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samleibowitz.bsky.social
Software engineer / architect, fiddler, dad, working in the field of behavioral health and living in the suburbs of Philly. Yes I'd love to meet your dog.
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Really tired of government by messy, messy little bitches.

the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns

Following up: while Jonathan Joss complained about years of homophobic abuse from his neighbors and his husband wrote that the murderer was screaming homophobic epithets, the San Antonio police says there’s “no evidence” of a hate crime. This is why so many queer folks don’t like cops at Pride.

“Instead of structured play & standardized testing, I’m learning masonry at my own pace with the hands-on experience of bricking you up in this wine cellar.” “…” “I really like this approach; think I’m gonna try to make it a thing.” “For the love of God, Montessori.” “Yes. For the love of God.”

This is really bad.

“A succession of top agents, all women, were given an ultimatum: Take a different post or be asked to retire.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/u...

the dutch aren’t real they can’t hurt me

…whut.

i find it somewhat frustrating and dismaying to see people who can make clear and cogent arguments for how to try to behave ethically as a consumer disregarding those same principles when it comes to charitable giving.

Bryn Coed nature preserve. Meh, it’s okay, I guess.

Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023. They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."

Don't you hate it when executive leadership uses company money to jet off to a corporate retreat somewhere sunny and comes back with a bunch of "transformation" ideas? Anyway, if you just ignore the stuff they came up with at the Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, I'm sure they'll forget about it soon.

Every time a friend visits Philly and asks me where they should go for a cheesesteak, I say “go to Dinic’s, and it’s pronounced “roast pork”. “

Branded a "terrorist" by the Kremlin, British bomb expert Chris Garrett devoted his life to disarming the world’s largest minefield — saving thousands of Ukrainian lives before the Russian war claimed him. euromaidanpress.com/2025/05/20/k...

Watching Conclave. You know, the music is pretty good, but why the hell didn’t they use CW McCall’s “Convoy” and just change the lyrics around? “Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got ourselves a Conclave.” Such a wasted opportunity. open.spotify.com/track/6dGWq0...

My friend @strawberry-fairy.bsky.social made me a P00P shirt!!!! The ‘P’s are Velcro so we can swap them for an away game!!! I have cool friends!

wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey? guard: [looking away] fine wife: did something happen? guard: [tearing up] no wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

Rest in peace, P00P.

Spent too much time on this

Oh god why is Naomi Klein turning up in my feed again.

Ruh roh. share.inquirer.com/83N0F5

Nice day for a walk at Bryn Coed park.

Oh thank god

Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

We just got a letter from our healthcare company denying coverage for my wife's recent 48 hours in the hospital because they have decided that it was "not medically necessary." She was in the hospital giving birth.

never let anybody tell u that evil does not exist

The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm 2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings 3: Claims of "White Genocide" in South Africa are contested. Some claim that white farmers ar

From the annals of unnecessary scare quotes.

We’re at this very weird point right now where we’ve recreated Gödel’s incompleteness theorem - we have an LLM saying “I’m messing up right now because I’ve been instructed to state something I don’t believe to be true”. Which answer has the consequences you prefer?