@mathewyates
queer poet & painter | from Paducah, KY w roots in MS & Appalachia | in IN | hermit | disabled | cptsd | survivor | fluid | non-binary| trans | they/she/he 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ✍️ in Protean, Malarkey, Ghost City, Stone Circle, & others mathewyates.com
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reminding myself over and over that just feeling bad achieves nothing and is not a form of activism or spiritual anything
If your English department is using AI, your English department has failed.
rogue state, top to bottom
Dozens of U.S. strikes on Iran. Dunno what to say now other than my thoughts are with the Iranian civilians under fire. What a nightmare.
I need everyone to brace themselves for the fallout of this, which is going to be dems embracing Anthropic as a #resistance corporation, and likely Open AI as well.
they're already shoving this shit down our throats, now they'll try and claim its to "own" trump.
If you’ve been sleeping on Ally Ang, it’s been time to catch up. Their debut poetry collection, Let the Moon Wobble, was released by Alice James Press in November, and the book tour continues.
Don't fall for the bs that we can't hold our gov accountable for their crimes because there's too many involved and will collapse the system, when they're out here criminalizing 20,000+ trans people in a single state because of something that boils down to a clerical error.
we’re getting closer…
this is tonight!!! click through to register! it’s gonna be so beautiful~
too manic and depersonalized for the internet this week/month. gonna try to avoid it even more than usual. love yall 💜💙
just announced: d+15 midterm
(seriously they get that old people vote, right? do they think the AARP just exists for fun?)
Fuck Larry Summers, a disloyal and misogynistic pedo. He should have been gone long before now.
Not lost on me that a piece ostensibly about rising antisemitism in the Democratic Party focuses almost entirely on Zohran Mamdani, Uncommitted, AOC and Mejia and not, like, the guy with the Nazi tattoo.
This is cool as hell: An app designed to ping people about nearby smartglasses.
Also cool: The creator was inspired by @404media.co coverage, a great illustration of why their journalism is so essential. This kind of work is funded by paid subscribers so become one of those if you can.
Happy publication day to our five new poetry and two nonfiction titles! 🎉🎉🎉
Read our pub day newsletter here: riverriverbooks.beehiiv.com/p/it-s-pub-d...
Cryptograms & fried okra. Incorrect metaphors & cocktails of saliva. Guard dogs & praise songs. Worshipping you.
beestung #26 is here!
w/ Lichen Euchella, Sam Nartus-Fois, E.K. Bartlett, Lucy Jones, Sandra Alland, Grey Traynor, & robin herold
www.beestungmag.com
am capable of little but crying or wanting to cry these days.
Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten
"jake a gay
snake plant
who died
of rot
& i fear
too often
that i am
too much
like jake..."
—Adrian Dallas Frandle :: “Dracaena trifasciata”
alocasia.org/2026/02/15/a...
It's never too late to pitch a review of Every Galaxy a Circle to your favorite place. Or to pitch an interview with me to your favorite place. Just saying.
This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube.
As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.
Further complicating any final decision on military strikes, Arab leaders have been calling counterparts in Washington to complain about comments from Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel. In an interview with Tucker Carlson, the conservative commentator, that aired on Friday, Mr. Huckabee said Israel had a right to much of the Middle East, outraging Arab diplomats in countries that the United States is hoping will support, or at least not openly oppose, an American attack on Iran.
New York Times reporting implies that Ambassador Mike Huckabee's endorsement of Greater Israel (which would encompass the territory of Jordan, Syria, much of Lebanon, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, in addition to all of historic as well as the occupied Palestinian territories) has complicated prep for war
Thy literally put it in the Louvre
www.reuters.com/video/watch/...
You cannot ethically do this @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social — not even after 7 days, not even with Dept of Homeless Services leading instead of the NYPD. There is no ethical way to harass and steal from people who have been so failed by society. The only ethical thing you can do is to give them a home.
New call for work: THE PLEASURE ISSUE
+ Opens May 15
+ Deadline: June 13 for everyone, for BIPOC writers: June 20
The Pleasure Issue will be an issue interrogating the varying politics of pleasure via the difference between the erotic and the pornographic
More: beestungmag.com/special-call...
The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
Come, Sir Andrew, there’s no remedy
CUSTOMER SINCE To be loved despite having bad skin sometimes, and bad thoughts a lot. To be the queen of lottery tickets and mergansers and snow. The ancient magnolias, standing at the back of the live show with no recording device besides themselves, flirt like dandelions. It is a steady, brutal mixture of fog and life that keeps philosophy going, the fire outside its little tent in a glade not made for shadow play, not enough direct sun. I peel the star off my face; the pimple that was underneath is almost invisible, now. It’s spring.
big thanks to Dreck Lit for publishing three new poems—here’s one of them :)
