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Matt Bell

@mattbellviolinist.bsky.social

Electric violinist, singer, songwriter, composer, weirdo

created November 21, 2024

196 followers 113 following 1,124 posts

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Yikes

1/9/2025, 3:14:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She’s a star.

31/8/2025, 7:01:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s like a parking ticket compared to what he’s already gotten away with.

30/8/2025, 10:39:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We’re not that lucky.

30/8/2025, 1:15:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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YOU VOTED TO CONFIRM RUBIO!!!

20/8/2025, 12:33:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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From the folks who threw a fit when they were asked to wear a paper mask for a few months? And the ones flying “Don’t Tread On Me” flags? And have “Liberty or Death” tattoos? GTFOH

20/8/2025, 12:30:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Please don’t. The people who actually used them stopped using them a year ago.

20/8/2025, 12:28:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How is Mamdani doing? Raising quite a bit? Huh.

19/8/2025, 12:06:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bro, you voted to confirm Marco Rubio.

18/8/2025, 9:48:54 PM | 12 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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A brutalist building would never.

17/8/2025, 4:17:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.instagram.com/reel/DLZxL0T...

15/8/2025, 6:20:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, we needed our guns so we could oppose a tyrannical gover… uh… never mind.

15/8/2025, 3:07:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They have chosen wisely.

12/8/2025, 12:17:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They feel good about the economy? While planning to unemploy a bunch of people? Who, precisely, do they think is going to buy what they’re selling?

11/8/2025, 12:39:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have changed each of my kids in public places because there was no table in the men’s room. Nobody ever said anything.

10/8/2025, 12:26:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s literally how kids used to learn that running their mouth might have some consequences. At least that’s how we learned where I grew up.

8/8/2025, 9:28:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not to mention that 523 Hz is a C, not an A sharp

6/8/2025, 4:03:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m actually a very good teacher, but there are things my kids are physically incapable of hearing me say. It’s fine. I’ll just get a teacher to teach them that stuff.

6/8/2025, 3:58:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Further proof that most people are not even remotely qualified to teach children. Setting aside that you can’t teach what you don’t know, most people can’t even teach what they DO know. And the parent-child dynamic can often interfere with the teacher-student dynamic.

6/8/2025, 3:57:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My parents spanked me and I turned out… okay, maybe I’m not the bext example.

5/8/2025, 6:34:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Traitors and losers. Yeah, let’s celebrate them.

5/8/2025, 3:29:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The score? Yeah? Tell me more.

5/8/2025, 3:27:57 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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8324 60-second videos. Do it.

4/8/2025, 7:24:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well shit.

4/8/2025, 7:17:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m just… guys… we can do better, right?

2/8/2025, 2:11:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m no expert on this… wait. Yes I am. Maybe if fellas just acted like women are… and hear me out here… human beings… then women might be more interested in them. I don’t know. It always worked for me.

2/8/2025, 2:08:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The whole “IT’S MY BIRTHDAY!!!” thing makes me insane. Are you 9? Grow up. It’s just a day.

1/8/2025, 12:34:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If I were a Canadian, you couldn’t pay me enough to visit the US.

1/8/2025, 12:56:46 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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36, not counting airports.

31/7/2025, 4:02:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Please no.

30/7/2025, 8:41:58 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Told ya.

30/7/2025, 8:39:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’ll figure it out. He has it in him.

30/7/2025, 2:50:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I said all season that he had plays that made you say “HOLY COW!” and then he had plays that made you say “HOLY COW!”

30/7/2025, 2:50:17 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It doesn’t matter. Republicans will vote to confirm him. Truth doesn’t matter anymore.

30/7/2025, 2:46:07 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I excel at it. I’ve been practicing for years.

28/7/2025, 6:03:52 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I always thought “Unconditional” by Katie Perry had the same problem.

27/7/2025, 10:23:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wouldn’t you?!?

26/7/2025, 1:34:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We deserve whatever we get for not prohibiting this.

19/7/2025, 8:58:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Uggg. Me man. Me no understand colors or shapes. Me very straight. Also, sOCiEtY uSeD To CreATe GreAT ArT bUT DoeSn’T AnYmOrE.

19/7/2025, 8:53:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s… not a thing.

11/7/2025, 6:26:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s crazy. We’d pay way more than that.

8/7/2025, 8:43:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s not the action of reading the book. It’s the time spent thinking about what it says and how it says it. I can take in 100 pages an hour. But I might need a week or more to really let one of those pages change my life.

7/7/2025, 4:34:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every year since our youngest was about 2, we’ve said that THIS age is our favorite yet.

6/7/2025, 1:01:25 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nope. Absolutely not.

4/7/2025, 9:46:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You’re a rockstar

1/7/2025, 2:52:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m an American radical leftist, meaning I’m a little right of center in a civilized country. When someone says, “I bet you believe (some insane policy)”, I just say, “Absolutely”.

29/6/2025, 12:01:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It grows on you.

28/6/2025, 11:38:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good. Let’s get the masks off. Quit pretending these are serious people and start treating them like what they are.

28/6/2025, 4:02:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Depending on the airport…

28/6/2025, 3:59:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Frankly, I’m not happy with the gay rights situation either. They should have way more.

28/6/2025, 3:58:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The end result is partly good. We want NATO to actually help pay for their own defense. But a smart leader would have pushed them in that direction without pissing them off so bad that they refuse to spend any of that on American made arms. We don’t have one of those.

25/6/2025, 3:05:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m 100% against the bombing of Iran. It was stupid and unnecessary. But let’s be honest, Iran’s military is going to do exactly jack shit to respond to this.

23/6/2025, 2:39:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You should visit the Orlando airport.

23/6/2025, 2:37:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bruh.

22/6/2025, 3:32:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A reminder to Iran that the people living in cities voted against this shit.

22/6/2025, 3:24:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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BUT, in a pinch, you can always try the Axis of Awesome approach.

22/6/2025, 3:22:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s not one you’re going to bullshit your way through…

22/6/2025, 3:21:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good lord. By his reasoning, countries should be bombing us.

22/6/2025, 3:12:25 PM | 21 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Of course he is. He doesn’t think Cuomo did anything wrong.

22/6/2025, 3:10:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m usually a “challenge accepted” kind of guy. But even I don’t hate myself that much.

21/6/2025, 2:18:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We can get those numbers up.

21/6/2025, 2:14:52 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We can do better.

16/6/2025, 1:44:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Since 1977, there have been 11 murders, 42 bombings, 200 arsons, 531 assaults, 492 clinic invasions, 375 burglaries, and well over 600 bomb threats at abortion clinics.

16/6/2025, 12:55:19 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There ARE rules. And they’re pretty clear that you can call people all the names you want.

13/6/2025, 11:13:23 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s not okay to assault ANYONE for asking a question, Senator or not.

13/6/2025, 9:28:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He doesn’t have to imagine it. They’ll straight up tell you if you ask them.

13/6/2025, 9:26:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In fairness, if my son died, I would be utterly incapable of breathing, let alone writing an obituary.

13/6/2025, 6:03:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s upset that the Democrats want “to shame” people like him? I’m upset that the Republicans don’t.

10/6/2025, 1:23:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sure it does - if you know who they’re interested in serving and protecting.

10/6/2025, 1:29:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe this time you guys will run an actual candidate- not someone who’s snogging a soldier’s wife or the most boring person anyone has ever not met…

10/6/2025, 1:27:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Have you heard GWB speak?

10/6/2025, 1:21:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We usually get some good songs out of it… to be enjoyed by the people who lived. So there’s that.

10/6/2025, 1:19:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’ll cover a whole month of childcare…

9/6/2025, 11:56:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m not a lawyer, but doesn’t posse comitatus apply here?

9/6/2025, 11:55:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Unarmed people standing up the federal government. Hmm… I was told that only the 2A would permit this. Where are all those guys, huh? Here’s the tyranny they’ve been arming up to turn away…

8/6/2025, 7:08:16 PM | 29 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s exactly who we are - and who we’ve always been. It’s why we want to be better.

8/6/2025, 6:51:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Are you high?

7/6/2025, 1:21:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good lord.

7/6/2025, 1:18:31 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I feel awful for those deportees.

7/6/2025, 1:16:20 AM | 89 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cops are… what, now?

7/6/2025, 1:13:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cassius - named after the greatest BOXER of all time. Couldn’t name him Mohammad. I lived in a heavily Muslim neighborhood at the time and if I yelled his name out my door, half my neighbors would have answered.

7/6/2025, 1:12:15 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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7/6/2025, 1:10:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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7/6/2025, 1:06:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We have receipts. And we will not forget.

7/6/2025, 1:05:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We’ve got a choice between absolute evil and utter incompetence.

4/6/2025, 7:15:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Done.

4/6/2025, 7:13:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You can listen to 10 Dolly or Willie songs and 11 of them are really fucking good.

4/6/2025, 3:48:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Vance doesn’t have the hold over people that Trump does. It’s a cult. Trump is the leader. When he dies, the cult falls apart.

3/6/2025, 6:41:09 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not. Soon. Enough.

3/6/2025, 6:39:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They don’t do the accent when we’re not around, either, do they?

3/6/2025, 6:39:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just toss in a couple spelling errors. You’ll be fine.

2/6/2025, 1:12:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I guess they didn’t plan it on Signal.

2/6/2025, 12:36:40 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/5/2025, 12:17:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ve ridden on public transit in a BUNCH of cities in the US. Never had a problem.

29/5/2025, 7:41:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ve always preferred minor fifths, myself.

29/5/2025, 7:36:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Where’s he going to find a scientist who can actually understand the… Oh.

29/5/2025, 7:34:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’d rather have speed cameras than traffic cops, though. Way, way too many civil rights violations start with traffic stops. And it’s super dangerous for both the officers and the public.

28/5/2025, 5:40:13 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Authoritarians hate educated people. Tale as old as time.

28/5/2025, 5:37:21 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe we could have kids write papers on how many of those commandments our president has bragged about breaking.

28/5/2025, 5:26:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m so sorry for your loss. Good dads are the best.

28/5/2025, 5:23:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view