
Matthew Mansfield👹
@drunkengrass
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Starting over while trying to avoid mistakes of the past.
San Francisco, CA
Joined October 2008
While studying Chinese calligraphy and art history in Taiwan, I had a professor who said I looked like a drunk blade of grass blowing in the wind as I weaved amid traffic on my bicycle. I thought it sounded like a beautiful nom de plume for my calligraphy, and when I created my
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"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect." ―Margaret Mitchell
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First, the Mavericks and now the Cowboys are trading a superstar player. It's tough to be a Dallas sports fan today.
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This is more true than people realize.
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Anyone else notice that they're accidentally unfollowing accounts? I discovered this morning that an account I've followed for years showed up as one to follow when I never made the decision to unfollow them. It seems to have happened on its own.
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I'll miss this show. I didn't expect to like it, but I did. It was lighthearted and enjoyable.
wrote about one of my favorite & deeply underrated tv performances in recent years: Alan Tudyk in RESIDENT ALIEN. bummed the show ends this week, but what an absurd & delightful treat it has been for 4 seasons! https://t.co/jASEl74JFb
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Uh oh. Here's a montage of Trump talking about cutting Social Security and Medicare. It would be a shame if everybody shared this. #HandsOffOurSocialSecurity
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Incredible. Roland Reisley is 101 years old, the last original client of Frank Lloyd Wright. He still lives in the 3,200 square foot home that Wright built for him in 1952. The price? $40,000. Or a little less than half a million in today's money.
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Sigh. What's the date? It's August 7th, 2025. We're not even ten months into this second term. https://t.co/xxrX870GIi
nytimes.com
The president posted talking points provided by one firm that donated millions, and his administration delayed a change on coverage of pricey bandages that could have hurt the company and others like...
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You could start multiple Fortune 500 companies with all the unemployed or underemployed talent over 40+ in the Bay Area. "A 50-year-old founder is 1.8 times more likely to start a top-performing firm (top 0.1% in growth) than a 30-year-old founder. Founders in their early 20s
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The company that makes Nutella just posted a job that more or less involves hedging Nutella risk. This is literally the job I was born to do.
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I love such homes. Having grown up in a two-hundred-year-old farmhouse, modernist architecture appeals to me. I also like architecture, like what you would find in the Brillhart home in Miami. https://t.co/6h5QHedVpj
So many people here hate modernist architecture but I'm convinced they don't even know what it is. Oscar Niemeyer's 1964 Strick House in Santa Monica is up for sale ($16M) and it's incredible. 1911 La Mesa Dr. Santa Monica, CA 90402
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I agree with this because attending live shows, especially for bands you're not familiar with, creates opportunities to expose yourself to new musical genres and their fans. I wouldn't have gotten into as much music as I have if I hadn't bounced as many concerts when I was
One take I have on good/bad music is music is awesome and you should just go to as many live shows as possible of as many bands/artists as possible for as long as you can
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A friend of mine who lives in Austin saw this at a bar and said she had never been so offended by something she 100% agreed with.
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Without fail, when you're demoing something you've built to someone, you inevitably notice "bugs" and problems you missed, and they stare back at you like you've walked into the bathroom on a relative who forgot to lock the door.
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Sometimes I think about the closure of G. Lorenzi, a Milanese gentleman's shop that had been around for almost 100 years until their closure in 2014. The shop was special because it carried so many one-of-a-kind items from artisans — total handmade craft production, not factory.
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Huh. I never understood why this wasn't the plan from the start. https://t.co/oQpsRFTp4m
vice.com
Good news, gals: there’s a new birth control on the market. But this time, it won’t mess up our bodies or wreck our moods.
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