard to convince him to answer “dumbest question ever”

Do y’all remember believing in Santa? I’m 55 now and i don’t remember. But i’m sure i did, partly because i also believed my dad was Batman, so i wasn’t the brightest bulb on the tree

My wife’s new one-act is premiering in Feb in Brooklyn. “Meltdown (in which a glaciologist loses her cool)” for mezzo and piano trio. It’s the third science-themed new music show she has produced and starred in. Read about it (and, if you want, kick in some bucks) here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/fundra...

Super interesting thread about this weird light phenomenon, which can be explained with light + ice physics!

The existence of trans and queer people is not inappropriate for any age to know about

Unapologetic apologizer. Sorry/not sorry.

BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers: Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users. That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...

By the time of Albert Kahn’s death in 1940, the French banker and philanthropist had amassed a collection of more than 72,000 autochrome photographs. Taken all around the globe, they documented people and places in a rapidly changing world. Fascinating story publicdomainreview.org/essay/albert...