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Matt Black

@mblackmn

Information Security and Systems Engineer, Musician, human for two goofball dogs and cuddly, and slightly bitey, kitty Formerly mblackmn on the Bird app, also on Mastadon.

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1) this sounds awesome

2) do we start a Puget Sound version called Greysky?

09.03.2026 23:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Seattle Mariners' Naylor greets history-making umpire - Seattle Sports Seattle Mariners first baseman Josh Naylor talked about the nice moment Tuesday when he greeted Jen Pawol, the first female umpire in MLB history.

The #Mariners' Josh Naylor provided a nice moment Tuesday by greeting history-making umpire Jen Pawol before stepping into the box.

"It’s not hard to be inclusive and welcoming and happy. I think it could change the world.”

(via @shannondrayer.bsky.social)

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25.02.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 1022 πŸ” 190 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 141

Does this help reduce the number of promoted posts? I see more of those than posts from people I actually want to hear from.

25.02.2026 23:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This has been such a chaos game - and not in the fun way.

23.02.2026 03:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Would you be willing to share the link to the place you got it from?

17.02.2026 18:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm certian in Frey's mind, it will be.

13.02.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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11.02.2026 16:44 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

SPCC was one of my favorite places to play - they always had Labatt Blue on tap.

I'd highly recommend checking out a Learn To Curl event. We'd take people from never having been on the ice to calling and playing a game in 2 hours.

10.02.2026 00:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Broom stacking" is the name for it and it's a key part of the tradition. The two teams have a beer afterwards, winner buys the first round.

The curling clubs in the Twin Cities I played at (and I assume elsewhere) have tables for eight so both teams can sit and talk.

09.02.2026 23:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Walking the dogs today felt a lot like baseball season.

06.02.2026 02:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have a ton of photos and negatives that I need to digitize. I'd love to learn what you used. Thank you!

28.01.2026 22:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have every confidence Walz will fail to rise to the moment. He failed the people of Minneapolis in 2020 when the MPD killed George Floyd. He will fail again here. He'll talk a big game but that's all he'll do.

I would love to be wrong. But I doubt it.

25.01.2026 02:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is one of my key sources for cyber security news. Zack does a great job with key topics and stories to keep you informed without feeling overwhelmed.

Plus cyber cats and friends!

24.01.2026 06:31 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A picture of the Mary Tyler Moore statue in downtown Minneapolis, depicting the iconic moment from the show where she throws her hat in the air. But the hat has been covered over with a protesters cardboard sign, reading β€œFUCK ICE.”

A picture of the Mary Tyler Moore statue in downtown Minneapolis, depicting the iconic moment from the show where she throws her hat in the air. But the hat has been covered over with a protesters cardboard sign, reading β€œFUCK ICE.”

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says β€œfuck ice.”

23.01.2026 22:29 πŸ‘ 12252 πŸ” 2789 πŸ’¬ 96 πŸ“Œ 243

It is impossible to overstate how cathartic it can be to just sob for a bit.

17.01.2026 00:06 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Very happy to have the representative for my district taking a lead on this.

09.01.2026 22:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

1. ICE will kill you.

2. Trumpists will lie to justify it.

3. Because they are all thug trash.

08.01.2026 01:10 πŸ‘ 10508 πŸ” 2317 πŸ’¬ 150 πŸ“Œ 47

I absolutely love where we live now, but I do miss the snow sometimes. It was always nice watching it fall and going out with the dogs playing in it when it was fresh.

28.12.2025 03:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We fly to Houghton, MI each April, visiting Michigan Tech for an event. It's wild going through there with PreCheck because it's the exact same line and equipment, they just hand you a "keep your shoes on" card.

28.12.2025 03:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was heading infosec & privacy for a company that started to test the waters with NFTs in 2022. That they even wanted to consider riding that fad helped make the choice to leave a lot easier when a different company came calling. I completely lost trust in the leadership.

27.12.2025 23:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

To cheese or not to cheese, that is the question.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The cramps and pains of outrageous dairy,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by embracing them. To eatβ€”with wine...

21.12.2025 21:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My in-laws got us a cheese advent calendar from a shop in Wisconsin. It included curds.

Fortunately it was only 12 days or yeah... would not have survived.

21.12.2025 21:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It would be incredibly difficult to support a candidate that ISN'T running on this. And holding this administration accountable.

We cannot just "move on" from everything they've done to this country. People have and will continue to die because of them.

21.12.2025 01:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't know how to do that, but Chrome added a feature where if you open a new tab and start to type the site address or page title and you have the site open, it'll ask you if you want to bring that tab up.

I've lost count of the times that has bailed me out.

17.12.2025 19:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We would never send a letter if it was us writing it. Since 2011, we've done the letter from the pets point of view. It's so much easier to write from them rather than talk about ourselves. They even have their own website.

16.12.2025 05:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's hard not to read that in his voice!

14.12.2025 01:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm curious how much longer the BBC is going to keep CBS News as their partner organization in America. It's going to get to a point where you won't be able to trust CBS at all.

11.12.2025 00:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sunday Scaries is the name I usually hear associated with it.

08.12.2025 06:27 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That's two this week. The React/NextJS ones were also a 10.0

07.12.2025 05:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0