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Author of novels HOW TO BE SAFE and THE YOUNG WIDOWER'S HANDBOOK, and essay collection IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE. Co-host of Book Fight! podcast (RIP). @Barrelhouse.bsky.social NF Editor. Rutgers-Camden MFA faculty. South Jersey. Tom.mcallister.ws

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I truly believe JD could cling to the exterior of that plane for days if necessary

11.02.2026 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Please stop spreading misinformation, please do not post that they had to close the air space over El Paso because the president was sundowning and took Air Force One out for a joyride and now he is doing barrel rolls over West Texas while JD Vance clings to the wing like that Twilight Zone gremlin

11.02.2026 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 618    πŸ” 130    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 8

that scene in the truck was when I finally understood that Nick was as big a problem as anyone (more importantly, that *the movie* understood this)

11.02.2026 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I understand all the reasons this isn't the case for other sports, but a thing about the curling broadcast that's really cool is how you can hear every single thing the athletes say to each other, all the strategy and commiseration and everything

10.02.2026 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

E.T. if he was a basketball

10.02.2026 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

we've got all our best men on the case, we're close to cracking the code on the phrase "puedo bailar" and from there we can take them all down

10.02.2026 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Kid rock guys are doing stolen valor but from line cooks

10.02.2026 04:32 β€” πŸ‘ 277    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 7
A King of the Hill screenshot stylized in original Game Boy graphics.
Bobby Hill looks a little confused or concerned. Text reads "I'm a little worried about being a slut."

A King of the Hill screenshot stylized in original Game Boy graphics. Bobby Hill looks a little confused or concerned. Text reads "I'm a little worried about being a slut."

06.01.2026 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1522    πŸ” 456    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 6

This is tomorrow! I'm gonna read something new! It will be over 30 degrees outside!

09.02.2026 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

now we never have to go to Pete Davidson's garage

09.02.2026 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

When I started podcasting with @mikeingram.bsky.social in 2012, I was a little self conscious about telling people because it seemed like an obscure nerd hobby, and then for a solid 5 years or so people seemed to think it was kinda cool, and now we've swung all the way back around to embarrassing

09.02.2026 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The DC conference always sells out by early March, so now is the time, if you're thinking about it

09.02.2026 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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The Dirty Issue β€” Barrelhouse For this special online issue, we asked for your dirtiest work: scandalous rivalries, dirty jobs, meditations on the muck and mire of everyday life, plain old sediment, and musings on humanity’s more ...

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09.02.2026 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Not the worst way to build a staff

09.02.2026 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

are we sure he wasn't hired to take over for Vic at DC next year?

09.02.2026 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I like that your brand on bluesky is "guy who hates diagramming sentences"

09.02.2026 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not sure I did a whole lot of good teaching today, but after we looked at a chunk of a Hanif Abdurraqib essay that mentions Soul Train dance lines, I found out none of my students knew what that was, so I gave them (actual) homework to go home and watch some Soul Train videos and report back.

09.02.2026 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

desperate to return to a time when being a big pathetic whiny little baby all the time was treated with contempt

09.02.2026 04:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

excited for America's grad students who get to fill out their next month or so of classes deconstructing the halftime show

09.02.2026 03:51 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

[trying to think of the healthiest guy for my commercial about being a healthy guy]

09.02.2026 03:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

just need Edgar Martinez to do something cool tomorrow and you've got the trifecta

09.02.2026 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

09.02.2026 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 25049    πŸ” 5889    πŸ’¬ 104    πŸ“Œ 50

Tough back to back Super Bowls for guys named Drake

09.02.2026 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 440    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 8

We are long long long past time for us all to agree this is just total loser shit

09.02.2026 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a much more honest version

09.02.2026 00:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've been thinking and Kenneth Walker III should have to change his name to Kenneth Runner. Hey folks we're having fun here

09.02.2026 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Thinking about the kind of guy who is using his phone to place bets on the contents of various Super Bowl commercials, instead of betting on something normal, like a horse

08.02.2026 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

For me, the whole night is about seeing a celebrity pop up in a random place. Holding chips maybe

08.02.2026 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Feel like you've been pretty skeptical of his fit, this is the most Watford optimism I can remember from you

08.02.2026 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

big theme of Olympics coverage for me so far is how boring Snoop is. Every segment he does is DOA

08.02.2026 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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