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SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.
@djmosfett.bsky.social
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Baltimore's finest professional anteater. Formerly a member of the Borg. Flying the PhillieDrone flag.
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“Anyone using their title is insufferable”
A screen cap of 3 tweets: Dr. Émile Torres says, in part: I do it [use my Dr. title] because I worked unbelievably hard to get that honorific. I tell my students: having a PhD means only one thing: that you--statistically speaking--know more than almost anyone else in the world about one or two narrow topics … Josh Barro replies to Dr. Torres: Gets PhD, ends up hosting a podcast with Kate Willett. Clings to the honorific because it's all he has in the world. Sorry, literally every person who goes by "Dr." and isn't a medical doctor is insufferable. None of you are the exception.
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Rob Manfred, consummate liar:
NEW YORK - Major League Baseball "understood the prop bet issue from the very beginning," commissioner Rob Manfred said Wednesday afternoon at the league's headquarters, where he held his first press conference since the arrests of Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz on allegations they conspired with bettors.
November 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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While @lizroscher.bsky.social and the Hittin’ Season gang cook up fresh new podcasts for their fans, I retire to handle necessary chores in Bakumatsu-era Japan:
A picture of a flat screen TV. The TV shows a wood-chopping mini game from “Like A Dragon: Ishin!” for PS4, where a samurai in a big blue and white coat chops wood with an axe.
November 12, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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🎶the sharp ones, they say, catch the posts in 4K
when chance puts a good one behind ‘er🎶
The prior tweet, paired with a post from Kelsey Atherton that reads: "don't forget to leave a taconite sphere under your pillow tonight for the Witch of November so that all sailors may safely reach shore.”
November 11, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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updating the ol’ banner with this beauty
“Zohran for New York”-style word art that says “Posts for No One” On the first line, “Posts” is centered in a yellow all-caps serif font with a stark red-orange drop shadow. On the second line: “For” is in a handwritten-style italic font in a slightly more pure yellow than the yellow used for “Posts”. “No One” is in a bold, sans-serif block font in the same color as “For”. Both lines are on a deep blue background.
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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How does he manage to look worse than Neil O’Donnell?
A football card of Neil O’Donnell wearing a throwback 1933 Pittsburgh Steelers uniform: yellow jersey with incredibly thick vertical black stripes, a gaudy white #14 on the right shoulder, an NFL 75th anniversary patch on the left shoulder, and a giant Pittsburgh city crest on the midsection……plus a pair of tan pants
October 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Here's one starring @nickstellini.bsky.social!
Two tweets from 1/15/2022: Nick Stellini @StelliniTweets Amazon trying to make "Stat that!" a thing is pathetic Reply from PhillieDrone @PhillieDrone Every AWS commercial involving sports analytics has been truly embarrassing (remember the "fighter jet radar" Statcast ones?)
October 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Three tweets by the author: 2/10/2021 - (Responding to a tweet about the NHL using Amazon Web Services) Cool, more stupid as hell AWS commercials that make an RFID sensor look like a dick or a missile or something. 3/30/2019 - Oh good, the AWS ad that lies about what Al means is back. 🙄 (eyeroll emoji) 10/27/2018 - Every time that AWS ad comes on, I feel like a part of me dies when they say a "missile radar"
October 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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When you share an opinion with Bill Plaschke, maybe it’s time to rethink whatever dumb stuff you’re saying:
Bill Plaschke @BillPlaschke Classic baseball? More like classic bore. Bunch of guys swinging from their heels, mindlessly trying for home runs. This is why they should keep the ghost runner rule in during the playoffs. It leads to better baseball. 00:57 • 10/11/25
October 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Philadelphia Sports:
Roast Beef grimaces and says “Oh man that is mega nasty That is dog shit”
October 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Meanwhile, in my household:
A tired looking Mayor Quimby sweats and slumps on TV, his hair looking like devil horns. A ring of flame surrounds. A caption informs us “FLAMES ADDED ELECTRONICALLY BY CHANNEL 6”
October 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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GUESS WHAT BABY
A bearded man shows off his “KYLE SCHWARBER JUST HOMERED AGAIN” shirt, again
October 9, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Hey @theamitie.bsky.social guess what?
A bearded white oaf (showing just the bottom of his face) displays his T-shirt that reads “KYLE SCHWARBER JUST HOMERED AGAIN” in white text on a red background
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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hello
A square cut pizza covered in pepperoni
September 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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A football play diagram titled “Clown Post”
September 18, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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This was a great conversation to kick off my Book Festival day!
Two gentlemen sit, relaxed, on a couch in under a tent in front of a rapt audience.
September 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Back-to-back bangers.
The album cover to Runners High by The Pillows. A heavily stylized wild-eyed rabbit throws its hands in the air, mouth agape, teeth showing, tongue sticking out. The cover features the album title and the band name in stylized text. The album cover to the album Happy Bivouac by The Pillows. A laughing man in a red sweater and a green corduroy suit sits in a comfy chair in a field of grass, holding up a bottle of some kind. It looks like he’s sitting up, but the picture is actually sideways — the chair is on its left side (the viewer’s right) and the man is laying down against the arm. A tree grows from the viewer’s left side. The cover also features the album title in English and Japanese, as well as the band’s logo (a stylized “the pillows” in orange).
September 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Watching Treinen pitch:
Yabushige saying “I don’t have time for this Christian nonsense”
September 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Evidence directly from my recycling!
A hand holds up the remnants of a 32-can variety pack of Polar Seltzer, whose plastic cover shows cans of cherry, lime, grapefruit, and cranberry lime seltzer
September 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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A Mostly Philly/Phillies Guy Remembering
A grid of 9 baseball players from the first quarter of the 21st century: Dave Bush Alejandro De Aza So Taguchi Robert Andino Eric Bruntlett Sean O'Sullivan Sal Fasano Aaron Harang Aaron Rowand
September 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Said this on the other site, but I'd gladly collaborate with someone on a piece about how baseball analysis terms get coopted into the absolute worst shit (primarily because they are signifiers of dimwit savviness, see this image). Nate’s a pretty big part of this!
A tweet by user @christos_ioa: I can't believe they made statcast for babies Quoting tweet by user @ohioisgood “ greatest baby of all time??” Quoted tweet is followed by a screenshot from a baby sleep tracking app — the baby in question is shown to be better-than-average across a number of sleep metrics, using bar-charts and markers for averages and particular data points.
September 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Watching the Phillies
Homer Simpson has a heart attack. There’s also a closeup of his destroyed heart.
September 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Finally, @lizroscher.bsky.social and I have paid tribute to @dsaraiya.bsky.social’s greatness
A short white lady wearing a cherry dress and a Phillies jersey in front of an incredible Phillies mural A goofy white guy in a Phillies jersey in front of an incredible Phillies mural
August 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Already submitted a 311 request, but hey @bmorecitydot.bsky.social, this buckle at the SW crosswalk of Conway & Charles very nearly got a wheelchair user killed. Flipped his chair at a moderate pace & sent him into the intersection in front of my car!
An incredibly deep buckle/gash in a roadway, right next to a curbcut for a crosswalk. A car is parked next to the buckle and the legs of a crowd are on the sidewalk.
August 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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To quote @atherton.bsky.social (and acknowledging that individual effort to not be shit still needs to happen):
A tweet from Kesley Atherton: Oh, you're experiencing a structural problem? Have you ever considered trying different personal choices instead? April 22, 2019
August 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM