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Matt Ficke
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Handyman

DC, he/him
The “you know nothing of my work” scene from Annie Hall suddenly became real, it was a magical time.
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“Fraught” is an odd word choice here in that article.
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
This is basically what Firefly/Serenity did.
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Daycare is over $25k/year per kid in DC. Our total aggregate out-of-pocket daycare costs were around $150k for 2 kids. This was in a federally-subsidized daycare.
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
My childcare costs are still around $10k/year per kid even with them in public school. After school care + day camps over school breaks, nothing fancy, it adds up.
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I mean there’s a philosophical question about what the poverty line is measuring. Real median household income is ~2x what it was when the baseline was calculated, so relative to current standard of living someone at the poverty line is poorer today than they were in the past.
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Just want to say I appreciate you posting the stuff you make despite the howling chorus of people demanding “RECIPE???”
November 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Bergen county bans the sale of basically everything other than groceries on Sundays, it’s weird.
November 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“About a Girl” is like a straight-up Beatles homage.
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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listen to me. listen to me right now. if you don't know what this tweet means, just close your device. don't look anything up. go for a walk. return in a week. if you don't listen to me, your life will be ruined and i can't be held accountable
November 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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always remember: Terry Pratchett said trans rights

this book was written in 1996 by a 48 year old British man and no cis person in 2025 has a single goddamn excuse to behave differently
November 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Is this about tattoos on service members?
November 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Pretty common side effect according to my doc, it’s usually only used as an adjunct to stimulant meds in part for that reason. I already have a fair amount of lethargy so I take Wellbutrin as an adjunct instead, works well so far.
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It’s more “inscrutable oriental” than anything. He wrote about Russia with a lot of nuance but phoned it in on China.
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is an esoteric inside joke about AA but it’s always hit home for me
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Also 90% of the 11th Circuit’s opinions go unpublished, it’s not a rare thing.
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Evergreen
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Getting Budweiser Zero to taste so much like the original is a legitimately impressive engineering accomplishment.
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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And like... this is the shit that never gets accounted for in tenure applications for women. How many times you were trying to have men treat you as colleagues with ideas and they were not serious about anything except trying to fuck your body.
November 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM