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Sam Corbin

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🏁 crossword column for @nytimes.com ✍️ humor for NYer 📖 writing a book about the WOTY-verse

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Allison @ajoff.bsky.social · 1d

Foaming! At the Mouth

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 4d

it occurs to me that the word “refined” is good when applied to taste but bad when applied to sugar/food….and we “taste” food….black mirror episode

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 8d

leaf-peep, past tense leaf-pept

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 25d

unhinged things i see on hinge /17 (i approve of this one)

Prompt is something that’s a Non-negotiable for me is. Reply is at my funeral i want there to be a big live laugh love sign with the live crossed out.

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 10d

omg, incredible loophole

Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 10d

Reminder: if you are not fasting on Yom Kippur, you can just eat today, and it's as if you are fasting today AND tomorrow 🤷‍♀️

I didn't make the rule, the Talmud (Berachot 8b) did.

Seriously though, eat a lot today, every bite is a good deed (mitzvah) 🤔

Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 10d

oh my goodness! i’m honored to have made it in!!

Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 10d

just realized that “copypasta” is a play on “copy-paste” and I’m hearing it with a delightful Italian lilt

Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 11d

going to one of my office’s soundproof booths so that I can choke on water in silence

Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 12d

readable here for the week, I think?
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Gameplay: Finding Mnemo

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 12d

shocked to discover that my editor kept my unhinged headline for this newsletter about mnemonics, “Finding Mnemo”

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 16d

"edgelord" is such a great coinage, because it sounds as if it's about to describe something really stupid and then it does

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 16d

not to brag but my husband’s name is in the NATO alphabet

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 16d

for anyone curious, it was still delicious?? turns out that even overproofing cannot defeat the power of fresh bread