Reposted by Sam GLuis Villa @lu.is · 4hIt is both great that these passed and utterly damning that this is the best we could get. The last two in particular in any sane society would be ”never drive again” rather than debating how many points on a license or how long the suspension is. 6296
Sam G @samthegeek.net · 3hThere are going to be decades of lawsuits about the definition of “East Jerusalem” (Because that is a phrase that encompasses both “the top university in Israel” and “literal hilltop settlements”) 261
Reposted by Sam GMike Masnick @masnick.com · 4h30+ years ago the Daily Sun rejected me as a writer and they've continued making smart decisions ever since. 21929
Sam G @samthegeek.net · 18hJust watched an MTA construction truck, one headlight out, blow a red at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge where a truck killed a pedestrian less than three weeks ago. Something is deeply wrong with drivers in New York City. 010
Reposted by Sam GBree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026If Third Way got there before you did, you should feel bad. 2776192
Reposted by Sam Gmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026awoke this morning with a Vision 4989771651
Sam G @samthegeek.net · 29/09/2026More than anything, what Paris has built over the past decade is state capacity. Can you imagine an American city being able to redesign a street three times in a decade? And then rebuild it twice! 110
Reposted by Sam GDave Wiskus @dwisk.us · 29/09/2026Night five. We’re the #2 movie for pre-sales tickets behind Endgame. 0101
Reposted by Sam GBrendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Civil War- No trains for 13 years First train runs at 160 km/h excuse me, I didn’t appreciate your game Syrian Railways 819023
Reposted by Sam GMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026GODDAMN IT THIS IS AMERICA 2962288
Reposted by Sam GCooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026The GOP is an opposition party even when it's in power, the idea that they are the perpetual underdog is central to their internal mythology and can't be disturbed by facts or the results of elections. It's also why they're bad at, you know, governing. 181987358
Sam G @samthegeek.net · 27/09/2026There are many otherwise-smart people who assert that anti-imperialism requires, say, Ukraine to take a certain diplomatic position. Completely unironically. 000
Reposted by Sam Gjordan! @jordanjamboree.pittbert.gay · 27/09/2026I think a lot of online leftists need to internalize that Zohran is a successful socialist is because he's not a hostile dickhead 279998
Sam G @samthegeek.net · 27/09/2026Because F1 and Ilham Aliyev want you to remember today: Azerbaijan ethnically cleansed parts of their country in the past half-decade, forcibly displacing ethnic Armenians and violating a treaty they wrote as part of their own victory in a war. 011
Sam G @samthegeek.net · 27/09/2026Here’s a hot take: a package delivery vehicle with covered plates should lose the discounted rate on tickets and have to pay full freight. And the city should put it into the deal that FedEx can’t challenge those in court either. 120
Reposted by Sam GMiser @misernyc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Unpopular opinion: those that drive unnecessarily in NYC deserve far more judgement and ridicule 2382
Sam G @samthegeek.net · 27/09/2026This is one of the things you notice most about cities that have pulled away from mandatory car dependency — the people. There’s just always people around. 1286
Sam G @samthegeek.net · 27/09/2026Barbie. Rural Pennsylvania. With a (visibly butch) Gay friend. Was an… interesting experience. 141
Reposted by Sam GActive Measures, LLC @activemeasures.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It's only covert action if it's produced in the Title 50 region of Northern Virginia, otherwise it's merely sparkling sabotage 112424
Reposted by Sam GStephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Today in 1983 in Moscow, just past midnight, 44 year-old Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov’s calm decision that a satellite warning of the launch of 5 US Minuteman ICBMs was a false alarm—based on “a funny feeling in my gut”—may have averted a catastrophic nuclear war. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl... 311242
Reposted by Sam GDavid @puca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A neat thing with historical Landsat data - you can go back to 25th of September 1983 and see the wispy high altitude clouds over North Dakota around 17:00 UTC, roughly 3-4 hours before the false alarm. On the left, the missile fields of Malmstrom overlaid on Landsat image from 26th of September. 24913
Reposted by Sam GNic Wise @fastchicken.co.nz · 26/09/2026This is excellent - esp the "don't trust ZIRP-era advice". Not just for beginners.seangoedecke.comAdvice to a beginning software engineerIn general, you should be suspicious of engineers who are trying to give you advice. Even during ordinary times, this industry is so wide and changes so quickly… 12610
Reposted by Sam GCall Me The Brie-ze @briesmith.xyz · 26/09/2026In 2015, Jon Bois made a Pretty Good about Stanislav Petrov. It got copyright claimed not too long later and was believed to be lost media. It was recovered in May 2025. You should watch it.youtu.bePRETTY GOOD, EPISODE 4: THE NIGHT STANISLAV PETROV SAVED ALL OUR ASSES (JON BOIS REUPLOAD)YouTube video by Will Belmont 19036
Reposted by Sam Gderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026some pilots are part of the furry community 745266590
Sam G @samthegeek.net · 24/09/2026This is one of the reasons why you *have* to yeet people from your party when they show their faces. The Texas legislature impeached Paxton in 2023 and could have removed him from office — they almost certainly wouldn’t be facing losing a senate seat today with a less-odious candidate. 240
Reposted by Sam GSteve Flack @vitaminsteve.com · 24/09/2026ugh fuckin new york transplants amirite 181
Reposted by Sam GRyan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano 11867551616
Reposted by Sam GJoe Cohen @cohenhouse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Another dumb American code requirement! basin.la/articles/nin... 822744
Reposted by Sam GBeautiful Women Updates @aoife.bsky.social · 23/09/2026just ordered an f35 canopy on aliexpress for a tenth of what it costs to buy at the store here 0294
Reposted by Sam GZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 22/09/2026But surely the US is responsible for the murders committed by a regime that first learned how to torture and murder civilians properly by…[checks notes]…hiring one of the architects of the Holocaust to train their secret police. This is not a joke. Hafez al-Assad’s goons learned direct from the SS. 1013720
Sam G @samthegeek.net · 22/09/2026This is 100% correct and absolutely the right way to walk the tightrope. 030
Sam G @samthegeek.net · 21/09/2026My official position on “what makes a New Yorker” is: 1. You live here 2. You participate in the city 3. You *want* to be here 170
Reposted by Sam GComic Book Yeti @comicbookyeti.com · 21/09/2026Just gonna leave this here for…reasons. 3385116
Sam G @samthegeek.net · 21/09/2026This is almost certainly because they’re about to shut down Hulu, meaning the live TV functionality (and the required-by-carriage-agreements ads) will come to Disney+ 020
Sam G @samthegeek.net · 19/09/2026It really is astounding how quickly the suburbs go from “city form” to “utterly hostile to anyone outside a car” 111
Reposted by Sam GHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I've been called an antisemite and an islamophobe this week for making space for multiple traumas and declaring dead children is wrong no matter who does what travesty to whom. I don't decide what you think of me. I do decide that "dead children is wrong" is a hill I will defend. 132731
Sam G @samthegeek.net · 19/09/2026@oceansofnyc.com At least two more people actually own them privately! 000
Sam G @samthegeek.net · 18/09/2026Music to my fuckin' ears nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/09/18/m...nyc.streetsblog.orgDOT Commissioner Floats 'Capital-Light' Projects to Speed Up Permanent Street Changes - Streetsblog New York CityNot every concrete bike lane project should require tearing up the street, Mamdani DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn said. 010
Sam G @samthegeek.net · 17/09/2026I booked a seat on an airplane. There are zero other passengers currently booked outside of my fiancée. First time for everything I guess. 020
Sam G @samthegeek.net · 17/09/2026IMO a lot more streets in NYC should be explicitly signed as two-way for bicycles (complete with “L👀 K” stencils on the crosswalks) so that this behavior was expected by pedestrians. For prior art see the entirety of Paris Centre. 030
