Barry Freed
@barryfreed.bsky.social
Archivist/Librarian, erstwhile Arabist, cinephile, certified Voight-Kampff test administrator, Antipope of Antifa.
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Barry Freed
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· Nov 6
Death Note reboot where Light Yagami works his way down from the top of the Forbes 400 list.
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Some interesting movie posters from 20th century Iran
February 15, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Some interesting movie posters from 20th century Iran
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Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.
www.reuters.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court
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Just finding out now that the CEO of Chuck E Cheese is mentioned in the Epstein Files
February 15, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Just finding out now that the CEO of Chuck E Cheese is mentioned in the Epstein Files
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It *literally* does.
Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.
Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.
February 15, 2026 at 1:38 PM
It *literally* does.
Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.
Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.
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It is absolute and utter neglect to let this come this close to the wire just as the US has let most of its overseas broadcasting shutter.
And another bites the dust?
The BBC World Service will run out of funding in just seven weeks. Its funding arrangement with the Foreign Office finishes at the end of March. There is no plan for what happens next.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The BBC World Service will run out of funding in just seven weeks. Its funding arrangement with the Foreign Office finishes at the end of March. There is no plan for what happens next.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial
Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:32 PM
It is absolute and utter neglect to let this come this close to the wire just as the US has let most of its overseas broadcasting shutter.
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Please do not leave me alone with your unlocked computer, I will Google "how to commit perfect murder no evidence" as many times as I can before you return.
February 15, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Please do not leave me alone with your unlocked computer, I will Google "how to commit perfect murder no evidence" as many times as I can before you return.
Now watching this and a few other silent shorts
February 15, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Now watching this and a few other silent shorts
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average european conflict over the past 1000 years is like “[french king] declares war on [french king] over claim to [italian speaking territory] based on their shared great great grandparents. both raise army of peasants consisting of 30 mutually unintelligible dialects
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
February 15, 2026 at 4:16 PM
average european conflict over the past 1000 years is like “[french king] declares war on [french king] over claim to [italian speaking territory] based on their shared great great grandparents. both raise army of peasants consisting of 30 mutually unintelligible dialects
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Like at this point there's a New Republic editor working harder to cover for and promote Graham Platner than people he actually paid!
February 15, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Like at this point there's a New Republic editor working harder to cover for and promote Graham Platner than people he actually paid!
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I have seen national Dem consultants engaging with the post Norway Platner comeback effort (pretty right leaning ones btw!). It's not just Maine Dems who are pushing him. It's all so wild after so much of his own staff quit after being horrified!
It's nuts that these are the two candidates the respective wings of the Maine Dems have coughed up. I am positive there are, somewhere in the state, a moderate who's not 97 years old and a progressive who doesn't have nazi tattoos.
February 15, 2026 at 3:15 PM
I have seen national Dem consultants engaging with the post Norway Platner comeback effort (pretty right leaning ones btw!). It's not just Maine Dems who are pushing him. It's all so wild after so much of his own staff quit after being horrified!
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Ask yourself: why would this administration want to delete references to Medgar Evers’ racist assassin being a racist? Why might that be?
I challenge anyone in this administration or Congress to defend this.
I challenge anyone in this administration or Congress to defend this.
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
mississippitoday.org
February 15, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Ask yourself: why would this administration want to delete references to Medgar Evers’ racist assassin being a racist? Why might that be?
I challenge anyone in this administration or Congress to defend this.
I challenge anyone in this administration or Congress to defend this.
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They are places I haven't been, languages I don't speak, foods I haven't tried, books I haven't read, and people I haven't met. I wake up every day excited to learn about the world and the things in it. What separates me (and us!) from the gutter racists is that we see existence as joyful.
February 15, 2026 at 12:58 PM
They are places I haven't been, languages I don't speak, foods I haven't tried, books I haven't read, and people I haven't met. I wake up every day excited to learn about the world and the things in it. What separates me (and us!) from the gutter racists is that we see existence as joyful.
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it's just beyond pathetic to see a democracy much, much younger and more fragile than ours do what had to be done and put the ailing old fascist in jail and be like 'you don't understand, john roberts said he couldn't three years into biden's term'
February 15, 2026 at 9:14 AM
it's just beyond pathetic to see a democracy much, much younger and more fragile than ours do what had to be done and put the ailing old fascist in jail and be like 'you don't understand, john roberts said he couldn't three years into biden's term'
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Another reminder. Anne Frank and her sister Margot didn't die in gas chambers. They died of Typhus due to overcrowding at Bergen-Belsen women's camp, which also experienced outbreaks of tuberculosis and typhoid fever.
A reminder this happened earlier this week at Trump’s massive concentration camp in El Paso:
“The cases of tuberculosis and COVID-19, two diseases that spread through the air, have underscored concern about the conditions at Camp East Montana and other immigration detention centers.“
“The cases of tuberculosis and COVID-19, two diseases that spread through the air, have underscored concern about the conditions at Camp East Montana and other immigration detention centers.“
February 15, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Another reminder. Anne Frank and her sister Margot didn't die in gas chambers. They died of Typhus due to overcrowding at Bergen-Belsen women's camp, which also experienced outbreaks of tuberculosis and typhoid fever.
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I'm spending a LOT of time thinking about 18 U.S.C § 242 these days.
February 15, 2026 at 3:13 AM
I'm spending a LOT of time thinking about 18 U.S.C § 242 these days.
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This is probably ok
February 14, 2026 at 9:31 PM
This is probably ok
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It's incredibly funny that he's such a tool that they've booted him *despite* being a massive Donny simp
#BREAKING 🚨 Former Queensland Senate candidate Drew Pavlou claims he has been "deported" from the US, where he travelled after saying he would move into Billie Eilish's mansion
"I spent 30 hours trying to explain my shitposts were a joke...I guess I am just a BAD GUY"
"I spent 30 hours trying to explain my shitposts were a joke...I guess I am just a BAD GUY"
February 15, 2026 at 7:01 AM
It's incredibly funny that he's such a tool that they've booted him *despite* being a massive Donny simp
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"First he embraced her with his armes, and took her by the hande, putt a ring upon her finger and layde his hande upon her harte, and held his hands towards heaven; and to show his continuance to dwell with her to his lyves ende he did it by closing of his eyes with his hands…”
A fascinating story here about a very early instance of sign language being used in worship.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Leicester Cathedral reveals sign language wedding held in 1576
Cathedral bosses believe the signed service could have been one of the first in England.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 2:20 PM
"First he embraced her with his armes, and took her by the hande, putt a ring upon her finger and layde his hande upon her harte, and held his hands towards heaven; and to show his continuance to dwell with her to his lyves ende he did it by closing of his eyes with his hands…”
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“DHS traps people with serial killer methods” arrives in the news one (1) day after “DHS taunts jailed children with Nazi methods,” for those keeping track
ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
“DHS traps people with serial killer methods” arrives in the news one (1) day after “DHS taunts jailed children with Nazi methods,” for those keeping track
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ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:51 AM
ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
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In 2013, Platner wrote "Why don’t black people tip?" and wrote in a thread about sexual assault that people should "take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f—-ked up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to?"
themainemonitor.org/platner-redd...
themainemonitor.org/platner-redd...
Graham Platner asked why Black people ‘don’t tip’ in Reddit posts
The Democratic U.S. Senate candidate posted to the online social media site Reddit more than 1,800 times between 2009 and 2021.
themainemonitor.org
February 15, 2026 at 6:09 AM
In 2013, Platner wrote "Why don’t black people tip?" and wrote in a thread about sexual assault that people should "take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f—-ked up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to?"
themainemonitor.org/platner-redd...
themainemonitor.org/platner-redd...
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Just gonna say there are plenty of insurgent, anti-establishment candidates WITHOUT Nazi tattoos that the New Republic could have featured instead of Platner.
You could ABSOLUTELY make the point that Ds are mad at the centrist leaders of the party WITHOUT helping rehabilitate this particular guy.
You could ABSOLUTELY make the point that Ds are mad at the centrist leaders of the party WITHOUT helping rehabilitate this particular guy.
February 15, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Just gonna say there are plenty of insurgent, anti-establishment candidates WITHOUT Nazi tattoos that the New Republic could have featured instead of Platner.
You could ABSOLUTELY make the point that Ds are mad at the centrist leaders of the party WITHOUT helping rehabilitate this particular guy.
You could ABSOLUTELY make the point that Ds are mad at the centrist leaders of the party WITHOUT helping rehabilitate this particular guy.
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Drunk opinion:
David Lynch’s Dune was better
David Lynch’s Dune was better
February 13, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Drunk opinion:
David Lynch’s Dune was better
David Lynch’s Dune was better