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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good thread of all the complications to which I’d add the enduring value of financial cheating after the crime. Man City’s squad today isn’t possible without this. What to make of their (e.g.) 2024 title win?

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yeah it's not great when the organization ostensibly with the purpose of keeping us safe is endangering us in the name of keeping us safe. Only solution is overthrowing the leadership of the organization or building an organization actually committed to protecting Jews.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Prescient post. Progress always comes swiftest after the reactionaries overreach.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Here’s a screenshot where I can literally see only four lines of (non-sequential) text. This is a good piece, but the reading experience is awful. @thenation.com

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Pizza: 2 Amys Patisserie: Un Je Ne Sais Quoi Thai: Ammathar Sushi: Perry's Italian: Cucina Morini Bagels: Bagels, Etc. Tacos: Taqueria Habanero Fine Dining: Albi/Moon Rabbit

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Every cyclist has had many Encounters with Unhinged Motorists (EUMs), but I had an EUM this weekend that set a new record on the U-scale.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Yes! Stop with the notion that public opinion can’t be shaped! It absolutely can and it’s the job of leaders to do so.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

They’re genuinely going to have to set up a temporary office of investigation into crimes against democracy or something. There are so many little things like this and no one who participated can be welcome back in public life ever again.

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

DoorDash, you don’t need to address the DC Council, you need to address us — your customers, restaurant workers, and the drivers making your billions in profit possible. Withdraw your support for #HR9720. Oppose federal attacks on your drivers and the DC community. Until then it’s #DeleteDoorDash.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

My apologies to Enzo. I really underrated his shitheadiness here.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This might be a useful reference for some people today.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This is why as good as Ossoff is (and I like him a lot), if AOC runs, I really she wins the nomination easily. She has 30-40% of the primary vote in the bank. There’s no other clearly left person running. Khanna? Lol. And the centrists are going to struggle to rally around 1 person.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

We will all have to be vigilant to not give in to slop. AI is just massively degrading every product in the name of efficiency. The only means of counteracting the trend is to move your $ (eyeballs, digitally) elsewhere.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Messi: not a shithead Enzo: shithead De Paul: shithead Dibu: huge shithead Romero: huge shithead Lisandro: huge shithead Montiel: shithead and probably a rapist Molina: shithead Alexis: shithead Lautaro: shithead Alvarez: not a shithead? Otamendi: huge shithead Simeone: legacy shithead Great squad

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Does anyone like anyone on this Argentina team other than Messi?

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Spain are just so unbelievably press-resistant.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Can’t wait for Andorra to get their first ever World Cup victory when they beat Laos in the play-in tournament!

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I’m pro BlueSky, but the ability of this place to reduce every narrative to “Trump Bad” is frustrating. Even the jokes about Trump being the reason why the USMNT put in a stinker of a performance against Belgium or “we got what we deserved” serve to make Trump (not the team) the story.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

If Gio ever plays for this team again, the FBI needs to investigate the family for (additional) blackmail.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Think the US need to hydrate with Red Bull not water right now.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Anthony Gordon is the most CONCACAF player in this game.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

If Cabo Verde had 10 more minutes, they’d get the goal. 100%.

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

That is a 0.03 xG shot that gets a 0.68 post shot xG and yeah that accurately captures that that was a fucking insane hit. What a game man.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Happy for Salah, who was superb in the last 40 minutes of that game.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

They should have a panel of 9 former referees who read the original rules set down at the various English public schools, determine what CW Alcock would have thought, and change the outcome 3 years later.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Okay, soccer nerds. Proposed change to the offside rule: you can’t be offside if the defending team has 5+ guys in the penalty area.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Believe a thing you can’t see and for which the only evidence is our AI that claims the thing happened. Sure, why not? Great way to decide a game.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Has Malik Tillman been the best midfielder at the tournament so far or has it been Weston McKennie?

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

We’re getting anti-South Korea-ed. I thought being hosts bought us calls?

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The conservative movement is simply against equality. They put: White people > Non-white people Multi-generational lineage > Immigrants Cis folks > Trans folks Straight folks > Queer folks Men > Women Wealthy > Poor The entire political project is about maintaining these (and other) hierarchies.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Soccer analytics folks, let’s do discourse: what if teams could repeatedly use the same penalty kick taker? Like, would you risk Jorginho going 5 times in a row? 1st, 3rd, and 5th?

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I regret how much football I’ve watched today. Just dreadful stuff, but I can’t look away.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I would describe the Paraguay players as a disgrace to football and their country. Excellent qualifications for CONCACAF. This match has felt exactly like US-Honduras in San Pedro Sula with a Mexican ref.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I mean, I’m not even for Germany here, but Paraguay have gotten EVERY call in this game.

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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 28/06/2026

To me, that's cinema www.instagram.com/reel/DaHmqoz...

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

That was the most ridiculous game of soccer I’ve ever seen.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

@johnspacemuller.com gonna have to add offside to the player stats in @futi.live so we Darwin enthusiasts can track his wanderings!

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This phenomenon has spread like some contagion to the entire match now.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Reyna is worse than useless in a game without the ball.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Give me algae or give me death. - a famous revolutionary or something

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

England getting every call in this game. That should be a penalty. One of the wildest challenges I’ve ever seen.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Every Warren Barton vocalization is like, “ooooh he kicked it good, Jacqui. 52% possession. That’s something, innit?”

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

No big deal, just the hero of an underdog story saying his mom couldn’t see him because the US visas are too expensive.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Best half ever played by USMNT?

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

How long before the first quadrillionaire?

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

That was one of the worst performances I can ever recall at a World Cup and somehow Mexico only won by two goals. Almost feels appropriate to say #DosACero.

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

So, Accenture, can we, the DC taxpayers, please have our money back for this period of time when you have been paid for services not rendered?

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This is a serious crisis. Is anyone in DC politics actually doing anything about this?

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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Sucks when you fire everyone who’s good at anything, like putting the right link in a social media post…

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