MattY is extremely consistent, but also can't help himself and constantly tweets in a layer of irony or two. This causes some people to get extraordinarily mad at him in the replies, at which point I like to play a game of figuring out how they misread the tweet, which they always seem to have done.

His actual articles are perfectly straightforward, sincere, and usually on some topic like "Boston subway stations should cost less to build".

He certainly USED to write articles like that!