The Barbarienne
@thebarbarienne.bsky.social
Book production queen. Occasional writer. Amateur jeweler. Spoonie. I post pictures of my cats and food. I love to RT art, but only if it has decent alt-text.
🦖TRANS RIGHTS OR I BITES 🦕
🦖TRANS RIGHTS OR I BITES 🦕
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I say it all the time:
FUNCTIONAL LITERACY IS NOT THE SAME AS AN ABILITY TO WRITE.
People who don't understand this will never be any good as fiction writers.
13/x
FUNCTIONAL LITERACY IS NOT THE SAME AS AN ABILITY TO WRITE.
People who don't understand this will never be any good as fiction writers.
13/x
I'm alarmed by how many people in the replies don't know what planet* that is.
*planetoid, whatever, stfu
*planetoid, whatever, stfu
This one is for the foodies 🧑🍳
You've heard of elf on a shelf. Now get ready for...
🔭🐡🧪
You've heard of elf on a shelf. Now get ready for...
🔭🐡🧪
December 7, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I'm alarmed by how many people in the replies don't know what planet* that is.
*planetoid, whatever, stfu
*planetoid, whatever, stfu
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A reminder that Iron Circus is gonna get WALLOPED with Baker & Taylor bankruptcy backdraft for the next several months, turning our usual distro payout into bills.
If you'd like to help a small business making weird-ass comics weather the storm, a 💥30% OFF💥 sale is on now!
store.ironcircus.com
If you'd like to help a small business making weird-ass comics weather the storm, a 💥30% OFF💥 sale is on now!
store.ironcircus.com
Iron Circus Comics
Iron Circus Comics is the premiere publisher of award-winning, critically-acclaimed graphic novels in the American Midwest, a small-mid house built from the ground up by founder C. Spike Trotman.
store.ironcircus.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
A reminder that Iron Circus is gonna get WALLOPED with Baker & Taylor bankruptcy backdraft for the next several months, turning our usual distro payout into bills.
If you'd like to help a small business making weird-ass comics weather the storm, a 💥30% OFF💥 sale is on now!
store.ironcircus.com
If you'd like to help a small business making weird-ass comics weather the storm, a 💥30% OFF💥 sale is on now!
store.ironcircus.com
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More of this!!
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
December 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
More of this!!
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I cannot stress enough that is some rando responds to something you reposted trying to draw you into a “but have you considered” discussion of it, they are not acting in good faith, and you just block. Please, embrace the blue sky way. block. block. block.
December 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I cannot stress enough that is some rando responds to something you reposted trying to draw you into a “but have you considered” discussion of it, they are not acting in good faith, and you just block. Please, embrace the blue sky way. block. block. block.
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I've been offline so much (mental health reasons) but I have been watching older movies and I marvel at how real they look versus newer films. I've also found silent films to be very relaxing to watch. It's entertainment without over-stimulation.
December 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I've been offline so much (mental health reasons) but I have been watching older movies and I marvel at how real they look versus newer films. I've also found silent films to be very relaxing to watch. It's entertainment without over-stimulation.
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So without birthright citizenship, wtf happens to Native Americans without federal recognition? Like. Family tree has no immigration records because ancestors were literally just born here for longer than records exist. This is the case for my maternal line.
December 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
So without birthright citizenship, wtf happens to Native Americans without federal recognition? Like. Family tree has no immigration records because ancestors were literally just born here for longer than records exist. This is the case for my maternal line.
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Listen, bobcats make HORRIBLE Christmas #gifts, and they're hard to wrap.
Do yourself a favor and give bobcat photography instead. I just so happen to have bobcat wall art, totes, stickers, puzzles, and more - but no real bobcats.
#wildlife #nature
laurel-gale.pixels.com/art/bobcat
Do yourself a favor and give bobcat photography instead. I just so happen to have bobcat wall art, totes, stickers, puzzles, and more - but no real bobcats.
#wildlife #nature
laurel-gale.pixels.com/art/bobcat
December 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Listen, bobcats make HORRIBLE Christmas #gifts, and they're hard to wrap.
Do yourself a favor and give bobcat photography instead. I just so happen to have bobcat wall art, totes, stickers, puzzles, and more - but no real bobcats.
#wildlife #nature
laurel-gale.pixels.com/art/bobcat
Do yourself a favor and give bobcat photography instead. I just so happen to have bobcat wall art, totes, stickers, puzzles, and more - but no real bobcats.
#wildlife #nature
laurel-gale.pixels.com/art/bobcat
Latest progress on #watercolor painting for my sister. I'll be cropping it tighter on the right when I matte and mount it.
One thing about progress photos is the big empty space just left of center at the bottom becomes super obvious. Gonna put a lot more leaves in there.
One thing about progress photos is the big empty space just left of center at the bottom becomes super obvious. Gonna put a lot more leaves in there.
December 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Latest progress on #watercolor painting for my sister. I'll be cropping it tighter on the right when I matte and mount it.
One thing about progress photos is the big empty space just left of center at the bottom becomes super obvious. Gonna put a lot more leaves in there.
One thing about progress photos is the big empty space just left of center at the bottom becomes super obvious. Gonna put a lot more leaves in there.
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I zoomed in, added a bit of contrast, and went back and forth over the first few seconds to show how the ground around the vents bulges outward before the lava breaks through and blasts it apart. Remarkable stuff. Nature is neat. #Kilauea
December 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I zoomed in, added a bit of contrast, and went back and forth over the first few seconds to show how the ground around the vents bulges outward before the lava breaks through and blasts it apart. Remarkable stuff. Nature is neat. #Kilauea
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tech ceos are so funny "we should bring back public executions" dude you don't know how to use a grocery store self checkout shut your nazi hole
December 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
tech ceos are so funny "we should bring back public executions" dude you don't know how to use a grocery store self checkout shut your nazi hole
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Talking about ai online has degraded into the same dynamic of posting about anything in a 300 character limit, in which ppl want you to cover all possible nuance, exception, niche, and audience or they will gleefully sail into the replies on the S.S Um Actually boat
December 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Talking about ai online has degraded into the same dynamic of posting about anything in a 300 character limit, in which ppl want you to cover all possible nuance, exception, niche, and audience or they will gleefully sail into the replies on the S.S Um Actually boat
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This is exactly the kind of thing I keep hoping to see more of in the world. We don't always need to ask permission to make things better. And most of us have more power than we generally assume.
Some Los Angeles residents are taking to the streets, paint buckets in hand, to create their own safety infrastructure –– daring the city to remove it. reasonstobecheerful.world/los-angeles-...
December 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is exactly the kind of thing I keep hoping to see more of in the world. We don't always need to ask permission to make things better. And most of us have more power than we generally assume.
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ME PRE TRANSITION: lava is so cool
THE LADS: hehe yeah bro
ME POST TRANSITION: lava is so cool
THE LADS: aha easy mistake to make but actually it's very hot
THE LADS: hehe yeah bro
ME POST TRANSITION: lava is so cool
THE LADS: aha easy mistake to make but actually it's very hot
December 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
ME PRE TRANSITION: lava is so cool
THE LADS: hehe yeah bro
ME POST TRANSITION: lava is so cool
THE LADS: aha easy mistake to make but actually it's very hot
THE LADS: hehe yeah bro
ME POST TRANSITION: lava is so cool
THE LADS: aha easy mistake to make but actually it's very hot
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On January 1, Illinois begins to regulate employer use of AI, making it a civil rights violation to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on protected characteristics in hiring, promotion, discipline, termination, or other employment terms and requiring notice of AI use. #AIBillofRights
Illinois becomes one of the few states to regulate employer use of AI. House Bill 3773 amends the Illinois Human Rights Act to make it a civil rights violation for employers to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on race, gender, age, or disability.
www.mystateline.com/news/local-n...
www.mystateline.com/news/local-n...
www.mystateline.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
On January 1, Illinois begins to regulate employer use of AI, making it a civil rights violation to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on protected characteristics in hiring, promotion, discipline, termination, or other employment terms and requiring notice of AI use. #AIBillofRights
The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out
(But also, In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree / Where Alph, the sacred river ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea)
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out
(But also, In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree / Where Alph, the sacred river ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea)
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out
(But also, In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree / Where Alph, the sacred river ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea)
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out
(But also, In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree / Where Alph, the sacred river ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea)
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The Gerald Locklin poem never fails to make me tear up.
This one, on the other hand...do I ever feel like it? Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae.
(by Robert Florence)
This one, on the other hand...do I ever feel like it? Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae.
(by Robert Florence)
December 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The Gerald Locklin poem never fails to make me tear up.
This one, on the other hand...do I ever feel like it? Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae.
(by Robert Florence)
This one, on the other hand...do I ever feel like it? Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae.
(by Robert Florence)
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It’s holiday gift season and I’m sitting in a cafe right now by myself so here’s a thread of some books I read this year that I really enjoyed… 🧵
December 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
It’s holiday gift season and I’m sitting in a cafe right now by myself so here’s a thread of some books I read this year that I really enjoyed… 🧵
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i know it's trite but: most science fiction is not trying to predict the future.
i keep seeing people stumbling over this. "well, it wouldn't be plausible to have--" okay but maybe the author wasn't trying for "plausible." usually they aren't.
what other goals might the author have had?
i keep seeing people stumbling over this. "well, it wouldn't be plausible to have--" okay but maybe the author wasn't trying for "plausible." usually they aren't.
what other goals might the author have had?
December 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
i know it's trite but: most science fiction is not trying to predict the future.
i keep seeing people stumbling over this. "well, it wouldn't be plausible to have--" okay but maybe the author wasn't trying for "plausible." usually they aren't.
what other goals might the author have had?
i keep seeing people stumbling over this. "well, it wouldn't be plausible to have--" okay but maybe the author wasn't trying for "plausible." usually they aren't.
what other goals might the author have had?
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There are not enough guillotines in the world
In private group chats, travelers ranging from the merely wealthy to actual billionaires buy and sell seats on personal planes and chartered jets at relative discounts. “Sometimes you don’t want to spend $25,000 to $30,000 going up to New York.”
The Secret Group Chats Where the Rich Score Seats on Private Jets
Even billionaires are selling seats on personal planes and jet charters at relative discounts. “Sometimes you don’t want to spend $25,000 to $30,000 going up to New York.”
on.wsj.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
There are not enough guillotines in the world
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Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
There was just a fireworks display of some sort? I could hear it, and it was the typical starts slow, develops to a finale pops and booms.
What firework display would someone be having on December 6? I mean, Irish freedom from England, sure, but this is the US?
What firework display would someone be having on December 6? I mean, Irish freedom from England, sure, but this is the US?
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
There was just a fireworks display of some sort? I could hear it, and it was the typical starts slow, develops to a finale pops and booms.
What firework display would someone be having on December 6? I mean, Irish freedom from England, sure, but this is the US?
What firework display would someone be having on December 6? I mean, Irish freedom from England, sure, but this is the US?
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Gawd, this is a grim warning for me. So I watched that animal shelter vid going round, felt all teary and happy, shared it - without the ability to parse that it was AI because I *wanted* to believe it. Have unshared. Wish it was real. But mostly wish we weren't lied to by AI.
December 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Gawd, this is a grim warning for me. So I watched that animal shelter vid going round, felt all teary and happy, shared it - without the ability to parse that it was AI because I *wanted* to believe it. Have unshared. Wish it was real. But mostly wish we weren't lied to by AI.