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FormerGregSamsa

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All phenomena are fleeting. He/him. For those who don't know me from other social media sites: Waffles (Waf) is the name of our dog, not the name of my husband. [Update: Waf was. Marlowe is now our dog's name, not my husband's. Waf is now a name for love.]

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FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 26m

If I recall, it was intended to be a murder mystery, and--okay a lot of stuff happened between then and when Manhattan Murder Mystery was filmed but!--Annie Hall was essentially Manhattan Murder Mystery edited down.

FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 33m

Ted Nugent needs the work though.

FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 35m

I know if he wins, Mamdani is gonna break my heart. But he gives me some hope, and he allows some focus on what we can manage if we do the work to accomplish it.

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FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 38m

I'm reminded of Vonnegut's line: A little less love, please, and a little more common decency. www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

You Have to See This Mamdani Ad

I wasn't planning to post anything today. I dislike working and writing on weekends in general, but this was too important to ignore. You have to see this Zohran Mamdani campaign ad that came out this...

www.burnsnotice.com

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FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 43m

"That racism you like is going to come back into style."

FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 45m

Alt-text: A bunch of pics of Laura Palmer whispering into Dale Cooper's ear.

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FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 49m

The Chinese adaptation of Twin Peaks is not what I expected.

Cam Walker @walks30.bsky.social · 1h

Trump wanted a trade deal. Xi opened a new front instead.

Beijing’s rare earth crackdown lays bare the fusion of economic rivalry and national security risk

Trump wanted a trade deal. Xi opened a new front instead.

Beijing’s rare earth crackdown lays bare the fusion of economic rivalry and national security risk.

www.politico.com

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FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 50m

I... did not listen to Harmontown, I'll admit. Maron was good at interviewing and chose great guests. Mark Harmon had his own podcast?! (Kidding.)

FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 54m

I'm genuinely gonna miss listening to this show. Sure, I'd always skip the first 20 minutes, and I'm still hoping Boomer is out there somewhere.

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · 1h

whoa huge guest!!

Marc Maron saying that tomorrow is the final ep of WTF and the guest is Charlie from Smiling Friends

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FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 1h

My parents will be so relieved to know I've finally gotten to the age where I have no fucking clue what I'm talking about either.

FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 1h

I... is Sally a reference to Nightmare Before Christmas?

FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 1h

This is, I am certain, what flipping a grunt is. Absolute curtains for zoosha.

Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 1h

i feel so old because i have no idea what the hell any of this is

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FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 1h

I remain disappointed, but when I watched it a second time I felt they had good intentions and were trying to honor the story. It's off, but it's not like they massacred it entirely.

FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 1h

It had been in development for decades. If I recall, he absolutely participated and they kept some of his notes and dialogue. The movie isn't my favorite take on the story, but it's also... okay.

FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 1h

And I gotta admit her first pregnancy was my favorite. Around season 2 I think. The producers apparently decided to dress her up like Orson Welles in A Touch of Evil.

FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 1h

Also kinda finding it funny this person may have watched X Files for decades convinced Gillian Anderson got pregnant every other season.

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FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 1h

Three. She had THREE kids Homer.

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FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 1h

I'm reading a book about string theory but it's difficult to follow the threads.

ThinlyVeiledPanda @thinlyveiledpanda.bsky.social · 4h

I’m reading a book on anti gravity. It’s impossible to put down

FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 2h

Obama got the prize bc the world sees the US differently than the US sees itself: when a POC finally made it to the White House--and after GWB--they thought that was something to note. It was a gold star given to the US, not to Obama. They sadly didn't know his winning would make us worse.

FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 2h

The thing I love about this thing is how Adams let it be organic. The first radio series is different from the book, and the book is different from the TV show, and the subsequent radio series' are different from the subsequent book sequels, and the movie is different from ALL that and on and on.

Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 5h

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was published OTD in 1979.

Douglas Adams: “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

#litsci 🐡 #BookSky

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FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 2h

"Drink it with chums."

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FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 2h

...and people still wonder if Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize that one time.

Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 5h

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 8h

While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.

FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · 2h

Sequins will get you free drinks, smiles on the sidewalks, and an extra program at Broadway shows.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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