Matthew D. Thibeault

Back of @MADmagazine #375 (1998). Always fresh, never stale.

Twitter was pretty much my only social media (other than that *all* media are social). Feel like I'm done here. ✌️🙏👏

@jamespomfret Dressed all in black but no stop and frisk?

The front of the queue for the NSL47 sentencing. These people, all dressed in black, have been dubbed the “queuing gang”, allegedly paid to take up the few public seats available in court. All refused to answer my questions on why they’re there

Trigger warning for anyone who teaches beginning band...

Hong Kong keeps taking the fun away... now the Mobile Softee truck says not eat ice cream "in the store!!!!"

Big Wave Bay. A beautiful Hong Kong beach with great surf at this time of year Who are the people who sit in committees and propose these regulations. What possible motivations drive them to make these insane laws which inhibit physical activity and damage population health.

Apparently, graduate students in HK think that officials can demand nudes... Hard to believe, but I guess?

New job post at EdUHK: Assistant Professor in the areas of digital music practice, electroacoustic music, and multi-media composition. #musiceducation eduhk.taleo.net/careersection/…

@NewYorker Related (Hardcore Zen's Brad Warner on the illusion of achieving "no contact") youtu.be/Cb_dLm2oUic?si…

A growing movement seeks to destigmatize going “no contact” with one’s relatives. Is it a much-needed corrective, or a worrisome change in family relations? nyer.cm/Ou5LYOn

@AskYatharth Plus ballot order effects: the top candidate gets a measurable small bump. Different places handle differently (random, or random by county, etc.). At that time Republican always went first on FL ballots and always got the bump (small but much larger than the win).

i'd vaguely heard about the US election in 2000 actually being "stolen" and i looked it up and it seems consensus is - the entire US election came down to florida - the difference in votes was <0.1%, not statistically significant - polling machine had hardware issues way higher than <0.1% - florida could have decided to actually and properly hand count the votes - the state's highest supreme court decided to do that - bush asked the supreme court to intervene in a state's free & independent ability to run its own elections - the voting was exactly on partisan lines: the 5 republican judges declared bush the winner - they cited reasoning that competes for one of the most transparently dishonest rulings of all time - the single most comprehensive study after the fact found that if the votes had been properly counted, gore would have won - this is not factoring in a calculated, well-documented attempt by republican governor of florida to suppress thousands of votes, in black counties for al gore, by the official US election commission

@Jay_Watt Streisand effect? Maybe they read that Halloween celebrations are not allowed across the boundary? 😅 nytimes.com/2024/10/29/wor…

ILL is back up ⬆️

I used to *rent* CDs when I lived in Japan (Tsutaya!), and I imported them with Japanese track info, still enjoy having those... Here's your katakana kuiz!

@tripperhead I'm of the age to feel this guy hightailing it to the mainland has real OJ-Bronco-chase energy.

🇭🇰🚔 34-year-old British man arrested for murder after his 25-year-old Indonesian FDH girlfriend died at Waterfall Bay on Sunday. Arrested man's 36-year-old wife arrested on suspicion of assisting offenders. The man was arrested at West Kowloon Station after initially fleeing to the mainland. buff.ly/48u3zX3

@ChefMiew @kjoules Getting someone famous to drop by commencement and hobnob with donors, mostly, and get some credit by association.

@kjoules What's the point of a honorary doctorate?

HKUST has announced its list of recipients of honourary degrees to be conferred in December: • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang • Actor Tony Leung • Stanford biophysicist Michael Levitt • Harvard mathematician David Mumford scmp.com/news/hong-kong…

@tripperhead We had a "misdo" in our neighbourhood when we lived in Japan, and there was always a morning group of old uncles (oji-san there) hanging out and solving the problems of the world, one donut and coffee at a time. Good memories! Let's see how they fare in HK.

🇭🇰🇯🇵🍩 Japanese donut chain Mister Donut opened their first store in Hong Kong on Saturday. The new outlet is located in the K11 Artmall, and as always, attracted huge queues on opening day. 📽️ thehkobserver on Instagram

HK Economy 2024. Saturday night and not a single skill crane in use (Hung Hom MTR Station).

Herbie Hancock group was great, but West Kowloon production team 👎👎 Bass amp not in the house sound for most of the night, cameras typically 30 seconds behind the action, band next door at the fest too loud... hope they learn.

@ArtMaterialist @UrbanAdler @tripperhead 10 year visa still valid if you have another passport, but you need to bring both when you cross.

@UrbanAdler @tripperhead Woot! Are you one of them? My 10 year China visa [thanks, Obama] lasts til 2026 but I'll want to change the passport early due to French residence so figure best to do the card asap when I have time & will be in the HK region for a stretch

Will apply for one of these when traveling in HK next year. Thanks @tripperhead for the info!

@wyntonmarsalis @jazzdotorg Heard you all last night in HK and it was amazing! I used to play back in the 90s with Vince in Tallahassee at Waterworks—please tell him thanks for the great show and the whistling 🔥

Our trombonist Vincent Gardner, on the bus from Shenzen to Hong Kong composing the 2nd movement of my “Bebopera”, to be premiered on next month’s Bebop Revolution show at @jazzdotorg . This one pays tribute to the three island prophets that taught Dizzy about Afro-Latin music, Alberto Socarras, Mario Bauza, and Chano Pozo. The amazing vocalist Ashley Pezotti will be telling the story.

As early voting begins in GA, Jimmy Carter achieved his goal to live long enough to vote for Kamala Harris. meidasnews.com/news/jimmy-car…