it’s trevor barnes
@iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social
mediocre mandolinist // http://www.excessivevibrato.com
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He’s surrounded by such wormy little losers at the White House that I think he was like wow a cool guy
November 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
He’s surrounded by such wormy little losers at the White House that I think he was like wow a cool guy
“seize him” ass president
Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
“seize him” ass president
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for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
gotta lol to keep from col
October 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
gotta lol to keep from col
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
and speaking of mandolins, here is some very annoying self-indulgent improvisation from me (steadfastly avoiding pinkie use) because why the f not
October 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
and speaking of mandolins, here is some very annoying self-indulgent improvisation from me (steadfastly avoiding pinkie use) because why the f not
took a little break from the horrors of the world to interview my favorite living musician, Chris Thile, a few days ago for the next issue of the Fretboard Journal. in the meantime, here he is absolutely obliterating some Bach in the park (which we talked about). i am still buzzing with adrenaline.
Chris Thile has released a new track from his upcoming album, 'Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2,' due November 7. The third movement from Partita No. 3 in E major, Gavotte en Rondeau, is available today, along with this performance video, filmed in NYC's Tompkins Square Park. youtu.be/hFTD45e7oiw
Chris Thile - Bach: Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006: III. Gavotte en rondeau (Live)
YouTube video by ChrisThile
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October 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
took a little break from the horrors of the world to interview my favorite living musician, Chris Thile, a few days ago for the next issue of the Fretboard Journal. in the meantime, here he is absolutely obliterating some Bach in the park (which we talked about). i am still buzzing with adrenaline.
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ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
October 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
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can you imagine just sitting down to plan this and not feeling any shame or hesitation. seeing jane goodall on the tv as you’re doing it and how her thing was gorillas and yours is getting ready to deport a guy who’s been wrongly imprisoned since reagan’s first term
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
can you imagine just sitting down to plan this and not feeling any shame or hesitation. seeing jane goodall on the tv as you’re doing it and how her thing was gorillas and yours is getting ready to deport a guy who’s been wrongly imprisoned since reagan’s first term
doesn’t count as a bad character name in a novel if the author introduces it with “the improbably named [name].” nothing we can do about it; they got our ass there
October 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
doesn’t count as a bad character name in a novel if the author introduces it with “the improbably named [name].” nothing we can do about it; they got our ass there
michael w. smith
What would be the wildest concert for a fight to break out at?
October 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
michael w. smith
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This whole section really.
September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This whole section really.
hey listen my wife’s book of poetry is out and it’s very very good and you should buy it and I did the heron drawing on the cover due to nepotism
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Commodore Rookery
Check out Commodore Rookery - <p><em>Commodore Rookery</em> tells a small story of survival, resilience, and healing. In the wake of a traumatic labor, breastfeeding struggles, postpartum insomnia, an...
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September 25, 2025 at 4:58 AM
hey listen my wife’s book of poetry is out and it’s very very good and you should buy it and I did the heron drawing on the cover due to nepotism
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things seem bad, in my opinion
September 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
things seem bad, in my opinion
hardly the most pressing concern right now but I don’t think anyone should be calling him Zuck. sounds way too cool. he is a Mark through and through
September 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
hardly the most pressing concern right now but I don’t think anyone should be calling him Zuck. sounds way too cool. he is a Mark through and through
imagine thinking this guy was some kind of paragon of christian virtue
September 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
imagine thinking this guy was some kind of paragon of christian virtue
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I wrote an unpublishable book review about a nested detective novel set in a police-free town. And I drew a bunch of magnifying glasses for it. You can even read it if you want at Excessive Vibrato Dot Com.
www.excessivevibrato.com/chain-of-foo...
www.excessivevibrato.com/chain-of-foo...
Chain of Fools
In an off-brand Little Free Library box on a tiny island in Puget Sound, I once found a pitted and torn copy of a novel I’d never heard of: Diallelon, by Bryn Turnage. The cover was sun-bleached and c...
www.excessivevibrato.com
September 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I wrote an unpublishable book review about a nested detective novel set in a police-free town. And I drew a bunch of magnifying glasses for it. You can even read it if you want at Excessive Vibrato Dot Com.
www.excessivevibrato.com/chain-of-foo...
www.excessivevibrato.com/chain-of-foo...
[immediately after using a megaphone at the local park to shout a bunch of insane opinions at everyone and having all the normal people at the park loudly boo me]
ok well, electorally speaking, what’s even more vile than leftism is parkism,
ok well, electorally speaking, what’s even more vile than leftism is parkism,
September 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
[immediately after using a megaphone at the local park to shout a bunch of insane opinions at everyone and having all the normal people at the park loudly boo me]
ok well, electorally speaking, what’s even more vile than leftism is parkism,
ok well, electorally speaking, what’s even more vile than leftism is parkism,
I wrote an unpublishable book review about a nested detective novel set in a police-free town. And I drew a bunch of magnifying glasses for it. You can even read it if you want at Excessive Vibrato Dot Com.
www.excessivevibrato.com/chain-of-foo...
www.excessivevibrato.com/chain-of-foo...
Chain of Fools
In an off-brand Little Free Library box on a tiny island in Puget Sound, I once found a pitted and torn copy of a novel I’d never heard of: Diallelon, by Bryn Turnage. The cover was sun-bleached and c...
www.excessivevibrato.com
September 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I wrote an unpublishable book review about a nested detective novel set in a police-free town. And I drew a bunch of magnifying glasses for it. You can even read it if you want at Excessive Vibrato Dot Com.
www.excessivevibrato.com/chain-of-foo...
www.excessivevibrato.com/chain-of-foo...
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An element of fascism is a kind of upside down where the meanest, most rapacious, and least virtuous of society are loosed to bully and abuse people who genuinely uphold civic ideals of service and sacrifice.
Public service isn’t what the system is about. It’s about conditioning the national body.
Public service isn’t what the system is about. It’s about conditioning the national body.
August 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
An element of fascism is a kind of upside down where the meanest, most rapacious, and least virtuous of society are loosed to bully and abuse people who genuinely uphold civic ideals of service and sacrifice.
Public service isn’t what the system is about. It’s about conditioning the national body.
Public service isn’t what the system is about. It’s about conditioning the national body.
please, won’t somebody also think of the mom-and-pop tech startups, the mom-and-pop venture capitalists, the mom-and-pop big-box stores,
I could not fucking care less if my actual life depended on it
August 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
please, won’t somebody also think of the mom-and-pop tech startups, the mom-and-pop venture capitalists, the mom-and-pop big-box stores,
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“James Dobson, 89, died this week after a long battle with children,” writes @samthielman.com
James Dobson, Godfather of Child Abuse, Finally Dies
The radical cleric leaves behind a legacy of sanctified torture, destroyed children and broken families.
www.forever-wars.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“James Dobson, 89, died this week after a long battle with children,” writes @samthielman.com
as far as top-tier meaningless terms wielded disproportionately by business influencers and evangelical christians go, you can’t do better than “intentionality”
August 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
as far as top-tier meaningless terms wielded disproportionately by business influencers and evangelical christians go, you can’t do better than “intentionality”
once, at a craft fair at my wife’s parents’ church in CA, her dad leans over and goes, “Pistol Pete died in this very gym in a pickup game with James Dobson.” now I’m imagining a world where the reverse happened and Dobson ate it in 1988, ideally whilst being dunked on by the Pistol. a better world.
August 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
once, at a craft fair at my wife’s parents’ church in CA, her dad leans over and goes, “Pistol Pete died in this very gym in a pickup game with James Dobson.” now I’m imagining a world where the reverse happened and Dobson ate it in 1988, ideally whilst being dunked on by the Pistol. a better world.