Sam @therewithal.bsky.social · 7hI have returned from Ikea having not purchased the entire store. 010
Sam @therewithal.bsky.social · 13hI would have lost it entirely. That said, that's around the age we dissected pigs and I wasn't remotely bothered by that. It's a weird age. 100
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. 611610347
Sam @therewithal.bsky.social · 15hAbsolutely not the point, but it does make me wonder about pet euthanasia. This one is rough. 110
Reposted by SamMother Jones @motherjones.com · 15hDeath 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. 511747
Sam @therewithal.bsky.social · 15hWorst. I wish it was easier to find a list of verdicts, or any partisan work they've done. There are always at least a few with seemingly no past online. 110
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 2832401261
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. 27920109
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
Sam @therewithal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Depends on dose, to some extent. There was a wildlife worker who dissected a dead cougar they found a few years back and got a blast of plague in the face. They died. It happens occasionally in the US. 000
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 · 04/10/2026At this point the mention of private equity in any context makes my brain banshee screech reflexively. The smug pompousness of the bosses is just about enough to send me into blackout with rage. 020
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
Sam @therewithal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026That's the worst. I always find things waaaaay after the fact, usually somewhere I checked at least twice. 110
Reposted by SamDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Who amongst us hasn't been tempted... 541895
