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Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a completely unremarkable normal
Name!

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Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 1d

"Yuta Watanabe"

Tyler Parker @tylerparker.bsky.social · 2d

NAME RANK

Ranking the 117 Best NBA Names of the Quarter Century

What’s in a name? Everything. Featuring Dwayne Bacon, Stromile Swift, and so many more, these are the NBA player handles that stand the test of time.

www.theringer.com

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Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 1d

Tfw you are @jamellebouie.net and want to get out of Baltimore but a local bookseller refuses to comply.

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Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 2d

They are in a cult, they don’t care!

Derek May @derekmay.bsky.social · 3d

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Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 2d

We can discuss this tomorrow at the Enoch Pratt Free Library

Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 2d

I kind of want to write about going to the Maryland Ren Fest. I haven’t wanted to write about anything personal in years. Maybe I’m different now. Maybe I’m just inspired by nerds. I don’t know.

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Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 3d

Renn Fest

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Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 4d

Never forget Wesley Willis wrote a song about Bolt Thrower.

Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 5d

Haven’t been nominated for anything in my entire life but if I could win something and take a few hundred of James Patterson’s dollars I’d say well sir, I reckon that’s a life well spent.

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Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 6d

With friends like these…who the helL needs COINTELPRO

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Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 6d

This is the statement of a freak

NPR @npr.org · 6d

As President Trump ramps up efforts to send federal officers and troops into cities, criminologists are watching closely. Are the feds doing this in a smart way?

National Guard presence may deter crime, but experts warn of the long-term costs

As President Trump ramps up efforts to send federal officers and troops into cities, criminologists are watching closely. Are the feds doing this in a smart way?

n.pr

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Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 6d

Be there or be a literal square

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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 6d

Baltimore friends! Tonight! 🥰

Baltimore reading with Mess and Friction tonight. Fadensonnen 3 W 23rd St. 7pm.

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Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 9d

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Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you. Not sure I’d go that far but I’ll love this movie more than most

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Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 9d

Fucking preach, Big Dawg

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9d

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 9d

sorry, i think he's just always drunk

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 9d

They said Hegseth is becoming increasingly “obsessed” with his own security and exhibits frenzied behavior, such as fidgeting and pacing during meetings.

“Dude is crawling out of his skin,” another source said.

Pentagon Pete's 'Manic' Meltdowns Exposed by Aides

The former Fox News host is reportedly spiraling out of control.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 9d

My thoughts on the Riyadh Comedy Festival

Isiah Thomas saying: I met the criteria to be selected… but I wasn’t

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Mouse House Books @mousehousebooks.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you to Draymond Green for promoting @macyk.bsky.social’s KABOOM! series at media day! We’re so glad you enjoyed the books! www.mousehousebooks.com/product-cate...

Draymond Green at the microphone at media day wearing sunglasses that spell “BOOM” but the photo has been edited to add “KA” before the glasses and “!” After

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Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 10d

Kaleb Horton was here and we will remember forever.

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Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 10d

People are always applauding the Replacements for the audacity of naming their best LP "Let It Be" but in another, more accurate way, I guess you could say every Replacements record is technically something of a "White Album"

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Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 12d

"It’s got to be one of the most basic principles of living: always decide who your enemies are for yourself, and never let your enemies choose your enemies for you."

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Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 12d

Remember when Gerard Depardieu was like yes if course I’ve raped at least forty people I’m gonna live in Russia now because taxes

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Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 13d

1. LOST
2. Deadwood
3. Richard III

Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 13d

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep

1. Anakin Skywalker
2. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
3. Robotech 2: The Sentinels

Aɴᴅʀᴇᴡ Lɪᴘᴛᴀᴋ @andrewliptak.com · 13d

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep

1. The history of science fiction
2. Star Wars, specifically Andor
3. The Expanse

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Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 13d

bsky.app/profile/thom...

Thomas Awful 🇵🇸 @thomasawful.bsky.social · 13d

Never mind!

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