MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Working 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. 010
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We’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. 000
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026My first boss from when I was a student worker just sent me an invitation to their retirement reception. 010
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Huh. 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. 000
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026At Glam Dolls Donuts and enjoying the art on the walls #glamdollsdonuts #shoplocal 000
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Sidewalk in Minneapolis @iseefacesinthings.bsky.social #Pareidolia #Shapes #Faces #FacesInPlaces #FreddyMercury 121
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I 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. 000
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Just finished watching “Cocaine Shark” - a movie with mutant shark monsters and no cocaine. 110
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Doing hand-drawn postcards this morning. Some of them are done with blacklight activated ink. 010
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Hugo votes are in! I read fast and voraciously and now I have three weeks to see if my votes align with the outcome. 020
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 08/08/2026The random postcard list is growing! And I might have to get more blacklight active marker pens. 010
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Elsie sees you watching her ‘eck’ at the birds in the neighbor’s yard. #catsofbluesky 030
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Oh 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. 000
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Finagling hotel shenanigans. A seven day stay at the hotel is cheaper than a six day stay by about $100 total. 000
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I’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.beThe World's SCARIEST Baseball CatchYouTube video by How Ridiculous 000
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Finishing 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. 020
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026“Let her have her fifteen bucks. She can put in her future chemo fund. 000
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026At 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! 100
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026And 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.… 000
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Had 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… 000
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Curly haired and whiskered kitty. #catsofbluesky #DevonRex 030
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026For 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.usJoin our Cloud HD Video MeetingZoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications. 011
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I’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. 010
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I’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. 010
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I 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. 010
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I 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. 010
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026His sisters and his cousins Whom he reckons up by dozens His sisters and his cousins and his aunts! 000
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I 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. 110
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Did 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. 020
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026There 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.” 130
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Did 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. 000
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I don’t know if it’ll make a difference but at least I have given some ammunition to help fight the slop. 010
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026My 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!” 110
Reposted by MattQuirkBrian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026The 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... 13021481014
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Some 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. 010
MattQuirk @mattquirk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Gulls hanging out on Ripley Rock, lower harbor, Marquette Michigan. #yooper 010