TJ Tomaso
@cyan220.bsky.social
Cis reply-guy(respectfully). Knows some stuff about chemistry, wants to love Northwestern Football again, board game enthusiast, and lover of my family. He/him, they/them.
created August 28, 2023
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TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social)
Me reading the timeline: this is bad news, but I’m glad that I’m staying informed by like minded individuals Me reading a single number on an object where orientation isn’t clear, trying to determine if I’m looking at a “6” or a “9”: we should not have been trusted with language
Elle (@elleisanisland.bsky.social) reposted
All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
? Tom, are you ok?
Mike Drucker (@mikedrucker.bsky.social) reposted
So after two straight days of Republicans saying trans people and the Left did this, threatening full on violence, it turns out the suspect is a politically unaffiliated white dude who was trained to use guns by his Republican law enforcement dad? Do I have that right?
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
What are they going to do - arrest all the axolotls driving cars that they come across?
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Real Midwesterners stick together
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social)
Something nice
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Nice
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social)
For….littering?
T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I don't feel any particular joy in Charlie Kirk getting shot. It's not the sort of thing I celebrate. But I also struggle to care when someone gets the very thing they've wished for openly, on multiple occasions, in multiple iterations, for literal years, b/c they thought it would be someone else.
Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman.bsky.social) reposted
Charlie Kirk in 2023: "It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment." He was wrong. No child, no moviegoer and no conservative commentator should have to die to maintain this perverted notion of the 2nd Amendment.
McSweeney's (@mcsweeneys.net) reposted
"My kids used to think I was a halfway decent parent until you two came along with your delightful Australian accents and seemingly endless stores of free time and patience."
Kevin Parry (@kevinbparry.bsky.social) reposted
Cheers to 10 years of making videos 🥂
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
We don’t get a QB on O, but we DO get an extra LB on D
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social)
Oh, now that Northwestern’s campus is at risk, I wonder if NU will allow students to protest Israel’s war crimes?
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
A classic
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux (@bretdevereaux.bsky.social) reposted
I hope everyone will forgive the bluntness of my language, but it seems like bluntness is warranted: it now seems pretty clear that the president raped children or at least knew about and actively facilitated the rape of children. I think it is time we stopped using coded language to say that.
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
It always is
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Rodger understands
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
And I still haven’t
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Ooooo - which one?
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social)
I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen an onside attempt since the rule change
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social)
Double homicide on that play
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
In that it is making me become the Joker
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social)
I am again being forced by the football team I care about to skeet this image
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Is the spread….42?
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Honestly, good for the good men. Finally, a poll response that doesn’t make us look like asses
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Imagine having a high school Derrick Henry on your team and still losing by 3 scores. Like….who was on Gainesville? The actual UF team?
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social)
Hey Bluesky, just a heads up that Huntrix is gonna be on the Grammys tonight
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Also, break into the clock tower and mess with that. Make it purple on Friday night, tricking them into thinking they already lost
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
😢
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
But honestly, it I have “win the lottery money”, I’ll just commission my music friends to handle that for me
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Ok, listen, just because I had 6 years of piano and lived with a music major doesn’t mean….. ….fine, I applied myself and figured it out.
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
If you were interested in my “awesome thing”, it would be a luxury RV, retrofitted to be completely electric, outfitted with solar panels. It would be purple, and would have a Northwestern Fight Song horn
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social)
Ok, the power ball is supposedly going to hit $1.7 billion. We did the “what awesome thing would you buy?” earlier this week. I’m here to ask - What totally mundane thing would you buy? For me, it’s all matching glass Tupperware
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Hawk Too A
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Or, to put it as concisely as possible bsky.app/profile/cyan...
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
I have disagreed with just about everything I’ve seen from Schill, but I’d rather the trustees replace him for those reasons, rather than caving to political pressure. I agree with your statements.
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social)
I’m a gigantic nerd, have loved comics forever, and have watched almost every MCU thing, but haven’t gone to see one in the theatre since Endgame. I’ll go see this in theatre, with or without my kids
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
My youngest will be 7, and I’ll be dragging her even if she doesn’t want to go
BYCTOM (@byctom.bsky.social) reposted
i was looking for something about the new northwestern AD "Not That" Mark Jackson and saw this in the northwestern press release for him. now i am very excited, it's very clear that no one knows college sports more than bill belichick
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait - didn’t announcing it trust preclude them from making that decision in the future?
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
*sigh* had to WIKIPEDIA IT to see
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
I saw someone else mention it, and had to see - apparently the Sex and the City thing that wasn’t Sex and the City (apologies if it was “Sex in the City”)
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Fair, and strong agreement, but that isn’t the Candace Bergen character that had the job of EIC at Vogue that Candace’s daughter now holds in real life
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
All dogs should be named after food Just ask our past family dogs, Meatball and Gelato
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Both teams were roughly identical in terms of 1st down success (43%) and 3rd (42% v 44%), but 2nd and 4th were hugely disparate (33% v 42% and 17% v 44%, respectively)
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Ok, I got super nerdy NU v Tulane success rate Over the game 39% v 44% 1st half (3-20) 36% v 53% 2nd half (0-3) 41% v 34% (Though, if you don’t penalize for end of game kneel downs, they go up to 36%)
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Or how OSU is where it is?
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
I was going to ask - is it an homage to her mom’s character?
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
How about feeling ok about your draft, and then having the lowest week 1 projection?
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
(My second thought was “this is a person that just wants to be a dick”)
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
EVERYTHING SHOULD BE WET WAS MY EXACT THOUGHT!
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
I was not there but agree with your assessment
BYCTOM (@byctom.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
to be honest I am curious what that was like (did you get to go in the spinny chair from the commercials, etc.), I am willing to bet that BlueSky has the highest concentration of Actual Space Camp Participants than any other social media site.
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Missile attacks ON THE US are not on my list of concerns either.
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
How do you feel about weirdos?
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social)
When will @chriswarcraft.bsky.social weigh in?
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social)
Vow to not wear white the rest of the season as a penance
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Like….. the eels from Little Mermaid?
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
One thesis for every like
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Then likely no overlap (This was the #2 option when I searched for “devastation”, and I think I should probably stop being online for this day)
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Younger brother? Would this have been taking place while we were at NU?
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe we need to be historically awful for a few decades to establish our Cub-like “lovable loser” aura so I can stop loathing my university
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Your wife played euphonium!?!? That was what my roommate majored in - did she take lessons from (I think) Rex on campus?
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
My 3rd grader loves it, my my 5Ker loves the music too
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
KB - as the most informed person here, WHY do we think he is no longer on this plane?
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Counter point - what if the passes would have been WORSE if he stepped into his throws?
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
How long ago was it that Beng was arguing that Fitz wasn’t doing enough to elevate the program to be a true national contender?
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
I will report live
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
“Upper body injury (that is where brain/heart/soul reside, right?)”
Mike Boylan-Kolchin (@mbkplus.bsky.social) reposted
The main things I know about Hunter Biden are (1) he likes to party (2) the worst people I know hate him and (3) he’s out here spitting fire about the consultant class of the Democratic Party
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Condolences Hope you are safe and well in DC
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
I am 💯 leaning into that
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
I have not been to a game in 10(?) years. I really wanted to see one at the lake, and haven’t seen my NU roommate in an equivalent time. Hopefully the friend vibes overcome the “football” vibes.
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
If I thought we were doing it to be supportive, I would agree
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social)
I owe my friend $400 for the tickets he bought so we can go see this slop in 4 weeks. My body is not capable of standing up to the amount of alcohol I would need to consume to enjoy this team.
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Part of a foursome with the couchfucker and the grim reaper
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
I wish a mask ban wasn’t needed, because if actually participating in public safety and reducing transmission, mask use should be allowed. But that isn’t really their vibe, so I agree
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t wish for anyone to lose their job in this economy, but maybe the current staff could be transferred into another department.
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, but as Tom pointed out earlier, the conditions in NO are pretty comparable to the recent weather they have been practicing in
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Everyone should give their NIL money to Akers and the coverage unit. And Hubbard.
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
When you are defending a bachelor party dalliance to your fiancé
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, but it resulted in pressure in the QBs face, so we won’t be doing that again
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
*when I’m not watching live, and read too far in my feed* Tom McCassandra
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
We have not yet unleashed our secret weapon Body clocks
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
The offense isn’t good enough to play early 2000’s defense
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
The statistical equivalent of a “surrender punt” shall be called a “Northwestern FG”
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
*sad, limp high five*
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh no, the dark part of my psyche has hacked your account and is skeeting my worst fears
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Chicago in general (fingers crossed that 🐻 have found a way to disperse it to protect Caleb)
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
Strong *this* energy
RevDJEsq (@revdjesq.bsky.social) reposted
Holy shit, an Andor-believing Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine? Why isn't this guy running for President?!?!
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social) reply parent
“Magic has a price” is what the villain says before they sacrifice something they love to gain power
RevDJEsq (@revdjesq.bsky.social) reposted
It's heartbreaking that the endless search for profit has taken away the more egalitarian nature of a Disney vacation.
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social)
I sat front row at our first kids first Christmas concert
TJ Tomaso (@cyan220.bsky.social)
There is a Toby Keith memorial thing, and a song was just introduced by Brett Favre.