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Matt Van Horn

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Ralph Gracie black belt, programmer, card player, shooter, home brewer, amateur pizzaiolo, bedroom DJ, and electric unicyclist. He/him. ADHD 🇵🇷🇮🇹+ @[email protected] @mattvh on IG (but probably not for long)

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 9h

If Sandy Hook was not that moment, I can't conceive of anything that could make the cut.

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 9h

OPINION: "Today, as I approach 40, I watch children as young as kindergartners practice active-shooter drills, ducking under desks, freezing in dark corners, pretending this horror is part of their regular school day," Duvalier Malone writes.

Opinion | As Kids Die at School, We Need an Emmett Till Moment

Dr. Duvalier Malone writes about the normalization of school shootings and how immediate action must be taken to stop them.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 15h

The tech is called “Machine Identification Code” if you want to google for more info. It has been around for about 20 years.

Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 16h

If I get one, it's gonna live in my backyard most of the year, holding a margarita, and reading a trashy novel.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17h

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 17h

Pretty much all printers do this. Photocopiers, too. It’s anti-counterfeiting tech.

Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 17h

I won this (and a bunch of other stuff) in a raffle, and I’m wondering what I could do with it besides putting out Halloween candy. Any ideas? My creativity ain’t what it used to be.

Black metal cauldron with feet (paws, really) on a wooden floor. It is about a foot tall and about 16 inches in diameter.

Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 1d

Deep cut.

Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 2d

Lots of cars today.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I really need help with this . I’m gonna go hyperventilate into a bag but this has gone bad quickly

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 2d

Lots of people are being forced to use it, useful or not.

Every serious study undertaken so far has shown that it causes a net loss to productivity when used for software engineering tasks.

And, again - cost. I find public transportation useful at $3 per ride; much less useful at $100 per ride.

Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 2d

What percent of that would be using it if they had to pay for its true cost?

You could give me a combination espresso machine/vacuum cleaner for free and I’d probably use it once or twice, but not if I had to pay for it.

Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 2d

Same.

Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 2d

Who wants to take out a life insurance policy on me?

An ad for an electric unicycle with a top speed of 93mph.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 2d

More photos from the all-Ford car show. I’m out of my depth, but it’s fun.

1968 Blue Mustang fastback with a sign in front of it describing the details.

Red Mach-E and Blue Shelby Cobra parked facing in opposite directions.

A weird super lifted tan 65 Mustang with the hood opened and 8 Weber carbs poking through it. It has purple headlights and some kind of fuel canister on the front.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 2d

All Fords - Mustangs, T-Birds, and a few other models, too.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 2d

Setting up at my first car show (as a participant, not spectator)

60s era Mustangs in various colors, parked under trees.

My black 2020 Mustang GT parked in front of a red one of similar vintage, and a classic green one.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 3d

This pretty much sums it up:

Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 3d

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is often someone awful, I’m just glad this year it didn’t go to the awful guy who wanted it the most

Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 3d

One more, in the same vein. (Why do I know so many death poems?)

My girl is waiting for me
And does not know
That my body will stay here
On the rocks of Mount Kamo.

- Hitomaro (translated by Kenneth Rexroth)

Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 3d

I always put this together in my mind with Requiem, by Robert Louis Stevenson:

Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will

This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 4d

You can take me out of New York, but you can’t take the Nuyorican outta me.

Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 4d

It's been a decade of yikes.
All the years of yikes are making me long for a few years of lead.

Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 5d

Thanks! This is definitely very useful information!

Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 5d

I wonder if this will stop me waking up to find my blankets on the floor. I may have to try this, once I am employed again.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 5d

Wait - you mean that’s NOT overpromising TV commercial BS? I am officially intrigued.

Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 5d

That’s nothing, just the other day I had sex with the girlfriend of the founder of Atheism.