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Samantha M.
@samanthamatic.bsky.social
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Samantha of the Stacks
MSLIS @ UIUC School of Information Sciences
South Bay, Los Angeles, Ca.
Just do your best, dear.
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Samantha M. @samanthamatic.bsky.social · Apr 29
Mood.
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scalzi.com
He was VICE PRESIDENT of the insurance company and turned down an Ivy League professorship to keep his gig. Wallace Steven is the Patron Saint of Writer Day Jobs.
tajmahalo.bsky.social Deck the Halls with Taj Maholly @tajmahalo.bsky.social · 8d
Wallace Stevens sold insurance. You do what you have to do.
November 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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houndsaint.bsky.social
Boris Artzybasheff, a Ukrainian illustrator who immigrated to the US in 1919, was known for florid, grotesque explorations of surrealistic anthropomorphism, combining human and machine into fearsome, laboring hulks of metal & flesh.

These illustrations are from “Machinalia.”

#historyofillustration
A massive anthropomorphized sheet metal press, forcing steel into shape under enormous, wrought hands A white-hot metal billet being picked up by a hook-billed lift with threatening eyes. The covers for the heat sinks are flat, impassive salamanders with distorted, contented, human faces. A huge, horse-like bucket with a rolling human eye and scowling mouth offloads sparking hot molten metal into a mold in a long line of other molds, all of which have cartoonish human faces and human feet. They appear afraid and pained in anticipation, and the mold being poured into cries out Molten metal being poured down a human-shaped funnel’s back into a furnace with a gaping mouth human and staring eyes. The bucket pouring the metal is devised like a smiling man’s head, with hands gripping and twisting its ears to let the molten cargo pour down its nose.
November 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
samanthamatic.bsky.social
If you see this, quote with a vampire that isn't Dracula
Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) from the AMC series Preacher with a handheld sun shade.
October 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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josie.zone
Never forget that time Sam Neill gave a quote about murder that was so beautifully kabonkers, we all assumed it was a Clickhole bit initially
SAM NEILL GENERAL JOHN MACARTHUR If you were to commit a murder, how would you do it? It's got to be big! No slipping something into someones drink, that's just pathetic. I'd use a steamroller, just leave a stain on the road. There's probably a couple of people I'd put under a steamroller, but I won't say who they are, otherwise when they see a steamroller coming their way they'll be on full alert. And steamrollers don't go very fast...
October 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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dammitjeff.com
PSA: IF you wanted to jailbreak your kindle but had a firmware that was too new, THERE IS A NEW JAILBREAK OUT FOR IT.

This new jailbreak now add supports for kindles on firmwares 5.18.1+! Even the latest firmware update is moddable rn. I covered the entire process here:
youtu.be/l4ZliC82RtA
October 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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culturecrave.co
“Fuck AI”

— Guillermo del Toro

🎥 Vanity Fair
October 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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sonnyross.bsky.social
Hello, I'm about to go on parental leave.
Please enjoy this reissued print, now in A3 size, edition of 50.
www.sonnyross.com/shop/shutupa3
#illustration #medieval
An Illustration showing a dragon being slain in a naive medieval style with the caption "SHUT UP". Could be about anyone.
October 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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ifycomedy.com
I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
October 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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stereogum.com
from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’
September 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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tomtomorrow.bsky.social
Trump, pounding shoe: "We will bury ourselves!"
September 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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gabino.bsky.social
Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Mat Miller.
September 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
samanthamatic.bsky.social
There, I fixed them:
Orion AI glasses get vintage redux including eyebrows and moustache for easy real world identification.
September 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
87-year-old Cecil Williams walked down the runway to "Neva Scared" during Actively Black and Spill's #NYFW show this weekend

www.whatimreading.net/p/civil-righ...
September 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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nightingveil.bsky.social
A history of mental illness or neurodivergence in the family by @sophiawren.bsky.social (Irish comedy, so iykyk)
September 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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meganpiont.bsky.social
@2LDredd.bsky.social Hi! Spanish language zines are in the works! I am prioritizing getting the places with a large Latino population done first, and all of CA is up there.
September 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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meganpiont.bsky.social
Full list of zines as of 9/2:

California, Chicago, Colorado, DC Metro, Florida, Indianapolis, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina Triangle Area, NYC, Philly, Pittsburgh, Portland OR, Rhode Island, St. Louis Metro Area, Washington State, Wisconsin

Zine request form in the drive folder.
Hand holding black and white zine with hand illustrated title “How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe” in front of sunflowers. Hand holding open zine that reads, "S Size of group of officers, A Actions/activity, L Location, U Uniforms, T time/date, E Equipment
September 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
samanthamatic.bsky.social
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
Frodo (left) and Samwise (right) sit on the edge of a bed while laughing about their adventures taking the One Ring to Mordor.
September 1, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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theterminizer.bsky.social
replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names
Batman punching Cesar Romero Joker with the word "Schlitz!" in pink at a jaunty angle Batman punching the Penguin with the word "Pabst!" in light blue at a jaunty angle Robin punching some henchman in a red and grey striped shirt with the word "Stroh!!!" in orange/red at a jaunty angle Batman punching some henchman in a blue and grey striped shirt in front of a shelf of books about the Incas with the word "Blatz!" in bright green at a jaunty angle
August 30, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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stevemullis.net
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!”

Cities:
August 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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travislouie.bsky.social
Bob The Daily Affirmation Polar Bear
August 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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amybrown.xyz
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
samanthamatic.bsky.social
Check this🧵out:
fonzmulder.bsky.social i want to behave 🍏🥕🍎🥦 @fonzmulder.bsky.social · Aug 5
seems like the FTC has scrubbed its site of materials critical of AI—just found that this mild blog piece from 2023 is now a 404 error www.ftc.gov/business-gui...
(web.archive.org/web/20240614...)
www.ftc.gov
August 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
samanthamatic.bsky.social
I think 2025 is the year to incorporate “blew chunks” back into my descriptive review vocab. Also, I didn’t think I could like @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social any more than I already did, but fyessss.
jeffvandermeer.bsky.social Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Aug 3
The Phoenician Scheme blew chunks. Really no other way to say it. You literally have to put Wes Anderson in a box--an island, a newspaper, a family home, a hotel--or his talents devolve into self-parody and shaggy-dog-itis. This is really terrible stuff.
poster with Benecio del Toro in the bath
August 4, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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poorlycatdraw.bsky.social
beans
a poorly drawn cat licking its raised hind leg. the leg is exaggeratedly large, with an oversized paw featuring huge toe beans a photo of a ginger and white cat sitting on a sidewalk under a sunny blue sky. the cat is mid-grooming, licking its leg while its paw is stretched toward the camera, making the paw look huge
July 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM