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Sam Morey

@pensandlighters.bsky.social
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Words. Author of THE NORMAL GUY and others.

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 6h
great news, fam—they finally found a way to make hard seltzer without the alcohol
Non-alcoholic white claw
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Sam Morey @pensandlighters.bsky.social · 5h
In Howie we Trust, and the trade seems like good value compared to the Jurgens we’ve seen the past 2 seasons, but it’s seeming like a huge oversight to have drafted pass-catchers with the first two picks and assumed that O-line would return to form. Instead, 3/5 of it didn’t even make it to week 5
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Sam Morey @pensandlighters.bsky.social · 5h
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Sam Morey @pensandlighters.bsky.social · 7h
Will of the Forsaken lets you skip grinding for a medallion of the horde, thus opening up a trinket slot
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 19h
NYT ME Carolyn Ryan scolds Mamdani for what I think was a very intentional and wise decision NOT to conflate antisemitism and criticism of Israel. I guess her repoters have their marching orders now. www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-yo...
I was struck that Mamdani just released his plan to combat anti-Semitism, and he sidestepped the question of Israel, seeing it as separate from anti-Semitism. For us, these issues intersect and overlap.
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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 23h
- Chief of the Naval General Staff Osami Nagano, leaving the meeting Pearl Harbor meeting, 19 October 1941
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The Lexorcist @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the house of leaves. I’m at the combi s n e a v t a i e o l n fo esuoh & tuh azzip
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This morning I imagined a late night TV commercial for a compilation CD called "Wife Sounds"
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
this doctor is woke, mr president!! trust your gut! you want the biggest number! the big beautiful aspirin!
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Sam Morey @pensandlighters.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s like feudalism never left! We just have 3 rich families determining everything in every state
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Sam Morey @pensandlighters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Ken McCool” sounds like what would happen if you let a 10-year-old name themself
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Under Secretary Hegseth’s new plan, servicemen with low blood alcohol levels will be required to undergo vodka replacement therapy.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
All football games are played between two war criminals with their fate decided by a kicker named Boris Zormz
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When someone tells you they buy pasteurized milk
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Sam Morey @pensandlighters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The French revolutionaries stood for the value of the humble potato @darthbluesky.bsky.social
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Mark Schofield @markschofield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mike Tomlin is currently giving a tour of his boutique hotel in Minecraft, which has a multipurpose conference room and an appropriate number of public restroom and I’m losing MY MIND
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Kate Sills @katelynsills.com · 30/09/2026
my mom just texted me that a stray kitten showed up and is terrorizing their adult cat
a fluffy little grey and white kitten hunches over a food bowlThe fearsome kitten intimidates my parent's catThe kitten gets all up in my parent's cat's space
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
HOBBYLESS BEHAVIOR
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
mindflakes
@mindflakes.bsky.social
Teaching the new intern all the keyboard shortcuts except for one that I can use to defeat him if he ever chooses to betray me
8:33 AM • Jun 9, 2025
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If Netflix really wanted its own Heated Rivalry, it would be making a lesbian romance about two WNBA players.
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bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026
I have previously written about one reason that billionaires find the AI story so compelling: at root, many billionaires just don't believe most other people are actually, fully real. How could they? Achieving billionairehood requires that you inflict pain on vast numbers of people. 13/
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We are talking about a radical transformation of the understanding of self for this to get off the ground.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.
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Sam Morey @pensandlighters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A spoon full of heroin helps the (traumatic backstory) stay down
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Sam Morey @pensandlighters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
lol this really captures something I’ve felt the last few days. I mean sure, I will never volunteer myself as a pop culture-knower, but it seems pretty easy for an adult today to miss a new country hit, regardless of who sang it.
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strawberry garfield @bbburgerrr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shipwreck
@shipwreck75.bsky.social
President Donald Trump will be addressing the nation tomorrow from the Oval Office at
2 pm ET.
7:58 PM • Sep 27, 2026
Everybody can reply
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Nor'easter" has got to be the black sheep of the contraction family. Doesn't even save a syllable.
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Sam Morey @pensandlighters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Probably some Bill Maher monologues to see if anybody ever noticed
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"In 2020, there were only six programs in the U.S. that sent unarmed responders, such as mental health clinicians, to certain 911 calls instead of police officers. Now, these programs — sometimes called alternative or community response — are in nearly 100 cities." www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n...
npr.org
How unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 cities
Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No way did the Hinojosa get the Jan 6 attendee into a ad
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Sam Morey @pensandlighters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I consider myself part of this silent majority as well
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Onion Sports @onionsports.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Rockies Pitcher Pledges To Give Up Home Run For Sick Child theonion.com/rockies-pitc...
Rockies Pitcher Pledges To Give Up Home Run For Sick Child
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 24/09/2026
Discord ban in the Philippines lasted for just one day because they forgot everyone including government agencies rely on it.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"House Republicans will continue to hold Hunter Biden’s feet to the fire until we have his testimony...no one – not even the president’s son – is above the law.” - Tom Emmer, 1.17.24 "Don Jr is a private citizen and businessman so this unwarranted attack will go nowhere," Tom Emmer, 9.23.26
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Thomas Jerome @thomasjerome.com · 24/09/2026
Naming the "Ableism" list so that a screen reader pronounces it "Four bee ell three one ess em", 10/10 bit
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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 23/09/2026
I love "Bisexual Visibility Day" because the rest of the year I have to rely on thermal imaging to fight my many enemies who have bisexuality.
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Sam Morey @pensandlighters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It looked like getting your arm amputated without anesthetics because you couldn’t go to Walgreens and buy penicillin for $1
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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
lol (WSJ article)
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Tweet from ball is strife (@officerpatriot):

It’s so funny that there’s a franchise that has a movie called “quantum of solace” and another one called “octopussy”
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22/09/2026
this is disgusting and shameful, first and foremost, but this is also an argument that does not win over *anyone* who isn’t already very deep in the right wing reactionary tank. in fact, it confirms the OPs point about the GOP, and the polls suggest that even republican voters are picking up on it.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
stumbled upon the first Ken Paxton supporter on insta that I’ve seen in a while and of course he’s a fucking used car dealer next dem administration needs to crush these extractive jobs that just funnel donations to the far right: used car dealer, crypto scammer, sports betting websites, etc
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Clearly my
bros and sistas need to stop
voting blue. I know it's what their parents did and parents parents, but it has accomplished nothing and gotten worse. How's the new property tax increase going? Blue votes won.
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@officialjasonharwood Republicans have run Texas for 30 years straight. No wonder it's gotten worse
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@protecting_account_ Don't worry. He was just posting from the wrong account.
He thought he was posting from his burner.
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officialjasonharwood 3d • Edited @rbinhouston2000 nope. My Personal account. Observing the sadness in the Jewish community that they feel obligated to vote Democrat. Enjoy the higher property taxes that your blue men and women voted for.officialjasonharwood
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Jason Harwood
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Sam Morey @pensandlighters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I always loved gaming at my friend’s houses, but the first system I owned was Game Boy. And the game that turned me into a lifelong gamer was Link’s Awakening.
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