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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The comet stream that causes the Taurid meteor shower also causes a meteor shower at Mercury. #planetaryscience

Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sometimes it’s good to remember pre-9/11 conservative media was just as bad as post-9/11 conservative media. Cc: @lauralippman.bsky.social

Sorry, not going to type all this out. From “In a Strange City” by Laura Lippman, 2001.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Post a perfect album from the 2000s (2000-2009).

Solomon Burke, Don’t Give Up on Me (2002)

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Sure you’ve got a great record collection, but do you have this? $1 at the Baltimore Record Bazaar.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

You’ve moderned your last jazz quartet.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

@kenjennings.bsky.social As it turns out, I can speak for a very long time about Mercury’s atmosphere (Category: Yelp reviews of the universe). Although, no, Mercury has no atmosphere (but ask me about it).

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

10 I’ve seen live Bob Dylan Herbie Hancock Bobby “Blue” Bland Ringo Starr Anoushka Shankar Carolina Chocolate Drops Tinariwen Kenny Garrett BB King Bela Fleck & The Flecktones

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Post a meme made by you. (A few years old, but I like it)

Tweet from Feb 2021: Don Jr.: "They've banned the Muppets."
Tweet from Nov 2021: CPAC banning Muppets.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Pick a Bond from the photos you already have

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Jefferson Starship (has that been done yet?)

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I scored big at The Book Thing today. @lauralippman.bsky.social I swear I’ll buy your next book in hardcover as soon as it comes out.

A stack of books including seven by Laura Lippman.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Diminish a book: The Yorkshire Terrier of the Baskerville.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com 1. I’d never heard of The Shazz and was completely entranced. (A) I listened to the “Flying Home” episode again yesterday and you really started out as good as you are now.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This website is dying and it’s all because I do have to go to work sometimes.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I was today years d when I found out Edward G. Robinson was Jewish and I didn’t know I could think he was better than I already thought he was.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

We went to a box factory and one of my classmates was turned into a box. They only made the boxes there. They didn't assemble them.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The GenX urge to get medieval on your ass.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Turning to a life of crime to afford this.

Giant metal dog sculpture. Price tag $16,000. Free shipping.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Raiders of the Lost Muppet Indiana Jones and the Muppet of Doom Indiana Jones and the Lat Muppet Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Muppet Indiana Jones and the Muppet of Destiny

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Lazlo has better sense than to go out in this kind of weather.

Laszlo sprawled out in front of the fire.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

@vanhollen.senate.gov Can you remind military leaders that invading Greenland without congressional authorization would be illegal and unconstitutional. Thanks.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Drop your favorite rain song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S788... With bonus version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuHl...

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Elmore James - The Sky Is Crying

YouTube video by MyMoppet52

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Slightly diminish a band The Bit Out of Date Jazz Quartet

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Make a Bond movie academic. A View to a Kill: An Introduction to Crime Scene Photography.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. I suspect this won't end well.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Counterpoint: A Muppet Christmas Carol is a Muppets movie.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

My 1st 1st-author paper since I left full time science 10 years: "Seasonal Effects of the Changing Photon Scattering Rates on Mercury’s Exospheric Structure." If you do exoplanets, it's "Exospheric escape from an airless body around a solar-type." #planetaryscience tinyurl.com/3m7c9mzz

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Who robbed the Louvre...and where did they hide it? Right answers only.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Already looking forward to you Patreon bonus episode on Time Warp from Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

My animation of Mercury's escaping sodium exosphere over the course of a Mercury year. The only thing that changes is the magnitude of radiation pressure which is a function of where Mercury is in its orbit. Without radiation pressure, nothing would escape. #EPSCDPS #EPSC2025 #planetsci #mercury

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Ruin any book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title Tom Clancy’s Infinite Jest

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

slightly diminish a band: The Outdated Jazz Quartet.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Someone in downtown Baltimore squeegeed my windshield without asking me first, so you can't convince me that crime isn't up.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Challenge: Post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hellhole it is. A place close to my heart.

All About Burger, Chinatown, Washington, DC.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I’m pretty sure my car has a speed limit sign sensor. It doesn’t pop up the speed limit until I pass a speed limit sign. Not that my car isn’t tracking me, just that this isn’t evidence.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I’m going to put this here even no one will see it: We’re very close to conservatives arguing that they aren’t racist they let Jackie Robinson into the major leagues because he was the first black person to prove he was good enough.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I bought the McCoy Tyner record for $1. Two discs, each with a different trio. One is Tyner, Ron Carter (who I saw last month), and Tony Williams. It looks like Tony Williams autographed it.

McCoy Tyner’s Supertrios on vinyl with Tony William’s autograph.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

@alansiegella.bsky.social I’m reading “Stupid TV, Be More Funny.” Just got to the part about the marketing deal with Butterfingers. Summer or 1990 I was working at a movie theater, and I had to wear a Bart Simpson “Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger” button. Really wish I still had that.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

The feeling when you have to convince your 13 year old to watch Romancing the Stone.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

What is common knowledge in your field, but enrages outsiders? Pluto is a dwarf planet.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

ADD a letter and ruin a movie Dr. Strangelover

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

@chuckwendig.bsky.social Do you know if there are distribution problems with your book? I preordered it from my local independent bookstore, but didn't get it. I called them last week and they reordered it, but it still hasn't come in.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Your Pope name is: Last thing you ate + number of letters in your first name. Pope Peanut VII

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