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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1h

99% level of stress (critical) from detroit: become human

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1h

yes but these reinvented solutions make great Fireship content so, who's to say what's good or bad?

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 3h

I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like to slam in the back of my Dragula.

Jeremy Stanley @jeremydstanley.com · 8h

And are you married?
I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

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bebinson 🌹🧦 @bebinson.bsky.social · 5h

youtu.be/RpkQEq75y18

Here's Why You're Wrong

YouTube video by The Onion

youtu.be

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 5h

wise man: theres actually zero difference between good & bad things.

bluesky user: You're wrong. 🧵1/

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 5h

Sorry my Excel formula screwed up and I withheld more money than it takes to operate the three most expensive schools in DCPS combined

Washington City Paper @wcp.bsky.social · 6h

The DC Auditor’s analysis shows the city’s sports and convention authority miscalculated the excess cash it’s supposed to transfer back to the District. Events DC disagrees. Full story:

Events DC Owes the District Government $68.7 Million, DC Auditor Says

The DC Auditor says the city’s sports and convention authority miscalculated the excess cash it’s supposed to transfer to the District at the end every year. Events DC disagrees.

buff.ly

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 6h

In 2024, I wrote a story for Texas Monthly about Michelle Haas, whose complaints resulted in the removal of books about slavery from historic Texas slave plantations. Haas sued us, alleging defamation, and was represented by the preferred lawyer of billionaire J.P. Bryan. Today, we won on appeal.

The header of the appeals court decision:

NUMBER 13-25-00005-CV

COURT OF APPEALS

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

The conclusion of the appeals court decision, which states: The trial court's judgment is reversed. We remand the cause to the trial court with

instructions to (1) grant appellants' TCPA motion to dismiss, (2) award court costs and reasonable attorney's fees to appellants in accordance with the statute, (3) consider whether to assess sanctions against Haas in accordance with the statute. See TEX. Civ. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 27.009(a).

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 16h

Too many people trying to watch old Tales from the Crypt

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 16h

YouTube users reported problems streaming content and accessing the app for about 60 minutes.

YouTube says it has restored service after global streaming disruptions

YouTube users reported problems streaming content and accessing the app for about 60 minutes.

bit.ly

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 17h

scoldplay

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 21h

me when I'm back in texas visiting my significant other

Kelly Macdonald as Carla Jean Moss and Josh Brolin as Llewelyn Moss in the film "No Country for Old Men." They are sitting on a couch. He is drinking a beer. She is smirking.

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

how about a compromise? let's say, billionaires shouldn't exist *for now*. we can tax them out of existence today and give them another shot in... oh, a thousand years or so.

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

schools should not be graded using state or national test scores. a good school is a school that pushes its students into the Valley of Despair

Dunning-Kruger effect visualized. On a chart of confidence/wisdom, there is a quick ascent to the Peak of Mt Stupid followed by a Valley of Despair, a Slope of Enlightenment, and a Plateau of Sustainability.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

This is literally how Trump became president again.

I think the theory of the case for Mills is that her #1 task is to just beat Collins, who’s historically been really hard to beat. Once that’s accomplished, you can run whoever else in 6 years and it won’t be as hard.

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

We're going to find ourselves in more of these situations as global temperatures continue to rise and it might be time to look into "internationally-coordinated gene drive-based eradication program" before it gets prohibitively expensive.

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's USDA is like "Okay we need you to believe in science".

That's how big a fuck up this is lol www.texastribune.org/2025/10/14/s...

USDA slaps down Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller over New World Screwworm

The federal agency accused Miller of disregarding proven strategies to combat the parasitic pest “in favor of clickbait publicity stunts.”

www.texastribune.org

kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

yeah, it feels a little academic to me, too. I appreciate you pulling the quote!

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

"Olivia Nuzzi" rhymes with Muzzy. Remember Muzzy?

kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

port fees are the truest form of self-expression

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

US Treasury Secretary Bessent: Perhaps China Vice Commerce Minister went rogue.

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

I'm onboard with this analysis but, hooboy, I wish someone could tell us what provides societal guardrails if not shame. If we're already living in a post-shame world and we can't go back, then what's the future look like?

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Goseg Train Thread @wvistheduck.bsky.social · 1d

"This is why Dem leadership continues to fall flat. You can't shame ppl who don't share norms. You can't debate authoritarians into submission when language itself is treated as a game w/out stakes. You can't appeal to civility when the far right revels in transgression and humiliation."

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d

The celebration of Charlie Kirk exposes a fundamental shift that defines our era: While shame once bound society together, it has lost the ground that gave it power—and there’s no going back.

In conversation with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social & @ezraklein.bsky.social:
newrepublic.com/article/2015...

Why Shame No Longer Works in American Politics

While it once played a role in binding society, shame has lost its power—and so have the liberal tools that depend on it.

newrepublic.com

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

30% allocation in US large cap

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

trying to find the button in my roboinvestor for "shit's fucked, 100% precious metal ETFs until further notice"

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

such a hill to die on, when you consider this channel isn't a one-man team. imagine your boss making you sit behind the camera filming the video you know is going to tank viewership, revenue, and eventually lead to your being fired.

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

"Kid A" boyfriend
"Amnesiac" girlfriend
"In Rainbows" cat

kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

when the replies aren't silly

screenshot from 2001's "Rejected" animated short film by don hertzfeldt. three characters wearing silly hats beating down on a guy with a normal hat. a prominant sign says "silly hats only"

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

they're certainly making Reconstruction jokes that would get them disavowed by their employers lol