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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

no one will buy the crandle (cranberry candle) I spent $40 on just to make a simpsons joke last christmas, so it just lives on my shelf and I’m forced to stare at this dumb overcommitment to a bit every day

its a cranberry candle in a can, or crandle

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

ok actually most are still inside the box but she panic-ordered 500 MORE LADYBUGS names covered to protect the innocent

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

i feel like you could have a gameshow where people guess what you're working on based on browser tabs

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

well, we did it everybody. we invented the $420 eye cream. time to pack it in

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

this headline reads like it was lifted straight out of a tim robinson sketch

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I know thursday is probably a ticker tape parade in name only, but if what if we did unspool streamers and rain confetti from the tops of buildings into the streets? haha just kidding…unless

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

after I’ve complained for 10 mins about a problem but don’t actually want to hear solutions

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

me when I practice saying no to things

sign in a garden that reads I’m Trying Hard to Grow..Please Don’t Walk on Me!

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

waist-deep in research as always and this bit from Norman Douglas's book on Street Games has me misty-eyed

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

if the american woodcock has no fans I’m dead

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

to be clear I am referring to a mission to the real moon as seen on the roku tv, not the moon in roku city

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

like where does it light up? that seems to be an essential quality of lamp

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

for all of the times I have thought to myself “genie live in lamp” I have never once stopped to ask myself: how is this a lamp

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

this pic of young shakespeare.... timothée chalamet would have slayed in "hamnet"

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

first there was “sheet caking,” then “doom scrolling” …. now I bring you “dread hosting”, coping with the horrors of the world via obsessive charcuterie and having friends over

a large spread of food that sam made herself

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

a good thing to do for your mental health if you are a dog owner is to search the breed mix of your dog on google and stare at all of her twins

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

idk should I turn this into a charm bracelet

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I can’t stop hearing this to the tune of “my sharona”

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

it’s an upsetting day for the canadians who play Spelling Bee

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

this name is… not doing what they think it’s doing

a news alert describing the debut of “Dolly Plowton,” a Nashville snow plow.

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

my storm prep: charge my devices, food prep, do dishes and laundry, purchase extra warm socks and thermals my cat’s storm prep:

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

furrowing hairless brow seems functional enough to show anger, wide eyes to show surprise…the only thing I can think of that our face cannot otherwise do is this

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

you know what they say: if the glove doesn’t fit, it’s because my dog ate it

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

your seasonal reminder that it is not only feasible to do a vegan roast on thanksgiving but delicious

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

i can’t stop rereading this

a push notification from The Toronto Star that says “His students couldn’t stop laughing at the internet meme ‘6-7.’ Now this Toronto teacher is turning ‘brainrot’ into ‘brain thought’”

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

mercury is still in retrograde and I have bitten into an unripe hachiya persimmon

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

this book has wordplay specific to every day of the year. tell me your birthday, and I will reveal your topsy-turvy prophecy

holding up the book “An Almanac of Words at Play” by Willard Espy

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

shocked to discover that my editor kept my unhinged headline for this newsletter about mnemonics, “Finding Mnemo”

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I have truly outdone myself. the width. the lack of height. the absent knots. no, don’t look away

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

haven’t posted in a minute and I am pleased to return to the mic with a severely chaotic vegan challah situation

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

begging you to rethink this rachel

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

let the record show that my original headline for this newsletter was “Great expectations for young Pips” static.nytimes.com/email-conten...

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

it’s the only way I can think of to capture the scrub daddy-level deterioration of my browser hygiene as I relentlessly open tabs with “[word] synonym”

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

ngl they got me with calling thursday “friday jr”

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

academic literature is profoundly unserious

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

i’m in a group chat with some girls on trips, one is currently in paris and the other in florence. they’re sharing pics of the best-looking pasta and architecture i’ve ever seen in my life and i’m sharing this

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 12/07/2025