Matt Kavanagh

@mattkavanagh

college professor / contemporary American novel / film noir / financial fiction / writer and reviewer / 🇨🇦 / personal account

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Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Jul 5

Mandate of Heaven

A Willie Nelson For President mural in Austin, TX.

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Jul 1

It’s okay, everyone, this time it’s only going to be a three hour tour.

An image of Vladimir Putin dressed in the red rugby shirt and beige fisherman’s hat of Gilligan about to embark on the S.S. Minnow’s ill-fated journey.

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Jun 26

I’ll take this. More Mamdani-style politics in Canada please!

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Apr 23

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Apr 22

I was meeting some friends downtown today and walked by this cop who was encouraging pedestrians to give these cobra chickens a wide berth. Weird spot for a goose family, I thought. Turns out some condo dipshits “spring cleaned” the goslings off their balcony. www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna...

Photo outside the Interior Health building on Doyle of a cop minding a family of Canada geese.

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Apr 15

Sigh, I guess I have occasion to repost this.

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Apr 6

Journalists planning to dust the balls of power. Zizek was right on the money with this:

Zizek loves his jokes: “In the good old days of Really-Existing Socialism, a joke was popular among dissidents, used to illustrate the futility of their protests. In the 15th century Russia occupied by Mongols, a farmer and his wife walk along a dusty country road; a Mongol warrior on a horse stops at their side and tells the farmer that he will now rape his wife; he then adds: “But since there is a lot of dust on the ground, you should hold my testicles while I’m raping your wife, so that they will not get dirty!” After the Mongol finishes his job and rides away, the farmer starts to laugh and jump with joy; the surprised wife asks him: “how can you be jumping with joy when I was just brutally raped in your presence?” The farmer answers: “But I got him! His balls are full of dust!” This sad joke tells of the predicament of dissidents: they thought they are dealing serious blows to the party nomenklatura, but all they were doing was getting a little bit of dust on the nomenklatura’s testicles, while the nomenklatura went on raping the people…

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Apr 4

Same energy

Jordan Peterson in one of his two-tone villain suits.

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Apr 3

Operation Epic (Sound and) Fury This war truly is a tale told by an idiot and, for all the spectacular destruction, it signifies nothing. America cannot accomplish its war aim because it doesn’t have one. Everything it does is a frantic effort to disavow that basic fact. 1/x

From Shakespeare’s Macbeth:

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Apr 3

Tfw you need a good tombrotting

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Apr 2

One of the culprits:

Screenshot of a news story about Kristi Noem’s husband, who styles himself a “busty bimbo.”

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Apr 2

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Mar 31

Lol

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Mar 30

Can you believe this is life now? Journalists dutifully transcribing the yammering of an honest-to-god moron king. Entire industries devoted to feigning his coherence. Sullen idiots kidnapping their neighbours. The plutocracy treating us like biomass & data-ore. AI overviews! Fuck all of this shit!

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Mar 28

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Mar 21

When you’re trying to get the waiter’s attention:

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Mar 14

Ralph Wiggum “I’m in danger” bus meme, except updated with Trump’s boast of unparalleled dominance: “To me, it means very simply that we are in a position of dominance that nobody has seen before, whether or not they're able to say the words.”

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Mar 13

The OP deleted their post, so for the record, this is what my thread was responding to:

From @editorialboard:

That we are not seeing massive campus protests like the ones we saw two years ago suggests a level of bad faith in many of those protests. The goal for many participants was not protecting human rights, but smearing Democratic leader.

I can't tell you how many people slide into my mentions to accuse the Democrats of supporting genocide and why, for that reason, they must be destroyed as a party. OK but how about them Republicans who support an actual US war against Iran, which Israel is using as cover to bomb everyone?

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Mar 12

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season four, episode two.

Title card from IASIP: “The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis”

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Mar 11

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Mar 10

Are we the baddies? meme, but with the text replaced “We are the good guys!”

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Mar 3

Title card from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (episode 2, season 2): “The Gang Goes Jihad”

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Feb 28

“… the greatest concentration of air power since World War II.”

From Phillips O’Brien: “When you add all this together, it is an extremely large and powerful strike force. Some say it is almost as strong as the strike force used in Desert Storm back in 1991. I would say it is larger because it seems that we have the full participation of Israeli airpower, which on its own is extremely formidable. So combined Iran could arguably be facing the greatest concentration of airpower since World War II.”

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Feb 28

Meme of the Twin Peaks title card shot from the show. It says “Peak Twins”

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Feb 27

A recent bit of air defense kit in Ukraine emblazoned with the various subreddits that crowdfunded it, including r/popculturechat. This reminds me of the novel New Model Army by @adamroberts.bsky.social

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Feb 27

… and you’ll get to 24!

See the first image in the post above for alt text

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Feb 25

MAGA masculinity, giant panda edition. These guys require an entire cultural apparatus to help them do the most natural thing in the world.

https://www.livescience.com/56269-animal-sex-giant-pandas.html

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Feb 25

Mike Tyson bare-assing it through his fight with Jake Paul.

Matt Kavanagh@mattkavanagh· Feb 15

I took this as a challenge.