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Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 3h

You are going to eat so much good seafood there, I’m envious. Are those fresh? I’ve only had tinned percebes, those were delicious.

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Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 4h

Their 2001 season was wild. Ichiro’s debut, record number of wins, then getting steamrolled by the Yankees.

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Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 21h

Time for a vacation www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Stones Have Been Popping Out of People Who Ride Roller Coasters

Using centripetal force to prevent a $4 billion healthcare cost

www.theatlantic.com

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 1d

It was almost four years ago that Nina Larson was killed by a driver as she crossed Columbia Road NW in Adams Morgan. (Story: dcist.com/story/21/11/...) It took until this week for the driver to be found guilty of two misdemeanor offenses.

24-Year-Old Aspiring Opera Singer, Restaurant Worker Killed By Driver In Adams Morgan

Nina Larson was an aspiring opera singer, American University graduate, and employee at Mintwood Place in Adams Morgan.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

hell to the YEAH

Death by Lightning | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

www.youtube.com

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"soft wood" bitch mahogany™ @dommedeluise.bsky.social · 3d

9/11 was kind of the "9/11" of country music

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Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 3d

Short answer is baggage liens. Fancy luggage was effectively a form of credit.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 4d

me: fandom is so weird you get super invested in the doings of these other people who don't even care about your opinion most of the time and your entire day is based on whether they did good or feel bad and then you have to feel the same way

mom: This is just parenthood

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Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 4d

Marine One has a new low-altitude flight pattern that goes directly over my house and Jesus that is a loud helicopter.

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Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 4d

SurveyMonkey is the only one I have any experience with but they had decent options for that using IP address tracking to limit responses.

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Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 5d

Matt Damon is like the one exception to this but yeah, it seems tough.

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 6d

You think that dry walling is easy because it’s such a common and necessary repair.

It’s not, and it’s worth spending a little extra time and money to do the task right.

Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 6d

Hard-won lessons in drywalling: Trim-Tex tearaway bead, Certainteed No-Coat corner bead, and FibaFuse fiberglass tape all make the process go much more smoothly. Worth the price.

Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 6d

If you ever need to finish that kind of transition in the future, get the Trim-Tex tearaway L-bead. Might need to go to a commercial supply place. The equivalent Clark Dietrich stuff they have at Home Depot is much harder to work with in my experience.

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Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 6d

Hard-won lessons in drywalling: Trim-Tex tearaway bead, Certainteed No-Coat corner bead, and FibaFuse fiberglass tape all make the process go much more smoothly. Worth the price.

Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 6d

If you ever need to finish that kind of transition in the future, get the Trim-Tex tearaway L-bead. Might need to go to a commercial supply place. The equivalent Clark Dietrich stuff they have at Home Depot is much harder to work with in my experience.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 6d

You have to make sure the children can’t escape, of course. You can’t make an Omelas without breaking legs.

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Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 6d

If you ever need to finish that kind of transition in the future, get the Trim-Tex tearaway L-bead. Might need to go to a commercial supply place. The equivalent Clark Dietrich stuff they have at Home Depot is much harder to work with in my experience.

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Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 6d

Drywall finishing is so much harder than it looks. Hosed myself on the first large drywall job I bid, “how hard could it be?” I naively thought. Took like a week longer than I planned to get it looking right.

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Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 6d

Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007) holding a captive bolt pistol

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 7d

good timeline: kelce bombs film career, messy divorce in 5 years and a banger divorce album

neutral: full tradwife, four kids. no new music, middling Vegas residency in the 40s

bad: kelce replaces chris pratt, swift changes her name and flirts w/ MAGA, we hear about his dick for six more albums

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Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 7d

[mournfully] jealousy professor

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Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 8d

Hiring is expensive, it would almost certainly save money to just properly fund this rather than having to replace all these teachers.

Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 8d

This is messed up but it sounds like it’s on the Council too. $230k for one year is not a serious funding commitment.

As word started spreading earlier this year that DCPS would no longer sponsor green cards, teachers and their allies started reaching out to parents and councilmembers to try and urge the school system to reverse course. The council acted, adding just over $230,000
to the school system's billion-dollar budget for a dedicated attorney to help file required green card applications.
The apparent victory, though, was short-lived. By August DCPS was saying it would not spend the money, which became available on Wednesday as part of the city's budget for 2026.
"The single-year funding allotment designated by the D.C. Council would not sustain resurrecting a pilot program that can take up to nine years of financial and administrative commitment to complete," said the DCPS spokesman.

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 8d

what I do like about Swift's music is that it's so cinematic. you think I mean that one way but what I actually mean is how in feminist film theory, they talk about the cinematic imagination and observation of the self as though you were a film character. "pretending you're in a music video" thought

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Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 8d

Her album art has always had a bit of a Cindy Sherman vibe to it too.

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Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 10d

The official trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz.

In select theaters October 17, on Netflix November 7.

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Joe @joeposting.bsky.social · 9d

Please stop calling Cyber Security Awareness Month CSAM. Do not send e-mails with ideas for "Participating in CSAM".

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