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
how ever did filmgoers' feeble minds contend with the disorienting leaps in "continuity" when the actor playing Bond changed???
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
how ever did filmgoers' feeble minds contend with the disorienting leaps in "continuity" when the actor playing Bond changed???
good gracious
don't ever let me pick up the phone if Isaac Chotiner is calling, and also, don't ever let me get on Joyce Carol Oates' bad side
don't ever let me pick up the phone if Isaac Chotiner is calling, and also, don't ever let me get on Joyce Carol Oates' bad side
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 AM
good gracious
don't ever let me pick up the phone if Isaac Chotiner is calling, and also, don't ever let me get on Joyce Carol Oates' bad side
don't ever let me pick up the phone if Isaac Chotiner is calling, and also, don't ever let me get on Joyce Carol Oates' bad side
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Trying to imagine my son getting excited because I told him that, when bedtime comes around tonight, he can ask me for my permission to stay up until dawn playing video games.
Sure, man, ask away. We both know what the answer is going to be.
Sure, man, ask away. We both know what the answer is going to be.
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Trying to imagine my son getting excited because I told him that, when bedtime comes around tonight, he can ask me for my permission to stay up until dawn playing video games.
Sure, man, ask away. We both know what the answer is going to be.
Sure, man, ask away. We both know what the answer is going to be.
"At the conclusion of the season, the Giants will be searching for their fifth full-time head coach since Tom Coughlin exited in 2015. The Giants' combined record since then: 53-104-1 (.338)."
The New York Giants fired coach Brian Daboll on Monday after the team dropped to 2-8 to start the 2025 season, sources told The Athletic’s Dianna Russini.
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"At the conclusion of the season, the Giants will be searching for their fifth full-time head coach since Tom Coughlin exited in 2015. The Giants' combined record since then: 53-104-1 (.338)."
hey, at least the Democrats got the party that holds the White House and both houses of Congress to agree to... a vote on whether to prevent health insurance premiums from skyrocketing for millions of Americans
Federal agents pepper-sprayed a 1-year-old in Cicero chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
1-year-old, pepper sprayed by federal agent in Cicero: 'My daughter didn't have to go through this'
Video shows federal agents spraying chemical irritants from a moving vehicle at a line of cars waiting to leave a Cicero Sam's Club on Saturday morning. The action appears to violate a judge's restric...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
hey, at least the Democrats got the party that holds the White House and both houses of Congress to agree to... a vote on whether to prevent health insurance premiums from skyrocketing for millions of Americans
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WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE
This has consumed around 4 months of my life. We've rebuilt the business from the ground-up. New site, new backend, new customer experience, new platform, new everything.
we spent two years flailing, having no idea how to run a business. now...we have more of an idea.
This has consumed around 4 months of my life. We've rebuilt the business from the ground-up. New site, new backend, new customer experience, new platform, new everything.
we spent two years flailing, having no idea how to run a business. now...we have more of an idea.
Despite the ravages of age and an internet steeped in misinformation, your eyes – in this one case – do not deceive you: Website different. It’s taken an immense amount of time and effort, but welcome to Aftermath version 2.0:
aftermath.site/aftermath-rela...
aftermath.site/aftermath-rela...
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE
This has consumed around 4 months of my life. We've rebuilt the business from the ground-up. New site, new backend, new customer experience, new platform, new everything.
we spent two years flailing, having no idea how to run a business. now...we have more of an idea.
This has consumed around 4 months of my life. We've rebuilt the business from the ground-up. New site, new backend, new customer experience, new platform, new everything.
we spent two years flailing, having no idea how to run a business. now...we have more of an idea.
prescient!
good to know there's at least one Senate Democrat who has a basic understanding of politics
good to know there's at least one Senate Democrat who has a basic understanding of politics
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
prescient!
good to know there's at least one Senate Democrat who has a basic understanding of politics
good to know there's at least one Senate Democrat who has a basic understanding of politics
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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Thank you all so much for your support 💛💛💛 our petition demanding the company reinstate us and reverse our illegal terminations is now live! show your support at the link below
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Thank you all so much for your support 💛💛💛 our petition demanding the company reinstate us and reverse our illegal terminations is now live! show your support at the link below
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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I don’t know if I’m ever going to get over Trump saying “big play coming up” on 2nd and 7.
Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I don’t know if I’m ever going to get over Trump saying “big play coming up” on 2nd and 7.
Ladies and gentlemen... The Democrats!
Trying to imagine the political fallout of caving for nothing, thus implying that you really were the party obstructing the government for no reason. They’re gonna get so goddamned burned by this for no fucking reason.
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Ladies and gentlemen... The Democrats!
ah I see the Giants are Giantsing again
November 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
ah I see the Giants are Giantsing again
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
me watching A Complete Unknown last night and tearing up every time someone played or composed a song: I just... love... music 🥹
November 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
me watching A Complete Unknown last night and tearing up every time someone played or composed a song: I just... love... music 🥹
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sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
"...Mr. Cuomo and the big-money landlord-and-finance types who were bankrolling him seemed to believe he should be handed the mayoralty because this is their city: They own it; the rest of us just live in it while paying increasingly exorbitant rents."
Politicians like Cuomo are a relic of the past. (Did I want to title this one “Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out”? Yes, I did.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
Opinion | It’s Not Just Cuomo Who Lost. It’s Cuomoism.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"...Mr. Cuomo and the big-money landlord-and-finance types who were bankrolling him seemed to believe he should be handed the mayoralty because this is their city: They own it; the rest of us just live in it while paying increasingly exorbitant rents."
me to my editor: technically my story isn't late... I actually never started working on it
If you just cancel flights, then they're actually not late! Brilliant stuff from Sean Duffy here
November 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
me to my editor: technically my story isn't late... I actually never started working on it
I'm not sure I would pay this much for a ticket to a live event even if it was "David Bowie and Prince have been magically resurrected and are performing together for one night only"
I asked about Game Awards press tickets in October. Got an email yesterday encouraging me to buy my own, as there were no spares.
November 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I'm not sure I would pay this much for a ticket to a live event even if it was "David Bowie and Prince have been magically resurrected and are performing together for one night only"
again: we can never let these weak-willed institutions forget their cowardice in the moment when it mattered most
Cornell agreed to pay $30m, hand over admissions data with demographic breakdowns, produce annual "campus climate" surveys to check on antisemitism and changes "since October of 2023," and—here's the dumbest part they agreed to—that the govt can open new investigations whenever it wants.
Appeasers.
Appeasers.
Cornell has reached an agreement with the federal government to restore our funding:
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
again: we can never let these weak-willed institutions forget their cowardice in the moment when it mattered most
Finally filing for unemployment since my last severance check is arriving today, and did you know that in the state of New York, the year is 1985, not 2025?
![6. Did you receive a written agreement about the dismissal or severance payment?
[•] YES [ ] NO
If "YES" mail a copy of this agreement immediately to the address below. Please write your social security number on each page of the document.
NEW YORK STATE DEPT OF LABOR
PO BOX 15130
ALBANY NY 12212-5130](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fx3fhjmycoch4eaebv5jczmy/bafkreica33p625ack33ndvyoc3y33ydov7anokslknpsuej3zovss35l5m@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Finally filing for unemployment since my last severance check is arriving today, and did you know that in the state of New York, the year is 1985, not 2025?
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are no words for how evil this is
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The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond