Tim Halbur
@halbur.bsky.social
Tim Halbur makes audio tours for museums at Rhubarb Audio, and is exactly the beer-drinking, music-and-movie-obsessed bohemian he looks like.
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
I don’t know, this didn’t work out too well for Ghorman…
October 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I don’t know, this didn’t work out too well for Ghorman…
Finally, scientists have found a way to synthesize that precious resource we have in such short supply: young female actresses.
October 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Finally, scientists have found a way to synthesize that precious resource we have in such short supply: young female actresses.
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Epic and Lovely is not getting reviewed.
If you feel like doing me a big favor, I'm now in the position of begging for Amazon reviews.
If you want to support small press fiction, me personally, oddly-shaped people, or survivors of abuse, please tell someone, or Amazon, about the book.
If you feel like doing me a big favor, I'm now in the position of begging for Amazon reviews.
If you want to support small press fiction, me personally, oddly-shaped people, or survivors of abuse, please tell someone, or Amazon, about the book.
October 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Epic and Lovely is not getting reviewed.
If you feel like doing me a big favor, I'm now in the position of begging for Amazon reviews.
If you want to support small press fiction, me personally, oddly-shaped people, or survivors of abuse, please tell someone, or Amazon, about the book.
If you feel like doing me a big favor, I'm now in the position of begging for Amazon reviews.
If you want to support small press fiction, me personally, oddly-shaped people, or survivors of abuse, please tell someone, or Amazon, about the book.
Hey, book lover! Don’t miss this IndieNext pick for Sept, written by my talented wife Mo Daviau! It is dark and hilarious and deep and so many other things…
September 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Hey, book lover! Don’t miss this IndieNext pick for Sept, written by my talented wife Mo Daviau! It is dark and hilarious and deep and so many other things…
F the NYT for giving them air, and F anyone who thinks the way out if this mess is to get “more moderate” on social issues. Address the real issues of wealth disparity, health care, and jobs and stand firm on social issues without giving MAGA air.
September 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
F the NYT for giving them air, and F anyone who thinks the way out if this mess is to get “more moderate” on social issues. Address the real issues of wealth disparity, health care, and jobs and stand firm on social issues without giving MAGA air.
Hate speech isn't political discourse, nor is it protected, for that matter.
September 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Hate speech isn't political discourse, nor is it protected, for that matter.
I hesitated to use a paper towel this morning, and it made me think that the scarcity mentality drilled into the Left is probably a big factor in the Right’s rejection of progressive policies. Is there any way we can reframe conservation so it doesn’t feel like flagellation?
September 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I hesitated to use a paper towel this morning, and it made me think that the scarcity mentality drilled into the Left is probably a big factor in the Right’s rejection of progressive policies. Is there any way we can reframe conservation so it doesn’t feel like flagellation?
I recorded a narrator named Erik Bauersfeld for years for audio tours before learning that he was the voice of Admiral Akbar.
a star wars character is saying `` it 's a trap '' .
ALT: a star wars character is saying `` it 's a trap '' .
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September 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I recorded a narrator named Erik Bauersfeld for years for audio tours before learning that he was the voice of Admiral Akbar.
As a regular defender of the press, I'm truly gobsmacked by the lack of coverage of Trump's disappearance. Are the editors and owners just proactively capitulating out of fear? Are they operating on an old fashioned idea of decorum? How are we not getting coverage of the disappearance and coverup?
September 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
As a regular defender of the press, I'm truly gobsmacked by the lack of coverage of Trump's disappearance. Are the editors and owners just proactively capitulating out of fear? Are they operating on an old fashioned idea of decorum? How are we not getting coverage of the disappearance and coverup?
Completed my Denis Villeneuve scorecard with his film Polytechnique, a reinactment/dramatization of a school shooting in Montreal. It is stark, heartbreaking, and visceral. I wish he wasn’t mired in Dune.
August 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Completed my Denis Villeneuve scorecard with his film Polytechnique, a reinactment/dramatization of a school shooting in Montreal. It is stark, heartbreaking, and visceral. I wish he wasn’t mired in Dune.
I saw somewhere that it would only take 130,000 progressives to move to Wyoming to swing the balance of the national elections. Highly mobile Gen Z activists, make it happen!
August 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I saw somewhere that it would only take 130,000 progressives to move to Wyoming to swing the balance of the national elections. Highly mobile Gen Z activists, make it happen!
Jillian Michaels is doing what MAGA does: act like they are victims of an oppressive agenda where white people are forced to feel bad about themselves. Understanding the past, reconciling wrongs, and uplifting others makes us all better people and a better country. Don’t “not all whites” me.
August 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Jillian Michaels is doing what MAGA does: act like they are victims of an oppressive agenda where white people are forced to feel bad about themselves. Understanding the past, reconciling wrongs, and uplifting others makes us all better people and a better country. Don’t “not all whites” me.
Cannot wait for the day that gaudy gold Dollar Tree shit is pried off the walls of the White House.
August 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Cannot wait for the day that gaudy gold Dollar Tree shit is pried off the walls of the White House.
I heard from a local movie theater owner that the distributors force them to carry all their films or they’ll be cut off, which is how we end up with the big blockbusters in every theater. It’s absurd, because no one wants to see the big action flicks on a tiny arthouse screen.
August 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I heard from a local movie theater owner that the distributors force them to carry all their films or they’ll be cut off, which is how we end up with the big blockbusters in every theater. It’s absurd, because no one wants to see the big action flicks on a tiny arthouse screen.
I hope this entire administration is enslaved in a fiery angry Black god hell for this.
This former model, with no background in history, has been put in charge of curating what is "appropriate" at the National Museum of African American History.
August 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I hope this entire administration is enslaved in a fiery angry Black god hell for this.
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The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement.
The President does not run the Smithsonian.
The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law.
Release the Epstein files.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The President does not run the Smithsonian.
The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law.
Release the Epstein files.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
August 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement.
The President does not run the Smithsonian.
The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law.
Release the Epstein files.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The President does not run the Smithsonian.
The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law.
Release the Epstein files.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I know the outrages pile up, but this kind of outrageous lawlessness sticks in my craw. Govt. agencies CANNOT be allowed to loot and pillage. Govt agencies CANNOT detain people purely for their ethnicity. This must stop.
What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?
ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles
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ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles
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August 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I know the outrages pile up, but this kind of outrageous lawlessness sticks in my craw. Govt. agencies CANNOT be allowed to loot and pillage. Govt agencies CANNOT detain people purely for their ethnicity. This must stop.
Portland "moderates" love to complain that if we increase any taxes to pay for quality-of-life programs like Preschool for All, housing the homeless, and maintaining our parks, that the rich people will flee. The data disagrees. Thanks Commissioner Moyer!
www.wweek.com/news/2025/08...
www.wweek.com/news/2025/08...
County Commissioner Brings Expert on Millionaire Migration Into Preschool Debate
Meghan Moyer, a self-proclaimed "nerd," wanted cold, hard data.
www.wweek.com
August 9, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Portland "moderates" love to complain that if we increase any taxes to pay for quality-of-life programs like Preschool for All, housing the homeless, and maintaining our parks, that the rich people will flee. The data disagrees. Thanks Commissioner Moyer!
www.wweek.com/news/2025/08...
www.wweek.com/news/2025/08...
I’m boycotting Amazon as much as possible, but had to order some things I can’t find anywhere else. It always strikes me how the shipping is like a hostage situation - you can pay a fee for exploitative labor to rush it, or they will hold your package for a few days as punishment.
August 6, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I’m boycotting Amazon as much as possible, but had to order some things I can’t find anywhere else. It always strikes me how the shipping is like a hostage situation - you can pay a fee for exploitative labor to rush it, or they will hold your package for a few days as punishment.
I’m back here, sloughing off Threads for these more independent grounds. Hope to keep informed and inform in return. Power to the people, down with the oligarchy and the techno-fascists. Up with art, movies, music, and empathy.
August 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I’m back here, sloughing off Threads for these more independent grounds. Hope to keep informed and inform in return. Power to the people, down with the oligarchy and the techno-fascists. Up with art, movies, music, and empathy.
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It's just enormously important to understand that the goal of this tariff policy isn't to raise money or to increase manufacturing in the United States. The goal is to make some of the nation's largest companies subject to Trump's personal discretion and dependent on his favor.
March 6, 2025 at 3:45 AM
It's just enormously important to understand that the goal of this tariff policy isn't to raise money or to increase manufacturing in the United States. The goal is to make some of the nation's largest companies subject to Trump's personal discretion and dependent on his favor.
More truly heinous corruption from our President.
People should be calling this what it is, which is a crypto bailout. They're cutting cancer research so they can bailout rich, degenerate gamblers bsky.app/profile/ronf...
Let’s see, Donald Trump launched his crypto business right before taking office. Melania did the day before the inauguration. Junior launched a new one too. Oh, and of course Eric did.
March 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
More truly heinous corruption from our President.
Somehow I missed this Friday: Federal judge issued a restraining order on DOGE hiring and firing in other agencies.
www.npr.org/2025/02/27/n...
www.npr.org/2025/02/27/n...
Judge says Trump's mass firing of federal employees is illegal and should be stopped
A federal judge in San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order on the Trump administration's firings of thousands of probationary employees, calling the actions illegal.
www.npr.org
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Somehow I missed this Friday: Federal judge issued a restraining order on DOGE hiring and firing in other agencies.
www.npr.org/2025/02/27/n...
www.npr.org/2025/02/27/n...
There seems to be a deliberate shut-out of coverage of Buy Nothing Day. Only headline I've found completely misunderstands the message and says it is a protest against high prices. Anyone seeing anything?
March 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
There seems to be a deliberate shut-out of coverage of Buy Nothing Day. Only headline I've found completely misunderstands the message and says it is a protest against high prices. Anyone seeing anything?