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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1h

Nobody says "murdered on their own shit" anymore but this is a Time of Death Marked situation. I want more for Lay Bankz than she's currently getting

UPSAHL - SLAYYYYY (SIDE B) (Official Audio) ft. Lay Bankz

YouTube video by UPSAHLVEVO

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 11h

In retrospect Coldplay was kinda cookin on MYLO XYLOTO. Maybe their second- or third-best record?

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 11h

sicc!!

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 12h

The dream of tropical house is ALIVE in San Diego

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Kelsey @yeskelsey.bsky.social · 12h

Whole crowd went wild for this, with a whole section (possibly many! There were 40k people!) starting their own “fuck ICE” chant. It was good.

Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 14h

I was at this concert and lemme tell you, I've never seen a bigger audience pop than this.

If only there was some kind of message Democrats could read from this. Oh well!

www.thedailybeast.com/pop-star-cha...

Pop Star Pauses Concert to Say ‘F*** ICE’

Chappell Roan slammed the federal agency on Friday, while Chance the Rapper put out the same message at a different concert.

www.thedailybeast.com

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

I swear to God this is true: I encountered this man while waiting behind him in line at a Cold Stone Creamery in Tempe, Arizona in September 2004. It stuck out to me at the time because I observed him very obviously lying to the person behind the counter by claiming he'd never heard of Oreos before.

george 🇵🇸 @deejaygeejayg.ee · 1d

I appreciate that being a music genre nerd isn't the important thing here, but that murdered sex criminal did NOT make indie rock

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

Jube

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Rachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · 1d

let me make more Leto-less TRON movies about HER

Rachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · 1d

I am a nerd about this stuff. Like my queen of STEM and computer lasers, Dr. Lora Baines:

Cindy Morgan as Lora Baines in TRON (1982)

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sctttnnnt.bsky.social @sctttnnnt.bsky.social · 1d

It was hard to watch Jared Leto in Tron Ares, with his slicked back long hair, without also thinking of the Wet Hair Guy from the Phillies.

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

I'd be curious to hear more about what he liked about ARES!

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

Wait are you besmirching the good name of the Michael Sheen/Daft Punk club scene in LEGACY

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

Oh man hope you're padding your wig budget

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

I'm not sure what you mean by *more* tech evangelism, which in 2025 I am inclined to view as a force for evil, which is kind of the problem. Like they had literal evangelists Kara Swisher and GaryVee make cameos and that made me feel... despondent

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

Thank you @sarahjeong.bsky.social

Aura Farming Shitposting Acting Normal
Aura Farming Stronger aura farmer wins Shitposter wins Aura farmer wins
Shitposting Shitposter wins Society loses Acting normal wins
Acting Normal Aura farmer wins Acting normal wins We live in a society

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

If you all hate it so much then WHY am I being forced to negotiate with the most craven of resellers to acquire the 4K steelbook???

sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

I will NOT be baited into wasting a precious Saturday morning defending TRON: LEGACY (2010) on God's green internet even though it was a $100 million birthday present for me specifically and is thus a perfect film

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

tapping the sign

sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 4d

I didn't expect to love the new TRON movie — and I didn't — but I loved the first two so I had to write something about it:

A ★★ review of TRON: Ares (2025)

A morally compromised endeavor to be sure, but how could it not be? The long con of Big Tech's supposed benevolence is over* and treating AI personhood as an inevitability is a profoundly alienating c...

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

I will NOT be baited into wasting a precious Saturday morning defending TRON: LEGACY (2010) on God's green internet even though it was a $100 million birthday present for me specifically and is thus a perfect film

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Electrical @electrical.bsky.social · 1d

This is actually for sale at Spirit.

a "Tariff Tunic" costume, a sandwich board listing various tariff rates by country

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

this is also, maybe unsurprisingly, the main problem with TRON: ARES wrt Jared Leto lol

sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

oh so this is why I felt out of place (I'm 39)

sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

In many ways this has been the worst year of my entire life but if these motherfuckers can get it together for the first time since 2007 maybe I can too

allie l. @allietherese.bsky.social · 2d

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

Did they do "Call on Me" I woulda come just for that

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 2d

Early in the year I was contracted to do a series for WaPo about the aesthetics of the Trump administration. That project was just cancelled.

You can read my final column — about Confederate monuments and Charlie Kirk — in my newsletter.

Thanks for reading!

buttondown.com/cmonstah/arc...

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 2d

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