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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

19 days

I'm very excited to be joining the team at @CDNAffairs !

Canadian Affairs

@CDNAffairs

19 days

Samuel Forster has joined Canadian Affairs! @ForsterSam is an Edmonton-based journalist whose writing has appeared in The Spectator, the National Post, UnHerd and other outlets. He is the author of Americosis: A Nation’s Dysfunction Observed from Public Transit (Sutherland

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Sam Forster

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11 months

downtown Montreal right now

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Sam Forster

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7 years

why is the uni spending money to get rid of the asbestos in humanities when the water fountains in engineering don't even have Bluetooth?!

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11 months

guy with what appears to be an Israel flag surrounded by police — huge @SPVM presence

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Sam Forster

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7 years

DOES ANYONE ELSE REMEMBER SEEING THIS GUY AS AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT BETWEEN LIKE 1999 AND 2003?!? #terrifyingchildhoodmemories

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Sam Forster

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5 years

What would happen if the Arizonans, Floridians, Michiganians, Pennsylvanians, and Wisconsinites living abroad cast ballots like they were back home? For Democrats, mobilizing overseas voters may be the key to winning 2020. My first essay for @ArcDigi :

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11 months

@SPVM looks like he’s been ushered away from the scene… overheard police talking about how he would’ve ended up in the hospital

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Sam Forster

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2 years

Four Whom the Lo Kos

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

2 years

All of the shrieking about student loan forgiveness is just another indication of how much better off America would be with some form of universal basic income. My latest piece:

Slicing the Pie

“OH, YOU’RE AGAINST FORGIVING STUDENT LOAN DEBT …

stabs.substack.com

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Sam Forster

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1 month

I spoke with @MadiHilly , @Dr_Keefer , and @energybants about the realities of nuclear energy, and the misconceptions that shape public opinion. My first for @CDNAffairs :

Canadian Affairs

@CDNAffairs

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The town of Ignace, Ont., is willing to host a deep geological repository to store nuclear waste. Their decision may reflect a broader trend. By Samuel Forster | @ForsterSam Read more:

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Sam Forster

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11 months

@SPVM moments earlier, getting mogged from across the street

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

5 years

I’d like to officially and unreservedly apologize for everything I said and did between 2007 and 2016.

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Sam Forster

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6 years

PSA: If you have faith in the Oilers, you aren’t allowed to make fun of girls who stay with their deadbeat boyfriends.

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

8 years

caesars are the best salads and the worst cocktails

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

2 years

Air Canada will charge you $800 for a domestic flight, leave 4 hours late, lose all your stuff, and then hit you with a “Merci d’avoir choisi Air Canada💫🍁” as if you had any other choisi

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

8 years

how are girls just discovering doughnuts in 2017? what other pastries do you guys not know about... scones? churros? DANISHES?!?!

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

2 years

hometown lindywalk

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

4 months

It's been a long time since I've read anything as good as @jhensonpogue 's latest in @GrantaMag about how Cold War II is playing out in the Central African Republic.

Wagner in Africa | James Pogue | Granta

‘Many people in the country seem happy to accept mercenaries in exchange for stability.’ James Pogue on the Wagner Group in the Central African Republic.

granta.com

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

11 months

@grape_one I forgot to ask

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

8 months

My first book is out today! I'm very glad to see it on the shelves. Other announcements coming soon. Shaping up to be a big spring.

Americosis: A Nation's Dysfunction Observed from Public Transit|Paperback

Virtually every problem with the modern American mode of living stems from three major cultural characteristics: a pathological attachment to the automobile, a horrifying apathy toward the obesity...

www.barnesandnoble.com

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

2 years

every morning is a good morning in bogota!

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

10 years

maybe I'll just practice at home today❄️ http://t.co/de8HUd97mV

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

8 years

*premonitions of my phone getting some sort of facial piercing, wearing indie band t shirts and only drinking craft beer*

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

5 years

telling my kids that this was john wayne

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Sam Forster

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4 months

varsity squad

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

3 months

There are a few things about my book that I want to clarify. Some people have suggested that my intention in writing Seven Shoulders was to “understand” what it’s like to be someone of a different race. That is not true. I wasn’t trying to “understand” the experience of being a

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

4 years

what was wrong with skype?

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

8 years

yeg weather makes me want to surgically graft a humidifier to my face

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

1 year

calling for a total and complete shutdown of marketing departments until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

11 months

outremont posting

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

2 years

I’m thrilled to announce that my first book manuscript has won the Sutherland House Nonfiction Prize! It’s a real honor, and I’m very excited to work with the team at @sutherlandbooks in the coming months. Stay tuned!

Sutherland Prize: We have a winner!

Plus, the year of Molly McGhee

shush.substack.com

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Sam Forster

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8 years

nothing better than coming home to this blob after an awful Thursday

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

2 years

the point of your twenties is to just aimlessly walk around while listening to MGMT

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

8 years

overheard some girl in CCIS tell her friend that she wants to take astro 122 because she thinks horoscopes are "so interesting"

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

2 years

Wildfires are a major issue in Argentina — both as a matter of public health, and as an environmental hazard. I spoke to @RafaColombo84 , @LuciEchevarria , @Cele_Fierro , and others about the ongoing consequences of government inaction.

Buenos Aires Times

@theBAtimes

2 years

#Argentina #fires #LeyDeHumedales Fires continue to destroy land at an alarming rate throughout the country, despite clear and repeated calls for government action. - @ForsterSam

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

11 years

#falalalala http://t.co/SvrEpXLwMx

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

2 years

I spoke with @oconalf and @benjamingedan for my latest @theBAtimes piece on Argentina's geopolitical ambiguity. Online now and in today's print edition of @perfildiario

Look north or east? Argentina’s tilt in a bipolar world remains unclear

Beijing’s massive economic promise continues to stymie Washington’s attempts at democratic coalition in the Americas.

www.batimes.com.ar

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

5 years

My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone in the GTA. Really scary when you start to see numbers dipping like that. Stay safe!🙏🏻

CP24

@CP24

5 years

JUST IN: Toronto issues extreme cold weather alert for the city, saying temps will hit -12 C without windchill overnight.

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Sam Forster

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2 years

@kategblack him

Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

7 years

DOES ANYONE ELSE REMEMBER SEEING THIS GUY AS AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT BETWEEN LIKE 1999 AND 2003?!? #terrifyingchildhoodmemories

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Sam Forster

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7 years

don't call me "son" unless you're old enough to wear a blazer with jeans

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Sam Forster

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5 years

Yesterday Sam deserves a Nobel Prize in Time Management.

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Sam Forster

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9 years

tims lady accidentally put two hash browns in the hash brown sheath 🙏🏻 #iseeyou

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Sam Forster

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1 year

My first piece for @unherd , a dispatch from Zaporizhzhia, is out today:

Nuclear disaster looms in southern Ukraine

Zaporizhzhia “The intensity of our services has increased since the start of the war,” says Sergii Tkachenko, a colonel in Ukraine’s State Emergency Service who oversees technical measures and...

unherd.com

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

6 months

naqoura tuxedo

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

11 months

Why is this happening, Mr. Minister?

Marc Miller ᐅᑭᒫᐃᐧᐅᓃᐸᐄᐧᐤᐃᔨᐣ

@MarcMillerVM

11 months

Disgusted and ashamed to see these scenes glorifying death and terror, in Montreal, the city I love and the city I represent. Hamas is a terrorist organization and nobody should glorify their bloody cowardly violence.

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Sam Forster

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1 year

whatsoever

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Sam Forster

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6 months

where it beginsssss

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Sam Forster

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1 year

walking around in public with eccentric pet birds feels like it was a much more common thing in previous centuries not something you see much these days

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Sam Forster

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11 months

walking out the dépanneur at 3 a.m. like

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Sam Forster

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1 year

could really use a loathsome ex-wife. seems like such a reliable thing to complain about when conversation gets dull

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Sam Forster

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2 years

watched All Quiet on the Western Front with an open mind, but I’m still very glad I didn’t fight in WWI

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

4 months

online and in this week’s print edition 🇦🇷🇧🇷

Buenos Aires Times

@theBAtimes

4 months

Rhetoric vs. reality: Gaza conflict shows limits of Argentina and Brazil’s influence in Middle East ✍️ @ForsterSam #Opinion #Analysis

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

8 months

some excellent writing from my brother for @hobartpulp

2 Poems by Cole Henry Forster

LARIDAE The truth-harvester is waiting for me on the arm of my destiny-soaked couch, commands me to make a Christmas morning in her head, to stumble and abuse Rimbaud in my post-collegiate French...

www.hobartpulp.com

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Sam Forster

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8 years

dream superpower: one of my fingers is actually a shoehorn

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Sam Forster

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6 months

Jerusalem in spring

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Sam Forster

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8 years

the cultural anthropologists and historians of the 22nd century are going to have such a hard time grappling the phenomenon of truck nutz

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

1 year

people are saying that I am currently one of the most handsome men at the Greyhound station in Anniston, Alabama

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Sam Forster

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2 years

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Sam Forster

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1 year

boy breakfast :)

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

2 years

the best part of being in Brooklyn is getting the CVS employee to unlock the toothpaste shelf and escort you to the cash register like you’re an 18th century mariner withdrawing a life savings’ worth of gold doubloons

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

2 years

Anyone who plans on voting in New York this fall should check out my recent piece in @CityAndStateNY !

City & State NY

@CityAndStateNY

2 years

Which New York members of Congress want a blanket ban on using privileged information to invest in the markets?

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

8 years

I still can't believe chipotle southwest sauce has zero calories

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

2 years

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

4 years

mapped out the most plausible path to victory for both candidates

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Sam Forster

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1 year

walking

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

8 years

my drafts have been piling up lately... really hoping all this self-censorship is just a phase and not part of being an actual adult

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

1 year

dating apps? I’m in the Sontag section, acting like I just landed on Mars

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

1 month

For anyone interested in the nature of the Canadian industry specifically, @CanadiansEnergy provides a lot of useful content!

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

7 years

Oh, you're a classics major? What's your favourite Good Charlotte song?

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

1 year

one thing I miss about argentina is how eagerly people incorporate english into their advertising despite having very little interaction with native anglophones

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

1 year

brits will be unable to name a single north american sports team, but if you tell them you’ve never heard of the Piddlinghamshire Pickpockets, a 4th div club from their local county, they’ll be like, “wot?! bruv, are you schtewpid, or are you daft?!?”

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

1 year

making sure the air bnb is absolutely spotless at check out despite paying a zillion-dollar cleaning fee

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

2 years

guy in $1500 arc’teryx jacket berating chipotle worker over guac surcharge 😤💯 #grindset

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

6 months

near Majdal Zoun after a big Israeli strike

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

1 year

liguria

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Sam Forster

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1 year

3 AM in Kyiv, riding out the storm

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

2 years

I wrote about the Brazilian election, and how a Lula victory would influence the regional political landscape. Read it online now and in tomorrow's print edition of @perfildiario

Buenos Aires Times

@theBAtimes

2 years

A presidential shake-up in Brazil would have big implications for the country, the region and the Mercosur trade bloc. @ForsterSam speaks with @benjamingedan , @OliverStuenkel , @SerbinPont and @gnribeiro about the impact of Sunday's election.

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

11 months

really solid reporting about the situation on the ground in Lebanon

Fin DePencier

@finlookedintoit

11 months

My report from Lebanon 🇱🇧 for @gzeromedia is out, have a watch! Was also super stoked that this aired on @PBS over the weekend.

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

7 years

let me put my poems in you

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

7 months

westward on the levantine sea

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

3 months

Understanding Poilievre’s relationship with media requires an understanding of Canadian cultural paranoias. My latest for @TheSpectator :

Meet Pierre Poilievre, Canada’s anti-Trudeau

There are armies of politically literate Canadians who earnestly think that Pierre Poilievre would be comfortable among the members of the

thespectator.com

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

7 months

Beirut by foot

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Sam Forster

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"Purell Mimosas," a chapter from my first book, is now online at @Quillette

A Bus Tour of American Dystopia

Life on Dallas’ mass-transit system provides a window into the misery endured by America’s abandoned underclass.

quillette.com

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

6 months

Lebanon’s Green Line

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

1 year

alto

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

2 years

why would I want a weighted blanket that’s under 100 pounds?

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

1 year

it’s called spain, and we are looking into it very strongly

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

2 years

I wrote about the calls for ‘hate speech’ legislation in response to the assassination attempt on Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Special thanks to @diegoacorbalan and @nataliavolosin for speaking to me. Read it online or in today’s print edition of @perfildiario !

Buenos Aires Times

@theBAtimes

2 years

Ruling coalition U-turns on proposal after INADI anti-discrimination institute Director Victoria Donda demands introduction of ‘hate speech’ law in wake of attack on vice-president.

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

2 years

hey, can you come pick me up? I’m at the corner of Yonge and Gettin’ It

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

1 year

talking to the 90-year-old (probably deaf) gallery attendant at the prado: discúlpeme, señor, estoy buscando a saturno... que? usted sabe, como... *aggressively pantomimes biting the cap off a bottle*

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Sam Forster

@ForsterSam

6 months

a common experience in lebanon is wondering if you’re going crazy because you smell burnt dog, but then realizing you aren’t going crazy when you drive past some guy who is literally burning a german shepherd carcass on the side of the road

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