Tom
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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
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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
Should call him Sven Batman because that own goal will make Eddie Howe want to become the joker
November 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Should call him Sven Batman because that own goal will make Eddie Howe want to become the joker
Imagine a Long Island iced tea where the coke represents the ‘unlucky’ component
West Ham are a devastating cocktail of bad and unlucky. A recipe for relegation.
November 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Imagine a Long Island iced tea where the coke represents the ‘unlucky’ component
This is more true than I could have possibly envisaged when I started doing this
i'm going to say something that most very committed fans can't really grasp but is very evidently true: when covering football is your job, you just don't really have that burning passion to push an agenda for your club anymore. it just feels more like work. doesn't seem worth the effort.
October 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
This is more true than I could have possibly envisaged when I started doing this
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ryan is a wonderful writer and person. you people are insane.
I temporarily revived No Grass in the Clouds to write about the strangers on the Internet who are getting mad at the person I'm going to marry about an article I wrote six years ago: nograssintheclouds.substack.com/p/on-set-pie...
On set pieces and staying sane
Last week, I wrote an article about the one slippery-slope of using data in soccer that I’d always worried about: the path where everyone gets good at set pieces at the expense of everything else.
nograssintheclouds.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
ryan is a wonderful writer and person. you people are insane.
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Saved you a click: it's performing the charade of life in a spiritual wasteland
October 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Saved you a click: it's performing the charade of life in a spiritual wasteland
already nailed it in 2021
October 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
already nailed it in 2021
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Oh my god the Bills de /DeBlasio report from The Times gets funnier
October 30, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Oh my god the Bills de /DeBlasio report from The Times gets funnier
Are Liverpool the history channel? Because they’re trying to make sure no one sees Woodman on TV for months
October 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Are Liverpool the history channel? Because they’re trying to make sure no one sees Woodman on TV for months
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If I had a nickel for every time I’ve seen Spurs concede because of someone tying their shoelaces, I’d have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
October 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve seen Spurs concede because of someone tying their shoelaces, I’d have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
