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Sam @ Teipiadur

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Not a tech bro. Opposite of a tech bro. Analog bro. Is that a thing? (Also a sports junkie so that's what my blue sky will reflect) Also, not a bro. 👇Find typewriter stuff here teipiadur.etsy.com

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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The best thing I’ve read this month come from @edcaesar : Move over Mission Impossible, this guy Timur makes Hollywood’s action heroes look a bit silly. (No doubt someone is already planning the movie version) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Stunt Pilot Hunting Russian Drones
A Ukrainian flying ace is leveraging his aerobatics skills to protect his countrymen from nightly attacks.
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Ed Caesar @edcaesar.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
In the fifth year after the full-scale invasion, Ukraine is under ever-more devastating drone and missile attacks. For @newyorker.com, I flew with a Ukrainian stunt pilot who--with a crew of other daredevils--now hunts Shaheds from an old skydiving plane. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Stunt Pilot Hunting Russian Drones
A Ukrainian flying ace is leveraging his aerobatics skills to protect his countrymen from nightly attacks.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I don’t know about you, but I can’t live in a world without sports and books, sooooo… Me: cancel subscription Washington Post: reason? Me: (chooses from anemic drop down) ‘Concern about content’ WAPO: stay for $2? Me: nah www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
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The ‘Washington Post’ Leaders Missed the Point
The editor of the recently scrapped Book World believes in serving subscribers, not data.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
What she did with her one brilliant too-short life… www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/a...
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A Cult Figure, Silenced Too Soon, Resurfaces
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
A win for the ages goes down as political fallout. Jerry Brewer says it best… “…to lament the impossibility of sustained joy in a culture that incubates outrage…” www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...
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The U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team won gold — and then lost the room
The widespread celebration is over now. And some of the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team's goodwill has diminished.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Olympic literary connection… www.nytimes.com/athletic/705...
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What’s it like to have two grandchildren in the Winter Olympics? Let John Irving tell you
Birk and Svea Irving, grandchildren of the great American author John Irving, are competing in Milan Cortina this week.
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Andrew Marchand @andrewmarchand.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The best story I’ve read this month by @kevinsieff @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/4qDPyxK
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He was diagnosed with cancer, then won a 24,000-mile sailing race
Charlie Dalin kept his illness a secret, treating himself with immunotherapy pills on a 64-day journey around the world. What would it do to his body?
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Read. www.axios.com/2026/01/10/u...
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How the U.S. has aced it through 250 years
This should be a bipartisan, no-brainer consensus view, despite our flaws and screwups.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
This might be the first political commercial I’ve ever liked…Go Tom! #tomsteyer youtu.be/IeYyzKlU8-c?...
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Affordability Actually: Tom Steyer Shows Up on California’s Doorstep
YouTube video by Tom Steyer
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
New product launch at Tepiadur… because us typists need to edit stuff.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
You’re a breath of fresh air, Elazar Sontag. www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/11...
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Column | Meet The Washington Post’s new food critic
Elazar Sontag is The Post’s next food critic — and he won’t be anonymous.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Made this graphic *sans AI* using graphic images and an original photo of a 1930s Royal KMM just acquired by my pal Lelan who promptly nicknamed his new muse Sam Spade. Sent him this calendar page with his ribbon and spool order.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Best thing I’ve read this week is this piece by Hari Kunzru www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Surviving the Manosphere | Hari Kunzru
Adolescence illustrates how, in the hypercapitalist competition of toxic masculinity online, teenagers have the most to lose.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This is an epic nerd-out read if you love baseball or physics… www.nytimes.com/athletic/663... The ‘rising fastball’ was a tantalizing myth. Then teams started teaching Induced Vertical Break
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The ‘rising fastball’ was a tantalizing myth. Then teams started teaching Induced Vertical Break
Hitters have long claimed some fastballs rise when nearing the plate. The effort to make that perception real has revolutionized the game.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Insanity. www.nytimes.com/athletic/659... Major NFL games will cost you $631 to watch this season. Are you paying up?
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Major NFL games will cost you $631 to watch this season. Are you paying up?
There has been a lot of talk recently about how expensive it is to keep up with your favorite sports on TV. Weigh in on it here.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Made shirts for our FF league to celebrate the start of S2, woohoo!
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Ladies and gents, we have a philosopher among us… www.espn.com/fantasy/foot... @lizloza.bsky.social
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Facts vs. Feelings: Seven potential difference-makers for Week 1
Liz Loza lays out the facts that affect her Week 1 fantasy football feelings on Baker Mayfield and others.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
A follow-up piece on the debunking of Doris Burke. www.nytimes.com/athletic/658... ESPN may have relegated Doris Burke, but her talent and legacy are undeniable
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ESPN may have relegated Doris Burke, but her talent and legacy are undeniable
Despite relegation from ESPN's top NBA team, The Athletic's media columnist writes, Burke remains one of the top hoops analysts in the game.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Attn: @espn.com
This graphic illustrates 4 things that are still working for the broadcasting behemoth ESPN and suggests if they screw up even one more time (ie. Doris Burke’s unceremoniously debunking from the NBA #1 coverage team) they will lose the most valuable asset they seek: my/our attention, and of course goes without saying, our money.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Yet another bad turnover by ESPN www.nytimes.com/athletic/658... ESPN replacing Doris Burke with Tim Legler on NBA Finals broadcast team: Sources
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ESPN replacing Doris Burke with Tim Legler on NBA Finals broadcast: Sources
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Just me or are the Yankees looking a little Black Sox-y?
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Best thing I've read this month… view.ceros.com/players-trib...
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None of This Was Supposed to Happen | By Jordan Love
Without that brotherhood of football, I never would have made it.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Best thing I've read about all year, bravo Alice Walton #personoftheyear 👉 and shout out to Alice Park for writing this article #realjournalism time.com/7303692/alic...
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The World's Richest Woman Has Opened a Medical School
The Alice L. Walton School of Medicine is trying a new approach to medical education.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Is it just me or is S4 of THE BEAR all about *feelings*? 2 episodes in and they all need a fucking therapist. Also that sommelier in E2 was once my busser. Literally.
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a man wearing an apron has a tattoo on his arm that says ' zz '
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/... An interesting pov from Sally Jenkins but I still like my Mac n cheese. She forgets—or doesn’t know—that to many of us, he’s our beloved old uncle who keeps us in stitches even though he can’t remember our name; we take him warts and all and are richer for it.
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Column | Tennis fans deserve better than John McEnroe
You cannot seriously think John McEnroe is good on television. When will network executives be ready to move on?
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
So wouldn't he have to deport his own wife under these rules? #icerunonmaralago
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Raising Hare: The Moving Story of How a Helpless Creature Helped a Workaholic Wake Up from the Trance of Near-living and Rewild Her Soul www.themarginalian.org/2025/05/28/r... This book is an antidote: Inoculate yourself
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Raising Hare: The Moving Story of How a Helpless Creature Helped a Workaholic Wake Up from the Trance of Near-living and Rewild Her Soul
Narrow the aperture of your attention enough to take in any one thing fully, and it becomes a portal to everything. Anneal that attention enough so that you see whatever and whoever is before you f…
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Terrible marketing ideas from the 70s…
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Hey Warriors coaching staff! Keys to the Rockets series: 1. exploit Alperen Şengün’s blousy dribble 2. More Looney v Adams
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Current mood pretty much everywhere.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Play of the day… www.mlb.com/video/tyrone...
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Derek Hill's incredible diving catch | 04/08/2025
Derek Hill takes away guaranteed runs with an amazing diving catch to leave the bases loaded in the 6th inning
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Those of us in fantasy land keeping abreast of the latest...
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
BREAKING NEWS! Jobe will pitch against himself this weekend 👉According to Ari Koslow—fantasy expert /correspondent @fantasypros
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“In this era of the sport, no one’s arguing that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Instead, the standard is: if it’s broke, find the next person to break.” - Lindsey Adler gets down to the bone 🎯 Read this www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...
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Baseball Reaches Its Breaking Point
An elbow-injury epidemic has become an existential threat to the sport, prompting the M.L.B. to brainstorm new solutions, such as the use of a heavier ball.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Remember when Geno fake -retired last year? So cute.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
No need for torpedo bats at the new A’s little league park.…
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
“Not only is televised baseball good for your soul, but you'll pick up subtle pieces of information. What's that old Yogi Berra wisdom? You can observe a lot just by watching.” Fantasy fever? Read this.
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Anthony Slater @anthonyvslater.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Steph Curry said tonight was the last dunk of his career: “I’m calling it right now.” He pointed at Jerry Stackhouse after it because Stackhouse asked him to dunk at shootaround today. He said his knees have been feeling well enough to try it.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
That Molly, she's onto something…. open.substack.com/pub/mollykni...
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How Anthony Rendon's Decision to Spurn the Dodgers Led to them Build a Juggernaut
December 11, 2019 was once one of the most disappointing days in Dodger history. It might wind up being one of the franchise's best.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I'm gonna McClung you into lovin’ me…
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Anyone else feel like a shower after the dunk contest? #dirtypool dude is not even PLAYING IN THE LEAGUE👀
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Most chaotic trade season ever? 🤔 yup.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
“Philadelphia’s starters make up the tallest and heaviest offensive line in Super Bowl history.” www.wsj.com/sports/footb...
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The Super Bowl Has Never Seen Anything Like These Five Gigantic Humans
The Philadelphia Eagles’ offensive line is historically large—and they’re out to flatten the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
An odd article to find in The New Yorker from theatre critic Vinson Cunningham but I guess he needed to get it off his chest… www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Tom Brady, Armchair Quarterback
In his new gig, the former player turned “N.F.L. on Fox” commentator is back to work, but is he any good?
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Like a Bachelorette finale gone sideways… no one believes they'll make it down the aisle.
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 02/02/2025
Yep, it’s real 😳 LeBron and Luka are the new Lakers dynamic duo!
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Favorite story of the weekend (so far) www.npr.org/2025/01/25/n...
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Madison Keys wins her first-ever Grand Slam title against two-time defending champion
Madison Keys was a tennis prodigy, beating Serena Williams when she was just 14 years old, but had not won a grand slam title in her 15 year career.
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
👉 R E A D The LA fires from the literary perspective of Colm Tóibín, Highland Park resident, author and lamenter of lost libraries… www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Colm Tóibín · In LA
A new fire started in Hollywood. It might have looked as though we were now surrounded on three sides by fires, but it...
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Sam @ Teipiadur @selfstarter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
What is it with porn bots and excessive vowels?
This is a screenshot illustrating the use of excessive vowels on porn bot accounts: for example, ‘Lizzy’ has followed me but the handle is lizzyiiiiaaa which lets meet know this bot is not only probably not an actual person but also illiterate and has served up this alias multiple times and will next be adding eeeee’s then uuuuuuu’s along with boob shots.
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