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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 18h

Pro-Columbus Day discourse is the kind of thing that makes one hasten to abolish the internet.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A good summation of David Brooks and "civility" politics generally: no one on the right-wing can ever be described honestly, while everyone who isn't on the right-wing is always portrayed as a radical breaking cherished norms.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Must have been the most incredible feeling to realize there's no one in purple within five yards of the line between you and the win.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Like finding out we accidentally tossed a Picasso.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We never knew what we had with Tate Forcier trying to run that offense.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Recurring column, Stabbin’ with Aunt Stabby, would read.

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QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Who tried to take this mfer to a disco?

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW: The early weeks of the college football season have gotten dangerously hot, and the heat is lasting longer. Shortened games, a band member dead, hundreds of medical calls. With the season moving up, it's a huge problem. And there's not an easy fix www.al.com/sec/2026/10/...

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College football has a heat problem. There’s no easy solution

The early weeks of college football season are hotter than ever. Can anything be done to help players and fans?

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Earth-kun, the Tokyo Sewerage Bureau mascot, is a globe with a manhole cover hat.

A smiling globe mascot with widespread arms and a manhole cover hat stands on a pavement in front of some trees.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Buddy Garrity with a style consultant and personal trainer he somewhat ignores.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I swear, I was at a Michigan game in the late 90s where they dipped the plane almost into the bowl as it passed over the first scoreboard. This stuff is freaky and loud and unnecessary militarization and schools don’t have to do it!

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It really tickled me that when those Nebraska fans were picketing the conference during COVID, they were standing outside an empty office in the parking lot of a Fogo de Chau.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I believe it’s pronounced “yuuug.”

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This coaching staff excels at the camera cutting to any one of them and looking quietly confused. Confidence is low.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

his vindictiveness towards the White Whale might have possibly extended itself in some degree to all sperm whales

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We taunted Chip Kelly and this is what we get.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pitt should now be forced to take responsibility for the tyranny of goal posts, just as Michigan has had to answer for the very concept of time.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is true for college football, and also every institution in the country.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Still wearing his Michigan gear, with the microphone covering the Block M. That’s just being economical.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

99. Being at the trough at Michigan Stadium and the guy who walks up next to you is your high school chemistry teacher. See you on Monday!

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ieyasu-kun promotes Aichi Prefecture's historical spots. He wears golden armour, but he likes peace. He is slow and steady but occasionally gets excited when something good happens.

A mascot wearing golden armour stands on a red-carpeted stage in front of a screen.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dumb penalties? Check. Baffling game choices? Check. Inane penalties? Check. The perfect storm of everything going wrong. At the end of the day, that’s coaching.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 27/09/2026

In all seriousness, Michigan had like a dozen chances here, there, and everywhere to put that game away, and when they didn't, well sometimes, that's the result. This game wasn't lost on the last play or last drive, it was a Jenga tower that finally collapsed.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

All WMU had to do was knock down the ball, like the other 998 teams in that situation. But they didn’t.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was told Western was playoff bound because the committee wouldn’t hold losing to Michigan against them.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gosh I miss the old Northman bar, with the long pour coming out from near the ceiling.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Towns McGough Goes to Town. Towns McGough Goes to Town. Towns McGough Goes to Town.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

THEY PUT THE DOLLY BUTTERFLY ON SMOKEY FOR GAMEDAY IM CRY

Smokey XII with a Dolly butterfly bandana

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Somewhere on the lost interwebs there is an oral history of the night I first had the OG. Three of us to tell the tale, and there were still significant gaps. That stuff was really something.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have to think I’d be more effective with OG Four Loko at 40 than I was at 25. But do I want that chance?

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you know who ended Mad Men absolutely on top?

Roger Sterling in Paris with Marie Calvet in the Mad Men finale

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No TV character has ever had a better time at all times, even when he’s having a demonstrably bad time. “If I stick with the clear liquors, vodka, gin, I know where I stand.” Wisdom for the ages.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

hey just curious where did the “protect women athletes” crowd get off to

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Another thing: At some point we decided US youth sports were not civic recreational and/or public school programming but rather a for-profit grift lining the pockets of travel sports companies. And at what cost for pressured, tired, and over-traveled kids?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Muppets have to put on a show to save the Kennedy Center. There you go, Disney, that's your premise.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I really wish I could pinpoint into words the kind of internal fury and resentment I still carry about the total collapse of the academic humanities. Most days I don't think about it at all. But sometimes, I'm left with an overwhelming sadness about missing the work.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"4 years ago, he was fighting for his life in a West Texas children's hospital. Today, he's starting for the Longhorns at the Cotton Bowl. Here with the rest of this inspiring story is Senator Ted Cruz."

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh, but at Michigan, football, men's basketball, and hockey student tickets cost money for everyone. Came out to something like 20 bucks a game in 2004-8.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Imagine my surprise when I got to Northwestern as a grad student and discovered that while undergrad tickets were free, they were so afraid of grad students cheering for our non-NU alma maters that we had to pay. Which, you got me, NU. I was going just to cheer for Michigan. But still.

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nick pants @nickpants.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

10 years ago today 🫡🫡🫡

“again, follow your dreams, because unqualified idiots are paid to do things they shouldn’t be doing every day, why not you” — spencer hall

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Reid has acknowledged cribbing plays from films of Fritz Crisler’s Mad Magician offenses at Michigan. It’s kind of the best how much he finds utility in old timey football.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I clocked this in like episode three - all they eat are hamburgers and donuts and takeout. No one cooks. Ever. And somehow this gets explained explicitly multiple times, as if their inexplicable metabolisms are a human triumph.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I was in the volleyball band at Michigan. The matches were right down the street from the band hall and started right after marching band rehearsal. The trombones started a student section. Basically became a Friday night party. My senior year, they took us to the NCAA tournament. The best.

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Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We’re finishing a full series watch, my first run through. As someone her exact age, I realize there’s about ten people I know who were superfans and adopted Rory as a personality in real time. With all that entailed. It’s just the weirdest and most cringe show, but I kinda loved it anyway?

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