Tim Ostlund-Foss
@timostlundfoss.bsky.social
Writer at Sounder at Heart, singer and dancer with Seattle Men’s Chorus, wife guy, dog dad, creator and consumer of food and beverages.
Personal writing at https://words-that-stick-to-your-ribs.square.site/
Personal writing at https://words-that-stick-to-your-ribs.square.site/
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Still waiting on Tacoma Defiance roster announcements, but my understanding is they will be looking for a new head coach. Longtime assistant Mike Morris, who was expected to get the job, has joined Marko Mitrovic’s staff with New England Revolution. He had coached with Mitrovic at U20 World Cup.
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Still waiting on Tacoma Defiance roster announcements, but my understanding is they will be looking for a new head coach. Longtime assistant Mike Morris, who was expected to get the job, has joined Marko Mitrovic’s staff with New England Revolution. He had coached with Mitrovic at U20 World Cup.
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We’re running a Black Friday deal that is good through Dec. 1. We’re offering 20% off our two most popular membership plans:
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November 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
We’re running a Black Friday deal that is good through Dec. 1. We’re offering 20% off our two most popular membership plans:
- Supporter (normally $75): sounderatheartcom.outpost.pub/public/promo...
- Backer (normally $30): sounderatheartcom.outpost.pub/public/promo...
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Based on recent history, we’ve got about 6 months before the turkeys pardoned by Trump get arrested for possession of CSA materials
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Based on recent history, we’ve got about 6 months before the turkeys pardoned by Trump get arrested for possession of CSA materials
I know the second half of this isn’t true, so I’m going to assume the first half isn’t either
I support Trans rights as much as anyone but it's an electoral loser. It helps Republicans who are ok with shooting trans.
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I know the second half of this isn’t true, so I’m going to assume the first half isn’t either
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"Collecting that experience" is an incredible euphemism for "Asking a guy about the fact that more than a dozen women accused him of sexual misconduct"
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"Collecting that experience" is an incredible euphemism for "Asking a guy about the fact that more than a dozen women accused him of sexual misconduct"
This is so amateurish from USL. This league wants people to believe that it can support a real first division and promotion and relegation, and they’re throwing a fit over a mild request for better standards
This post by the USLPA needs to be seen and read.
The league withheld the materials from the USL Championship trophy celebration in retaliation for the players walking out in their USLPA shirts along with cutting out broadcast angles with that message.
www.instagram.com/p/DRcyNEdkhPs/
The league withheld the materials from the USL Championship trophy celebration in retaliation for the players walking out in their USLPA shirts along with cutting out broadcast angles with that message.
www.instagram.com/p/DRcyNEdkhPs/
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This is so amateurish from USL. This league wants people to believe that it can support a real first division and promotion and relegation, and they’re throwing a fit over a mild request for better standards
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This post by the USLPA needs to be seen and read.
The league withheld the materials from the USL Championship trophy celebration in retaliation for the players walking out in their USLPA shirts along with cutting out broadcast angles with that message.
www.instagram.com/p/DRcyNEdkhPs/
The league withheld the materials from the USL Championship trophy celebration in retaliation for the players walking out in their USLPA shirts along with cutting out broadcast angles with that message.
www.instagram.com/p/DRcyNEdkhPs/
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This post by the USLPA needs to be seen and read.
The league withheld the materials from the USL Championship trophy celebration in retaliation for the players walking out in their USLPA shirts along with cutting out broadcast angles with that message.
www.instagram.com/p/DRcyNEdkhPs/
The league withheld the materials from the USL Championship trophy celebration in retaliation for the players walking out in their USLPA shirts along with cutting out broadcast angles with that message.
www.instagram.com/p/DRcyNEdkhPs/
I Am Going To Fall Asleep At Chorus Tech Rehearsal Tonight: A Tim Ostlund-Foss Story
November 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I Am Going To Fall Asleep At Chorus Tech Rehearsal Tonight: A Tim Ostlund-Foss Story
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2016 - www.wired.com/2016/05/twit...
2017 - www.science.org/content/arti...
2018 - www.reuters.com/article/worl...
2018 - www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
2022 - www.sipa.columbia.edu/news/study-c...
2017 - www.science.org/content/arti...
2018 - www.reuters.com/article/worl...
2018 - www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
2022 - www.sipa.columbia.edu/news/study-c...
Bots Unite to Automate the Presidential Election
Donald Trump understands minority communities. Just ask Pepe Luis Lopez. He's one of Trump's 7 million Twitter followers. One problem: he's not a person.
www.wired.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Fuck you, none of those cables are obsolete (because I went through them all when we moved earlier this year)!
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Fuck you, none of those cables are obsolete (because I went through them all when we moved earlier this year)!
On this, my last day in France before heading home, I feel confident in saying that I’ve learned one thing from my trip: no man is born French, Frenchness is a product of their environment.
November 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
On this, my last day in France before heading home, I feel confident in saying that I’ve learned one thing from my trip: no man is born French, Frenchness is a product of their environment.
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MAMDANI: And I just think that there are barriers, barricades, to helping Americans that we can break down
TRUMP: Uh huh
MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade?
TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
TRUMP: Uh huh
MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade?
TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
MAMDANI: And I just think that there are barriers, barricades, to helping Americans that we can break down
TRUMP: Uh huh
MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade?
TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
TRUMP: Uh huh
MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade?
TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
Bring Um, Actually! To Seattle, plz @ god and @ Ify
Impeccable timing! (um) Actually picking out venues for the US tour now. Dates will be announced soon! Q1/Q2 2026 atm.
Is @ifycomedy.com going on tour anytime soon?
November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Bring Um, Actually! To Seattle, plz @ god and @ Ify
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Impeccable timing! (um) Actually picking out venues for the US tour now. Dates will be announced soon! Q1/Q2 2026 atm.
Is @ifycomedy.com going on tour anytime soon?
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Impeccable timing! (um) Actually picking out venues for the US tour now. Dates will be announced soon! Q1/Q2 2026 atm.
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We all need to hear this www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QX5...
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
We all need to hear this www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QX5...
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Got it on record in The Guardian that the "When you watch the game, you don't see Busquets; when you watch Busquets, you see the whole game" line was never actually Vincente del Bosque, it was a blogger's wife
Somebody who knows how to edit Wikipedia please give that woman her due
Somebody who knows how to edit Wikipedia please give that woman her due
Sergio Busquets is old and slow. By next month he'll be retired. So how is he still so central to one of the best teams in MLS?
Wrote for The Guardian about trying to measure a famously invisible kind of greatness.
Wrote for The Guardian about trying to measure a famously invisible kind of greatness.
As his career ends in MLS, Sergio Busquets’ small decisions remain perfect
The Spaniard’s style of possession football is not easily defined by stats and data. We tried to do so anyway
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Got it on record in The Guardian that the "When you watch the game, you don't see Busquets; when you watch Busquets, you see the whole game" line was never actually Vincente del Bosque, it was a blogger's wife
Somebody who knows how to edit Wikipedia please give that woman her due
Somebody who knows how to edit Wikipedia please give that woman her due
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My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah
Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
This rocks, I think I could write a memoir that would sell better
"The Barnes and Noble in York—where Fetterman was born and raised—had sold zero copies. The Barnes and Noble in Philadelphia had sold two copies. An independent store in Pittsburgh and an independent store in Philadelphia each told me they weren’t stocking Unfettered" defector.com/john-fetterm...
John Fetterman's Memoir Is As Low-Effort As His Senate Tenure | Defector
John Fetterman’s just-released memoir, Unfettered, argues that he’s turned a corner and has everything under control. Fetterman was a “stubborn asshole” (his words), he was clinically depressed, he wa...
defector.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This rocks, I think I could write a memoir that would sell better
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Burl Dirkman made a Tik Tok! (Durnell from down the alley helped him with it) "Top 3 Things That Remind Me of Meemaw's Milky White, Cataract Clouded Eyes"
November 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Burl Dirkman made a Tik Tok! (Durnell from down the alley helped him with it) "Top 3 Things That Remind Me of Meemaw's Milky White, Cataract Clouded Eyes"
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JACK DONAGHY: Lemon, Don Geiss is telling me we need to find a way to make Jenna appeal to the [strained air quotes with fingers] "youth" demographic, maybe a song?
LIZ LEMON: No! We all know what happened last time-
LIZ LEMON: No! We all know what happened last time-
Someone found an mp3 of the creepy "Jailbait" song Olivia Nuzzi released when she was 16 🫣
November 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
JACK DONAGHY: Lemon, Don Geiss is telling me we need to find a way to make Jenna appeal to the [strained air quotes with fingers] "youth" demographic, maybe a song?
LIZ LEMON: No! We all know what happened last time-
LIZ LEMON: No! We all know what happened last time-
I feel like there’s a non-zero chance that Poch and Schmetzer meet up for a coffee or something during this offseason that turns into the two of them just vibing for a whole weekend, bouncing back and forth between sharing pots of coffee and bottles of wine.
November 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I feel like there’s a non-zero chance that Poch and Schmetzer meet up for a coffee or something during this offseason that turns into the two of them just vibing for a whole weekend, bouncing back and forth between sharing pots of coffee and bottles of wine.
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Kids these days have it so easy. This is what vapes used to look like
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Kids these days have it so easy. This is what vapes used to look like
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Ireland made the next round of World Cup qualifying after a hat trick and game winning goal by a player named Troy Parrott so the zoo named their parrot Troy Parrot
Watch: Dublin Zoo names parrot Troy after hat-trick hero
Dublin Zoo has decided to name one of its parrots Troy in honour of Ireland's hat-trick hero in Budapest's Puskás Aréna.
www.rte.ie
November 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Ireland made the next round of World Cup qualifying after a hat trick and game winning goal by a player named Troy Parrott so the zoo named their parrot Troy Parrot