Skander Halim
@skanderhalim.bsky.social
Writer: Ghosts, The Unicorn, Pretty Persuasion. South Asian ✊🏾, cancer survivor 💪🏾, dual citizen 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
Really angry that all those mob-ran underground poker games I attended turned out to be rigged 😠
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Really angry that all those mob-ran underground poker games I attended turned out to be rigged 😠
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The 2025 Dodgers are starting to feel a lot like the 1999-ish Yankees. You're like "these guys are beatable" and then they just slice through the other playoff teams and everyone in baseball despises them
October 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The 2025 Dodgers are starting to feel a lot like the 1999-ish Yankees. You're like "these guys are beatable" and then they just slice through the other playoff teams and everyone in baseball despises them
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Fox News Decries Woke Casting Of Indian Man As Star Of ‘Sankranthiki Vasthunam’ theonion.com/fox-new...
August 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Fox News Decries Woke Casting Of Indian Man As Star Of ‘Sankranthiki Vasthunam’ theonion.com/fox-new...
Said in Sprockets voice
April 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Said in Sprockets voice
How the hell are there two Max Muncys playing at the same time? That’s like two Peyton Lists acting at the same time.
March 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
How the hell are there two Max Muncys playing at the same time? That’s like two Peyton Lists acting at the same time.
Begun this Trade War has.
March 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Begun this Trade War has.
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What’s your favorite movie about a brutalist
March 1, 2025 at 5:52 AM
What’s your favorite movie about a brutalist
Saw a Cybertruck with the bumper sticker “Bought this before Elon went crazy,” and it’s like bro you still bought a Cybertruck.
January 22, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Saw a Cybertruck with the bumper sticker “Bought this before Elon went crazy,” and it’s like bro you still bought a Cybertruck.
In college I made two pothead friends watch Blue Velvet. One said, “This is the best fucking movie I’ve ever seen in my life.” The other said, “This movie is so fucking self-aware of itself.” RIP.
January 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
In college I made two pothead friends watch Blue Velvet. One said, “This is the best fucking movie I’ve ever seen in my life.” The other said, “This movie is so fucking self-aware of itself.” RIP.
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I'd like to see a Venn diagram of the people who are sad about David Lynch and Bob Uecker passing away because that overlap...I bet those are my kind of people.
January 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I'd like to see a Venn diagram of the people who are sad about David Lynch and Bob Uecker passing away because that overlap...I bet those are my kind of people.
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Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California?
Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
January 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California?
Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
Discovered there's a way to feel embarrassed and self-conscious while alone. It's called "journaling."
November 24, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Discovered there's a way to feel embarrassed and self-conscious while alone. It's called "journaling."
Pro Writing Tip: If you outline first, you won’t get stuck in the second act of the draft and give up. You’ll get stuck in the second act of the outline and give up.
November 19, 2024 at 2:07 AM
Pro Writing Tip: If you outline first, you won’t get stuck in the second act of the draft and give up. You’ll get stuck in the second act of the outline and give up.
If the following nostalgia pieces came out now, these are the years they would be set in:
American Graffiti: 2013
The Wonder Years: 2004
Freaks & Geeks: 2005
Dazed and Confused: 2007
American Graffiti: 2013
The Wonder Years: 2004
Freaks & Geeks: 2005
Dazed and Confused: 2007
November 19, 2024 at 2:06 AM
If the following nostalgia pieces came out now, these are the years they would be set in:
American Graffiti: 2013
The Wonder Years: 2004
Freaks & Geeks: 2005
Dazed and Confused: 2007
American Graffiti: 2013
The Wonder Years: 2004
Freaks & Geeks: 2005
Dazed and Confused: 2007
If you “color-blind” cast a South Asian for a white role, great! But consider changing their character name. We generally don’t use western first names like our East Asian brethren. For example, I’m the whitest South Asian I know, and look at my fucking name.
November 19, 2024 at 2:04 AM
If you “color-blind” cast a South Asian for a white role, great! But consider changing their character name. We generally don’t use western first names like our East Asian brethren. For example, I’m the whitest South Asian I know, and look at my fucking name.