Dirt Dork.
@dirtdork.bsky.social
Illinoisan. Likes plants. Posts are whatever crossed my mind, reposts are things I thought anyone who willingly signed up for Matt Thoughts would also find interesting.
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"We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it."
November 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it."
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during Thanksgiving dinner this year with my wife's extended family her 96 year old Georgia born and raised great-aunt started telling us excitedly about how people in Chicago are blowing whistles when they see ICE agents and make them leave their neighborhood and she just thought it was wonderful
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
during Thanksgiving dinner this year with my wife's extended family her 96 year old Georgia born and raised great-aunt started telling us excitedly about how people in Chicago are blowing whistles when they see ICE agents and make them leave their neighborhood and she just thought it was wonderful
What you're gonna want to do is put an ounce and a half of straight rye whiskey (Rittenhouse being, of course, the default) in a rocks glass with some rocks, and then top it up with root beer.
November 30, 2025 at 4:50 AM
What you're gonna want to do is put an ounce and a half of straight rye whiskey (Rittenhouse being, of course, the default) in a rocks glass with some rocks, and then top it up with root beer.
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Cracking open a cold one with the boys
fighting for my life against the persistent and insistent intrusive thought
November 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Cracking open a cold one with the boys
There's nothing that sticks like a "I know you can do better than this" comment. I still think about the note a medieval lit prof left that started "this is fine as far as it goes..."
a favorite philosophy professor wrote two whole damn paragraphs by hand in red ink about how I would forever remain a dilettante if I didn’t engage more deeply with the material
most devastating comment I’ve ever received on a paper was “you’re not Howard Zinn” in 10th grade and I’m pretty sure even that one was better than this
November 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM
There's nothing that sticks like a "I know you can do better than this" comment. I still think about the note a medieval lit prof left that started "this is fine as far as it goes..."
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fighting for my life against the persistent and insistent intrusive thought
November 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM
fighting for my life against the persistent and insistent intrusive thought
"We thank you, O Lord, that in your infinite mercy you reminded your servant that there are non-jersey items of sports memorabilia."
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"We thank you, O Lord, that in your infinite mercy you reminded your servant that there are non-jersey items of sports memorabilia."
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I have nothing against you or your regional culture but there is an unbreakable spiritual bond between anyone who has ever had to scrape ice off a windshield while hungover
the annual snowfall required for me to take your city seriously is like 11” minimum. nobody is using 300 days of sun to serve the lord
November 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I have nothing against you or your regional culture but there is an unbreakable spiritual bond between anyone who has ever had to scrape ice off a windshield while hungover
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"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia.
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia.
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Celebrating Small Business Saturday by arguing with people who post their MLMs in my town Facebook group
November 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Celebrating Small Business Saturday by arguing with people who post their MLMs in my town Facebook group
"We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it."
November 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it."
Lessons here for several state governments in the USA.
True more broadly of all the “you fool! Income tax rises are unpopular” chatter. What about the current 2027-9 spending plans looks popular to you?!
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Lessons here for several state governments in the USA.
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For @biographic.bsky.social, I reported from across rural Illinois on an environmental crisis unfolding in the Midwest: herbicides drifting off millions of acres of crop fields are slowly killing oaks and other native tree species. #longreads
The Scourge of Native Oaks is Blowing in the Wind
Scientists and conservationists in the U.S. Midwest are working to stop herbicides from industrial agriculture from drifting onto the region’s remaining hardwood trees
www.biographic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
For @biographic.bsky.social, I reported from across rural Illinois on an environmental crisis unfolding in the Midwest: herbicides drifting off millions of acres of crop fields are slowly killing oaks and other native tree species. #longreads
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Long before the screams of the cosmonaut Pavel Mikoyan troubled the children of the county, Hookland already had its own space phantom. The 'Dan Dare ghost' has been haunting the now abandoned British space programme at RAF Nook since at least 1962. (Depiction based witness testimony).
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Long before the screams of the cosmonaut Pavel Mikoyan troubled the children of the county, Hookland already had its own space phantom. The 'Dan Dare ghost' has been haunting the now abandoned British space programme at RAF Nook since at least 1962. (Depiction based witness testimony).
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Eyes on the table
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19146
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19146
November 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Eyes on the table
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19146
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19146
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Bonus photo for hardcore train nerds
November 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Bonus photo for hardcore train nerds
I love my county. So much so that I refuse to acquiesce to the idea that we should let these crimes go unpunished for reasons of national pride. I acknowledge that my specific answer to this problem is unpopular, it is correct nonetheless. So it goes.
Dear Fellow Americans:
Please stop thinking about the ICC.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Please stop thinking about the ICC.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I can't imagine campaigning on this, but if grave breaches become operational policy and other war crimes are routinely pardoned when/if prosecuted, joining the ICC seems much more reasonable than my previous belief that we'd hold our own accountable.
November 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I love my county. So much so that I refuse to acquiesce to the idea that we should let these crimes go unpunished for reasons of national pride. I acknowledge that my specific answer to this problem is unpopular, it is correct nonetheless. So it goes.
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Tom would like to remind you that political imagination ought only be limited to what he thinks is reasonable.
You as the reader are left to decide whether or not his past track record of political imagination is either useful or realistic based on his previous positions.
You as the reader are left to decide whether or not his past track record of political imagination is either useful or realistic based on his previous positions.
Dear Fellow Americans:
Please stop thinking about the ICC.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Please stop thinking about the ICC.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I can't imagine campaigning on this, but if grave breaches become operational policy and other war crimes are routinely pardoned when/if prosecuted, joining the ICC seems much more reasonable than my previous belief that we'd hold our own accountable.
November 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Tom would like to remind you that political imagination ought only be limited to what he thinks is reasonable.
You as the reader are left to decide whether or not his past track record of political imagination is either useful or realistic based on his previous positions.
You as the reader are left to decide whether or not his past track record of political imagination is either useful or realistic based on his previous positions.
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Murder is an offense under Article 118 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. With respect to civilians, they have to contend with the federal criminal laws punishing murder on the high seas (18 U.S.C. § 1111) and conspiracy to commit murder outside the United States (18 U.S.C. § 956).
Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Murder is an offense under Article 118 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. With respect to civilians, they have to contend with the federal criminal laws punishing murder on the high seas (18 U.S.C. § 1111) and conspiracy to commit murder outside the United States (18 U.S.C. § 956).
"Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there, too."
You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. This future must not come to pass. Rome must burn.
You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. This future must not come to pass. Rome must burn.
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there, too."
You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. This future must not come to pass. Rome must burn.
You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. This future must not come to pass. Rome must burn.
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In Hillsboro, Oregon, ICE GOONS were observed kidnapping individuals from their vehicles, disguising themselves as Uber drivers.
November 28, 2025.
November 28, 2025.
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
In Hillsboro, Oregon, ICE GOONS were observed kidnapping individuals from their vehicles, disguising themselves as Uber drivers.
November 28, 2025.
November 28, 2025.
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This is essentially Vinay Prasad, who has an MD, declaring his intent to use the government to torture children to dead via preventable disease by knowingly withholding the cure.
To call this despicable is an understatement.
To call this despicable is an understatement.
Vinay Prasad of the FDA claims that he has proof that 10 children died from COVID19 vaccines, so the FDA will now target flu shots, look at whether people should receive multiple vaccines at the same time, and make the vaccine approval process significantly more difficult.
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is essentially Vinay Prasad, who has an MD, declaring his intent to use the government to torture children to dead via preventable disease by knowingly withholding the cure.
To call this despicable is an understatement.
To call this despicable is an understatement.
Earlier this year, I was playing Magic, and overheard one of the young dudes who plays at this store tell his opponent about how he had just discovered this really funny old movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Felt a couple gray hairs go "twing" when I heard that.
Just walked by a young man telling his friend Skyrim was the first game he ever played. Brb turning to dust
November 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Earlier this year, I was playing Magic, and overheard one of the young dudes who plays at this store tell his opponent about how he had just discovered this really funny old movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Felt a couple gray hairs go "twing" when I heard that.
Rotating a theory that the median Redditor is dimmer than the median Blueskyer, but has better literacy skills.
November 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Rotating a theory that the median Redditor is dimmer than the median Blueskyer, but has better literacy skills.
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Everyone involved in this should be charged as a mass murderer.
Big change: FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements under RFK Jr ally
Vinay Prasad signaled changes to annual flu shots, concurrent vaccines + more
Prasad said his team found link between covid-19 shots and kids' deaths, necessitating a new approach overall
with @rachelroubein.bsky.social
Vinay Prasad signaled changes to annual flu shots, concurrent vaccines + more
Prasad said his team found link between covid-19 shots and kids' deaths, necessitating a new approach overall
with @rachelroubein.bsky.social
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Everyone involved in this should be charged as a mass murderer.