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samantha sapp

@samanthasapp.bsky.social
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flailing writer. ex-teacher. florida émigrée living the dream in minneapolis (whittier) as a low-level university bureaucrat. « mais il faut cultiver notre jardin » 🏳️‍🌈/🏳️‍⚧️ & 🇺🇸/🇨🇭 Site: sammiesapp.weebly.com

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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
all of late night comedy made fun of tub's speech bc of the furry pilot bit, while obtusely ignoring the massive 'transgenderism is a mental illness' sign beside him + his calls to build state mental institutions & his assertion that trans ppl are violent threats to society. history syncopates 🙄
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I just read these out to my wife with no context and she thought this was a satire piece I was pitching to @mcsweeneys.net
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
the kind of excellent analysis you get from intelligent people writing about a topic/situation, instead of a professional pundit who has made a particular ideology/perspective their 'beat' & so central to their income it has fused with their identity & distorts everything they see & write
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
querying a novel is a form of ritualistic torture and humiliation that should be outlawed. i would rather slit the throat of a goat and have the sybils augur my novel's worthiness by reading its tangled intestines.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Just remembered I’ve this on my calendar for the better part of a decade. Happy Dying Smart House day to all who celebrate.
Apple Calendar entry for the science fiction future of 2026.
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
the school shooter song was playing at the fertility clinic today
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
hello, yes, i am running for senate. yes, my beard is blue but i didn't know what that meant when i dyed it. yes, my basement is full of skeletons but it's not like you have the key. no, i don't see why it would be a bad idea for me to run. yes, you are trapped in my death closet with me now.
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The King demands blood sport on the palace grounds in celebration of His birthday.
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Racket @racketmn.com · 12/05/2026
Want 2 free tickets to see modern jazz supergroup Artemis this Wed. (tomorrow!) at the Dakota? Hit repost for a chance to win!
Artemis
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
minneapolis is persephone's city: half the year it is the most beautiful garden in the world. the other half it is the underworld lol
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
the heated rivalry effect
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
over time, i have become slightly nostalgic for my old job teaching middle school. substitute teaching has been a great way to brutally disabuse myself from that deluded nostalgia. god save the teachers.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
VOLITION [Easy: Failure] – You wake up in your Hilton suite to a cacophony of whistles and horns. Half drunk and half hungover, you hastily throw on your tactical gear. It feels heavier than you remember. You stumble outside. The cold hits you like a brick. What are you doing here in this dismal city? Home is warm. Home is safe. Home is a thousand miles away. Tucking your shotgun between your legs, you fumble with a tear gas canister like a child learning how to tie their shoes. The gun goes off and you shoot yourself in the balls.
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em cassel @biketrouble.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
once again i am asking literally anyone in a position of power to do literally anything so that our neighbors stop getting fucking murdered in the street
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🪦👻Lady Cryptsty👻🪦 @ladychristyk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Emergency response vigil organized by @miracmn.bsky.social tonight.
ICE shot and killed an observer today in Minneapolis. Say her name!
We witnessed an atrocious attack on our community today. Community members were taken from us and an observer was shot dead. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA NOW!
E 34th St and
Portland Ave S.
Minneapolis, MN
55407
Today, Jan 7
5:00 PM
MIRAC
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
thrilled my very weird essay "Epistolary Fragments for Florida" found a home in the lovely FL-based journal sinking city! :) sinkingcity.as.miami.edu/epistolary-f...
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Epistolary Fragments for Florida – sinking city
Dear nice older folks from Ohio who live in my home,
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
conspicuous reading is good actually and everyone should do more of it
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
just finished Motherland (a feminist history of russia) by @juliaioffe.bsky.social. a wicked cool blending of historical writing, family memoir, and journalism that at times shifts the lens of history onto overlooked, "ordinary" ppl, who are more interesting to read about anyway. highly recommend!!
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
new essay in Black Fox Lit Mag: "Brittany" !! :) "My wife is reading the New Testament to our dog, Beau, in French so that his soul can be saved. He is a Brittany Spaniel, but not the kind from France..." link: blackfoxlitmag.com/current-issu... #essay #writingcommunity
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Current Issue
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
bleak. fascinating. a car crash u can't look away from. also, rip the titular connotation of jennifer egan's 2010 masterpiece, "A Visit from...": harpers.org/archive/2025...
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The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz
Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
interesting how ppl embracing "trad" lifestyles in search of fulfillment will inevitably find it as empty as the "hedonism" or "modernity" or ~queerness~ they blame their discontent on. life is weird and ppl in the past didn't have it figured out either! self-imposed suffering isn't a virtue tho lol
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
extremely bleak to have liberal pundits chastise frightened minority groups with "but guys we have to learn to live with each other, including reactionaries" while elected reactionaries tell minority groups "actually you shouldn't get to live." the asymmetry is almost artistic in its absurdity
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Splitsville (2025) is a really good movie, actually. my favorite comedy since Booksmart (2019) even though they are wildly different vibes. there was something very shakespeare-like about the plot and humor. totally rec
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
i have no mouth, and i must...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/07/2025
"Anne gave Diana Barry a tumbler of liquid. Diana drank the entire tumbler. It was filled with grappa. Diana got very drunk until she was red in the cheeks, like Anne’s ugly hair. She stumbled home and vomited in the garden."
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Anne Lived in Gables. They Were Green. by Ernest Hemingway
Matthew Cuthbert was a silent man. He drove a buggy. Mrs. Rachel Lynde, a loud, fat woman, watched him drive by. - - -Matthew saw an ugly girl with...
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Cool short story for anyone bored of scrolling: "Cake" by Laura van den Berg (whose novel "State of Paradise" is one of the best FL books, period). Shout out to the Baffler @thebaffler.com too which is a seriously cool journal!! thebaffler.com/stories/cake...
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Cake | Laura van den Berg
Rita has exorcised her mother’s superstitions, but that hasn’t kept her from developing her own.
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Enigma on HBO was pretty good actually, idk
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Check out the new issue of MoonPark Review for my latest micro piece, “Late Stage Capitalism” ☺️ !!! “I saw all of him through the air-tight window of his car. He was sitting hunch-backed as he suckled the plastic, protruding tit of his Starbucks drink…” moonparkreview.com/issue-32-sum...
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
C. P. Cavafy, 1898: Waiting for the Barbarians "What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? / The barbarians are due here today. Why isn’t anything going on in the senate? ... What’s the point of senators making laws now? / Once the barbarians are here, they’ll do the legislating..." #poetry
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Waiting for the Barbarians
Because the barbarians are coming today. Because the barbarians are coming today and the emperor’s waiting to receive their leader. Because the barbarians are coming today and things like that dazzle ...
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
They're literally doing the meme
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I used to teach in his town. A lot of good people there. A lot of not good people too 🫠
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
j’aime paris 💙🩵🤍🩷❤️
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
No shock that people from as wide as Sam Kriss (pic) to @juliaserano.bsky.social have been dunking on Helen Lewis lately…amazed @theatlantic.com continues to publish pieces from her that contain blatant inaccuracies and weird snark. Where’s the editing?? I canceled my sub lol
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
kinda funny how miserable the ppl in power & ultra rich are. goes to show that what our economic and civil systems reward is fucked. ironic too we’re facing all this heartache and fascism on their behalf when it won’t make them happy either. like a toxic family member ruining things for everyone
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
imo we take to the streets to scream in protest precisely bc we know it doesn’t change anything—it’s the most basic action we have left in a moment where so many other ways to push change have been eroded or sold away. see y’all out there again soon 🩵
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
She's a hero. Hopefully her courage helps people understand that interning us in men's prisons is how they plan to *end* us. In FL prisons they already humiliate, de-transition, and put trans women in the path of physical and sexual violence. There is no need for camps when the state has prisons.
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
An old, long short story of mine that finally found a home :) carminamagazine.com/a-mothers-la...
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A Mother's Lament by Samantha Sapp | March 2025 | Carmina Magazine
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Claudia Koerner @claudiakoerner.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
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CNN @cnn.com · 17/02/2025
A Black transgender woman's testimony helped ratify the 14th Amendment. Then her identity was attacked. Some see parallels to today's climate.
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She was the first transgender woman to testify before Congress. Then conservatives began attacking her identity | CNN
Frances Thompson’s testimony in 1866 came at a critical time, as the nation weighed whether to expand equal constitutional protections to newly freed Black Americans. But it also came at a great perso...
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Tomorrow I will go for a walk in the bitter, frozen woods. I will curl up with a book, tea, and my cats. I will not go online. I will ignore the tea leaves of what every action and headline might portend. I will live in the beautiful, ephemeral bliss of the winter dark for one last day. 🩵
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This piece was difficult to write. I used to think I wouldn't be a "trans" writer because I thought we'd evolved into a moment where that distinction didn't matter. But I am not the quiet, meek girl I once was, and I will not stay silent in the face of cruelty. www.cincinnati.com/story/opinio...
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Soon I'll occupy the men's room stall next to you. Thank the Ohio Legislature | Opinion
Trans people can’t just stop being trans, and bills like this force us to live our lives even louder.
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Unserious person doing unserious things (with serious consequences)…this is America 🙃 www.washingtonian.com/2024/02/08/i...
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Inside Nancy Mace’s Apparently Bottomless Quest for Attention -
“She’s not a real legislator," one ex-staffer says. "She’s just using her office to get on TV.”
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samantha sapp @samanthasapp.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I've always been anti-social media, but in this moment it feels right to seek connection :) I'm a two-bit wannabe writer of no real importance (yet), but if you're interested, check out this CNF essay (which is not my *best* but is my best *published*) www.mounthopemagazine.com/elegy-for-tw...
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Elegy for Two Sakura | Mount Hope
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