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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 10h

when the replies aren't silly

screenshot from 2001's "Rejected" animated short film by don hertzfeldt. three characters wearing silly hats beating down on a guy with a normal hat. a prominant sign says "silly hats only"

kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 11h

they're certainly making Reconstruction jokes that would get them disavowed by their employers lol

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 12h

everyone needs to internalize that this is just how all republicans are and when nancy pelosi said "the country needs a strong republican party" she meant that more people like this should be powerful. they are all like this! they all think just like this and like trump and they love it and it's fun

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 18h

someone should invent a better word for that

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 19h

DEAR SHIT FOR BRAINS,

Tolstoy writing at Yasnaya Polyana, Pushkin House (1891), by Ilya Repin. An old, bearded man in white country dress is writing at a desk in a modest home.

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 20h

I can imagine a future where US courts come down hard on a few high-ranking ICE folks (and maybe a White House official or two) by 2032, but that most agents will be retired by the time they see the inside of a courtroom, as happened after the Dirty War

Dirty War - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 22h

People instinctively understand that social media is a big reason we can't marshal political power the way we used to, but it ain't all censorship and gaming the algorithms. They're also making us stupider.

"What was notable actually to me and perhaps surprising was that even the low [increasing] social media users, so those who had about one hour a day by age 13, did perform on average 1 to 2 points lower on the reading and memory tasks compared to the non-social media users"' says Nagata.
And the high increasing group performed up to 4 to 5 points lower than the non-social media users.
"So those who had the highest social media use have lower scores" notes Nagata, "but even the low users had smaller differences in their cognitive scores."

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

foliage time, fellas

An orange tree standing out among brown and green foliage in Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

bold move, calling us customers "scum," but I will admit: It got my attention

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

boy, that last photo is something else

PoPville @popville.bsky.social · 1d

Suspicious Vehicle Closes Part of 14th Street Earlier this Morning in Columbia Heights: www.popville.com/2025/10/susp...

Suspicious Vehicle Closes Part of 14th Street Earlier this Morning in Columbia Heights - PoPville

Thanks to all who sent in photos this morning. One reader shares this "Worrisome text" from 9:35am: "Just got the attached very strange and worrisome text from a place where a friend lives" Another re...

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

A few friends had jobs at Publix in high school and said it was the only place in town where management treated them like human beings, which makes sense in the Florida panhandle in the mid-2000s.

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

I honestly feel bad for the employees who have to watch chuds march around the grocery store and would be the first victims of someone mishandling an AR-15 while ordering a Pub sub.

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

cup of cold brew and fun-sized snickers at 1:20pm

goku going super-saiyan. he's yelling and he has no shirt on.

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

oh I've been through this with a new kitten before [withdraws the bazooka that shoots capstar] and never again

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

I remember her from last time this happened

kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · Sep 14

every so often, legacy media outlets draw straws to see who gets to be flogged for saying stupid shit on Bluesky. this motivates another cycle of thinkpieces about the increasingly-isolated radical left.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · Sep 13

He argued with civility. It's a start.

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 1d

foliage time, fellas

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 2d

Where is Frankie Focus now? He's in Portland. He's drawing pepper ball pot shots from Beaverton's least employable milksop. He's focused... on justice.

kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · Sep 10

I will not allow this amazing news to get buried by serious hellworld bullshit

Meet Frankie Focus, new mascot for phone-free schools in NY

Meet Frankie Focus, New York's new mascot for phone-free schools.

www.fox5ny.com

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 3d

Anatoly Dyatlov: What does the breathalyzer say?
Alexandr Akimov: 0.337 BAC. But that's as high as the meter...
Anatoly Dyatlov: 0.337 - not great, not terrible.

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 3d

Hey @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social I think you should know about this.

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Texas A&M Police @TAMUPolice
Public Intoxication. Aggie Park. Contacted subject eating a sandwich with a water jug of whiskey. BAC was.337. Released to EMS. #BTHOflorida
7:14 PM • 10/11/25 • 22K Views

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 2d

when I look back on Aug-Sept 2025 in DC, I'll certainly remember those hour-long helicopter flyovers by the Park Police terrorizing Mt Pleasant and Columbia Heights

Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, an infernal CBP helicopter woke me up early this morning. They’ve been buzzing my neighborhood like harpies all weekend. It reminds me of occupied Ireland back in the day. The racket casts a pall of doom, provokes a mix of sorrow and anger.

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Jake Flores @feraljokes.bsky.social · 3d

I can't believe this is real

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Chris Martin @mreschatologist.bsky.social · 3d

The three most beautiful words in the English language 😭

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 2d

kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 3d

Could accomplish a lot with creative parole and community service programs for the rank and file without resorting to mass incarceration. Rounding up violent racists who did state-sanctioned crimes and herding them together in American prisons kind of has UNFORSEEN CONSEQUENCES written all over it.

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Garfield and Friends Screens @garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 3d

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kyle b ☠️🎢 @kbarn.com · 3d

too bad we didn't put the entire Sackler family in a pillory on the National Mall. making them suffer would have bought Democrats a lot of goodwill with middle America, but you'll never guess what Eric Holder was up to in 2004.