Sam Bakkila
sbakkila.bsky.social
Sam Bakkila
@sbakkila.bsky.social
MFA student and writing instructor at Stony Brook University. Former Edtech worker. Interested in digital pedagogy.
Easy world is even better than text world: iliveineasyworld.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:48 PM
You should have gone to the Christina Aguilera Christmas Burlesque instead, it will break and and fix you simultaneously
December 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I'm switching back and forth reading There There by Tommy Orange and Tess of the D'Urbevilles! It's been a lovely weekend
November 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
But are the people in the replies who don't understand context or subtext actually weirdly helpful for engagement purposes? 😅
November 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Reposted by Sam Bakkila
Turn the volume up!!!!
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
It’s also wild that where there was an opening in Shanghai after Sinner pulled out, someone else in the top 10 can’t capitalize, it goes to then #204 Vacherot.
November 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Mary Robinette Kowal has some very smart thoughts about puppetry and fiction that would probably be useful here: writingexcuses.com/writing-excu...
3.14: The Four Principles of Puppetry, with Mary Robinette Kowal
Aside from being a delightful author and a Campbell award winner, Mary Robinette Kowal is a professional puppeteer. She joined us at WorldCon 67 in Montreal, and totally schooled us in front of a live...
writingexcuses.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
thank you! it's so hard to find information about ballot measures that I didn't realize that your post from last year popped up when I was trying to figure out what people were saying this time around
October 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I think you linked to the wrong source? It doesn't say anything about the ballot measures
October 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It's kind of both??? The greek verb odussomai actually means to hate, so there's one word that predated the name... Odysseus is hated/cursed by Poseidon, which led to all of his trials/journeys, which then gave us the story of Odysseus, which now gave us new meanings associated with his name.
October 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I thought he was very against delaying armageddon. Isn't that literally his whole "don't immanentize the katechon" bit that he printed on shirts? Which literally means: don't bring into being the thing/institution that will hold back the antichrist from starting the final battle.
October 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM