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Matt Salomone

@matthematics.com

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Crusty old dean. Mathematics enjoyer. Views mine. ¹Best known for other work. 📍 Cape Cod, MA

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 13h

Klaus, right? It's Klaus, isn't it.

Bluesky Trending:
Schmitt floated as Vance 2028 VP

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 29/09/2026

The children are overstimulated

Lunchlady Doris discreetly presses a large red button beneath her lunch counter labeled INDEPENDENT THOUGHT ALARM

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 28/09/2026

Bobby Hill shouting

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 28/09/2026

Ned Flanders has just been offered a (legal) marijuana cigarette outside the Kwik-E-Mart by a jovial schlubby middle-aged man sporting a very Flanderesque mustache, glasses, and dowdy cardigan. Ned scowls and refuses saying "They warned me Satan would be attractive."

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 27/09/2026

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 27/09/2026

It's a well-worn trauma for him

"Big Al", the gray elephant mascot of the Alabama Crimson Tide

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 27/09/2026

The spirit of Dick Guindon is alive and well

A 1981 cartoon by Dick Guindon in the Detroit Free Pres: an older couple stands in a hip-deep swimming pool; one has a large fish strapped to his back. The other advises "Just remember to keep your head out of the water. The carp will do the rest."

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 26/09/2026

That's Frizzle Strong™️

Mrs. Frizzle from "Magic School Bus" lies on a weight bench in a school gymnasium, about to press a barbell with five red plates on each end. Caption reads "Narrow grip, no arched back, no clips, 405 raw bench press. Mrs. Frizzle is an absolute unit."

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 26/09/2026

He's got a film student running his socials, doesn't he

"The Godfather: Part II" scene in a hotel room, Michael Corleone standing backlit in front of a blinded window and lamp with Kay in the foreground looking at him

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 26/09/2026

Tweet from Dr Naomi Wolf reading "No! No!!"

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 26/09/2026

How the nor'easter's going over on X dot com the everything app

Underneath a boston25news.com post with photo reading "Large tree crashes down on Mass. home as nor'easter brings powerful wind..." is an X.com reply guy calling himself "Unc Boom Boom @spudrash" who says "I'm on the cape / It's not an impressive storm / Your [sic] hysterical over everything. Makes you sound vaccinated"

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 25/09/2026

Purple for life I bought a box of these once and never looked back a.co/d/0cL3RPrG

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 24/09/2026

A slide from a 2012 talk I gave on quant reasoning and writing, my sneaky way of teaching mixed company what a commutative diagram is Also that plenty of folks travel the "informal reasoning" solution path in their everyday lives who say they're "bad at math" bc they don't take the long way round

"Problem-solving pathways", with a square whose vertices are labeled (clockwise from top left) Story Problem -- Reading --> Symbolic Problem -- Formal Reasoning --> Abstract Solution -- Writing --> Contextual Solution, and a fourth arrow from Story Problem -- Informal Reasoning --> Contextual Solution

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 23/09/2026

Homer Simpson recounts his ill-fated New York City trip to his family, grimly recalling "And that's when the C.H.U.D.s came at me."

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 22/09/2026

Bro we need your vote. I hate the war too. But the Democrats want to Trans your Lational Symmetry

M.C. Escher tesselation of flying white and blue geese

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 22/09/2026

Yep they're real, and they're spectacular

Green enamel pin with image of a fish and the aphorism "Buy a man eat fish, He day, Teach fish man to a lifetime"

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 22/09/2026

Power-to-weight-ratiomaxxing

Red and white BMW Isetta

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 22/09/2026

Mattie Lubchansky's comic featuring Ed Zitron as the host of a game show entitled "IS THAT GOOD?" excitedly throwing a large lever between two question-marks at the prompting of the audience shouting the titular phrase

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 19/09/2026

A TECHBRO
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST
MAKE MANAGEMENT DECISIONS

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 18/09/2026

Turn up the radio

Hans Moleman sits in a DJ booth ar a radio station reading dryly from a piece of paper. “HELLO. THIS IS MOLEMAN IN THE MORNING. GOOD MOLEMAN TO YOU.”

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 17/09/2026

randall at bsky dot team

"Clerks" still: Randall sits behind the counter flipping absently through a magazine and tells Dante "This platform would be great if it weren't for all the users"

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 17/09/2026

Sad guy on a bus passing by “AI is a problem on the scale of climate change” out his window while a MAGA hat wearing guy smiles at the same sight out his window

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 15/09/2026

*sighing* matt groening predicted it

Futurama's "Tinny Tim", a juvenile robot urchin child with a wooden arm, holding an empty tin pan, viewed pitiably from above

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 14/09/2026

Bart Simpson, wearing a scouts uniform, reads a book entitled "The 10 Do's and 500 Don'ts of Knife Safety". "Don't do what Donny Don't does," he reads, then observes "they could've made this clearer."

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 14/09/2026

Standard usage of “or” in math includes that which meets both criteria - the upper-right Venn diagram - where often the vernacular “or” has the connotation of “either/or but not both” as in the lower left. Am I being pedantic, or am I just some guy on Bluesky? Yes.

Venn diagrams shading the intersection “A AND B”, the union “A OR B”, the symmetric difference “A XOR B”, and the complement “NOT (A OR B)”

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 14/09/2026

There can be only one @bobservo.bsky.social

Bart Simpson wears a navy vest, white cravat, and a sharp burgundy blazer. "It's a Bob Mackie original," he proudly tells Milhouse, who marvels "Wow! a Bob Mackie!"

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 14/09/2026

My kids would immediately make this reference but they're too young for Bluesky

Ragatha, the mop-haired ragdoll of "The Amazing Digital Circus", attempts to work a fast-food job but has been inadvertently doped up by a splash of stupid burger sauce (the sauce that makes you stupid) to her eye. She accuses her co-worker Zooble of being a grouch, slurring "Why are you always being a — a grunch?"

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 14/09/2026

"Are you sure it was a report?"

Peter, Lois, and Brian Griffin stand on their front step in their pajamas. Peter said he'd read a book about this once. Brian presses him over whether he's sure it was a book. "Are you sure it wasn't NOTHING?"

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 14/09/2026

If no one else got me,

Bluesky notification: "Academic Bullying followed you"

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 14/09/2026

Lisa Simpson: “Dad, do you even know what ‘rhetorical’ means?”
Homer, mockingly: “Do I know what ‘rhetorical’ means??”

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 10/09/2026

There’s one brave truth-teller who knows Homer Simpson cannot possibly be working class

Frank “Grimey” Grimes, clothes rumpled and briefcase overstuffed after a long day at the nuclear plant, stands on Homer Simpson’s doorstep about to join the latter’s mysteriously-opulent-for-a-working-stiff dinner party

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 10/09/2026

Mattie Lubchansky’s comic depicting Ed Zitron as the host and only contestant on a game show called “IS THAT GOOD?” We see audience members excitedly shouting the titular question as Ed prepares to throw a mysterious lever both of whose poles are marked with question marks.

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 10/09/2026

Krusty the Klown, desperate to reclaim audience share lost to the young phenom Gabbo, presents viewers with a bargain. “ALL RIGHT HERES THE DEAL: EVERY TIME YOU WATCH MY SHOW, I WILL SEND YOU FORTY DOLLARS!”
(VOICEOVER) CHECKS WILL NOT BE HONORED.

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 09/09/2026

News anchor Kent Brockman wears opulent gold chains and rings, and holds a golden chalice aloft from his news desk. Homer Simpson, as mayor of Springfield, has accidentally presided over the discovery of gold in the town's river bed. "Thanks, Mayor Simpson," Brockman says triumphantly. "Because of you, we're all taking golden showers!" Offscreen laughter ensues and Brockman shrugs "...what?"

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 06/09/2026

Disco Elysium be like

Martin Prince plays an arcade adaptation of “My Dinner With André”

THIRSTING FOR A WAY TO NAME THE UNNAMABLE, TO EXPRESS THE INEXPRESSIBLE.

Martin: TELL ME MORE!

He manipulates a joystick labeled:
TELL ME MORE
TRENCHANT INSIGHT
BON MOT

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 06/09/2026

Guess I’ve got to write this think piece myself huh

Your search - "stochastic jury nullification" - did not match any documents.

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 05/09/2026

post a pic of you from another era

Brendan Fraser in “The Mummy”

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 04/09/2026

No Bible stories for him tonight, young man!

Young Todd Flanders defiantly tells Ned "I said, I don't want any damn vegetables."

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 04/09/2026

He shouldnta asked for that raise, smh

"The Amazing Digital Circus"' floating-dentures-looking host Caine snaps his fingers to destroy the art-mannequin NPC Abel. "Time to delete!" he shouts, and Abel screams as he disappears

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 04/09/2026

YOU WILL EAT THE BUGS

AI-generated menu image of “shrimp” scampi but the shrimp are ouroboros-like tailless circles

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 04/09/2026

You're not wrong

Marge Simpson at the breakfast table hints to an oblivious Homer that their friend John [Waters] "prefers the company of men." Homer smiles with a donut in hand and says "Who doesn't?"

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 03/09/2026

A young man experiencing traumatic flashbacks (to when he told his distracted dad at the breakfast table that he was giving up "hamster style" martial arts) muses that "I can still smell that newspaper"

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 02/09/2026

A realtor walks a young newlywed Homer and Marge Simpson through a beautiful and suspiciously-nice-for-their-price-range home. It turns out the large picture window in the living room looks out on an enormous, smokestack-spewing rendering plant. Speaking through a cloth over his nose and mouth the realtor assures them "Once you get used to the smell of melted hog fat, you'll wonder how you ever did without it." Homer smiles beatifically with eyes closed and says "Mmmm... hog fat."

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 01/09/2026

Maude Flanders hugs Ned after she’s just guessed Ned’s clue in the Simpsons’ dinner party game of Pictionary (five scattered dots apparently representing “corn starch”). Ned bashfully admits to the camera that “it’s god for keeping down the ‘urges’.”

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 31/08/2026

"Will you two stop saying 'gummy' so much?"

Still from The Simpsons at a candy convention (in convention center room 11, while the candy-shaped rat poison convention meets in room 1!), depicting a booth styled like a Teutonic cottage reading "JOLLY GUMMI BEARS (They hibernate in your colon)"

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 31/08/2026

Haus of Decline comic: an angry-looking thumb man shouts “DEBATE ME!” A nearby baby smiles and says “ga”. The man counters “SPECIAL PLEADING!”

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 29/08/2026

“Ow! My Greatness!”

An angry balding man with arrows shooting from his mouth skewers the dowdy, cat-eye glassed The Ugly One. Sfx reads “Loomer’d!!!”

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 29/08/2026

Homer and Marge Simpson, manacled together in a giant alien chain gang doing hard labor. “Don’t blame me,” Homer says, “I voted for Kudus.”

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 29/08/2026

Pretty solid all-purpose reacc though

Elon Musk • X @elonmusk
X.com
That is far too short and boring. Be at least a little vulgar, longer and wittier.

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 29/08/2026

Needs more trenchant insight

Martin Prince plays the official "My Dinner with Andre" arcade game. "THIRSTING FOR A WAY NAME THE UNNAMABLE, TO EXPRESS THE INEXPRESSIBLE," the shot-for-shot scene says. "Tell me more!" Martin gasps, selecting that option with a joystick. Two other gameplay options include "bon mot" and "trenchant insight"