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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 13m

There’s reasons for this Pacific Surfliner to be taking it slow south of San Clemente.

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 4h

Thorns San Diego away in the June gloom would be awesome. But this ain’t bad.

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My stepson (technically my ex’s son) dug up the Anchorman reference. That mural was spotted all too quick. And it’s a bit of a culture shock jumping on a train in Albuquerque and ending up here.

My ex’s son replied to my “I’m in San Diego” text with a picture from the movie Anchorman and the quote “They named it San Diego which of course in German means a whale’s vagina.” I happened upon a “Smile, you’re in San Diego” mural and made the appropriate “so… smile, you’re in a whale’s…” response. Here’s hoping someone’s stimulated.

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

From early evening yesterday in western New Mexico.

Rainbow near Thoreau, New Mexico amongst considerable cloud cover to the north. Taken from the Amtrak Southwest Chief, early evening October 11.

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Airline excitement? My first flight lands in SLC just as a lightning strike forces the ground crews to shelter. Surprised the airport only had us wait 5 minutes.

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Me, wake up at 1:48am? Intentionally, no less.

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

After careful self-deliberation, I might want a form of this doll (though I doubt this exists in the wild).

Simulation of an advertisement for a referee doll to direct supposedly aggrieved parents to show where the ref hurt them.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Saw someone call it a silly silly red. Saw motion for hair pull? Boston has been stuck in, to say the least.

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I need to buy specialized socks. In this quest, I have learned what AI does. It is inordinately stupid. My regular followers have heard this story. The rest of you should fear my disdain.

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The fiscal year is dead. Long live the fiscal year.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She also adjusted her pace to ensure the injured cub could keep up. By 2008, he was observed hunting on his own & at the age of 20 is King of the Fat Bears, holding his own at the crowded Brook Falls. A story of a mother's love, sacrifice & a little cub who became a champion fat bear. 🥹

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How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack

Discover how Bear 89 became Backpack, why his nickname predates his leg injury, and how his mother Holly adjusted to her cub’s needs.

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Alexander Abnos @anabnos.com · 30/09/2026

Shoutout to @meglinehan.com on marking 5 years since the NWSL coach misconduct story. Still a remarkable feat of reporting by her. Will never forget the long, intense process behind that piece and how it led to everything that has come after.

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It is best that you don’t tell me the name of the ref for the Thorns game. That choice to bring the ball back for the previous foul instead of letting 4 seconds go before Turner was fouled. Letting the fouling Houston player (deep in our half) waste 30 seconds and the ref rewarded it.

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you dare go to Apple for your depraved MLS fix right now, it’s “this is what the USL was like in Seattle” night. Sans the Timbers, anyway.

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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pete Hegseth went to the A&M game and they lost to Kentucky for the first time in over 70 years. THERE IS NO BATTLE HE CANT LOSE.

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Watching Campeones Cup for no good reason. On Miami’s 2nd goal… I highly doubt, this year, that the Timbers have defended a set piece as badly as what Cruz Azul just did.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

wow can't think of any contemporary political leaders who bombed a country and expected it to cause the country's population to reject the regime's politics, can you

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Tom @twd3pdx.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Every time Kamal fucks around on the ball an angel gets its wings clipped. #rctid

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When I refereed, the senior refs told a couple stories of the center ref dismissing (not carding) ARs. Seems to be big in Northern California BTW.

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Still can’t decide if this game went plaid or is just drunk.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My mydialect results are only slightly surprising. My daughter ended up Bakersfield/Fresno (my wife grew up in Fresno, but she’s not the birth mom) and that’s a head-scratcher. I was really curious about my “stepson” for having to live in Florida the last few years. Santa Rosa/Reno/Fremont.

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

But are they canceling the Paramount contract? Otherwise yay.

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Flock-o'-Lantern @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

pulled the video so you don't have to go to X we stan a towering queen who does not care for the antics of mediocre men

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It already seemed slightly appropriate to be listening to Mark Lanegan’s rather funereal Whiskey for the Holy Ghost album this morning. A little too on point to be interrupted with this news.

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I remember who we thought was being sold after the Men’s World Cup. This is our reality. Good luck Kevin.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Yup. I am firmly convinced that a sizable chunk of the electorate is motivated by class resentment in the sense of “class” that has nothing to do with economics. And yeah, those people actively want trashy government.

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Saw the Allie Long posts. Not only semi-surprised she’s here, she talked her way into Legends.

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Found Juarez v América on a stream. If you thought Aguilas were cynical in Portland, they’re just turning all potential contact into performance art at present.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's worth stressing that we only know about ICE's secret surveillance of anti-ICE meetings through the discovery process initiated by the government's prosecutions of protesters. There is likely a lot we don't know, and that's alarming (as I try to show the piece/thread below).

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If a particular streaming service- one that couldn’t make payments on NWSL coverage or two other major league teams- sends emails to FANS about their amazing WHL ad offers at $1,000 and up, is your hockey league brimming with confidence? Will Canadians bail out an American?

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I may not be a fan of blowing up the home of the Portland Fire, but I haz chuckles.

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Ladies and gentlemen, Thomas Mueller, interpreter of space*. (* self-declared)

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

(The sigh of relief arises again.) Caiya Hanks is BACK! That is all.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 13/08/2026

I regret to inform you that they have goth pet beds at Petco and now I have to get another one because the cat is jealous

It is our dog Momo peeking out from his new coffin-shaped pet bed, which has spiderwebs on the outside and says LAZY BONES with a skull and cross bones. The lid can open. Not visible is the werewolf chew toy that he is busy demolishing in the bed, which is why he’s giving a “what do you want?” look when I got his attention for the photo. Our cat, Jean-Luc, promptly plopped down right next to Momo’s new bed, and gave us a “how DARE you??” look because we did not get anything for him. But if we had gotten him a bed, he would have never slept in it even once. He will only accept things like beds or scratching posts if we leave them in a random place in the house and absolutely do not acknowledge under any circumstances that it is *for him.* Even better if we kick him off it the first few times he tries, making it clear that it is our thing and thus greatly increasing his interest in it.

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Martin Z.ombie @pxtl.ca · 12/08/2026

Long text-heavy meme about NFL owners, NBA owners, European Soccer owners.

NFL owner: "Expensive sweater and sunglasses" billionaire who bought the team for basically nothing in 1979.

NBA owner: "Sport coat an jeans" billionaire who inherited wealth and successfully runs an inscrutable finance company.

European soccer owner: "Track suit and gigantic Rolex" billionaire, has an "allegations of crimes against humanity" section in their Wikipedia article.

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Brooke from Let’s Not Date @letsnotdate.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I got a youth pastor fired recently. 🥰

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Paul, a piece of Schmidt @pcspounder.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Current state of online mind: grateful for yesterday’s announcement of a new soccer stadium in Portland and the LA area community college canceling their pointyball season to distract from the Moda Center negotiations.

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