Kim McCauley
@kimischilling.bsky.social
I write and edit @thetransferflow.bsky.social. Data and scouting @ Crux Football. Former: Angel City. Contact: kim [at] varianceincorporated [dot] com
We are trainmaxxing Detroit in the game Subway Builder, the automobile will be defeated
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KimIsChilling - Twitch
Variety streaming games like Football Manager, Cities:Skylines, Crusader Kings, Stardew Valley and Geoguessr
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February 18, 2026 at 10:05 PM
We are trainmaxxing Detroit in the game Subway Builder, the automobile will be defeated
www.twitch.tv/kimischilling
www.twitch.tv/kimischilling
It’s a shame the only nice and sweet boy on the USA men’s hockey team is being used as a 4th liner but he scored anyway!
Beautiful deflection by Larkin my word
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GOAL USA!!!!!!
February 18, 2026 at 9:26 PM
It’s a shame the only nice and sweet boy on the USA men’s hockey team is being used as a 4th liner but he scored anyway!
Faded Saka for Rice in FPL not because I dislike or doubt Saka in any way, just rolling the dice on 1 differentiator from settled pro meta.
L + ratio
L + ratio
February 18, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Faded Saka for Rice in FPL not because I dislike or doubt Saka in any way, just rolling the dice on 1 differentiator from settled pro meta.
L + ratio
L + ratio
It's pretty funny that journalists come onto this website posting "this website fucking sucks" and then get mad when people are nasty in the replies. Like you started it bro lol
February 18, 2026 at 8:17 PM
It's pretty funny that journalists come onto this website posting "this website fucking sucks" and then get mad when people are nasty in the replies. Like you started it bro lol
I think that the quality of engagement and conversation on that site depends entirely on what you post about. If electoral politics or the day's top headlines, it's a cesspool. If sports or pop culture, it's all engagement farming spam. Finance and economic policy somehow remains normal.
I would argue that the quality of the engagement, for me, is measured in the following way:
When I share something on X, I often (not always) am passively engaging with people who then refer back to what I've shared IRL conversations, text threads, etc. That's valuable for me.
When I share something on X, I often (not always) am passively engaging with people who then refer back to what I've shared IRL conversations, text threads, etc. That's valuable for me.
February 18, 2026 at 8:03 PM
I think that the quality of engagement and conversation on that site depends entirely on what you post about. If electoral politics or the day's top headlines, it's a cesspool. If sports or pop culture, it's all engagement farming spam. Finance and economic policy somehow remains normal.
soon all soccer content will be meatwall
a typically fantastic @graceonfootball.com newsletter but also I'm in this one www.graceonfootball.com/p/another-br...
Another Brick in the Meat Wall
Set Pieces are changing the Premier League in front of our eyes
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February 18, 2026 at 7:45 PM
soon all soccer content will be meatwall
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My quick fix for social media is duration caps. Allowing content to be longer increases the likelihood that it will be annoying or evil. Twitter with character limits? Good. Vine with 6 second videos? Good. Remove these guardrails and you get only Digital Filth
March 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
My quick fix for social media is duration caps. Allowing content to be longer increases the likelihood that it will be annoying or evil. Twitter with character limits? Good. Vine with 6 second videos? Good. Remove these guardrails and you get only Digital Filth
Subway Builder update 1.1 came out today with some very cool updates, going to stream my Detroit rework at 4 pm CT.
www.twitch.tv/kimischilling
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KimIsChilling - Twitch
Variety streaming games like Football Manager, Cities:Skylines, Crusader Kings, Stardew Valley and Geoguessr
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February 18, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Subway Builder update 1.1 came out today with some very cool updates, going to stream my Detroit rework at 4 pm CT.
www.twitch.tv/kimischilling
www.twitch.tv/kimischilling
It's nice that they let men play hockey, this game is pretty good
February 18, 2026 at 6:01 PM
It's nice that they let men play hockey, this game is pretty good
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When someone tries to tell me Arby's isn't good
February 18, 2026 at 5:20 PM
When someone tries to tell me Arby's isn't good
I've come to strongly dislike viewing politics through this lens. You should vote for the candidates you like, rather than trying to guess what other people might like. And I think Bashear wrote about this because he's a Christian and it's important to him.
February 18, 2026 at 4:46 PM
I've come to strongly dislike viewing politics through this lens. You should vote for the candidates you like, rather than trying to guess what other people might like. And I think Bashear wrote about this because he's a Christian and it's important to him.
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He's had plenty of time now to come back from his injury. And Cole Palmer still isn't producing, with Chelsea's hardest fixtures of the season coming up.
www.thetransferflow.com/p/cole-palme...
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 2:36 PM
He's had plenty of time now to come back from his injury. And Cole Palmer still isn't producing, with Chelsea's hardest fixtures of the season coming up.
www.thetransferflow.com/p/cole-palme...
www.thetransferflow.com/p/cole-palme...
Last 2 RTs feel like contradictory takes but I don’t think they actually are. Entirely possible Palmer was playing when he shouldn’t have been for a couple months, but is now actually fit.
Chelsea really need that to be true with their upcoming fixture list, it’s nasty.
Chelsea really need that to be true with their upcoming fixture list, it’s nasty.
February 18, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Last 2 RTs feel like contradictory takes but I don’t think they actually are. Entirely possible Palmer was playing when he shouldn’t have been for a couple months, but is now actually fit.
Chelsea really need that to be true with their upcoming fixture list, it’s nasty.
Chelsea really need that to be true with their upcoming fixture list, it’s nasty.
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I largely agree with this but will just say this week is the first week Chelsea haven’t played midweek since November, Leeds was Palmer’s best performance of the season (1.1 NPxG+xA, 5 shots 4 shots assisted), and he said it’s the first time all year he’s felt like he can move properly
My favorite player to watch last season looks like a shell of himself. Are we cooked chat?
www.thetransferflow.com/p/cole-palme...
www.thetransferflow.com/p/cole-palme...
Cole Palmer's form has me very worried
Chat, are we cooked?
www.thetransferflow.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:50 PM
I largely agree with this but will just say this week is the first week Chelsea haven’t played midweek since November, Leeds was Palmer’s best performance of the season (1.1 NPxG+xA, 5 shots 4 shots assisted), and he said it’s the first time all year he’s felt like he can move properly
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I've been a sports fan long enough to recognize all the signs of "dumbass trying to play through an injury that takes away everything that makes them good" and there have been few clearer-cut cases than Cole Palmer this season
My favorite player to watch last season looks like a shell of himself. Are we cooked chat?
www.thetransferflow.com/p/cole-palme...
www.thetransferflow.com/p/cole-palme...
Cole Palmer's form has me very worried
Chat, are we cooked?
www.thetransferflow.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:51 PM
I've been a sports fan long enough to recognize all the signs of "dumbass trying to play through an injury that takes away everything that makes them good" and there have been few clearer-cut cases than Cole Palmer this season
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The Cavan question is fascinating to me. Looking at Burden, he was +83.5% higher in the final third than the average AM. For comparison, Messi was +106.1% in MLS and no one else really got close.
Is Philly going to feed him the ball that much in MLS? No. So what transfers to the first team?
Is Philly going to feed him the ball that much in MLS? No. So what transfers to the first team?
February 18, 2026 at 2:46 PM
The Cavan question is fascinating to me. Looking at Burden, he was +83.5% higher in the final third than the average AM. For comparison, Messi was +106.1% in MLS and no one else really got close.
Is Philly going to feed him the ball that much in MLS? No. So what transfers to the first team?
Is Philly going to feed him the ball that much in MLS? No. So what transfers to the first team?
My favorite player to watch last season looks like a shell of himself. Are we cooked chat?
www.thetransferflow.com/p/cole-palme...
www.thetransferflow.com/p/cole-palme...
Cole Palmer's form has me very worried
Chat, are we cooked?
www.thetransferflow.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:37 PM
My favorite player to watch last season looks like a shell of himself. Are we cooked chat?
www.thetransferflow.com/p/cole-palme...
www.thetransferflow.com/p/cole-palme...
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.
I think he'll be a pretty big contributor for the Union this season.
February 18, 2026 at 2:33 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.
I think he'll be a pretty big contributor for the Union this season.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
6 straight weeks of trying to go harder every week while also in a calorie deficit has caught up to me.
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
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.
Weston McKennie should be the starting center forward for the USMNT. My column:
February 17, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Weston McKennie should be the starting center forward for the USMNT. My column:
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
perhaps I should start an MLS-only Transfer Flow offshoot that will generate upwards of 500 subscribers