Matthew Longhurst

Husband | Papa | Recovering lawyer & CPA | COO working to bring biotech, pharma, and device products to market (and keep them there!) | LDS | 🏳️‍🌈 Ally | PNW

[Matthew Longhurst @Dancer_Esquire]

@idlescrivner GASP!

[Matthew Longhurst @Dancer_Esquire]

@JDVance It’s like you either have zero reading comprehension or you are acting in deliberate horribly bad faith here. Wonder which one it is. Grow. Up.

[Taylor G. Petrey @TaylorPetrey]

The President demanding an apology for a bishop’s sermon and a congressperson calling for her deportation and the MAGA response to take away tax exempt status and harass staff are what actual attacks on religious freedom look like. Christian nationalism is coming for us all.

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

This is what it looks like to speak truth to power.

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

If your response to Gen John Kelly, gold star father & Trump’s WH chief of staff, confirming that Trump praised Hitler & called members of our military “suckers and losers” is to defend Trump, you need to look in the mirror and realize your dishonor will live forever.

[Matthew Longhurst @Dancer_Esquire]

This.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

It will forever baffle me at how someone could see how Jesus laid down his life out of love for the world rather than forcing it to conform to his will, then somehow conclude that political and theological authoritarianism is how his followers should represent him in the world.

[Matthew Longhurst @Dancer_Esquire]

@BasedMikeLee @KSLcom You are deeply, deeply unwell.

[Reed Galen @reedgalen]

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Now that @realDonaldTrump has said his mass deportation effort will be 'bloody' I have a modest proposal for @nytimes @washingtonpost @WSJ @USATODAY @politico @NBCNews @CBSNews and @ABC: Ask him and his campaign these simple questions: 1/

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

We practiced with caskets that were stored outside our barracks building. To simulate the weight of honored remains, we’d toss several full sandbags into the belly of the casket and then, for hours, we’d go through our exact movements.

Over and over and over.

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[Matthew Longhurst @Dancer_Esquire]

Can I just say amen to this thread? In our brand new house we have 4 pendants over our kitchen island that each took 4 LED bulbs (so 16 total). Within 6 months, HALF had burned out. Now, 2 months after that, most of the remainder are gone. Insanely terrible quality.

[Len 🏳️‍⚧️ the raptor @ PCD @LenKusov]

Y'know, once you learn about "enshittification" you immediately start to see it in EVERYTHING

Like, I spent a large chunk of my 3-hour-long grocery run standing in the lightbulb aisle trying to find LED bulbs that might actually outlive rough-service incandescents...

[Matthew Longhurst @Dancer_Esquire]

@DaniAndi4 Geez friend. When you go big you go big.

[Matthew Longhurst @Dancer_Esquire]

This really resonates. I am thankful for the altruists who make this happen for me, and I try hard to be one myself as I am able!

[Nikhil Krishnan @nikillinit]

I spent like all of my 20s obsessed with trying to fix the loneliness problem - hosted tons of events, tried starting a company around it, etc.

Main two takeaways

1) The fact that you can stay home and basically self-medicate with content in a way that feels not-quite-bored is the biggest barrier.

Meeting new people consistently is naturally somewhat uncomfortable no matter how structured/well designed an event is. Being presented with an option of staying home and chilling vs. going out to meet new people, most people will pick the former and that's pretty hard to fight.

2) Solving loneliness is largely reliant on altruists.

-altruists who take the time to plan events and get their friends together
-altruists that reach out to bring you into a plan being formed even if you're not super close
-altruists that bug you to go out even when you don't really want to

I don't think a company will solve this problem tbh, financial incentives inherently make this entire thing feel inorganic IMO. I'm not totally sure what will.

[Matthew Longhurst @Dancer_Esquire]

@DaniAndi4 Love Hook. My entry:

[Matthew Longhurst @Dancer_Esquire]

@DaniAndi4 @sunday_southern This is a good reference.

[Matthew Longhurst @Dancer_Esquire]

@Cora_Longhurst He would die SO FAST. And thus probably the rest of us with him.

[Matthew Longhurst @Dancer_Esquire]

@Cora_Longhurst 🤣🤣

[Matthew Longhurst @Dancer_Esquire]

This thread is the goods, nerds.

[Gnome Anne May Perceive Me @annethegnome]

FUNGUS IN SPACE!!! 🍄🚀

Equal parts cosmic horror and nature being metal, let's talk about the lichen that grew on the OUTSIDE of the International Space Station!

Get your tea and curl up, because I PROMISE you wanna hear about these fungal cosmonauts 🧑‍🚀
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[Matthew Longhurst @Dancer_Esquire]

@EricDSnider I always appreciate everything you have to say about movies and if indeed this is your last Sundance please know that your voice will be missed!

[Matthew Longhurst @Dancer_Esquire]

@DaniAndi4 I mean, I see it has been suggested by several others, and for dang good reason. It’s just hard to beat. Athens is amazing too, and the Hagia Sofia is also a big bucket list item for me so that would get my vote among your list.

[Matthew Longhurst @Dancer_Esquire]

@DaniAndi4 Why is Italy not on this list? Art, architecture, history, AND GELATO! Rome/Florence, and pretty much anywhere is amazing (except Naples).