Matt Peterson

I am a semi-professional racecar driver and an amateur tattoo artist

[Matt Peterson @Matty_P12]

My wife: sends me topical and informative tweets

Me: sends my wife memes and other garbage

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[Sgt Blackout 🫡 @coldcallsniper]

He’s a McDonalds sprite away from shredding his passport and starting a new life here

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@PitchingNinja @FatRando06 @michael_ryan_23 @adamdunn_44 @JoseCanseco @BringerOfRain20 fuckin see ya

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@anothercohen Chili's

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@simoncholland @ me next time

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@WesternMichU with all due respect, this paper ain't worth a velvet painting of a whale and a dolphin getting it on

[TFTC @TFTC21]

A peer-reviewed paper published last year in the journal Bioethics by two professors at Western Michigan University School of Medicine argues that it is "morally obligatory" to genetically engineer ticks to spread alpha-gal syndrome, a permanent condition that makes you violently allergic to red meat.

The paper is called "Beneficial Bloodsucking."

Their argument: if eating meat is morally wrong, then preventing the spread of a disease that forces people to stop eating meat is also morally wrong. Scientists should gene-edit lone star ticks to enhance their ability to carry alpha-gal syndrome and expand their range into urban environments to infect more people.

They call this a "moral bioenhancer." They frame releasing genetically modified disease-carrying ticks as a "vaccination" that only "infringes" on your bodily autonomy rather than "violating" it. The distinction, apparently, is that a tick bit you instead of a government official holding you down.

Alpha-gal syndrome is not mild. The CDC estimates up to 450,000 Americans are already affected. Cases have surged 100-fold in the last decade. Symptoms include anaphylaxis. There is no cure.

Alpha-gal cases are exploding across the United States. The lone star tick's range is expanding far beyond its historical territory. And two academics at a medical school published a paper arguing this is a good thing that should be accelerated.

At what point do we stop treating papers like this as fringe academic exercises and start asking whether anyone is already acting on them?

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@0xrohan @katiewav Still is

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@dekker

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@SECGov

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

A former employee at OpenAI is blowing the whistle on Sam Altman, claiming he is building portals and summoning aliens using artificial intelligence.

The portals are reportedly located in the United States and China, with a new one added in the Middle East.

"We're building portals from which we're genuinely summoning aliens."

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Lol

[David Austin Walsh @DavidAstinWalsh]

No, they're embracing democratic socialism *because* of how capitalism works.

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Going to @MorganWallen tonight. I need to bum some darts

[Matt Peterson @Matty_P12]

My wife when Morgan Wallen sings about smoking cigs and crushing beers: 🤗

My wife when I smoke cigs and crush beers: 😠

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@LakersInMyBlood @dougboneparth Call Doug

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

I have a problem and its name is Wisconsin. A thread.

I hate Wisconsin. It’s like you took the absolute worst stereotypes of red states and blue states and mushed them together to create a Sheboygan hard role except dummer. The Madison libs are a walking talking Portlandia skit and the Republicans are all fat and on the verge of a very racist heart attack.
Everything you heard about Wisconsin is true.

[Angela Morabito @AngelaLMorabito]

Another Minnesota fraud story.

84.9% graduation rate
49.5% reading proficiency

[𝑴𝒐 𝑴𝒐𝒉𝒍𝒆𝒓 @MoMohler]

I grew up in the 90’s, of course I know what a Nerf football tastes like.

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@Baccardinals That was a mistake

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@StealthQE4

[Chili's Grill & Bar @Chilis]

burger with fries, bottomless chips and salsa and a drink at Chili's:

2023: $10.99
2024: $10.99
2025: $10.99
2026: $10.99

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@TarikSkubal

[js9innings @js9inningsmedia]

“It’s just not fair. But that’s part of the business. It’s part of the game. If they know me, though, and they know me on a personal level, and they know what my peers think of me, I don’t think it’s fair to say those things.”

Tarik Skubal on the criticism he received for leaving Team USA during World Baseball Classic per @jaysonst

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QB1

[Tom Pelissero @TomPelissero]

The Vikings have agreed with veteran punter Johnny Hekker on a one-year deal, sources tell me and @RapSheet