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.
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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.
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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.
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I bet Children of Men Britain was so normal about trans people with the infertility crisis and all lmao
Again I am remined that Children of Men is set in 2027.
this is really grim
December 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I bet Children of Men Britain was so normal about trans people with the infertility crisis and all lmao
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What makes me angriest about the fake AI videos where people yell at ICE is that there’s a million actual videos, there’s actual priests being pelted with pepper balls, it’s just that the real priest didn’t say “we worship the real God not your ORANGE one” so he wasn’t quippy enough
December 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
What makes me angriest about the fake AI videos where people yell at ICE is that there’s a million actual videos, there’s actual priests being pelted with pepper balls, it’s just that the real priest didn’t say “we worship the real God not your ORANGE one” so he wasn’t quippy enough
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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"But averages aren't real," objected Milo.
"That may be so," he agreed, "but they're also very useful at times. For instance, if you didn't have any money at all, but you happened to be with four other people who had ten dollars apiece, then you'd each have an average of eight dollars.“
"That may be so," he agreed, "but they're also very useful at times. For instance, if you didn't have any money at all, but you happened to be with four other people who had ten dollars apiece, then you'd each have an average of eight dollars.“
December 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"But averages aren't real," objected Milo.
"That may be so," he agreed, "but they're also very useful at times. For instance, if you didn't have any money at all, but you happened to be with four other people who had ten dollars apiece, then you'd each have an average of eight dollars.“
"That may be so," he agreed, "but they're also very useful at times. For instance, if you didn't have any money at all, but you happened to be with four other people who had ten dollars apiece, then you'd each have an average of eight dollars.“
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Free advice: if you find Quentin Tarantino bashing you in the press… repeat after me.
“I was unaware that Harvey Weinstein’s best friend was so critical of me and my work.”
“I was unaware that Harvey Weinstein’s best friend was so critical of me and my work.”
December 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Free advice: if you find Quentin Tarantino bashing you in the press… repeat after me.
“I was unaware that Harvey Weinstein’s best friend was so critical of me and my work.”
“I was unaware that Harvey Weinstein’s best friend was so critical of me and my work.”
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Scientists recently combined the DNA of a cheetah with the DNA of a crab.
Things went sideways real fast.
Things went sideways real fast.
December 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Scientists recently combined the DNA of a cheetah with the DNA of a crab.
Things went sideways real fast.
Things went sideways real fast.
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Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
Yeah, I mean, I'm critical of any video nowadays that is trying to elicit an emotional response, especially when it's asking for subs at the end. It's weird that all the people seem to end up with the dog they want. And shelters are overflowing, where are the rooms full of people wanting to adopt?
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
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Read up and down the rant, but this is glorious and I want to send rahaeli a fruit basket now.
😭It was so beautiful 😭
Just get a hobby, folks. Just one. you just need one.
😭It was so beautiful 😭
Just get a hobby, folks. Just one. you just need one.
I would have blocked you for that comment, too. I have only not blocked you now because I am serving as Krista's anger translator. Please develop at least one (1) other social media interest or hobby other than posting about US politics and at least one (1) additional frame of reference.
December 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Read up and down the rant, but this is glorious and I want to send rahaeli a fruit basket now.
😭It was so beautiful 😭
Just get a hobby, folks. Just one. you just need one.
😭It was so beautiful 😭
Just get a hobby, folks. Just one. you just need one.
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i hope someday i win the fifa peace prize. maybe even the pizza hut medal of honor. or hell, why not, a costco oscar
December 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
i hope someday i win the fifa peace prize. maybe even the pizza hut medal of honor. or hell, why not, a costco oscar
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So much of modern society can be explained by the fact that some people simply want to be unkind, and they want to be unkind so badly that they will invent rationales, and indeed whole worldviews, to justify their meanness and selfishness
December 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
So much of modern society can be explained by the fact that some people simply want to be unkind, and they want to be unkind so badly that they will invent rationales, and indeed whole worldviews, to justify their meanness and selfishness
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I totally see this in my small town. The leadership here has even stated they don't want young people moving here because they have kids who cost money in services. The town buys up any open space they can to "keep the town rural" which mainly means keep new homes from being built.
Both parties.
Both parties.
One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
December 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I totally see this in my small town. The leadership here has even stated they don't want young people moving here because they have kids who cost money in services. The town buys up any open space they can to "keep the town rural" which mainly means keep new homes from being built.
Both parties.
Both parties.
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what a great sentence to begin my sunday by reading
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
what a great sentence to begin my sunday by reading
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without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
December 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
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I really would like to hear a non-nefarious reason why reporters at places like the NYT, WaPo, or NPR can't take 10 second to tell us that the $100 billion we spend on SNAP is 1.3% of the budget or the $6 billion that went to the AIDS program in Africa was 0.9% of the budget. Love to hear a reason.
seriously, can anyone give me a reason why reporters refuse to express huge budget numbers, that they know are meaningless to their audience, in a context that makes them understandable -- such as a percentage of the budget? I NEVER get an answer to this question.
If every budget number was presented as a percent of budget, percent of GDP, and percent of 10 year GDP, a large fraction of the population would have a pretty good understanding of the relative sizes of these items and budget proposals pretty quickly
December 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I really would like to hear a non-nefarious reason why reporters at places like the NYT, WaPo, or NPR can't take 10 second to tell us that the $100 billion we spend on SNAP is 1.3% of the budget or the $6 billion that went to the AIDS program in Africa was 0.9% of the budget. Love to hear a reason.
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Our Solar System is moving through space far faster than cosmology predicts. Using ultra-sensitive data from radio-telescope arrays, researchers detected an imbalance in the number of radio galaxies in the direction we’re moving versus behind us. buff.ly/s9N4CMR
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Our Solar System is racing through space 3x faster than we thought
New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by standard cosmology. Using highly sensitive data from multiple…
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December 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Our Solar System is moving through space far faster than cosmology predicts. Using ultra-sensitive data from radio-telescope arrays, researchers detected an imbalance in the number of radio galaxies in the direction we’re moving versus behind us. buff.ly/s9N4CMR
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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If industry and their legislative advocates refuse to craft rules so that crypto isn’t just a way to arbitrage existing money laundering rules while destabilizing our banks, one must conclude that the illicit “side hustle” is whole point.
December 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
If industry and their legislative advocates refuse to craft rules so that crypto isn’t just a way to arbitrage existing money laundering rules while destabilizing our banks, one must conclude that the illicit “side hustle” is whole point.
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IOW, rather than make stablecoins stable, the bill makes their inherent instability contagious, shifting their risk onto the larger banking system. It’s a direct wealth transfer from law abiding Americans to criminals.
December 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
IOW, rather than make stablecoins stable, the bill makes their inherent instability contagious, shifting their risk onto the larger banking system. It’s a direct wealth transfer from law abiding Americans to criminals.
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Having sent a crappy bill to the Senate the Senate - per tradition - made our bill worse by adding a provision that says that in the event of a run on a bank holding stablecoin deposits, those deposits have a senior claim, above those of law abiding citizens in insured accounts.
December 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Having sent a crappy bill to the Senate the Senate - per tradition - made our bill worse by adding a provision that says that in the event of a run on a bank holding stablecoin deposits, those deposits have a senior claim, above those of law abiding citizens in insured accounts.
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Great thread in which the congressman uses the plot Beverly Hills Cop to expose the lawlessness behind the “stablecoin” scam
When the House and Senate marked up stablecoin legislation, we raised all of these concerns - their anonymity, their nearly perfect design for money laundering. All the barn doors were left wide open. It’s used for crime because that is its purpose. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Great thread in which the congressman uses the plot Beverly Hills Cop to expose the lawlessness behind the “stablecoin” scam
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December 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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If your response to this is 'get a better agent' or 'thats how it's always been🤷♀️' etc and not just deep rage about how creatives always keep getting exploited by corporate greed then
Sincerely, from the bottom of my heart - get in the fucking sea and when you get there keep fucking off forever.
Sincerely, from the bottom of my heart - get in the fucking sea and when you get there keep fucking off forever.
Miles Morales co-creator Sara Pichelli says she does not get any royalties from the ‘Spider-Verse’ films, Insomniac games, or merch
"I don’t get anything … that's the saddest part of my life"
(via SiteJamesons | TW)
"I don’t get anything … that's the saddest part of my life"
(via SiteJamesons | TW)
December 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If your response to this is 'get a better agent' or 'thats how it's always been🤷♀️' etc and not just deep rage about how creatives always keep getting exploited by corporate greed then
Sincerely, from the bottom of my heart - get in the fucking sea and when you get there keep fucking off forever.
Sincerely, from the bottom of my heart - get in the fucking sea and when you get there keep fucking off forever.
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as usual this did not work, nor did "do something you want to do only slightly less than you don't want to do the thing", but "take your ADHD meds and finish the five-minute task you've been procrastinating on all day" remains undefeated as a tactic
Unsurprisingly, procrastinating all day has not made the thing I need to do spontaneously resolve itself. Maybe if I procrastinate another half hour it will?
December 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
as usual this did not work, nor did "do something you want to do only slightly less than you don't want to do the thing", but "take your ADHD meds and finish the five-minute task you've been procrastinating on all day" remains undefeated as a tactic
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People tolerate their own immiseration under capitalism because they're under the mistaken impression that they too may one day become a billionaire and when i become a billionaire i plan to use my immense resources to disabuse them of this fallacy
December 16, 2024 at 11:56 PM
People tolerate their own immiseration under capitalism because they're under the mistaken impression that they too may one day become a billionaire and when i become a billionaire i plan to use my immense resources to disabuse them of this fallacy
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December 7, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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