Deborah Barber
@hexadecibel.bsky.social
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I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
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this doesn't mean the South is hopeless, it doesn't mean that we shouldn't keep trying to win elections and fight the MAGAs in the South, but maintaining this fantasy nonsense about how the South doesn't REALLY have a uniquely racist culture in a number of respects is just foolishness
November 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
this doesn't mean the South is hopeless, it doesn't mean that we shouldn't keep trying to win elections and fight the MAGAs in the South, but maintaining this fantasy nonsense about how the South doesn't REALLY have a uniquely racist culture in a number of respects is just foolishness
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Spotify is running ads to help ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. We’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti...
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Spotify is running ads to help ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. We’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti...
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Lots of you have been asking for the syllabus for the lecture course -- "America at 250" -- that I'm teaching with David Blight and Beverly Gage.
Here you go:
president.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
Here you go:
president.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
president.yale.edu
October 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Lots of you have been asking for the syllabus for the lecture course -- "America at 250" -- that I'm teaching with David Blight and Beverly Gage.
Here you go:
president.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
Here you go:
president.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
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Check out this amazing bird we made (I work on it's silicone feet a lot and was on a lot of the car/road shots):
youtu.be/3HQ-HrwIgOc?...
youtu.be/3HQ-HrwIgOc?...
Wildwood First Look: Where Magic Takes Flight | LAIKA Studios
YouTube video by LAIKA Studios
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October 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Check out this amazing bird we made (I work on it's silicone feet a lot and was on a lot of the car/road shots):
youtu.be/3HQ-HrwIgOc?...
youtu.be/3HQ-HrwIgOc?...
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This is going to be terrific. Tell any 14-17 year olds you know in NYC about the opportunity. Free and food will be provided.
🗓️Sat., Oct. 25 11 AM-4 PM ET (with a snack break) in NYC: If you are or know a young person ages 14-17 based in NYC, we invite you to join us for our Communiversity Youth Day! We are offering 5 different workshops for young people. These are completely free, and in-person. Learn more and sign up:
Communiversity Youth Day — Interrupting Criminalization
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
This is going to be terrific. Tell any 14-17 year olds you know in NYC about the opportunity. Free and food will be provided.
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#Genealogy #FamilyHistory The clock is ticking! Thanks to @reclaimtherecords.org for posting sample letters to use in appealing the unwarranted denials by US Vet Affairs sent in response to FOIA requests for US military veterans' records. My take: climbingmyfamilytree.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
The Clock Is Ticking: Appeal Denials of FOIA Requests for Veterans' Info
Genealogy research and commentary by Marian Burk Wood, speaker and author of "Planning a Future for Your Family's Past," available from Amazon.com.
climbingmyfamilytree.blogspot.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory The clock is ticking! Thanks to @reclaimtherecords.org for posting sample letters to use in appealing the unwarranted denials by US Vet Affairs sent in response to FOIA requests for US military veterans' records. My take: climbingmyfamilytree.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
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✊ Always Appeal! ✊
Did the VA refuse to send you a full copy of a C-File (claims file) that you requested under #FOIA for a deceased veteran? Well, we now have some attorney-approved sample texts you can use to fight back!
Check out BIRLS.org/appeals for the latest!
Did the VA refuse to send you a full copy of a C-File (claims file) that you requested under #FOIA for a deceased veteran? Well, we now have some attorney-approved sample texts you can use to fight back!
Check out BIRLS.org/appeals for the latest!
Search the BIRLS Database - over 19.5 million records about deceased US veterans, from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, now online and FREE from Reclaim The Records
Search the BIRLS Database - over 19.5 million records about deceased US veterans, from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, now online and FREE from Reclaim The Records
BIRLS.org
October 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
✊ Always Appeal! ✊
Did the VA refuse to send you a full copy of a C-File (claims file) that you requested under #FOIA for a deceased veteran? Well, we now have some attorney-approved sample texts you can use to fight back!
Check out BIRLS.org/appeals for the latest!
Did the VA refuse to send you a full copy of a C-File (claims file) that you requested under #FOIA for a deceased veteran? Well, we now have some attorney-approved sample texts you can use to fight back!
Check out BIRLS.org/appeals for the latest!
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An ongoing phishing campaign is targeting LastPass and Bitwarden users with fake emails claiming that the companies were hacked, urging them to download a supposedly more secure desktop version of the password manager.
Fake LastPass, Bitwarden breach alerts lead to PC hijacks
An ongoing phishing campaign is targeting LastPass and Bitwarden users with fake emails claiming that the companies were hacked, urging them to download a supposedly more secure desktop version of the password manager.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
An ongoing phishing campaign is targeting LastPass and Bitwarden users with fake emails claiming that the companies were hacked, urging them to download a supposedly more secure desktop version of the password manager.
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Applications for NNI's Fulbright Grant for Dutch PhD students are due on November 1: www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/res.... Please share widely. We welcome applications from a variety of disciplines as long as they relate to the Dutch in New Netherland and Colonial New York.
Fulbright-NNRC Student Scholar Research Grant :: New Netherland Institute
www.newnetherlandinstitute.org
October 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Applications for NNI's Fulbright Grant for Dutch PhD students are due on November 1: www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/res.... Please share widely. We welcome applications from a variety of disciplines as long as they relate to the Dutch in New Netherland and Colonial New York.
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Final day to catch this recording for free #Genealogy #Webinar
If you missed out on my Legacy Family Tree webinar last week you can catch the recording for free until this Wednesday familytreewebinars.com/webinar/from... #Genealogy #Webinar
From The Ashes: The 1922 Irish Public Record Office Fire and Irish Genealogy - Legacy Family Tree Webinars
The destruction of the Public Records Office in June 1922 at the outset of the Irish Civil War has cast a long shadow over Irish genealogical research. Anyone who...
familytreewebinars.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Final day to catch this recording for free #Genealogy #Webinar
It me. I am that relative.
Weird Relative At Family Reunion Knows How Everyone Related To Each Other https://theonion.com/weird-relative-at-family-reunion-knows-how-everyone-rel-1819579336/
October 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It me. I am that relative.
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Tech bros say "AI is here to stay" but that doesn't mean anything! Bronze spears are here to stay! Asbestos is here to stay!
Ethan makes a great distinction: AI as a technology *has already failed*. AI lives on as a social purity test that will fade away as soon as those enforcing it blink.
Ethan makes a great distinction: AI as a technology *has already failed*. AI lives on as a social purity test that will fade away as soon as those enforcing it blink.
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I’ve decided it’s past time I start describing “artificial intelligence” as a failed technology, and I’d like you to join me.
ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/agains...
I’ve decided it’s past time I start describing “artificial intelligence” as a failed technology, and I’d like you to join me.
ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/agains...
Against the protection of stocking frames. — ethanmarcotte.com
“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.
ethanmarcotte.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Tech bros say "AI is here to stay" but that doesn't mean anything! Bronze spears are here to stay! Asbestos is here to stay!
Ethan makes a great distinction: AI as a technology *has already failed*. AI lives on as a social purity test that will fade away as soon as those enforcing it blink.
Ethan makes a great distinction: AI as a technology *has already failed*. AI lives on as a social purity test that will fade away as soon as those enforcing it blink.
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September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Earlier this year, we received a mysterious package with no return address. Its contents were a brick and this note:
"My husband took this from the crypt. We have had a string of bad luck and we want to return the brick."
Read the full story! www.boston.com/travel/trave...
"My husband took this from the crypt. We have had a string of bad luck and we want to return the brick."
Read the full story! www.boston.com/travel/trave...
A Boston crypt tour now features a stolen 'Cursed Brick,' mailed back after 'a string of bad luck'
A Boston crypt tour at Old North Church now features a stolen 'Cursed Brick,' mailed back after 'a string of bad luck'
www.boston.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Earlier this year, we received a mysterious package with no return address. Its contents were a brick and this note:
"My husband took this from the crypt. We have had a string of bad luck and we want to return the brick."
Read the full story! www.boston.com/travel/trave...
"My husband took this from the crypt. We have had a string of bad luck and we want to return the brick."
Read the full story! www.boston.com/travel/trave...
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The most pervasively destructive and enraging aspect of our modern political media is that it clearly considers informing its audience to be a much lower priority than telling its audience what they're supposed to think
September 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The most pervasively destructive and enraging aspect of our modern political media is that it clearly considers informing its audience to be a much lower priority than telling its audience what they're supposed to think
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I think it is always worth mentioning that Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed with their beloved dog Gilbert: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
A Minnesota Lawmaker and Her Husband Are Lying in State. Next to Them: Their Golden Retriever.
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I think it is always worth mentioning that Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed with their beloved dog Gilbert: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
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RIP graphical user interfaces, 1968–2022. Gone but not forgotten 🙏❤️✝️
September 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
RIP graphical user interfaces, 1968–2022. Gone but not forgotten 🙏❤️✝️
Sometimes I consider getting a YouTube subscription and then I see something like this. Guess AI is saving me money after all?
People are flooding YouTube with AI Generated slop history videos that drown out human creators.
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History
"These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet, so you end up with a very simplified version of the past."
www.404media.co
September 4, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Sometimes I consider getting a YouTube subscription and then I see something like this. Guess AI is saving me money after all?
Good job!
americabydesign.fail
americabydesign.fail
America by Design Fail
Trump fired the best designers in the Federal Government
americabydesign.fail
September 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Good job!
americabydesign.fail
americabydesign.fail
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PUT 👏🏻 JEWISH 👏🏻 HOLIDAYS 👏🏻 IN 👏🏻 YOUR 👏🏻 CALENDARS
The head of my org is Jewish. I have the Jewish holidays calendar on my work calendar so I don't schedule meetings during important holidays! I don't want him to have to do that calculus!
The head of my org is Jewish. I have the Jewish holidays calendar on my work calendar so I don't schedule meetings during important holidays! I don't want him to have to do that calculus!
NASA scheduled a major workshop for early career researchers during the most important week of the Jewish calendar, during two of the most important days of that week and expects me to accept that this was “difficult scheduling conflicts”
That’s what casual antisemitism sounds like
That’s what casual antisemitism sounds like
September 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
PUT 👏🏻 JEWISH 👏🏻 HOLIDAYS 👏🏻 IN 👏🏻 YOUR 👏🏻 CALENDARS
The head of my org is Jewish. I have the Jewish holidays calendar on my work calendar so I don't schedule meetings during important holidays! I don't want him to have to do that calculus!
The head of my org is Jewish. I have the Jewish holidays calendar on my work calendar so I don't schedule meetings during important holidays! I don't want him to have to do that calculus!
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In December, RTR launched BIRLS.org along with a very easy way to make FOIA requests for deceased veterans' claim files. As of late July, the VA will no longer release these great files, only short summaries. See www.birls.org/updates - RTR is working on learning more & fighting these changes.
Search the BIRLS Database - over 18 million records about deceased US veterans, from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, now online and FREE from Reclaim The Records
Search the BIRLS Database - over 18 million records about deceased US veterans, from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, now online and FREE from Reclaim The Records
BIRLS.org
August 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
In December, RTR launched BIRLS.org along with a very easy way to make FOIA requests for deceased veterans' claim files. As of late July, the VA will no longer release these great files, only short summaries. See www.birls.org/updates - RTR is working on learning more & fighting these changes.
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My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote:
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
August 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote:
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
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In recognition of James Dobson's all too delayed death, we republished an account of his legacy -- a three part series about evangelical child abuse, a culture Dobson disseminated and propagandized. buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Ministry of Violence
James Dobson is dead, leaving behind the legacy of poisoned politics he created, and countless children and adults who live with the pain of surviving the...
buttondown.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
In recognition of James Dobson's all too delayed death, we republished an account of his legacy -- a three part series about evangelical child abuse, a culture Dobson disseminated and propagandized. buttondown.com/theswordandt...