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Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇

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Ralph Gracie black belt, programmer, card player, shooter, home brewer, amateur pizzaiolo, bedroom DJ, and electric unicyclist. He/him. ADHD 🇵🇷🇮🇹+ @[email protected] @mattvh on IG (but probably not for long)

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Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 23h

Toxic waste sites and sewage treatment plants. (But only the inflow parts of the latter).

Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 23h

You mean the song written by a wealthy slave-owner whose brother-in-law authored the 1857 Dred Scott Supreme Court opinion?

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Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 23h

Would be fucking hilarious if that was the thing that he gets prison time for.

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

"Destruction of federal property is a federal crime-18 U.S. Code § 1361 defines it as willfully injuring or committing any depredation of U.S. gov't property-Damage exceeding $1k is a felony w/ a fine-up to 10 yrs in prison or both"

Meanwhile-took me forever to get permits to repaint my mailbox.

Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 23h

Sometimes I watch that guy and can’t believe he’s not an Andy Kaufman bit.

Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 23h

Point taken, but FDR had the East Wing built.

Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 23h

Well, what should happen to his family *before* they celebrate a very Ceaușescu Christmas. 🎄 💀💀💀🎄

Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 1d

That, too.

Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 1d

The next administration needs to completely restore the East Wing to its previous condition and send the bill to that orange motherfucker.

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Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 1d

It smells like an issue on BlueSky’s end.

Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 1d

I was blocked from DMing you before (but not other people) but it is working again now.

Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 1d

They’re working for me, BUT:

@mistressmatisse.bsky.social can’t be messaged

Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 1d

“We aren’t going to touch the existing building”

Katie Harbath @katieharbath.bsky.social · 1d

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

Reposted by Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇

Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 1d

Alt Text: A picture of a lego White House, updated with a demolished East Wing, sitting on a fall colors table cloth

Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 1d

Updating my LEGO White House

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Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 2d

Yes! - I am constantly finding things I didn't type after hitting "Post".

It's such a garbage user experience, and mostly one that you can't opt out of.

Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 2d

Well, I am a dev that (so far) has apparently sucked at using AI, and is interested in the reasons for that, at least while some people are still loudly praising that AI tailor’s genius.

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Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 2d

I know - I’ve had whiskeys in dive bars that cost as much as some of those entrees.

Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 2d

I’m not bad at communication, often acting as a tech intermediary for design/product teams, and I have a lot of problems getting AI to do things, at least bigger things, starting from scratch.

I don’t get as much done when using it, and I feel like it’s The Emperor’s New Programming paradigm.

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Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 2d

You need to head uptown to Masa for that kind of thing.

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Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 2d

And Omen is a noodle restaurant, not a sushi restaurant.

I used to live across Thompson street from there. It’s a normal nice restaurant, good food but not an outlier on price or luxury.

Reposted by Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇

[LVL 35]Alsvid Wotansdottir🔵 @alsvid.bsky.social · 2d

Adrienne does a lot to help people on Bsky! Please give if you can.

Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 3d

okay, folks, i got my phone bill paid but i still need like $400 USD to pay for our badly overdue internet before it gets turned off on the 29th, and we're probably going to need help with rent again too (which is like $1200 USD). So if you want to help, CashApp is $AdrienneLeigh or PayPal is below.

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Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 2d

So would I

Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 2d

Or any number of other movies, tv shows, or video games. And he got this in a group, so neither did any of his friends.

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Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 2d

It will be interesting to see how this plays out, since a bunch of FAA Part 101 deals with making such balloons visible and/or its location known.

Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 2d

Ah, yeah - makes sense.

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Matt Van Candy Corn 🎃🦇 @mattvanhorn.com · 2d

It sounds like the company was obeying all the relevant laws at the time.
But also, while the payload is small, and the whole thing is only about 1kg, all the balloon parts of weather balloons I've seen are pretty big and shiny.
How do you not notice one before slamming into it?

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