Matt Van Horn

@mattvanhorn

Ralph Gracie black belt, programmer, card player, shooter, home brewer, amateur pizzaiolo, bedroom DJ, and electric unicyclist. He/him. ADHD 🇵🇷🇮🇹+ @mattvanhorn@mastodon.social @mattvh on IG (but probably not for long)

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Matt Van Horn@mattvanhorn· 29d

I've always liked this one.

1984 Ford Mustang GT 2D Hatchback, in white with a black stripe and trim.

Matt Van Horn@mattvanhorn· Jul 15

Worse than this:

Matt Van Horn@mattvanhorn· Jul 13

Adapted a Fork & Embers recipe to my Weber rotisserie. Pork loin, with a honey-lime glaze, and cherry, hickory and oak smoke. Juicy and delicious.

A pork sirloin roast, on a rack in a pan. It is reddish orange and shiny from a paprika rub and honey lime glaze.

The same roast, sliced on a cutting board, showing juicy pork, with just a slight smoke ring.

Matt Van Horn@mattvanhorn· Jul 13

Your reading comprehension is zero, and you also seem to lack the context that Uncommitted was seeking the tiniest bit of Palestinian representation ***at the Democratic convention***, not in some random newspaper article (where the very first paragraph is this:)

By Mat Nashed and Maram Humaid
Published On 23 Jul 2024
23 Jul 2024
Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank say a United States presidency under Kamala Harris would do little to halt Israel’s war on Gaza after US President Joe Biden’s decision to drop his re-election bid.

Matt Van Horn@mattvanhorn· Jul 9

Created in 1968, Accession IV by Eva Hesse is a landmark post-minimalist sculpture. It features an open-topped galvanized steel cube containing thousands of woven rubber tubes that protrude from the interior. The contrast between the rigid geometric exterior and the unruly, organic center creates an unsettling, bodily effect.

Painted in 1928, Night Windows is a quintessential Edward Hopper oil-on-canvas that captures a voyeuristic view into a brightly lit New York City apartment at night. The painting is structured around three identical, dark green window frames that resemble a film strip, framing a scene akin to an illuminated stage. Through the window on the far left, a sheer curtain flutters outward, suggesting a cool evening breeze. Inside, a woman in a pink chemise is hunched over in a casual, somewhat inelegant pose, attending to private affairs completely oblivious to the viewer's gaze. This elevates a common urban experience—glancing into the window of a passing elevated train—into a profound study of modern isolation and voyeurism.

Matt Van Horn@mattvanhorn· Jul 6

It looks pretty close to this, but the mini chocolate chips embedded in the circumference is what makes it for me.

Vanilla ice cream, between two chocolate chip cookies, ringed with mini chocolate chips.

Matt Van Horn@mattvanhorn· Jul 6

I made these this year, and jam, and just eating them by the handful, but the ants, birds & squirrels still wound up with a lot of them.

A picture of Marillenknödel, which is a traditional Austrian apricot dumpling, made by encasing fresh apricots (with a sugar cube inside) in a sweet dough, boiling them, and then coating them in buttery, toasted breadcrumbs and powdered sugar.

Matt Van Horn@mattvanhorn· Jul 5

My Mustang GT craves blood.

Murdered out black Mustang GT with license plate VRYDARK

Matt Van Horn@mattvanhorn· Jul 4

I saw a few versions of a “Reflecting Pool” cocktail, which seems more apt this year. Make it with blueberry skins for extra realism.

The Reflecting Pool - an unappealing looking greenish cocktail, with bits of blue in it.

loz Rum loz Mezcal
1/4 oz lime
1/4 oz honey syrup
1 bar spoon matcha muddled mint
blue garnish (optional)

Matt Van Horn@mattvanhorn· Jul 3

Oh, yeah… that must’ve hurt. ICE must be really strapped for cash now.

The current baseline annual discretionary budget for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is $10.88 billion for Fiscal Year 2026.

However, this baseline is vastly expanded by a massive multi-year funding measure passed by Congress in June 2026. Under this budget reconciliation package, ICE was awarded an additional $38 billion to fund mass deportation, detention, and enforcement operations through the remainder of President Trump's term.

Matt Van Horn@mattvanhorn· Jun 30

Saw a nice one on my camping trip.

Butterfly on a leaf. It is yellow with black stripes.

Matt Van Horn@mattvanhorn· Jun 29

I touched some grass (and water, and volcanic rock) this weekend.

Burney Falls. A huge waterfall with two main streams split by a tree, and a multitude of smaller ones. There’s a forest on top, and a beautiful blue sky.

A beautiful stream runs through a vibrant green forest of conifers under a blue sky with a few fluffy clouds.

A view down a subterranean lava tube, with a large pile of boulders that fell out of the ceiling in the foreground.

In the foreground a shallow creek, in the background there are trees above a small hot spring on an outcrop.

Matt Van Horn@mattvanhorn· Jun 25

Every hometown's got the ominous megastructure, what's yours'?

33 Thomas Street (also known as the AT&T Long Lines Building) is a 550-foot-tall (170 m) windowless skyscraper in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

Matt Van Horn@mattvanhorn· Jun 21

Thinking of my Dad today.

B&W photo of a man in striped swim trunks, and glasses hold in a baby with one arm. Behind them is a stone wall with what looks like a gazebo above it. They’ve both been in the water, judging by their hair.

Matt Van Horn@mattvanhorn· Jun 18

Works for me.

Me, my .45, some tequila, and a laptop.
(No weed in the picture because it would have jeopardized my 2nd amendment rights at the time.)

Matt Van Horn@mattvanhorn· Jun 16

I was surprised to learn that shooting competitions were part of many schools’ athletic programs in the past. There are still 2000 high school programs.

Wikipedia article: Until 1969 virtually every public high school-even in New York City-had a shooting club. High school students in New York City carried their guns to school on the subways in the morning, turned them over to their homeroom teacher or the gym coach during the day, and retrieved them after school for target practice. Club members were given their rifles and ammunition by the federal government. Students regularly competed in citywide shooting contests for university scholarships.

Matt Van Horn@mattvanhorn· Jun 14

She's got taste. And you are correct - it goes hard. Gonna play it in the car with the windows down.

Matt Van Horn@mattvanhorn· Jun 12

You say “insurgency,” I say “community defense force.” Look at what happened at Bundy ranch in 2014, if you want an example. A handful of people with guns changes the calculus of government agents very quickly.