Matthew Chapman

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Game programmer, reporter at Raw Story, author, elections nerd, devoted husband. Proudly on the spectrum. All opinions are my own.

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In other news, Libs of TikTok is throwing a fit about a transgender character in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, apparently unaware that the Mario franchise has had transgender characters for over 30 years and this specific character was always transgender in the original Japanese version.

Pollsters trying to ask U.S. voters about the economy:

My Amazing Digital Circus merch arrived today! Pomni's next adventure is: she has to sit on my bookshelf and watch me work.

My "I was completely justified in shooting a puppy" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

The Sun vanished.

Getting just enough cloud breaks to see it.

This is an amazing picture, of two little girls in 1974, wandering through the campus of Hanover College in southern Indiana after a tornado devastated the town. The girl on the left is my mom. The other is my Aunt Lynne.

Now THIS is a sight worth waking up to on the first full day of vacation.

Don't stay on X, they told me. There's no good interactions with people left on that site, they said.

Presented without comment.

In my opinion, late 20th century airline liveries just hit harder.

Also, this may be a controversial take, but I even prefer Southwest's old livery. The newer planes are more colorful, sure, but it's just... colorful for the sake of it. It's loud but says nothing. The old planes actually evoked a desert sunset.

Hey guys: that's not Austin, that's Austin County. The City of Austin is in Travis County. Nice job, guys. A+ work.

Spotted off Santa Monica Pier.

I remember the first time I ever went to Southern California as a little kid, just being completely in awe of the palm trees. They were unlike anything I'd ever seen before, and from a little kid's perspective they looked even more enormous.

The logo for Bush's Chicken is kind of dark if you think about it. It's a carhopping chicken rushing to ask people which part of its body they'd like to consume.

The new flag of Minnesota (left) looks at least 100x better than the old flag of Minnesota (right) and if you disagree you objectively have no taste.

Let's check in on the types of ads Elon Musk is now selling space to on his website to keep the lights on...

I don't know what I find funnier... that this YouTube poll exists at all, or that two thirds of respondents objectively got it wrong.

Thanks to President Joe Biden's infrastructure bill, America is about to set out building a true, 21st century national passenger rail system.

There's a really cool halo effect around the moon over Central Texas tonight.

Holy hell, Biden is winning a second term FOR SURE now.

One can never have too many Wall-E pics in their life.

The Rethink 35 "Wider Won't Work" rally in East Austin to protest I-35 freeway expansion is starting to draw a large crowd.

Rani just chilling in my office.

We're all dressed up for the Halloween festival!

Managed to snap a picture of the partial annular solar eclipse as it was passing over Georgetown.

First time riding UTA TRAX. Let's see how it compares to other urban rail systems I've used.

Here's what I think the U.S. could build if we got serious about high-speed rail. (Keep in mind, this isn't all the rail that would exist, just the high-speed lines specifically, with conventional rail connecting everything else.)

Any attack made by the Rebels against this ice cube would be a useless gesture, no matter what technical data they have obtained. This ice cube is now the most refreshing power in the universe!