Rob Barker
@tiemachine.bsky.social
Social media manager, writer, listener. He/him. Also known as Mr. Hurry Little Strawberry Yoghurt,
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Wow, so shocked that so many "comedians" who made their name shitting on vulnerable people and populations and giggling out slurs on podcasts would take House of Saud money that forbids them from joking about the House of Saud all while braying about the sacredness of Free Speech
shocked
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October 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Wow, so shocked that so many "comedians" who made their name shitting on vulnerable people and populations and giggling out slurs on podcasts would take House of Saud money that forbids them from joking about the House of Saud all while braying about the sacredness of Free Speech
shocked
shocked
shocked
shocked
Does plugging two power leads into your Mac at one make it charge twice as fast or does it break it?
Lets find out
Lets find out
October 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Does plugging two power leads into your Mac at one make it charge twice as fast or does it break it?
Lets find out
Lets find out
I don’t know why I keep calling them ‘night clothes’ when asking my kids to put their pyjamas on during Daddy Put Down but there we are. My brain insists on the Victorian naming for this one specific item
September 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I don’t know why I keep calling them ‘night clothes’ when asking my kids to put their pyjamas on during Daddy Put Down but there we are. My brain insists on the Victorian naming for this one specific item
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David Cross folks.
September 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
David Cross folks.
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Absolutely loved the @sheffielduni.bsky.social #Architecture #exhibtion on at the moment in #WesternBank #Library about the work of #PeterBlundellJones and #Scharoun. Well worth visiting
September 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Absolutely loved the @sheffielduni.bsky.social #Architecture #exhibtion on at the moment in #WesternBank #Library about the work of #PeterBlundellJones and #Scharoun. Well worth visiting
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Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
September 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
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In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night:
Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at?
**pause**
Him: "Anything where it has to be right".
Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at?
**pause**
Him: "Anything where it has to be right".
September 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night:
Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at?
**pause**
Him: "Anything where it has to be right".
Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at?
**pause**
Him: "Anything where it has to be right".
Being anti fascist is now far left according to @theguardian.com and the Overton window is somewhere over the rainbow apparently
September 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Being anti fascist is now far left according to @theguardian.com and the Overton window is somewhere over the rainbow apparently
Is Peach another one of those Mar-A-Lago girls?
August 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Is Peach another one of those Mar-A-Lago girls?
I’m actually vacuuming the inside of the car. It is messy. The kids’ footwells are like Earth 2
August 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I’m actually vacuuming the inside of the car. It is messy. The kids’ footwells are like Earth 2
For a moment there I was Rod Stewart
August 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
For a moment there I was Rod Stewart
Working at a university I’ve been to lots of graduation ceremonies but I’ve never seen someone knock over the trombone player on the orchestra so they go BraHHHHparpp
July 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Working at a university I’ve been to lots of graduation ceremonies but I’ve never seen someone knock over the trombone player on the orchestra so they go BraHHHHparpp
OH amazing woman on handsfree in B&Q “You’re three hundred miles away and you’re talking shit…”
July 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
OH amazing woman on handsfree in B&Q “You’re three hundred miles away and you’re talking shit…”
And in my copy of The Sundays’ Reading, Writing & Arithmetic’. This was from Cambridge Junction and I was there.
June 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
And in my copy of The Sundays’ Reading, Writing & Arithmetic’. This was from Cambridge Junction and I was there.
Just found a setlist in this copy of Peter Gabriel’s So
June 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Just found a setlist in this copy of Peter Gabriel’s So
til my wife has seen Meet Joe Black three times
April 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
til my wife has seen Meet Joe Black three times
Has anyone seen my glasses?
April 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Has anyone seen my glasses?
Always nice to be in Crookes, Sheffield but bit unsettling the way all the men look like the singer from Eels
March 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Always nice to be in Crookes, Sheffield but bit unsettling the way all the men look like the singer from Eels
“You just knocked over my wedding!” My oldest shouts as she plays Playmobil
March 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“You just knocked over my wedding!” My oldest shouts as she plays Playmobil
You may think it’s been a long time since you had ham, egg and chips but statistically it’s only been six months
February 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
You may think it’s been a long time since you had ham, egg and chips but statistically it’s only been six months
Why do clothes for women not have pockets?
January 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Why do clothes for women not have pockets?
Just time for a quick bite of an apple while walking Club Mill Road. Less caravans than previously. I miss them
January 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Just time for a quick bite of an apple while walking Club Mill Road. Less caravans than previously. I miss them
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Do I think Musk is a fascist or an actual Nazi? I don't think it even matters...he sends blaring fog horns to people who absolutely are. And he makes them feel very very validated.
January 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Do I think Musk is a fascist or an actual Nazi? I don't think it even matters...he sends blaring fog horns to people who absolutely are. And he makes them feel very very validated.