Samit Sarkar
@samitsarkar.bsky.social
✊🏾 formerly & forever Vox Union | 📝 past life: @polygon.com, next thing: TBD | ⁉️ proud @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social loser | reading, writing, playing, watching, sleeping | he/him
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I don't need AI to help me overuse em dashes. I've been doing that on my own since middle school.
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
December 1, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I don't need AI to help me overuse em dashes. I've been doing that on my own since middle school.
I named my fists Mad and Men because they'll drop you like a three-martini lunch
I named my fists Lot and 49 because it’s time for some crying
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
December 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I named my fists Mad and Men because they'll drop you like a three-martini lunch
why even have a brain at all?
Genuinely spellbound by the anecdotes in @lilashroff.bsky.social's new article, such as: "one tech worker in her 20s, who asked to remain anonymous out of embarrassment ... asked Claude whether she should call 911 when her fire alarm kept going off." Google-everything culture on steroids.
The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
Rise of the LLeMmings
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
why even have a brain at all?
barely recognizable as a sentence written in English
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 AM
barely recognizable as a sentence written in English
"That's a nice exit-row seat you got there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it, huh?"
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"That's a nice exit-row seat you got there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it, huh?"
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This is how you get dead kids. Flu kills, COVID kills, vaccines protect. It's not that complicated. Trump admin would prefer people die so they can use the chaos to gain more power and money. That's it. 🩺 These men are ghouls and if they get their way, we will all be sicker and many more dead. 🧪
Vinay Prasad of the FDA claims that he has proof that 10 children died from COVID19 vaccines, so the FDA will now target flu shots, look at whether people should receive multiple vaccines at the same time, and make the vaccine approval process significantly more difficult.
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This is how you get dead kids. Flu kills, COVID kills, vaccines protect. It's not that complicated. Trump admin would prefer people die so they can use the chaos to gain more power and money. That's it. 🩺 These men are ghouls and if they get their way, we will all be sicker and many more dead. 🧪
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Ed Whelan was Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for OLC from 2001-2004, so when he suggests that laws of war have been violated by the executive branch, that’s… something
Does Pete Hegseth have a "golden shield" against prosecution in the form of a DOJ OLC opinion? Ed Whelan thinks not.
November 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Ed Whelan was Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for OLC from 2001-2004, so when he suggests that laws of war have been violated by the executive branch, that’s… something
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After Vox Media sold Polygon to Valnet, a few of us ended up at rogue.site, where we're doing reader-supported games writing, reviews, guides, podcasts.
Rogue
Ad-free video game news, guides, opinions, history, culture, previews, interviews, and reviews written by humans, for humans
rogue.site
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
After Vox Media sold Polygon to Valnet, a few of us ended up at rogue.site, where we're doing reader-supported games writing, reviews, guides, podcasts.
why is it so funny to me that the bank at this children's play place cares enough about verisimilitude for the signage to include the phrase "Member F.D.I.C." 😂
November 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
why is it so funny to me that the bank at this children's play place cares enough about verisimilitude for the signage to include the phrase "Member F.D.I.C." 😂
me to my wife when she came downstairs as I was emptying the (first) post-Thanksgiving dishwasher load: I wish I'd taken a picture of my magnum opus... you should have seen how elegantly and fully I packed this thing
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
me to my wife when she came downstairs as I was emptying the (first) post-Thanksgiving dishwasher load: I wish I'd taken a picture of my magnum opus... you should have seen how elegantly and fully I packed this thing
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I think often of the time a bunch of murder victims’ families showed Trump treasured photos of their loved ones and he signed them
Q: Do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I think often of the time a bunch of murder victims’ families showed Trump treasured photos of their loved ones and he signed them
We raced to put our toddler in front of the TV when the balloons/floats for Sesame Street, Mickey Mouse and his pals, Bluey, and Buzz Lightyear appeared during the Macy's parade.
But he seemed to be just as excited when Goku — a character he has no knowledge of, as far as we know — showed up???
But he seemed to be just as excited when Goku — a character he has no knowledge of, as far as we know — showed up???
November 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
We raced to put our toddler in front of the TV when the balloons/floats for Sesame Street, Mickey Mouse and his pals, Bluey, and Buzz Lightyear appeared during the Macy's parade.
But he seemed to be just as excited when Goku — a character he has no knowledge of, as far as we know — showed up???
But he seemed to be just as excited when Goku — a character he has no knowledge of, as far as we know — showed up???
I'm gonna need a GIF of Al Roker, Savannah Guthrie, and Hoda Kotb putting their hands in the air for Busta Rhymes
November 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I'm gonna need a GIF of Al Roker, Savannah Guthrie, and Hoda Kotb putting their hands in the air for Busta Rhymes
"Clowns, ladies and gentlemen! Clowns! You just can't beat 'em!" —Al Roker just now on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade broadcast, after being accosted by a clown
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"Clowns, ladies and gentlemen! Clowns! You just can't beat 'em!" —Al Roker just now on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade broadcast, after being accosted by a clown
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
I love hockey... and I love movies... and I loved talking about both with my man @petevolk.bsky.social
our latest @sportsmoviespod.bsky.social episode is up, talking Slap Shot with @samitsarkar.bsky.social. really enjoyed tangling with my feelings about this movie (which ended up very positive!), and talking with Samit about it all.
www.patreon.com/posts/slap-s...
www.patreon.com/posts/slap-s...
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I love hockey... and I love movies... and I loved talking about both with my man @petevolk.bsky.social
cool notice to see when you open your supermarket app
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
cool notice to see when you open your supermarket app
*sighs wistfully*
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
*sighs wistfully*
I follow the Westchester County government on Facebook, and whenever I glance at the comments under a post about pretty much any county expenditure — but especially ones like EV chargers — there are invariably people complaining like "You're spending money on THIS instead of FIXING THE POTHOLES?!"
It's funny how this isn't identifiable as a Conservative Opinion but is absolutely the sort of thing that runs on conservative opinion pages. An even split between "the traffic is so bad now" and "Mr. Trump, please exterminate the brutes." A perfectly American intellectual movement in that sense.
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.
This is today's actual house editorial.
This is today's actual house editorial.
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I follow the Westchester County government on Facebook, and whenever I glance at the comments under a post about pretty much any county expenditure — but especially ones like EV chargers — there are invariably people complaining like "You're spending money on THIS instead of FIXING THE POTHOLES?!"
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here's the most important scoop in the piece
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
here's the most important scoop in the piece
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there is zero chance the Yankees failed to turn a profit in any year, but especially in 2025 when they were coming off a World Series appearance. If an MLB owner says he lost money, that's like me saying I can fly. You should insist on proof.
(I can't fly, just so no one asks me to demonstrate.)
(I can't fly, just so no one asks me to demonstrate.)
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
there is zero chance the Yankees failed to turn a profit in any year, but especially in 2025 when they were coming off a World Series appearance. If an MLB owner says he lost money, that's like me saying I can fly. You should insist on proof.
(I can't fly, just so no one asks me to demonstrate.)
(I can't fly, just so no one asks me to demonstrate.)
the framing in the WaPo push notification also was seriously lacking context
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
the framing in the WaPo push notification also was seriously lacking context
It's my favorite time of year, the week where my Google search history is like a dozen variations of "how many onions make for 2 cups chopped onions" "how much fresh sage equals 1 tsp dried sage" "where can I get 1 cup of buttermilk, no more, no less"
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
It's my favorite time of year, the week where my Google search history is like a dozen variations of "how many onions make for 2 cups chopped onions" "how much fresh sage equals 1 tsp dried sage" "where can I get 1 cup of buttermilk, no more, no less"
lol. lmao, even
BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
lol. lmao, even
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the rage that reading this makes me feel. just full 'need to stare into the middle distance because we are so, so lost' stuff.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.
thebarbedwire.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
the rage that reading this makes me feel. just full 'need to stare into the middle distance because we are so, so lost' stuff.