Sam Layding

DS9 scene. Rom is a Ferengi hero who has a large bald head and giant ears and lobes that sort of connect to make a unibrow and a ribbed pine cone looking nose. He's wearing a jacket that looks like those lick and stick backsplash tiles you can get at Lowe's. He's pictured here standing in a corridor, talking to someone and holding/reading a PADD. Closed caption reads, "Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains."

Alt in pic 1 Happy Labor Day

View from the summit of Burke Mountain in East Burke, VT (3,270ft)

USGS summit marker for Burke Mountain

Me at the abandoned North Concord Air Force Station at the top of East Mountain in East Haven, VT (3,439ft)

me running down a dirt road and smiling at the camera :)

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

I think we should discuss the bonus situation

🚨WE WON OUR UNION 🚨

The money is about to get touched in ways we've never seen

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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.

Guess someone at Harvard heard me positively comparing them to Penn one too many times this week

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar

2025: ohhh ok

OH MY GOD

Meanwhile a former NY governor who wasn't even elected to that office is trying to tell the world that this is somehow unelectable

Trump reminds any Fool In the Rain banking on birthright citizenship that When The Levee Breaks, Your Time Is Gonna Come!

I haven't forgotten when I made a pretty tame pro-Palestine post on X last year and somehow had literally thousands of people with Israeli flags in bio reply mocking me for having pronouns in bio. In the eyes of empire, if you're not on board, you're next!

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

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.

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.

For Democrats, Mamdani Is a Wake-Up Call—and a Bad Example He shows how the party is falling short, but he has the wrong solutions. By Tom Suozzi July 2, 2025 1:13 pm ET

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

Jameson and the Board of Trustees will not protect the Penn community, much less themselves, by choosing to sell us all out at the first sign of trouble. They are cowards who are not part of the community they claim to be making decisions on behalf of.

On a related note— now that college admissions on the basis of so-called "DEI" characteristics are illegal, will Penn issue apologies to people who were "unfairly disadvantaged" by those practices? Will they rescind degrees conferred to people who were admitted on the basis of those characteristics?

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?

we must dismantle this and throw everyone involved with creating concentration camps away for a long time

I'm convinced that if a member of Penn's community is abducted by ICE, the university will do nothing. I invite them to prove me wrong!

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

where they see a disaster, I see a new pleasantly scented bag

it is unfathomable to some people that a person can have a good life and go "damn it'd be cool if other people also had good lives we should make that happen"

Dark Knight Rises lovers vindicated yet again

it's so amazing how all of Zohran's highest-visibility endorsements are from people who are good and cool and all of Cuomo's are from people with documented personal and financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein

really hit me last night trying to google "game 7" in multiple ways and being unable to get the little box score widget to come up. end times stuff