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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 10h

I never thought I’d find a TV character I enjoy as much as Eleanor Shellstrop, and I haven’t, but Jackson Lamb is a very close second.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A hot take I genuinely believe is that the 1v1 hoops circuit is the most slept-on sports internet entity and it has massive potential/staying power.

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John Karalis @johnkaralis.com · 21/09/2026

This was the most difficult, and most important thing I've ever written. This is the obituary for my father, Joe. I hope it captures his true essence. www.trippfuneralhome.com/obituaries/j...

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Joseph J. Karalis Obituary Sep 17, 2026 - William W. Tripp Funeral Home

View Joseph J. Karalis's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Can’t wait to see what an AI company plans to do for its “new digital content series about building and playing in Boston”

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When I see people claim that AI is “getting there” on journalism and art, it makes me far less likely to believe that AI is “getting there“ in medical fields.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I believe that this guy is not doing galaxy-brained marketing because I also believe that people who spend too much time using LLMs are giving themselves Computer CTE.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I am not someone who gets particularly excited about the USMNT or is bullish about American soccer generally, but Cavan Sullivan might be Him

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

RIP Andy Williams, former guitarist for the best band to ever do it

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Can't celebrate until the clock hits triple zeroes. *checks notes* Ah. Well, nevertheless

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I often think about the character Death in "The Sandman" and how whenever she collects someone, they always ask for just a little longer - to apologize, to say goodbye, etc. - and they can't have it, and I often think about how that would feel at the wheel of a car. Anyway, this shouldn't exist.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take, but you also miss like 60-70% of the shots you do take, which is why the volume shooters have it right.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Man, Messi's message to his dad obliterated me. "You were by my side from the very beginning; there was so little left until the end. Why couldn’t you hold on just a little longer so we could finish it together?"

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Notably, the Trump administration just canceled NOAA's annual Arctic Report Card, which offers a really in-depth and scientific look at the health of the Arctic. Last year's is, predictably, pretty grim reading. arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...

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Report Card 2025 - NOAA Arctic

Arctic Report Card: Update for 2025 Twenty years of tracking rapid Arctic warming and change Archive of Previous Arctic Report Cards Arctic Report Card 2025 2025 Headlines and Overview Vital Signs Oth...

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Always nice* to see that the random potshots I take at Enes Kanter on the pod are still well deserved. *sort of

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I am, once again, not allowed to voice any opinions publicly, but I will say my wife has worked very hard canvassing for a candidate over the last few weeks here in Michigan and I am very proud and supportive of her efforts, so today is a very big day.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It's certainly possible that the Sixers win 60+ games and cruise to the title, but I personally will believe in a somewhat incoherent super team with tons of ball handlers when I see it.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Brought to you by (I am not making this up) noted horror filmmaker Ti West lol

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I’ve seen worse PR pitches in my email but none that make me more personally enraged than “The driveway hoop is getting an AI upgrade”

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If it were me and I wanted to avoid a second yellow card, I personally wouldn’t have visibly dived

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

My VAR take is that it, like every other form of replay in every other sport, is going nowhere because of sports gambling.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It's all related. And none of it should be THIS hard.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"We just watched one of the most incredible games in recent memory on the biggest stage imaginable featuring one of the most important athletes of all time. "Let's now throw it to Alexi Lalas to help us make sense of it."

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

One thing I will say is that the US youth soccer system is certainly flawed, but I am interested to see where we’re at in like 15 years, because there are some very, very good 9-year-olds out there at some of these clubs.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Not to be overly downer, but I’m hesitant to overstate the accomplishments of the USMNT when their wins were Australia, Paraguay and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and their losses were Turkiye (already out) and Belgium (4-1, outclassed).

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Biggest game is USMNT history and their opponent casually brings Jeremy Doku in at the 70-minute mark lol it is unbelievably Joe-ver

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is the legacy of No Child Left Behind smh

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"A 2028 first round pick (the LA Clippers' own) that, if it is top 16, instead becomes the unprotected right for Boston to swap its currently-held 2028 first round pick (the worst of Boston's and San Antonio's) with the better of the LA Clippers' or (if PHI's is top 8) PHI's 2028 first round pick."

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm certainly not the only one, but this is pretty much precisely how I thought the American World Cup was going to go lol

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It was wild watching the poor Mexican player with the destroyed ankle receive an increasingly large amount of medical attention every time the camera panned to that side of the field.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

There are going to be like 12 minutes of stoppage time and Mexico is going to be exponentially more desperate every minute that passes, we're gonna see some things we've never seen before over the next like 15 minutes.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Really need Quiñones to play for a team that matters ASAP.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I love late goals like Neymar’s because they make everything that happened previously so much more consequential. Suddenly Haaland’s second goal is the game-winner instead of just insurance, and Bruno G’s saved PK is an even more unmitigated disaster.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I will never get tired of seeing shots of Distraught Gabriel.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The Celtics have a really good and coherent big rotation.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Some semantics are at work here (and some ownership covering their backsides), but it's probably a fair distinction - the Celtics aren't cost-cutting, they are creating a path to make a run at an expensive superstar in the summer of 2027.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Not ready for Yan Diomande's World Cup run to be over.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I hope we are all talking about the big offseason acquisition news: Spurs acquiring Mateus Fernandes.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

“We come from the red earth“ is an absolutely unbelievable bar

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

You have to think of it in the metaphysical sense, an effort to let the fates decide because the humans have shied away from their responsibility. They’re given an extra 30 mins to get a victory. And if not, then we invite the chaos of the universe to do what it will.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The ultimate indignity is what happened to Brahim Diaz for Morocco at AFCON but this was a close second

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

If I still lived in Massachusetts, it would be time for me to surrender all payment methods to my wife until about 3:15 p.m. with instructions to tase me if I asked for them prior.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It's, uh, pretty dire that Jaylen Brown rumors have gone from Giannis to " .... maybe Jalen Duren?"

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Güler nutmegged the soul out of Pulisic lol

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I can't wait to watch Darryn Peterson hoop.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I wonder if Jaylen gave the Celtics a hush-hush heads up that he would prefer to be traded, and Giannis was Brad's first stab at it.

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Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

That Heat roster is not very scary for several of the reasons I probably wouldn’t have involved myself in the Giannis sweepstakes in the first place.

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