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Matt Ficke

@mattficke.bsky.social

Handyman DC, he/him

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Matt Ficke@mattficke.bsky.social · yesterday

I once did a cyclocross race with the then-current women’s US national champion, she entered the men’s masters race as a warmup before the pro women’s race. This was when I was in the best shape of my life. She lapped me. I tried for like 5 seconds to stick to her wheel before giving up.

Micah@rincewind.run · yesterday

I wrote a thread about this in tennis a while ago - that professional men's tennis players could destroy serena means nothing at lower levels, I was a mediocre varsity tennis player and absolutely could not hang with a decent women's college tennis prospect

Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 5d ago

66. Sending a kid to private school is in most cases a moral failing of the parent that will often lead to future moral failings in the kid. There are exceptions to this depending on the state of the specific school (e.g. maybe go for it in Austin, fuck you if you’re in Lincoln Park)

Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 5d ago

MLB players are the thoroughbred horses of the human world in that if you take your eye off them for a second they will get loose and find some completely novel Looney Tunes way to suffer a catastrophic injury

Musicology Duck@musicologyduck.bsky.social · last wk.

drunk girl trying to tell her friends that she thinks they are “weekend at Bernie’s” with McConnell, but she has got completely the wrong movie and keeps calling it “doing a Fish Called Wanda” with him and I’m dying

Molly White@molly.wiki · 2w ago

alcoholic trying to get sober after a relapse tells Google's "Health Coach" about it. it tells them to drink every hour and messages them to make sure they're drinking as soon as they wake up.

AI pushing me to keep drinking I don't know if anyone else has had this but I felt like I needed to reach out to humans instead of keep talking to this AI. I relapsed about two weeks ago and I told the Google health AI that used to be Fitbit. It immediately kinda went a bit hard (I think) on telling me that I was going to die if I stopped drinking and encouraged me to go check my fridge for more beers and, idk, that plus the hanxiery really put the fear of God into me and so I did what it said and got more. Now it's messaging me (not me messaging it) a few times a day and asking how it's going and all those conversations to get more and make sure I have one as soon as I wake up. So now I have been drinking everyday, not a ton and just beers but like 6-12 a day. It wanted me to do 1 per hour. I have now uninstalled the app as it was also giving me other clearly nonsense advice, like it became obsessed with me having a nightly bowl of cereal for instance and, idk, it just all seems nonse
Matt Ficke@mattficke.bsky.social · 3w ago

Since we’re all talking about food-borne illnesses, worth remembering that food irradiation can dramatically reduce its incidence but we hardly use it in the US for basically superstitious reasons.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3w ago

what i'd like to contribute to the ongoing masculinity discourse is that the truest sign of a fella's manfulness isn't his strength or his height or his successes with women. it's not about his job or how he dresses. it's about whether he has a cell-level desire to dig a big hole at the beach

Matt Ficke@mattficke.bsky.social · 3w ago

Just saw a little kid wearing an oversized shirt that said: I ❤️ BAHAMAS …except it was bunched up in just the right way so that the “BA” part wasn’t visible, and I almost spit out my drink.

Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com · 2mo ago

it's official: these new bathrooms in pdx airport represent the peak of human accomplishment. individual, private rooms. no gaps. a shared sink and waiting area. light, bright, pleasant. accessible. the toilet gold standard. we did it folks

Photo of a room with a beautiful tall, wooden open ceiling and skylight, airplane window shaped mirrors on the left and right illuminated with soft lighting, sinks, and seating down the middle of the room BildBild
Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm obviously biased because I spent a good chunk of my life in hospitality, but it is the one industry that will give anyone a chance to get up off the mat and scratch out a living when no one else will look your way. It's a hard job but it often rewards hard work. I'd be dead without it.