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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 22h

Looking at an image of myself looking into a mirror and falling to my knees in awe (btw cool dog in your avi)

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 22h

we love to get pretty good gas mileage in our sensible rides, folks

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

used AI to personalize my Mario Kart. No more weird vehicles, we're all in Subarus now. The courses are the streets of my youth, and instead of shells we're picking up Gobstoppers. Yoshi looks like my dog. All the rest of the characters are sexy ladies who are there because they really want to be

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phylan @phylan.website · 09/10/2026

wore my sixers hat to the grocery store and some guy, in a much more desperate sounding voice than you might expect for grocery store sports banter, said "they're our only hope man!!!"

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hey folks, if you also like great books and great writing and, furthermore, can tolerate me: next week (10/12) at 6 PM, I'm doing an event with @adamoprice.bsky.social at Lot 49 in Fishtown. Adam is also reading at Rutgers-Camden the next night at 6 PM. You should come to one of these.

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

running out to salute and seeing that it's just the damn Action News traffic chopper

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

unless it's a trauma chopper headed to Cooper, in which case: go organ donors baby

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

low-flying helicopter just passed over my house, go Sixers baby

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I don't know how any of this works @hamburglarshelper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I flipped my wig (chuckled thoughtfully in a waiting room) for this essay on wigs. It thoughtfully captures the load-bearing nature of the middle aged guy-barber relationship.

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey Jimmy I'm sure you've heard, but Eagles traded Jurgens

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

many are saying this is the best essays they've ever read about wigs, particularly when the wigs are a symbol of being middle-aged and trying to reinvent yourself to stave off death. They're saying it everywhere

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

every 6 months or so, a supposedly smart writer will be like, "Actually Stephen A is an underappreciated genius" and it's just been 20 years of shit like this

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have a new essay up today in @northamerreview.bsky.social, the literal first lit mag I ever submitted to, back in 2005 (they rejected me, correctly), so this is a pretty exciting one for me. It's about a person I know who has gotten obsessed with wigs. northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Lane Johnson, the singer of Blue Christmas?

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Autumn House Press @autumnhouse.org · 06/10/2026

@indyweek.bsky.social featured AHP author Adam O'Fallon Price and his debut short story collection, Objects of Desire, available now! Congrats to @adamoprice.bsky.social, and thank you to INDY Week, photographer Matt Ramey, and culture editor Sarah Edwards! indyweek.com/news/culture...

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Adam O'Fallon Price's Compelling Stories of Characters at Rock Bottom

"Objects of Desire," Chapel Hill writer Adam O'Fallon Price's debut short story collection, releases on October 6.

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Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL MY ASS!"

"Whenever [Jonathan] Franzen, an avid urban hiker, tries his perambulations in suburban Missouri or Colorado, he sticks out so awkwardly that men in passing cars shout obscenities at him."

From:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/10/05/property-values-joshua-specht-book-review

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And yet nobody ever asks where to get a good crabcake

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

afraid of Collilngswood! My god. (I know it used to have a bit of a different rep than it does now, but still)

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah, this guy patiently waited for me to get through my "it's fine, actually" responses and then just kept telling me scary stories he'd heard. Thanks, good convo

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Working in Camden (or, previously, North Philly), you get a lot of these conversations from people who really, really want you to tell them how scary and bad it is, and they are so disappointed when you don't comply.

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Met a guy this weekend who looked stunned when I told him I work in Camden and love it there. He launched into a long story about how his dad's tires got slashes in Camden in 1978, and no one in his family has ever gone back. Not my problem if you're a weird lil baby, man

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

only drawback to the site, yeah

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh weird... maybe just because it's preseason? I'm pretty sure they do have it during regular season. (I hope they do!)

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a friend recently told me about this beautiful site, which is just scores, no ads, no confusing links, no autoplay videos. Just scores! plaintextsports.com

plaintextsports.com

Plain Text Sports

Instant live sports scores, play-by-play, and box scores

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm biased, of course, but I tend to agree with Tom. The Lot 49 appearance, where I'll be in convo with Tom, will be especially fun. Come out and say hi!

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

too easy, better to be an avant garde art installation that's only open to the public once a week

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

there's a very popular posting style on here that I think of as "smugly illiterate," where the poster imagines a version of an article or video that would be really annoying and then posts condescending threads about what they assume is in that video or article. I recommend not doing that.

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Amanda Hess is a serious person and this is a video that engages meaningfully with a very popular online trend that overlaps with politics, genuinely not clear to me why everyone is dunking on it

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I only had a minute to wander from my table. When I came by you were busy making sales so I decided to leave you to the work. Glad you had a good day out there!

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nobody find this guy. Don't make us learn another thing about him. No podcast appearances, no visits to Good Day Philadelphia. Just let this bloated drunk struggling to spit out "unstmost" be a beautiful uncomplicated thing, thank you

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There was a five year period in the early 00s when every white guy in Northeast Philly had one of those yellow Nextel phones

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I agree with all this, and also, we are *finally* able to put to the test the question, "What does a Sirianni team look like if he doesn't have a talent advantage at almost every position?" Turns out: pretty shitty!

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's good for the Eagles that they get to leave the country in a couple days

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

everyone in this image deserves a bad life, and I hope they get it sooner than later

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

cannot imagine a worse life than to be the sort of person who chooses to shuffle about uncomfortably behind the pedophile president during one of his rallies in 2026, occasionally forcing a laugh as he complains about how Richard Karn snubbed him backstage at the People's Choice Awards in 1994

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Nobody else has ever sent a rocket to the moon in the same year they won the Cup (unless Gretzky did it in the 80s?)

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 03/10/2026

this is a very informative pool report

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

today I sold a copy of my book to a guy named Doug, who had a cool hound dog named Buck with him, or maybe it was the other way around. Point is, I hope I signed it to the right being.

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nation's police officers, in unison: "Thank you sir, we love you sir, it's an honor to be swindled by you sir"

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm sure you're on it, but the Eminem subreddit is in a full-on meltdown

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