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Tom Breen

@tombreen.bsky.social
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UConn news director, former reporter, occasional traveler, very occasional writer, opinions are my own

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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 5h
Messed around and opened a Portal last night at the cathedral
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 5h
Hey! Here’s a nice review of the new anthology that includes a story of mine. I included a screen shot in case you don’t believe me! www.smilepolitely.com/arts/matthew...
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My attempts to boost workplace morale are getting some really passionate engagement!
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Haven’t been able to stop thinking about the “Party of Five” theme song all day
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Chairman of the capital fundraising committee just called to ask if I’d consider a pledge to the campaign - not only have I pledged, but I am a member of the committee and also making pledge calls
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Dan @golazodan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wrestling’s greatest sneak attack.
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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TJ Archer @tjarcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This was the only picture I got of you last night. How the fuck was this last night? How are you gone?
PAC above the crowd
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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Man, Pac is too young to be dead. He was great
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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Finally, we're getting the darker and grittier version of Mary Poppins. I'd like to see you claim Hollywood is out of ideas now!
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A darker Mary Poppins TV series is in the works
A darker Mary Poppins TV series is in the works
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RoCktHiS_mIkE @rockthismike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#AEW 🥲
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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dragula is actually the number one song in America
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My kingdom for a fucking horse, obviously
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This sounds like something Dr. Phibes would say
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What some folks are really saying when they claim not to have seen the new video for “Erase You From My World” by Terror in which Scott Vogel gesticulates in front of an absolutely enormous mural in Los Angeles that says TERROR: my latest for Rolling Stone
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
True Detective Season 5 sounds wild
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A Digger Burkely @ascannerburkely.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah I'm "choosin'" the "Texas" Chain Saw Massacre over this discourse
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have a can’t-miss idea for a horror novel. It’s going to be called How to Survive a House
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We’re not even prepared for winter, or summer
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nor’easter Report:
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This kind of take made a Rolling Stone writer so mad they wrote a whole piece about it.
At this point, though, if someone contends they've never even heard of
"Choosin' Texas" or Langley, it may say more about the listener than the song.
Or, for that matter, what they want to project to the world. With incessant news coverage alongside chart and playlist presence, it's pretty difficult to still claim total ignorance on this one.
Perhaps there is a deeper reason why people say they haven't heard the song and feel the need to make it known: cultural cachet.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Whole bunch of Formerly Very Important British Politicians queue up to be on a show. The USA is represented by... the guy who was Trump's comms director for eleven days...
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Pat Maxwell @maxwellz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Incredible graphic for DG #AEWAllOut #AEW 🤼
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I saw Resident Evil today. I did not enjoy it! It was well made, but very much not for me. I saw someone online call the ending “brave,” like it’s Fires On the Plain or something. It’s an action ordeal movie with monsters and a protagonist who has a terrible case of Horror Movie Stupid.
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Chris Frantz @chrisfrantz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good Morning From The Drummer, My Friends.
youtube.com
Toots and the Maytals - Pressure drop
YouTube video by shark5981
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
National Service was abolished half a decade before Nigel Farage was born. His generation only understand it through 1970s TV sitcoms.
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Diamanda Hagan @diamandahagan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Kinda wild that John Brown has only been depicted a handful of times in cinema and almost half of them are by Raymond Massey, once as a villain and then 15years later as a hero.
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
That circled surname is indeed mine: Richard Breen was my dad’s cousin. At this point, he was a few years out of the Navy, and fresh from writing a couple of radio hits with his roommate and best friend, Jack Webb. This was one of Dick’s earliest screenwriting credits.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
if you don't know your own address it's because you specifically don't have to know it. people that detached from reality shouldn't be in a position to drive social policy for those of us living in reality
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From the April 1939 Woman’s Day, here’s a real “Images That Precede Disaster” entrant. Within 10 years of publication, Kathleen (already a widow) would be dead, as would Joe Jr, and Rosemary would be lobotomized and stashed away in a Wisconsin asylum. And then came the Sixties!
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“20 of America’s Greatest Women Discuss What YOU Can Do To Prevent War.” It was April 1939, suggesting YOU did not read the article closely enough
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Punditry would be better if it was more like a tournament. Backed the Iraq war? Sorry, you’re out.
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Same Sad Echo @samesadecho.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My "Pervert Glasses" have people asking a lot of questions already answered by my pervert glasses, and also my t-shirt which says "I'm a pervert"
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I can’t wait for WWE fans to be extremely normal about this
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bonus points to Angie Nixon, Democratic Senate candidate in Florida, for seizing this obvious memorabilia opportunity
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
i’m no hercule poirot but
“Outside” headline reads “She lived with 20 wild bears for 28 years. Then they found her clean-picked bones. What killed her is a mystery.”
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I still think "We'll cut off your head and freeze it until The Future arrives" was an unimprovable business model.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A warning about the supposed final Fall album that’s coming out soon: it is NOT a real Fall album, it’s just Mark E Smith rambling nonsense over music that has no connection to the vocal
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Jonathan Raab @spookhouse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good morning from the haunted hills of the Finger Lakes region I'll be opening preorders for DRACULA CAR soon. Much like my HALLOWEEN TV SPECIAL series, this is a quick, atmospheric read perfect for gloomy evenings spent inside, read by the soft glow of decorative orange Halloween lights...
Muzzleland Press logo and text over a dark background with a batwing shape. Text reads: "It started as a joke Now it's REAL Printed in Gothic Upstate NY Limited to 100 Copies"
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's called film "footage" because camera operators initially held the cameras with their feet. That changed after a film shoot in 1931, when an operator got a foot cramp and was forced to hold the camera in his hands. The "footage" he got that day was extraordinary. That man's name? Hans Cameraman.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
“Damn, I wish I’d had the foresight to put some money down on rice back in 5000 B.C., because I’d probably be loaded right now.” — Keith Towers
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Regretful Man Realizes He Would Be Rich By Now If He Had Invested In Rice 7,000 Years Ago
ST. LOUIS—Kicking himself for missing out on a potentially lucrative financial opportunity, local man Keith Towers reportedly realized this week that he might have become rich if he had invested in ri...
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Richard @sirlariato.northsky.social · 24/09/2026
lmao, I love him #AEWDynamite 🤼
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
RIP to Angry Anderson, the bald, irate frontman (“singer” seems wrong here) for Australian thug rock legends Rose Tattoo. RT were sort of the real-life barroom brawlers that AC/DC wrote songs about; Angry is predeceased by no fewer than 7 band mates.
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Fred MacMurray hated circuses because as a child he witnessed the mock beheading of a clown” sounds insane, and yet
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Amy Koto, TV Fanatic Girl @tvfanaticgirl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Halloween promo for Bewitched ✨️🎃
Bewitched stars with jack-o-lantern
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yeah I read theory
An academic book called Purifying a House from Blood: A Hittite Ritual for the Ancient Gods
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
White-knuckling it through an impromptu conversation among coworkers about religion while we wait for a meeting to start
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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This really shows how far gentrification has gone in the Valley. 20 years ago, this meltdown is definitely happening in Northampton, and now it’s all the way up in Greenfield
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