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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel

@ringel.bsky.social

Plans global networks, lives in a world of pure approximation, juggles metaphorical chainsaws for theoretical fun and actual profit. Not the comic book writer. He’s here too, though. He/him

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Also, lower prevalence of smoking.

14.02.2026 21:57 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dorian Gray was a looksminmaxxer.

14.02.2026 15:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dorian Gray was a looksminmaxxer.

14.02.2026 15:26 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Truly a technical triumph.

12.02.2026 12:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“I don’t see color.”

Okay, but I know what would’ve happened if my mom told me to clean my room and I said “I don’t see messes.”

12.02.2026 03:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’m stuck between “aye” and “eww”.

11.02.2026 16:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also, “pools of 33 degF water dammed up by the rest of the snow at every corner” season.

11.02.2026 16:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's with great irony I note that the Kid Rock halftime alt-cast was a sterling example of how “separate but equal” has always been a farce.

09.02.2026 16:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dear ADL, That is not a Post-It color.

09.02.2026 00:57 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Not betting on the game. (not my thing)
Not betting on It Happening. (gross)

But if there are over/under bets on the Nielsen rating from the TPUSA halftime show, I would at least think about it for a few seconds.

08.02.2026 22:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Expanse

07.02.2026 06:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I mean “Iowa” would be strong evidence for that interpretation.

02.02.2026 14:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good man!

02.02.2026 14:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A Lapsang Souchong adherent, then?

02.02.2026 14:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I believe you misspelled “AWESOME”.

30.01.2026 14:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Friend in the northern NYC burbs sent me a picture of his TV, tuned to The Weather Channel.

“Jim Cantore is here. We’re fucked.”

25.01.2026 17:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

אין מספיק מעלות בחוץ. ❄️

24.01.2026 14:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gives new meaning to “the odds are good, but the goods are odd.”

22.01.2026 14:25 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Reddit link links to a couple of sites as well as the SVG source for the image.

20.01.2026 18:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

slightly diminish a game:

Mostly Satisfactory

12.01.2026 14:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Their katsu-tama curry don was a Thing Of Beauty.

09.01.2026 00:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The spec label from the back of a TV set-top box, which includes the spec “ROM: 32GB”.

The spec label from the back of a TV set-top box, which includes the spec “ROM: 32GB”.

<slaps top of set-top box>

You can fit a whole Space Knight in this much ROM!

07.01.2026 17:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The “Mayflower Compact” US quarter design has Lenin in a pilgrim hat and I can’t unsee it.

07.01.2026 14:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

BREAKING: Vast majority of US residents about to learn that there are different kinds of crude oil. Film at 11.

05.01.2026 15:42 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve grown to appreciate the Israeli book publishing style of “foreign proper nouns get vowels”.

01.01.2026 15:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just finished reading “Conspirituality” by Beres, Remski, and Walker. It has a pretty coherent thesis re: the “wellness to conspiracy theorist” pipeline.

01.01.2026 14:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Happy 2026, all.

What defaults will you reconfigure in the new year?

01.01.2026 05:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We’re trying something new this year at Arisia - a crafter/maker barter market. :)

30.12.2025 02:35 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Well. That’s certainly a speedrun of something.

30.12.2025 06:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In terms of “clearly does not have good boundaries” and/or something more/less subtle?

24.12.2025 14:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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