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@alclem.bsky.social

“I would call Alan the single most astonishing, sort of, mind” - Joe Posnanski. My book "Magic Hat: Madejski, McGhee and Reading FC" is out in April 2026 https://tinyurl.com/MadMcGhee Big Green Bookshop https://tinyurl.com/uptheding Amazon

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Latest posts by alclem.bsky.social on Bluesky

Let's not pretend this is over the Dodgers and the Kyle Tucker signing. This has been the league's overarching desire for decades. Nothing has changed. Nothing new has spurred this or guaranteed this other than management's unwillingness to accept reality.

14.02.2026 13:47 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

I can't do six Twins

Buxton
Is France still there?
Pablo López
Erm...

14.02.2026 15:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Name 6 Rockies I think I can do

Goodman
Moniak
Tovar
Sugano
Lorenzen
Beck
Karros
Senzatella
Ritter
Bryant still counts?

Feeling quite proud. Not gonna look them all up and check I'm right though...

14.02.2026 15:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022

Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

14.02.2026 03:13 — 👍 10945    🔁 2994    💬 110    📌 203
Jailed Agadoo singer 'led a conga in prison'

Jailed Agadoo singer 'led a conga in prison'

Roses are red
Morning has risen

14.02.2025 07:56 — 👍 116    🔁 31    💬 3    📌 0

Brain? 🧠

14.02.2026 09:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

‘Touching the rock on the hog line’ sounds absolutely filthy.

bsky.app/profile/rodg...

13.02.2026 22:31 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

WHOLESOME🚨

13.02.2026 19:55 — 👍 43    🔁 9    💬 4    📌 1

Never a days goes by without me feeling gratitude to my Dad and his mates for imbueing in me a love of sport. Honestly, whatever your obsession is, if it stirs the soul it's hardly pointless. These clips, in no particular order, have all enriched me.

13.02.2026 13:53 — 👍 163    🔁 16    💬 15    📌 3

Never even seen the race (still haven't) and I'm crying

13.02.2026 14:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

bro this lady on Jeopardy was deep in third place going into Final Jeopardy, and she didn’t know the answer so she just wrote “i hope they both bet it all” and the other two guys fucking bet it all and got it wrong and she won

13.02.2026 01:57 — 👍 4258    🔁 345    💬 36    📌 71

I knew it!

12.02.2026 22:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Is the word lockout secretly woven into that response?

12.02.2026 21:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Speak it into existence. At some point soon we are bound to need a drive into deep left field

12.02.2026 17:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Already better than most fully grown @noscoredraws.com output

12.02.2026 17:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Winslet seems like a really sound person. Why WOULDN'T she want to be in a murder mystery podcast. It's the next best thing to being sought out by Rian Johnson.

12.02.2026 13:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Look out Milk of Magnesia and Anne French Deep Cleansing Milk. The British farmers are coming for you.

12.02.2026 07:54 — 👍 62    🔁 10    💬 8    📌 2
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What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

11.02.2026 22:03 — 👍 10933    🔁 3669    💬 75    📌 175

I have some more wild #buyastrangerabook day action here!

Last week @emkaha.bsky.social sent me some dosh for a book someone had asked for.

But someone else had already bought it!

So I have £30 to spend, courtesy of Kate.

If there's a particular book you'd like, get in touch.

UK only

11.02.2026 21:29 — 👍 9    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

We're all saying "he took one to the Frenchman" from now on, right?

11.02.2026 21:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

fuck cancer

11.02.2026 20:01 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Action shot of Laila Edwards on the ice for Team USA 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/laila-edwards-first-black-woman-us-womens-olympic-hockey-team/

Action shot of Laila Edwards on the ice for Team USA https://www.cbsnews.com/news/laila-edwards-first-black-woman-us-womens-olympic-hockey-team/

Headshot of Laila Edwards in Red Bull hockey gear

Headshot of Laila Edwards in Red Bull hockey gear

OTD* in Black History:

Laila Edwards, the first African American woman to play for the USA Women's Hockey Team for the Olympics, scored a goal as a rookie in the game against our biggest hockey rival, Canada. Go Team USA!!!!! 🇺🇸

Literally on this day: February 10, 2026.

10.02.2026 21:37 — 👍 227    🔁 69    💬 6    📌 6

A woman at the front of the queue to board the train looks round and gives us all a tight-lipped smile as if to say, ‘Good luck everyone.’

11.02.2026 06:36 — 👍 36    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Basketball FROGs The players who define greatness in basketball — including a doctor who made house calls

It's time for the Basketball FROGs! Did your favorite player make the list?

10.02.2026 14:47 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I frame my old shirts and put them on the wall! I love how shirts age and how the design changes.

This includes the one I wore when my first child was born.

10.02.2026 13:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Seer of seers, prognosticator of prognosticators...

10.02.2026 10:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Did the @manmademoon.bsky.social documentary "Moon" teach us nothing?

10.02.2026 09:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Courtesy of a non baseball fan friend

10.02.2026 04:09 — 👍 23    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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UK government proposes 30% budget cut to astronomy and physics research: 'It's pretty disastrous' "You can't have a cut of that scale and not expect to see a massive impact."

"UK government proposes 30% budget cut to astronomy and physics research: 'It's pretty disastrous'" www.space.com/astronomy/uk... 🔭🧪

10.02.2026 08:30 — 👍 36    🔁 25    💬 3    📌 1

Apart from the difference in art (the kids stuff radiates joy a life and the ai stuff is just dead on arrival) the kids experience something while doing it. That experience is communicated in the art too. Art isn’t just the end result.

10.02.2026 08:45 — 👍 232    🔁 88    💬 2    📌 4

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