bart
@bartsmith.bsky.social
On twitter, I had an underscore in my name. Here, I don’t. Everything else is basically the same
📍 Carrboro, North Carolina
📍 Carrboro, North Carolina
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I love the crying AI thing, it’s the world changing technology that can only make crying faces
Damn, Lily Tran got to sing with James Hetfield AND Eminem. Lucky. I wish I was 9 year old foster girl lily tran
January 31, 2026 at 7:47 PM
I love the crying AI thing, it’s the world changing technology that can only make crying faces
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thom tillis will forever be an honorless, oathbreaking dog, but i won't stop him if he wants to spend his last year in congress calling his party for what they are before heading to the doghouse for the rest of his life
February 1, 2026 at 12:40 AM
thom tillis will forever be an honorless, oathbreaking dog, but i won't stop him if he wants to spend his last year in congress calling his party for what they are before heading to the doghouse for the rest of his life
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The screenshotted post is wrong. The 2028 primary will not not revolve around Biden. It will revolve around the 2016 primary, as everything must, forever, until our bones become dust
The national press desperately misses having Biden around to beat up, so they are vowing to make the 2028 Dem primary all about Biden ... and having the gall to pretend that it's *voters* who want this.
February 1, 2026 at 12:18 AM
The screenshotted post is wrong. The 2028 primary will not not revolve around Biden. It will revolve around the 2016 primary, as everything must, forever, until our bones become dust
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So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume
An unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume angrily confronted Santa Clara city officials during a joint meeting of the City Council, city authorities, and the Santa Clara Stadium Authority on Monday, using his public comment to condemn the city’s stance on cooperation with ICE.
January 31, 2026 at 9:52 PM
So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume
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Happy 5 year anniversary to the 50 something year old Quillette writer admitting to what he uses as shampoo.
January 31, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Happy 5 year anniversary to the 50 something year old Quillette writer admitting to what he uses as shampoo.
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Why does this tuber look like the orgy scene from Matrix Reloaded?
I’ve lived in Cambridge 35+ years and finally ready to eat Puritan food
January 31, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Why does this tuber look like the orgy scene from Matrix Reloaded?
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BARI WEISS: Well, time to hire another new correspondent for CBS News. (Starts flipping through a huge tome titled “The Big Book of Pedophiles and Their Contact Information”)
January 31, 2026 at 4:15 PM
BARI WEISS: Well, time to hire another new correspondent for CBS News. (Starts flipping through a huge tome titled “The Big Book of Pedophiles and Their Contact Information”)
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Every scientist in the Epstein emails does a TED Talk titled "Why Everything We Know About Mitochondria & Inflammation Is Wrong" and writes emails which say "u eva had Romanian pussay
January 31, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Every scientist in the Epstein emails does a TED Talk titled "Why Everything We Know About Mitochondria & Inflammation Is Wrong" and writes emails which say "u eva had Romanian pussay
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14 people from The Villages go in and only 13 come out but they're already registered Republican. I wasted my Saturday.
January 31, 2026 at 10:17 PM
14 people from The Villages go in and only 13 come out but they're already registered Republican. I wasted my Saturday.
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Still snowing, still dangerous on the roads - especially for boneheads. Please stay safe and stay home, Chapel Hill!
January 31, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Still snowing, still dangerous on the roads - especially for boneheads. Please stay safe and stay home, Chapel Hill!
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i am a bari hater and take no pleasure in reporting this but nellie does seem to have been on the up and up re epstein: she contributed reporting to at least one story on him (www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/n...) and also specifically wrote about him emailing her (www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/b...)
January 31, 2026 at 8:19 PM
i am a bari hater and take no pleasure in reporting this but nellie does seem to have been on the up and up re epstein: she contributed reporting to at least one story on him (www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/n...) and also specifically wrote about him emailing her (www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/b...)
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Nellie Bowles is so upsetting because her name sounds like she should be the plucky heroine of a beloved musical and instead she's Nellie Bowles.
January 31, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Nellie Bowles is so upsetting because her name sounds like she should be the plucky heroine of a beloved musical and instead she's Nellie Bowles.
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But this isn't true. That's not how either democracy or freedom of speech works. You can totally not vote, and then complain.
People who try to sell this, are usually people trying to get a racist, transphobic, fascism-lite Dem candidate over the line with a "Trump is worse!🤡" positioning.
People who try to sell this, are usually people trying to get a racist, transphobic, fascism-lite Dem candidate over the line with a "Trump is worse!🤡" positioning.
If you're eligible to vote and don't, you're not eligible to complain.
January 31, 2026 at 7:01 PM
But this isn't true. That's not how either democracy or freedom of speech works. You can totally not vote, and then complain.
People who try to sell this, are usually people trying to get a racist, transphobic, fascism-lite Dem candidate over the line with a "Trump is worse!🤡" positioning.
People who try to sell this, are usually people trying to get a racist, transphobic, fascism-lite Dem candidate over the line with a "Trump is worse!🤡" positioning.
I think there were about seven people who watched Trial & Error, but if you enjoyed that show, Stumble (NBC/Peacock) is from the same creative team and you’ll likely find it to be worth your time
January 31, 2026 at 6:54 PM
I think there were about seven people who watched Trial & Error, but if you enjoyed that show, Stumble (NBC/Peacock) is from the same creative team and you’ll likely find it to be worth your time
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The NHL lucked into a cultural breakthrough that it almost never gets and teams have chosen not to capitalize on it because, essentially, "it's kinda gay"
January 31, 2026 at 5:07 PM
The NHL lucked into a cultural breakthrough that it almost never gets and teams have chosen not to capitalize on it because, essentially, "it's kinda gay"
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I think what's missing from the 'QAnon/TrueAnon is real!' posts is that this is actually a good example of how this actually worked:
- most people aren't pedophiles, but they do like money, and consider associating with a billionaire pedophile a small price to pay for being around it
- most people aren't pedophiles, but they do like money, and consider associating with a billionaire pedophile a small price to pay for being around it
Honestly, what I'm noticing more than a comparatively small subset of billionaire assholes and/or sweaty academics actively seeking his sex slave reserves is how little effect being a convicted sex offender had on his non-euphemistic social life - the invites and the dinner parties did not even slow
January 31, 2026 at 5:39 PM
I think what's missing from the 'QAnon/TrueAnon is real!' posts is that this is actually a good example of how this actually worked:
- most people aren't pedophiles, but they do like money, and consider associating with a billionaire pedophile a small price to pay for being around it
- most people aren't pedophiles, but they do like money, and consider associating with a billionaire pedophile a small price to pay for being around it
here comes the snow, finally
January 31, 2026 at 5:50 PM
here comes the snow, finally
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it's like SUPER cold for North Carolina today but I went to the farmer's market and on the way back I saw people 10+ years my senior, which is saying something, holding up NO ICE protest signs and I said hey fantastic job it's cold and they said "not as cold as in Minneapolis" blessed people
January 31, 2026 at 4:10 PM
it's like SUPER cold for North Carolina today but I went to the farmer's market and on the way back I saw people 10+ years my senior, which is saying something, holding up NO ICE protest signs and I said hey fantastic job it's cold and they said "not as cold as in Minneapolis" blessed people
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every epstein commentary is these immensely rich/powerful/influential people raving about what a genius epstein was, and every one of his emails is just “helo, my name jomfrie”
January 31, 2026 at 4:28 AM
every epstein commentary is these immensely rich/powerful/influential people raving about what a genius epstein was, and every one of his emails is just “helo, my name jomfrie”
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elon musk: jeffery i heard your parties are so crazy on pedo island i would love to do sex crimes there
epstein: ellen muck helo. Yuo can come. By i guess i promplaby wo’nt be around ok by
epstein: ellen muck helo. Yuo can come. By i guess i promplaby wo’nt be around ok by
January 31, 2026 at 5:27 AM
elon musk: jeffery i heard your parties are so crazy on pedo island i would love to do sex crimes there
epstein: ellen muck helo. Yuo can come. By i guess i promplaby wo’nt be around ok by
epstein: ellen muck helo. Yuo can come. By i guess i promplaby wo’nt be around ok by
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Like who the hell am I supposed to talk about this with. My therapist would have me committed.
January 31, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Like who the hell am I supposed to talk about this with. My therapist would have me committed.
feel like there had to have been a better way of contacting jeffrey epstein for this than using your duke dot edu email
Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
Doo do doo
January 31, 2026 at 4:41 PM
feel like there had to have been a better way of contacting jeffrey epstein for this than using your duke dot edu email
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Elon Musk, Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen on a Carribean island at Christmastime?
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
January 30, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Elon Musk, Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen on a Carribean island at Christmastime?
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...