mattfolco

Software Client Architect for @IBMSoftware in Ireland. Views expressed are my own. RT/MT != endorsement.

[mattfolco @mattfolco]

Special thanks to @IrishRail for helping me get a bag my daughter left on the train. Special thx to Michael in Drogheda for sorting the return trip and Paul for dropping it back to me.

[Steve McDowell @sr_mcdowell]

Nice botom-line beat in @IBM's Q4'24 earnings. Nicer is the performance of the software group:

Software:
→ Now ~45% of business
→ $15B ARR ↑15% y/y
→ @RedHat ↑17% on back of ~25% OpenShift growth

Consulting:
→ down the for the Q, up for the year
→ Growth in GenAI & Biz Transformation
→ Strong acqusitions
→ Poised for strong 2025

Infrastructure:
→ Off-cycle for Z. Met our expectations.

Congratulations to @ArvindKrishna & team!

[mattfolco @mattfolco]

@hawkblogger tell me you don't watch the games without telling me you don't watch the games. #GoPackGo

https://t.co/yqKb1ziRnw

[Zach Jacobson @zachjacobson]

Jordan Love against the blitz in his last four games: 22-of-33, 344 yards, three touchdowns with no interceptions and a 131.4 passer rating. He’s been sacked just once and 13 of his completions have gone for first downs.

[mattfolco @mattfolco]

Pretty self explanatory. DO. THE. MATH.

[mattfolco @mattfolco]

@porcupine_pete Was it earl weaver baseball?

[mattfolco @mattfolco]

@joe_is_tweeting @porcupine_pete @Pink I still stand by that decision.

[mattfolco @mattfolco]

any man who loves cheese curds is ok by me.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

@DerrickNAACP Minnesota Lt Gov Peggy Flanagan praises Tim Walz for his "bottomless bag of snacks -- Nutter Butters, cheese curds, and Diet Dew."

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Project 2025 shifts taxes from the wealthy to the middle class— a family of 4 earning $100K would suffer a $2,600 tax hike, while a family earning $5 million would get a $325,000 tax cut.

cc: @Brendan_Duke

[mattfolco @mattfolco]

Only a decade too late! @BadgerMBB *cough* *cough* #winslowtouchedit

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

Adidas' "connected ball" technology just led to a Belgium goal being overturned in the final minutes due to a handball.

A sensor suspended inside the ball captures touches at a rate of 500 times per second.

It sealed Slovakia's 1-0 win over Belgium—the biggest upset in Euros history.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

🧵
I attended the Biden event in Los Angeles last night. Fantastic, but it made me think about a few things.

I’ve been around a minute. Lived through several Presidential races. I remember not being excited about the candidates, but I have never in my life fixed my lips to say, I’m not voting because of it. Neither did my grandparents who survived Jim Crow and were not always welcomed at the polls.

I don’t understand folks who are saying that today.

Your top issue isn’t being talked about enough or going the way you think it should? Let’s survive now and live to fight another day. But first, look beyond what you’re seeing covered by the media, because Biden is not getting the same coverage that Trump is getting. And much of that coverage is skewed. It’s likely your issue is being worked on and you have been heard — so look deeper!

We don’t have to invite the candidates over for tea and crumpets, but staying home when we have the Supreme Court that we have, is short-sided and a disservice to those of us who see Trump as the number one danger that he is promising to be.

NO CHOICE — IS A CHOICE FOR TRUMP!!!
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[mattfolco @mattfolco]

@_MLFootball @uSTADIUM @ArrowheadLive @LetsChatChiefs @ChiefsFocus @lexiosborne @bturner23 @AllChiefdUp @chiefshive @chiefs_outsider @greg_price11 @dandakich The Venn diagram of people buying butker jerseys and people who bought truck nuts is a single circle.

[mattfolco @mattfolco]

@Jcollins205 INS up there with the GZA. that opening verse on word on the street is on par with above the clouds and triumph.

[mattfolco @mattfolco]

@Jcollins205 this turned up in my 'Grand Puba AND Wu-Tang' filter...

https://t.co/ue3453R1eT

[mattfolco @mattfolco]

@Jcollins205 one of the best.....Q in his bucky hoodie.

[mattfolco @mattfolco]

@Jcollins205 was quite a day...

[mattfolco @mattfolco]

@Jcollins205 remember like it was yesterday.

[mattfolco @mattfolco]

@WebDoctor_ie it would save everyone so much time and angst if you let people know up front before all 200 medical history questions that you don't have an appointment for today up front. i get the point of triage, but it's _so_ obnoxious to go through all that for nothing.

[mattfolco @mattfolco]

Democrats need to stop playing 'fair' and start playing to win, because the GOP doesn't care about the citizens one single iota.

[Senator Chris Larson @SenChrisLarson]

You may have noticed right-wing pundits freaking out about the first week of the new State Supreme Court. What you may not know is why.

To sum up: Republicans in WI are like a football team that has been paying off the refs for years.

[mattfolco @mattfolco]

RIP Denny Crum. For us 80s boys he was a real one. My man @Jcollins205 probably inconsolable.

[mattfolco @mattfolco]

@wiscofan5 @pilofsam1 @RealEricTheRed @GregSchiano @cjhetherman @coachharasymiak @MattWalp UW wasn't an option anymore