Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Abdul El-Sayed had an event in my town today, and the line ended up stretching the entire way around a city block and met itself again like when you would lose a game of Snake 1141
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The one-legged 3-pointer would be a genuinely insane weapon for a player who masters it. 1100
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I slept on it and decided that one preseason game is enough, I’m ready to be an wildly optimistic Chris Cenac Guy. 3200
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I thought "Tucker DeVries is the most Iowa ass name I've ever heard, I wonder where he's from" and then I looked it up and he was in fact Iowa's Mr. Basketball in 2021. 1120
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I don't think Cenac is going to play in Boston much, but the ceiling is SO high, good heavens 3100
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I don't think enough was made of the fact that Dillon Mitchell legitimately jumped over Evan Mobley 0150
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I 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. 160
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A 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. 231
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I am and you’re not wrong but Xavi Simons is cool as hell though 020
Reposted by Tom WesterholmJohn Karalis @johnkaralis.com · 21/09/2026This 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...trippfuneralhome.comJoseph J. Karalis Obituary Sep 17, 2026 - William W. Tripp Funeral HomeView Joseph J. Karalis's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook. 201005
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Can’t wait to see what an AI company plans to do for its “new digital content series about building and playing in Boston” 070
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026When 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. 0111
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I 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. 020
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I am not someone who gets particularly excited about the USMNT or is bullish about American soccer generally, but Cavan Sullivan might be Him 000
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I didn't put my hair in a ponytail for nothing 010
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026All the wrong people are gone www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrHX...youtube.comA Colossal WreckYouTube video by Every Time I Die - Topic 040
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026RIP Andy Williams, former guitarist for the best band to ever do it 2110
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Can't celebrate until the clock hits triple zeroes. *checks notes* Ah. Well, nevertheless 0122
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I 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. 0141
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026You 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. 190
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Far older, but Clair Bee clears tbh Chip Hilton was an aspirational figure 000
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Man, 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?" 030
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026When Anthropic finally reveals to us why climate change is happeningstatic.klipy.comDrake & Future: Fig ReactionALT: Drake & Future: Fig Reaction 110
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Notably, 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/...arctic.noaa.govReport Card 2025 - NOAA ArcticArctic 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... 22516
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Always nice* to see that the random potshots I take at Enes Kanter on the pod are still well deserved. *sort of 1201
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I 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. 1280
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026It'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. 0313
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Brought to you by (I am not making this up) noted horror filmmaker Ti West lol 100
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I’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” 1120
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 12/07/2026If it were me and I wanted to avoid a second yellow card, I personally wouldn’t have visibly dived 040
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 11/07/2026My VAR take is that it, like every other form of replay in every other sport, is going nowhere because of sports gambling. 020
Reposted by Tom WesterholmAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 10/07/2026It's all related. And none of it should be THIS hard. 6472157
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I am so sorry, I can't even begin to imagine 000
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." 1170
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026You might be on to something, because there also seems to be a subtlety to being truly brilliant at soccer, and Americans aren't exactly known for being subtle 010
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I'm a newcomer to the game, so I'm going to speed run all of the USMNT talking points over the next couple of years as I catch up lol 110
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026See I think I’m starting to see some of those things at the younger levels, but I also 100% am not a technical director, and I’ve only been watching for a few years lol 010
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026What are our youth coaches missing? I agree with you in sort of a vague way because I can see it, but I don’t think I have the words/knowledge base myself to identify it 100
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026And to be clear, I’m NOT saying the 9-year-olds I’m watching are future pros, just that their quality suggests there might be an upward trend happening. 210
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026One 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. 430
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I disagree very strongly that 95% of sports ability is genetic. I'm also not advocating for specialization, but it's pretty well established that if you want to be a high-level soccer player, you need to develop ball fluency at a younger age than other sports. 100
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026NBA players generally self-select because of height (the Thompson twins are 6'7 - Dan Burns is perhaps the tallest non-keeper in Premier League history at 6'7). But the bigger issue is some of these elite athletes would have to choose the sport extremely early to develop the requisite ball mastery. 120
Tom Westerholm @tomwesterholm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Not 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). 250
