Jake Barton
@jakebarton.bsky.social
Commie in Kentucky. Fight entropy with empathy. Creator of the history storytelling podcast Historium.
https://historium.buzzsprout.com
https://historium.buzzsprout.com
Advice for any Luddite ecoterrorists:
Bioengineer a bacteria that eats plastic and let it loose upon the world.
Bioengineer a bacteria that eats plastic and let it loose upon the world.
March 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Advice for any Luddite ecoterrorists:
Bioengineer a bacteria that eats plastic and let it loose upon the world.
Bioengineer a bacteria that eats plastic and let it loose upon the world.
“Spring ain’t the only thing that’s sprung right now.”
*overwhelming chorus of boos*
*overwhelming chorus of boos*
March 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
“Spring ain’t the only thing that’s sprung right now.”
*overwhelming chorus of boos*
*overwhelming chorus of boos*
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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
![[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm@jpeg)
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
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[threatening a baby] here comes the airplane
February 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
[threatening a baby] here comes the airplane
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Report: Everything Slightly Worse Than Yesterday
theonion.com/report-...
theonion.com/report-...
January 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Report: Everything Slightly Worse Than Yesterday
theonion.com/report-...
theonion.com/report-...
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I think I could look at this hotel bathroom art every day for the rest of my life and never come close to understanding what it's trying to tell me
January 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I think I could look at this hotel bathroom art every day for the rest of my life and never come close to understanding what it's trying to tell me
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[yelling over club music] Do you think we’re ever truly forgiven
November 9, 2024 at 10:33 PM
[yelling over club music] Do you think we’re ever truly forgiven
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That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.
January 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.
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back in like 2014 wikipedia's only freely licensed photo of Nick Offerman was from the two weeks he was blond and people hated it so much they basically decided it was better to have no photo
January 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
back in like 2014 wikipedia's only freely licensed photo of Nick Offerman was from the two weeks he was blond and people hated it so much they basically decided it was better to have no photo
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it's always okay at any stage of your life to develop a deep seated interest in the middle ages. this is not true for every era of history- there are distinct age ranges when it's inappropriate to get way into, for example, feudal japan or napoleon
January 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
it's always okay at any stage of your life to develop a deep seated interest in the middle ages. this is not true for every era of history- there are distinct age ranges when it's inappropriate to get way into, for example, feudal japan or napoleon
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Mister Rogers never misses
January 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Mister Rogers never misses
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A year or two ago, someone determined that subject lines with emoji had higher open rates than those without. Now *every paragraph* of every newsletter is bulleted with a corresponding emoji. Which means genuine tragedies are prefaced with "💔." The ripple effects of enshittification are manifold
January 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A year or two ago, someone determined that subject lines with emoji had higher open rates than those without. Now *every paragraph* of every newsletter is bulleted with a corresponding emoji. Which means genuine tragedies are prefaced with "💔." The ripple effects of enshittification are manifold
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American Years of Lead refers to both the Italian Years of Lead and to the lead-lined neural pathways of Gen X fascists
January 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
American Years of Lead refers to both the Italian Years of Lead and to the lead-lined neural pathways of Gen X fascists
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missed a spare at bowling and the scoreboard played an animation of me eating a log of shit with a knife and fork
December 31, 2024 at 5:42 PM
missed a spare at bowling and the scoreboard played an animation of me eating a log of shit with a knife and fork
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The Man They Could Not Hang (Grindé, 1939)
December 30, 2024 at 11:22 PM
The Man They Could Not Hang (Grindé, 1939)
New Historium series coming soon!
December 24, 2024 at 9:45 PM
New Historium series coming soon!
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[don henley] nooosferatu...
December 24, 2024 at 8:26 PM
[don henley] nooosferatu...
The NFL announcer just said “Someone is disappointed in the fantasy playoffs right now.”
Correct!
Correct!
December 21, 2024 at 9:15 PM
The NFL announcer just said “Someone is disappointed in the fantasy playoffs right now.”
Correct!
Correct!
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Reminds me of this from the book review of Timothy W. Ryback’s “Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power."
The similarities are stark.
The similarities are stark.
December 18, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Reminds me of this from the book review of Timothy W. Ryback’s “Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power."
The similarities are stark.
The similarities are stark.
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[playing poker]
FRIEND: I’m all in
ME: [yearning for this type of commitment since we first met] me too, man, I’m all in too
FRIEND: um, a pair of kings
ME: you bet we are
FRIEND: I’m all in
ME: [yearning for this type of commitment since we first met] me too, man, I’m all in too
FRIEND: um, a pair of kings
ME: you bet we are
December 17, 2024 at 11:08 PM
[playing poker]
FRIEND: I’m all in
ME: [yearning for this type of commitment since we first met] me too, man, I’m all in too
FRIEND: um, a pair of kings
ME: you bet we are
FRIEND: I’m all in
ME: [yearning for this type of commitment since we first met] me too, man, I’m all in too
FRIEND: um, a pair of kings
ME: you bet we are
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my friend pointed out to me that the BARBARIAN poster uses the same font as Sweet Baby Ray's sauces and I cannot stop thinking about it
December 17, 2024 at 6:10 PM
my friend pointed out to me that the BARBARIAN poster uses the same font as Sweet Baby Ray's sauces and I cannot stop thinking about it
