Barney
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Block fascists. There's no reasoning or arguing with them, you might as well debate with spoiled leftovers. Don't let them bait you. Block fast, block often, block fascists. Let their accounts mummify.
October 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Block fascists. There's no reasoning or arguing with them, you might as well debate with spoiled leftovers. Don't let them bait you. Block fast, block often, block fascists. Let their accounts mummify.
Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died. n.pr/4qjVMDS
NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died
Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.
n.pr
October 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I was watching a video about ancient celtic languages and they had a clip of this video of Jack Thackray singing a song about the Yan tan tethera which made me think very strongly of The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett for obvious reasons.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiXI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiXI...
Jake Thackray 'Molly Metcalfe'
YouTube video by TallPiler
www.youtube.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I was watching a video about ancient celtic languages and they had a clip of this video of Jack Thackray singing a song about the Yan tan tethera which made me think very strongly of The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett for obvious reasons.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiXI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiXI...
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Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1
September 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1
Age yourself with a movie you saw in a theater as a kid.
September 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Age yourself with a movie you saw in a theater as a kid.
I can't recommend this enough. I listened to this interview with Siskel & Ebert on NPR's Fresh Air back in 1996 and have remembered it ever since.
A Conversation with Siskel and Ebert.
Film Critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert join Terry Gross on stage in Chicago for a "live" audience version of Fresh Air. This was recorded in February 1996. The duo began their TV collaboration in 19...
freshairarchive.org
September 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I can't recommend this enough. I listened to this interview with Siskel & Ebert on NPR's Fresh Air back in 1996 and have remembered it ever since.
Today is, in one of those weird coincidences where the stars align for no good reason but that it seems appropriate, the birthday of both H.G. Wells and Stephen King!
September 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Today is, in one of those weird coincidences where the stars align for no good reason but that it seems appropriate, the birthday of both H.G. Wells and Stephen King!
In Stephen King's The Dead Zone a insanely dangerous politician is stopped by an assassination attempt causing him to hold a child in front of him and the photo of that act making him a pariah. This now seems wildly and implausibly optimistic.
September 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
In Stephen King's The Dead Zone a insanely dangerous politician is stopped by an assassination attempt causing him to hold a child in front of him and the photo of that act making him a pariah. This now seems wildly and implausibly optimistic.
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Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).
September 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).
This first sentence "If anyone should be able to catch an AI scammer, it’s WIRED" is weird because they are on the top of my list of who I would think would be taken in by an AI scammer.
How WIRED Got Rolled by an AI Freelancer
We retracted a story in May. Here’s what happened.
www.wired.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This first sentence "If anyone should be able to catch an AI scammer, it’s WIRED" is weird because they are on the top of my list of who I would think would be taken in by an AI scammer.
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ICYMI🚨
Postal services in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Italy said they will stop shipping most merchandise to the US effective immediately. France and Austria will follow Monday, and the United Kingdom Tuesday.
apnews.com/article/us-t...
Postal services in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Italy said they will stop shipping most merchandise to the US effective immediately. France and Austria will follow Monday, and the United Kingdom Tuesday.
apnews.com/article/us-t...
European postal services suspend shipment of packages to US over tariffs
Multiple postal services around Europe say they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.
apnews.com
August 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
ICYMI🚨
Postal services in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Italy said they will stop shipping most merchandise to the US effective immediately. France and Austria will follow Monday, and the United Kingdom Tuesday.
apnews.com/article/us-t...
Postal services in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Italy said they will stop shipping most merchandise to the US effective immediately. France and Austria will follow Monday, and the United Kingdom Tuesday.
apnews.com/article/us-t...
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Free advice for this Sunday morning:
When you see the byline “Eli Saslow,” you drop whatever the hell you’re doing and click on the link.
Gift link ⤵️
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
When you see the byline “Eli Saslow,” you drop whatever the hell you’re doing and click on the link.
Gift link ⤵️
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
ICE Took Half Their Work Force. What Do They Do Now?
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Free advice for this Sunday morning:
When you see the byline “Eli Saslow,” you drop whatever the hell you’re doing and click on the link.
Gift link ⤵️
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
When you see the byline “Eli Saslow,” you drop whatever the hell you’re doing and click on the link.
Gift link ⤵️
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
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Collier's (March 23, 1946)
March 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Collier's (March 23, 1946)
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Check out the new front door at Peter Straub's website. It includes new publication details of his final novel, WRECKAGE, forthcoming later this year from Subterranean Press.
www.peterstraub.net
www.peterstraub.net
Peter Straub
www.peterstraub.net
January 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Check out the new front door at Peter Straub's website. It includes new publication details of his final novel, WRECKAGE, forthcoming later this year from Subterranean Press.
www.peterstraub.net
www.peterstraub.net
Apropos of nothing: The last time we invaded Canada the Canadians marched to Washington DC and set the White House on fire.
January 12, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Apropos of nothing: The last time we invaded Canada the Canadians marched to Washington DC and set the White House on fire.
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Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
December 24, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
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But back to the OP's point, this all ties into the incestuous circle-of-references-as-plot-character-everything trend in new IP adaptations.
It's a strange, copyrighted and trademarked Commedia dell'arte complete with stock characters that we also have to pretend is fresh and must not be spoiled.
It's a strange, copyrighted and trademarked Commedia dell'arte complete with stock characters that we also have to pretend is fresh and must not be spoiled.
December 26, 2024 at 3:19 PM
But back to the OP's point, this all ties into the incestuous circle-of-references-as-plot-character-everything trend in new IP adaptations.
It's a strange, copyrighted and trademarked Commedia dell'arte complete with stock characters that we also have to pretend is fresh and must not be spoiled.
It's a strange, copyrighted and trademarked Commedia dell'arte complete with stock characters that we also have to pretend is fresh and must not be spoiled.
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The warning about "decivilization" didn't come after any one of a number of school shootings. It didn't come after January 6. It was after a health insurance company CEO's shooting wasn't received with national mourning:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Decivilization May Already Be Under Way
The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshe...
www.theatlantic.com
December 11, 2024 at 9:44 PM
The warning about "decivilization" didn't come after any one of a number of school shootings. It didn't come after January 6. It was after a health insurance company CEO's shooting wasn't received with national mourning:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Joan Blondell and James Cagney on opposite pages of Motion Picture, April 1933
December 9, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Joan Blondell and James Cagney on opposite pages of Motion Picture, April 1933
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Service journalism.
December 5, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Service journalism.
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Re today's spate of "Why Democrats should stay on Twitter" stories: A reminder that the media will never, ever ask right-of-center voters to do anything they don't want to do, because right-of-center voters already act as if their entire lives are a forced-at-gunpoint concession to the "woke left."
December 1, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Re today's spate of "Why Democrats should stay on Twitter" stories: A reminder that the media will never, ever ask right-of-center voters to do anything they don't want to do, because right-of-center voters already act as if their entire lives are a forced-at-gunpoint concession to the "woke left."
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The main problem with drinking unpasteurised, raw milk, is not that you may become seriously ill or may even kill you
It introduces a highly adaptable influenza virus, H5N1, into the human population
Selecting for mutations/reassortments facilitating human to human transmission
50% mortality
🧪🦠
It introduces a highly adaptable influenza virus, H5N1, into the human population
Selecting for mutations/reassortments facilitating human to human transmission
50% mortality
🧪🦠
Drinking raw, unpasteurised, milk is a bad idea.
It has no nutritional benefits, but it will expose you to a wide range of pathogens like tuberculosis and Salmonella
Now also bird flu. The mortality rate of bird flu is around 50%
Your choice.
🧪
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
It has no nutritional benefits, but it will expose you to a wide range of pathogens like tuberculosis and Salmonella
Now also bird flu. The mortality rate of bird flu is around 50%
Your choice.
🧪
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Bird flu detected in second lot of raw milk sold in California, health officials say
“All of the cows at Raw Farm are healthy and do not show signs or symptoms of HPAI or Bird Flu,” Raw Farm said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2024 at 8:50 PM
The main problem with drinking unpasteurised, raw milk, is not that you may become seriously ill or may even kill you
It introduces a highly adaptable influenza virus, H5N1, into the human population
Selecting for mutations/reassortments facilitating human to human transmission
50% mortality
🧪🦠
It introduces a highly adaptable influenza virus, H5N1, into the human population
Selecting for mutations/reassortments facilitating human to human transmission
50% mortality
🧪🦠
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In all seriousness, A Confederacy of Dunces is a book about what internet guys did before there was an internet
Ignatius Reilly 2023 drives an Uber while listening to a movie podcast and screaming back at it in front of his passengers
November 28, 2024 at 4:08 AM
In all seriousness, A Confederacy of Dunces is a book about what internet guys did before there was an internet