Barry Freed
@barryfreed.bsky.social
Archivist/Librarian, erstwhile Arabist, cinephile, certified Voight-Kampff test administrator, Antipope of Antifa.
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Barry Freed
@barryfreed.bsky.social
· Nov 6
Death Note reboot where Light Yagami works his way down from the top of the Forbes 400 list.
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The more I think about the DC press slagging AOC for a lack of FP depth while Donald Trump is President, twice, is making me angry enough to explode. The fuck is wrong with the journalists that they're like this
February 18, 2026 at 12:51 PM
The more I think about the DC press slagging AOC for a lack of FP depth while Donald Trump is President, twice, is making me angry enough to explode. The fuck is wrong with the journalists that they're like this
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the enormously funny fact is that if Taiwan drops their claim to the owning the mainland, this would be seen as an affront to the PRC
Also the US recognised that Taiwan is part of China and that the People's Republic is the official government of China but that doesn't constitute recognising that the PRC is the government of Taiwan.
You may now see why AOC can't state this clearly!
You may now see why AOC can't state this clearly!
February 18, 2026 at 8:35 PM
the enormously funny fact is that if Taiwan drops their claim to the owning the mainland, this would be seen as an affront to the PRC
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So after Trump pardoned Honduras's narco-president, the admin didn't just let him out--they canceled an immigration hold and sent a specialized team to **chauffeur him to the $1k/night Waldorf Astoria.**
“It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
February 18, 2026 at 1:21 PM
So after Trump pardoned Honduras's narco-president, the admin didn't just let him out--they canceled an immigration hold and sent a specialized team to **chauffeur him to the $1k/night Waldorf Astoria.**
“It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Elon posted this yesterday. Just for fun I did it with my before/after cancer PET scans that I had already posted online. In the "before" scan Grok missed the massive tumor lighting up my liver, and in both scans it flagged a non-existent "area of concern" in my chest. Other than that, works great!
February 18, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Elon posted this yesterday. Just for fun I did it with my before/after cancer PET scans that I had already posted online. In the "before" scan Grok missed the massive tumor lighting up my liver, and in both scans it flagged a non-existent "area of concern" in my chest. Other than that, works great!
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Real insane part of this clip is Hassett saying in the beginning that NY Fed researchers “should be disciplined” for…writing an economics paper that comes to a conclusion the president dislikes? A conclusion that matches the vast majority of economic evidence on tariffs? Nuts
Hassett: "The basic theory of President Trump's tariffs is sure, we're importing stuff from China, but we've got producers in US who make stuff, maybe at alightly higher place. If we bring stuff home, create demand, then that will hurt China & drive up wages & American consumers will be better off."
February 18, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Real insane part of this clip is Hassett saying in the beginning that NY Fed researchers “should be disciplined” for…writing an economics paper that comes to a conclusion the president dislikes? A conclusion that matches the vast majority of economic evidence on tariffs? Nuts
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I wish more people were aware of just how many things their public libraries “step in” to do, how many gaps they fill silently.
NYC, as budget season commences, we need to end the annual budget dance — a gratuitous, insulting ritual — and ensure consistent, generous funding for our libraries.
NYC, as budget season commences, we need to end the annual budget dance — a gratuitous, insulting ritual — and ensure consistent, generous funding for our libraries.
“In 2019, as [Gannett] began fully moving operations out of the bldg, the entire collection—by then scattered across the basement—was suddenly in limbo… The Poughkeepsie Public Library stepped in, agreed to pay rent on a dedicated storage unit + took on physical custodianship of the archive…”
The Poughkeepsie Journal Photo Morgue and the Fight to Save Local History
The Poughkeepsie Journal photo morgue holds decades of unpublished images. Artists, scholars, and librarians are fighting to keep it from disappearing.
www.chronogram.com
February 18, 2026 at 4:31 AM
I wish more people were aware of just how many things their public libraries “step in” to do, how many gaps they fill silently.
NYC, as budget season commences, we need to end the annual budget dance — a gratuitous, insulting ritual — and ensure consistent, generous funding for our libraries.
NYC, as budget season commences, we need to end the annual budget dance — a gratuitous, insulting ritual — and ensure consistent, generous funding for our libraries.
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In the spirit of "Western Civilization": Ramadan Mubarak, everyone.
There is no coherent historical legacy that directly links Athens and Rome to Christian Europe and the United States while leaving out the Islamic world. This is such ahistorical nonsense.
February 18, 2026 at 1:47 PM
In the spirit of "Western Civilization": Ramadan Mubarak, everyone.
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51 years ago:
The Flying Guillotine (HK)
Original title: 血滴子
The Emperor's armies have developed a new weapon: a thrown blade that can remove someone's head from long distance. As the paranoid Emperor begins dec...
1975-02-18
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/62071
The Flying Guillotine (HK)
Original title: 血滴子
The Emperor's armies have developed a new weapon: a thrown blade that can remove someone's head from long distance. As the paranoid Emperor begins dec...
1975-02-18
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/62071
February 18, 2026 at 1:49 PM
51 years ago:
The Flying Guillotine (HK)
Original title: 血滴子
The Emperor's armies have developed a new weapon: a thrown blade that can remove someone's head from long distance. As the paranoid Emperor begins dec...
1975-02-18
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/62071
The Flying Guillotine (HK)
Original title: 血滴子
The Emperor's armies have developed a new weapon: a thrown blade that can remove someone's head from long distance. As the paranoid Emperor begins dec...
1975-02-18
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/62071
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Fucking cowards. You have lawyers for a goddamn reason
Breaking News: Facing threats of losing federal funding, a major Manhattan hospital has closed its program for treating transgender youth.
Manhattan Hospital Ends Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth
NYU Langone Health cited the “current regulatory environment” in its decision to discontinue its gender medicine program for minors.
nyti.ms
February 18, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Fucking cowards. You have lawyers for a goddamn reason
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I did not have this farewell salute to Jesse Jackson on my mental bingo card.
83K views · 5.5K reactions | Hello, friends. I’m saddened today to have to say farewell to my dear long-time friend, Jesse Jackson. He was an icon, a leader, and a powerful voice for good and brotherh...
Hello, friends. I’m saddened today to have to say farewell to my dear long-time friend, Jesse Jackson. He was an icon, a leader, and a powerful voice for good and brotherhood, and we were brothers...
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February 18, 2026 at 1:55 PM
I did not have this farewell salute to Jesse Jackson on my mental bingo card.
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the bit about genAI that I just flat out cannot wrap my head around is that however good of a virtual assistant or whatever it is, there's a non-zero chance it will just lie to you. does that not bother you? that you have to go back and do the work again to make sure it's not making up numbers?
February 18, 2026 at 1:33 PM
the bit about genAI that I just flat out cannot wrap my head around is that however good of a virtual assistant or whatever it is, there's a non-zero chance it will just lie to you. does that not bother you? that you have to go back and do the work again to make sure it's not making up numbers?
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What prosecutor goes to a grand jury WITHOUT A STATUTE THEY CLAIM WAS VIOLATED?
(Now we know why Pam Bondi's brother wanted to become president of the DC Bar: to protect the lawyers under her watch from getting disbarred for this kind of stuff.)
(Now we know why Pam Bondi's brother wanted to become president of the DC Bar: to protect the lawyers under her watch from getting disbarred for this kind of stuff.)
Appalling: During Trump's effort to indict Dems for the video warning against carrying out illegal orders, one of their lawyers asked prosecutors to say what statute was allegedly violated, I'm told. They failed to name one. Then they tried to indict anyway.
New:
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
New:
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
February 18, 2026 at 1:34 PM
What prosecutor goes to a grand jury WITHOUT A STATUTE THEY CLAIM WAS VIOLATED?
(Now we know why Pam Bondi's brother wanted to become president of the DC Bar: to protect the lawyers under her watch from getting disbarred for this kind of stuff.)
(Now we know why Pam Bondi's brother wanted to become president of the DC Bar: to protect the lawyers under her watch from getting disbarred for this kind of stuff.)
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There is no bottom with these people. Think of how much we don't know about what is going on inside the concentration camps. I want to hear from every Democratic elected official and candidate about their plans for accountability once this regime is out of power.
ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
February 18, 2026 at 1:25 PM
There is no bottom with these people. Think of how much we don't know about what is going on inside the concentration camps. I want to hear from every Democratic elected official and candidate about their plans for accountability once this regime is out of power.
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BARTIROMO: How do we know a driver's license is going to be adequate if you have stories they're giving driver's licenses to illegals?
MOSKOWITZ: Again, there's no evidence non-citizens are voting in our elections. None.
B: You even have illegals driving big trucks and they can't read the signs
MOSKOWITZ: Again, there's no evidence non-citizens are voting in our elections. None.
B: You even have illegals driving big trucks and they can't read the signs
February 18, 2026 at 1:34 PM
BARTIROMO: How do we know a driver's license is going to be adequate if you have stories they're giving driver's licenses to illegals?
MOSKOWITZ: Again, there's no evidence non-citizens are voting in our elections. None.
B: You even have illegals driving big trucks and they can't read the signs
MOSKOWITZ: Again, there's no evidence non-citizens are voting in our elections. None.
B: You even have illegals driving big trucks and they can't read the signs
Massimo Dallamano's Colt 38 Special Squad has the most insane car chase stunt sequence I’ve ever seen
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February 18, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Massimo Dallamano's Colt 38 Special Squad has the most insane car chase stunt sequence I’ve ever seen
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ai can summarize key points from emails and slack chats…….i can read though…..is the thing
February 18, 2026 at 1:10 PM
ai can summarize key points from emails and slack chats…….i can read though…..is the thing
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AOC is one of the most articulate people currently elected to high office. If she develops a wide reputation as having concerns about her ability to string sentences together, that's going to tell you about the sheer power of media narratives to control what people believe.
February 18, 2026 at 1:06 PM
AOC is one of the most articulate people currently elected to high office. If she develops a wide reputation as having concerns about her ability to string sentences together, that's going to tell you about the sheer power of media narratives to control what people believe.
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I controversially think dems line on trans kids should be idk 15% rhetorical defense and 85% deflecting and calling the gop
pedophiles
pedophiles
Like this. "You must strategically abandon the specific issues that the right has rendered toxic & focus on others."
But then ... why wouldn't the right just be able to do the same thing on those other issues?
But then ... why wouldn't the right just be able to do the same thing on those other issues?
February 18, 2026 at 1:12 PM
I controversially think dems line on trans kids should be idk 15% rhetorical defense and 85% deflecting and calling the gop
pedophiles
pedophiles
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BUCKAROO BANZAI deserves to be in the Criterion Collection
February 18, 2026 at 3:22 AM
BUCKAROO BANZAI deserves to be in the Criterion Collection
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The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.
February 17, 2026 at 8:58 PM
The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.
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Appalling: During Trump's effort to indict Dems for the video warning against carrying out illegal orders, one of their lawyers asked prosecutors to say what statute was allegedly violated, I'm told. They failed to name one. Then they tried to indict anyway.
New:
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
New:
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
February 18, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Appalling: During Trump's effort to indict Dems for the video warning against carrying out illegal orders, one of their lawyers asked prosecutors to say what statute was allegedly violated, I'm told. They failed to name one. Then they tried to indict anyway.
New:
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
New:
newrepublic.com/article/2066...