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MattQuirk

@mattquirk.bsky.social
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The guy with the Voice. Cooks, runs games, does art and video. Sometimes has cat pics. Sometimes posts pictures of pocket handkerchief folds. #pocketfold

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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Working on a stupid cartoon idea for a post card. My biggest problem is drawing what I want constantly- I can draw it perfectly occasionally, pretty well sometimes and ok most of the time. My problem is that I judge my OK by my perfect.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We’re about to lose our department admin to the School of Pharmacy. It’s a great opportunity for her but I’m a bit worried about the public that she’ll be dealing with. “Alien astronauts are in Mayan art!” nuts aren’t as bad as the “Vaccines are nanotechnology for the royal British lizards!” ones.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
REWENGE!
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My first boss from when I was a student worker just sent me an invitation to their retirement reception.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Huh. In the last 12 hours the car developed a crack in the windshield. No signs of impact and it was parked in the garage all night. The crack wasn’t there when we got home and I didn’t notice it until I was cleaning the bugs off of the windows at the gas station this morning.
A car windshield with a foot-long crack running up from one corner.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
At Glam Dolls Donuts and enjoying the art on the walls #glamdollsdonuts #shoplocal
A cyclops dog with underbite tusks riding a rocket powered chess knight towards a crescent moon. A three eyed caricature of Prince with doves and a little red corvette in his hair and a bridge in the background. A bottle of hidden valley ranch dressing topped with a cyclops cow head.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Minnesota state fair skyway! #mnfair #skyway
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Sidewalk in Minneapolis @iseefacesinthings.bsky.social #Pareidolia #Shapes #Faces #FacesInPlaces #FreddyMercury
A coffee stain on the sidewalk.The same coffee stain flipped to show that it looks like Freddy Mercury holding up his fist and singing at Queen’s famous Wembly Stadium concert.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
GEMÜTLICHKEIT
A Wisconsin badger mascot statue with the word “Gemütlichkeit” on the base plate.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I like this hotel. I like that it’s not being herded along by bigger hotels at 75 mph in a 55 zone while other hotels are blowing past it doing 90+. That’s a good thing about this hotel.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Timeline is sometimes very funny.
Two posts, one asking what’s next for the Garfield comic strip, the next talking about eating lasagna.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Now watching “Ganjasaurus Rex”
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Just finished watching “Cocaine Shark” - a movie with mutant shark monsters and no cocaine.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
As above, so below.
A black cat on top of a cat tree glaring down at a smaller cat on a lower platform.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
What’s a “yoot”?
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Doing hand-drawn postcards this morning. Some of them are done with blacklight activated ink.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Hugo votes are in! I read fast and voraciously and now I have three weeks to see if my votes align with the outcome.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The random postcard list is growing! And I might have to get more blacklight active marker pens.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Trapped #catsofbluesky
A small Devon Rex cat sitting on the chest of someone who is just trying to read a book.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Elsie sees you watching her ‘eck’ at the birds in the neighbor’s yard. #catsofbluesky
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Sqrl!
A squirrel on pavement looking up at the photographer.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Oh hey! This place is “pet friendly“! It is a pity that our friends in the adjoining room are allergic. Otherwise we could bring the cats on a ten hour drive which I’m sure everyone would enjoy.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Finagling hotel shenanigans. A seven day stay at the hotel is cheaper than a six day stay by about $100 total.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I’m mildly acrophobic, so there are plenty of parts of movies that make me cringe. The “How Ridiculous” lads’ latest baseball stunt earned an enormous - and spontaneous “JAYSUS FUCKING NOPE.” youtu.be/ljrI9V0fNzY?...
youtu.be
The World's SCARIEST Baseball Catch
YouTube video by How Ridiculous
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Finishing up the new draft edit of a video I shot last December. Tons of high resolution inset shots and I’m hitting the point where I have to use my four year old laptop to render the video because it’s got more RAM than my newer desktop machine. Because four years ago we could afford RAM.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“Let her have her fifteen bucks. She can put in her future chemo fund.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
At this point the mom in front of me is barely suppressing a rage outbreak. Her kids are pointing “Brahhh…” face equally at the cashier and cigarette woman and we are all being told that each individual transaction is saving $3!
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
And then breaks the carton into pairs and rings up everything as separate purchases so the discount applies to each one. This took another ten minutes because the cashier kept telling the customer “you just saved three dollars!” after each transaction.…
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Had an annoyingly “helpful” cashier at Kroger today. Patron two places in front of me was buying cigarettes. Patron between them and me had her two teens with her. Cashier takes about 15 minutes to get a carton of cigs, lets patron know that she can only apply her card to two packs per purchase…
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Curly haired and whiskered kitty. #catsofbluesky #DevonRex
Very close picture of a Devon Rex cat with whiskers pointing in odd directions.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
For those of you who don’t know, I’m part of a movie award show! We call ourselves CineMalPractice and our online summer show is tonight. umich.zoom.us/j/93641373725 Zoom lobby opens at 6:30, show starts at 7. Audience voting is encouraged!
umich.zoom.us
Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I’m in the weird mental middle space between being ready to roll with a difficult hobby project and having a creative block and a looming deadline on a professional project.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I’m doing bbq chicken sammitches tonight with bacon and cheddar and thinly sliced red onions. Because I have an air fryer and I’m not afraid to use it.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I keep seeing stories about how people are making money and accepting gifts - blatant bribery, insider trading and all sorts of corruption. I propose a law to claw back all that money. If we call it the “Targeted Recovery of Unlawful Monies and Plunder” act the current prez might even sign it.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I hate to say it, but when I was scrolling down and this showed up the first thing I saw was two cartoon chickens facing each other.
Poster for “Salem’s Lot.” The outlined silhouette of the vampire’s hands look like two cartoon chickens.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Bah. And also bah.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Roz #catsofbluesky #voidcats
A black cat draping herself over the edge of a cat tree.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
His sisters and his cousins Whom he reckons up by dozens His sisters and his cousins and his aunts!
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I remember being very sad when I realized that AD&D insurance was “accidental death and dismemberment” rather than anything to do with advanced dungeons and dragons.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Did the tech run for next week’s CineMalPractice online show. It all went well and I’m cackling internally over some of the stuff we will be showing.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
There was a bar near me that specialized in sausage-based food and was called “The Würst Bar.” I’d do something similar with classic monster movie posters and call it “Franks and Steins.”
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Did a long weekend up north and it’s been about six months so it’s time to do an update on the car and how it’s doing. So, even with highway journeys and running the gas engine, we’re still over 100mpg average. Short sections of bad roads were in the high 30’s as a lower boundary.
A 6 1/2 year graph of fuel use and price for a plug-in hybrid (or extended range EV) car
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
How it started vs how it’s going…
A janky home studio setup with a person in a shark onesie in front of a green screen. A composited image of a shark at a news desk in an underwater studio.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Home studio janky chroma-key setup.
A woman in a shark onesie sitting behind a cloth covered desk in front of a green screen cloth backdrop.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I don’t know if it’ll make a difference but at least I have given some ammunition to help fight the slop.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
My university is leaning in to AI and wants us to use it more. In my annual meeting with my boss I explained the issues of how AI is trained and problems of using it to teach accurate history. She thanked me for being one of the first people to explain things in a way that wasn’t just “AI BAD!”
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The Coast Guard just removed the Clearwater from the tall ship parade in NYC for having "Save the Clean Water Act" and "Indigenous Rights, Racial Justice, Climate Solutions” banners. They were escorted out by the Coast Guard, US Navy, and NYPD. www.instagram.com/p/DaYOP8OlIq...
It's a banner on one side of the Clearwater's main sail that reads "Save the Clean Water Act" and has a drawing of Pete Seeger's banjo on it.It's a banner on the other side that says "Indigenous Rights, Racial Justice, Climate Solutions”.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
They both love this show on Cat TV #catsofbluesky
A grey Devon Rex kitten and a black cat sitting next to each other, looking through a sliding screen door at two chipmunks on a wooden deck.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Some backyard visitors at my mom’s house! We’re hoping that the doe can get over or around the fence from the neighbor’s yard.
A fawn is lying in a backyard thicket. On the other side of a wire fence is a doe.
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MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Gulls hanging out on Ripley Rock, lower harbor, Marquette Michigan. #yooper
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