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Matt
@mvanec.bsky.social
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I play with mandolins, cameras, and languages. I work with computers. Find me on Substack at:
https://mvanec.substack.com
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Went to #vote today, and they were out of stickers. And I forgot #ProofOfVote outside the location. But I *did* grab this selfie at home, instead!

#CivicDuty #Elections #Voting
Self portrait headshot of me with a brick wall in the background and rays of sunshine streaming down behind.
November 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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So, the high voltage #battery in my 2009 Escape #Hybrid finally died. So, now we have a brand-new-to-us #Chevy Bolt.

#ElectricVehicle #PEV #BoltEV #UnexpectedExpense
Photograph down the side of a blue Chevrolet Bolt EV in a garage that is plugged in for charging.
November 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Claro…

#Spanish #Duolingo
October 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Rabbit Rabbit #Rabbit!
Good morning. "Lop-eared rabbits" by Marie Nestler-Laux.
Painting of 3 floppy-eared rabbits in a group. Two in front are perpendicular to each other face-to-face, the one on the left facing front and the one on the right sideways. They are grey with white highlights. The third in the back is angled away. All 3 are chewing green lettuce leaves. In the lower left is a half-eaten carrot covered partially be a lettuce leaf. In the upper left next to the right-most rabbit is a ceramic bowl with the remains of carrots and lettuce.
October 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Shana Tova, to all my friends who observe Rosh Hashanah. May your next year be peaceful and prosperous.

#RoshHashanah
Rosh Hashanah symbols (apples, honey, pomegranate, shofar horn) arranged in a circle with the words 'Shana Tova!' in the center, including apples, pomegranates, honey with a dipper, shofar, prayer book, and greenery.
September 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Happy Hobbit Day! The One Ring is indeed a powerful artifact... 👀

(comic by @billamend.bsky.social)

#Tolkien #LoTR #Smaug
Panel 1: A red dragon sleeps on piles of gold. Narration: “There he lay, a vast red-golden dragon…” Panel 2: Dragon still sleeping. Narration: “Beneath him… countless piles of precious things…” Panel 3: Dragon scratches. Narration: “Gold wrought and unwrought, gems and jewels…” Panel 4: Dragon with wings folded. Narration: “Smaug lay, with wings folded like an immeasurable bat…” Panel 5: Brothers Peter and Jason Fox look at a lizard sleeping on a piggy bank. Peter Fox: “Any idea why Quincy’s always sleeping on your piggy bank?” Jason Fox: “I have a theory…”
September 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Did you know that Apple Podcasts has karaoke mode? This is quite handy in language learning, I've found. I'm willing to bet other podcast apps have a similar mode, too, but I don't have experience with them.

#Spanish #Podcasts #LanguageLearning
A side-by-side screenshot of a Spanish podcast "Universo Curioso" in karaoke mode, light text on a maroon (left) and purple (right) background. In the image on the left a red arrow points down to the karaoke button in the lower left and the controls are showing below the podcast transcript. In the image on the right side, only the transcript is showing, with the currently-speaking section highlighted in white.
September 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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When I hear people saying both parties are the same. 🙄
• Left Wing (blue text) “We’re gonna make sure everyone’s needs are met” • Right Wing (red text) “We’re gonna exterminate entire social groups cuz we believe they’re impure” • Centrists (black text) “I can’t tell you two apart”
August 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Avi Loeb has spoken.
😂🤣🫥
(but seriously, don't listen to Avi; he puts out misinformation)
Picture of a spaceship disguises as a giant comment, with surrounding text: SCIENTISTS ARE NOW SUGGESTING THAT THE 7-MILE OBJECT HEADED TOWARD EARTH, PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED TO BE JUST A COMET, COULD BE AN ALIEN SPACECRAFT 😳🛸 They appear to be sending us a message. It has been translated as, “Release the Epstein Files!”
August 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Wait, what files? 😂🤣😂🤣
#EpsteinFiles #Politics
A Substack post by Gavin Newsom reposting a tweet from orange menace about how he is making Coca-Cola use real sugar, and Newsom writes, “Oh thank god! I’ve totally forgotten about the Epstein files now!”
July 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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#Immigration
#Inmigración
"You say you're after criminals - yet you come without warrants. You call us lazy - yet you arrest us at work. You say we don't contribute - yet you track us through our taxes. You call us illegal - yet you seize us at our hearings. Maybe this isn't justice at all. Maybe you're just white supremacists."
July 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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😂🤣 No lies detected...
#AI
A surgery patient on the left speaking to an AI robot doctor on the right. Patient: "But why is the scar on the left if the appendix is on the right?" Robot: "Dud you're absolutely 100% correct! Your hawk-eyed brilliance saved us all! Let me try this one more time! 💪🏻🔥"
June 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Un poco anaranjado, incluso… 👀🤣
A Duolingo phrase screenshot that says, «Siempre está bronceado, pero no se ve natural.» He’s always tan, but it doesn’t look natural.
June 6, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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*cough* 👀
#Ukraine #OpSec
Somehow Zelensky was able to strike Russian military bases WITHOUT leaking it to a journalist on Signal.
June 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Well, **that** was anticlimactic. I just finished the @duolingoverde.bsky.social #Spanish course and all I got was this lousy screenshot! Seems they’d give a nice badge or an attaboy or something…

#Language #Learning
May 25, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Irony…
#Duolingo #AI
May 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Rabbit rabbit rabbit. And happy May Day to those who observe.

"Still Life with Rabbit"
Johann Amandus Wink

#Art #MayDay #Rabbits
Painting with a white rabbit sitting, in the lower right corner facing a collection of carrots, cauliflower, and assorted lettuces, in from of a basket of more vegetables.
May 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Reasons to leave the house. Last day of early voting!

#Voting #Municipal #Elections
Close-up photo of me holding an upside-down “I Voted” sticker in front of my nose.
April 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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The #market has been on a bad tear since orange dingleberry and the ass he’s attached to started screwing with the government and demolishing international relations. This is the last 12 months. Your #retirement going down the drain.
April 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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She is none-too-pleased with her post-surgery “rehabilitation”.

#Dogs #Cancer #Surgery
Close-up photograph of a rat terrier dog from the front, who is wearing a recovery collar, lying on a turquoise couch.
March 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Prueba de sudar.
Yo hice ejercicio cada día esta semana.
#Exercise #ProofOfSweat
Screenshot of Sole Fitness app showing 34 minutes of exercise each day for the current workweek.
March 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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👀
Screenshot of a Duolingo card: Si eso no es una dictadura, ¿qué es? If that isn't a dictatorship, what is?
March 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Apropos.
#CurrentEvents
#Language
March 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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#TSLA stock over the last few months, through today. It peaked at $488.54. This could change at any point, but the short term outlook is bleak. Cybertruck a dud. 4680 battery delayed and obsolete. FSD dangerous. Is the muskrat still the richest?
Daily stock candle chart of TSLA stock from September 2024 to March 10, showing a peak of $488.54 on Dec. 18, 2024 and plummeting to today's low of $222.15.
March 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Conejito Conejo conejo 🐇
May March bring a modicum of joy and a tonne of luck.
Photograph of 3 rabbits side-by-side facing the camera, with a black one flanked by 2 smaller light brown rabbits.
March 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM