Matt Diersen
@mattdiersen.bsky.social
Pittsburgh Architect of limited note.
Never actually deployed this phrase before, but
OK, Boomer.
OK, Boomer.
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Never actually deployed this phrase before, but
OK, Boomer.
OK, Boomer.
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immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
What disheartens me most is that the Democrats need to have a shadow government of politicians and lawyers, called, maybe, "The Everything that Needs to Get Done and How We Do It as Quickly as Possible as Soon As We Can committee."
And we all know they don't have that.
And we all know they don't have that.
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
What disheartens me most is that the Democrats need to have a shadow government of politicians and lawyers, called, maybe, "The Everything that Needs to Get Done and How We Do It as Quickly as Possible as Soon As We Can committee."
And we all know they don't have that.
And we all know they don't have that.
what skill did you master that you will never ever use again?
At 47, likely among the youngest architects to have revised an ink on mylar drawing set (badly) in an office setting, with an electric eraser and rapidograph.
Or to have somewhat regularly run blue-line prints on a Diazit machine.
At 47, likely among the youngest architects to have revised an ink on mylar drawing set (badly) in an office setting, with an electric eraser and rapidograph.
Or to have somewhat regularly run blue-line prints on a Diazit machine.
what skill did you master that you will never ever use again?
the ear piercing gun at claire’s
the ear piercing gun at claire’s
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
December 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
what skill did you master that you will never ever use again?
At 47, likely among the youngest architects to have revised an ink on mylar drawing set (badly) in an office setting, with an electric eraser and rapidograph.
Or to have somewhat regularly run blue-line prints on a Diazit machine.
At 47, likely among the youngest architects to have revised an ink on mylar drawing set (badly) in an office setting, with an electric eraser and rapidograph.
Or to have somewhat regularly run blue-line prints on a Diazit machine.
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Probably not a great idea to run the US government as a make-a-wish foundation for your ailing racist uncle.
December 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Probably not a great idea to run the US government as a make-a-wish foundation for your ailing racist uncle.
Just learned that Girl Scouts are called Girl Guides in Canada and once again thinking these two simultaneous thoughts: the various Britishisms of Canada are so precious, and I am a huge American jerkface.
December 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Just learned that Girl Scouts are called Girl Guides in Canada and once again thinking these two simultaneous thoughts: the various Britishisms of Canada are so precious, and I am a huge American jerkface.
Apparently the Riverhounds will be financing their new stadium on 2026 ticket sales alone?
Black Friday was a BOGO deal as recently as 3-4 years ago. Now face value for midview seat vouchers is $42 a pop w/ no discount. Bummer that I’ll be seeing fewer games with my family at that price.
Black Friday was a BOGO deal as recently as 3-4 years ago. Now face value for midview seat vouchers is $42 a pop w/ no discount. Bummer that I’ll be seeing fewer games with my family at that price.
November 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Apparently the Riverhounds will be financing their new stadium on 2026 ticket sales alone?
Black Friday was a BOGO deal as recently as 3-4 years ago. Now face value for midview seat vouchers is $42 a pop w/ no discount. Bummer that I’ll be seeing fewer games with my family at that price.
Black Friday was a BOGO deal as recently as 3-4 years ago. Now face value for midview seat vouchers is $42 a pop w/ no discount. Bummer that I’ll be seeing fewer games with my family at that price.
Wasting time instead of working, and found that in a six day period in early October 2000, I saw:
Jets to Brazil, Hey Mercedes, Will Oldham (and whoever opened, I don't recall), The Dismemberment Plan, and their opener Spoozys, a surf rock band from Japan who wore space suits for their set a la MoAM
Jets to Brazil, Hey Mercedes, Will Oldham (and whoever opened, I don't recall), The Dismemberment Plan, and their opener Spoozys, a surf rock band from Japan who wore space suits for their set a la MoAM
November 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Wasting time instead of working, and found that in a six day period in early October 2000, I saw:
Jets to Brazil, Hey Mercedes, Will Oldham (and whoever opened, I don't recall), The Dismemberment Plan, and their opener Spoozys, a surf rock band from Japan who wore space suits for their set a la MoAM
Jets to Brazil, Hey Mercedes, Will Oldham (and whoever opened, I don't recall), The Dismemberment Plan, and their opener Spoozys, a surf rock band from Japan who wore space suits for their set a la MoAM
Reading a NYT article that used the word, “festooned,” and I knew that every 30-year-old journalist’s and florid-prose-writing realtor’s favorite, “adorned,” couldn’t be far behind.
There it was, nine paragraphs later. Never fails.
There it was, nine paragraphs later. Never fails.
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Reading a NYT article that used the word, “festooned,” and I knew that every 30-year-old journalist’s and florid-prose-writing realtor’s favorite, “adorned,” couldn’t be far behind.
There it was, nine paragraphs later. Never fails.
There it was, nine paragraphs later. Never fails.
A movie that takes place where I’m from.
This movie is set in my hometown, and much of it filmed in the mall where I worked in high school, which will likely be torn down within the year.
I have never seen it.
This movie is set in my hometown, and much of it filmed in the mall where I worked in high school, which will likely be torn down within the year.
I have never seen it.
November 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
A movie that takes place where I’m from.
This movie is set in my hometown, and much of it filmed in the mall where I worked in high school, which will likely be torn down within the year.
I have never seen it.
This movie is set in my hometown, and much of it filmed in the mall where I worked in high school, which will likely be torn down within the year.
I have never seen it.
My 8-year-old found this and requested I put batteries in it. Still works, and you can still only hit the ball by timing the sounds and f the pitch delivery.
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
My 8-year-old found this and requested I put batteries in it. Still works, and you can still only hit the ball by timing the sounds and f the pitch delivery.
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Guys the trophy is broken
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Guys the trophy is broken
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Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
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Stand strong with Trump and he’ll fawn all over you. Roll over and show him your belly and he’ll yank away your UN ambassadorship and then crap on your gubernatorial campaign.
November 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Stand strong with Trump and he’ll fawn all over you. Roll over and show him your belly and he’ll yank away your UN ambassadorship and then crap on your gubernatorial campaign.
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[me from the back of the room at the Woke 2 meeting]
ᴀʟsᴏ ɪᴛ's ᴄᴏᴏʟ ᴛᴏ ʟɪsᴛᴇɴ ᴛᴏ Mᴏʀʀɪssᴇʏ ᴀɢᴀɪɴ now ғᴏʀ sᴏᴍᴇ ʀᴇᴀsᴏɴ!
ᴀʟsᴏ ɪᴛ's ᴄᴏᴏʟ ᴛᴏ ʟɪsᴛᴇɴ ᴛᴏ Mᴏʀʀɪssᴇʏ ᴀɢᴀɪɴ now ғᴏʀ sᴏᴍᴇ ʀᴇᴀsᴏɴ!
November 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
[me from the back of the room at the Woke 2 meeting]
ᴀʟsᴏ ɪᴛ's ᴄᴏᴏʟ ᴛᴏ ʟɪsᴛᴇɴ ᴛᴏ Mᴏʀʀɪssᴇʏ ᴀɢᴀɪɴ now ғᴏʀ sᴏᴍᴇ ʀᴇᴀsᴏɴ!
ᴀʟsᴏ ɪᴛ's ᴄᴏᴏʟ ᴛᴏ ʟɪsᴛᴇɴ ᴛᴏ Mᴏʀʀɪssᴇʏ ᴀɢᴀɪɴ now ғᴏʀ sᴏᴍᴇ ʀᴇᴀsᴏɴ!
Call it my weird hobbyhorse, but hats have lots of names. Everything that is not a ball cap or a cowboy hat is not, by default, a “fedora.”
Yes, this is a fedora shape, but it is clearly a woven straw “Panama hat,” so that common name is right there for you to use to better describe it.
Yes, this is a fedora shape, but it is clearly a woven straw “Panama hat,” so that common name is right there for you to use to better describe it.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Call it my weird hobbyhorse, but hats have lots of names. Everything that is not a ball cap or a cowboy hat is not, by default, a “fedora.”
Yes, this is a fedora shape, but it is clearly a woven straw “Panama hat,” so that common name is right there for you to use to better describe it.
Yes, this is a fedora shape, but it is clearly a woven straw “Panama hat,” so that common name is right there for you to use to better describe it.
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it could be a back to school sales tax-free weekend on many but not all lunchboxes
BESSENT: “THE $2,000 DIVIDEND COULD COME IN LOTS OF FORMS… IT COULD BE JUST THE TAX DECREASES. IT COULD BE NO TAX ON TIPS.”
November 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
it could be a back to school sales tax-free weekend on many but not all lunchboxes
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The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
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It’s such an obvious point but this is an organization predicated on the idea that it would fight back against Big Government Imposition, rolling over because it likes what’s being imposed. Another example of how shallow so much of the right’s Gadsden-waving Constitution-hugging always was.
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It’s such an obvious point but this is an organization predicated on the idea that it would fight back against Big Government Imposition, rolling over because it likes what’s being imposed. Another example of how shallow so much of the right’s Gadsden-waving Constitution-hugging always was.
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they understand insurance. the entire premise of libertarian opposition to mandatory insurance is that they should not have to care about anyone else and be permitted to take risks. it's the same opposition to vaccination and taxation.
they are bad neighbors.
they are bad neighbors.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
they understand insurance. the entire premise of libertarian opposition to mandatory insurance is that they should not have to care about anyone else and be permitted to take risks. it's the same opposition to vaccination and taxation.
they are bad neighbors.
they are bad neighbors.
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Trump repeatedly fell asleep during his criminal trial in New York last year. You may not have heard about it much because the media decided that Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard 20 years ago merited more prominent coverage
November 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Trump repeatedly fell asleep during his criminal trial in New York last year. You may not have heard about it much because the media decided that Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard 20 years ago merited more prominent coverage
Out of curiosity, I checked, the 2024 USAID budget of ~$25 billion is 1/40 of a trillion.
Also, counting from one to a trillion at one number per second would take almost 32,000 years. It is a quantity nearly inconceivable to the human mind.
Also, counting from one to a trillion at one number per second would take almost 32,000 years. It is a quantity nearly inconceivable to the human mind.
Something deeply fucked up when you can blindly break basic state functions and condemn millions to death and then people make you the richest man in the world instead of a pariah
November 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Out of curiosity, I checked, the 2024 USAID budget of ~$25 billion is 1/40 of a trillion.
Also, counting from one to a trillion at one number per second would take almost 32,000 years. It is a quantity nearly inconceivable to the human mind.
Also, counting from one to a trillion at one number per second would take almost 32,000 years. It is a quantity nearly inconceivable to the human mind.
That awning is a like a pet cone to prevent the top half from seeing what they did to the bottom.
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
That awning is a like a pet cone to prevent the top half from seeing what they did to the bottom.
Hey @npr.org why am I listening to the ADL head slander Mamdani?
Anyone with eyes and ears can tell Mamdani's "antisemitism" consist only of being a Muslim who supports a free and safe Palestine.
This is a bad look for you. Do better.
Anyone with eyes and ears can tell Mamdani's "antisemitism" consist only of being a Muslim who supports a free and safe Palestine.
This is a bad look for you. Do better.
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Hey @npr.org why am I listening to the ADL head slander Mamdani?
Anyone with eyes and ears can tell Mamdani's "antisemitism" consist only of being a Muslim who supports a free and safe Palestine.
This is a bad look for you. Do better.
Anyone with eyes and ears can tell Mamdani's "antisemitism" consist only of being a Muslim who supports a free and safe Palestine.
This is a bad look for you. Do better.