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Matt Tex Eckerle

@mattexx.bsky.social

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husband, dad, engineer, tinkerer, motorhead, humanist Skeets are not the skeets of my employer. Reskeets are skibidi. Westwood Chapter President #FJF

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Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · Nov 13

People say LLMs lack self awareness. I think today's LLMs are all but whole

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 2d

If Pedro Pascal played Gomez Addams they'd have to replace all the seats in the theater

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Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 28m

I will never forget walking to work past moscone ~2012 and watching a DJ go hat-sideways as 100s of midwesterners plowed onto escalators around him with bleary eyes

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 10h

The subtext of this comment is that the Mayor of Boston is Asian-American, whereas the Mayor of Chicago (like almost everyone else that Trump refers to as “a low IQ person”) is Black.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "Boston had a bad mayor who at least is a reasonable IQ person. Most of them are low IQ. I mean, what's going on in Chicago ... "

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Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 3h

I remember this, maybe not a heckle www.reddit.com/r/Catholicis...

From the Catholicism community on Reddit: Pope slaps woman's hand after she grabs him

Explore this post and more from the Catholicism community

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 4h

It's going up to $40 billion.

USAID's budget last year was $28 billion.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 5h

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 9h

Insurance rates up $2000.

Food benefits cut off.

Farmers unable to sell their crops.

Skyrocketing national debt.

$40 billion to Argentina.

America First!

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Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 9h

May or may not have occasionally appeared in letters to the editor 😁

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Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 9h

Right on the heels of Purdue kicking the Exponent off campus. Can't tell what/who this reminds me of... 🙃

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10h

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 10h

On the heels of Purdue kicking the Exponent off campus

Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 11h

Exactly

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

Altman: the next update will *not* tell people to kill themselves in order to attain quantum resonance with god.

Everyone: yeah that'd be pretty nice

Altman: It will *not* tell people to murder their spouses.

Everyone: cool, good feature.

Altman: and you can fuck it

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Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 11h

Trans lives matter protest at the MO senate in March '17

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 13h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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As within, so without @tippedbeaker.bsky.social · 16h

The treatment we allow the government to impose on one of us is the treatment we allow the government to impose on ourselves.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-13-yea...

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 14h

Counterpoint: Carpet made of cat pee

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14h

It turns out that making things more expensive makes them more expensive.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15h

This administration’s policy of serial open murders on the high seas is starting to make some members of Congress mildly uncomfortable. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Members of Congress growing concerned over lack of information from administration about Venezuela strikes, sources say

Republicans and Democrats say the administration is failing to share basic information with Congress about the intelligence, rationale and goals of its war on drug trafficking.

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Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 14h

100% how I feel about every feature introduced since the 255 character limit went away

jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 15h

everyone on here seems to think that there's just one feature you can add or remove from social media to make people not go insane on here. this belief, i think, is itself a form of madness

Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 15h

I don't get the feeling Josh is a "read the comments" guy

Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 16h

"Let them eat food stamps"

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Matt Tex Eckerle @mattexx.bsky.social · 1d

WC games are in Foxborough 30 minutes from Boston City Hall and everybody acting like this is a City of Boston thing 🙄

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 1d

Gov. Tim Walz to Trump as his “man-made” crisis crushes American farmers: "Find three soybean farmers who will stand with you and say, 'This is okay.' Just three, anywhere in America. I challenge you to do that, because you're not going to find them.”

Walz CHALLENGES Trump: Find a farmer who thinks this is okay

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