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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Chanced upon this local news story. Reminded me of how amazing it is that people buy a 30-year-old house on the assumption that A. It’s flawless, and B. They needn’t understand how it was built.

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Family finds large void under garage of house built by Ryan Homes

A Westmoreland County family wants to warn others after they said they found a large void beneath the garage in their house built by Ryan Homes. KDKA's Meghan Schiller reports.

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New York Times with some hard-hitting journalism, breaking the story of That One Guy on everyone’s freshman hall who washed out in a week as if it never happened before he could make a TikTok of it.

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Why Are Some Gen Z College Students Leaving Campus After 2 Weeks?

Dozens of videos on social media feature freshmen moving out early in the first semester.

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Turns out, we were always just a nation of absolute scumbags.

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Stop writing this fucking story over and over. I could not care less l, and you are only serving to encourage my deep-seated need for schadenfreude, a personal shortcoming that I do not wish to encourage.

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Years of Trump Support Came Undone in 15 Minutes in an Airport.

The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

16yr old Saxophonist DAVID BOWIE posing for his band — The Konrads — in 1963.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

can you imagine a politics where you explain ostensibly but not really all that complicated shit to people and point out the ways they're being fucked over

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I am counting the days until I can help primary this idiot.

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18?

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

@nytimes.com can’t send a DM & found nowhere within the app to offer comments about the app so here goes: The recent addition of a “fade-out” that blurs the top few lines of visible text in an article as you scroll is an incredibly bad design choice for an app designed to be read on a small screen.

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Unpopular take? Vibes and curses aside, the Belgians seemed to be much better at soccer. Like, under any circumstances.

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 06/07/2026

view 7, putt-putt, drayton plains, michigan, 1986

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I’ve been trying to formulate a post where a pro soccer (football) player walks into the barber and asks for “The Special,” and the barber pulls out a razor with a little 3 inch (75 mm) string attached to a loop which he puts over each ear, and then just spins across the side of his head…

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Why am I watching Ozuna look at strike three again?!

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Everyone talks about flat-earthers and moon landing deniers, but sometimes I wonder why there isn’t a group of Australia-skeptics. It just all reads as very made-up to an outsider.

Excerpt from a New Yorker article listing three native animal species driven to extinction by the introduction of of the red fox. Each name is more implausible than the last:

“In the nineteen nineties, the Australian
government launched a national campaign to eradicate red foxes. British settlers had imported them more than a century earlier for hunts, only to watch them exterminate native species like the numbat, the boodie, and Gilbert's potoroo.”

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

If you told me 26 years ago that OutKast’s “ So Fresh, So Clean,” would be featured in a Scotch Brite scouring sponge commercial in my middle age, I’d have… probably believed you.

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

When did baseball cards become cursed? My kid likes them but there are now multiple “series” each season, the smallest apparent quantity you can buy is a ~$25 “value box” that contains <100 cards. And if you go to the Topps, website the cheapest items on sale are new individual cards at $9 a pop.

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

How did I not know about the Brazilian national anthem?

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Top World Cup headlines now are: -USMNT player scores goal then stuffs ball in his shirt and pretends to suck his thumb to tell world wife is pregnant. -Landon Donovan gets a toup and realizes that talking about how balding makes him sad might help others. AND -Aussie keeper named “Pat Beach” Fun!

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social Does the apparent death of the tiny pepperoni cubes on Stouffer’s French bread pizza qualify as a discontinued food? In any case, it feels like a part of my childhood has died.

Empty box of Stouffer’s French bread pizza featuring quarter rounds of pepperoni that are an affront to God.

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Ozuna should only get to challenge strikes when he can consistently get hits.

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Did I just hallucinate that, “Mr. Monopoly,” was named, “Rich Uncle Pennybags?”

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Not that I would’ve been all gung ho about it, but it’s a bummer that the shitheels have co-opted the 250th anniversary of our country. I share Woody Guthrie’s opinion of “God Bless America.” It sucks. After Musicians Revolt, Trump Plans Rally With Singer of ‘God Bless the U.S.A.’

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After Musicians Revolt, Trump Plans Rally With Singer of ‘God Bless the U.S.A.’

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 26/05/2026

ICYMI, In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. In contrast, during Biden's last full year, the U.S. admitted 100,060 real refugees.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

And Trump’s reliance on idiot golfing buddies: During talks with Iran European officials were stunned to find themselves explaining basic uranium-enrichment concepts to the American team, Reuters reports.

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Hmm. Seems like this isn’t a foreign word at this late date.

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Allison Park, famous for its mushrooms.

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

You know you’re getting old when they start to retire the last vestiges of your childhood museum memories…

Carnegie museum of natural history announcement of the impending closure of the Polar World exhibit from the 1980s.

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Moses Fleetwood Walker, first and last (openly) Black pro baseball player before Robinson, Oberlin & Michigan student, Black nationalist, editor, author, postal worker, acquitted of murder in self-defense, convicted of mail robbery, successful rural Ohio theater owner. ~3-4 movies worth of living.

Player photo of Moses Fleetwood Walker,
African-American baseball player and author (1856–1924)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026

it is racial discrimination to try ensure that the representation of a minority group is roughly in line with its proportion of the state’s population. it is equal protection to allow a state to obliterate a minority group’s representation.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I'm always amazed by the credulity of those who dutifully report that a man who lies about everything unequivocally does or does not so something, like drinking, that he self-reports. Why should we suddenly believe that, among all things?

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Hope for 2027: Someone at the @nytimes.com gets a thesaurus.

The New York Times once again deploying the “architect” epithet to anyone with a product, idea, or nefarious plan. No doubt they “adorned” something too.

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Every PRT bus other than the 4 free “Football Flyers” (which will undoubtedly be full before they reach city limits) is running on a Saturday schedule for the whole draft, or are simply canceled. What thumb in the eye for city residents. Free busses for the burbs and poor, pay coverage for us?!

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

RIP Scotty's/Peppi's. Only just recently realized it was gone.

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Whenever NPR does these "man on the street," interviews at gas pumps in rural Ohio, I have to ask myself: Have these people constructed a fictional version of Donald Trump in the minds individually? Within their social/family groups? Or is it just the media they consume?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/04/2026

Trump: “I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for two weeks”

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Hey @fetterman.senate.gov if this happens in Philly how are you going to explain your vote for Mullin’s confirmation?

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Question for Riverhounds TV watchers: Can anyone get “KDKA+” over the air? I have a directional antenna and have never had any luck. Wikipedia claims they broadcast on 19 from Perry North (Television Hill?) along with the main KDKA signal tho the station is registered in Jeanette, but I get nothing

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

OK, only NPR could create a sports focus show and then record it before Friday night’s games for broadcast on a Saturday morning?!

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

“Cowering in my kitchen”?

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

“Organizers want this to be largest protest yet. But is hitting a number enough to deliver an effective political movement?” Huh. Maybe if media outlets like the “paper of record,” gave it more coverage than, say, a PTA bake sale, it might be? @nytimes.com

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A Challenge for ‘No Kings’ Protests, the Third Time Around

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

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Federal US domain bot @fed-us-domain-bot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

🚀 NOTICE: Federal US website newly registered. onlyfarms.gov Action taken by the nan (Executive Office of the President) at or around 2026-03-26 06:37:44.

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Matt Diersen @mattdiersen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

My sister and her boyfriend saw a rat nonchalantly sauntering through the Urban Tap dining tap at brunch a few weeks before the viral video. Owner was called in and bought them a round, didn’t even comp the whole meal. I’m skeptical. people.com/bar-owner-sa...

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Pittsburgh Bar Owner Says He’s Working to Rebuild Trust After Rat Video Led to Drop in Customers

A Pittsburgh bar owner is focused on rebuilding trust with customers after viral footage showing a rat near beer taps led to a noticeable drop in foot traffic.

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Federal US domain bot @fed-us-domain-bot.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

🚀 NOTICE: Federal US website newly registered. bebest.gov Action taken by the nan (Executive Office of the President) at or around 2026-03-24 06:33:54.

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Rep. Summer Lee @repsummerlee.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

That’s the part that’s serious: wealthy people and corporations are buying our elections, drowning out our voices, and destroying our democracy. That’s why I introduced the Abolish Super PACs Act.

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