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Sam Sokol
@samsokol42.bsky.social
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From LA. In DC. He.
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Seems bad
Grocery Store cart return overflowing with way too many carts.
December 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Ah the ever useful AI overview, totally getting the most basic facts wrong as ever . . .
Google AI overview claiming Westley says the line "We are men of action, lies do not become us" to Buttercup after she questioned his dedication. Which makes no sense on its own term and is just false, he says it to Humperdinck's lackey Ruben.
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Kate Mantillini over here looking like a location for Fallout S2
Modern grey abandoned looking storefront w/palm trees.
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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"I'm looking for a man in finance, with a trust fund, 6' 5", blue eyes."
Pope Leo on the mic
November 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Picking up my copy of American Canto . . .
CVS aisle marker that reads “first aid, personal intimacy, wound care”
November 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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The Cars are an under appreciated hit machine.
Apple The Cars Essential playlist with one chart topping hum along absolute banger after another.
November 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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I dunno Neil, looking pretty dicey.
Books in a little free library including Neil Gorsuch “A Republic, if You Can Keep It”.
November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Yeah I’d call that “more divided” 🙄
Blurb from Politico Playbook saying that 17% of independents support the WH Ballroom while 61% oppose.
October 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Inch High Private Eye standing on a dog's nose.
October 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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"no firebrand" indeed. These underlines constitute Judge Graber shouting from the barricades!
October 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Seems about right . . .
Manischewitz bottle hitting the recycling room six months after Passover . . .
October 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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@jkchase7.bsky.social and I the oldest of olds at Backseat Lovers gif at Atlantis tonight. Audience of diehards singing so loud they drowned out the band most of the night. Felt like we snuck into someone else’s secret space.
September 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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What more could you want from a show, 440 diehards singing every lyric of @backseatlover.bsky.social ‘s every song at @theatlantisdc.bsky.social til they just can’t sing anymore.
September 27, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Announcing my new think tank.
The Blues Brothers arms around Aretha.
September 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Funny day to be at court and see their exhibit on the lessons and legacy of Japanese internment. The past isn’t even past.
History exhibit on the legacy of internment of Japanese Americans. History exhibit on the western internment camps.
September 9, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Steve Martin as a deranged dentist boyfriend in Little Shop of Horrors.
September 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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My then 15 year old son got deeply into baking during COVID and taught himself to make a tiered cake just so he could do my (second) wedding cake. What a joy to have this memory.
A gorgeous three tiered frosted wedding cake covered with live flowers and literally oozing love from its pores.
August 24, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Every baseball fan’s worst fear . . .
Screenshot of MLB headlines including one calling the Nats “scrappy”
August 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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This book is so on the nose for jury duty I probably get picked just from Karma.

It’s from the library no less!
Cover of The Thursday Murdee Club by Richard Osman
August 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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“at a time when politics is becoming a bigger factor in regulatory oversight”.

Normalizing the Hellscape 101
Screenshot of Axios article on MSNBC rebrand explaining that separating progressive msnbc from broadcast NBCU is helpful with an admin where politics “is becoming a bigger factor” in regulation.
August 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Out here in the hellscspe . . .
An empty sidewalk on a residential city street (in Petworth DC).
August 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Reading the Admin's "AI Action Plan" - this is pretty rich from the Admin abandoning wind/solar/EV competitiveness to China because of woke or something . . .
Section of AI action plan calling for America to lead on manufacturing next-generation tech.
July 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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When you crush the burgers …
Four large burgers with cheese melted perfectly (3 Swiss 1 cheddar) on a silver platter.
July 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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John Cusack holding up the Say Anything boombox with his quote from earlier in the film re “I don’t want sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career.”
July 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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The article only says this, but like do “conservative” views on immigration, climate, taxes, trans rights survive any kind of contact with evidence, logic, and tolerance? What a joke.
Clip of article about Harvard consider establishing a $500M - $1B center for conservative scholarship that says it will model “the use of evidence. asked, rigorous logic, and a willingness to engage with opposing views.”
July 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM