Sam

a tweet from mike fossey, 6/19/14 Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]

cuomo intimidating mamdani:

Hideo Kojima goes to the ballgame

Finally, a candidate who speaks to MY interests (watching fruits basket in public while having dinner alone)

If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK

So it turns out that Cuomo's slam at Mamdani's lodgings wasn't just a know-nothing misrepresentation of homelessness, rent control, and rent stabilization, it was also a stealth boosting of the landlord lobby's coming messaging on why rent stabilization should be gutted.

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

When you're a very strong boy and everyone is impressed by you

"LGBTQIA+ murderous Uganda" is just a wildly racist way to talk about the country Mamdani is from

behold: a woman

“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said.

“Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.

Tom Paris is actually just Nick Locarno doing a Jackie Daytona

... The Jewish *race*?

Once upon a time at STSF I approached Jonathan Frakes at his table.

“I bought a picture with you later, and I brought two trombones. Could I—“

“Bring them.”

This was the result:

A shitty map created by ChatGPT5. it purports to be US States with an R in their name, but it's wrong and dumb and worthless just like LLMs.

My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.

Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.

Why the UAW Endorsed Zohran When Other New York City Unions Held Back Zohran Mamdani’s shock victory in this year’s New York City Democratic mayoral primary upended New York politics and called into question the effectiveness of big local unions, which mostly lined up b...

My union, the @uaw.org, was the first to endorse @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for NYC mayor last fall, back when he seemed like a long-shot candidate. For @labornotes.bsky.social, I wrote about how that decision happened and what it meant. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

Why the UAW Endorsed Zohran When Other New York City Unions Held Back Zohran Mamdani’s shock victory in this year’s New York City Democratic mayoral primary upended New York politics and called into question the effectiveness of big local unions, which mostly lined up b...

The @uaw.org endorsed Zohran Mamdani when he was a relatively unknown state legislator, thanks to "rank and file activism and a new culture of openness, transparency, and progressivism in the UAW," wrote Sam Feldman, member of the Executive Board of UAW Local 2325:

This is doubly true: we can’t vote for our top prosecutor *and* we can’t vote for any of the senators who do.

FIRE's litigation record is mixed but I would say leans very positive. Their policy advocacy and PR, however, is actively deceptive.

Andrew Cuomo is publicly telling voters that only he can fight Donald Trump, but privately telling rich donors that he's not going to fight Trump. which group do you think he's being honest with?

Ultraprocessed Food Still Makes Up More Than Half of Americans’ Diets

"Sandwiches, including burgers, contributed the most calories..."

Sandwiches and burgers are not ultra-processed! I am losing my mind.

Abysmal messaging. First, politicians address sports-related issues all the time. Second, trans people in sports has *already been handled* by leagues and communities. Every major sports body has criteria for trans athletes! Most communities do not give a shit. The problem is bigots ignoring that.

once again, get the hell off of substack

"machinery of death" being taken to new and increasingly literal extremes

I think the main reason this website doesn't quite work yet isn't that it's not viable as a business (though it isn't) or that it's an ideological bubble (more true than not) but that people haven't been discussing stomp clap hey ho music for five consecutive days on here

Prof. Wurman has found another place where a dissenting interpretation favors absolute government power and disfavors immigrants, wow what a weird coincidence, he sure is concerned about academic discourse, thanks to all the profs here telling me to take him very seriously

Kathy Hochul ‘willing’ to consider ‘Raise the Age’ reforms as she takes victory lap on discovery tweaks Hochul says the tweaks are meant to stop cases from being dismissed on technicalities based on the 2019 reforms then Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature implemented around how prosecutors s…

Gov. Kathy Hochul continues to work hand-in-glove with district attorneys to try to undermine NY's minor criminal justice reforms. The 2026 budget will be the fifth year in a row she's tried to make it easier to lock people up, and it's clear she's never going to stop. nypost.com/2025/08/06/u...

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.