Matthew Davis

@benryanwriter Congrats! Glad to hear you beat it.

No cancer for me. I had a CT scan today four my four-year follow-up and it was all clear. In 2022, I underwent a brutal course of chemo for a Stage II seminoma. I never could have imagined feeling quite that horrendous as I did after the last cycle. It took me a year to recover, but I ultimately did. Although I have neuropathy (my feet burn) and I have trouble remembering names and stuff. I have just one more scan in a year and then this particular cancer show will take its final curtain, provided I have no recurrence. But the chance is like 1%. The summer I was in chemo happened to coincide with my monekypox typo, which was when I crossed the 10K Twitter follower rubicon. Back then that meant something. A lot of people were really kind to me on here at the time, like Mia Farrow. And some people were shitty! Yes, I carry a grudge. Some people have no limits to how awful they can be.

@EricsElectrons MJ was one of very few modern people I consider a true musical genius. It's rare even among musicians

Michael Jackson’s Off The Wall was released only 1 month after the Disco Demolition riot of 1979 when disco was becoming unpopular. Unlike most artists on the pop charts, Michael chose to blend many unpopular genres together. If that’s not a bold move, I dont know what is.

@dougboneparth Not if the US goes bankrupt.

Is $100,000,000 enough to retire on?

@orbalology I had no idea when everything started going digital that physical media would become so valuable again, but here we are

Funny how just the other day people were giving me crap for not wanting to buy digital games on console… when I’d rather buy them on PC anyway.

@WKCosmo who brags about liking kale though 🤮

Every time.

@HistoryBoomer and I know what you might say to that. You can't drive a button. And you would be correct. Good point.

@HistoryBoomer A lone crazy likely driven to moral panic and hysteria by being too immersed in MSM's distorted view of the world and their subtle manipulation of narratives. So many leftists have just gone off the rails since 2020, and journalists are driving the panic button.

Do you think the shooter targeting Trump was a lone crazy or do you think the attack was organized by the Trump White House or the Democratic Party?

@IonaItalia I want to hear them express real sympathy for victims of Oct 7. Until then I think people saying Free Palestine are not only stupid but also horrid human beings.

Seriously, I'm done with this nonsense. My patience is at an end. Everyone who thinks like this should just get a life.

I'll pass, thanks. 😚

@timgill924 I showed my kids where my dissertation is on the book shelf. I said see this? I expect each of you to add one of your own or that's it you're out.

Listen. I have a PhD. If my son and daughter don’t each get, at least, one, I’ll be pretty pissed off. They have a leg up in this world. If they choose to screw around and not get good grades, I’ll cut them off. They can live with grandma or whoever will tolerate that behavior.

@allthatferguson I guess it takes 4 years of med school to understand why confused little kids should be sterilized and have healthy body parts chopped off

Every major medical association supports gender-affirming care. But sure, a Substack essay probably knows better than doctors.

@terrynewman I saw plenty of fb friend leftists celebrate or at least say good riddance when he was killed. I'd never heard of him, started watching his videos, and became a big fan (and I'm a classic liberal atheist). Leftists can be so filled with virtue it makes them ugly people

The way people have been talking about Erika Kirk has been gross fir a while now. What is wrong wuth everyone doing this? Are they all 12 year-old boys?

@Rob_ThaBuilder I just couldn't risk my kids in this scenario. Knowing every other parent would feel the same, we'd all pick red and be ok

The ppl signaling their virtue by insisting the correct answer is blue, and only evil ppl would pick red dont really understand the question. It isnt a question about your OWN morality, but instead is a question of your perception of everyone else's morality. And it isnt even a measure of their "morality" but is actually a measure of their survival instincts. Betting against the survival instincts of 50% of the human species is a bad choice. Anyone who is facing this choice for real and had to think about it for more than 5 minutes would pick red, and more importantly, would council everyone they care about to pick red. Would you want your children to risk their life on 50% of the human species to bet against their own guaranteed survival? No decent parent would.

@skdh @erosbrousson This mindset, where debt makes one valuable, dates all the way back to Alexander Hamilton.

@erosbrousson I had exactly the same problem 20 years ago!

THE AMERICAN CREDIT SCORE … 💰

@Anthony_Bonato Engineers just state bluntly why something is wrong and what to do about it. Seems like a better approach

Mathematician: I liked your proof. It fails in an interesting way

@AndrewZywiecMD @NormalGayPsych I have no idea what causes people to be pedophiles, but that's a change in topic and unrelated to homosexuality

@msdavi01 @NormalGayPsych That's not evidence of being born gay... at all. Are people born pedophiles?

There are gay people who live regular lives, are individuals, and just happen to have been born gay. Then there are people who make being "queer" their entire persona. These are NOT the same thing.

@AndrewZywiecMD @NormalGayPsych That gay people exist across all cultures over the world is evidence that they are born gay. What's your alternative explanation (that isn't some religious made up nonsense)

@NormalGayPsych No one is "born gay." This is a fallacy. Happy to discuss.

@WKCosmo Klepping those deets was a gonk move

Cyberpunk as hell.

The secret reason why I wear sunglasses at night.

@DrJessTaylor Not defending him or saying it's ok, but a 16yo is a teenager not a child. I was 17 when I joined the army for crying out loud

Can we just take a second to really take this in? How on earth has it come to this? Where a man can performatively ‘admit’ to sex with a child on an international platform but then couch it as some form of reflection or responsible accountability exercise - whilst deliberately leaning on our terrible, useless, outdated sexual offences act and age of consent? This man was 30 years old, and at the height of his fame - when he made an active choice to have sex with a child. I would use much stronger language here but he’s deliberately leaning on our consent laws, that a 16 year old child can technically consent to sex - meaning that he could technically have ‘consensual sex’ with a school age child. His admission and his disgusting performative ‘progressive’ ‘reflection’ that he is ‘exploitative’ makes my effin skin crawl. If this is not a predator in full swing, I do not know what is. This man is admitting to sex with children and no one is going to do a thing about it. Absolutely atrocious. Our laws need urgently updating to ensure no adult can ever have technically consensual sex with a child. No adult should ever want that; and no child should ever be exposed to it. End.

@robkhenderson We need a barebones discussion about human nature to understand these things (when it occurs from women AND men). But with the moral panic over this, people spend their time virtue signaling instead.

Every few months, yet another female teacher makes headlines for sleeping with an underage male student. Why do these women do this? What I’m about to explain has less to do with predatory impulses than with something far more unsettling: robkhenderson.com/p/what-female-…