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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 1d

Weird as in coincidental, not that they would do it

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 1d

That’s weird because the other side of my family is multi-generational Jewish pharmacists. Not in Brooklyn though.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 1d

My great grandparents did change their name to be less Jewish. Not at Ellis island though, but because they owned stores and wanted people to shop at them. I don’t even know what their original names were.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 1d

Dammit.

Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 1d

But you love that book I love.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 1d

"Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins."
"Homer Simpson, smiling politely."
The only reason I know who Billy Corgan is.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 1d

I've taken the train to Busan. It was nearly as intense as I'd expected.

Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 4d

I so much want to ask Noem if she thinks the people who turned in Anne Frank were the good guys.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 4d

My son gets lox and cream cheese on a chocolate chip bagel and it’s how I know I’ve failed as a parent.

Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 4d

Yesterday I listened to his album "Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian," and I love to see MAGA shit themselves over a Johnny Cash album about how white people fucked over the Indians (and thought it was a bad thing).

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 4d

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 5d

I've been arguing for this for years.

Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 6d

This movie is about the importance of having a complete software test suite. The hardware worked perfectly. It was the software that was the problem because the developer didn’t test edge cases enough.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 7d

Or Otis Rush or Freddy King or Son House or Charley Patton or etc etc or Albert Collins.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 7d

"How many Canadians were shot in DC in the past year?"
"All of them. And raped too, I hear."
Seriously, anyone who believes this is an idiot.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 7d

I'm sure they only mean no back pay for Democrats.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 8d

It’s funny because Trump might not even remember who Epstein is.

Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 8d

Things like this always remind me of a decades old Onion article.
theonion.com/aging-pope-j...
"Aging President 'Just Tariffing Everything in Sight,' Say Concerned Handlers"

Aging Pope 'Just Blessing Everything In Sight,' Say Concerned Handlers

VATICAN CITY—Concerned handlers for Pope John Paul II announced Monday that, in recent weeks, the 78-year-old Catholic leader has "just been blessing everything in sight."

theonion.com

Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 9d

That phrase did occur to me as I was typing.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 9d

My French is a bit rusty, so I’ll just assume you’re calling me brilliant.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 9d

What we have is just sparkling authoritarianism.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 9d

My kids have to listen to @500songspodcast.bsky.social every time they get in the car with me, so they’ll learn something even if it’s against their will.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 9d

What does he think is needed to “solve the problem” if sending masked thugs to beat people doesn’t even come close to doing the job? It doesn’t sound like he thinks that’s the wrong approach, just that it isn’t close to enough.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 10d

The Rosetta Stone for understanding The Gays.

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Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 10d

I’m old enough to remember when Republicans were outraged by the idea that the country helped them in any way.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_did...

Wikipedia page for “You didn't build that”:

"You didn't build that" is a phrase from a 2012 election campaign speech delivered by United States President Barack Obama on July 13, 2012, in Roanoke, Virginia. In the speech, Obama said: "Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business, you didn't build that."

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