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@samgavin.com

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writer/DJ/dad (he/him) 📍 Highland Park, Los Angeles live on the radio: 🪩 OPEN BORDERS / Thu 10/23 1-3p PT (MOCA Geffen) 📡 kchungradio.org 🎧 mixcloud.com/sam3k

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 6d

I didn't expect to love the new TRON movie — and I didn't — but I loved the first two so I had to write something about it:

A ★★ review of TRON: Ares (2025)

A morally compromised endeavor to be sure, but how could it not be? The long con of Big Tech's supposed benevolence is over* and treating AI personhood as an inevitability is a profoundly alienating c...

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1h

the titular company is located in NEWARK. That's where *I* was made

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 10h

If nothing else THE CHAIR COMPANY should please Central Ohio freaks with its hyperlocal references cc @amybrown.xyz

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 10h

I was left largely unmoved by THE CHAIR COMPANY until late in the episode when they revealed the [redacted] is located in my childhood hometown of fewer than 50,000 people and now *I* feel like there's an insane conspiracy targeting *me*

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 12h

It must take a remarkable amount of fortitude to give up a home run on your first pitch and then get back up and throw 100+ more balls. Yamamoto, what a guy.

sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 13h

I DO have a lot of fun singing it to @claudiakoerner.bsky.social every week although idk that my impression should make it out of the house

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 13h

Same, the primary camera angle was so weird

sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 13h

oh my god

sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 13h

PEGGLE BLAST. Do you know how much sustained self-loathing it takes to 100% a free-to-play game

lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 16h

What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)

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MagicHaintBall @magichateball.org · 15h

the guy who named the ball-peen hammer was a real one

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 18h

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · Apr 20

scared dog under a piece of wooden furniture with a speech bubble as if speaking the quoted post

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 20h

At the end of the day it's like... who do you think is responsible for the posts you see

sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 21h

tired: complaining about the posts you see on a social media website that offers a plethora of affirmative following/listing controls and powerful blocking and muting tools

wired: making the posts you want to see in the world

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

just think of him doing something upsetting with the puppets

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hate monger @theyarejett.bsky.social · 14d

To be clear, no matter what Blake Treinen does, fuck him

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(◕ᴗ◕✿) 📷🚲⚾️ @gatodejazz.bsky.social · 1d

that's my pitcher

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

Oh yeah his rear does look pretty paltry

sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

This is honestly extraordinary

Dolly Parton - Shine (Official)

YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

a man in a suit and tie is talking about fishing

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking about fishing

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

Have we identified the baseball player with the least ass?

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

I have no interest in the sociopolitical discourse in re: the Brewers but it is a little remarkable that I don't know a single one of these guys' names

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

I think you're right but the Amazon Next-Day Delivery of it all does add a certain tang

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molly ✨ @brat.fm · 1d

9 out of 10 times i look at who y'all are yelling at and its a guy with a profile pic like this

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 1d

@ericdharvey.com this u

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sustainable stationery & queer art ☘︎✧⁠*⁠｡⁠. @magikbeanshop.bsky.social · 2d

looking for any reading material about trans pregnancy, specifically ftm pregnancies, births, doulas, after birth care, etc

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