it’s trevor barnes
@iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social
mediocre mandolinist // http://www.excessivevibrato.com
Some of my relatives sound like this, and just when it seems like we might have some common ground on how shitty the economy is, they hit me with “that’s what happens when you pay fast-food workers $20 an hour.” Brains so warped by ideology that they can never admit the right is killing them.
Three-time Trump voter on his failure to fix the economy:
"My kids' daycare went up. I can't afford the cost of food. Using credit cards for everyday expenses. No money left after their bills are paid. Just a whole bunch of financial mess... I'm very let down. I feel like it's only gotten worse."
"My kids' daycare went up. I can't afford the cost of food. Using credit cards for everyday expenses. No money left after their bills are paid. Just a whole bunch of financial mess... I'm very let down. I feel like it's only gotten worse."
December 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Some of my relatives sound like this, and just when it seems like we might have some common ground on how shitty the economy is, they hit me with “that’s what happens when you pay fast-food workers $20 an hour.” Brains so warped by ideology that they can never admit the right is killing them.
mr. president we have personally crafted for you a trophy that looks like a bunch of demon hands reaching up from hell to envelop the world
This is the most horrific trophy I’ve ever seen. It looks like a cursed object found in a desert crypt.
December 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
mr. president we have personally crafted for you a trophy that looks like a bunch of demon hands reaching up from hell to envelop the world
[after murdering a bunch of civilians 2000 miles away by looking at a screen and saying “take the shot” into a phone in a quiet office with a cheap replica of the claymore from Braveheart on the wall]
First of all, I was deep in the Fog of War, and my warrior soul was singing for battle,
First of all, I was deep in the Fog of War, and my warrior soul was singing for battle,
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
[after murdering a bunch of civilians 2000 miles away by looking at a screen and saying “take the shot” into a phone in a quiet office with a cheap replica of the claymore from Braveheart on the wall]
First of all, I was deep in the Fog of War, and my warrior soul was singing for battle,
First of all, I was deep in the Fog of War, and my warrior soul was singing for battle,
might turn into one of those psychos who responds “jesus wept” to everything instead of “that sucks”
December 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
might turn into one of those psychos who responds “jesus wept” to everything instead of “that sucks”
My 5-year-old made up a new word: NTHN (pronounced “nai-shure”), which isn’t directly translatable but means roughly “two hates AND a boring. It’s the worst word you can say in Underwater City language.” He has invented Cussing from first principles.
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My 5-year-old made up a new word: NTHN (pronounced “nai-shure”), which isn’t directly translatable but means roughly “two hates AND a boring. It’s the worst word you can say in Underwater City language.” He has invented Cussing from first principles.
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He’s surrounded by such wormy little losers at the White House that I think he was like wow a cool guy
November 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
He’s surrounded by such wormy little losers at the White House that I think he was like wow a cool guy
“seize him” ass president
Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
“seize him” ass president
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for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
gotta lol to keep from col
October 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
gotta lol to keep from col
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
and speaking of mandolins, here is some very annoying self-indulgent improvisation from me (steadfastly avoiding pinkie use) because why the f not
October 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
and speaking of mandolins, here is some very annoying self-indulgent improvisation from me (steadfastly avoiding pinkie use) because why the f not
took a little break from the horrors of the world to interview my favorite living musician, Chris Thile, a few days ago for the next issue of the Fretboard Journal. in the meantime, here he is absolutely obliterating some Bach in the park (which we talked about). i am still buzzing with adrenaline.
Chris Thile has released a new track from his upcoming album, 'Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2,' due November 7. The third movement from Partita No. 3 in E major, Gavotte en Rondeau, is available today, along with this performance video, filmed in NYC's Tompkins Square Park. youtu.be/hFTD45e7oiw
Chris Thile - Bach: Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006: III. Gavotte en rondeau (Live)
YouTube video by ChrisThile
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October 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
took a little break from the horrors of the world to interview my favorite living musician, Chris Thile, a few days ago for the next issue of the Fretboard Journal. in the meantime, here he is absolutely obliterating some Bach in the park (which we talked about). i am still buzzing with adrenaline.
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ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
October 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
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can you imagine just sitting down to plan this and not feeling any shame or hesitation. seeing jane goodall on the tv as you’re doing it and how her thing was gorillas and yours is getting ready to deport a guy who’s been wrongly imprisoned since reagan’s first term
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
can you imagine just sitting down to plan this and not feeling any shame or hesitation. seeing jane goodall on the tv as you’re doing it and how her thing was gorillas and yours is getting ready to deport a guy who’s been wrongly imprisoned since reagan’s first term
doesn’t count as a bad character name in a novel if the author introduces it with “the improbably named [name].” nothing we can do about it; they got our ass there
October 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
doesn’t count as a bad character name in a novel if the author introduces it with “the improbably named [name].” nothing we can do about it; they got our ass there
michael w. smith
What would be the wildest concert for a fight to break out at?
October 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
michael w. smith
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This whole section really.
September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This whole section really.
hey listen my wife’s book of poetry is out and it’s very very good and you should buy it and I did the heron drawing on the cover due to nepotism
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September 25, 2025 at 4:58 AM
hey listen my wife’s book of poetry is out and it’s very very good and you should buy it and I did the heron drawing on the cover due to nepotism
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things seem bad, in my opinion
September 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
things seem bad, in my opinion
hardly the most pressing concern right now but I don’t think anyone should be calling him Zuck. sounds way too cool. he is a Mark through and through
September 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
hardly the most pressing concern right now but I don’t think anyone should be calling him Zuck. sounds way too cool. he is a Mark through and through
imagine thinking this guy was some kind of paragon of christian virtue
September 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
imagine thinking this guy was some kind of paragon of christian virtue
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I wrote an unpublishable book review about a nested detective novel set in a police-free town. And I drew a bunch of magnifying glasses for it. You can even read it if you want at Excessive Vibrato Dot Com.
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Chain of Fools
In an off-brand Little Free Library box on a tiny island in Puget Sound, I once found a pitted and torn copy of a novel I’d never heard of: Diallelon, by Bryn Turnage. The cover was sun-bleached and c...
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September 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I wrote an unpublishable book review about a nested detective novel set in a police-free town. And I drew a bunch of magnifying glasses for it. You can even read it if you want at Excessive Vibrato Dot Com.
www.excessivevibrato.com/chain-of-foo...
www.excessivevibrato.com/chain-of-foo...
[immediately after using a megaphone at the local park to shout a bunch of insane opinions at everyone and having all the normal people at the park loudly boo me]
ok well, electorally speaking, what’s even more vile than leftism is parkism,
ok well, electorally speaking, what’s even more vile than leftism is parkism,
September 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
[immediately after using a megaphone at the local park to shout a bunch of insane opinions at everyone and having all the normal people at the park loudly boo me]
ok well, electorally speaking, what’s even more vile than leftism is parkism,
ok well, electorally speaking, what’s even more vile than leftism is parkism,
I wrote an unpublishable book review about a nested detective novel set in a police-free town. And I drew a bunch of magnifying glasses for it. You can even read it if you want at Excessive Vibrato Dot Com.
www.excessivevibrato.com/chain-of-foo...
www.excessivevibrato.com/chain-of-foo...
Chain of Fools
In an off-brand Little Free Library box on a tiny island in Puget Sound, I once found a pitted and torn copy of a novel I’d never heard of: Diallelon, by Bryn Turnage. The cover was sun-bleached and c...
www.excessivevibrato.com
September 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I wrote an unpublishable book review about a nested detective novel set in a police-free town. And I drew a bunch of magnifying glasses for it. You can even read it if you want at Excessive Vibrato Dot Com.
www.excessivevibrato.com/chain-of-foo...
www.excessivevibrato.com/chain-of-foo...