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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 3h

what haunts me is knowing there must be people in my life--people I otherwise respect-- who like and enjoy the monster Liberty Biberty

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 5h

Just got on PATCO and my train is full of German teens, what is going on. What are the Germans up to

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

furiously googling whether Jhoan Duran has ever had a 27-out save

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

going to intentionally overdose on whatever drug gets advertised next during this Eagles game

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

one thing you can say for the people of Chicago-- they love that bean. They love it like its their own son. They hug and kiss the bean

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Unfortunately I have allowed Sixers media day to convince me to think some very foolish thoughts about the upcoming season

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the important thing, for me, is the knowledge that there is simply no way these guys will let me down. Nothing can or will go wrong.

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this morning I am having a good laugh remembering the day at Dalessandro's when we got a phone order from a guy named Floyd; our butcher couldn't figure out how to spell it. After 5 minutes of deep thought, he goes, "Oh right, like Pink Floyd." Hands me the ticket, with the name on the bottom: FLYOD

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If this all ends with Dawk suplexing JD Vance at the Linc, it might have been worth it

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 27/09/2026

I also saw a guy returning a Halloween skeleton. If you’re not prepared please don’t adopt. Relinquishment and rehoming are traumatic for your pet

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Feel like I missed out on why people are mad about the Ella Langley song being popular. It's pretty catchy, it's inoffensive, who cares

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

on the bright side at least I won't have to sit in rain on some 27 degree October night on the verge of a heart attack for 3 hours as I watch my local baseball team in a tense playoff game

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Hearing reports that baseball is actually a dumb and bad sport

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I refuse to find the root of the job interview discourse, but I've always been fascinated by bad academic interview stories. For example, the pretty high profile poet who (I'm told) started his daylong interview by screaming at a student worker till she cried bc she hadn't book his flight 1st class

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tomorrow!

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In my latest piece at IN THE ABSENCE OF, I share ONE SIMPLE TRICK that will 100% IMPROVE your writing GUARANTEED. (Well, maybe not, but it works for me) intheabsenceof.substack.com/p/the-drawer...

intheabsenceof.substack.com

The Drawer

First idea, worst idea

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loctastic @loctastic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

wow the ny times did their little interview thing about the Phillies in September

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Mike Somes @illiterature13.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me and the boys are gonna pop down to the lab and peep the new Amoeba through a microscope.

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I will never "excuse your french"

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Brendan Quinn @bfquinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A forewarning that this one is difficult. But it’s a credit to Duncan Robinson and his family for telling it. They hope it’ll help others. And maybe it’ll be a good reminder that “we can all be a little less certain about knowing what someone is going through.” www.nytimes.com/athletic/761...

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've realized another part of this is that now I do want to hear other people's stories of the same. Oh that CVS used to be a bank, and before that it was a House of Bargains? Lay it on me, buddy

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Noah Becker @noahbecker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This really is an enormously useful heuristic.

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Crazy idea: what if editors did literally anything to offer freelancers a shred of dignity

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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There’s a beautiful new edition of Evan S. Connell’s Mrs. Bridge, which is on my personal great American novel shortlist. if you’ve never read it, now’s your chance! i have yet to meet a single reader who didn’t have their world changed by reading it: mcnallyjackson.com/book/9781582...

mcnallyjackson.com

Mrs. Bridge: A Novel

"Again and again. . . I find myself being a Mrs. Bridge evangelist, telling them that it’s a perfect novel, and then pressing copies on them. . . What writing! Economical, piquant, beautiful, true." —...

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

hey if you're bored and in Philly, come on our to Tattooed Mom in a couple hours for the semi-annual Rutgers-Camden MFA reading. It'll be fun (doors at 6, reading at 7). You have my personal guarantee that nobody will read too long.

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love when book publicists email me riddles

Screenshot of an email to me that begins

"Hi Tom,

What happens when surviving a shipwreck is only the beginning?"

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

email from my alma mater offering me "free swag" if I convince any high school seniors to enroll at the school. Not sure this is going to be an effective promotion

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

please sir, don't let the woke building inspectors slow you down. sir, the people insist you line the walls with asbestos. some are saying you're not strong enough to use knob and tube wiring. big strong guys, tears in their eyes, they are begging you to paint fake exit doors along the walls.

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

man, what a gift it has been to watch Zach Wheeler pitch for the Phillies

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Family in the neighborhood has planted actual corn stalks on the perimeter of their property, which I assume was a fun activity for their crew of young kids, but I think they didn't anticipate that what they were really doing was erecting a dozen new pissing posts for every dog in town

Picture of row of corn stalks, no urine visible

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eBay mugs & glasses @dangmugs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

think safety 🍅

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Congrats to the NFL on somehow making the measurment performance slower and more annoying

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John Lingan @johnlingan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚨BUZZKILL ALERT🚨 The NYT’s move towards big canon-making feature lists is frankly depressing, a waste of resources for one of the last remaining US newspaper arts sections that has them. Boutique crowd sourcing, online argument starters…who cares?

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

big day for me, a guy who definitely has always known what potash is, and how to acquire it

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

really beginning to post with that University Provost energy now

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Makai Lemon is going to finish his rookie year with 35 catches for exactly 0 yards

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nonfiction writers should have to sign a waiver before making big life decisions, especially ones that affect their families, where they affirm "I am not doing this for a book proposal."

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Those weird little brooms that smell like cinnamon and pop up at grocery stores every Fall.... I don't understand them. Strange item

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Kerkering honestly shouldn't even be on the playoff roster; I don't want Mattingly to have the option of trying to use him. Rather see Stubbs give it a shot

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One week from today! Sign up at jaimegreen.net/classes

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treb @treblaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

original post was good and then I saw this and I'm laughing like a damn donkey

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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

is tilly norwood vaxxed tilly norwood vax status can tilly norwood get sars-cov-2 number of doses tilly norwood tilly norwood naturally immune covid

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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

general buck turgidson fired for telling pete hegseth to cool it on the psychosexual stuff

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Getting my car inspected today, which always reminds me of the time I took my 10 year old Civic go an NJ inspection station and the guy took a picture of it and called his girlfriend to say "look at this Civic! I'm gonna try to buy it." Then he offered me 2k for the car while inspecting it

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