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Matt Popek

@mpopek.bsky.social
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Building something new? Guess it's the only option we've got. Views are my own and definitely don't represent my employer, who isn't here yet anyway.

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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Officially, uh oh
Bloomberg exclusive headline:
Pimco is facing losses on AAA bonds after the value of a struggling Philadelphia office complex was slashed by 85%
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Matt and new fiancee Carlyn smiling in a selfie, who's showing off her new engagement ring
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
That is a lengthy severe t-storm. Do we need to raise the threshold past 60 mph winds?
Radar image showing storms from Lancaster, PA to Roanoke, VA.
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I need a catchy name for this line of thinking before I write a treatise against it.
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Can confirm - this one was coming from California earlier today as it passed here.
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Ah, summer time #bb28
Rachel Reilly and a velociraptor, which somehow kind of makes sense in canon?
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Saw it
UP 4014
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Waiting for the large one
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Not a fan of this either, especially when the message in the news was "hey, data centers should just go ahead and use their backup power sources"
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
good lord @nzorach.bsky.social
PJM spot price of energy over $1000/MWH in all zones
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
a mostly blue sky with white clouds framing mountains in the background. A ski town and skis on a chair are in the foreground.
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Guess where the thunderstorms are
FlightRadar24 image of air traffic avoiding a large swath of West Virginia
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I can't possibly imagine
Ariana Grande, Olivia Rodrigo, and Charli XCX pictures above headline "Bummer Summer! Why do the top pop girlies sound so morose this season?"
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A 200 foot Pride flag is unfurled down steps in front of a tall building. Many people are holding it.
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Montgomery County and pride flags being raised on a sunny day at an event
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Sometimes spite has to focus itself inward in order to come out the other side in a better place. This year's #charitibundi donation is 3 Penn State losses that finally ended an era (plus fees). May our pain result in positivity for new neighbors. @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social
$94.82 donation for Penn State: "Sometimes spite has to be at your own team; 30-24 + 42-37 + 22-21. Someday, things will get brighter. Go State."$97.34 donation with a handsome Thinking Out Loud host screencap
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
::sigh:: great travel weather
Friday: A chance of showers after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 71. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Friday Night: Showers likely, mainly between 8pm and 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 51.
Saturday: A chance of showers before 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 66.
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Hey, so, the Treasury yield curve is no longer inverted (effectively). Interesting.
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Flower show was nice
Many orange tulips with other colors of tulips in the background
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
.@nws.noaa.gov point forecasts use automatically generated ranges for temperatures for 48 hour periods. I don't care for this particular range, even if it's correct.
NWS point forecast showing a Fahrenheit degree range from 20 above to 20 below over the next 48 hours
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
go hoosiers
Sample Gates at Indiana University on a sunny day
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
"Traveling is fun", they said. "You'll love it", they said.
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas! Currently rooting for tomorrow's storm to take its sweet time crossing the state, per the NAM.
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Pretty tired of people thinking government employees shouldn't get to enjoy anything special because "my property taxes pay your salary". We gave up our (already unpaid) lunch breaks to rehearse, my dude. Government should be a force for good in whatever way it can. Sometimes it's holiday cheer.
Facebook comment (lightly anonymized) stating: "Is this on the taxpayers dime? We now raise property taxes so county workers have a choir"
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
By far, a much more beautiful campus than the one in Columbus.
Indiana University's Sample Gates, backlit by the sun.
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
So excited to find one in Bucks County. Go State and thank you for doing this.
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
So is this just a permanent installation on government websites now?
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President Donald J. Trump has signed a Continuing Resolution through January 30th. Thanks to the President’s decisive leadership in the face of radical left-wing obstructionism, the Department of the Treasury has now resumed normal operations.

U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
lol, guilty as charged www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
This feels...more competitive than normal?
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Except it's not even him
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Is the answer to why the rest of the world isn't freaking out more about this still disbelief, or just pure shell shock?
US Treasury Department website home page with a partisan screed about the government shutdown and a big picture of the secretary instead of any sort of useful information
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
don't forget what's looming
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Huh.
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Set up some stop orders for a few of my stocks that have been rocketing up recently. Related, as I watch the end of Padres/Cubs on ESPN:
Google search for "last MLB game on ESPN" results in an AI result saying that the last game was on September 29, which is absolutely not true
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I did get annoyed by this I-95 sign *in Baltimore*.
I-95 South signed for Washington. I-95 North signed for New York, skipping three states.
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
lol www.inquirer.com/news/inq2/pe...
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Heck yeah, I made it
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Could have used a couple more minutes of notice, y'all - especially since a DVR Series Pass doesn't work with the way you name the seasons
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
What's Fox News talking about right now? "Even burly men won't ride the subway." - the literal Secretary of Transportation
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
What's going on with the St. Lawrence Valley?
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
lol. lmao, even
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🤒😰
It hit 100 degrees on June 24, 2025 at the Philadelphia International Airport for the first time since 2012.
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Fifteen minutes later, I get this. Same search.
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
once again, I'm asking what is the point of generative AI (as I finish off the latest @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social)
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
😬
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
now there's a name I haven't heard in a while 🤮
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
It's #CharitibundiBowl time, everyone! Adding to the legion of Matt's with a celebratory donation in honor of the time James Franklin did not in fact lose the first home CFP playoff game. (Or the one after that.) Donate this week! edsbscharitybowl.com @hollyanderson.bsky.social @edsbs.bsky.social
38.10 + 31.14 for Penn StateGotta add those fees, and see the pinnacle of masculinity
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Matt Popek @mpopek.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
very confusing
Multiple Mark Carneys on the loose
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