Sam @therewithal.bsky.social · 3hI have returned from Ikea having not purchased the entire store. 010
Reposted by SamDarach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Lookit. Deep down every Irish person wants to spin some yank a yarn that gets cited as fact in some factual text. We told an Irish American girl that when the Muppets was released in Ireland, Kermit the Frog was called Dermot the Frog because Cromwell’s son was a Kermit. 591595343
Sam @therewithal.bsky.social · 11hAbsolutely not the point, but it does make me wonder about pet euthanasia. This one is rough. 110
Reposted by SamMother Jones @motherjones.com · 12hDeath penalty states are incredibly secretive about every step of the lethal injection process. Why?motherjones.comEverything you've been told about lethal injection is a lieDeath by drugs is brutal—and designed for political optics. Christa Pike's failed execution pulled back the curtain. 511447
Reposted by SamPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I think some people are still missing the central message of this which is that if the cops show up asking for you and you instantly know why, you have a sophisticated understanding of whatever it is you’ve done that can’t be fixed by someone informing you that doing it is bad. 26618
Reposted by SamSargoth (gyromantically haberdashing iamb) @longersky.com · 22/11/2024Once you internalize the immense power of showing people this cool rock you've found, the whole world is transformed 21711
Reposted by SamCZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 06/10/2026You know, I live in plague country. 1-5 cases a year, reliably. We have a whole research facility 35 miles away. I don’t worry much about plague. I do worry about hanta, though. Because when we talk insidious? Mice are way more insidious than prairie dogs. (Treat respiratory infections as serious!) 46711
Reposted by SamChristine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com · 07/10/2026I laughed so much I hurt. Every sentence of this just gets better and better. 2203
Reposted by SamThe Lexorcist @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the house of leaves. I’m at the combi s n e a v t a i e o l n fo esuoh & tuh azzip 2529321146
Reposted by SamEd Morrish @edmorrish.com · 06/10/2026one thing tech bros and political journalists have in common is the absolute inability to consider the possibility they’re being played 14012
Reposted by SamKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 06/10/2026The graves of Jesus, who settled in Japan, married, had four kids and died at 106, and his brother who died at Golgotha for him. Very simple and rather lovely. The accompanying museum, however, is flamboyantly insane. 511613
Sam @therewithal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One time, many years ago, I went to Nottingham with a friend who was obsessed with Warhammer and wanted to get into the HQ's on site pub. Turns out the folks working there were delighted to come across a couple of Americans in their parking lot. Great night. 120
Reposted by SamPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Wait and see what kind of an admonishing letter Ofcom eventually sends. 1124
Reposted by SamJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026every last high school girl out there, unless you know for a fact that she has committed murder or rape, will do more good for the world than a boy or man who has committed sexual assault stop treating rapists as valuable 192879
Reposted by Samdave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026for the first time since tracking began, more American households have kittens than puppies. there is a reason for this: homeownership is declining, and homeowners are twice as likely as renters to own dogs. did cats engineer the housing crisis? i'll be honest: it is now more likely than not. 27919109
Reposted by SamDoctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The internet was and in some places still is great because people love interacting and making art and sharing what they just saw in their home town or on their travels and scribing elaborate rants and playing games and making friends and meeting new people and inventing personae and collaborating an 445850
Reposted by SamClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I’m gonna put my fist through a wall 1789138
Reposted by SamEdmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Did you know? Before pumpkin spice became the prevailing taste of the autumnal season, other flavors were tried, including bright dead leaves, malevolent fog, damp squirrel, and mossy darkness. 129217
Reposted by Samgamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026CNN making this sound more mysterious than it is. It was Yersinia pestis, the plague, the researcher died because she inhaled it into her lungs and developed pneumonic plague, there is no danger but to those directly exposed in the lab. Fear-mongering in the time of global terror is a sick choice. 321186339
Reposted by SamBen McKennaaaargh @benmckenna.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Man, we live in the most depressing timeline. I’m a godless heathen, but this is almost enough for me to crack out the incense and wafers. Imagine squaring up to the Pope and angrily shouting “…how many models do you run, bro?” 6145
Sam @therewithal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It's been so long since my employer was taken over by private equity that I had almost begun to think we'd be spared the worst of the horrors. It's clear now they brought in the new exec team to speed run them. 100
Sam @therewithal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I used to have a long, blue velvet skirt and it was the best. 020
Reposted by SamCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It's seen as reasonable to spend lots of money as wedding guests over and over again because they'll get you back when it's your turn, but for a lot of us it may never be "our turn" and asking people to contribute instead to our gingerbread cottage oven fund is "weird" and "scaring the children" 🙄 623423
Reposted by SamHell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 04/10/2026Jesus fuck, we do not need the AI slop version of Chuck Schumer's fucking imaginary friends, the Baileys, being the gauge of "public opinion" on fucking anything. Take your "synthetic AI focus groups" and fuck off into the sun with them. 0159
Reposted by SamTim @timzhu.io · 03/10/2026You're basically Napoleon if you can make entire organization(s) get on the same database 1170598
Reposted by SamNo War But Class War @deliberatelyobtuse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026America in the 21st century: 001
Reposted by Samdave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026loving cats, apparently, makes you more attractive to 28% of Americans, per a new survey. that compares with just 23% for owning a home. among Gen Z, the cat figure rises to 34%. having trouble on the apps? put down that mortgage application and get yourself to a cat rescue. 1458571
Reposted by SamNo War But Class War @deliberatelyobtuse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Infuriating 🧵 below 032
Reposted by SamBen McKennaaaargh @benmckenna.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hello, yes, I am an apex predator. 141
Reposted by SamNo War But Class War @deliberatelyobtuse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Proud member of the Fell For It Again Club Platinum Level VIP 031
Reposted by Sam🔬🔭🧭👨💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In a very real way people that are choosing to expand fossil fuel production right now are literally choosing people to die. Not just now either, for hundreds of years to come. Not just people either ecosystems, species. It's stunning to me this is celebrated. 24121
Reposted by SamDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Who amongst us hasn't been tempted... 541895
Reposted by SamTits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 01/10/2026So the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition is not going very well They've sold far too many tickets and the space cannot cope with the physical number of people - how did they not do basic crowd flow/control calculations? Embarrassing that the British cannot organise a queue properly (Not my photo) 4329767
Reposted by Samceej @ceej.online · 03/04/2025I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time 148110891412
Reposted by SamJess Lee @jesslee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Murderer and sexual abuse survivor Christa Pike was given lethal injection drugs twice tonight. She is still alive. This isn't just cruel, it's torturous. Praying for mercy. 1257
Reposted by SamJason Tracy @jason.tracys.org · 30/09/2026All of this, and also to add: Hazing is how cults filter out whistleblowers. The people that would put a stop to future bad behavior, or even just report it, don’t put up with being hazed. 1329
Reposted by Samdave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Anthropic's IPO filing apparently warns investors that advanced AI could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity,” which is a great sales approach and also, coincidentally, the exact phrase I was told when I brought home this guy. 1468777
Reposted by SamDavid Fry @davidfry.com · 30/09/2026Microsoft is running an ad where the elderly owner of an independent pizzeria wants to "bring back the $1 slice" so Copilot looks through his spreadsheets and tells him how to make it profitable. OK sure. "AI is here to help with your magical thinking" is probably as honest an ad as you could make. 193
Reposted by SamBo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I want a "villain" for Bruce Wayne that's just some dude who's really positive and charismatic who thinks wealth disparities are central to Gotham's issues. I want him upset Bruce by doing things like building a homeless shelter over the alley where the Waynes died and dedicating it to them. 3216512
