@alexshephard.bsky.social
senior editor at the new republic and box-to-box midfielder @goldengoalmag.bsky.social
@alexshephard.bsky.socialincredibly funny thing for this particular account to post
@alexshephard.bsky.socialcan’t watch this sport anymore
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@alexshephard.bsky.socialdefinitely a bit awkward as a long time “Jordan Henderson is extremely technically gifted but is goofy looking/played out of position/in tactical systems that emphasize his other qualities” guy to watch this absolute masterclass for… Chelsea
@themlg.bsky.socialReposted by @alexshephard.bsky.socialAs good a time as ever to do a new pinned post which tells everybody that @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social is now on YouTube. If soccer nerd stuff with little charts is your jam (and even if it isn’t) you should head on over and subscribe tell your friends to do the same. youtube.com/@doublepivot...
@manishakrishnan.bsky.socialReposted by @alexshephard.bsky.socialNEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...
@alexshephard.bsky.socialit sucks... all i can do is scroll and post but i'm too stupid to read or write coherently
@alexshephard.bsky.socialoh whoops... this cold may have hit me harder than i thought
@brianphillips.lolReposted by @alexshephard.bsky.socialI wrote about Jim Bakker, whose parasocial style of grifter evangelism seemed freakish to mainstream society in the 80s and is now the machinery by which mainstream society operates
@drewsof.bsky.socialReposted by @alexshephard.bsky.socialthe puckish spirit of Alex's Nobel writing continues to delight
@ericmgarcia.bsky.socialReposted by @alexshephard.bsky.socialSome ~personal~ news:
After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is [email protected]. My signal is emgarcia.85
@alexshephard.bsky.socialdidn't get to make fun of the forum people in this year's column unfortunately, though i did riff on them in a draft
@alexshephard.bsky.socialchecked the nobel prize forum for the first time in ages and they are arguing over which women on the committee are "mother"
@alansiegella.bsky.socialReposted by @alexshephard.bsky.social"The apotheosis of insanity.”
For the 20th anniversary of 30 Rock, I went deep on my favorite thing about it: all the fake shows, movies, and songs. With help from Tina Fey.
@winwinirwin.bsky.socialReposted by @alexshephard.bsky.socialAnd the award for best and most prolific use of parentheticals goes to Mark Krotov & @alexshephard.bsky.social
@alexshephard.bsky.socialneed to make a version of Curb set in the 17th century about my guy Sam and his tribulations
@notnotnuanced.bsky.socialReposted by @alexshephard.bsky.socialwkcr doing a 24 hour monk birthday broadcast tomorrow and then a 24 hour pharaoh sanders birthday broadcast on tuesday
@alexshephard.bsky.socialI have been waiting for The Athletic to profile this guy for months
@alexshephard.bsky.social"More than it’s ever been, the Nobel Prize is targeted to graduate students and booksellers, which is to say the unemployed and the underemployed, but also the broodily bespectacled." newrepublic.com/article/2164...
@alexshephard.bsky.socialI think authoritarianism is a serious issue but the idea that Democrats have shied away from it in their politics is just completely absurd. Trump being an authoritarian is the one consistent thing they’ve run on for ten years!
