Blob Costas
@blobcostas.bsky.social
Blaseball (RIV) and Olympic Commentator, Reporter, Sochi Pink-eye Haver. We are definitely one organism and not several (He/Him/His)
A month later and I'll be busy brushing my teeth or something and suddenly think, "Man, that was a bad beat for the #bluejays." If you're a true fan, I'm sorry. I don't know how you could possibly recover from it.
Isn't Baseball grand?
Isn't Baseball grand?
November 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A month later and I'll be busy brushing my teeth or something and suddenly think, "Man, that was a bad beat for the #bluejays." If you're a true fan, I'm sorry. I don't know how you could possibly recover from it.
Isn't Baseball grand?
Isn't Baseball grand?
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So this is what you nerds keep talking about.
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
So this is what you nerds keep talking about.
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This is what it’s like to read about the American governing elite right now.
![At least five Tang dynasty (618–907) emperors were incapacitated and killed by immortality elixirs. In historic recurrences, the newly enthroned emperor understandably executed the Daoist alchemists whose elixirs had killed his predecessor, and then subsequently came to believe in other charlatans enough to consume their poisonous elixirs.
Emperor Xianzong (r. 805–820) indirectly lost his life due to elixir poisoning. The Xu Tongzhi (Supplement to the Historical Collections) says, "Deluded by the sayings of the alchemists, [Xianzong] ingested gold elixirs and his behaviour became very abnormal. He was easily offended by those officials whom he daily met, and thus the prisons were left with little vacant space." In response, an official wrote an 819 memorial to the throne that said:
Of late years, however, (the capital) has been overrun by a host of pharmacists and alchemists ... recommending one another right and left with ever wilder and more extravagant claims. Now if there really were immortals, and scholars possessing the Tao, would they not conceal their names and hide themselves in mountain recesses far from the ken of man? ... The medicines of the sages of old were meant to cure bodily illnesses, and were not meant to be taken constantly like food. How much less so these metallic and mineral substances which are full of burning poison! ... Of old, as the Li Chi says, when the prince took physic, his minister tasted it first, and when a parent was sick, his son did likewise. Ministers and sons are in the same position. I humbly pray that all those persons who have elixirs made from transformed metals and minerals, and also those who recommend them, may be compelled to consume (their own elixirs) first for the space of one year. Such an investigation will distinguish truth from falsehood, and automatically clarify the matter by experiment.
After the emperor rejected this appeal, the palace eunuchs Wang Shoucheng and Chen Hongzhi 陳弘志 assassinated him in 820.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4d2snfeymcblmvoaxvgfs7i6/bafkreicj4uaxsxrzzrod3yxa3uihy7odewkf4jpynd6mplgxek23u2rx5q@jpeg)
![When Xianzong's son and successor Emperor Muzong (r. 820–824) came to the throne, he executed the alchemists who had poisoned his father, but later began to take immortality elixirs himself. An official wrote Muzong an 823 memorial that warned:
Medicines are for use against illnesses, and should not be taken as food. ... Even when one is ill medicines must be used with great circumspection; how much more so when one is not ill. If this is true for the common people how much more so will it be for the emperor! Your imperial predecessor believed the nonsense of the alchemists and thus became ill; this your majesty already knows only too well. How could your majesty still repeat the same mistake?[27]
The emperor appreciated this reasoning but soon afterwards fell ill and died from poisoning. Palace eunuchs supposedly used poisonous elixirs to assassinate Muzong's young successor Emperor Jingzong (r. 824–827).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4d2snfeymcblmvoaxvgfs7i6/bafkreieltlwjzprlfasqdo67fgciczehab5vw7qrdojwhixyyet6f33yc4@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This is what it’s like to read about the American governing elite right now.
Why am I just learning about Kabaddi- the sport of handsome, burly men holding hands and then tackling each other?
a group of men are playing a game of kabaddi and one of the players has the number 12 on his jersey
Alt: a group of men are playing a game of kabaddi red gets tackled then a group hug commences
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Why am I just learning about Kabaddi- the sport of handsome, burly men holding hands and then tackling each other?
The Winter Olympics are when Blob renews his pink eye. We'll be at our most powerful come February. See you then!!
a man in a suit and tie is wearing glasses and looking at the camera .
Alt: Blob suffering from the worse case of conjunctivitis that I have ever seen at the Sochi Olympics
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Winter Olympics are when Blob renews his pink eye. We'll be at our most powerful come February. See you then!!
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games exist only as a memory of your experience playing the game, and your memory of sharing that experience with others, and your memory of others sharing their experience with you.
games do not have text that is outside the context of a player experiencing the game.
games do not have text that is outside the context of a player experiencing the game.
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
games exist only as a memory of your experience playing the game, and your memory of sharing that experience with others, and your memory of others sharing their experience with you.
games do not have text that is outside the context of a player experiencing the game.
games do not have text that is outside the context of a player experiencing the game.
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new reaction video just dropped
November 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
new reaction video just dropped
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Ya this is grim but basically accurate therationalleague.substack.com/p/the-vacanc...
The Vacancy of the MAGA Mind
The quiet relief of no longer having to think.
therationalleague.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Ya this is grim but basically accurate therationalleague.substack.com/p/the-vacanc...
All professional athlete names should be shown in a slightly different font if their Wikipedia article has a section titled "Legal Troubles"
November 4, 2025 at 5:25 AM
All professional athlete names should be shown in a slightly different font if their Wikipedia article has a section titled "Legal Troubles"
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Update: we're through season 18, and I have it under good authority that Chorby Soul getting attacked by Consumers hundreds of times is the funniest thing ever.
November 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Update: we're through season 18, and I have it under good authority that Chorby Soul getting attacked by Consumers hundreds of times is the funniest thing ever.
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After the Yoshinobu Yamamoto near no-hitter in Baltimore on September 6 that turned into a walk-off loss, the Dodgers went 28-9
November 2, 2025 at 5:42 AM
After the Yoshinobu Yamamoto near no-hitter in Baltimore on September 6 that turned into a walk-off loss, the Dodgers went 28-9
It hasn't been a day and I need more #baseball discourse. Here goes:
The slider was invented during Babe Ruth's career. There's no way he could hack it in the minor leagues today. The majors would eat him alive.
The slider was invented during Babe Ruth's career. There's no way he could hack it in the minor leagues today. The majors would eat him alive.
November 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
It hasn't been a day and I need more #baseball discourse. Here goes:
The slider was invented during Babe Ruth's career. There's no way he could hack it in the minor leagues today. The majors would eat him alive.
The slider was invented during Babe Ruth's career. There's no way he could hack it in the minor leagues today. The majors would eat him alive.
My cat is just devastated about the blue jays' loss
November 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
My cat is just devastated about the blue jays' loss
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Sleeping Shepherd, by Titian, 1500–10
November 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Sleeping Shepherd, by Titian, 1500–10
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November 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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The Good Samaritan, by Joseph Highmore, 1744, 📸 by @patricksmith04
November 2, 2025 at 4:49 AM
The Good Samaritan, by Joseph Highmore, 1744, 📸 by @patricksmith04
Baseball's over. Time to seize the means of production.
Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball
November 2, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Baseball's over. Time to seize the means of production.
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I’ve never been so upset to see another team lose, BTW.
@BlueJays, y’all are GAMERS. Nothing but the upmost respect for the way you play the game and for how ridiculously tough you made it for us to win.
To their fans, I sincerely hope next year is your year.
#WorldSeries #Dodgers #BlueJays
@BlueJays, y’all are GAMERS. Nothing but the upmost respect for the way you play the game and for how ridiculously tough you made it for us to win.
To their fans, I sincerely hope next year is your year.
#WorldSeries #Dodgers #BlueJays
November 2, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I’ve never been so upset to see another team lose, BTW.
@BlueJays, y’all are GAMERS. Nothing but the upmost respect for the way you play the game and for how ridiculously tough you made it for us to win.
To their fans, I sincerely hope next year is your year.
#WorldSeries #Dodgers #BlueJays
@BlueJays, y’all are GAMERS. Nothing but the upmost respect for the way you play the game and for how ridiculously tough you made it for us to win.
To their fans, I sincerely hope next year is your year.
#WorldSeries #Dodgers #BlueJays
Congratulations Baseball Bluesky, you are now in #PARTYTIME 🎉
November 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Congratulations Baseball Bluesky, you are now in #PARTYTIME 🎉
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I didn't think anything would top the last World Baseball Classic, but this series really did. It's an unforgettable #WorldSeries. I feel so sorry for the #BlueJays who were consistent and poised the entire series. A few inches another way a dozen times this series, and it would have been theirs.
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I didn't think anything would top the last World Baseball Classic, but this series really did. It's an unforgettable #WorldSeries. I feel so sorry for the #BlueJays who were consistent and poised the entire series. A few inches another way a dozen times this series, and it would have been theirs.