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Matt Phelps

@mattphelps.com
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Former Linux IT at Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian; Chess player, organizer, referee (IA); Pilot; SF reader, etc. Posts here are my own and do not reflect the views of any other organization, person, dog, aircraft, chess opening, etc.

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 27/09/2026
The mightiest chess nation in the world is... Uzbekistan! Go figure.
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 24/09/2026
Boy those AIs are going to hate this. They're going to be so mad!!
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 23/09/2026
What was your first computer growing up?
A Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8 computer.
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 20/09/2026
Just got my "The Rest is History" Roman Empire soccer (that's Latin for "football") jersey. Love it. #therestishistory #ancientrome #history
A Roman Empire soccer jersey with the player name "Virgil" and the number "X."A Roman Empire football jersey with The Rest is History podcast as the main advertiser.
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 13/09/2026
I love Boston... www.instagram.com/reel/DX2WTxl...
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 06/09/2026
Buy books people! For the cost of a movie ticket, or two pumpkin spice coffee drinks, you get weeks worth of entertainment *and* you get to support the artists who create them. You can afford it!
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 30/08/2026
@developers.google.com "Lake America"??? Fuck you. #boycottgoogle
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 18/07/2026
Zippity-Doo-DUH moment: I just realized "can" (the container) is a shortened form of "canister."
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 04/07/2026
My founding fathers
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Star Trek: Kirk, Spock, and Crew Laughing
ALT: Star Trek: Kirk, Spock, and Crew Laughing
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 30/06/2026
If you see this, post your mentor.
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Spock's Iconic Eyebrow Raise - Star Trek TOS
Alt: Spock's Iconic Eyebrow Raise - Star Trek TOS
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 26/06/2026
You've led your last zeppelin.
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 26/06/2026
If you see this, post an archer.
A Piper Archer airplane.
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 24/06/2026
Murderbot bot has some wise words today:
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 23/06/2026
I'm sorry, but the #WorldCup is the ugliest trophy ever. It's not even a cup! The #StanleyCup is where it's at.
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Chara Lifts the Stanley Cup
Alt: Chara Lifts the Stanley Cup
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 17/06/2026
This. Boston!
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 15/06/2026
Support!! Subscribe!!
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 12/06/2026
First firefly spotted! Summer is here.
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 02/06/2026
Received this beauty today. A Casio G-Shock BX5600 with "high" resolution Memory in Pixel (MIP) display. Imported from Japan! watches Casio #BX5600
A Casio G-Shock model GW-BX5600-1JF watch on a 7.5-inch wrist
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 22/05/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 Bands you've seen live: Cheap Trick Black Sabbath Blue Oyster Cult Yes Jethro Tull Kansas Van Halen Tom Waits Elvis Costello The Who Extra Credit: The Boston Symphony Orchestra
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 12/05/2026
My bestie buds @chuckwendig.bsky.social, @scalzi.com, @marthawells.com, @annaleen.bsky.social, @markokloos.bsky.social et. al. have written many books. Buy them all.
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 10/04/2026
Ketchup on a hot dog is awesome! Don't be a snob about it; it tastes great (especially with onions too).
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 07/04/2026
With #Artemis on the rebound, it seems like a good time to post my Jim Lovell autograph. Some guy named Neil signed it too...
A magazine page with Neil Armstrong and Jim Lovell's autographs.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
So much new, fresh, inventive, exciting fiction out there from amazing talents, and Hollywood keeps reheating the same IPs over and over.
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 31/03/2026
The oldest photograph ever; at the Harry Ransom Center in #AustinTX
The oldest photograph. Displayed in Austin TX
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 15/03/2026
Make it so: www.instagram.com/reel/DV6Js56...
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 14/03/2026
Autoerotic sublimation
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 11/03/2026
c.org/mGKZmjBFJw
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Sign the Petition
Request reinstatement of Starlink roaming plans for pilots
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 09/03/2026
Why are all the Apple reviewers all obsessed with the color of their devices? What the flip difference does it make?
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 02/03/2026
Seriously @apnews.com??? WTF is wrong with you?
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 22/02/2026
If you please, support General Aviation and ask Lego to make this one official! This airplane, along with the Piper Warrior, has trained almost every pilot out there, including me! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
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Cessna 172 | LEGO® Ideas
The Cessna 172 is a four-seat, single-engine light aircraft and one of the most popular planes in general aviation. First introduced in 1956, it quickly became …
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 11/02/2026
JFC… F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna’s Flu Vaccine www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...
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F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna’s Flu Vaccine
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 25/01/2026
Hey, @massgovernor.bsky.social can we get a declaration of emergency so my son doesn't have to stay at work?
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 27/12/2025
TL;DR
A screenshot of an article about ADHD drugs.
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 25/12/2025
Happy Christmas to me! (Casio Mens Duro Blue Mdv106b-2av, 44mm case, 50mm lug to lug, modeled on a 7.5 inch wrist)
A blue Casio Duro watch on a 7.5 inch wrist.
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 24/12/2025
This guy wrote some of the best Star Trek stuff. Help him out. gofund.me/44db3a2c5
gofund.me
Donate to David Gerrold's Health and Leukemia Fundraiser, organized by David Gerrold
Here is a thank you just for coming this far, a link to a short collec… David Gerrold needs your support for David Gerrold's Health and Leukemia Fundraiser
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E. Catherine Octobler @ecatherine.com · 22/12/2025
You don't have to be a member to tell SFWA how you feel about AI.
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 19/12/2025
"I don't care what anyone says, I like that movie."
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a woman with a bald head is standing in a room with movieclips.com on the bottom
Alt: A clip from the movie "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 12/11/2025
Groton, MA tonight.
Northern Lights in Groton, MA
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 03/11/2025
A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif.
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a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in a car with the words getting in to tense situations
Alt: In a scene from “Repo Man” a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in a car with the words “getting in to tense situations”
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 02/11/2025
Aaaand… the Christmas barrage has begun. I am NOT in the mood.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 19/10/2025
I’d never seen this one before: Crazy good. youtu.be/HwBvy12Lxbs?...
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THE BEATLES | LIVE: The Ed Sullivan Show (Final Appearance) Aired 9.12.1965
YouTube video by Mustang Sally
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 19/10/2025
This makes me sad. I was a (very) early TiVo adopter. Loved them all. cordcuttersnews.com/tivo-confirm...
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TiVo Confirms It Has Stopped Making DVRs, Marking the End of an Era | Cord Cutters News
In a significant shift for the home entertainment industry, TiVo, a pioneer in digital video recording, has officially ceased selling its DVR products. The company confirmed this development in a stat...
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 18/10/2025
We don’t fuck around with kings. 250 years ago our farmers took up arms and fought the world’s largest kingdom. And won. We won’t let this autocrat shit happen again. #NoKings
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 17/10/2025
white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 08/10/2025
Jeff Bezos might have built a spaceship, but indie bookstores build and nurture whole communities and that is *way* more impressive and valuable.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 07/10/2025
A little message from our CEO and founder @andyhunter777.bsky.social ahead of Anti-Prime:
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 17/09/2025
Maybe make all members of the current administration take this test? www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...
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USCIS Unveils First Changes to Naturalization Test in Multi-Step Overhaul of American Citizenship Standards
Today, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services posted a Federal Register notice announcing implementation of the 2025 naturalization civics test.
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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 17/09/2025
A split screen of a woman and a man talking. The top is the woman (Tina Fey as Liz Lemon) saying “What a week, huh?”. The bottom is the man (Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy) replying “Lemon, it’s Wednesday.”
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Watership Down
The movie that traumatised me most as a child was ________.
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