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it’s trevor barnes
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mediocre mandolinist // http://www.excessivevibrato.com
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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
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imagine thinking this guy was some kind of paragon of christian virtue
At a December 2023 political conference hosted by his Turning Points USA group, Wired magazine reported that Kirk decried not only Martin Luther King Jr., calling the civil rights leader "awful" and "not a good person," but also the Civil Rights Act of 1965 that outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex and national origin, and prohibited segregation. "I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I've thought about it," Kirk said. "We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s."
September 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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[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,
September 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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yes… YES
screenshot from an article that says Pedro Pascal met with Anne Carson and she’s working on writing something for him to perform pic of The Mandalorian with a speech bubble that says, “They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics” (from Autobiography of Res)
July 7, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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this is a good point but I also wish more people would mention that in the poll this post refers to, only like 1,000 people participated. no matter how randomized your sampling is, when you say “a majority” you are literally talking about like 500 people
screenshot from the poll that says: “The survey was conducted May 5-15, 2025, interviewing 1,004 adults nationwide, with a margin of error of +/-3.6 percentage points.”
June 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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I wrote and illustrated an article in the latest issue of the Fretboard Journal. it’s print-only but still as they say “pretty nice”

www.fretboardjournal.com/features/wha...
An open magazine with a drawing of an old mandolin on a table with a candle, some cheese, an apple, and a glass of some forbidden cordial, with light streaming in through stained glass. On the facing page is the title, Fantastic Dance: Rediscovering a 19th-century Black mandolinist.
May 30, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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the Democratic Party needs to expand the tent by telling all its voters to go fuck themselves and instead reaching out to Gary, a guy in Pennsylvania who gets all his news from the “Ornery Husbands Club” Facebook page and who thinks that Greta Thunberg is “a bit much”
a shitty quote from the article in the post below: “There is near-universal agreement among Democrats that the party needs to expand its tent and appeal to more moderate and independent voters. What’s far less clear is what exactly they are willing to do to make the Democratic label more palatable to those types of voters.”
May 13, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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hot damn that Severance finale
March 21, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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DocGPT™️ prescribes me 16 kilos of industrial-grade bear tranquilizer after our 3-minute chat where I describe my ear infection
a summary from Congress Dot Gov of a bill called HR 238, aka the “Healthy Technology Act,” which says, “This bill establishes that artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning technology may be eligible to prescribe drugs.”
February 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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been on a hop water kick lately and wanna give a shoutout to this particular type for being absolutely the most disgusting swill i have ever had the misfortune of tasting. it’s like someone dumped an airborne tablet and a handful of grocery store mushrooms into a glass of ass-flavored seltzer. 0/10
a can of the accursed HOP WTR brand, toilet in background for scale
February 19, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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going slowly insane thinking about how millions of prophecy-obsessed evangelicals worship a deranged rich guy who’s so cartoonishly unchristian that he fits every single prediction about the antichrist, even the head-wound thing. probably nothing to worry about right
screenshot of Revelation chapter 13 verses 2 through 4, New International Version: The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast. People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?”
February 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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a capital mistake
drawing I made of Sherlock Holmes with a big old mustache and he’s saying, “it is a capital mistake … to Post”
January 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Ku Klux Klan Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Plus-Sign-Shaped Bonfire
a very stupid New York Times headline, which reads: Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture
January 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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[elder millennial frantically trying to claw back some relevancy in a world he finds increasingly bewildering voice]
oh TikTok? news about TikTok? you mean this guy from the terrifying 1985 unofficial sequel Return to Oz, which gave us all nightmares well into our 30s? he got Banned?
round brass-colored robot guy with a robot mustache. his name is Tik-Tok.
January 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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for the last time, asking me NOT to use my patented BoneRay™️ technology to remove people’s skeletons will stunt the development of my famous skeleton sculptures and undermine the public’s ability to enjoy them
Screenshot of a very dumb article from the Association of Research Libraries. The title of the article is “Training Generative AI Models on Copyrighted Works Is Fair Use.” Screenshot of article text, which reads: LCA is not involved in any of the AI lawsuits. But as champions of fair use, free speech, and freedom of information, libraries have a stake in maintaining the balance of copyright law so that it is not used to block or restrict access to information. We drafted the principles on AI and copyright in response to efforts to amend copyright law to require licensing schemes for generative AI that could stunt the development of this technology, and undermine its utility to researchers, students, creators, and the public.
November 22, 2024 at 2:17 AM
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St. Luigi of Ávila #art
a drawing I made of Luigi in the pose and dress of prominent Carmelite nun and mystic Saint Teresa
October 24, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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pretty fitting that even this announcement is in passive voice
May 6, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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these powerful fucks think “disorder” is the worst thing imaginable, unless by “disorder” you mean supplying countless weapons to enable the murder of thousands of children and civilians and the destruction of entire cities in an ongoing genocide, in which case it’s, you know, fine
May 2, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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babe. BABE. come quick. this one has built-in walls
a screenshot from zillow that says “what’s special: built in walls, new appliances, perfect atrium”
February 12, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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frasier in the new frasier is up to his classic hijinx again
frasier wielding a Gun
October 16, 2023 at 7:46 PM