Sam Layding
@slayding.bsky.social
UPenn, GETUP-UAW. views on polymers and politics my own. they/them
How it feels knowing that Avatar 3 will gross 2 billion dollars while the least interesting critics in the world are spending all their time writing about how it has zero cultural impact
December 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
How it feels knowing that Avatar 3 will gross 2 billion dollars while the least interesting critics in the world are spending all their time writing about how it has zero cultural impact
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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It's not great that a student can turn in a bad essay but vaguely point to the Bible and religious beliefs as an excuse for not following the actual assignment and terrible writing. That's not what college is supposed to be.
The professor did nothing wrong but she was pulled off the course anyways.
The professor did nothing wrong but she was pulled off the course anyways.
November 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
It's not great that a student can turn in a bad essay but vaguely point to the Bible and religious beliefs as an excuse for not following the actual assignment and terrible writing. That's not what college is supposed to be.
The professor did nothing wrong but she was pulled off the course anyways.
The professor did nothing wrong but she was pulled off the course anyways.
#NowWatching filling in a blind spot in my tour of Cameron's filmography
November 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
#NowWatching filling in a blind spot in my tour of Cameron's filmography
Last week our graduate union at Penn accomplished something amazing. In GETUP's first ever strike authorization vote, two-thirds of all grad workers at Penn turned out in favor of striking to settle the contract we've been negotiating for over a year. Back in the bargaining room next week!
November 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Last week our graduate union at Penn accomplished something amazing. In GETUP's first ever strike authorization vote, two-thirds of all grad workers at Penn turned out in favor of striking to settle the contract we've been negotiating for over a year. Back in the bargaining room next week!
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NKRC was extra special this year, even though it's always the best part of my summer. racked up 202mi of running and 23,000ft of climbing in the last two weeks and solo summitted two mountains I've wanted to do for years. can't wait to do it again next year and also every other year forever
August 11, 2025 at 4:19 AM
NKRC was extra special this year, even though it's always the best part of my summer. racked up 202mi of running and 23,000ft of climbing in the last two weeks and solo summitted two mountains I've wanted to do for years. can't wait to do it again next year and also every other year forever
going to force all my kids at running camp this year to sing Love Takes Miles in perfect orchestral harmony
July 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
going to force all my kids at running camp this year to sing Love Takes Miles in perfect orchestral harmony
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The money is about to get touched in ways we've never seen
BREAKING: A White House official has just said that Trump will fire Powell “likely very soon”
July 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The money is about to get touched in ways we've never seen
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We work side by side with our graduate colleagues, and we know that through unionizing we can improve the conditions of ALL academic workers! Check out more dual testimonials with our union siblings in GETUP-UAW
July 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We work side by side with our graduate colleagues, and we know that through unionizing we can improve the conditions of ALL academic workers! Check out more dual testimonials with our union siblings in GETUP-UAW
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UPDATE — An Israeli reserve soldier was questioned for suspected involvement in the Israeli settler killing of an American and another Palestinian, per the Times of Israel.
July 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
UPDATE — An Israeli reserve soldier was questioned for suspected involvement in the Israeli settler killing of an American and another Palestinian, per the Times of Israel.
Guess someone at Harvard heard me positively comparing them to Penn one too many times this week
Harvard has removed the websites for the Harvard women's center and office for BGLTQ+ life. These absolute cowards waited till summer when students are gone and now won't say if they're dismantling these offices entirely.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard College, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Replace Diversity Offices Amid DEI Purge | News | The Harvard Crimson
The dismantling of Harvard’s diversity offices arrived at Harvard College on Wednesday as websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fan...
www.thecrimson.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Guess someone at Harvard heard me positively comparing them to Penn one too many times this week
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1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar
2025: ohhh ok
2025: ohhh ok
July 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar
2025: ohhh ok
2025: ohhh ok
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Meanwhile a former NY governor who wasn't even elected to that office is trying to tell the world that this is somehow unelectable
With the updated RCV totals just released by the Board of Elections, our campaign has officially earned the most total votes in a primary in New York City history.
July 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Meanwhile a former NY governor who wasn't even elected to that office is trying to tell the world that this is somehow unelectable
A solemn reminder that Israel's tolerance of LGBTQ+ people, laundered through "pinkwashing" as a reason it's so great, is extended only to those who are bought into their government's colonial project.
My god - Around *100* trans prisoners who were in Iran’s Evin prison are missing after the Israeli strike flattened their section of the prison. 100.
The current death toll is 79. The 100 trans people are presumed dead, which would more than double the death toll.
archive.is/2025.07.06-2...
The current death toll is 79. The 100 trans people are presumed dead, which would more than double the death toll.
archive.is/2025.07.06-2...
July 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
A solemn reminder that Israel's tolerance of LGBTQ+ people, laundered through "pinkwashing" as a reason it's so great, is extended only to those who are bought into their government's colonial project.
Blow Out by Brian de Palma rules what a great movie
July 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Blow Out by Brian de Palma rules what a great movie
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LL Cool J, the hip-hop legend who was scheduled to co-headline the Wawa Welcome America concert Friday on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, announced Thursday night that he would not perform while the municipal workers’ strike was ongoing.
LL Cool J pulls out of Wawa Welcome America
“I’m not gonna cross a picket line and perform for money when people are hurting,” the rapper said on Instagram and X.
www.inquirer.com
July 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM
LL Cool J, the hip-hop legend who was scheduled to co-headline the Wawa Welcome America concert Friday on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, announced Thursday night that he would not perform while the municipal workers’ strike was ongoing.
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it doesn't seem like too much to ask for at least a brief moratorium on "centrist" Dems knifing their own party members while Trump is attempting to pass the worst piece of legislation since the Fugitive Slave Act
July 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
it doesn't seem like too much to ask for at least a brief moratorium on "centrist" Dems knifing their own party members while Trump is attempting to pass the worst piece of legislation since the Fugitive Slave Act
I'm still mad about this. Here's my question: if federal or NCAA guidelines change in the future, will Penn reinstate Lia's records and issue her an apology for doing this? At what point do the retroactive changes stop?
the president's email to the university ended with: "We have now brought to a close an investigation that, if unresolved, could have had significant and lasting implications for [Penn]." Glad to know the lasting implications for J. Larry Jameson personally have been fully resolved. lmfao
Transgender swimming champion Lia Thomas will have her records and titles stripped after UPenn was pressured by the Trump administration.
The university will also issue formal apologies to every biological female competitor who lost out to a transgender competitor.
The university will also issue formal apologies to every biological female competitor who lost out to a transgender competitor.
July 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I'm still mad about this. Here's my question: if federal or NCAA guidelines change in the future, will Penn reinstate Lia's records and issue her an apology for doing this? At what point do the retroactive changes stop?
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we must dismantle this and throw everyone involved with creating concentration camps away for a long time
Trump is now taking questions in front of the literal cages that will house migrants in DeSantis's new camp
July 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
we must dismantle this and throw everyone involved with creating concentration camps away for a long time
the president's email to the university ended with: "We have now brought to a close an investigation that, if unresolved, could have had significant and lasting implications for [Penn]." Glad to know the lasting implications for J. Larry Jameson personally have been fully resolved. lmfao
Transgender swimming champion Lia Thomas will have her records and titles stripped after UPenn was pressured by the Trump administration.
The university will also issue formal apologies to every biological female competitor who lost out to a transgender competitor.
The university will also issue formal apologies to every biological female competitor who lost out to a transgender competitor.
July 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
the president's email to the university ended with: "We have now brought to a close an investigation that, if unresolved, could have had significant and lasting implications for [Penn]." Glad to know the lasting implications for J. Larry Jameson personally have been fully resolved. lmfao
had a dream that they tabulated the NYC votes tonight and Zohran ended up winning by 20 points and Cuomo just started disappearing Back To The Future style
July 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
had a dream that they tabulated the NYC votes tonight and Zohran ended up winning by 20 points and Cuomo just started disappearing Back To The Future style