Nate Bowling
@natebowling
Teaching Political Science and World History in Abu Dhabi since 2019 — Teacher, Traveler, and Sounder Newsletter:
The top six paid players have combined for 9 goals and 3 of those are from Cristian. That Arriola contract is awful. He's getting paid a starter salary and is sitting on 0G/0A.
My desired XI for tonight: The CMs were naive and overwhelmed vs Portland; move Rusnak back a line to help solidify the midfield Moose showed nothing in his shift versus Portland You're paying Arriola TAM money, he needs to deliver I don't enjoy the Captain Nouhou Experience
Taxes on billionaires aren't nearly high enough www.cnbc.com/2026/07/14/t...
The forwards don't score Roldan is injured from the WC There's no natural LB behind Nouhou Yeimar is just back from injury and KKH is THIRTY-SIX YEARS OLD They almost let Rothrock go on a free PDLV's return date keeps moving backward This roster needs reinforcements, desperately
I spend summers back home mostly taking mom for walks in the neighborhood. I got frustrated by people in the areas whose hedges or bushes block the walkway or form some other kind of obstruction. My friend @bedirthan.fullmoonstorytelling.com suggested I take matters into my own hands, so I did.
This wasn't a flip or anything crazy like that. The house has always been in good shape. This is just what has happened to the cost of starter homes in my hometown.
I finished Anne Applebaum's Autocracy Inc. (2024) this afternoon. It's a pre-Trump second term examination of the relationship between autocratic states and aspects of global capital. It reads as the establishment / Atlantic class landing where @sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been since the 2010s.
The Scott Summers of the post-House of M era is a such a departure from the character you likely know. Xavier is gone. He has the weight of the world on his shoulders. Facing mutant extinction he secretly unleashes Wolverine & his X-Force as a death squad against their foes.
I think this an over simplification as most memes are but I find myself reaching for it often. Especially when it comes to US foreign policy.
I was going through it, y'all. Imagine being in your third year at Evergreen and then spending your weekend training for chemical warfare in a damn gas mask and charcoal suit. I had capital F feelings.
Forever Wars will destroy the nation's soul. This is somehow still EXTREMELY relevant.
I realized some things while reading this: 1. Militant Scott Summers is much more enjoyable than the Boy Scout version of the character 2. When I read Summers' dialogue it's in the voice of the '90s animated series Bonus: Nigel Farage is distinguishable in his conduct from Bolivar Trask
I decided to spend my Sunday evening revisiting the Avengers/X-Men Utopia (2009) story. I stopped dead in my tracks at this page. This is Belfast earlier this week.
Posting this, with emphasis on the caption, for no reason in particular
Thanks for all your intel. I think I'll be able to sort out Libby when I get home later in the summer. In that meantime, I have a bunch of crime novels downloaded for this first stretch of summer.
The prospect of multiple forever global drone wars is so deeply depressing