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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 29/09/2026

Love to unsubscribe from Jon Ossoff's emails and not only still get them, but immediately receive one from Gavin fucking Newsom.

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 23/09/2026

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS: ESCAPE FROM DINO ISLAND IS BETTER THAN DUNGEONS & DRAGONS 5E #ttrpg

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 21/09/2026

Every year Yom Kippur reminds me that I don’t know how to fill the hours of a day if I’m not constantly drinking water and refilling my water bottle.

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 10/09/2026

Going to get kicked out of the Robyn concert tonight for mansplaining the true meaning of Dancing on My Own (making it to the MLB playoffs) to everyone in earshot

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 08/09/2026

Pretty sure this is dialectical materialism

A photo of the back of a Honda with three bumper stickers in a row. The first one says iHeart cats. The second one says Sharon for New York City. And the third one says my cat is a Democratic socialist

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 01/09/2026

Lanterns ep 3 and Brand New Day adding juice to my theory that superhero movies/shows need way more and way cooler music cues.

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 01/09/2026

Was literally having this exact thought about Philly a few days ago…

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 04/08/2026

Hilariously, Dark Sun, always an awkward fit in D&D, would make for a killer Magic set

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 03/08/2026

Realizing my TV experience was the opposite (but equally great): My parents had a "we only turn on the TV to watch something specific" rule, so even a mid-season episode of whatever middling series we were watching had the feel of an event.

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 01/08/2026

I can’t believe they’re making D&D World of Warcraft and Star Wars!

My old copies of the d20 Star Wars Roleplaying Game and Warcraft Manual of Monsters from around 25 years ago

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 27/07/2026

Days, Brand New and Dooms

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 27/07/2026

It will never not be funny that the album featuring “Love Hurts” looks like this

The vinyl album cover for Nazareth’s Hair of the Dog. It features a gnarly illustration of a three headed devil dog with barbed, demonic wings standing atop a pile of skulls.

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 24/07/2026

One of those “once you see it…” things.

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Laura Knetzger @lauraknetzger.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 21/07/2026

I don't think I realized until RIGHT THIS MOMENT that Summer 1998 was when I, like, started caring about music. Incredible playlist.

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 21/07/2026

On a motorbike Doing 90 in an 55

A Duolingo screenshot. The text is “Hoy Empire una nueva vida. / Today I start a new life.”

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 20/07/2026

Weird vibes to drop a trailer while the West Coast is asleep the week after announcing a move to LA.

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 10/07/2026

RPG folks: Sera is a voracious player and reader of games, with strong, smart opinions and a heroically open mind. I can’t imagine a better Ennies judge

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 03/07/2026

Picturing Taylor Swift making her bridal party enter to CANCELLED!

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 03/07/2026

Listening to Footloose has me thinking: What are the great original movie (or, hell, TV) songs of the 21st century? Bonus points for non-kids movies

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bijan @bijan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

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nick andersen @nicktheandersen.com · 02/07/2026

america has a fun shortage and it's important we talk about it (decline in third spaces, etc etc)

a bloomberg info graphic showing four different dramatically declining types of spaces in order 'Bars and Nightclubs' 'Bowling Alleys' 'Marinas' and 'Movie Theaters' from 2001 to 2025 text on top reading 'Fewer Places to Relax and Socalize' 'US establiments per 100,000 people' 'Note: movie theaters includes dirve-ins.' 2025 population data based on US Census. Sources US Bureau of Labor Statistics, World Bank, US Census'

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 02/07/2026

Really into this thread. Technically I started with 3rd edition of 40k, but lately I've become sort of obsessed with the "2e" style of narrative that defines my early gaming experience and (to my eyes) has been out of style for a while now. I miss it!

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 02/07/2026

I've been seeing posts about schisms for two days and this whole time I thought we were all talking about centrist Dems upset about the DSA victories.

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 30/06/2026

Im sorry, but I will absolutely not be using the term “friendslop”

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 28/06/2026

Went to lock up and discovered my tiny urban back yard was full of fireflies. Magical.

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 24/06/2026

*prepping a weekday lunch for my wife and me* I’m the sandwich maker, twisted sandwich maker

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 19/06/2026

The art of Marathon: aftermath.site/marathon-bungi...

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 09/06/2026

Imagining the alternate universe where the X-men creative team decides to solve their "Thunderbird and Wolverine fill the same niche" problem by killing off Wolverine instead of Thunderbird.

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 04/06/2026

Been saying for a while that TV is dead and what we have now is something different. This is a great thread on the shifting economic incentives that got us here.

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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

May 28th 1976 - The last day of school at Lee High School in Austin, Texas. 📽️📅 Dazed and Confused (1993)

3 Screenshots from the movie "Dazed and Confused" (1993): First, a quiet school hallway with blue lockers and a single student walking away as the on-screen text reads "Last Day of School May 28, 1976 1:05 P.M." Second, a young man in a denim shirt holding a wooden paddle labeled "FAH-Q" stands on a suburban lawn. Third, a group of teenagers stands talking in front of a colorful wall mural, with one of them saying, "That's what I love about these high school girls, man."

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 28/05/2026

50 years ago, right about now, Tony Olson was waking up from a dream where he was getting it on with the perfect female body … and the head of Abraham Lincoln. With the hat and the beard. Everything.

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 18/05/2026

Strong pick, but Super Mario Bros predates it by 3 full years. Also, I don’t know if I can count it because I never actually saw the movie, but I distinctly remember reading the novelization of Street Fighter, looking at all the photos and going, “Oh.”

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 13/05/2026

Will never stop shouting at my friends about this ... but also a barista once overheard a friend complimenting my boat shoes and muttered "so millennial-coded" and I've been dead ever since

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 13/05/2026

I can’t explain it but garden water timers and guitar pedals are cousins

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 05/05/2026

This game is very exciting — boundary-pushing innovation that moves like pop. And if that’s not enough, I’ll be contributing some bonus material for those who prefer their violence Gotham City/Watchmen flavored

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Threw some color over these X-Files drawings

Mulder and Scully with a little alien running away in the background.

The Lone Gunmen, the counterculture Cerberus.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

unironically: i think these guys should just do Brazilian jujitsu. mad at the world, vaguely insecure about your masculinity, need a hug? turns out we have an App for That

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 20/04/2026

Sam, youre an audiobook guy, listening to anything good? Me: mhm What is it? Me: …

Screengrab of my phone playing Heresy by Nine Inch Noize

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 20/04/2026

The thing about Zohran is he’s so relentlessly on-message that every time he does his cute day care photo ops, they sing Wheels on the Bus — AND he gets it into the headline.

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 18/04/2026

A mild Saturday afternoon take: A lot of Bowie's much-maligned 90s output is actually pretty cool! The aspects that might've felt trend-chasing at the time now land more like a time capsule and his songwriting remains full of bold, unexpected choices.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 14/04/2026

I wish Marvel hadn't been involved in this at all, but otherwise, this is a nice development for the legacy of a man who was abused (by Marvel, and others) a whole lot in his lifetime Many New Yorkers will now have a prompt to learn some things about The King of Comics

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Sam Roberts @thesamroberts.com · 13/04/2026

I'm sorry to report that I'm apparently entering my goa trance revival era

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