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Kim McCauley
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I write and edit @thetransferflow.bsky.social. Data and scouting @ Crux Football. Former: Angel City. Contact: kim [at] varianceincorporated [dot] com
My favorite player to watch last season looks like a shell of himself. Are we cooked chat?

www.thetransferflow.com/p/cole-palme...
Cole Palmer's form has me very worried
Chat, are we cooked?
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February 18, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Just looked up Cavan Sullivan's MLS Next Pro stats and lol.

I think he'll be a pretty big contributor for the Union this season.
February 18, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Everyone else is trash

www.maptap.gg February 18
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Final score: 1000
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February 18, 2026 at 12:40 PM
I don't know anything about polling science or how to win elections but I'm pretty confident that Lakshya Jain is operating in bad faith because he doesn't like trans people
February 18, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Amish Paradise and White & Nerdy are the only two possible right answers, but The Saga Begins deserves a lot of credit for being 1000x better than the piece of media it's a parody of
you are all fools the REAL music question that will cause intergenerational warfare on bluesky is actually: what is weird al's signature song?
February 18, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Struggling through a workout that is just absolutely nothing for me generally seems like a pretty sure sign that I should take the rest of the week off and try to get back at it next week.

6 straight weeks of trying to go harder every week while also in a calorie deficit has caught up to me.
February 17, 2026 at 8:13 PM
I understand that the Premier League teams who bought strikers this summer were put off by the demands of Victor Osimhen’s agent. I don’t doubt that they were utterly ridiculous. But if they’d acquiesced to them, they would have Victor Osimhen.
February 17, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Weston McKennie should be the starting center forward for the USMNT. My column:
February 17, 2026 at 6:18 PM
perhaps I should start an MLS-only Transfer Flow offshoot that will generate upwards of 500 subscribers
but there are dozens of sickos out there who will eat it up
February 17, 2026 at 5:29 PM
arkagay
This is likely an old model, so out of curiosity I tried to get gpt5.2 to draw a US map. I think it bumped up from bizarre nightmare stuff to roughly what an average person from Europe would draw based on watching movies and seeing the map a couple times.
February 17, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Reposted by Kim McCauley
The serious business is about to start in the UEFA Champions League as the knockouts get underway today. Wrote about something to watch out for in each of the eight playoff round ties for @thetransferflow.bsky.social:

www.thetransferflow.com/p/what-to-wa...
What to watch for in the UEFA Champions League knockouts
The first knockout round gets underway Tuesday, featuring competition favorites Real Madrid and PSG fighting for their lives.
www.thetransferflow.com
February 17, 2026 at 5:01 PM
If I start writing about MLS on The Transfer Flow every week how fast will our unsubscribes skyrocket
February 17, 2026 at 4:59 PM
I think that we tried the responsible adult thing. That's what 2020 was. It did not work. So let's try something else.
What's interesting to me about the Crockett-Talarico primary is that it is fundamentally about the best way to respond to Trump, as their policies are virtually the same: do you rage with righteous fury or do you de-escalate and show that you are the responsible adult?

I think both views are valid.
Yeah, shoutout to Carr for making Talarico a national figure.
February 17, 2026 at 4:44 PM
In general, love it. Great mix of stability and new faces who deserve a shot based on recent play. Emma continues to do an excellent job building continuity while also making sure there's still competition for places and the squad never gets stale.
USWNT SHE BELIEVES CUP ROSTER IS HERE 🚨

Let us know your thoughts 💭👇
February 17, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Reposted by Kim McCauley
Champions League is back today, with some of the competition's biggest favorites fighting for their lives in the knockouts.

What you should know about every tie:

www.thetransferflow.com/p/what-to-wa...
What to watch for in the UEFA Champions League knockouts
The first knockout round gets underway Tuesday, featuring competition favorites Real Madrid and PSG fighting for their lives.
www.thetransferflow.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:19 PM
I went to regular ass middle class public high school and there were an uncomfortable number of 17-year-olds doing blow
The “everyone smokes weed” realization you come to in your college years is child’s play compared to the “everyone does blow” realization in your mid 20’s
February 17, 2026 at 2:07 PM
kind of a poor showing by my standards

www.maptap.gg February 17
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Final score: 972
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Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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February 17, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Reposted by Kim McCauley
its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
March 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Heard an insane story from a judge once. Woman gets pulled over for busted tail light. Cop sees alcohol bottle and tells her he has to breathalyze her. She blows a .3. She was driving fine.
always tell the story of my clinical year we had a gal from wisconsin. had never heard of the concept of a DUI checkpoint, was so incredulous she called her fiance and made me explain it to him on speakerphone lol
More insane Wisconsin alcoholism data viz
February 17, 2026 at 4:42 AM
so this is bait right
From reddit:
February 17, 2026 at 4:18 AM
The thing with "the average media job paying $20k more than the median American salary" is that there are only like 200 jobs left in the industry and they all require you to live in a city where a 1 bedroom apartment costs $2k a month
February 17, 2026 at 3:20 AM
NBC short track speed skating commentator promoting prop bet prediction markets without it even being sponsored is unhinged
February 17, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Country radio was on at the grocery store. First song I heard was about a truck, second was about a small town. They really should build the AI data centers in Nashville, seems like that's where most of the use is coming from.
February 16, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Determined to prove all the 2016 Bernie Bros right I guess
February 16, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Well the ice is cleared off the ski hill steps, guess I don’t have any excuse, time to get mad about how fat I am
February 16, 2026 at 7:19 PM