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MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars)

@08mms.bsky.social

620 followers 1.1K following 3K posts

M&A Lawyer, Semi-Stereotypical Dad, Michigan Wolverine, National History Day - Michigan Regional Runner Up (2000)

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MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 1d

I followed the thread up and realized that’s where this started and it brought me joy.

MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 1d

The exception that proves the rule being old school Battle Bots

MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 1d

Law school Popehat didn’t have that Kissinger gene in him apparently.

MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, was your therory that it was ok to use the nukes for genocide, or ok to nuke the nazis or their equivalents?

MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, I’m with my people.

MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 2d

What kind of D&O coverage does Antifa have?

MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 2d

Sure I sold Doc that yellow cake uranium, but he clicked a clicked through first saying that it wasn’t a controlled arms sale.

MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 2d

a man wearing a ny hat is screaming with the words nooooo !!! behind him

ALT: a man wearing a ny hat is screaming with the words nooooo !!! behind him

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MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 2d

a man with a beard is wearing a helmet and holding a blue object with the year 2022 on the bottom

ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a helmet and holding a blue object with the year 2022 on the bottom

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MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 2d

Are you sure you could handle living in a town where that nightmare mascot might be lurking around any corner?

MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 5d

It’s inexplicably worked for Musk and Trump so far and no one else ever.

MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 6d

Well, time to walk into the sea.

MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 7d

You literally owe them your corn though: lifesciencehistory.com/the-first-ex...

The first experimental corn hybrid was produced in a laboratory - LifeScienceHistory.com

In 1873, botany professor W. J. Beal becomes one of the pioneers in the development of hybrid corn,...

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MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 7d

Beginning to believe that salesman did not in fact own the Brooklyn Bridge.

MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 7d

MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 7d

*searching eBay for a Stalking badge*

MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 7d

Choosing what to read?

MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 7d

I can see how 100 bookshelves would be a blessing and a curse situation.

MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 7d

Oh boy, that just unlocked so much understanding about my organizational style that has driven other partners nuts I never put together before.

MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 8d

This is what low engagement voters saw for Trump (he’s too rich to want money for himself & cares a lot about secure borders) and the same theme that has led the popularity for Bernie and Mandami. If you forcefully articulate a compassionate defense of trans folks, it earns the same credit.

MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 8d

Dems don’t get that what people who aren’t pickled in politics as a hobby/sport want is politicians who genuinely come across as caring about something more than their career so they can trust them to represent their constituents more than themselves.

MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 9d

The lab coat look was an interesting choice.

MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 9d

He is just truly himself in everything he does, it’s magnificent.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

MAT-AT (aka Downtown Lars) @08mms.bsky.social · 9d

This is really a grand time to be selling bullshit to big companies, marketing for BS AI solutions must be a dream job