The Barking Glass
@verticalq.bsky.social
Some of us are old money without the money.
Lover of cooking, theater, board games, and drum corps. Gay Kentuckian, and Video Production Technician (non-creative editing, CC, and quality control)
Lover of cooking, theater, board games, and drum corps. Gay Kentuckian, and Video Production Technician (non-creative editing, CC, and quality control)
🚨 QUESTION PROMPT🚨
What was your first automobile?
My first car was my parents’ 10-year-old 1988 Mercury Cougar in Medium Sandalwood. It was super fancy because it had a digital speedometer that I’d switch from miles to kilometers to make it feel like I was driving faster.
What was your first automobile?
My first car was my parents’ 10-year-old 1988 Mercury Cougar in Medium Sandalwood. It was super fancy because it had a digital speedometer that I’d switch from miles to kilometers to make it feel like I was driving faster.
December 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🚨 QUESTION PROMPT🚨
What was your first automobile?
My first car was my parents’ 10-year-old 1988 Mercury Cougar in Medium Sandalwood. It was super fancy because it had a digital speedometer that I’d switch from miles to kilometers to make it feel like I was driving faster.
What was your first automobile?
My first car was my parents’ 10-year-old 1988 Mercury Cougar in Medium Sandalwood. It was super fancy because it had a digital speedometer that I’d switch from miles to kilometers to make it feel like I was driving faster.
Is it just me, or does everyone mentally hear “PLUR1BUS” like Rihanna singing “Disturbia”?
December 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Is it just me, or does everyone mentally hear “PLUR1BUS” like Rihanna singing “Disturbia”?
I happened to turn on the stream about :30 before this happened and saw it live. I knew this wouldn’t go well for her, but DAMN!
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I happened to turn on the stream about :30 before this happened and saw it live. I knew this wouldn’t go well for her, but DAMN!
Little tip for those on the latest iOS: If you open an image and long press on it, you can turn it into a sticker that you can use in Messages to reply to friends. I see this one coming in handy.
December 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Little tip for those on the latest iOS: If you open an image and long press on it, you can turn it into a sticker that you can use in Messages to reply to friends. I see this one coming in handy.
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Saw this video of Tristan Harris on Diary of a CEO sharing what AI-tech bros have shared regarding their motivations pursuing this technology. It’s horrifying.
These tech ghouls have us all on a suicide mission because of their EGOS. 🫠
These tech ghouls have us all on a suicide mission because of their EGOS. 🫠
December 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Saw this video of Tristan Harris on Diary of a CEO sharing what AI-tech bros have shared regarding their motivations pursuing this technology. It’s horrifying.
These tech ghouls have us all on a suicide mission because of their EGOS. 🫠
These tech ghouls have us all on a suicide mission because of their EGOS. 🫠
Went with some old friends to see the “Merrily We Roll Along” pro-shot this evening. It was SO GOOD. If you have a chance to catch it in theaters, you really should go.
December 8, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Went with some old friends to see the “Merrily We Roll Along” pro-shot this evening. It was SO GOOD. If you have a chance to catch it in theaters, you really should go.
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Who has made this 🤣
Yeah, I do seem to watch a lot of @theverge.com, and you should too.
December 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Yeah, I do seem to watch a lot of @theverge.com, and you should too.
As a small town City Clerk, I can tell you this is 100% accurate. I was on my condo board, met our mayor who knew I knew how to take minutes, started going to city council meetings. 6 months later they asked me to take over for the outgoing Clerk. Show up; it works.
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
As a small town City Clerk, I can tell you this is 100% accurate. I was on my condo board, met our mayor who knew I knew how to take minutes, started going to city council meetings. 6 months later they asked me to take over for the outgoing Clerk. Show up; it works.
Well, if he really wants to part with that money, how about he pay some fucking taxes for a change? That’d be an easy place to start.
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Well, if he really wants to part with that money, how about he pay some fucking taxes for a change? That’d be an easy place to start.
That’s nuts (and bolts)!
Lowe's just emailed to ask me to review my recent purchases 🙈
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
That’s nuts (and bolts)!
If the past year has shown me nothing else, it’s shown me that you have to aggressively seek community. Maybe you don’t change the world, but maybe you make the lives of the 400 people that live around you better. That’s WAY easier, and in many ways more valuable.
December 3, 2025 at 1:51 AM
If the past year has shown me nothing else, it’s shown me that you have to aggressively seek community. Maybe you don’t change the world, but maybe you make the lives of the 400 people that live around you better. That’s WAY easier, and in many ways more valuable.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
I’ve been watching a lot of reaction videos of “Clue” lately, and now my inner monologue while selecting a doughnut is voiced by super campy Tim Curry, “would you like chocolate? Perhaps raspberry, or lemon?Bourbon caramel. Strawberry. Or Cinnamon Roll?”
November 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I’ve been watching a lot of reaction videos of “Clue” lately, and now my inner monologue while selecting a doughnut is voiced by super campy Tim Curry, “would you like chocolate? Perhaps raspberry, or lemon?Bourbon caramel. Strawberry. Or Cinnamon Roll?”
Obviously this is purely anecdotal, but I went out to get doughnuts this morning and there was almost no traffic around one of Louisville’s major shopping centers at 7:00 AM on Black Friday. Maybe early shopping isn’t so much a thing nowadays.
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Obviously this is purely anecdotal, but I went out to get doughnuts this morning and there was almost no traffic around one of Louisville’s major shopping centers at 7:00 AM on Black Friday. Maybe early shopping isn’t so much a thing nowadays.
Not actually celebrating until Friendsgiving on Saturday, but I decided to do a trial run turkey breast. So far so good.
November 27, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Not actually celebrating until Friendsgiving on Saturday, but I decided to do a trial run turkey breast. So far so good.
I’m not an economist, but I’ve felt like the math hasn’t mathed about a lot of things for a long time. This confirms that maybe I wasn’t wrong about that after all.
in which the Chief Strategist and Portfolio Manager for Simplify Asset Management discovers how anachronistic & damaging “the poverty line” metric is in the USA— www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I’m not an economist, but I’ve felt like the math hasn’t mathed about a lot of things for a long time. This confirms that maybe I wasn’t wrong about that after all.
🎶 It was a strawberry croissant. The kind you’d find at the Bamboo Donuts 🎶
November 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🎶 It was a strawberry croissant. The kind you’d find at the Bamboo Donuts 🎶
I highly suggest watching today’s Vergecast. It’s the best guide to how we make a better Internet going forward that I’ve heard so far.
youtu.be/pwq1oNgrKN8?...
youtu.be/pwq1oNgrKN8?...
Cory Doctorow wants to fix the internet | The Vergecast
YouTube video by The Verge
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November 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I highly suggest watching today’s Vergecast. It’s the best guide to how we make a better Internet going forward that I’ve heard so far.
youtu.be/pwq1oNgrKN8?...
youtu.be/pwq1oNgrKN8?...
“The thing that fascinates me about him is that he is so aggressively uninteresting—to the point where I am compelled to ponder for hours how it is possible to be that uninteresting.” — me working through my feelings about a reality TV baking show way too early on a Saturday morning.
November 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“The thing that fascinates me about him is that he is so aggressively uninteresting—to the point where I am compelled to ponder for hours how it is possible to be that uninteresting.” — me working through my feelings about a reality TV baking show way too early on a Saturday morning.
I was going to make French Toast for breakfast, but I kept tweaking it, and it turned into a Spiced Mocha Bread Pudding with a Pecan Crumble Topping.
November 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I was going to make French Toast for breakfast, but I kept tweaking it, and it turned into a Spiced Mocha Bread Pudding with a Pecan Crumble Topping.
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I think the real Kobayashi Maru we’ve got here is almost everyone in the US line of succession is involved in this or would somehow be WORSE (which is another problem in and of itself).
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I think the real Kobayashi Maru we’ve got here is almost everyone in the US line of succession is involved in this or would somehow be WORSE (which is another problem in and of itself).
I know the world has larger issues at the moment, but why did nobody tell me there’s a VR mini-golf game that has a Myst course, complete with putt-putt puzzles? This is the Neo-Retro-Futurist escapism I didn’t know I needed in my life.
November 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I know the world has larger issues at the moment, but why did nobody tell me there’s a VR mini-golf game that has a Myst course, complete with putt-putt puzzles? This is the Neo-Retro-Futurist escapism I didn’t know I needed in my life.