Victoria Barrett
@victoriabarrett.bsky.social
Writer, editor, founder Engine Books. Zero-trick pony, the kind that bites. Writing in Washington Post, Salon, SyFy Wire, Gay Mag, etc. She/her.
If 300 Howitzer rounds blow up an hour away, do you all think I’ll feel the boom?
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Semi carrying explosives catches fire, shuts down I-65 in Bartholomew County
I-65 has been completely shut down in both directions following a semi-truck fire involving explosive materials, according to Bartholomew County officials.
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December 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
If 300 Howitzer rounds blow up an hour away, do you all think I’ll feel the boom?
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All hail whoever was copyediting this lady back when people thought she could write.
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
All hail whoever was copyediting this lady back when people thought she could write.
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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
There’s a reason the prose is so bad. Probably multiple reasons, but this is one of them.
I have to say, the notion/claim that someone could seriously write a book on a phone while hiking is simply ridiculous to me.
December 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
There’s a reason the prose is so bad. Probably multiple reasons, but this is one of them.
This is nearly identical to what they plan to do to Indianapolis, except they’re splitting it five ways.
If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
December 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
This is nearly identical to what they plan to do to Indianapolis, except they’re splitting it five ways.
Every non-tenure track faculty member anywhere has dealt with this same student situation. The assignment says scholarly research and they use the Bible as their main source instead. It is never an honest mistake. It is always an attempt to see what they can get away with. They finally found out.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Every non-tenure track faculty member anywhere has dealt with this same student situation. The assignment says scholarly research and they use the Bible as their main source instead. It is never an honest mistake. It is always an attempt to see what they can get away with. They finally found out.
I’m my 18 years of full-time teaching, roughly 20% of my students were always like this. I assume from this thread that’s it’s a much larger % now. And I’m not remotely surprised after all of our institutions pretended life could go back to normal post-Covid without addressing the trauma at all.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I’m my 18 years of full-time teaching, roughly 20% of my students were always like this. I assume from this thread that’s it’s a much larger % now. And I’m not remotely surprised after all of our institutions pretended life could go back to normal post-Covid without addressing the trauma at all.
I just saw a video where some guys fed images of their town into AI and then told it to output a video of the town with impossibly magical Christmas lights, and I don’t understand why people don’t recognize that that the impossible is only interesting if it’s real.
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I just saw a video where some guys fed images of their town into AI and then told it to output a video of the town with impossibly magical Christmas lights, and I don’t understand why people don’t recognize that that the impossible is only interesting if it’s real.
My kids’ friends who immigrated through this same program are not responsible for what this guy did. Their parents aren’t, either.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
My kids’ friends who immigrated through this same program are not responsible for what this guy did. Their parents aren’t, either.
Yeah, I’m sorry, anybody who read that “poem” and didn’t block its sender immediately should spend the rest of their life mired in humiliation.
She is literally doing a book tour for her memoir about her affair. The publisher is Simon & Schuster
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Yeah, I’m sorry, anybody who read that “poem” and didn’t block its sender immediately should spend the rest of their life mired in humiliation.
Do not
Do not
Do not do not do not make some kind of hero out of Marjorie Taylor Greene, please, for the love of god, do not.
Do not
Do not do not do not make some kind of hero out of Marjorie Taylor Greene, please, for the love of god, do not.
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Do not
Do not
Do not do not do not make some kind of hero out of Marjorie Taylor Greene, please, for the love of god, do not.
Do not
Do not do not do not make some kind of hero out of Marjorie Taylor Greene, please, for the love of god, do not.
I’ve been reading all of these to my kids for the last year, except we’re accidentally reading them out of order because my kid played with them and put them back in the slip case wrong. It’s somehow even weirder.
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I’ve been reading all of these to my kids for the last year, except we’re accidentally reading them out of order because my kid played with them and put them back in the slip case wrong. It’s somehow even weirder.
Truly, I’ve never been so grateful for a paywall.
November 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Truly, I’ve never been so grateful for a paywall.
“This post is for paid subscribers.”
Oh is it, now? What a surprise.
Oh is it, now? What a surprise.
November 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
“This post is for paid subscribers.”
Oh is it, now? What a surprise.
Oh is it, now? What a surprise.
This dude should never be allowed in a classroom again.
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This dude should never be allowed in a classroom again.
Whoever was editing the both of them should’ve been paid more.
November 18, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Whoever was editing the both of them should’ve been paid more.
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
I am so happy to hear that they don’t do this anymore. It was such a gross practice.
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I am so happy to hear that they don’t do this anymore. It was such a gross practice.
I knew from the second I heard that she didn’t use names that the prose was gonna be pretentious, insufferable trash.
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I knew from the second I heard that she didn’t use names that the prose was gonna be pretentious, insufferable trash.
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Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
Northern lights from downtown Indianapolis!
November 12, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Northern lights from downtown Indianapolis!
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This is really well done. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
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November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This is really well done. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...