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Matt Brown

@mattbrown.bsky.social

some personal news,

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September 25, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Joshua Ray/Ban Prevent Defense

@josh-ray-a.bsky.social

Next, on ExtraPoints

June 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM

Tadzio Mueller

@tadziomueller.bsky.social

extrapoints for the twin peaks reference :)

December 9, 2023 at 7:28 AM

Uh oh

@smush.ing

"Adjective alluding to yucky pants content" + "Simplified baby animal noun" is generally a winner, omit the space for extrapoints

March 28, 2025 at 5:30 AM

Matt Brown

@mattbrown.bsky.social

I think this might work, but I will have to export a bunch of shit to CSVs and clean it up before I can feed it to the EXTRAPOINTS NERDYSHIT4000 computer

February 27, 2026 at 4:15 PM

Uncle_Wolf

@demiurg.bsky.social

Of course she did.
No extrapoints for being exposed as a warmwater-port Oblast Vatnik... 😁

August 3, 2026 at 6:29 AM

buster

@axionbuster.com

writing imperative code in haskell was a mistake

$extrapoints :: STRef s (Seq IP) <- new Seq.empty -- right-to-left, FIFO out :: STRef s [IP] <- new [] callCC \break_ -> do let break = break_ () fix \continue -> do let tell = write out read extrapoints >>= \case a :<| points -> do tell [a] if sameblock a end then break else continue _ -> pure () -- todo... break$

December 19, 2024 at 8:00 PM

Mike Dixon

@socal-miked.bsky.social

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ABCD - any part of the name begins with these letters. Extra points for a set using all

American avocet
Brown booby
Curlew
Mourning Dove
#EastCoastKin
#extrapoints

#birds #birding #birdnerd #birdsky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #canon #r7

brown booby flying over the water with a fish in its mouth

a pair of mourning doves perched on a tree - one is preening the other

April 19, 2026 at 2:22 PM

🐓 AudeS 🏳️‍🌈🔞 Chickened In

@audes-wisent.bsky.social

And here are the results of the evening. I can always add more.

The meme in question.... I will apologize, but going over everyone in Alt-Text would take too long. I like them all, but my Boyfriend gets to get extrapoints.

June 27, 2026 at 7:18 PM

DomiKAV @ Fire Emblem Fortunes Weave

@domikav.bsky.social

lemme guess; i missed out on some extrapoints by losing this very VERY winnable fight

January 19, 2026 at 12:02 AM

Dom

@doctordom.de

Hohoho! Unverhofftes Wortspiel aus der Hölle! Extrapoints! 🏆

December 5, 2023 at 3:04 PM

carly! (socmed hiatus)

@n9evepulgas.bsky.social

🥲this wold had been the perfect yamaguchi merch.. extrapoints if it was office yams

November 19, 2024 at 10:44 PM

iFlamengoNews

@iflamengonews.bsky.social

🏈 Com touchdown de corrida, quarterback Patrick amplia o placar.

Os dois extrapoints foram convertidos.

Flamengo Imperadores 14 x 0 Forged Tigers

April 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM

Airomis Jack 💗💛💙

@o0lanterns0o.bsky.social

Any #movie that has a in universe horror #movie gets #extrapoints in my book, Their either not wanting to pay #copyright, its a inside #joke or trying to make the movie feel more original. I give you the Milk Man!

March 23, 2026 at 6:57 PM

Rey - Simiantember? Close enough.

@angelbun.de

*nodnod, nodnod*
Extrapoints if the entire process on the inside is some comic-y melty goodness that leaves the person moaning and gasping!

March 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM

CielosCambalache

@cieloscambalache.bsky.social

okay so:
I'm from latam
white
bisexual
cis woman (I think)
Able-bodied
uhhh do I get extrapoints for being bilingual?

April 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM

Sickos Committee

@sickoscommittee.org

The ForeverLawn Bowl. Wabash vs. Hanover. It’s the partner bowl with the ExtraPoints Bowl later today. I’m there!

November 23, 2024 at 7:04 PM

Henrik Habacht

@henrikhabacht.bsky.social

Wow, Sarah Superstar 😻 das gibt 12 extrapoints für Sympathie ❣️ Sie ist ja definitiv eine starke Frau, und jetzt ist sie superstark ✊️ Kante gezeigt 💖

May 26, 2025 at 6:34 AM

The Pac-12 Reinvention project

@mpga.bsky.social

"Today, EA announced that its college basketball video game, which has been dormant since 2009, will return.

According to Matt Brown of ExtraPoints, the game is scheduled to make its return in 2028 and will feature both men's and women's teams."

www.si.com/college/west...

EA Sports Makes Shocking Announcement: College Basketball Video Game is Returning

Last year, EA Sports brought back its college football video game after figuring out a way to compensate the athletes for their name, image, and likeness, and i

www.si.com

June 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM

zachalpastor

@zachalpastor.bsky.social

I'd like to request a newsletter on the strange philosophical relationship football has with kicking. Seemingly every rule change in the past 50 years has been to increase scoring...unless it was scoring via kicking. They moved the goalposts back. Narrowed them. Got rid of blocks. Moved extrapoints.

August 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM

𝓛𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓵𝓪

@lethalatopia.bsky.social

Kommt darauf an, ob die internationale Politik oder eines der Themenfelder, die K. Harris bespielt, das "Produkt" der Firma ist. Ansonsten würde ich mich, so langweilig es auch klingt, auf eine positive Rede der Geschäftsführerin über ihr "Produkt" beschränken. Bauchpinselung für Extrapoints.

October 3, 2024 at 7:19 PM