Tom
@tomvictor.bsky.social
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Tom
@tomvictor.bsky.social
· Nov 28
A thread of some of my bookmarked tweets. This will be updated with no real regular pattern but it *will* be updated
It doesn’t matter how many times it makes the news, I’m never going to stop reading ‘OBR’ as ‘Old Blue Rast’
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It doesn’t matter how many times it makes the news, I’m never going to stop reading ‘OBR’ as ‘Old Blue Rast’
Feels like a Sunday afternoon sort of read doesn’t it. Here you go
I went to Amsterdam for a tour of the MatchWornShirt warehouse and wrote about it here
The Footballers' shirts selling for a fortune from Messi, Ronaldo and McTominay
Football fans have been paying tens of thousands of pounds for shirts worn by footballers at iconic moments and Scotland star Scott McTominay's name is one to take pride of place
www.mirror.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Feels like a Sunday afternoon sort of read doesn’t it. Here you go
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Save the em-dash! open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...
In defense of the em-dash
I don't use AI in my writing. Ever. But the em-dash? Always.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Save the em-dash! open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...
I went to Amsterdam for a tour of the MatchWornShirt warehouse and wrote about it here
The Footballers' shirts selling for a fortune from Messi, Ronaldo and McTominay
Football fans have been paying tens of thousands of pounds for shirts worn by footballers at iconic moments and Scotland star Scott McTominay's name is one to take pride of place
www.mirror.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I went to Amsterdam for a tour of the MatchWornShirt warehouse and wrote about it here
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This is an excellent story. We got similar pitches from the same writer at Defector and if they had not been entirely generated by someone plugging prompts into The Fabulism Device they really would've been cool.
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This is an excellent story. We got similar pitches from the same writer at Defector and if they had not been entirely generated by someone plugging prompts into The Fabulism Device they really would've been cool.
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Can the public really tell this? Or are they simply force-fed it 24 hours a day?
Asked how happy Keir Starmer is that Tommy Robinson is now backing his asylum plans, his spokesman replies that "the public can tell that the pace and scale of illegal immigration is out of control..."
"We must restore order... or we will lose public consent for giving refuge at all".
"We must restore order... or we will lose public consent for giving refuge at all".
November 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Can the public really tell this? Or are they simply force-fed it 24 hours a day?
parrotts are always known for repetition i suppose
November 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
parrotts are always known for repetition i suppose
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i used to think the lyric was ‘i wanna rock and roll all night / and part of every day’ and i remember thinking, honestly that sounds reasonable
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
i used to think the lyric was ‘i wanna rock and roll all night / and part of every day’ and i remember thinking, honestly that sounds reasonable
Everything’s coming up Mulhouse
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Everything’s coming up Mulhouse
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I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
I’m surely not the only one who read this as a cat costing $7k and assumed it was just chuck blazer’s legacy
$7,000 for a cat. A ticket for the WC final. Over seven times what it cost for a similar ticket at the Euro 2024 final, almost five times what was charged at Qatar 2022. Too much is never enough for Gianni Infantino.
Another price increase for the 2026 World Cup…
Sensing strong demand, FIFA raised the cost of many tickets to record-setting heights — the first large-scale implementation of its “variable pricing” strategy.
Details from @henrybushnell.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
Sensing strong demand, FIFA raised the cost of many tickets to record-setting heights — the first large-scale implementation of its “variable pricing” strategy.
Details from @henrybushnell.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I’m surely not the only one who read this as a cat costing $7k and assumed it was just chuck blazer’s legacy
When you move all in during a high roller poker tournament around 2016
November 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
When you move all in during a high roller poker tournament around 2016
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Cool Runnings
Seabiscuit
Karate Kid
Forest Gump
Seabiscuit
Karate Kid
Forest Gump
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
nyti.ms
November 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Cool Runnings
Seabiscuit
Karate Kid
Forest Gump
Seabiscuit
Karate Kid
Forest Gump
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This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone
You either die a mamardashero or live long enough to see yourself become the mamardashvillian
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
You either die a mamardashero or live long enough to see yourself become the mamardashvillian
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I don’t believe in treating the idea of beating a joke into the ground as a pejorative, I think it’s our responsibility, like a hunter who uses every part of the deer instead of letting it go to waste
November 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I don’t believe in treating the idea of beating a joke into the ground as a pejorative, I think it’s our responsibility, like a hunter who uses every part of the deer instead of letting it go to waste
If I had a nickel for every time a Frenchman named Wilson played in the premier league this season I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it’s happened twice
November 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
If I had a nickel for every time a Frenchman named Wilson played in the premier league this season I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it’s happened twice
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PLEASE REPOST: a couple of bar staff urgently needed for shifts in Stratford tomorrow - it's a West Ham home game and I've had staff drop out so you can borderline name your price
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
PLEASE REPOST: a couple of bar staff urgently needed for shifts in Stratford tomorrow - it's a West Ham home game and I've had staff drop out so you can borderline name your price
Somewhere in South America, Maicon has woken up in a cold sweat. No it doesn’t matter if he was already awake
Tottenham Hotspur [3] - 0 FC København - M. van de Ven 64'
I can't stop moaning watching this goal
I can't stop moaning watching this goal
November 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Somewhere in South America, Maicon has woken up in a cold sweat. No it doesn’t matter if he was already awake
Going to Brussels in a few weeks, what should I do when I’m there?
November 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Going to Brussels in a few weeks, what should I do when I’m there?
Sunderland going from Max Power to no power in less than five years
November 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Sunderland going from Max Power to no power in less than five years
lovely to watch october's goal of the month and not worry about missing one from your own team because they didn't score any
November 3, 2025 at 9:44 AM
lovely to watch october's goal of the month and not worry about missing one from your own team because they didn't score any