@ringel.bsky.social - Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel

29 Oct 2026 23:04 +0000

FIX. THE. CLAW. MACHINE.

28 Oct 2026 12:39 +0000

Satire is at its best when it stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the truth. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

27 Oct 2026 12:35 +0000

I was thinking of what I could say to my Israeli friends about the elections today, and the most honest phrase I could come up with was: בהצלחה כולכם, איכשהו. “Good luck to all of you, somehow.”

26 Oct 2026 12:29 +0000

I was yesterday years old when I found out Sharpie makes brush markers.

04 Oct 2026 15:28 +0000

Move New England* into the Atlantic Time Zone. (Fairfield County, CT can stay. You know what you’ve done.)

28 Sep 2026 17:34 +0000

I’d like to thank Past Me for reading all the books in “The Expanse”. Why? Because mapping Amos’s concept of “The Churn” onto large corporate politics is actually a pretty useful model.

24 Sep 2026 20:19 +0000

Those who do not know of the Freeway Revolts of the 60s and 70s are doomed to be mystified by the opposition to massive gigawatt-scale datacenter buildouts.

18 Sep 2026 00:57 +0000

Harry Potter Fanfic Sex Cult La La La La Clementine.

16 Sep 2026 12:12 +0000

The “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” to “Roko’s Basilisk” Pipeline is real, and the line is so straight you could prove the curvature of Earth with it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

16 Sep 2026 12:12 +0000

11 Sep 2026 10:57 +0000

I remember that the weather was perfect that morning.

10 Sep 2026 14:42 +0000

About a month after 9/11, I remember driving to Long Island. The *second* I crossed over from Queens into Nassau, the hyper-patriotic “we’re gonna kick their asses whoever they are” flag-wavey stuff started. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

10 Sep 2026 14:21 +0000

One of the more rewarding things about being a people manager is being able to tell my team “If they’ve got a problem with that, they can talk to me.” and making it stick.

03 Sep 2026 15:28 +0000

A fork in the road is just a three way junction where you’ve already tried one.

01 Sep 2026 12:27 +0000

MERRY MOVINGSDAY!!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

28 Aug 2026 14:26 +0000

Hot music take: If you think “Mr. Brightside” is a total banger of a song, even knowing that it’s about jealousy, infidelity, and paranoia, you are *this close* to understanding why someone on the right might like “Born in the USA”, even knowing it’s about the plight of Vietnam vets.

26 Aug 2026 13:16 +0000

Somebody please fix the claw machine.

18 Aug 2026 14:43 +0000

“I think I'll get more RAM for my gaming box…” “huh.” “that can't be…” “ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!?!” Going to drive crosstown to find an AI training cluster to yell at. brb.

10 Aug 2026 13:51 +0000

At some point in the past several months, stock pictures of Bezos have transitioned from Lex Luthor to Thanos. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

06 Aug 2026 12:50 +0000

WDNK 100.1 FM!!! YOUR HOME FOR… [contains quote post or other embedded content]

28 Jul 2026 14:52 +0000

Assertion: Faith No More was the progenitor of nu-metal. Sorry, all. It’s just true.

27 Jul 2026 14:40 +0000

Good morning, Bluesky. https://youtu.be/Q_tPiH5nY0Q?si=DcCsPzUz5feh0irY

19 Jul 2026 21:19 +0000

ESP-ARG: 87 minutes of boring, followed by 2 minutes of interesting, followed by six minutes of ugly. 30 to go.

08 Jul 2026 12:43 +0000

This. If someone is particularly impervious, I’ve also found success with “Believe That Something Happened.” If someone is willing to take the risk to speak out, there’s almost certainly a reason. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

08 Jul 2026 12:34 +0000

I want to live in a world where the Dems had the bench depth so that a Platner-like campaign *couldn’t* happen.