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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1h

Katy saw the flags and said "bet"

A convoy trucker with the flag Fuck Trudeau

Katy Perry putting her thumbs up

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race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 18h

katy perry? the astronaut?

the old guy from the conan podcast

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 5h

good afternoon

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 4h

Shoutout to everyone celebrating that time-honoured Canadian Thanksgiving tradition: the one relative who only knows one thing about you asking "how bout those Blue Jays"

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 4h

While we're doing nasty facts about that game: Whit Merrifield was drilled in the head after the Jays took the lead 8-1 and it really seemed at the time like it was revenge for "running up the score."

Merrifield being removed is why the 2022 Jays season ended with a Raimel Tapia at-bat.

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 4h

2022 Wildcard game 2 against the Mariners - that we do not speak of - was Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend.

Another nasty fact about that game: unvaccinated Robbie Ray was only allowed to pitch in that game in Canada after the Canadian government relaxed entry requirements *the week of the game*

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 4h

TheScore app works fine for me - live stats, drives etc.

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 5h

IKF sustaining a "legitimate" "injury" mid-series the moment Bichette can run again

Simpsons scene where Bart is playing football for Homer and has to fill in for Nelson going to jail, but with Blue Jays references added. Isiah Kiner-Falefa/Bart: "It's ok, coach. I can fill in for Bichette." Homer/John Schneider: "I knew I could count on you." Then IKF being taken away in an "Injured reserve" car.

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 5h

You're really not doing the anti-AI movement any favors if you look at photoshop work done by actual talented paid graphic designers and your "this is AI" reflex is at such whip-like speed that you false identify real, genuine, labor-intensive graphic design as AI

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 6h

It's a closeup of a blue jay's eye looking at the Mariners trident.

The "realistic, dark blue jay" theme has been running for all their game-day graphics

A blue jays beak pecking at Yankee pinstripes for ALDS game 1

a blue jay pecks at an apple to symbolize the Big Apple of New York

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 6h

5. Seattle's Macklemore has a painting hanging over his bed of a naked Justin Bieber with maple syrup dripping down him. He says he uses it to prolong sex with his wife.

Macklemore reveals he uses his naked Justin Bieber painting to control his orgasms
The painting features a naked Bieber with maple syrup pouring down his chest.

The rapper bought the oil painting off Etsy last year – a “transfixing rendition of a naked Justin Bieber with maple syrup pouring down his chest onto a pancake balanced on his boner”.

While discussing the painting during an appearance with T-Pain on ‘Watch What Happens Live’, he joked that he uses it to improve his sexual stamina.

“I bought it on Etsy as a white elephant Santa gift that at the end of the night just stayed at my house – no one took it,” he explained.

“I’m very proud of it and it’s become a huge headline. It’s like, ‘Macklemore owns a naked Justin Bieber dick pancake painting’ and it’s part of my thing now.

“So it goes right above my bed and whenever I’m with my wife intimately, I can always stare at it if I want to control my orgasm. Just slow it down.”

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 6h

4. In 2004 at the height of his Raptors disgruntlement phase, Vince Carter allegedly tipped off the Seattle Supersonics bench, telling them what play the Raptors were about to run in the final minutes of the game.

Carter was traded out of Toronto 2 days later.

Vince Carter of the Raptors hops and palms the ball against Rashard Lewis of the Seattle Supersonics

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 6h

3. The Jays and Mariners once had an agreement in place to trade Randy Johnson to the Blue Jays at the 1993 trade deadline for Steve Karsay. The problem is, when Jays GM Pat Gillick called Mariners GM Woody Woodward to finalize the deal, there was no answer. Woodward was in Florida golfing.

A photoshopped picture of Randy Johnson in a Blue Jays uniform in the World Series years

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 6h

2. In the 2016 MLS Cup held in Toronto, the Seattle Sounders became the first ever MLS team to win a game, and a championship game at that, without registering a shot on goal.

Giovinco gets taken down and seemingly smacked on both sides of the face by two Seattle Sounders defenders in TFC vs. Sounders MLS action

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 6h

1. CN Tower & Space Needle:

- CN Tower nearly 3 times higher (1815 ft to 605 ft)
- Space Needle has had more parachutists (6 to 2)
- CN Tower has a revolving restaurant
- Space Needle has a revolving glass floor
- CN Tower has been on more Drake albums
- Space Needle has been in more Elvis movies

The brutalist, functional cement CN Tower in Toronto and the space-age UFO-shaped Space Needle in Seattle, looking upward

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 6h

Here are some Toronto vs. Seattle odd facts to get the beef cooking ahead of this series.

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 6h

Almost certain it's not AI. They've got a graphic design department.

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Kristine @kjay1122.bsky.social · 7h

How it started/how it's going

David Ortiz + young Vlad Jr at the 2010 HR Derby

Daaaaaaa.... Yankees looz! (Ortiz & Vlad post-game after the ALDS)

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

Blues Brothers features Nazis
Nazis also appear in Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Which also features Tom Hanks

ez

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

My ALCS prediction

1. Jays go up 3-0
2. Lose game 4
3. I make the joke "Sweepless In Seattle" on Bluesky
4. easy 200 reposts 800 likes

don't know what happens beyond that

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

(before Billy Bluesky chimes in with some unneeded scolding I should add we also went to 7 museums)

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a supercut of all the food we ate in France/Belgium if that's something that interests you

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

They did the exact same stunt at MITB in Toronto. Sang the US anthem knowing full well it would get booed. It's a way to get cheap heat and headlines.

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

The American Chopper argument meme template talking about Cal Raleigh

- He's called Big Dumper because of his big ass!
- It's because of the size of his big dumps he takes
- The dumper is the ass
- the dumps are shits!