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Matt Rich

@mattrich.bsky.social

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Geneticist in Erik Jorgensen's lab @UUtah. Trying to turn worms into yeast. Also neuron maturation and giant ankyrin. PhD with Stan Fields @uwgenome. Princeton ‘09. (he/him)

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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 6h

oh nice they didn’t ground into another double play and won!

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 8h

Congrats to the Seattle Mariners, who now earn the prize of playing in the next ring of postseason baseball Hades

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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 15h

every time this happens. every time.

I’m going to bed. Good luck. May God have mercy on your souls.

Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 15h

I give up

Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 16h

I just want the Mariners to do something good

Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 16h

adam amin talking about squeezing out #2 lol

Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 17h

cal’s first passed ball all season its over

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 17h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 17h

this is horrible why do we do this to ourselves

Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 17h

youd never survive the asylum* I was raised in

* - fernando rodney closer

Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 17h

never in doubt

Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 18h

look we’ve been through a lot

strawberry garfield @bbburgerrr.bsky.social · 18h

omg the guy crying in the crowd

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 3d

The Tigers “Meijer” sleeve ads remind me that it’s crazy that two unrelated dudes named Fred Meyer and Fred Meijer started big regional all-in-one grocery store chains that bear their names in different parts of the country (PNW and the Upper Midwest) in the early twentieth century.

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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 18h

cooked

Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 18h

hello darkness

Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 18h

Damnit

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 1d

It is frankly strange to be this obsessed with college if you no longer attend one and do not work in education. More people in legacy media need to be told that.

Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 1d

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 1d

these fucking bastards www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

After counting how many times she said ‘equity,’ state lawmakers vote against recommending University of Utah trustee

“I did hear you mention ‘equity’ twice in the presentation,” said Sen. Mike McKell, R-Spanish Fork, who voted against recommending University of Utah trustee Maria Garciaz for reappointment.

www.sltrib.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18d

I think…people’s obsession with “a cause”…is precisely because autism’s genetic randomness is hard to stratify by social class……………..

Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 18d

THERE. ARE. NO. 'CAUSES'. OF. AUTISM.

(other than being born as a member of Homo sapiens, which is a huge risk factor for turning out to be Autistic).

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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 2d

rip to all the people whose names contain B, J, O, U, X, Z, or * and so can never encode themselves in a linker

couldn’t be me!

Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 2d

the cackling while they cut to jeter and a-rod 😂

James G @orth.ca · 2d

Vladdy: "DAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE!"

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 2d

when UNC scored on the first possession of the first game and Colin Cowherd immediately posted this, and then UNC lost by 34

Wasn’t really sure what to expect from Chapel Bill. But after that drive, I have him as second best college coach I’ve ever seen, just below Saban.

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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 3d

yeesh thank god