Samantha Puc 🍉
@theverbalthing.com
fat lesbian witch 🔮♿️ 🏳️🌈 she/they
📝 eisner-winning journo, rt-approved critic, writing everywhere 📚 fat forward books founder & naafa blog editor 📖 rep by stephanie winter @ komm 🖼️ pfp by @boooworth.bsky.social
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Samantha Puc 🍉
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· Sep 6
How to Speak Up Against Anti-Fatness: Tips for Navigating Conversations That Dehumanize Fat Folks [2024 Edition] - Samantha Puc's Ko-fi Shop
How to Speak Up Against Anti-Fatness is a pay-what-you-can digital resource zine that includes tips for navigating social media and talking to your me...
ko-fi.com
In 2020, Jey Barnes and I released a digital zine with tips for navigating anti-fat comments on social media and with medical providers and loved ones. Today, we're releasing an updated edition!
This resource zine is PWYW ($0+). Shares welcome!
This resource zine is PWYW ($0+). Shares welcome!
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Reposted by Samantha Puc 🍉
Reposted by Samantha Puc 🍉
First to Flip 7 in the family and with such a satisfying series of numbers!
December 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
First to Flip 7 in the family and with such a satisfying series of numbers!
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this christmas eve, please remember that covid-19 is still an ongoing pandemic, and all of these professions have a higher risk of long covid.
This Christmas Eve, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
December 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
this christmas eve, please remember that covid-19 is still an ongoing pandemic, and all of these professions have a higher risk of long covid.
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I want to learn and preserve a Palestinian hand sewing practice. You can help!
I’m asking you to share this widely, and pitch in if it feels right to you. ko-fi.com/soniasulaima...
I’m asking you to share this widely, and pitch in if it feels right to you. ko-fi.com/soniasulaima...
December 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I want to learn and preserve a Palestinian hand sewing practice. You can help!
I’m asking you to share this widely, and pitch in if it feels right to you. ko-fi.com/soniasulaima...
I’m asking you to share this widely, and pitch in if it feels right to you. ko-fi.com/soniasulaima...
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Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
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Btw this is one of the biggest reasons why it’s not as easy as people think to start up independent newsrooms or just be an indie journalist on substack. If you are actually holding powerful and rich people to account, you WILL need legal representation. Not a matter of whether but when
I say that as someone who has started newsrooms from scratch sometimes with two people - if you’re doing your job correctly you will need a lawyer because the first thing rich people do when you write something they don’t like is threaten you legally. It’s cheap for them and expensive for you
December 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Btw this is one of the biggest reasons why it’s not as easy as people think to start up independent newsrooms or just be an indie journalist on substack. If you are actually holding powerful and rich people to account, you WILL need legal representation. Not a matter of whether but when
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If you’re traveling this holiday season, please wear a mask.
Flu and Covid are both surging. No one wants to be sick for the holidays.
A well fitted respirator like an N95 protects you and those around you.
Give yourself (and others!) the gift of good health this year!
Flu and Covid are both surging. No one wants to be sick for the holidays.
A well fitted respirator like an N95 protects you and those around you.
Give yourself (and others!) the gift of good health this year!
December 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
If you’re traveling this holiday season, please wear a mask.
Flu and Covid are both surging. No one wants to be sick for the holidays.
A well fitted respirator like an N95 protects you and those around you.
Give yourself (and others!) the gift of good health this year!
Flu and Covid are both surging. No one wants to be sick for the holidays.
A well fitted respirator like an N95 protects you and those around you.
Give yourself (and others!) the gift of good health this year!
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everyone dislikes genai in games, but kids and story-focused players the most.
sounds like we'll be ok. just have to stay the course here and the "inevitable" new technology nobody likes will die. again.
quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...
sounds like we'll be ok. just have to stay the course here and the "inevitable" new technology nobody likes will die. again.
quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...
Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations.
Learn about how gender, age, and gaming motivations shape the perception of Gen AI in video games.
quanticfoundry.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:53 AM
everyone dislikes genai in games, but kids and story-focused players the most.
sounds like we'll be ok. just have to stay the course here and the "inevitable" new technology nobody likes will die. again.
quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...
sounds like we'll be ok. just have to stay the course here and the "inevitable" new technology nobody likes will die. again.
quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...
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ATTENTION CARTOONISTS! 📢
Submissions open Jan. 1st, 2026 for the Minicomic Awards, part of the Cartoonist Co-op’s annual Nib and Ink Festival!
Comics 32 pages or fewer published in 2025 will be eligible.
See mca.cartoonist.coop/submission-g... for full eligibility requirements and FAQs.
Submissions open Jan. 1st, 2026 for the Minicomic Awards, part of the Cartoonist Co-op’s annual Nib and Ink Festival!
Comics 32 pages or fewer published in 2025 will be eligible.
See mca.cartoonist.coop/submission-g... for full eligibility requirements and FAQs.
December 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
ATTENTION CARTOONISTS! 📢
Submissions open Jan. 1st, 2026 for the Minicomic Awards, part of the Cartoonist Co-op’s annual Nib and Ink Festival!
Comics 32 pages or fewer published in 2025 will be eligible.
See mca.cartoonist.coop/submission-g... for full eligibility requirements and FAQs.
Submissions open Jan. 1st, 2026 for the Minicomic Awards, part of the Cartoonist Co-op’s annual Nib and Ink Festival!
Comics 32 pages or fewer published in 2025 will be eligible.
See mca.cartoonist.coop/submission-g... for full eligibility requirements and FAQs.
I’m in the clear and am deleting the original post so no one gets confused or sends money I don’t need! Thank y’all for coming through for me today. It means the fucking world. 💛
Thank y'all so much for the help so far! I'm currently -$50 in the red. If you can/want to help, please feel free to grab a zine or leave a tip!
December 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I’m in the clear and am deleting the original post so no one gets confused or sends money I don’t need! Thank y’all for coming through for me today. It means the fucking world. 💛
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And one on the conditions there. It’s worth remembering that conditions at Adelanto and other ICE prisons/facilities/relocation and concentration camps are so bad coroners include them as contributing to the many deaths that occur in said facilities
www.npr.org/2025/03/17/g...
www.npr.org/2025/03/17/g...
What to know about CECOT, El Salvador's mega-prison for gang members
The mega-prison in El Salvador, where visitation, recreation and education are not allowed, has became the latest tool in President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration.
www.npr.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
And one on the conditions there. It’s worth remembering that conditions at Adelanto and other ICE prisons/facilities/relocation and concentration camps are so bad coroners include them as contributing to the many deaths that occur in said facilities
www.npr.org/2025/03/17/g...
www.npr.org/2025/03/17/g...
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A pair of NPR stories, also from March 2025, one on the illegal deportations:
www.npr.org/2025/03/16/g...
www.npr.org/2025/03/16/g...
U.S. deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador, despite court order
It was not clear if the deportations happened before a D.C. federal judge ordered the administration to stop using wartime powers to deport anyone immediately, and turn around any planes in the air.
www.npr.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
A pair of NPR stories, also from March 2025, one on the illegal deportations:
www.npr.org/2025/03/16/g...
www.npr.org/2025/03/16/g...
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The @hrw.org report from March about illegal deportations and conditions in Venezuelan prisons
www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...
www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...
Human Rights Watch declaration on prison conditions in El Salvador for the J.G.G. v. Trump case
I, Juanita Goebertus, declare the following under 28 U.S.C. § 1746, and state that under penalty of perjury the following is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief:
www.hrw.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The @hrw.org report from March about illegal deportations and conditions in Venezuelan prisons
www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...
www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...
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With respect to the folks who worked on the CBS piece, I’d like to share some links to the many outlets who actually published and broadcast this story before CBS did. Please add yours
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
Surviving CECOT | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series
The story of three Venezuelan men branded as gang members and deported to CECOT.
www.pbs.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
With respect to the folks who worked on the CBS piece, I’d like to share some links to the many outlets who actually published and broadcast this story before CBS did. Please add yours
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
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iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
www.404media.co
December 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
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The Beat's Best of 2025 has officially concluded! ICYMI, we compiled our favorite comics, manga and manhwa, webtoons and webcomics, kids comics, anime, video games, TV series, and movies!
This thread links all of our lists in one convenient place!
Best Comics of 2025:
This thread links all of our lists in one convenient place!
Best Comics of 2025:
The Beat's Best Comics of 2025
The Beat staff has come together once again to compile its annual, wide-spanning list of the best comics of 2025.
www.comicsbeat.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The Beat's Best of 2025 has officially concluded! ICYMI, we compiled our favorite comics, manga and manhwa, webtoons and webcomics, kids comics, anime, video games, TV series, and movies!
This thread links all of our lists in one convenient place!
Best Comics of 2025:
This thread links all of our lists in one convenient place!
Best Comics of 2025:
Thank y'all so much for the help so far! I'm currently -$50 in the red. If you can/want to help, please feel free to grab a zine or leave a tip!
December 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Thank y'all so much for the help so far! I'm currently -$50 in the red. If you can/want to help, please feel free to grab a zine or leave a tip!
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Exclusive Preview: Merry Antichristmas from Gudsnuk’s TOUCHED BY A DEMON
Get a sneak peek at Kristen Gudsnuk's Touched by a Demon, in which the main character attends an Anti-Christmas party. Happy Holidays!
Get a sneak peek at Kristen Gudsnuk's Touched by a Demon, in which the main character attends an Anti-Christmas party. Happy Holidays!
Exclusive Preview: Merry Antichristmas from Gudsnuk’s TOUCHED BY A DEMON
Get a sneak peek at Kristen Gudsnuk's Touched by a Demon, in which the main character attends an Anti-Christmas party. Happy Holidays!
www.comicsbeat.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Exclusive Preview: Merry Antichristmas from Gudsnuk’s TOUCHED BY A DEMON
Get a sneak peek at Kristen Gudsnuk's Touched by a Demon, in which the main character attends an Anti-Christmas party. Happy Holidays!
Get a sneak peek at Kristen Gudsnuk's Touched by a Demon, in which the main character attends an Anti-Christmas party. Happy Holidays!
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Anti-AI pins have been RESTOCKED in my shop! (Shipping US & Canada only). Get 'em before the AI bubble bursts. 😉🤞 shop.breelundberg.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Anti-AI pins have been RESTOCKED in my shop! (Shipping US & Canada only). Get 'em before the AI bubble bursts. 😉🤞 shop.breelundberg.com
One of our older cats loves to crawl under the blankets for cuddles, especially in winter, and she purrs SO LOUD the entire time. It’s one of my favorite things that she does. :’)
December 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
One of our older cats loves to crawl under the blankets for cuddles, especially in winter, and she purrs SO LOUD the entire time. It’s one of my favorite things that she does. :’)
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Please help:
chuffed.org/project/1591...
chuffed.org/project/1591...
December 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Please help:
chuffed.org/project/1591...
chuffed.org/project/1591...