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matt @battmutler.bsky.social · 5h

GoldenEye DK Mode lookin ass

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matt @battmutler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

difficult choices were made

my 9 games, the 9 games that shaped who i am: goldeneye 007, half life 2, red dead redemption 2, nhl 95, yakuza 0, microsoft flight simulator, the last of us, chrono trigger, unreal tournament

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matt @battmutler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I just started watching Furious, and now I finally know why everyone on Double Lives of Suburban Wives (aka the St. Louis OnlyFans Show) hates Emily.

emily from double lives of suburban wives

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matt @battmutler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm watching a live German soccer game, on a Spanish-language television channel, with just an antenna, in the middle of the USA.

Yakov Smirnoff in a colorful sweater giving a thumbs up, with the caption "what a country!"

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matt @battmutler.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

> fires up a movie about music hipsters in the early 2010s > sees this shot > feels extremely seen, not in a bad way necessarily, but in a "hey excuse you, those were my favorite books in 2007" way

a stack of books - sex drugs and cocoa puffs, fear and loathing in las vegas, breakfast of champions

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matt @battmutler.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

That is almost Don Cherry level

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matt @battmutler.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I have two brown thumbs, but I think this jade plant is doing pretty well (other than the wide fanning out - I think that's a light thing, but it lives where it lives). Any master gardeners out there with some insight?

A jade plant in a yellow plastic pot, sitting by a window

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matt @battmutler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

new record aug 7, hell yeah

The mountain goats discussion ben franklin 14m
some things have appeared on spotify shop and various aussie record shop sites. album is called "Days", it's out on the 7th of August. Here's the beautiful deluxe edition art!
with deluxe edition art, burnt orange and teal record sleeves with peach vinyl

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matt @battmutler.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I was a fashion icon back in the day. What the hell happened?

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matt @battmutler.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Been making my way through all my parents' old crap in storage, because it is Time To Downsize - found these gems hidden in one of my dad's old scrapbooks from when he was 14 or so

Mad Magazines from October and December 1961, The Phantom no. 48, and My Greatest Adventure no. 57

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matt @battmutler.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

In the usual Holy Week tradition. It's either this or the movie. Carl Anderson in the movie is a better Judas, but you can't beat Ian Gillan from Deep Purple as Jesus.

The Jesus Christ Superstar original cast recording playing on a turntable, with a bunch of records below

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matt @battmutler.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Words of wisdom for the coming gas crisis

Ricky lecturing Corey and Trevor in Trailer Park Boys: Yeah, but how can you tell which is the supreme? What are you stupid? You fuckin’ taste it. Unleaded tastes a little tangy, supreme is kinda sour, and diesel tastes pretty good.

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matt @battmutler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Friday afternoon at the archives: Fun With Floppies. Look at those file modified dates!

A USB 3.5 inch floppy drive plugged into a hardware write blocker

Screenshot of teracopy having copied a few files and their checksums

A few files in windows explorer with Date Modified dates of 2/8/1990

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matt @battmutler.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Thinking a lot about "happy birthday, sir, despite the circumstances" (courtesy of John Green) today.

We were living in that apartment during the U.S.’s 2003 invasion of
Iraq. Hassan grew up in Kuwait, and he had family members living in
Iraq at the time. For a few weeks after the invasion, he didn’t hear from
them. He would eventually learn they were okay, but it was a scary
time, and one of the ways he coped was by watching cable news almost
all the time. And because we only had one TV, and we were constantly
together, that meant the rest of us watched a lot of cable news as well.
Even though the war was covered twenty-four hours a day, very
little background information ever entered the picture. The news talked
a fair amount about the relationship between Shia and Sunni Muslims
in Iraq, for instance, but never paused to explain the theological
differences between Shias and Sunnis, or the history of Iraq, or the
political ideology of the Baathist movement. There was so much news—
news that was forever breaking—that there was never time for context.
One evening, just after the U.S.-led forces entered Baghdad, we were
all watching the news on the couch together. Unedited footage was
being broadcast from the city, and we watched as a cameraman panned
across a home with a huge hole in one of its walls that was mostly
covered by a piece of plywood. There was Arabic graffiti scrawled in
black spray paint on the plywood, and the reporter on the news was
talking about the anger in the street, and the hatred. Hassan started to
laugh.
I asked him what was so funny, and he said, “The graffiti.”
And I said, “What’s funny about it?”
Hassan answered, “It says ‘Happy birthday, sir, despite the
circumstances.’”

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matt @battmutler.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

dude WHAT they are getting desperate

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matt @battmutler.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Blast from the past right here - got my old iPod (2nd generation) out and it still works. Battery's shot, naturally. On brand for me, I jailbroke it in college and changed the font to something goofy. No firewire ports now so it's a time capsule from ~2008.

A 2nd generation iPod Classic sitting on a desk, with the opening tracks from Radiohead's Hail to the Thief pulled up

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matt @battmutler.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

me, at every picture of Epstein just to make sure it's not Anthony Bourdain:

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matt @battmutler.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

everyone: "men would rather do anything else than go to therapy" me: "I have a therapist! I've been seeing him since I was seven years old!" classicreload.com/dr-sbaitso.h...