Sam Corbin
@samcorbin.bsky.social
🏁 crossword column for @nytimes.com
✍️ humor for NYer
📖 writing a book about the WOTY-verse
✍️ humor for NYer
📖 writing a book about the WOTY-verse
my storm prep: charge my devices, food prep, do dishes and laundry, purchase extra warm socks and thermals
my cat’s storm prep:
my cat’s storm prep:
January 24, 2026 at 1:15 PM
my storm prep: charge my devices, food prep, do dishes and laundry, purchase extra warm socks and thermals
my cat’s storm prep:
my cat’s storm prep:
nothing has made me feel older in recent memory than the realization that kids are using fake IDs that say they were born in 2004
January 23, 2026 at 5:03 PM
nothing has made me feel older in recent memory than the realization that kids are using fake IDs that say they were born in 2004
I have a massive amount of social cache! no, not cachet - I have literally not cleared my cache in months
January 22, 2026 at 3:46 PM
I have a massive amount of social cache! no, not cachet - I have literally not cleared my cache in months
eyebrows are ridiculous when you think about it. we developed facial hair growing in this extremely specific place and pattern and for seemingly no evolutionary purpose (biologists feel free to correct me) except conveying sarcasm, which does not feel like a useful survival quality
January 19, 2026 at 12:55 PM
eyebrows are ridiculous when you think about it. we developed facial hair growing in this extremely specific place and pattern and for seemingly no evolutionary purpose (biologists feel free to correct me) except conveying sarcasm, which does not feel like a useful survival quality
I know I’m aging because ellipses suddenly seem like a normal form of email punctuation to me
January 18, 2026 at 3:47 PM
I know I’m aging because ellipses suddenly seem like a normal form of email punctuation to me
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Incredible piece of Search Engine Optimisation
January 16, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Incredible piece of Search Engine Optimisation
reheating someone else’s rivalry
January 16, 2026 at 10:47 PM
reheating someone else’s rivalry
also can I get a progress report on the Great Meme Reset? where are we at
January 14, 2026 at 5:24 PM
also can I get a progress report on the Great Meme Reset? where are we at
I have finally reached inbox zero after 1.5 years of buildup and a thing I have discovered it that reading an email is not the same as opening an email
January 14, 2026 at 5:22 PM
I have finally reached inbox zero after 1.5 years of buildup and a thing I have discovered it that reading an email is not the same as opening an email
dreamed I was laughing at a pun someone else had made about naming a sheep “I think you should sheave” and woke up thinking it was so clever until I realized I was confusing the words shear and shave. also the sheep’s head was a marshmallow
January 11, 2026 at 12:44 PM
dreamed I was laughing at a pun someone else had made about naming a sheep “I think you should sheave” and woke up thinking it was so clever until I realized I was confusing the words shear and shave. also the sheep’s head was a marshmallow
children at this hotel wearing their matching 6-7 tees the same way people wear “thing 1” and “thing 2”
January 11, 2026 at 12:16 AM
children at this hotel wearing their matching 6-7 tees the same way people wear “thing 1” and “thing 2”
hot take: I am tired of nyc bagel exceptionalism
January 10, 2026 at 3:01 PM
hot take: I am tired of nyc bagel exceptionalism
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slugrise: the ascension (2012)
January 10, 2026 at 5:44 AM
slugrise: the ascension (2012)
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The 2025 Word of the Year is "slop," both as a noun for low-quality AI-generated content and as a combining form for anything of little value. Read the full press release. #WOTY2025 #ADS2026 #LSA2026
americandialect.org/2025-word-of...
americandialect.org/2025-word-of...
2025 Word of the Year Is “Slop”
New Orleans Marriott–Jan. 9—The American Dialect Society, in its 36th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected slop as the Word of the Year for 2025. More than three hundred attendees took part in the…
americandialect.org
January 10, 2026 at 8:18 AM
The 2025 Word of the Year is "slop," both as a noun for low-quality AI-generated content and as a combining form for anything of little value. Read the full press release. #WOTY2025 #ADS2026 #LSA2026
americandialect.org/2025-word-of...
americandialect.org/2025-word-of...
it’s going to be decided by a show of hands!!!!
in my humble opinion the most exciting moment of #WOTY2025 was when the voting module was glitching and we were briefly given the opportunity to crown “Option 5”
January 10, 2026 at 2:24 AM
it’s going to be decided by a show of hands!!!!
in my humble opinion the most exciting moment of #WOTY2025 was when the voting module was glitching and we were briefly given the opportunity to crown “Option 5”
January 10, 2026 at 2:21 AM
in my humble opinion the most exciting moment of #WOTY2025 was when the voting module was glitching and we were briefly given the opportunity to crown “Option 5”
Reposted by Sam Corbin
God, take the W, kids
January 10, 2026 at 2:09 AM
God, take the W, kids
the WOTY noms may seem silly but you have not lived until you have heard a linguist defend italian brainrot
January 10, 2026 at 2:03 AM
the WOTY noms may seem silly but you have not lived until you have heard a linguist defend italian brainrot
at the #WOTY2025 vote and a literal middle-school child just came up to the mic to speak against 6-7 as Informal WoTY by saying “are we really just saying two numbers?”
January 10, 2026 at 1:36 AM
at the #WOTY2025 vote and a literal middle-school child just came up to the mic to speak against 6-7 as Informal WoTY by saying “are we really just saying two numbers?”
HEreal
what fresh hell is this on the streets of brooklyn?
January 9, 2026 at 11:33 PM
HEreal
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crucial karaoke hound news nygroove.nyc/breaking-leg...
BREAKING: Legendary Brooklyn Heights dive Montero is on the cusp of being sold
Brooklyn Heights’ legendary nautical dive bar Montero is set to change hands soon, with the Montero family planning to sell the drinkery to a pair of businessesmen who also own a string of nautical ba...
nygroove.nyc
January 8, 2026 at 12:19 AM
crucial karaoke hound news nygroove.nyc/breaking-leg...
I know I’m going to fall for a medicare scam that’s like “put in your ssn and we’ll tell you which cheese you are based on your astrological sign”
January 7, 2026 at 7:30 PM
I know I’m going to fall for a medicare scam that’s like “put in your ssn and we’ll tell you which cheese you are based on your astrological sign”
raise your hand if you thought a “factotum” was a kind of fact
January 6, 2026 at 8:18 PM
raise your hand if you thought a “factotum” was a kind of fact
don’t worry if you hear moby dick fans referring to themselves as “dickheads.” that’s literally their endonym
January 5, 2026 at 3:59 AM
don’t worry if you hear moby dick fans referring to themselves as “dickheads.” that’s literally their endonym
idea: right at midnight tonight we all solve a captcha by identifying every photo that contains a bus, so we can enter 2026 AI-free
December 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
idea: right at midnight tonight we all solve a captcha by identifying every photo that contains a bus, so we can enter 2026 AI-free