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samcorbin.bsky.social
Sam Corbin
@samcorbin.bsky.social
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🏁 crossword column for @nytimes.com ✍️ humor for NYer 📖 writing a book about the WOTY-verse
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 5d
leaf-peep, past tense leaf-pept
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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 23d
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 · 7d
omg, incredible loophole
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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 7d
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) 🤔
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 7d
oh my goodness! i’m honored to have made it in!!
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 7d
just realized that “copypasta” is a play on “copy-paste” and I’m hearing it with a delightful Italian lilt
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 9d
going to one of my office’s soundproof booths so that I can choke on water in silence
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 10d
readable here for the week, I think?
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Gameplay: Finding Mnemo
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 10d
shocked to discover that my editor kept my unhinged headline for this newsletter about mnemonics, “Finding Mnemo”
A snapshot of the Gameplay newsletter, titled “Finding Mnemo.”
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 14d
"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 · 14d
not to brag but my husband’s name is in the NATO alphabet
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 14d
for anyone curious, it was still delicious?? turns out that even overproofing cannot defeat the power of fresh bread
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 15d
ok so you basically hate it
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 16d
I have truly outdone myself. the width. the lack of height. the absent knots. no, don’t look away
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 16d
maple syrup and nondairy milk for the egg wash, and stand by for results…the loaf has thus far expanded sideways but not upwards
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 16d
stay tuned for morning as I attempt to salvage whatever this loaf is trying to become
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 16d
haven’t posted in a minute and I am pleased to return to the mic with a severely chaotic vegan challah situation
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 23d
glanced at a legal pad of book notes from the summer that I have yet to type up and the top page just says “asshat compounds”
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lanyardigan @lanyardigan.bsky.social · 28d
I find it kinda funky
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I’m donkey
Are the best I ever had
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Plushy Socks,-> MFF BAYBEEEEE ✡️ @rainbowsockscat.bsky.social · 28d
New linguistics meme dropped
Labubu with a Labubu and Lakiki with a spiky Labubu
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lanyardigan @lanyardigan.bsky.social · 28d
CHRIST ON A BICYCLE: (exclaiming) me
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 29d
I lost 14 hours of my life to a camping chair at 81st and Central Park West but tickets are secured, and I will be taking a long break from this park after tonight
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · Sep 9
after a week of failed attempts to see shakespeare in the park
— including a date we got tix for but was rained out — I have gone full method (started the line at Central Park)
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · Sep 7
certified bangers aren't enough. i need them notarized too
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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · Sep 4
(the suggestion being that you were a blockhead, hollow wood for brains etc)