Barbara Friend Ish
@barbarafriendish.bsky.social
Writer, publisher, slave of cats. Born in exile, currently in Baltimore. She/her. Epically weird.
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⚠️ Warning: The Trump administration is circulating footage from 2020 to make the situation in L.A. appear more chaotic than it is. This is an intentional effort to manufacture a larger crisis. Stay alert. Pay attention. The propaganda machine is in overdrive.
June 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
⚠️ Warning: The Trump administration is circulating footage from 2020 to make the situation in L.A. appear more chaotic than it is. This is an intentional effort to manufacture a larger crisis. Stay alert. Pay attention. The propaganda machine is in overdrive.
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once you recognize that the reason horse cops exist is because a deliberate horse trampling has plausible deniability that hitting someone twice with a cruiser doesn't it becomes really weird that we act like horse cops are normal.
I can’t believe I’m posting a *second* horse trampling by these fascist fucks
June 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
once you recognize that the reason horse cops exist is because a deliberate horse trampling has plausible deniability that hitting someone twice with a cruiser doesn't it becomes really weird that we act like horse cops are normal.
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Trump made the troops homeless. Incredible work, sir
“Currently, there is no plan for where everyone is sleeping tonight,” the source said, adding that there was an urgent need to find more portable bathrooms and dumpsters for garbage.
June 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Trump made the troops homeless. Incredible work, sir
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Hey there. Look. They want you mesmerized by the fuckery. They want you paralyzed by the storm of bullshit that they're going to throw into the air. Measured doses is enough. Figure out what you can do something about, then do that. Don't sacrifice your sanity to the rest.
January 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Hey there. Look. They want you mesmerized by the fuckery. They want you paralyzed by the storm of bullshit that they're going to throw into the air. Measured doses is enough. Figure out what you can do something about, then do that. Don't sacrifice your sanity to the rest.
This just in: I seem to be going completely feral. Welcome to 2025. You’ve been warned.
January 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This just in: I seem to be going completely feral. Welcome to 2025. You’ve been warned.
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Facebook is preventing links to stories about its horrendous anti-trans/queer policies. So that’s cool. Anyway.
Inside Meta’s dehumanizing new speech policies for trans people
"A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it," reads a new guideline telling moderators what is now allowed on Facebook and Instagram
www.platformer.news
January 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Facebook is preventing links to stories about its horrendous anti-trans/queer policies. So that’s cool. Anyway.
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Does anyone here have experience with Ghost.org? I’m looking to re-home the Salon, because FB is about to become utterly intolerable.
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December 30, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Does anyone here have experience with Ghost.org? I’m looking to re-home the Salon, because FB is about to become utterly intolerable.
New policy:
Beginning 2025, I will no longer be accepting responsibility for other people’s crazy.
If you have relied on me for this service in the past, you are encouraged to make other arrangements.
Beginning 2025, I will no longer be accepting responsibility for other people’s crazy.
If you have relied on me for this service in the past, you are encouraged to make other arrangements.
December 30, 2024 at 3:21 PM
New policy:
Beginning 2025, I will no longer be accepting responsibility for other people’s crazy.
If you have relied on me for this service in the past, you are encouraged to make other arrangements.
Beginning 2025, I will no longer be accepting responsibility for other people’s crazy.
If you have relied on me for this service in the past, you are encouraged to make other arrangements.
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hope u like this sketch, but no worries if not
YouTube video by Céline Tshika
youtu.be
December 10, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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If you’re looking for a free way to support an author, did you know you can ask your library to stock a book you want to read that they don’t have yet? And usually it’s a very basic online form? Google your library name plus the words “request a title” or “suggest a title” to find yours.
November 30, 2024 at 9:44 PM
If you’re looking for a free way to support an author, did you know you can ask your library to stock a book you want to read that they don’t have yet? And usually it’s a very basic online form? Google your library name plus the words “request a title” or “suggest a title” to find yours.
Stealing this.
The secret to managing email from non-profits and businesses is to have a filter on the word "unsubscribe" that automatically shunts any email with that word in it out of my inbox and into a specific side folder. Then they don't clutter up my inbox and I can deal with them at my leisure.
Based on my experience with charitable giving, you must get so much mail begging various causes.
November 19, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Stealing this.
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Heads up everyone - this means they hate how well the blocklists work, which is amazing. But also time to be discerning about which lists you subscribe to.
This is the next phase that Kiwi Farms members have stated they will do - constructing look-alike blocklists and then adding popular trans people to them after the fact, once the blocklist is seeded in the community. Make sure any block list you use says who runs it.
Do you know who is running this list? Reason for asking is they copied this account's lists verbatim, but do not say who is running their account.
November 18, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Heads up everyone - this means they hate how well the blocklists work, which is amazing. But also time to be discerning about which lists you subscribe to.
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Netflix needs to stop asking if I’m still watching and start asking if I moved the laundry to the dryer
November 15, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Netflix needs to stop asking if I’m still watching and start asking if I moved the laundry to the dryer
Finally saw a cybertruck. It was black and tricked out with blackout window tint, and honesttogod I thought, “How is that dumpster doing 65 mph?” I almost drove off the road. Only afterward did I realize what I had encountered.
WTAF.
WTAF.
November 14, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Finally saw a cybertruck. It was black and tricked out with blackout window tint, and honesttogod I thought, “How is that dumpster doing 65 mph?” I almost drove off the road. Only afterward did I realize what I had encountered.
WTAF.
WTAF.
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Remember the rules here: Don’t ever engage, just block.
It’s still a lot of randos coming into posts to antagonize or debate on purpose. Dont fall for the okeedoke. If the vibes are weird block
Also remember that you can detach quotes, hide bad replies, and blocking here is nuclear
It’s still a lot of randos coming into posts to antagonize or debate on purpose. Dont fall for the okeedoke. If the vibes are weird block
Also remember that you can detach quotes, hide bad replies, and blocking here is nuclear
November 14, 2024 at 6:22 AM
Remember the rules here: Don’t ever engage, just block.
It’s still a lot of randos coming into posts to antagonize or debate on purpose. Dont fall for the okeedoke. If the vibes are weird block
Also remember that you can detach quotes, hide bad replies, and blocking here is nuclear
It’s still a lot of randos coming into posts to antagonize or debate on purpose. Dont fall for the okeedoke. If the vibes are weird block
Also remember that you can detach quotes, hide bad replies, and blocking here is nuclear
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THIS 💯 %.
More so if you are an information and memory preserver: librarians archivists, museum staff, heritage conservationists...
They came for the culture already out first.
More so if you are an information and memory preserver: librarians archivists, museum staff, heritage conservationists...
They came for the culture already out first.
If you are a writer, artist or other creative person and you are wondering if what you do still matters...
...this is a culture war. Which means that you are on the front line. You matter more than ever.
...this is a culture war. Which means that you are on the front line. You matter more than ever.
I've gotten a TON of new followers this week. Welcome, all! FYI: I'm taking a break from social media right now.
I've done a lotta stuff, but my most relevant thing atm is definitely NEVER SAY YOU CAN'T SURVIVE, my guide to using creativity to get thru awful times.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
I've done a lotta stuff, but my most relevant thing atm is definitely NEVER SAY YOU CAN'T SURVIVE, my guide to using creativity to get thru awful times.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
November 13, 2024 at 8:54 AM
THIS 💯 %.
More so if you are an information and memory preserver: librarians archivists, museum staff, heritage conservationists...
They came for the culture already out first.
More so if you are an information and memory preserver: librarians archivists, museum staff, heritage conservationists...
They came for the culture already out first.
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Bluesky,
Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this
I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this
I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
November 11, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Bluesky,
Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this
I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this
I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
This tracks.
November 12, 2024 at 8:54 PM
This tracks.
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I guess now is a good time to remind people that TRANSRACIAL is a term adoptees of color who were adopted by white people use. it does not mean someone who has “changed” races bc that is not a thing
February 14, 2024 at 9:17 PM
I guess now is a good time to remind people that TRANSRACIAL is a term adoptees of color who were adopted by white people use. it does not mean someone who has “changed” races bc that is not a thing
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