Matt Ruppert

I take photos and write about (mostly live) music. Black Lives Matter. he/him. Half-deaf. Contributor to @thesesubtlesounds, @nodepression, and @parklifedc

[Matt Ruppert @tonechasing]

I wrote a thing about the new @WaterLiarsMusic record and would be obliged if y'all read it. I'd be much more obliged if y'all bought the record on @Bandcamp ASAP. https://t.co/GRnmX8RQMD

[Matt Ruppert @tonechasing]

There should be a @TheRealYLT cover band called "I Have It" that translates the lyrics into Spanish

[Matt Ruppert @tonechasing]

@RoughTrade Gang of Youths. Yes. No. Yes (also photographed them)

[Matt Ruppert @tonechasing]

@CGold113 ...how much longer, ya think? Dadley Clutchman right behind him with his insane bWAR

[Matt Ruppert @tonechasing]

@oaf7724 @nut_history Hahaha I remember this! He was *so* wild and honestly so good for a stretch

[Matt Ruppert @tonechasing]

@fuckedupfoods @CGold113 this is relevant to our previous discussion of terrible hot dog uses.

[Matt Ruppert @tonechasing]

@CGold113 @GenjiGlove Hahahaha the whole account has tons of gold.

[Matt Ruppert @tonechasing]

@GenjiGlove ?

[i like food @messedupfoods]

pepto hotdog

[Matt Ruppert @tonechasing]

Required listening, y'all

[Raven Cain 🐦‍⬛ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @llamalaikum]

Elvis Presley died 45 years ago today. In honor of that, I present to you the music he appropriated, did worse, and never credited.

[Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @perdricof]

lighter than concrete, more fire-resistant than steel, strong enough to support an eighteen-story skyscraper: mass timber is the most solarpunk shit imaginable--

it's also an interesting study in what green industry actually means.

a thread.

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

A brand new scientific paper (474 references) reviews all published research on 100% renewables to show, unequivocally, that 100% renewable energy “can power all energy in all regions of the world at low cost”

It’s such good climate news: high time we get on with it!

THREAD

[Matt Ruppert @tonechasing]

Y'all, I wrote this and would appreciate you reading it, but would reeeeeally love it if you spent hours, days, and dollars listening to everything @kelsey_waldon has released

[No Depression – Roots Music Journalism @nodepression]

ALBUM REVIEW: Kelsey Waldon Explores All Corners of Country on ‘No Regular Dog’

🎧 Learn more! @kelsey_waldon @ohboyrecords @tonechasing
https://t.co/eTQEOrbpFG

[Zach Silver @zachsilver]

The Orioles have a new introduction for their closer, Félix Bautista, complete with Omar's whistle and flashing flood lights:

[jo lampert @jolampert]

There is no ‘teacher shortage’. There are thousands of qualified experiences teachers who are no longer teaching. There’s a shortage of respect and proper compensation for teachers allowing them to actually teach.

[Ada Palmer @Ada_Palmer]

Middle Ages: I'm going to write 600 pages on Augustine's celebration of freewill!

Renaissance: Well *I'm* going to write a 600 pages on how the donkey sex in Apuleius is really an allegory of becoming an angel!

Modernity: The Renaissance was an Age of Reason!

Middle Ages:🙄

[Matt Ruppert @tonechasing]

I love this

[Nathan Baugh @nathanbaugh27]

The most important skill you’ve never been taught:

Storytelling

10 dead-simple tips to make you a better storyteller:

[Matt Ruppert @tonechasing]

@LaneyLynnT @GenjiGlove @CGold113 @oaf7724 😂🤣 it's certainly not the choice I'd make!

[Matt Ruppert @tonechasing]

So, @GenjiGlove , @CGold113 , and @oaf7724 - this is cool af, right? I'm not delusional?

[Matt Ruppert @tonechasing]

@GenjiGlove @CGold113 @oaf7724 That might be true. But some of the furniture looks full-sized, and that library space *swoon*

[Matt Ruppert @tonechasing]

@oaf7724 @CGold113 @GenjiGlove

[Matt Ruppert @tonechasing]

@CGold113 Road trip to Miami in 2023?