Matthew Haughey

Internet nerd from way way back. Currently: writing. Mostly jokes.

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2026-07-04 21:23:40 UTC

This July 4th reminds me that I only learned a few years ago that the Statue of Liberty is an anti-slavery monument created by a French abolitionist back in 1865 to celebrate emancipation, so I tell my little cousins about the broken chains at her feet any chance I get.
https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/abolition.htm

2026-06-02 23:48:16 UTC

1yr price history on a hard drive. Thanks, AI!
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/683/183/966/612/993/original/845e4d3d8d1753ad.jpeg

2026-04-26 16:26:14 UTC

I wrote up the whole story of how I was blocked from donating to the SPLC by my financial institution, thanks to Trump’s attempts to take down any group that monitors and reports on racist hate groups.
https://a.wholelottanothing.org/the-trump-admin-is-doing-everything-it-can-to-bankrupt-the-southern-poverty-law-center/

2026-04-24 19:54:53 UTC

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@nprofile…ugpy holy shit, that Hyundai model is called the Santa Cruz, so kinda hilarious they bought one for a city vehicle!

2026-04-19 18:55:53 UTC

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@nprofile…4xpq easy on the eyes!

2026-04-19 18:52:54 UTC

I spent all weekend redesigning my site along with a custom Ghost theme and I really dig how it turned out. https://a.wholelottanothing.org/i-designed-my-own-ghost-theme-from-scratch-with-help/

2026-03-18 20:11:48 UTC

Is there a website that tracks every California billionaire (who built their entire career inside the state and benefited immensely from it) who moved to Florida or Texas because CA passed a modest new tax on the ultra, ultra wealthy to help pay their share for the state that made them rich?

2026-02-26 18:02:34 UTC

After having my Jeep Wrangler in the shop for six weeks waiting for a battery replacement recall from December to February, today I noticed a pool of oil where I parked it from a new leak.
Kids: never ever buy a Jeep.

2026-02-25 21:07:57 UTC

A thing from 2026 I’ll think about on my deathbed someday is that every cartoonish conspiracy theory we had about how depraved the rich and powerful could be was completely underselling what Epstein and his cronies actually did for many years

2026-01-15 17:03:59 UTC

Ha! MIT Media Lab figured out people using ChatGPT use their brains 40% less than those using search engines to answer the same questions https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

2026-01-08 01:15:06 UTC

Seriously, how does it get worse than today, when a masked federal agent shot an unarmed person point blank on camera and isn’t likely to face any consequences after?

2025-12-15 17:19:25 UTC

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If you listen to Dodgers games on the radio or drive on CA freeways you’re constantly exposed to ads about child health services that are free for all kids under 5 in California. I had no idea that program started with Rob Reiner pushing for it, then doing the work.

2025-12-15 17:16:46 UTC

The most interesting thing I recently learned about Rob Reiner was that he paused his career for most of the 1990s to lead a team that built a bunch of early childhood services for the state of California: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVB6pnzYRoE

2025-11-02 04:25:49 UTC

Holy crap I can’t believe the dodgers actually won. Wild.

2025-11-02 02:42:45 UTC

Daulton Varsho totally sounds like a Star Wars pilot name

2025-10-05 17:08:16 UTC

I love the antifascist flag that comes out any time the thorns score at home
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/115/322/656/610/455/474/original/8393af175ba06ee1.jpeg

2025-09-09 19:09:38 UTC

Five years ago today, 9:55AM in a McDonald's drive thru picking up a McMuffin and this is how the world looked.
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2025-09-09 17:10:49 UTC

I wish I could wear in-ear headphones but they’ve always squicked me out, like having someone else’s fingers in my ears.

2025-08-25 19:47:19 UTC

Gotta say it sucks to hear over the last 30-40 years how progressive policies that directly help citizens could never be enabled by the stroke of a pen, but in just a few short months a moody dictator can enact any cruel authoritarian idea no one wants or needs and it gets implemented nationwide, instantly.

2025-08-08 16:03:29 UTC

An mRNA cancer cure is the next trillion dollar medical innovation that can save millions of lives and the US pulling the plug on researchers getting close to it is basically the stupidest move possible.

2025-07-16 18:40:34 UTC

Sometimes I just want to be left alone to watch my stories
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2025-06-17 16:17:52 UTC

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I was just trying to trace the origin of the Mt. Hood strawberry I love so much and now I gotta run down a wikipedia rabbit hole to figure out Chinese railroad laborers probably freaked out white Americans so much they banned them from even entering the country for a whole decade after

2025-06-17 16:16:18 UTC

The old saying is any time you scratch the surface of US history, you get racism and maybe it's a thing college kids say to rile up their parents but yesterday I was reading about the history of the strawberry in America and a small note was lots of Japanese families run strawberry farms in Oregon where we get most preserves but that's because of the 1882 act that banned all immigration from China for 10 years which caused a agricultural labor shortage, and Japanese farmers stepped in.

2025-06-16 20:27:24 UTC

I have followed this guy on YouTube who reviews restaurants and public transit in LA for the past year or so and today he uploaded food reviews at the LA protests and it's fantastic. You can see quiet, chill citizens marching for better treatment then masked marines looking like stormtroopers deployed for no good reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpeG4S6a7ko

2025-06-04 00:20:13 UTC

The cast and crew of Andor talking with Patton Freakin Oswalt moderating and asking questions could have easily gone on for 8hrs and it’s a crime they only talked for 50min but it’s still wonderful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_M9VSSRBMQ

2025-05-19 19:50:06 UTC

I crack up whenever I look at one of my 3D printer apps, because if you sort by popularity among all 3D models ready to print you can clearly see every American is trying to print out a gun holster and every European is trying to print out a cap that turns a water bottle into an emergency bidet.

2025-05-04 23:40:05 UTC

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@nprofile…fv4z shots fired @nprofile…cf0k

2025-05-04 23:02:05 UTC

I can’t explain why listening to a baseball game on the radio instead of watching on TV is much more fulfilling but it is

2025-05-03 19:33:51 UTC

The governor of Maine was the first person to push back on Trump just after his inauguration and she just won the court case.
ALWAYS PUSH BACK ON ILLEGAL POLICIES IN COURT, THEIR PERFORMATIVE BS WILL ALWAYS LOSE IN ACTUAL COURT
https://mastodon.social/@MEActNOW/114444861157781915

2025-04-30 15:35:18 UTC

Sometimes you see an image so striking that you have to state plainly that there are concentration camps inside the US with kidnapped people in them suffering
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/114/427/645/991/519/430/original/4779f41ca1ebab09.jpeg

2025-04-24 17:30:03 UTC

Today I reached a level of not giving a fuck that I’m wearing socks with crocs in public and I gotta admit, it’s absolute peak comfort

2025-04-23 17:44:38 UTC

omfg the font used in this famous anti-piracy campaign was itself, a pirated commercial font.
source: https://fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfubsz0f
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2025-04-18 17:22:09 UTC

The thing I miss most about Tim Walz was during the campaign he'd say every democrat should spend their political capital asap. Improve people's lives from your first day in office and ignore your personal re-election needs.
It was so refreshing, and had a real "burn the boats" feel in a good way.

2025-04-18 16:23:14 UTC

Every Subaru owner I’ve known for the past decade has only wanted an EV version of the Outback and it took until the 2026 model year to finally debut this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfVcis6qKBA

2025-04-14 01:08:25 UTC

I love these mundane as fuck Instagram ads. Someone probably figured out that people stop and look at these because they’re so drab they stick out among regular, saturated Instagram ads
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2025-04-09 03:28:28 UTC

It’s really hard to watch the #USWNT when Brazil’s players are grabbing jerseys and pushing Americans down with no fouls or yellow cards.

2025-04-07 21:16:44 UTC

I'm always curious to hear what real-world numbers are like around any new tariffs and here's keyboard.io explaining how if Trump actually goes through with it, prices would double for their high-end keyboards (with no additional profit, all money goes to tariff charges) https://shop.keyboard.io/blogs/news/an-open-letter-to-u-s-customers

2025-04-05 23:16:09 UTC

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@nprofile…args I am seeing a ton of posts on bluesky https://bsky.app/hashtag/handsoff

2025-04-01 17:38:33 UTC

another day, another college student is nabbed by ICE.
I really wish universities would band together to speak out and assure students and parents that their kids are safe, that colleges will fight to protect their own students from what are basically fascist kidnappings.
But the White House has already kneecapped every university with threats over pulling federal funding, so the colleges stay silent until it's far too late.
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/114/263/918/071/156/443/original/f63b4a93168871d6.jpeg

2025-03-30 00:46:38 UTC

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@nprofile…20qw we go there once a month for the perfect hashbrowns. Also they serve breakfast until they close at 2 or 3pm

2025-03-30 00:08:55 UTC

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@nprofile…20qw they have the absolute best breakfast in town. Ten thumbs up.

2025-03-29 22:30:04 UTC

This restaurant has the best designed paper checks. I don’t know which payment handler does this automatically but you just check off your tip of 18, 20, or 25% then sign it, getting to skip the math. I LOVE IT.
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/114/248/082/930/769/141/original/a0e5a8bd2ec5cefd.jpeg

2025-03-26 21:48:52 UTC

I once interviewed a security professional and asked them how they locked down their whole family's security when things like 2FA and yubikeys were tricky to use and they admitted most of their immediate family didn't do those things and I realized that holy shit, bad actors must go after *everyone* connected to high level security people
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2025-03-25 16:31:58 UTC

who would have thought the people behind throwing a press conference at four seasons total landscaping would accidentally invite a journalist on an illegal group chat

2025-03-20 16:29:45 UTC

is non-alcoholic beer the hardest soft drink or the softest hard drink?

2025-03-15 02:38:11 UTC

“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!”
–Mario Savio, Sproul Hall

2025-03-06 18:53:17 UTC

It's wild to hear from two friends where one is under severe wildfire threats from dry high winds while the other is talking about blizzard warnings and they're only a couple states apart from one another.

2025-03-05 23:49:03 UTC

I haven't vacationed to Hawaii in many years and so the biggest surprise on this trip is seeing more than one person show up in my hotel lobby each morning with a laptop and headphones to have a full on zoom meeting for over an hour while everyone else sits around thinking wtf?

2025-03-05 19:45:52 UTC

RIP to all those Brother Printer recommendations I made over the years after they decided to block 3rd party toner and removed all previous versions of firmware recently
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/114/111/538/698/285/226/original/21164eb294533fb0.jpg

2025-03-05 18:39:03 UTC

I guess my new kink is whenever I go to cultural museums that cover the history of colonization, I get angry when the museum displays don't go hard enough on the oppressors, by leaving out gory details of just how bad the visitors were, or centering everything on how it affected white settlers.

2025-03-04 15:18:52 UTC

This by the president is pure fascism from a dictator type shit I used to read about when it was happening halfway around the world.
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/114/104/828/248/524/490/original/d9206eefcd0e6949.jpeg

2025-03-03 23:47:51 UTC

how is that each of Trent Reznor's movie soundtracks are an absolute banger to play on headphones while getting work done?
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/114/101/163/376/248/718/original/5bd772e12df172b3.png

2025-02-28 20:19:12 UTC

Just watched ten minutes of the Trump/Zelenskyy/Vance meeting in the White House and what an utter fucking embarrassment to watch two petulant children bully Ukraine into surrender and complain that they're not being thanked enough for it. Just utterly pathetic from the narcissitic shitheads running the USA now.

2025-02-23 15:12:50 UTC

lmao
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2025-02-18 23:14:16 UTC

Testing out the new attribution features of mastodon on my blog posts: https://a.wholelottanothing.org/links-for-february-18-2025/

2025-02-18 19:52:16 UTC

I liked @nprofile…qz4x's new book that came out today! https://a.wholelottanothing.org/cory-doctorows-picks-shovels-is-out-today-and-its-great-fun/

2025-02-17 21:17:17 UTC

I wonder how many commercial airline crashes it will take before firing air traffic controllers en masse is considered a bad idea.

2025-02-17 19:10:37 UTC

Opening a new Google account, you get blasted with Gemini AI bullshit upsells at every click. I've had a Gmail account since 2004, so I had no idea what the first day experience was like, but it's "let AI write your emails" and "shouldn't you be using AI to finish this sentence?" all the time.

2025-02-13 15:41:46 UTC

A thing me and my fellow liberals need to let go of is pointing out right wing hypocrisy. It feels good when we notice it but they have not given a fuck about their own hypocrisy for the last 50+yrs.

2025-02-09 17:28:51 UTC

I once met a truly #SuperbOwl at a tech conference right on the water's edge in San Francisco. The event had large outdoor areas for people to eat lunch and hang out, so it turns out—you hire a falconry expert if you want to keep the seagulls from bothering attendees. A couple flights from one owl before the doors opened meant no gulls ventured overhead for the entire day.
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/113/975/085/140/168/842/original/92016354d8804d1d.jpeg

2025-02-09 14:34:45 UTC

I stumbled onto a Chinese restaurant that was run by fans of German art history
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/113/974/423/069/279/720/original/f9fc624ce62d1f4f.jpeg

2025-02-08 18:12:32 UTC

The DNC continues to fundraise as they shoot themselves in the foot. If the last ten years have taught us anything, no republican will ever, ever cross Trump party lines, even if they’re set to retire. They only badmouth the GOP after they’re long gone.
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/113/969/617/159/424/009/original/894914acff61a2f7.jpeg

2025-01-24 20:05:53 UTC

You ever get so drunk you Wake on LAN?
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2024-12-19 02:18:44 UTC

@nprofile…pks2 yesterday I started getting DOZENS of emails from 1Password warning me I was logging in from a new network. It looks like it’s from my safari plugin and I get an email whenever I’m on a new IP address which is constant when I’m out of the house.
Bug?
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2024-10-19 21:04:24 UTC

Sometimes you get off at a random exit in Kentucky, take a look around, then get back on the freeway quickly
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2024-09-28 15:50:26 UTC

The title gives away the plot, but this is a very good, long, detailed summary about the entire Wordpress/WP Engine fiasco of the past week from every angle: https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/fire-matt

2024-08-30 18:12:55 UTC

There's a big airshow this weekend at my local Cessna airport and they have the Air Force Thunderbirds buzzing my house to practice their moves and it's really amazing what those little puppets can still do.
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/113/052/323/984/169/213/original/f0658024a8d9acb4.jpg

2024-08-14 01:38:31 UTC

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@npub13vv…0sze has anyone ever gotten spur of the moment married after the voting booth given so many justices of the peace are around?

2024-07-12 04:17:13 UTC

I can already tell this is the stupidest tech news post of the year and it’s only July.
Who in the cinnamon toast fuck wanted AI assistants to have equal footing with human employees? Who would think that’s a forward looking visionary thing to do and not the most dystopian shit imaginable to have Slackbot be your working peer at an onboarding session.
https://lattice.com/blog/leading-the-way-in-responsible-ai-employment

2024-06-25 14:43:00 UTC

If you ever set up Slack, you got emails saying anything older than a year would be deleted on all free plans soon.
What's weird is the big key feature of paying was you'd "unlock" every old message ever posted on your previously free team.
I just got confirmation from a Slack employee that if you pay for Slack six months from now on say, a team with 5yrs of posting history you won't see anything older than a year ago.
They're *really* deleting old stuff.

2024-06-15 01:58:02 UTC

Each day, someone is born that didn’t know the internet classic™ way to keep your hotel room’s blackout curtains together using the pants holder thingy on a hotel clothes hanger
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/618/155/279/852/356/original/98a60c8bc19e2054.jpeg

2024-05-12 05:58:24 UTC

I'm so glad this happened last night in Dallas https://www.reddit.com/r/Dallas/comments/1cpcagz/aurora_borealis_shinin_down_on_dallas_can_you/

2024-03-14 16:49:25 UTC

me texting STOP to every text coming at me from tiny district reps begging for money ever since I gave $100 to ActBlue 8 years ago
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/095/065/129/751/943/original/bf133ea0005e7337.mp4

2024-03-14 16:02:53 UTC

I’ve seen a lot of jokes about how Kate Middleton is missing but not enough “your princess is in another castle” jokes

2024-01-11 23:46:02 UTC

I wrote up workstation setup tips I've learned as I've gotten older, aka Old People Hacks.
I would love to hear more ideas if you got 'em, just reply to this and let me know what changes you've made over the years to your setups.
https://a.wholelottanothing.org/2023/09/08/old-people-hacks-tips-for-those-of-us-over-40-50-etc/

2023-11-07 18:39:26 UTC

WeWork could have remained a successful business if stuck to the one city it was developed in, NYC, where it was the killer way to get office space NOW (an impossible thing in NYC).
Reminds me of Kozmo.com, where if they stayed SF-only, they could have been small but still profitable.
Don’t believe the lies VC guys tell you, not every business should take over the planet.

2023-09-19 20:57:29 UTC

Recently I was sitting at an airport gate waiting for a flight and someone was sitting 2 feet from me complaining about everything in their life to their spouse and I turned on noise canceling on my AirPod Max headphones and honestly it was better than I ever imagined and their voice disappeared and it felt like total magic.

2023-08-30 21:50:30 UTC

I don’t know if it’s simply getting older or I give way more of a shit now, but when I vacuum the whole house each week, it’s a full body drenched in sweat endeavor requiring a post vacuum shower and change of clothes.

2023-08-30 19:38:49 UTC

I love nothing more than to read blog posts written by nerds fueled by stubbornness and spite. Reading this glorious post on why a pedestrian bridge to seemingly nowhere exists is like listening to a full season of a true-crime podcast. No spoilers, but there is definitely a satisfying conclusion. https://tylervigen.com/the-mystery-of-the-bloomfield-bridge

2023-08-25 02:48:45 UTC

does a humpback whale work at Costco?
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2023-08-14 15:09:13 UTC

I know it’s petty but when you boycott a favorite podcast after it moves exclusively to Spotify for a couple years then learn they’re finally changing course and releasing their podcast normally again, it’s a pretty good feeling.
Welcome back to the internet, podcast. Eat shit, Spotify.

2023-07-31 18:26:26 UTC

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The 1980s were a weird time. Greed was good, the president was a giant asshole that cut programs and blamed immigrants and the poor. Everything was fake and plastic and for appearances and then this total weirdo taught me about absurdity and farce in comedy and how to laugh at the fake world I inhabited and how to retreat into your imagination.
Pee Wee, you were the best.

2023-07-31 18:04:25 UTC

thank you from the bottom of my heart Paul Rubens for making it ok for kids and adults to be a little weird. You helped make the world a way more interesting place and I’ll miss having you in it.

2023-06-23 16:53:28 UTC

I wonder how many billionaires still want to fly to mars after seeing what happens just trying to check out our own sea floor

2023-06-16 00:20:38 UTC

Woke up this morning and thought dammit, I’ve wanted a small kayak for river paddling for many years. Today I should actually make this happen.
Opened Craigslist and one hour plus 17 emails later I find two kayak mounts for my trailer rack plus two nice kayaks, all for half the price of new.
So basically this is a summary of my day in two images:
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