Barney
@barneyh.bsky.social
Part-time German, full-time Northerner. For some reason I now live in Cheshire. I post about music, games and general rubbish.
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David Bowie, train station platform, Kyoto, Japan, 1980, by Masayoshi Sukita.
November 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
David Bowie, train station platform, Kyoto, Japan, 1980, by Masayoshi Sukita.
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Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
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Me, when I've been to the UK for a few days then come back to Germany and forget which way I'm meant to look first when I want to cross a road:
a man in a purple tank top with the rolling stones logo in the corner
ALT: a man in a purple tank top with the rolling stones logo in the corner
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November 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Me, when I've been to the UK for a few days then come back to Germany and forget which way I'm meant to look first when I want to cross a road:
You have to wonder where this money is coming from. I am the Ed Zitron of Ubisoft mate. 🤔
After a delay, Ubisoft reports Q2 net bookings up 39% YoY to €490.8M, above €450M est., and expects Q3 bookings of €305M; Ubisoft resumed trading on November 21 (Leo Marchandon/Reuters)
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November 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
You have to wonder where this money is coming from. I am the Ed Zitron of Ubisoft mate. 🤔
It's interesting to watch the are we the baddies meme just sail over someone's head in real time.
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."
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November 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
It's interesting to watch the are we the baddies meme just sail over someone's head in real time.
Don't teachers have enough to correct as it is?
OpenAI announces ChatGPT for Teachers, designed for K-12 educators and school districts, and says it will be free to K-12 educators in the US through June 2027 (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
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November 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Don't teachers have enough to correct as it is?
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November 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
六必居潮州一品沙鍋粥 (民權店)/板橋美食; No. 3號, Minquan Rd, Banqiao District, New Taipei City, Taiwan 220 https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=25.0099118%2C121.4629108&query_place_id=ChIJNZKIdx6oQjQRdPECsfSu_Rs
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"Paul, we're doing an article about data compression techniques. We just need something that illustrates compressing data." "Say no more, Cliff."
November 19, 2025 at 6:05 AM
"Paul, we're doing an article about data compression techniques. We just need something that illustrates compressing data." "Say no more, Cliff."
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
Well I for one am shocked that Edgar Wright made a shit film.
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Well I for one am shocked that Edgar Wright made a shit film.
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“As in ‘Helsinki, Sweden’.”
November 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
“As in ‘Helsinki, Sweden’.”
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All of our power structures, from politics to financing to education to the media, are rotten and corrupted, programmed by capitalism to incentivize and reward predation, exploitation, and dehumanization.
It’s not even hidden at this point and it demands wholesale change.
It’s not even hidden at this point and it demands wholesale change.
November 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
All of our power structures, from politics to financing to education to the media, are rotten and corrupted, programmed by capitalism to incentivize and reward predation, exploitation, and dehumanization.
It’s not even hidden at this point and it demands wholesale change.
It’s not even hidden at this point and it demands wholesale change.
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Just made this. I’m a widely respected intellectual, you know
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Just made this. I’m a widely respected intellectual, you know
I think This Modern Love is one of the best songs of the last 25 years.
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I think This Modern Love is one of the best songs of the last 25 years.
Strange isn’t it, that a few years ago if you saw this photo you might be inclined to think ‘about time mate’.
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Strange isn’t it, that a few years ago if you saw this photo you might be inclined to think ‘about time mate’.
Drops as in removes or as in yo new tariffs dropped? Hard to tell with Americans.
BREAKING: Trump drops tariffs on dozens of food items
Trump drops tariffs on dozens of food items
The growing affordability crisis has become a political liability for the administration.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Drops as in removes or as in yo new tariffs dropped? Hard to tell with Americans.
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This afternoon, IWGB Game Workers joined together with unions from all over Europe, including @stjv.fr and @csvi-cgt.bsky.social to protest against Rockstar's union busting in Paris - on est là!
Protests continued today outside Take Two's offices in London, but also in Paris, where Le Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo (@stjv.fr) came out to show their international solidarity with the fired Rockstar workers.
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This afternoon, IWGB Game Workers joined together with unions from all over Europe, including @stjv.fr and @csvi-cgt.bsky.social to protest against Rockstar's union busting in Paris - on est là!
Disappointed in my brother. He asked for a film recommendation and, because he had mentioned Nicolas Cage, I said Pig, it’s his best performance. He came back later with ‘Boring’. Unbelievable.
November 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Disappointed in my brother. He asked for a film recommendation and, because he had mentioned Nicolas Cage, I said Pig, it’s his best performance. He came back later with ‘Boring’. Unbelievable.
Thinking about sailing into international waters and opening a website where you can explicitly call for the death of those shitbirds who have it coming.
November 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Thinking about sailing into international waters and opening a website where you can explicitly call for the death of those shitbirds who have it coming.
We’ve had our record player for a year now. Possibly gone a bit overboard.
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
We’ve had our record player for a year now. Possibly gone a bit overboard.
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She put him in an late 90s experimental CD ROM game
man these Annie Leibovitz photos of Timothee Chalamet for Vogue are,,, remarkably bad. JC Penney's photographer bad. first year with a DSLR bad.
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
She put him in an late 90s experimental CD ROM game
Imagine leaving your spouse for a dialogue tree.
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Secret chatbot flings are creating new legal challenges for married couples when it comes to infidelity.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Imagine leaving your spouse for a dialogue tree.
I mean just look at that track list.
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I mean just look at that track list.