Adam L.
@tsalmoth.bsky.social
#EdTech professional. Topics I care about: politics (on your left), books (crime, SF, horror, lit), TV, wrestling (AEW), tech, probably other stuff. 3 cats, 1 dog. Dog is smaller than any of the cats. Also, fuck ICE
Left my tea steeping while I got distracted at work, so I'm guessing that this mug will turn me into Cornholio.
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Left my tea steeping while I got distracted at work, so I'm guessing that this mug will turn me into Cornholio.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Amazon Fire TV Stick sales about to plummet.
Amazon steps up attempts to block illegal sports streaming via Fire TV Sticks
The U.S. company will block apps loaded onto all of its Fire Stick devices that are identified as providing pirated content
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November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Amazon Fire TV Stick sales about to plummet.
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Bari Weiss is putting Dave Portnoy on the CBS Sunday Morning Shows and not focusing on his history of sexual misconduct
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Bari Weiss is putting Dave Portnoy on the CBS Sunday Morning Shows and not focusing on his history of sexual misconduct
Hey @micahloewinger.bsky.social and @onthemedia.bsky.social -- maybe Bluesky suspending journalists would make a good midweek pod topic?
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Hey @micahloewinger.bsky.social and @onthemedia.bsky.social -- maybe Bluesky suspending journalists would make a good midweek pod topic?
WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK, Bluesky?
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK, Bluesky?
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What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business
I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
Elon Musk is Roddy Ho with white privilege and a rich daddy. Oh, and weaker computing skills.
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Elon Musk is Roddy Ho with white privilege and a rich daddy. Oh, and weaker computing skills.
I oppose it in the sense that I'm opposed to incarceration, but as long as we have a system built around prisons, masked terrorists belong there.
As much as I find common cause with my more radical friends I (reluctantly) oppose the hardline proposals to summarily incarcerate every ICE agent. I urge everyone to consider the centrist compromise of abolishing ICE
Veteran ICE officials @nickmiroff.bsky.social spoke with view the use of masks as an unquestionably negative development. But it’s not going away anytime soon, Miroff reports: https://theatln.tc/acMM0axK
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I oppose it in the sense that I'm opposed to incarceration, but as long as we have a system built around prisons, masked terrorists belong there.
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Democratic congressional candidate Stefany Shaheen trashed the shutdown-ending deal crafted by her own mother, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), calling healthcare the “cause of my life” in a statement issued Monday.”
Even her daughter knows her mother is a sellout.
Even her daughter knows her mother is a sellout.
Democratic Congressional Candidate Torches Shutdown-Ending Deal — That Was Crafted By Her Own Mother
Democratic congressional candidate Stefany Shaheen trashed the shutdown-ending deal crafted by her own mother, Senator Jeanne Shaheen.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Democratic congressional candidate Stefany Shaheen trashed the shutdown-ending deal crafted by her own mother, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), calling healthcare the “cause of my life” in a statement issued Monday.”
Even her daughter knows her mother is a sellout.
Even her daughter knows her mother is a sellout.
I absolutely get more pissed at left-wing antisemitism than right-wing, because I expect people on the right to be antisemitic (it's core to the rest of their values). It's got no fucking place from anyone who uses the term "progressive."
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I absolutely get more pissed at left-wing antisemitism than right-wing, because I expect people on the right to be antisemitic (it's core to the rest of their values). It's got no fucking place from anyone who uses the term "progressive."
Meanwhile, Adam Schiff and others who get a fuckton of AIPAC money voted against it. This is just straight-up antisemitism implying that Jews are controlling the government, and has no place from "progressives."
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Meanwhile, Adam Schiff and others who get a fuckton of AIPAC money voted against it. This is just straight-up antisemitism implying that Jews are controlling the government, and has no place from "progressives."
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AIPAC sucks, supports genocide, and is a hub for Christian Zionists as much as anyone. *And* at the same time:
When you vaguepost like this about issues unrelated to Israel suggesting an org associated with Judaism is to blame, you are at least FLIRTING with antisemitic conspiracy theory.
When you vaguepost like this about issues unrelated to Israel suggesting an org associated with Judaism is to blame, you are at least FLIRTING with antisemitic conspiracy theory.
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
AIPAC sucks, supports genocide, and is a hub for Christian Zionists as much as anyone. *And* at the same time:
When you vaguepost like this about issues unrelated to Israel suggesting an org associated with Judaism is to blame, you are at least FLIRTING with antisemitic conspiracy theory.
When you vaguepost like this about issues unrelated to Israel suggesting an org associated with Judaism is to blame, you are at least FLIRTING with antisemitic conspiracy theory.
I know it's the fiftieth anniversary, etc. But it has to be said:
"Sundown" is simply a better song than "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
And it's not even close.
"Sundown" is simply a better song than "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
And it's not even close.
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I know it's the fiftieth anniversary, etc. But it has to be said:
"Sundown" is simply a better song than "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
And it's not even close.
"Sundown" is simply a better song than "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
And it's not even close.
In an intra-campus meeting about AI (sigh), and a colleague just called a certain Musk-based product "Gronk," and I barely made my saving throw against laughter.
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
In an intra-campus meeting about AI (sigh), and a colleague just called a certain Musk-based product "Gronk," and I barely made my saving throw against laughter.
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It’s incredible to see the rape and sexual assault charges to MAHA pipeline as personified by Russell Brand.
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It’s incredible to see the rape and sexual assault charges to MAHA pipeline as personified by Russell Brand.
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This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
The Democrats are the boxer in red trunks in Hot Shots.
This should be a good match (Hot Shots - 1991)
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November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The Democrats are the boxer in red trunks in Hot Shots.
(Arrested Development narrator voice)
Health care was, for Jeanne, negotiable.
Health care was, for Jeanne, negotiable.
Health care isn’t negotiable.
We need to both reopen the government and work together to protect access to affordable health care by extending the ACA enhanced premium tax credits.
We need to both reopen the government and work together to protect access to affordable health care by extending the ACA enhanced premium tax credits.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
(Arrested Development narrator voice)
Health care was, for Jeanne, negotiable.
Health care was, for Jeanne, negotiable.
You know the people who are still pissed about "literally" meaning "figuratively?"
That's me when I hear "drop a dime" being used to refer to a fantastic pass from a QB instead of a low-down dirty rat snitching on someone.
That's me when I hear "drop a dime" being used to refer to a fantastic pass from a QB instead of a low-down dirty rat snitching on someone.
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
You know the people who are still pissed about "literally" meaning "figuratively?"
That's me when I hear "drop a dime" being used to refer to a fantastic pass from a QB instead of a low-down dirty rat snitching on someone.
That's me when I hear "drop a dime" being used to refer to a fantastic pass from a QB instead of a low-down dirty rat snitching on someone.
These are folks who have been cheering on the Commanders, which means they have a high threshold for losers, and Trump still exceeds it.
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
These are folks who have been cheering on the Commanders, which means they have a high threshold for losers, and Trump still exceeds it.
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been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
Searched to see if Sombr (terrible SNL musical guest) was a nepo baby, and while he kinda is (dad's filthy mega-rich and connected), Google's AI overview, as always, is so fucking wrong.
November 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Searched to see if Sombr (terrible SNL musical guest) was a nepo baby, and while he kinda is (dad's filthy mega-rich and connected), Google's AI overview, as always, is so fucking wrong.
Harley Cameron's sling blade is already leagues better than the one Britt kept using. #AEWCollision
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Harley Cameron's sling blade is already leagues better than the one Britt kept using. #AEWCollision