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Matthew Fricker

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I was on the smart people quiz on the telly.

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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 15h
The yanks are a barbarous people.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfrf...
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Horrific Necktie Voice Lines (Disco Elysium)
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I can only hear "Breturn" as the Horrific Necktie voice from Disco Elysium saying "BRATAAN"
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Has Amol Rajan actually done anything bad or are people just mad at him for being a bit weird?
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What baffles me is why there even are Starmer dead-enders. I don't remember anyone doing this for May, Truss or Sunak. There were some "Bring Boris Back" people, but at least I can see how that makes sense as an ideological position. Why commit yourself so thoroughly to such a bland PM?
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah I just don't really like this guy's voice
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Maybe its just because I'm a quizzer but personally I want to know about everything. I view anything I'm ignorant about with a bit of shame, even if its something I don't find very interesting.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The article is silly and its clear the writer doesn't really understand that some people don't pay any attention to popular music, but also some people do take a weird pride in not knowing about a song.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#199 Carole King - Tapestry Great songs, sung with a great sense of intimacy.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#200 The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream The production here is incredible, between this and the Flaming Lips I think I might be into psychedelic rock now? At least thats what wikipedia says they are.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Took a lot of growth for me personally, since my dad is a big Kate Bush fan and I hated her when I was a kid. Probably not an album best appreciated by a teenage boy.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
(p2)
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Some albums I've enjoyed in the mean time (p1)
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Haven't updated this in a long time, but tempted to start again since I've hit #200
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 25 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 Final score: 1000
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Any time a new Big List comes out my feed is just everyone having opinions about the Big List.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
These "Top 100 X of all time" lists are just catnip for this site aren't they?
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yeah I mean thats what my posts were about. The main thing is about having a plan for government in the north.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The hardcore loyalists will probably never support a united Ireland, but they can be dissuaded from violently opposing it. More moderate groups, like the ~20% of people who identify as "Northern Irish only" could plausibly be won over by a more conciliatory approach.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You get the sense that for most Irish nationalists, they assume once reunification happens the credits will roll.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The more important thing is how Northern Ireland would actually be governed under reunification. Would power sharing continue? Would there be a new autonomous government created? Or would it be fully annexed as just another six counties?
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think changing the flag/anthem is a bit silly but I do find it concerning that so many Irish nationalists are basically unwilling to make any concessions as part of reunification.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh crap, I definitely shouldn't have said I intended to cause him actual harm
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Quite funny to not go through legal review on an article where you say this
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Also seems bad for it to be owned by a film distributor like Sony or A24 tbh. Lots of potential for making the place worse to promote their own films.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
People will say they are visual learners or practical hands-on learners but they don't actually do better when taught in those methods. Its just vibes.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was taught to think about different "learning styles" and to use a variety of methods to help different learners. Turns out the categories are just made up and nobody has a consistent style they prefer.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Most progressive theories are unscientific and so are the traditional theories they were reacting against. Its a field in desperate need of modernisation.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One of the main takeaways from my teacher training was that integrating actual empirical data into pedagogical theory is a relatively recent phenomenon, and its still struggling to break past all the nonsense that has built up in the field.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This was how I learned where your username is from lol.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Guess Ed Sheeran's aunt/uncle were real into agricultural science.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I don't see how its that complicated. She's just doing a strawman, acting like social media is just chatting with your friends. What else would you draw from it?
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Piddington has a Lib Dem MP btw
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 15/09/2026
This is one of the funniest threads I’ve read in ages. At no point does OP break, and the landlords, well, www.reddit.com/r/Landlord/c...
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
See Rude is actually almost so bad its good to me. Like its bad in quite a weird way which amuses me. A series of baffling creative decisions. I'd swap in Shape of You or Thinking Out Loud tbh.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I actually don't mind Macklemore, but 7 years is easily the worst hit of the 2010s. Just an absolutely unbearable song.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
> Lukas Graham
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
With the capitalisation, you could read it as "be your real id self". Like its just encouraging you to go feral.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Must be awkward reciting the shahada and having to deny your own existence.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There actual has been a "vibe shift" on Israel, but most reactionary centrists haven't noticed.
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes doing the "we're just normal men" meme
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Toppling a millennium prize problem is a massive deal, only one of them has been solved before. I'm skeptical of a lot of the AI booster talk but its hard to deny this is a pretty incredible bit of tech.
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Kind of struggling to express how big a deal this is. One comparison is imagining that an AI-generated film won an Oscar, but that doesn't really work because Oscars are judged by humans and won every year. Solving Navier-Stokes is much much much harder
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
They solved Navier-Stokes??!
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm sure Corbyn will be gutted to cancel his holiday in Tel Aviv.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Why did they give him a Disco Elysium character image?
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
There are solutions to some parts, so you can know its a forced mate in 10 or whatever, but the game is not solved overall.
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
No, a game is solved when there is a known perfect move in every scenario, so the outcome can be predicted from any position assuming perfect play. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solved_...
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Solved game - Wikipedia
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Matthew Fricker @matthewfricker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Fun, too
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Robin Sevakis @jadedsketch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wile E. Coyote is doing a reddit AMA right now for Coyote vs ACME and strictly answering through signs, and it's genius.
Wile E Coyote in an office, pointing to a sign he's holding that reads "WE CANNOT JUDGE OUR WORTH ON THE WORK OF OTHERS"
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