Samantha Sapp
@samanthasapp.bsky.social
Writer querying a novel. School teacher. Floridian exiled to the snowy Midwest (Minneapolis) 🏳️🌈/🏳️⚧️ « mais il faut cultiver notre jardin » Site: https://sammiesapp.weebly.com/
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Samantha Sapp
@samanthasapp.bsky.social
· Jun 20
moonparkreview.com
Check out the new issue of MoonPark Review for my latest micro piece, “Late Stage Capitalism” ☺️ !!!
“I saw all of him through the air-tight window of his car. He was sitting hunch-backed as he suckled the plastic, protruding tit of his Starbucks drink…”
moonparkreview.com/issue-32-sum...
“I saw all of him through the air-tight window of his car. He was sitting hunch-backed as he suckled the plastic, protruding tit of his Starbucks drink…”
moonparkreview.com/issue-32-sum...
all the more incentive to put up with the headaches of non-google alternatives (i'm on e/os for phone OS, & signal for messaging 👊 🇺🇸 🔥)!!! tho, funnily enough, most the headaches come from big-tech anti-compatibility (rcs group chats are my bane rn)
Normal and great
> Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private.
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
> Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private.
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer
Warning — what happens on your Android phone, doesn’t stay on your Android phone.
www.forbes.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:53 AM
all the more incentive to put up with the headaches of non-google alternatives (i'm on e/os for phone OS, & signal for messaging 👊 🇺🇸 🔥)!!! tho, funnily enough, most the headaches come from big-tech anti-compatibility (rcs group chats are my bane rn)
just finished Motherland (a feminist history of russia) by @juliaioffe.bsky.social. a wicked cool blending of historical writing, family memoir, and journalism that at times shifts the lens of history onto overlooked, "ordinary" ppl, who are more interesting to read about anyway. highly recommend!!
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
just finished Motherland (a feminist history of russia) by @juliaioffe.bsky.social. a wicked cool blending of historical writing, family memoir, and journalism that at times shifts the lens of history onto overlooked, "ordinary" ppl, who are more interesting to read about anyway. highly recommend!!
Best of Minneapolis Bumper Stickers, Pt. I
"STOP KILLING"
"STOP KILLING"
November 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Best of Minneapolis Bumper Stickers, Pt. I
"STOP KILLING"
"STOP KILLING"
new essay in Black Fox Lit Mag: "Brittany" !! :)
"My wife is reading the New Testament to our dog, Beau, in French so that his soul can be saved. He is a Brittany Spaniel, but not the kind from France..."
link: blackfoxlitmag.com/current-issu...
#essay #writingcommunity
"My wife is reading the New Testament to our dog, Beau, in French so that his soul can be saved. He is a Brittany Spaniel, but not the kind from France..."
link: blackfoxlitmag.com/current-issu...
#essay #writingcommunity
Current Issue
blackfoxlitmag.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
new essay in Black Fox Lit Mag: "Brittany" !! :)
"My wife is reading the New Testament to our dog, Beau, in French so that his soul can be saved. He is a Brittany Spaniel, but not the kind from France..."
link: blackfoxlitmag.com/current-issu...
#essay #writingcommunity
"My wife is reading the New Testament to our dog, Beau, in French so that his soul can be saved. He is a Brittany Spaniel, but not the kind from France..."
link: blackfoxlitmag.com/current-issu...
#essay #writingcommunity
bleak. fascinating. a car crash u can't look away from. also, rip the titular connotation of jennifer egan's 2010 masterpiece, "A Visit from...": harpers.org/archive/2025...
The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz
Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation
harpers.org
October 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
bleak. fascinating. a car crash u can't look away from. also, rip the titular connotation of jennifer egan's 2010 masterpiece, "A Visit from...": harpers.org/archive/2025...
interesting how ppl embracing "trad" lifestyles in search of fulfillment will inevitably find it as empty as the "hedonism" or "modernity" or ~queerness~ they blame their discontent on. life is weird and ppl in the past didn't have it figured out either! self-imposed suffering isn't a virtue tho lol
October 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
interesting how ppl embracing "trad" lifestyles in search of fulfillment will inevitably find it as empty as the "hedonism" or "modernity" or ~queerness~ they blame their discontent on. life is weird and ppl in the past didn't have it figured out either! self-imposed suffering isn't a virtue tho lol
extremely bleak to have liberal pundits chastise frightened minority groups with "but guys we have to learn to live with each other, including reactionaries" while elected reactionaries tell minority groups "actually you shouldn't get to live." the asymmetry is almost artistic in its absurdity
"we have to get them off the internet. We can’t let them communicate with each other. I’m all about free speech, but"
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...
Texas Congressman Says Trans People Need To Be Taken ‘Off The Streets’ After Charlie Kirk Shooting
The killing of right wing activist and influencer Charlie Kirk has prompted...
talkingpointsmemo.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
extremely bleak to have liberal pundits chastise frightened minority groups with "but guys we have to learn to live with each other, including reactionaries" while elected reactionaries tell minority groups "actually you shouldn't get to live." the asymmetry is almost artistic in its absurdity
Splitsville (2025) is a really good movie, actually. my favorite comedy since Booksmart (2019) even though they are wildly different vibes. there was something very shakespeare-like about the plot and humor. totally rec
September 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Splitsville (2025) is a really good movie, actually. my favorite comedy since Booksmart (2019) even though they are wildly different vibes. there was something very shakespeare-like about the plot and humor. totally rec
i have no mouth, and i must...
If anyone who cares about me happens to read this message before my big day, here is what I would like for my birthday:
I’d like to fuck another mayfly.
I’d like to fuck another mayfly.
“All I Want for My Birthday Is to Fuck Another Mayfly,” by a Mayfly
I’m going to keep this brief. Tomorrow I will shed my nymphal skin and exoskeleton and burst forth in all of my winged adult mayfly glory. I’ll hav...
buff.ly
August 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
i have no mouth, and i must...
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"Anne gave Diana Barry a tumbler of liquid. Diana drank the entire tumbler. It was filled with grappa. Diana got very drunk until she was red in the cheeks, like Anne’s ugly hair. She stumbled home and vomited in the garden."
Anne Lived in Gables. They Were Green. by Ernest Hemingway
Matthew Cuthbert was a silent man. He drove a buggy. Mrs. Rachel Lynde, a loud, fat woman, watched him drive by. - - -Matthew saw an ugly girl with...
buff.ly
July 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"Anne gave Diana Barry a tumbler of liquid. Diana drank the entire tumbler. It was filled with grappa. Diana got very drunk until she was red in the cheeks, like Anne’s ugly hair. She stumbled home and vomited in the garden."
Cool short story for anyone bored of scrolling: "Cake" by Laura van den Berg (whose novel "State of Paradise" is one of the best FL books, period). Shout out to the Baffler @thebaffler.com too which is a seriously cool journal!!
thebaffler.com/stories/cake...
thebaffler.com/stories/cake...
Cake | Laura van den Berg
Rita has exorcised her mother’s superstitions, but that hasn’t kept her from developing her own.
thebaffler.com
July 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Cool short story for anyone bored of scrolling: "Cake" by Laura van den Berg (whose novel "State of Paradise" is one of the best FL books, period). Shout out to the Baffler @thebaffler.com too which is a seriously cool journal!!
thebaffler.com/stories/cake...
thebaffler.com/stories/cake...
Enigma on HBO was pretty good actually, idk
June 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Enigma on HBO was pretty good actually, idk
Check out the new issue of MoonPark Review for my latest micro piece, “Late Stage Capitalism” ☺️ !!!
“I saw all of him through the air-tight window of his car. He was sitting hunch-backed as he suckled the plastic, protruding tit of his Starbucks drink…”
moonparkreview.com/issue-32-sum...
“I saw all of him through the air-tight window of his car. He was sitting hunch-backed as he suckled the plastic, protruding tit of his Starbucks drink…”
moonparkreview.com/issue-32-sum...
moonparkreview.com
June 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Check out the new issue of MoonPark Review for my latest micro piece, “Late Stage Capitalism” ☺️ !!!
“I saw all of him through the air-tight window of his car. He was sitting hunch-backed as he suckled the plastic, protruding tit of his Starbucks drink…”
moonparkreview.com/issue-32-sum...
“I saw all of him through the air-tight window of his car. He was sitting hunch-backed as he suckled the plastic, protruding tit of his Starbucks drink…”
moonparkreview.com/issue-32-sum...
C. P. Cavafy, 1898: Waiting for the Barbarians
"What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? / The barbarians are due here today.
Why isn’t anything going on in the senate? ... What’s the point of senators making laws now? / Once the barbarians are here, they’ll do the legislating..."
#poetry
"What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? / The barbarians are due here today.
Why isn’t anything going on in the senate? ... What’s the point of senators making laws now? / Once the barbarians are here, they’ll do the legislating..."
#poetry
Waiting for the Barbarians
Because the barbarians are coming today. Because the barbarians are coming today and the emperor’s waiting to receive their leader. Because the barbarians are coming today and things like that dazzle ...
www.poetryfoundation.org
June 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
C. P. Cavafy, 1898: Waiting for the Barbarians
"What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? / The barbarians are due here today.
Why isn’t anything going on in the senate? ... What’s the point of senators making laws now? / Once the barbarians are here, they’ll do the legislating..."
#poetry
"What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? / The barbarians are due here today.
Why isn’t anything going on in the senate? ... What’s the point of senators making laws now? / Once the barbarians are here, they’ll do the legislating..."
#poetry
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They're literally doing the meme
June 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
They're literally doing the meme
I used to teach in his town. A lot of good people there. A lot of not good people too 🫠
State Rep. Rodney Creech admits to getting into bed with his teenage daughter while only wearing underwear on multiple occasions—but not with an erect penis.
May 25, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I used to teach in his town. A lot of good people there. A lot of not good people too 🫠
j’aime paris 💙🩵🤍🩷❤️
May 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
j’aime paris 💙🩵🤍🩷❤️
No shock that people from as wide as Sam Kriss (pic) to @juliaserano.bsky.social have been dunking on Helen Lewis lately…amazed @theatlantic.com continues to publish pieces from her that contain blatant inaccuracies and weird snark. Where’s the editing?? I canceled my sub lol
May 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
No shock that people from as wide as Sam Kriss (pic) to @juliaserano.bsky.social have been dunking on Helen Lewis lately…amazed @theatlantic.com continues to publish pieces from her that contain blatant inaccuracies and weird snark. Where’s the editing?? I canceled my sub lol
kinda funny how miserable the ppl in power & ultra rich are. goes to show that what our economic and civil systems reward is fucked. ironic too we’re facing all this heartache and fascism on their behalf when it won’t make them happy either. like a toxic family member ruining things for everyone
April 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
kinda funny how miserable the ppl in power & ultra rich are. goes to show that what our economic and civil systems reward is fucked. ironic too we’re facing all this heartache and fascism on their behalf when it won’t make them happy either. like a toxic family member ruining things for everyone
imo we take to the streets to scream in protest precisely bc we know it doesn’t change anything—it’s the most basic action we have left in a moment where so many other ways to push change have been eroded or sold away. see y’all out there again soon 🩵
April 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
imo we take to the streets to scream in protest precisely bc we know it doesn’t change anything—it’s the most basic action we have left in a moment where so many other ways to push change have been eroded or sold away. see y’all out there again soon 🩵
She's a hero. Hopefully her courage helps people understand that interning us in men's prisons is how they plan to *end* us. In FL prisons they already humiliate, de-transition, and put trans women in the path of physical and sexual violence. There is no need for camps when the state has prisons.
1. A transgender woman let legislators know she intended to use the bathroom in the Florida Capitol.
A contingent of officers waited for her, and stood outside the door.
When she stepped in, she was arrested and sent to a men's jail.
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A contingent of officers waited for her, and stood outside the door.
When she stepped in, she was arrested and sent to a men's jail.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Trans Woman Arrested, Sent to Men’s Jail For Entering Florida Capitol Bathroom
“I’m not a political activist,” she maintained. “I’m just a normal college student who thinks this law is wrong.”
www.erininthemorning.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
She's a hero. Hopefully her courage helps people understand that interning us in men's prisons is how they plan to *end* us. In FL prisons they already humiliate, de-transition, and put trans women in the path of physical and sexual violence. There is no need for camps when the state has prisons.
An old, long short story of mine that finally found a home :) carminamagazine.com/a-mothers-la...
A Mother's Lament by Samantha Sapp | March 2025 | Carmina Magazine
carminamagazine.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
An old, long short story of mine that finally found a home :) carminamagazine.com/a-mothers-la...
Reposted by Samantha Sapp
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
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A Black transgender woman's testimony helped ratify the 14th Amendment. Then her identity was attacked. Some see parallels to today's climate.
She was the first transgender woman to testify before Congress. Then conservatives began attacking her identity | CNN
Frances Thompson’s testimony in 1866 came at a critical time, as the nation weighed whether to expand equal constitutional protections to newly freed Black Americans. But it also came at a great perso...
www.cnn.com
February 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
A Black transgender woman's testimony helped ratify the 14th Amendment. Then her identity was attacked. Some see parallels to today's climate.
Tomorrow I will go for a walk in the bitter, frozen woods. I will curl up with a book, tea, and my cats. I will not go online. I will ignore the tea leaves of what every action and headline might portend. I will live in the beautiful, ephemeral bliss of the winter dark for one last day. 🩵
January 20, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Tomorrow I will go for a walk in the bitter, frozen woods. I will curl up with a book, tea, and my cats. I will not go online. I will ignore the tea leaves of what every action and headline might portend. I will live in the beautiful, ephemeral bliss of the winter dark for one last day. 🩵