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When I moved to California from Wisconsin, everybody described us as being from the "East Coast." I kept correcting them for a YEAR... until a friend calmly told me that, to Californians, any place east of Las Vegas is the East Coast.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They're not even from Texas, and I've never met anyone from there who's had any fun.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He knows he's being recorded, right?

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wow. It takes a "shocking" amount of moral courage to be against FREAKING ELECTRIC TORTURE GLOVES.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey. I was in the process of deleting it before I saw a single reply. No need to be mean about it. You're both right, of course.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No shit. It's not that fucking hard. Sorry for the language.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just looked at the weather forecast. Counting down the days until Fake Fall!

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's just the Dril tweet.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They're trying the Dallas City Hall Gambit, I see.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you aren't safely storing your gun, it should be taken from you.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I had to make this picture myself. Please clap.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me, a super-pessimistic Packers fan, after last night:

Fake Kenny Loggins from Yacht Rock: It's called the 80s, and it's gonna be around forever"

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I mean, considering most Texans, myself included, live in urban areas, pretty good. I don't see the issue.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I wonder how many airline pilots are Christian to the extent that they believe that they're destined for eternal paradise after death, thus removing a bit of incentive to keep the plane in the air. It's terrifying.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I remember seeing this live. And not again until now.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Should help with demolition that this thing will be able to blow itself up.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hadn't our city outlawed both gas-powered leaf blowers AND plastic shopping bags at some point in the last decade?

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

He'll figure it out. He's a real innovator in the space.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is a really good list.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm just shocked a lawyer worked over the holidays.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I work in this building. It's a comically ugly building with no real character. A perfect encapsulation of the era in which it was built. The only benefit to sharing it with the City would be the ability for me to not have to go off-site to express my contempt directly to City leadership.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When I look at the bottom left corner of a Trump video and see something more than like 20 seconds, I'm filled with anxiety.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not unless they can convert to metric.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've gotten a ticket in Trinidad on the way to Malakoff!

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Not sure what happened there. Yeesh. Something snapped.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

These guys know they're likely to outlive Trump by a couple decades, right? Even rats know to jump off a sinking ship.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yes. Because it's a real picture from the football game on Saturday.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

90% of the traffic congestion on Elm Street in the heart of Downtown Dallas is caused by delivery app drivers double parked in front of the Chick-fil-A. It would be maddening if I wasn't walking.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Presto Poplite air popper. Been using mine for ages.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"It's fine. I'm just running in real quick." We're ALL just running in real quick. Nobody lives in the damn Kroger.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One of my most lasting memories from (shortly after) 9/11 was our first literature class once they resumed (I was a college freshman). Professor said, first words out of his mouth, something very close to: "Well, we're living in a banana republic now. May not feel like it yet, but just wait."

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

That is most of what I remember from that day. The days after were filled with confusion, sorrow, patriotism (some genuine, more performative, much exploitative; all eventually exhausting to me), and fear. So much fear.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I remember getting a call through to him on his cell. I think I was one of the first people on my floor to get a cell call into New York. Said he saw most of it. Was clearly shaken up, though he said he was okay. I called my mom back and told her he was fine.

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Phone lines were overloaded, so I don't remember when I first talked to my mom. But she was happy to know I was okay. She was worried about my dad, who I had forgotten was in New York for work (he was with Verizon; it was a regular occurrence).

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Matt L @mattl1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I ran back to the dorm. At least there, people had TVs and internet and answers. And weed. So much weed. The rest of the day was kind of a blur. I got to know most of my neighbors, as we all congregated where there was television. There was only one channel that day: 9/11.

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