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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

American title: TOO BAD SHE'S BAD

Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Free screening today of my friend Kristin Tieche's hugely entertaining documentary on bats, THE INVISIBLE MAMMAL. I loved it despite having no particular interest in bats (well, okay, maybe a little . . . )

INVISIBLE MAMMAL: free screening, 2pm today (8/29),Rhoda Goldman Plaza, 2180 Post St, SF CA

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Jaime “Nightmare” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

thinking of our many, many big strong men of politics glitching out and powering down even when they're being lobbed puffball questions, and contrast this with Parton letting Walters's condescending bullshit bounce off her like bullets off of Superman, and having a laugh in the bargain

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Ryan Dunlavey @ryandunlavey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.

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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Doctorow: Canada has a perfect opportunity to establish digital sovereignty and take it to America's techlords. New rallying cry: "Move fast and break THEIR stuff." pluralistic.net/2026/08/24/e...

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Pluralistic: How Canada can help Americans and defeat America (23 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Tell your friends: the new (digital) issue is now available for download at asimovs.com/product/the-.... Hell of a good story, by the way!

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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I am flabbergasted to discover that there is a brand-new issue of FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION available for purchase at asimovs.com, with stories by Alex Irvine, Eleanor Arnason, Cat Rambo, Harry Turtledove, Rich Larson, Fawaz al-Matrouk, Bruce McAllister, and many others:

F&SF Vol. 2 (2026), cover art by Alan M. Clark

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Joe Quinones @joequinones.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Look, it's our baby boy, @shamm.bsky.social!

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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

First and so far only issue from the new publishers was originally scheduled for Summer 2025, but didn't hit stands until (IIRC) November. Distribution was spotty to nonexistent, so no idea whether a second issue is forthcoming. Digital edition here: share.google/OEfOJzMSv10x...

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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Summer 2025

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine which is the original publisher of SF classics like Stephen King’s Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for A...

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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Yeah, the gift shop has been eagerly awaiting my return.

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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

You are practically overlooking the Karel Zeman museum, which you hafta hafta visit

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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

There's actually another way, which is to tour Xerox PARC

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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

There's a word for it: "shibboleths."

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

"This is the dialectic-there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art." -Douglas Sirk #BOTD

Dorothy Malone in Written on the Wind (1956) directed by Sirk

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/04/2026

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

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USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew

Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.

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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

You may not need to watch BLMABG all the way through, but goddam. The first 15 mins are essential

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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Thank you for that obvious correction, which I've been hoping for. Have also been wondering how these guys pay their taxes, if they skipped the grade-school lessons on how to calculate percentages. Or am I . . . naive??

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Lourie's GORGO was the only monster movie I can remember that my mom actually liked. She obviously identified with the, um . . . well, I don't want to give the plot twist away.

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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

And as a side note, even though I generally regard AI as a scourge upon humanity, I could easily be persuaded to replace our current Secretary of *ahem* War with Anthropic's Claude: www.threads.com/@lhkellett/p...

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Lee Hevey Kellett (@lhkellett) on Threads

The his is an incredible Q&A with Anthropic’s Claude! Wow! Listen to this. AI is… I’m not sure the right words here… Amazing yet completely frightening! And it knows that!

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 15/04/2026

Last month the Trump FCC announced a "ban" on all foreign made routers (almost all of them), demanding ambiguous favors from manufacturers if they wanted to continue doing business in the U.S. Netgear is the first to gain approval. Did they agree to bribes? Backdoors? who knows! 🗽💩

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The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason

How did Netgear do it? Nobody’s saying.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Now watch LOVE CRAZY. Loy wants a divorce, Powell doesn't. His only hope? By law, the divorce can't be finalized if he's declared legally insane. Brilliant schitck by Jack Carson & Gail Patrick, plus a jaw-dropping final act with Powell (sans mustache) in drag, pretending to be his own sister!

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Here's the thing: Democrats already know who can win. They know which policies are popular with voters and which candidates are vocally in support of those policies. They're going to throw a billion dollars into trying to prevent those candidates from becoming the nominee.

Screenshot of a headline from politico that reads: fears over who can win in 2028 are already surfacing among democrats

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

"At some point if the ship doesn’t turn around, maybe it will start taking on water or listing badly or hit an iceberg, or perhaps the iceberg has been there all along and is named Donald Trump."

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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit

The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

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The Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

give jd vance some credit. he couldn't get regime change in iran, but he did in hungary.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

"Sanders leading the anti-AI charge is a critical mission. The Democratic Party and the country desperately need a leader who isn’t afraid of being portrayed as a Luddite or anti-business and will therefore forcefully air concerns about the proliferation of AI." newrepublic.com/article/2086...

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Bernie Sanders’s New, Necessary, Bold Act: Taking on the AI Oligarchs

The 84-year-old has a new cause—and it’s as important as anything he’s ever done.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Even Rosemary didn't want people talkin' shit 'bout her Baby

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/03/2026

This is a nationwide phenomenon. The centrists and normies are more viciously angry than the socialists and anarchists, who gave up long ago on the illusion of a working system. Would encourage leftists of all stripes to take it seriously, welcome them in while they’re receptive.

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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Also, in the UK, aluminum is alu-MINI-um.

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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Somebody tell me why LOVE CRAZY is not universally regarded as a timeless classic. Also: DESIGN ART MARKERS! They were great! I still miss them!

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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Whut th--?!?!? (Although I do wish he had been "advising" the Dubs back in 2021 when they took Moody over Trey Murphy III)

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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

My distinguished colleagues @charlielargent.bsky.social and @thejoedante.bsky.social inform me that TCM will be airing the following concise rebuttal directly across from tonight's SOTU address:

TCM will be running the MGM melodrama GASLIGHT directly across from Trump's STFU address tonight.

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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I heard the airlines had to stop showing MELANIA because there were too many walkouts (ba-dum-BUM)

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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I had biiiigggg fun talking to Matt, who is a gentleman and a scholar

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Sam Hamm @shamm.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Archie Goodwin had a habit of tacking an extra twisteroo onto the end of his Creepy Classic adaptations ("Tell-Tale Heart," "The Damned Thing," etc.). As a result, when I eventually read the originals, I would always think "Hey! They cut off the ending!"

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18/02/2026

I guess people have forgotten that Trump started the pandemic by refusing to test and bringing in tens of thousands of people in crowded airports. and then stole PPE from blue states. and then suggested bleach or UV light might cure it. and then tried to kill Biden with it. and then

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Carol H. Mack @carolhmack.com · 17/02/2026

It costs $130 + a $35 facility fee to obtain a passport and an extra $30 for a passport card. In California, fees for certified copies of vital records are between $18 and $31 each. How is the SAVE Act not a poll tax?

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