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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I salute the fans who actually went to this thing. Watch two bad teams without even the campus experience to enjoy?

Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

“What do you need to do to be successful tonight?” “You know, we just have to execute the game plan and stay aggressive.” “How will you deal with their pass rush?” “You know, we just need to key-in on our assignments and execute our game plan”.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Amazing that we all have a limited time on this earth and this is what this guy chooses to do with it.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Yes I love these menus but I know the braised lamb shanks here would be very different than the ones I make with garlic, tomato paste, red wine and herbes de Provence.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I aspire to one day have enough free time during the work week to sit in my car from 10:30 to 2:30 each day.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I have no idea what you just said.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

As someone who left X because there was usually vile and hateful commentary about almost every possible topic, I would refute your thesis. You dropped a political opinion and someone disagreed with a mildly snarky comment. On X ppl get brutally dragged for saying they like spaghetti or something.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

It’s already out there. They are criticizing him for being a capitalist and saying we can’t support him. It’s exhausting.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I do not want to see more games won or lost on a dozen FG attempts based on who has a better kicker. I guess it’s just going to replace the punt if you’re between the 40s. one team gets to the 50 and misses a FG and the other team will take over and go 3 and out and kick a FG.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Of course conservatives want clean water and nice roads and good schools, they just don’t want to pay for it.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Even after he figured it out he said he is not criticizing Trump and still wants the tariffs, just “adjusted” to not apply to his products. So you can see what we’re dealing with. Trump could stick this guy’s head in a bucket of water and the guy would believe he wasn’t getting wet.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Walgreens too. Maybe not that long. But after 4th of July I think.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Someone didn’t give her the memo and the truth slipped in for a second. Can’t have the sheep seeing what’s behind the curtain.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

They won’t vote him out anyway. He’ll blame any blowback on the Dems and have big Republican money backing his campaign. It’s no wonder he and the others who voted for this are not worried about midterms.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Damn they killed it. Her band sounded perfect- got the drum/snare sound right which is no easy feat. Robert’s voice still amazing. Olivia sounded Great too. She has repped a lot of bands from the era before she was even born. Respect.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I made it through one episode and gave up. Definitely not my thing.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Midcentury and the subsequent styles of the late 60s and 70s are still 🔥

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I am a huge fan of fall and winter but around the (winter) solstice we only get 8 hours of light. I am 45 parallel and that seasonal affective disorder hits when the sun sets at 4pm. But enjoy your darkness if you like it!

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This is true for all consultants. “Here’s what you need to do…”. “Thanks but that’s too expensive”

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

There’s bad grammar, because “good” and “bad” refer to judgment, and as you say, we judge ppl’s grammar all the time. I would say there’s no such thing as “incorrect” grammar. But that’s just me being a stickler for “good” diction.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

“I like Trump” still right there in your narrative. Your livelihood now gone, an industry gutted, but you still like him.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Im sorry the system didn’t empower you to become who you wanted to become, but I’m glad you found a way to get there.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Oh there are systemic and very real problems with our schools. Some are even fundamental and require radical reform. But from my perspective there are also very good things being done. I mean, I assume we educated you, and you clearly have judgment, agency and passion.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Btw I’m a public school teacher so I live this struggle and obviously have strong feelings about all of this that I acknowledge many (or most) others do not necessarily share.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I think free public ed is the most important element of our democracy and while it has all kinds of problems and challenges, when we start demonizing it, it gives them fodder for further defunding and dismantling it. You think schools suck now? Wait until they are all for profit charters.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I never made it a goal of mine to uphold the status quo and prep students for a life of meaningless drudgery. Literally the exact opposite, in fact. And I think most educators feel that way. BTW, yes I agree with you about free lunch and my state does it. It’s wild anyone is actually against it.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I was Mack for years at a business I frequent a couple times a month. And not the general “what’s up Mack” but a slight miss on my actual name which they thought they were correctly using. I didn’t have the heart to tell them, nor did I mind, so I was Mack a few times a month for almost 20 years.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Look at their social media. Listen to the reps. They LOVE the cuts to social programs, including Medicaid. Just don’t cut it from those they care about. But absolutely they support cutting it from ppl they hate, resent, fear.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

No they voted for (and still Support) Medicaid cuts…just not for themselves and their families. They 100% still want it cut from all the ppl they feel don’t deserve it and are taking advantage of it. This is, of course, when we come back to your racism point.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

“Till death do us part”. Literally.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Needs to be free and many ppl need it.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

You need to qualify your statement: College isn’t worth it for certain degrees. STEM degrees? Healthcare? Totally worth it…even taking-on debt to get it.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

History will not be kind to those two: the faces of these institutions of learning who often denounce the very greed, materialism and abuse of power that they actively practice.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Never Target. Never Walmart. They don’t offer a thing we all can’t get a dozen other places.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I didn’t even know DARE still Existed. I did hear after the research showed that it had this opposite effect that they were going to revamp it. Hopefully your child is in the revamped version.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

That is a very common argument we hear from Trump voters. “He’s already so rich he doesn’t need to take money from the system, so he will clean up the corruption”. Second only to: “I want him running the country like a business”. Yes it’s totally insane but many, many red voters really believe it.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The general progression: punk/post-punk leads to alt-country leads to Americana. Here there is usually a split, with some ppl moving into folk and others moving into bluegrass, but they converge eventually into classic (1950-1970s) country. You will be buying Hank Williams vinyl eventually. Enjoy.

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Matt Schaefer @matt-schaefer.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

The term “crisis” sets the tone here for something that is not positive…painful and destructive. It requires a rebrand to “mid life transformation”

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