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Matt B
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Birds, painting, aviation, brooklyn, movies, manchmal auf deutsch.

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Did you ever imagine there would be someone worse in charge of the U.S. military than this guy?
George C Scott playing "Gen. Buck Turgidson" in the movie Dr. Strangelove. A white man with a buzz cut, in a poorly tailored shirt, with a crazy look in his eye, and his arms spread wide trying to convince you of something you know is morally incomprehensible.
December 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Ran into Bumble in the Vale at Prospect Park. I haven't seen him in a while, and was glad to see him. I feel like it's been over a decade of him hanging out here.
An all-white squirrel, standing up on his hind legs, with dark eyes and a puffy tail. He really stands out against the brown leaf litter and the dark grey boulder behind him
November 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Scene from Raising Arizona, where Hi's cellmate is talking at night, from the upper bunk, with a speech bubble
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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If you see this, post your bird art 🪶 #birds
Oil painting of two small roundish birds with yellow heads, grey bodies, and white eye-rings, sitting on thin twiggy branches. There is a pink blossom, some purple berries, and some olive green leaves on the branches.
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Like this?
The Philly Phanatic mascot, a furry green Muppet with a trumpet-horn nose, bulging eyes, and a big belly, wearing golden boxing gloves, and not looking threatening at all.
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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The actor Peter Graves, from the TV show Mission Impossible, listening to the secret briefing at the beginning of the show. The text reads, "This tape will self-destruct in five seconds... So off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know"
October 21, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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The actor Peter Graves, from the TV show Mission Impossible, listening to the secret briefing at the beginning of the show. The text reads, "This tape will self-destruct in five seconds... So off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know"
October 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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The actor Peter Graves, from the TV show Mission Impossible, listening to the secret briefing at the beginning of the show. The text reads, "This tape will self-destruct in five seconds... So off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know"
October 21, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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A still photo of actor Peter Graves, from the Mission Impossible TV show, listening to the secret recorded briefing at the beginning of the show. The text reads "This tape will self-destruct in five seconds... So off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know"
October 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Nigel Tufnel from Spinal Tap, long haired British rock n roller, with the quote, "What's wrong with being sexy?"
September 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Becoming a fire pit evangelist
September 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Spent the night sitting in front of a fire pit, instead of reading people's aghastness at ever new lows from those who regularly blow past our ever-lowering notions of rock bottom
Glowing embers in a fire pit, scarlet red against black. An unburnt log sits in the middle of the embers, like the pupil of an eye
September 14, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Any sickos out there that remember this movie?
Poster from the 1975 movie "Smile," staring Bruce Dern, about a teenage beauty pageant in California with the image of a young beauty queen being squeezed out of a tube of toothpaste
September 2, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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I made a friend at the fair today
A man scratching the neck of a recently shorn sheep. The sheep has her eyes closed and her mouth looks like a smile
August 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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🐝?
A still from "The Simpsons" six men in green WW2 combat garb, staring blankly at a seventh soldier who's back is to us. The subtitle reads, "How many of you are familiar with the concept of a 'tontine'?"
August 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Good! Run for office in Florida!
NYPost picture of Andrew Cuomo with a frown even though he's smiling, and a small inset photo of a confidently smiling Zohran Mamdani. The caption reads "Cuomo says he will move to Florida if Mamdani becomes NYC mayor."
July 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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The unbrigdeable chasm between "i perceive a threat to me," and "actual threat to people I don't know"
Post that reads, "Israeli soldiers aren't a threat to US citizens. The intifada very well could be. Also, Israeli soldiers are supposed to be accountable to the rule of law." And the reply with an NBC story headline "American Teen was Killed in the West Bank" Poster responds "Are they on US soil?" And reply "Accountable to the rule of law?" with an NYT article headline "Canadian Citizen Dies at ICE Detention Center in Florida"
June 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Don't feel offended. None of the mentioned actors could pull off a mouth mullet like this:
June 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Current NYC mayor Eric Adams invalidates his own vote by not understanding how anything works
From Dana Rubenstein at the NYTimes: Mayor Eric Adams may not be running in the Democratic primary for Mayor, opting instead to run as an independent in the November general election, but he still voted. On Tuesday in Brooklyn, he told reporters he was planning to write in his own name on the ballot in all five ranked-choice spots: "One, two, three, for and five, Eric Adams," he said, adding, "I'm looking forward to November."
June 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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General Zod has just endorsed Andrew Cuomo
General Zod (from the Superman movies), a trim-bearded middle-aged white man, with a receding hairline, wearing a black, shiny, plunging V-neck onesie, commanding Superman to kneel before him, while a subordinate holds Lois Lane by the throat.
June 24, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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June 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Lubitsch/Sturges double feature today!!
Me, sitting in the balcony at The Paris Theater, waiting patiently for the films to begin. The scarlet curtain in front of the screen is glowing with the Paris Theater logo
April 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Any court that sides with this arbitrary procedural argument is abrogating habeas before the petitioner has had their first day in court.
A paragraph from The Yale Law Journal, Feb 27, 2025: "Scalia and the King: The Ancient Writ of Habeas Corpus and the Missing Legitimacy Core of Modern Habeas Law," by Adam Horn. A highlighted sentence reads"McCleskey therefore stands as a warning against courts blinding themselves both to systemic issues and to standalone violations for arcane procedural reasons."
April 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Me in the Pentagon National Security Team group chat
Two men with clear plastic bubbles over their heads, connected by a small tube, having a conversation. From the tv show "Get Smart"
March 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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A crazy-good-luck-timed picture of a Great Crested Grebe, framed in odd reflections, in a canal in Delft. 🪶
A weird duck, with a spiky head, pointy bill, and black orange and white coloring around its neck, swimming in a Dutch canal. The street signs are reflected upside-down in the water and the bird's head is perfectly centered in the reflection of a road sign that makes it seem that the duck is in a lake.
January 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM