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If the point is everyone can create a GTA clone of their own life, why would anyone want to buy yours? Why would your friends even want to play it with you?

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is work, too, where the company that owns your company keeps trying to get workers to find something it does other than read your emails for you. They're more invested in the AI at this point than they are in you, but it just doesn't actually DO very much.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Total Wine: Looks like the market is speaking and we should stock more high-potency 10s than 5s! The cooler by the door at the gummy shop: We sell coma juice with a cartoon raccoon on it.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I remember getting the greatest hits CD from dad and wondering why my favorite songs didn't have videos on MTV. Cheap Sunglasses, Nationwide, La Grange, Tush.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Man, these kinds of classes are always just, "cool professor's niche interest." And they were 100% the most fun and engaging classes I took. My best one was The Russian Revolution in Film. It ruled.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My 11yo saw Brand New Day with friends, rode straight home and watched No Way Home. For about a week, those were the only 2 super hero movies she'd EVER seen in her life. We were like, "what does ANY of this even mean to you?" She asked to "start Avengers," so we threw in IM and kept rolling.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Did a weekend bachelor party 20 years ago where some dudes brought a cooler of JJ. It stretched a long way, considering how many of us there were Turned out they had been dumping every unattended cup of anything back in for 2 days, like a perpetual stew JJ, beer, water, red bull, mountain dew, etc

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

You think so much of it is going to be telling your children who you want them to be. But it's almost entirely BEING the person you want your children to be, in front of them, consistently.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Fewer (because you can count them). Less milk, fewer gallons of milk.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Their entire thing is, "I can say and do what I want, because a leftist won't whip my ass in the middle of the road." However,

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"Making pb+js out of the leftover hot dog buns."

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It seems like the amount of "assumption of your own correctness" you need not to lose your nerve with a job like that aligns pretty well with clergy in general (and what you've written about your dad, specifically).

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Somehow or other, 14-year-old me got his hands on a paperback of The Ugly American and was smacked by like, "surely we learned something from all this wasted energy and stupidity." Then a combo of Vonnegut and us getting 911ed my sophomore year of college and I was permanently off the train.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Usain Bolt is only about 25% faster than the average amateur 100 m, so the average runner should expect to beat him 25% of the time (right?).

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Roll it over and grease it down/ I'll dive you through the heart of town

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Friends episodes sped up by 5% so they can fit in more ads, and everyone else sounds kind of OK, but Matthew Perry sounds like a 12 year old girl.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I've always promised myself I'd go through one day and make a book of all the stuff I've done this to. Not even like, nice prints and proper text. Just exactly the pictures I grabbed on facing pages. Maybe dates and times.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Maybe what he was actually doing was betting on a recession, and he found a break-even, sure-fire bet to hide his money in. But then the economy didn't crash. If the DJIA is -20% YOY today, this whole thing has a very different flavor. Haha

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I dunno, if he paid $80 cap gains on the $340, then missed 14% YOY market on that same $340, he is in the red before you even get into tax implications on the $138. I know he didn't know what the market was going to do, but still.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Wait, the story says he owes cap gains on the withdrawal, owes tax as income on the realized gains on the bet, AND missed out on the 2025 market. My napkin math says he lost like, $50k vs just leaving his cash in a mutual fund.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

My wife doesn't eat buns on hot dog night, so the next day's lunch is always pb&j hot dog buns. Eats just fine. Better than wasting them.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

In C, 0 is uncomfortably cold for water and 100 is uncomfortably hot for water. In F, 0 is uncomfortably cold for humans and 100 is uncomfortably hot for humans.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I left tonight totally understanding how this flopped with a cast of very young performers. You absolutely need someone like Groff in the center. Someone you can imagine believing in because WANT to, even beyond your own good sense.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Looks like a cooking oil stain on a sweatshirt

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

2012/11,716 The most useful writings I've ever done were extensive, friendly, useful OPs for games and hobbies I'm passionate about. Genuinely proud to serve. Also, the Trump thread posters one by one realizing we were giving ourselves brain damage was important to see.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

This was my big takeaway from "These Truths." You go, "oh we have always been this way about almost exactly these same issues."

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

With kids you also do this like, "Jeremy Michael's dad" ... And all those -son surnames make sense, too.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

It seems like a lot of the sincere hesitant people landed on, "I totally understand some people genuinely need it, and some who don't still want it. I just want a chance to make my own decision." This stance kind of flies against all of that.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

That was our take with the kids. They preferred it when it felt like a JB movie, we preferred it when it felt like a ND movie.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I've been doing this to my wife for years and she has never once commented on it. "I'm running out for milk and bananas." 🏃‍♀️4️⃣🐄🍌

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

My 12yo has spent the past month scream-singing her own mashup of Pink Pony Club and Real Slim Shady.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

In rural Virginia we do not, because we don't have trash service. Everyone has to toss bags in the truck and drive them to the "green boxes" themselves.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I don't know squat about any of it, but I wonder if the extreme brightness and blown highlights on these is a product of maybe the physical prints becoming duller through use and needing to boost them. Or maybe the opposite is true and they just blow out over time through use?

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I logged in here once when I created the account and then for the second time the night of the election. Staying there felt complicit. I had already deleted the T account, so it was either this or nothing. Pleasantly surprised a bunch of others came along!

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This was a big one for me, the conversations around big events were a huge part of why I loved it. But when that kind of dried up, all that was left was a feeling I was encouraging the ownership over there by staying.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

It's wild to read up on lesser crusades, which all went basically "group asks to retake holy land, pope says no; group wanders 100 miles in a random direction, gets bored, kills 1000 Jews for some reason."

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Your bio says Durham, are you still here? Where are you playing? I'm only a couple of years of adult improvement, but all the chess I've found around here looks scholastic.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

20M people said, "eggs went up $1 and my check stayed the same." Any challenger would have beaten any incumbent, no matter the candidate or party. Everything else is probably noise.

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MattSolo @mattsolo.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

I dumped it last night, finally. Always said I was in forever, but the dam finally broke.

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