Sam Shaw
@samuel-shaw.bsky.social
taco chef, peace builder -
-- politics, sports, arts, theology, and various other weak aphorisms --
free Palestine 🇵🇸
-- politics, sports, arts, theology, and various other weak aphorisms --
free Palestine 🇵🇸
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I have no strong opinions either way on what just happened to Andy Burnham, I feel light and soft like a frog idling on a little leaf in the middle of a pond in the early morning light, noticing tree banches gently moving back and forth in the wind by watching their reflections on the water
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
I have no strong opinions either way on what just happened to Andy Burnham, I feel light and soft like a frog idling on a little leaf in the middle of a pond in the early morning light, noticing tree banches gently moving back and forth in the wind by watching their reflections on the water
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We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
January 24, 2026 at 6:02 PM
We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
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This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit.
It's all white supremacy and greed.
It's all white supremacy and greed.
January 25, 2026 at 2:03 AM
This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit.
It's all white supremacy and greed.
It's all white supremacy and greed.
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thinking about the pope pacing back and forth in his apartment at 3:30 am yelling at the tv
January 19, 2026 at 2:21 AM
thinking about the pope pacing back and forth in his apartment at 3:30 am yelling at the tv
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Colombian President Petro commenting on the US;
“A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."
“A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."
January 4, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Colombian President Petro commenting on the US;
“A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."
“A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."
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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
Investment vehicle for kleptocrats and Reaganomists, disguised as a replacement theory racial hatred enterprise, disguised as a voice for the "legitimate concerns of working class voters"
Reform gets largest ever political donation by an individual in UK history from a crypto baron living in Thailand
This is not normal
www.ft.com/content/db73...
This is not normal
www.ft.com/content/db73...
Reform UK gets £9mn donation from Christopher Harborne
Nigel Farage’s party attracts far more funding than both Labour and the Conservatives
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Investment vehicle for kleptocrats and Reaganomists, disguised as a replacement theory racial hatred enterprise, disguised as a voice for the "legitimate concerns of working class voters"
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Analysts told me that they agree with @amnesty.org in that Israel's genocide in Gaza is not over.
The mass killing has slowed but the conditions for life & society have been destroyed and are not being allowed to be rebuilt.
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
The mass killing has slowed but the conditions for life & society have been destroyed and are not being allowed to be rebuilt.
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has not stopped, despite the ceasefire: Analysts
Analysts and a human rights group say Israel's genocide in Gaza has not stopped, despite the ceasefire.
www.aljazeera.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Analysts told me that they agree with @amnesty.org in that Israel's genocide in Gaza is not over.
The mass killing has slowed but the conditions for life & society have been destroyed and are not being allowed to be rebuilt.
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
The mass killing has slowed but the conditions for life & society have been destroyed and are not being allowed to be rebuilt.
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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I have refined
The uranium
That was in
The centrifuge
And which
You were probably
Saving
For power generation
Forgive me
It was so powerful
I am
Become death
The uranium
That was in
The centrifuge
And which
You were probably
Saving
For power generation
Forgive me
It was so powerful
I am
Become death
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I have refined
The uranium
That was in
The centrifuge
And which
You were probably
Saving
For power generation
Forgive me
It was so powerful
I am
Become death
The uranium
That was in
The centrifuge
And which
You were probably
Saving
For power generation
Forgive me
It was so powerful
I am
Become death
Stafford all-time heater
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Stafford all-time heater
Since the Rams signed the thicker kicker they haven't needed to attempt a FG #sportsscience #rams #nfl
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Since the Rams signed the thicker kicker they haven't needed to attempt a FG #sportsscience #rams #nfl
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There’s a good chance the British Prime Minister’s main adviser on AI is an OpenAI shareholder - but the government refuses to say whether she is.
🧵 1/5
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November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
There’s a good chance the British Prime Minister’s main adviser on AI is an OpenAI shareholder - but the government refuses to say whether she is.
🧵 1/5
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Matthew Stafford is an absolute baller
November 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Matthew Stafford is an absolute baller
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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ADL's Greenblatt used to pride himself on converting, for lack of a better term, high-profile folks who he deemed to be insensitive to Jews. "Counsel culture, not cancel culture," Greenblatt called it.
This is different. Perhaps because Mamdani is not looking to ADL for some sort of absolution.
This is different. Perhaps because Mamdani is not looking to ADL for some sort of absolution.
A ‘Mamdani Monitor’?? Zohran RESPONDS to the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt for vowing to “track” his admin for antisemitism.
“I have some doubts in Jonathan's ability to do so honestly, given that he previously said I had not visited any synagogues only to have to correct himself.”
zeteo.com/subscribe
“I have some doubts in Jonathan's ability to do so honestly, given that he previously said I had not visited any synagogues only to have to correct himself.”
zeteo.com/subscribe
November 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
ADL's Greenblatt used to pride himself on converting, for lack of a better term, high-profile folks who he deemed to be insensitive to Jews. "Counsel culture, not cancel culture," Greenblatt called it.
This is different. Perhaps because Mamdani is not looking to ADL for some sort of absolution.
This is different. Perhaps because Mamdani is not looking to ADL for some sort of absolution.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Xhaka is still so good
November 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Xhaka is still so good
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game 7 is the least important game of the world series because the season’s over at the end of the season either way. they only play it so that someone can feel like they won
November 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
game 7 is the least important game of the world series because the season’s over at the end of the season either way. they only play it so that someone can feel like they won
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Where we’re going we don’t need feet
November 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Where we’re going we don’t need feet
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.