Samantha Puc 🍉
@theverbalthing.com
fat lesbian witch 🔮♿️ 🏳️🌈 she/they
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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...
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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!
Doing therapy virtually sometimes feels like I'm not actually doing therapy. There's something about the ritual of commuting to/from that I've built into each appointment that solidifies the act every week. Sitting at my desk to talk to my therapist, while helpful, doesn't have the same impact.
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Doing therapy virtually sometimes feels like I'm not actually doing therapy. There's something about the ritual of commuting to/from that I've built into each appointment that solidifies the act every week. Sitting at my desk to talk to my therapist, while helpful, doesn't have the same impact.
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BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
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doesn't matter the context, real human beings will always be way cooler and more interesting and creative and thought provoking than fucking ai lol. please stop fucking embarrassing humanity with this bullshit
November 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
doesn't matter the context, real human beings will always be way cooler and more interesting and creative and thought provoking than fucking ai lol. please stop fucking embarrassing humanity with this bullshit
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
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Call for trans zine recommendations: my Trans Studies students are going to be doing a unit on zines next month, and one activity we're doing is looking at as many physical zines as I can get my hands on. If you know of cool trans zines that ARE PURCHASABLE ON PAPER, please let me know!!!
October 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Call for trans zine recommendations: my Trans Studies students are going to be doing a unit on zines next month, and one activity we're doing is looking at as many physical zines as I can get my hands on. If you know of cool trans zines that ARE PURCHASABLE ON PAPER, please let me know!!!
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Keeper of ghost stories.
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Keeper of ghost stories.
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It's time for a little thread as I continue to bang the drum that I'm open for 2026 speaking and event engagements, because I'm about to have a lot to talk about!
Also, pre-orders continue to be one of the top ways to support your fav creators!💯✨
👩🏫Ok, to recap:
Also, pre-orders continue to be one of the top ways to support your fav creators!💯✨
👩🏫Ok, to recap:
October 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
It's time for a little thread as I continue to bang the drum that I'm open for 2026 speaking and event engagements, because I'm about to have a lot to talk about!
Also, pre-orders continue to be one of the top ways to support your fav creators!💯✨
👩🏫Ok, to recap:
Also, pre-orders continue to be one of the top ways to support your fav creators!💯✨
👩🏫Ok, to recap:
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You know what? I still find it as deeply morally abhorrent to Knowingly share AI writing and/or imagery as I do the actual generation itself
This is not something that should be treated as common or shrugged off, just because it's a plague we've been beset by for a couple of years now
This is not something that should be treated as common or shrugged off, just because it's a plague we've been beset by for a couple of years now
November 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
You know what? I still find it as deeply morally abhorrent to Knowingly share AI writing and/or imagery as I do the actual generation itself
This is not something that should be treated as common or shrugged off, just because it's a plague we've been beset by for a couple of years now
This is not something that should be treated as common or shrugged off, just because it's a plague we've been beset by for a couple of years now
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Alterfauna: A Weirdlife Park, the game we're working on with @juleeeeeee.pointnthink.fr and @jrevel.itch.io now have a Steam page!✨
🌱Bring back life by planting seeds
🐉Attract weird creatures
📸Take photos of each one of them
🧙♀️ Meet unique characters
🌱Bring back life by planting seeds
🐉Attract weird creatures
📸Take photos of each one of them
🧙♀️ Meet unique characters
November 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Alterfauna: A Weirdlife Park, the game we're working on with @juleeeeeee.pointnthink.fr and @jrevel.itch.io now have a Steam page!✨
🌱Bring back life by planting seeds
🐉Attract weird creatures
📸Take photos of each one of them
🧙♀️ Meet unique characters
🌱Bring back life by planting seeds
🐉Attract weird creatures
📸Take photos of each one of them
🧙♀️ Meet unique characters
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Sam and their family have been nothing short of amazing and have done so much to help us and our fur babies in the past. Please consider helping them with the cost of Shrimp's care!
Thank y’all so much for your support so far. We’ve reached 35% of our goal! 🧡
Shrimp is doing great! He’s the bravest little lad. If you want to help us recoup the rest of the cost of his vet visit, I have zines for sale or you can leave a tip! 🐈✨
ko-fi.com/theverbalthing
Shrimp is doing great! He’s the bravest little lad. If you want to help us recoup the rest of the cost of his vet visit, I have zines for sale or you can leave a tip! 🐈✨
ko-fi.com/theverbalthing
November 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Sam and their family have been nothing short of amazing and have done so much to help us and our fur babies in the past. Please consider helping them with the cost of Shrimp's care!
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Thank y’all so much for your support so far. We’ve reached 35% of our goal! 🧡
Shrimp is doing great! He’s the bravest little lad. If you want to help us recoup the rest of the cost of his vet visit, I have zines for sale or you can leave a tip! 🐈✨
ko-fi.com/theverbalthing
Shrimp is doing great! He’s the bravest little lad. If you want to help us recoup the rest of the cost of his vet visit, I have zines for sale or you can leave a tip! 🐈✨
ko-fi.com/theverbalthing
November 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Thank y’all so much for your support so far. We’ve reached 35% of our goal! 🧡
Shrimp is doing great! He’s the bravest little lad. If you want to help us recoup the rest of the cost of his vet visit, I have zines for sale or you can leave a tip! 🐈✨
ko-fi.com/theverbalthing
Shrimp is doing great! He’s the bravest little lad. If you want to help us recoup the rest of the cost of his vet visit, I have zines for sale or you can leave a tip! 🐈✨
ko-fi.com/theverbalthing
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Today's newsletter is about the awful and extremely political decision to gut Teen Vogue for parts www.readtpa.com/p/teen-vogue...
Teen Vogue's Award-Winning Journalism Was Too Much Trouble for Condé Nast
The outlet just won recognition for speaking truth to power. Condé Nast responded by eliminating its entire politics staff and folding it into Vogue.
www.readtpa.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Today's newsletter is about the awful and extremely political decision to gut Teen Vogue for parts www.readtpa.com/p/teen-vogue...
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Looks like they're about to nerf Teen Vogue www.vogue.com/article/teen...
Teen Vogue Is Joining Vogue.com
The transition, in which Teen Vogue will keep its unique editorial identity and mission, fortifies the evolving Vogue ecosystem.
www.vogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Looks like they're about to nerf Teen Vogue www.vogue.com/article/teen...
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absolutely furious about Teen Vogue
November 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
absolutely furious about Teen Vogue
I have been largely offline today and am just seeing the news about TEEN VOGUE. Cowardly behavior from Condé Nast.
November 6, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I have been largely offline today and am just seeing the news about TEEN VOGUE. Cowardly behavior from Condé Nast.
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So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.
Thank y’all so much for your support so far. We’ve reached 35% of our goal! 🧡
Shrimp is doing great! He’s the bravest little lad. If you want to help us recoup the rest of the cost of his vet visit, I have zines for sale or you can leave a tip! 🐈✨
ko-fi.com/theverbalthing
Shrimp is doing great! He’s the bravest little lad. If you want to help us recoup the rest of the cost of his vet visit, I have zines for sale or you can leave a tip! 🐈✨
ko-fi.com/theverbalthing
November 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Thank y’all so much for your support so far. We’ve reached 35% of our goal! 🧡
Shrimp is doing great! He’s the bravest little lad. If you want to help us recoup the rest of the cost of his vet visit, I have zines for sale or you can leave a tip! 🐈✨
ko-fi.com/theverbalthing
Shrimp is doing great! He’s the bravest little lad. If you want to help us recoup the rest of the cost of his vet visit, I have zines for sale or you can leave a tip! 🐈✨
ko-fi.com/theverbalthing
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Today's thread highlighting people who have reached out for help on Bluesky. 14 today, no bonus posts
1. Samantha Puc: bsky.app/profile/thev...
1. Samantha Puc: bsky.app/profile/thev...
👋🏻 We’re at the emergency vet with Mr. Shrimp! He’s being checked for bladder stones because his litter box usage has been weird this week. It’s $800 that isn’t in our budget, but he deserves the world. 🐈🧡
If you want to help, I have zines in my shop: ko-fi.com/theverbalthi...
If you want to help, I have zines in my shop: ko-fi.com/theverbalthi...
October 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Today's thread highlighting people who have reached out for help on Bluesky. 14 today, no bonus posts
1. Samantha Puc: bsky.app/profile/thev...
1. Samantha Puc: bsky.app/profile/thev...
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No blockages or visible stones! Shrimp has been sent home with several meds and a new prescription food. Thank y’all so much for your support so far — it means the world. 🧡🧡
I’ve set up a @ko-fi.com goal to hopefully make up some of the vet bill. If you want to help: ko-fi.com/theverbalthing
I’ve set up a @ko-fi.com goal to hopefully make up some of the vet bill. If you want to help: ko-fi.com/theverbalthing
October 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
No blockages or visible stones! Shrimp has been sent home with several meds and a new prescription food. Thank y’all so much for your support so far — it means the world. 🧡🧡
I’ve set up a @ko-fi.com goal to hopefully make up some of the vet bill. If you want to help: ko-fi.com/theverbalthing
I’ve set up a @ko-fi.com goal to hopefully make up some of the vet bill. If you want to help: ko-fi.com/theverbalthing
👋🏻 We’re at the emergency vet with Mr. Shrimp! He’s being checked for bladder stones because his litter box usage has been weird this week. It’s $800 that isn’t in our budget, but he deserves the world. 🐈🧡
If you want to help, I have zines in my shop: ko-fi.com/theverbalthi...
If you want to help, I have zines in my shop: ko-fi.com/theverbalthi...
October 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
👋🏻 We’re at the emergency vet with Mr. Shrimp! He’s being checked for bladder stones because his litter box usage has been weird this week. It’s $800 that isn’t in our budget, but he deserves the world. 🐈🧡
If you want to help, I have zines in my shop: ko-fi.com/theverbalthi...
If you want to help, I have zines in my shop: ko-fi.com/theverbalthi...
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Glad to see this in some formal, organized capacity at long last.
Includes everyone from Mohammed El-Kurd, Sally Rooney to Greta Thunberg.
www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc...
Includes everyone from Mohammed El-Kurd, Sally Rooney to Greta Thunberg.
www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc...
No Opinion — The New York Times: Boycott, Divest, Unsubscribe
www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Glad to see this in some formal, organized capacity at long last.
Includes everyone from Mohammed El-Kurd, Sally Rooney to Greta Thunberg.
www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc...
Includes everyone from Mohammed El-Kurd, Sally Rooney to Greta Thunberg.
www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc...
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Rebellion, the legendary publisher behind Judge Dredd, @2000ad.bsky.social, Rogue Trooper, and so much more, is joining Neon Ichiban. medium.com/@NeonIchiban...
October 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Rebellion, the legendary publisher behind Judge Dredd, @2000ad.bsky.social, Rogue Trooper, and so much more, is joining Neon Ichiban. medium.com/@NeonIchiban...
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Added B Grades! These went to NYCC and back so they have minor corner damages from travelling across the country! They’re still perfectly usable calendars just added a discount to account for the wear and tear from being taken to New York and back. ♡ #shopsmall
✶ 2026 Calendar [limited run!] ✶
Special early bird price this week only. :3
jijidraws.shop/collections/new/products/2026-calendar
#shopsmall
Special early bird price this week only. :3
jijidraws.shop/collections/new/products/2026-calendar
#shopsmall
October 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Added B Grades! These went to NYCC and back so they have minor corner damages from travelling across the country! They’re still perfectly usable calendars just added a discount to account for the wear and tear from being taken to New York and back. ♡ #shopsmall
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Finally (!!!), we can announce our @madcavestudios.com/Maverick OGN, BEAT EVERY 1-UP!
I can't wait for y'all to meet Princess Helia and her bodyguard, Sidra, as they try to take down Boss Gogo and his slew of hench wizards and baddies and do what the book says...beat EVERY ONE up!
I can't wait for y'all to meet Princess Helia and her bodyguard, Sidra, as they try to take down Boss Gogo and his slew of hench wizards and baddies and do what the book says...beat EVERY ONE up!
Exclusive: Maverick announces queer beat 'em up rom-com BEAT EVERY 1-UP
Maverick has announced the queer beat 'em up graphic novel Beat Every 1-Up from Lan Pitts, Joe Hunter, and Frank Cvetkovic for spring 2026.
www.comicsbeat.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Finally (!!!), we can announce our @madcavestudios.com/Maverick OGN, BEAT EVERY 1-UP!
I can't wait for y'all to meet Princess Helia and her bodyguard, Sidra, as they try to take down Boss Gogo and his slew of hench wizards and baddies and do what the book says...beat EVERY ONE up!
I can't wait for y'all to meet Princess Helia and her bodyguard, Sidra, as they try to take down Boss Gogo and his slew of hench wizards and baddies and do what the book says...beat EVERY ONE up!