Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026And carbon monoxide detectors, particularly if you have combustion appliances. A couple of years ago the flue for our boiler got blocked and the house started filling up with CO in the middle of the night, only woke up because of the alarm. Fire dept came and had to ventilate the whole house. 041
Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I am 17 years old and listening to WHFS on my way to school. Later today, my friend David will give me my first ever Red Bull in AP Biology class. 000
Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Tangential, but I’ve been teaching my kids about the distinction between profanity and slurs (rather than lumping it all under “bad words”) and this is a really good example of contextually appropriate profanity. 030
Reposted by Matt FickeDEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 30/04/2026🎶 three hundred twenty five thousand eight hundred gaaaaaallons 🎶 🎶 three hundred twenty five thousand cold tasty treats 🎶 🎶 three hundred twenty five thousand eight hundred gaaaaallons 🎶 🎶 that’s how you hydrate in acres and feet 🎶 1214
Reposted by Matt Fickeconputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’m sorry, but if you bring gypsum - or any damn mineral below 3 on the Mohs scale at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people. 562064282
Reposted by Matt Fickedoctor eek (alt decorative ghost season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 26/09/2026you're not my real mom 510911
Reposted by Matt FickeAaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We were in the bleachers heckling some random outfielder on the Pirates and he did this but to my buddy’s girlfriend with the team hotel and his room number 1215
Reposted by Matt FickeSansa Sandisk @cheatlines.co · 25/09/2026it's Misty Weekend so I am having an Aviation with added club soda, which I guess makes it an ETOPS because it's a long Aviation over water, ayyyyyyooooooo 101178
Reposted by Matt FickeSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026lol lol lol lol lol lol lol 913443930
Reposted by Matt FickeJoseph Galbo @josephgalbo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Something most people don't know - there's no federal safety regulation of fixed-based amusement rides. It's all up to the states. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comOver 100 people sustained brain injuries on X2 roller coaster at Six Flags, victims’ lawyers sayThree people say they sustained “catastrophic brain damage” on the California coaster and have sued the amusement park. 74314
Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The tap water really is good, so much so that it was a little disorienting using the water fountain in the airport. 040
Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026youtu.be/5hfRjN3txdM?...youtu.bestar wars cerveza cristal 1YouTube video by emetwistable 000
Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026theonion.com/marxists-apa...theonion.comMarxists' Apartment A Microcosm Of Why Marxism Doesn't WorkAMHERST, MA—The filthy, disorganized apartment shared by three members of the Amherst College Marxist Society is a microcosm of why the social and economic utopia described in the writings of Karl Mar... 1175
Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I want to know more about that sack-back Windsor chair 150
Reposted by Matt FickeFormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Saying Mamdani likes Dear Evan Hansen is somehow the meanest thing I've ever heard anyone say about him, and I lived through this entire mayoral campaign. 1685
Reposted by Matt FickeSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026sending this image back to 2016 to give everyone an aneurysm 241974223
Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Rapidly approaching the baseline crazification factor kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunc...kfmonkey.blogspot.comLunch Discussions #145: The Crazification FactorJohn: ... I mean, what will it take? That last speech literally made no sense . It was crazy drunken bar talk! Islamic radicals are lik... 100
Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Do you remember youtu.be/Qfi9JpgMc2Uyoutu.be9/21/21YouTube video by Demi Adejuyigbe 000
Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Around 20 years ago I worked for a defense contractor in the shipping department, and a couple of times I put the wrong address on the shipping label for a bunch of classified communications equipment. So I have some suspicions about how this happened. 251
Reposted by Matt FickeJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"Missing the Weezer concert because I have to got a PTA meeting" is a nice little glimpse into my whole deal 71161
Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Pro tip: if you don’t have a dead-blow hammer, a roll of packing film makes for a pretty good substitute. 110
Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Unionize the tech industry. I tried to do this at my former employer and viscerally understand how difficult that will be, but it’s a fight worth having. 021
Reposted by Matt FickeMrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 15/09/2026I can’t believe the Babadook tweet lady just won an Emmy lmao never tell me online isn’t real 1085595
Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Somewhat earnestly, speaking as someone who did the “learn to code” thing in 2015: construction. I left tech to start a solo handyman business and I’m happier than I ever was as a programmer. The money is good and a robot isn’t going to take my job. 270
Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Someone should put out an anthology of Steven Hotdog-style stories, I would be all over that. 010
Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The closing exchange is simply perfect. Thank you @matthewdessem.bsky.social for bringing joy to my life, I think about this interview all the time. 010
Reposted by Matt Ficketweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 13/09/2026I think one of the reasons I'm, if not sanguine, at least not feeling like ~all this is so much of a novel crisis, is that "somebody could accidentally or maliciously completely fuck the internet to hell with very little effort" has been the baseline state of things since let's say the late '80s 1224633
Reposted by Matt FickeAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026“why are all the ai ceos all of a sudden saying this weird thing?” burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation 424298857
Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026On Long Beach Island in South Jersey (where Alito has his vacation house), there were noticeably fewer Trump and MAGA flags/signs this summer than in years past. 030
Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026At the risk of saying the quiet part out loud, it probably helps Talarico on net in this specific election for trans activists to be yelling at him. I don’t know how much the article’s author understands that dynamic, but this is a big part of the role activists play in general. 161
Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Oh thank god. Great site but that was the worst name since TBD. 120
Reposted by Matt FickeMrCheeze @mrcheeze.github.io · 08/09/2026This makes for a confusing asterisk in the "LLMs are just plagiarism machines" debate 1847
Reposted by Matt FickeMatt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is unironically how I approach my career as a handyman. When I talk with clients, it’s superficially about what they want me to build but it’s really about how they want to live their lives. 041
Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is unironically how I approach my career as a handyman. When I talk with clients, it’s superficially about what they want me to build but it’s really about how they want to live their lives. 041
Reposted by Matt FickeAllan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Good afternoon, I've just discovered as a result of seeing this post that there's an absolutely exasperated community page with advice about how to deal with Trump pronouncements and actions 5771113
Reposted by Matt Ficketweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 06/09/2026I only use Lie-Nielsen javascript frameworks 131
Reposted by Matt FickeMatt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 06/09/20262006, Sleater-Kinney’s farewell tour at the 9:30 Club. Band plays their set and the planned encore, club turns up the lights and plays the get-the-fuck out music. No one leaves. 10 straight minutes of cheering later, a bewildered band comes back out and plays Danzig’s “Mother”. 152
Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · 06/09/20262006, Sleater-Kinney’s farewell tour at the 9:30 Club. Band plays their set and the planned encore, club turns up the lights and plays the get-the-fuck out music. No one leaves. 10 straight minutes of cheering later, a bewildered band comes back out and plays Danzig’s “Mother”. 152
Reposted by Matt FickeHoratio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The distracted driving discourse is already popping off but I’d just like to throw in: I’ve been an insurance adjuster for almost 13 years. When I started, we almost never saw high speed rear end impacts. Now they’re like the most common type of claim. It’s distractions, this is obvious. 743540736
