TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Team Anyone But The Dodgers. (For the conspiracy minded out there, a Rays-Brewers World Series would make a lot of sense right before the players and owners argue this offseason about payroll discrepancies between teams...) 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I will never understand how even the Elizabeth Warrens of the world get slammed as too extreme or a risk we can't afford, even as their political opposition sends all our tax dollars to funding ICE paramilitary squads and illegal war operations. 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I can't overstate how much more I want to focus on tweaking my fantasy football draft board than say, work tasks, or the impending midterms. I can agree that fantasy football is not as important in reality, if reality can agree that fantasy football is more important for my mental health... 010
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 11/08/2026If there's one upside to the NIL era, it's that shut up and dribble now applies to the donor class as well... 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Whatever else happens this World Cup, at least it gave me the pure joy of sitting at a bar and listening to a boy on a date mansplain the sport to a woman who has never heard of Messi (and thus plainly could not be less interested)… 020
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 09/06/2026The saddest part about this moribund march toward the World Cup with its daily trickle of news of players and officials detained for hours at airports or barred entirely from coming, is that it squanders a generational opportunity. USA '94 was a spectacle in the best of ways. (1/ ) 100
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 08/06/2026The contrast between this and the NBA Finals Game 3 situation. Chef's kiss. Hope MSG boos its unwanted visitor louder than if he was Reggie Miller in the '90s. 010
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 20/05/2026The biggest thing I do not understand about IL State Senator Cristina Castro's push for SB4040, Am.2 (which would require charter schools to operate with local school board approval instead of state approval) is who is asking for it? I've not met a single one of my neighbors who thinks there is 1/ 100
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I don't know French politics anywhere near well enough dip a toe any further in than this, but I will say that Mbappe and Le Pen's people clashing is somehow both an encouraging reminder that it's not just the US that has crazy people, and a depressing reminder of the same. 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 30/04/2026I shouldn't be shocked after the NFL gave Amazon Prime playoff games, too--but it's still jarring to me that Pistons-Magic Game 6 is not on cable. It's one thing for the NBA to put play-in games on a livestream. Another entirely for the East #1 seed's season to potentially end with a muted audience. 100
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Well, Italy, that's one way to boycott the World Cup... #fifawc2026 010
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Mixed feelings about the don't fly if you don't have to sentiment I'm seeing a lot of places today. On the one hand, I get it and agree -- I wouldn't be in a hurry to fly extra with ICE at airports either. But on the other, I'm from a Navy family used to living all over. 1/ 100
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 22/03/2026The irony of adding airport security to ICE’s role at a moment in time where the whole reason TSA funding hangs in the balance is the overreach of ICE in the first place. 1/ 120
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 18/03/2026The Cesar Chavez/Dolores Huerta revelations really drive home yet again the infuriating pervasiveness of sexual misconduct. Genuinely find it hard to understand how so very many men can perpetrate such unconscionable acts (though unfortunately very easy to believe, given the repetition). 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Late to share how much I enjoy the World Baseball Classic despite its gimmicky nature, but Dusty Baker randomly coaching Nicaragua because of his relationship with Marvin Bernard from the Giants is a thing of beauty. So is the absolutely terrifying murderer's row that is the Dominican lineup. #wbc 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 05/03/2026I dunno what a Special Envoy for Shield of the America's is, but I suspect it's going to be a much cushier landing than we all hoped the headline "Noem fired" would suggest. Meanwhile, since her successor will be introduced via the headline "Trump hires...", spoiler alert: Still not gonna be good. 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 25/02/2026The thing with the "first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens" cudgel is if POTUS was capable of leaving off the last three words of animus toward migrants, I think he'd have been surprised how many Dems would have agreed. 1/ 100
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Ask not for whom the puck boops; it boops for freedom. 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 22/02/2026It is kind of shocking that the only Winter Olympic sport (excepting the one debuting this year) that the U.S. has never medaled in involves shooting guns. #biathlon #olympics 110
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Has monitoring the cardiac health of Olympians’ parents for entertainment purposes always been a thing, or am I correct that parental heartbeats per minute didn’t used to be a speed skating statistic? #olympics 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Don't get me wrong, I'm all for firing Noem, Miller, Homan, Bovino, etc. -- but the problem isn't that they failed to competently execute the President's vision. The problem is that they DID do exactly what he wanted. 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 28/01/2026The Laken Riley justification for ICE atrocities is so infuriating, because while OF COURSE any murder is a tragedy, a) as a policy matter the reaction of occupation of a major city is so grossly disproportionate to the scale of the problem (Texas, a state with 5 times the population of MN (1/2) 100
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I remember when anti-LGBT types used to moralize about how they shouldn’t have to explain queerness to children, and in addition to all the ways that was wrong standing alone, I’m wondering today exactly how those folk think I should explain ICE to my toddlers. 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Today, my 6-year old asked why Daniel Tiger does not wear pants, and had thought the question through enough to notice that he does wear pajama pants to bed. That was 20 or so seconds of beautiful distraction from [waves hand in general direction of reality]. 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Also, it didn’t end up mattering, but 1:56 left, 24-21 score, defense with 2 timeouts, 2nd and 1 from the 13, false start penalty. Wouldn’t Miami have been better off with an offsides? 2nd and 6 they are 6 yards from winning. 1st and goal from the 8, they’re 8 yards from winning, right? 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Not excited for all the “no excuses, your school can do it too” takes on Indiana winning the natty, as if there are dozens of other Cignettis out there just waiting to be hired. But it still beats a gloating Michael Irvin or Paul Finebaum for unbearable post-championship smugness any day. 010
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026MLK Day is such a surreal holiday in the MAGA era. While there's assuredly some naivete there, too, when I was kid in California in the '90s it was an unremarkable day, in the best of senses. It wasn't until being an adult in Mississippi that I ever got a sense of people feeling it was "our" (1/2) 100
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Strong throughs about the IL-08 democratic primary to replace Raja, anyone? 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Capricorn b-days, did y'all resent all the Christmas pageantry going away right when you were trying to celebrate growing up, or did you want that other holiday to get out so you could claim your own time? I've always felt the first way (don't take the pretty lights away!), but I get the second... 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 05/12/2025I love me some World Cup draw, but gag me with a stick re: the political propaganda. 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 06/11/2025I think we finally have the definitive answer to the Colbert Questionnaire opener about what the best sandwich is... 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Back in my journalism days, I used to cover city hall for a small town in Mississippi whose mayor would balk at the editing of quotes for brevity and clarity. He'd say something like "Complaining about affirmative action is a throwback to the days of inequity where one previously underserved (1/3) 100
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 02/10/2025The Emma Lazarus poem calls Lady Liberty's flame "imprisoned lightning." I think that means that if this government shutdown actually causes her torch to go dark (symbolism notwithstanding) it will be the first time the GOP has ever caused LESS imprisonment. 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 27/09/2025It’s been a long week at work, in the national news, etc. Why yes, a toddler birthday party thrown by vegan parents is absolutely where I want to be with Oregon-Penn State and Alabama-Georgia coming up, of course… 010
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 18/09/2025The problem with entering a profession where the reward for eating pie is more pie, is the difficulty not internalizing that you are lazy/failing when motivation to keep up with the never-ending churn wanes. It's enough trouble meeting my own responsibilities; you're hiring ME to manage yours, too? 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 26/08/2025I don't care about the Swift-Kelce engagement in the most neutral of ways: It doesn't bother me that it's big pop culture news. I don't care if they show her during Chiefs games. Cool. Whatever. But I am highly amused that I just got an ESPN fantasy alert about it, as if it will impact Kelce's stats 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 24/08/2025I should not be amazed by people living in an alternate reality in 2025, but I still am floored that there are Pat Fitzgerald fans who think anything short of sexual assault convictions for former players means hazing didn’t really happen and Fitz was unfairly canceled. (1/2) 110
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 14/08/2025The way previously “small government” folk will fall all over themselves to defend the military policing DC is such nakedly motivated reasoning it reminds me of the old quip that if Hannibal Lecter ran a 4.3 40, NFL scouts would say he just had an eating disorder. 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 07/08/2025I don’t really remember having a Mariners phase—Ken Griffey Jr. I assume—but who’d have thunk that would be the most normal thing about this photo 31 years later? 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 05/08/2025It's awesome that Yahoo! is rolling out guillotine leagues in their fantasy football options this year. One might even say these troubled times call for the Year of the Guillotine... 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Every move the Padres have made since the Soto trade has made me nervous-it all feels like the stakes keep ratcheting up and the window closing further with each salary implication. But however questionable some of his decision-making may be, still glad Preller has the balls to swing for the fences. 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 30/07/2025I wonder what percentage of Americans even know who Emil Bove is. 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 24/07/2025I’m not sure what percentage of my exhaustion to attribute to existential dread versus just having toddler children, but on the plus side, I have all fantasy football season upcoming to figure it out… 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 16/07/2025I know baseball needs to attract a younger audience, but are we sure making a confused Shohei high five Ludacris’s backup dancers during pregame intros is the right answer? #asg2025 000
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 09/07/2025I'm not surprised by the way the medical system works here, but I'm still amazed at its absurdity. You're discharged with a referral to a 24-hour pharmacy because it's important you get a medicine, but then it's out of stock. It's recommended you follow up with a specialist... (1/3) 100
TW @farmeradjacent.bsky.social · 18/06/2025For Father's Day, my family got me some new belts, which was perfect -- I needed some new ones. But, I am nonetheless very amused at the stereotypically alpha male packaging of my new "Tactical Belts" in their black box. Friends, I promise my belt situation is not so complicated as to need strategy. 010