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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 28/09/2026

Reminds me of Koch Snowflakes - finite area with an infinite perimeter. Menger sponges have infinite surface area and (approaching) zero volume, and a topological dimension of 1

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 17/09/2026

OMG - it’s still there if I want to go back.

A plate of puffy gyoza in front of a cold mug of beer.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 14/09/2026

I get the feeling it might be more than just her job.

Weijia Jiang, seated next to Trump at the WHCD and leaning in to converse with him, while he looks like he might actually be listening.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 14/09/2026

You have an open invitation to come get one of mine, any time.

A glistening, browned chicken being rotisseried over charcoal in a Weber grill.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 13/09/2026

There were some anti-racist old school country artists, too - like Johnny Cash. Snoop Dogg called him "a real American gangster", (and also remixed "I Walk the Line").

Louis Armstrong playing next to Johnny Cash, sitting on a wooden bench. Both are laughing.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 11/09/2026

Post your favorite Disney Princess. Wrong answers only.

Amanda Collins, playing the android (gynoid?) Mother in "Raised By Wolves"

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 09/09/2026

I lived on Henry St, just off of Chatham Square. It smelled for six months. I watched the trucks full of rubble go over the Manhattan bridge non stop.

Map showing that I lived a mile away from ground zero.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 04/09/2026

15 years in the Bay Area and I still talk like a New Yorker.

Map of the US that was a red from NYC to Maine, blue in the middle and yellow around California

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 03/09/2026

I've seen it apply in a lot of situations. I was out of work for almost a year, but because I was (somewhat) prepared for it, I was "luckier" than most. But when I think of luck, I always remember this story:

Once upon a time there was a Chinese farmer whose horse ran away. That evening, all of his neighbors came around to commiserate. They said, “We are so sorry to hear your horse has run away. This is most unfortunate.” The farmer said, “Maybe.” The next day the horse came back bringing seven wild horses with it, and in the evening everybody came back and said, “Oh, isn’t that lucky. What a great turn of events. You now have eight horses!” The farmer again said, “Maybe.”

The following day his son tried to break one of the horses, and while riding it, he was thrown and broke his leg. The neighbors then said, “Oh dear, that’s too bad,” and the farmer responded, “Maybe.” The next day the conscription officers came around to conscript people into the army, and they rejected his son because he had a broken leg. Again all the neighbors came around and said, “Isn’t that great!” Again, he said, “Maybe.”

The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity, and it’s really impossible to tell whether anything that happens in it is good or bad — because you never know what will be the consequence of the misfortune; or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 19/08/2026

Does anyone else feel like they’re defiling this when they pull it out of the packaging?

A perfectly coiled power cord for a MacBook Pro still in its packaging, just before first its first use.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 08/08/2026

We can hope that something similar is happening.

From left, Freddie Oversteegen (1945), Hannie Schaft (1943), Truus Oversteegen with Sten gun during WWII. | From "Seducing and Killing Nazis"

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 07/08/2026

Guess it depends on what you're driving. (If you look very closely at the second picture you can see my midlife crisis starting.)

My black Mustang GT in a parking lot in front of some trees.

Me with a BMW i8 that I was driving around Red Rocks near Las Vegas. It's parked on dirt and there are scrubby hills in the background.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 06/08/2026

Has anyone tried this stuff? Is it any good? ☕️🇵🇷

Several varieties of canned Café Bustelo on the shelf at Safeway.
Con vanilla, con leche, con dulce de leche

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 05/08/2026

There was a movie about this:

A still from the 1986 horror movie “From Beyond” showing one character’s pineal gland poking out of their skull on a stalk.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 05/08/2026

Meanwhile the Republicans have been increasingly radical for the past 34 years, and this is the result:

Chart showing that over the last 34 years Republicans have been winning trifectas in a steadily increasing number of states overall, save for a brief blip around Obama.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 02/08/2026

When I eat something it stays eaten.

A plate of chicken wing bones with barely anything left on them.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 31/07/2026

Give me 4 versions of you The car enthusiast, the anti-fascist, the art-lover, the black belt.

Me standing in front of a white BMW i8 with the butterfly doors open. In the back are the hills outside of Vegas.

Me, looking sunburned, pointing to graffiti that says “ANTIFA LS” in Lisbon. I’m wearing a black sleeveless undershirt.

Me inside a colorful and spotted Yayoi Kusama installation at SFMOMA.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 30/07/2026

Been thinking things over and wonder if I've taken this whole longevity thing too far.

Gary Oldman as Dracula in the 1992 movie by Coppola & Besson

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 30/07/2026

I came here to say the same thing. All the AI slop just kind of blends together into a technicolor puke puddle and fails to be memorable, but a witty stick figure cartoon will stand out now.

Cover of "The Art of Getting Over" showing the iconic stick figure with halo that used to be drawn all over NYC by the graffiti artist known as Stay High 149.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 26/07/2026

The congressional website begs to differ:

From https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB10559:

The border search exception applies to the physical border as well as the border's
"functional equivalent," such as an international airport or post office receiving international mail.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 25/07/2026

Okay time for fun. Go into your photo roll or whatever, and post the first image that makes you laugh literally out loud. Here's mine.

A woman in a leather cap and stockings rides a leather hooded man in shorts as a snowboard while people look on. She has a black leather jacket on, too, and a chain around his collar in one hand and a chain to his ankles in another.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 24/07/2026

This rotisserie is one of the best investments I’ve ever made.

Beautiful mahogany colored glistening chicken on a rotisserie over coals.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 17/07/2026

I've always liked this one.

1984 Ford Mustang GT 2D Hatchback, in white with a black stripe and trim.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 14/07/2026

Adapted a Fork & Embers recipe to my Weber rotisserie. Pork loin, with a honey-lime glaze, and cherry, hickory and oak smoke. Juicy and delicious.

A pork sirloin roast, on a rack in a pan. It is reddish orange and shiny from a paprika rub and honey lime glaze.

The same roast, sliced on a cutting board, showing juicy pork, with just a slight smoke ring.

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Matt Van Horn @mattvanhorn.com · 13/07/2026

Your reading comprehension is zero, and you also seem to lack the context that Uncommitted was seeking the tiniest bit of Palestinian representation ***at the Democratic convention***, not in some random newspaper article (where the very first paragraph is this:)