Pat M.

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Pat M.

Pat M.

@Fitz_DC

Burqueño, mech/marine engineer, USMMA alum, Nats and Caps fan. I collect spores, mold and fungus.

Alexandria, VA Katılım Ocak 2012
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Pat M.@Fitz_DC·
@AliceFromQueens It’s so cute that you think mowing the loan is the only non-housework most husbands do.
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Alice@AliceFromQueens·
This is 50% just a mirror of old-fashioned husband gallantry, channeled through sitcoms, where husbands pretend they're inept & wives are all-knowing supermoms. But it's 50% that women do more housework & childcare. so when they earn money as well it's like. why tf is this guy so proud about riding his tractor mower twice a month while I corral a toddler trying to jump onto the mower
Tim Carney@TPCarney

How widespread among liberal women is this knee-jerk, completely certain conviction that husbands are useless? Where does it come from? I see this everywhere--on social media, in the NY Times, etc....

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Pat M.@Fitz_DC·
@NavyYardNats Two hours prior to game time and you’re fine. Hour and half you’re probably safe, and hour prior and you’re pushing it.
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Pat M.@Fitz_DC·
@LPDonovan @conorsen If only that were the problem. Sales of the largest townhomes in my community seem to go to people in their 50s and 60s w/o kids, or seemingly grandkids.
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Liam P. Donovan@LPDonovan·
@conorsen At the risk of compounding total boomer luxury capitalism we unironically need to find a policy mechanism that incentivizes sale of the empty nest.
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Conor Sen@conorsen·
This is a subset of the affordability debate but I think there are a fair number of youngish Americans with $200-250k household incomes who feel like that should afford a nicer lifestyle than it actually can in top 10 metros (in part because retirees still have the good houses).
Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸@aaron_renn

WSJ: Young Buyers Are Fueling a Million-Dollar Home Boom in Louisville - The Kentucky city has seen a wave of newcomers looking to buy more affordable luxury properties wsj.com/real-estate/lu…

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Pat M.@Fitz_DC·
@Holden114 Sommer is a wannabe tabloid writer and it speaks poorly of the Bulwark that they hired him.
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Holden@Holden114·
This is how they describe Riley Gaines.
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Starting Strength@SS_strength·
@Jacob__Siegel Only thing I’d say is, originally, that target demo is probably accurate. But 15 years later the median age is probably somewhere in the mid 40s (All of whom wish they had started when they were 18-25 😂)
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Jacob Siegel
Jacob Siegel@Jacob__Siegel·
Starting Strength is one of the great pieces of practical literature written in the past 50 years. It contains more useful information and enduring heuristics than most books. But it's intended for 18-25 year olds. And it's a manual for how and why to be strong, not how to look good in cut-off jean shorts. I didn't discover it until I was in my late 20s, at which point I found it extraordinarily helpful and admirably clear in its prose. I had enough sense by then to tailor it to my own specifications.
asparagoid@asparagoid

2026 is the year I undo all the damage “Powerlifting” and Mark Rippetoe did to me No man has harmed more young men than Mark. He turned a whole generation of men into fat unaesthetic >30% bodyfat human pears with huge asses and wide birthing hips He is going to hell

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Pat M.@Fitz_DC·
@daveweigel Eh, I dunno. I think many older Millenial women are very excited for this.
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Pat M.@Fitz_DC·
@RogueWPA Fella's did you meet your future wife at the Games Workshop store?
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Read a book that included an anecdote about a woman who went to a dance class hoping to meet men and was surprised it was mostly women which is like a dude trying to score at a model railroad shop.
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Jesse Singal@jessesingal·
Currently recording with Ethan Strauss. He is interviewing me but I want to catch him off guard in a vulnerable moment. Do YOU have a question for HIM??
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Pat M.@Fitz_DC·
@LPDonovan I just want people to stop referring to any place south of the Beltway as Alexandria.
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Liam P. Donovan
Liam P. Donovan@LPDonovan·
Irrespective of retrocession we must RETVRN to calling it Alexandria County as the good lord intended.
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Pat M.@Fitz_DC·
@jbarro @soblackandblue @PatrickRuffini The Virginia Redistricting Commission was passed on a bipartisan basis! You can sit here and argue that VA Democarts were responding to rational incentives but it was at the expense of a bipartisan approved process.
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Josh Barro@jbarro·
@soblackandblue @PatrickRuffini They could, but a federal gerrymandering ban could only pass on a bipartisan basis, and the filibuster would make it very difficult to undo on a partisan basis.
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Patrick Ruffini@PatrickRuffini·
Re: Just pass a national gerrymandering ban. Virginia had a gerrymandering ban. How did that go?
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Pat M.@Fitz_DC·
@foster_type I’m not mad, just disappointed. Knew a lot of people who said, “I don’t like gerrymandering but…”
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Josh Barro@jbarro·
Anyway since the Virginia-resident class of conservative journalists and operatives have personally come out on the short end of the stick on this redistricting fight, perhaps they can push their party to negotiate a national gerrymandering ban. Dems are ready to take the call.
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Pat M.@Fitz_DC·
@SGuisgond @hannahcenters Why are you assuming kids who want to play casually “put no effort into improving“ here? Have you ever coached young rec league kids? I have. Maybe determined parents & coaches could help casual kids improve more if they stuck around rec league for longer.
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Steve Guisgond@SGuisgond·
@hannahcenters Travel ball produces better ball players, just like in anything in life, if you are casual and put no effort into improving you won't be as good as others who do. You can't "want" kids to not be so good just so casuals can play more.
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Homeschool with Hannah@hannahcenters·
Travel ball is ruining all other levels of kids’ sports too. I’m watching it happen in real time this spring. There is no place for the kids who just want to play their sport when it’s seasonally time for that sport. The entrants into the pool vary to an extreme that it makes it hard for the players to even play together, despite being the same age. It takes the joy out of it for the kids who just want to play. It’s only going to get worse now that you get paid for playing in college, too.
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Pat M.@Fitz_DC·
@conorsen We’re traveling to a city that’s hosting to visit family and this is basically my strategy at this point.
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Conor Sen@conorsen·
If you’re traveling for a match I guess you’re in a tight spot but if you’re a local it feels like waiting for the final 48-72 hours before match time is the play, particularly for the lower-tier group stage matches.
FIFA@FIFAcom

Last-minute ticket sales phase for @FIFAWorldCup 2026 to drop on 22 April! 🤩 Tickets across all 104 matches will be made available for public purchase at 11:00 ET (17:00 CET) tomorrow on a first-come, first-served basis:

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Pat M.@Fitz_DC·
@MattZeitlin Short answer: yes, it was known that it was just shorthand for bands from the Pacific NW I think it was more signifier of a new thing, hair metal was running on fumes in the late 80’s but Nirvana and PJ delivered the final blow and put it out of its misery.
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Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin·
question for gen x-ers: did everyone realize at the time that grunge was not really a musical genre...pearl jams is basically classic rock, nirvana was punk, alice in chains was metal, soudgarden was drugs...what was going on there...
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Pat M.@Fitz_DC·
@runnersworld This is a dumb take. We’re not talking about some shit like the San Jose Rock N Roll marathon or whatever. This is the Boston Marathon. It’s about excellence and pushing yourself to qualify for the pinnacle event of long distance road racing.
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Pat M.@Fitz_DC·
@CespedesBBQ Also I bought bring Bud Light Lime and Modelo to every game. A well stocked cooler.
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Pat M.@Fitz_DC·
@CespedesBBQ Yo! We play on the Mall on Thursday’s during the summer! House league, hit me up.
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Céspedes Family BBQ
Céspedes Family BBQ@CespedesBBQ·
Feeling the itch. Anybody in DC need a softball ringer? I can promise tons of effort, hard line drives, average banter, seeds, beer and silky smooth infield hands.
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Pat M.@Fitz_DC·
@kevsaucebro You people are fucking insufferable. The National Guard isn’t something he asked for, but establishing good relations is probably to his and Metro’s benefit. He’s done an amazing job and his tweet is totally fine.
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