Sameer Vasta

@sameervasta.bsky.social

425 Followers 153 Following

Unabashedly earnest. Unapologetically enthusiastic. Infinitely curious. (he/him)

Black and white alpaca in foreground with brown alpaca behind it and trees and grassland in the background.
Pints of red local strawberries arranged into a case and photographed from above
Photo of a bouquet of peonies in various shades of pink in a glass vase on a table, shot in soft focus
Screen capture of analysis of my presence and impact in various LLM models, showing a score of 243. GPT 5.5 describes me as “CANADIAN WRITER, EDITOR, AND DIGITAL STRATEGIST ASSOCIATED WITH CIVIC TECH, CULTURE, AND COMMUNITY-FOCUSED ONLINE PROJECTS.”
Four postcards stacked on top of each other featuring a painting by Bobbi Piko of colorful houses on Jellybean Row in St. John’s against a deep blue sky.
Pink magnolia flowers on a blurred background
Cleo the cat at 2 months old. Gray and black tabby kitten in an empty bookshelf looking up to the corner of the frame
Sameer Vasta, a brown man with short hair and a trimmed beard, wearing glasses and a grey sweater, sitting behind a table with a cup of tea in front of him
Case of unripe Alphonso mangoes encased in styrofoam mesh next to box lid of said mangoes
Sculpture of Tin Man from Wizard of Oz with elaborate arrangements of flowers and plants around him
Fridge magnet of three De La Soul members posing on a three of diamonds playing card
Screenshot of weather widget showing temperature as minus 17 and the windchill feeling like minus 27 degrees
Screenshot from Letterboxd year in review that says my most watched nanogenre is emotion, reality, raw
Brown goat chewing in paddock with other goats around
Six stamp designs by prominent Canadian cartoonists featuring the main characters from one of their most celebrated works reading the novels they appear in
Photo of man in blue shirt (me!) and woman with white shirt (Lise!) holding hands close to each other while standing in a field of purple and orange wildflowers
Man and woman wearing black berets and holding cigarettes, with black and white face paint to resemble the face paint of the band Kiss.
Hand holding a sandwich wrapped in foil stuffed with meat and tomatoes and sauce and greens
Front cover of yellow book titled “Internet phone book”
Large pond surrounded by trees of various colors with a blue sky and a few wispy white clouds
Sunset over Lake Huron with streaks of clouds in the sky and waves crashing upon the beach in the foreground
Half-full quart of strawberries being held by a hand in front of rows of strawberry bushes out of focus in the background
Shelves of jarred pickles behind a sign that says I wonder if pickles think about me too.
Sign on produce case saying Maybe Broccoli Doesn’t Like You Either
Three pieces of art, including two paintings and one sculpture, in a temporary art exhibit
Glass dome of the Ismaili Centre raising up into the cloudy sky
Unwrapped yellow, orange, and green kesar mango sitting on top of a case of styrofoam-wrapped mangoes
Photo of Sameer Vasta sitting at a red picnic table smiling into the sunshine while he drinks an iced tea and a matcha latte in a plastic cup also sits in front of him.
Picture of a few snow-capped Rocky Mountains with clouds surrounding the peaks in a grey sky
Closeup of pink cherry blossoms on a branch
Small grey tabby kitten in a bookshelf
Mural of woman with wings on the side of a large brick building, taken from parking lot with cars parked in the foreground.
Two women with their hands above their heads ready to throw hatchets onto a wood board target in front of them.
Wild turkey sitting on fence in backyard
Cone of chocolate-dipped soft serve ice cream being held in a hand in a parking lot
Croissant stuffed with bacon, egg, and greens on a white plate on a brown wood table
Screenshot of text that reads: What’s under assault right now isn’t jobs. A great many jobs are being extinguished, and each lost job is a measure of misery for many people. But the greater heartbreak is the loss of work—the separation from meaningful, changeful work, and from the impacts of that work, from the world that comes into being when our work is oriented towards the living. It’s telling that so many of the jobs currently under attack are those of technology people performing civil service: these are people who chose work that was less glamorous, and less remunerative, than the standard tech path, but also more purposeful, more likely to actually deliver on tech’s otherwise empty promise of a better world. The message is clear: you will work for the needs of capital, or you will work not at all. That means it’s not enough to simply get the jobs back; we have to fight for the work, too.
A child and an adult climbing up a snow-covered hill with a sled in their hand while two adults watch from the top of the hill and a school in the background
Two postcards with a few potted cacti printed on them
Child in floral snowsuit pulling up a red sled up a gentle hill with lots of snow everywhere
Wild turkey sitting on black backyard fence
View of San Francisco Bay Bridge from the shore during a vivid sunset with the water reflecting the the orange hues of the sky
Screenshot of iOS weather widget saying the temperature is -17° with a feels like temperature of -27°
Hand holding a copy of the book “This Beautiful Day” by Fred Rogers
Open tin filled with packed sardines in olive oil with the lid of the tin sitting next to it
Screenshot of weather app saying it is 18 degrees below zero outside with a feels like temperature of 23 below zero
Framed poster in window that says, “my love for you is like the construction on Eglinton…endless”
Photo of signpost on corner of street pointing out directions and distance to major landmarks
Screenshot of webpage saying that the test-taker’s personality matches up with that of Gabriella Montez from High School Musical
Photo of red 1978 Plymouth Horizon car with a lake and dock in the background
Grey 1992 Honda Civic on a unpaved road
Two men holding hatchets and facing a wooden target, ready to throw the hatchets at the targets
Tree covered in red leaves on a street surrounded by fog
Screenshot of Sameer Vasta’s Letterboxd profile page
Tiny purple duck figurine on a pink chair.