Michael Barryte
@michaelbarryte.bsky.social
Lover of hikes, world-building, and dogs.
Let’s tell some stories.
Let’s tell some stories.
If any of ya’ll have see it, I welcome your thoughts.
I went in blind to watching Sirât. I never could have expected where it was headed.
February 14, 2026 at 5:01 PM
If any of ya’ll have see it, I welcome your thoughts.
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Once more: Columbia could have fought; it chose not.
NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. But it ...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Once more: Columbia could have fought; it chose not.
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Pam Bondi: "If we prosecute everybody in the Epstein files, the whole system will collapse!"
youtu.be/CXVOF2AHiL0?...
youtu.be/CXVOF2AHiL0?...
February 12, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Pam Bondi: "If we prosecute everybody in the Epstein files, the whole system will collapse!"
youtu.be/CXVOF2AHiL0?...
youtu.be/CXVOF2AHiL0?...
The amount of BS deflection Pam Bondi is committing (oh, and definitely perjury) is wild. And to be clear, her “Donald Trump has done so many good things” doesn’t excuse if he’s a pedophile. It doesn’t excuse anyone from that regardless of their politics. It is a moral failing to the highest degree.
February 11, 2026 at 10:37 PM
The amount of BS deflection Pam Bondi is committing (oh, and definitely perjury) is wild. And to be clear, her “Donald Trump has done so many good things” doesn’t excuse if he’s a pedophile. It doesn’t excuse anyone from that regardless of their politics. It is a moral failing to the highest degree.
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We are on the brink of like 90% literal state media
Larry Ellison and his nepobaby kid are going to just keep harassing Warner Brothers about this until Trump's DOJ boxes out Netflix so they can have their prize
not to be redundant but the goal is to shovel CBS/CNN/HBO and TikTok into the Fox News right wing propaganda state TV alliance
not to be redundant but the goal is to shovel CBS/CNN/HBO and TikTok into the Fox News right wing propaganda state TV alliance
Warner Bros. Discovery Says Its Board Will Review Paramount’s Upgraded Hostile Takeover Offer
Warner Bros. Discovery said its board will review Paramount Skydance's latest hostile takeover offer -- which includes some new financial guarantees -- before it officially accepts or rejects the riva...
variety.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:18 PM
We are on the brink of like 90% literal state media
I went in blind to watching Sirât. I never could have expected where it was headed.
February 9, 2026 at 7:19 AM
I went in blind to watching Sirât. I never could have expected where it was headed.
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I never noticed this either.
February 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I never noticed this either.
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In this country we press 2 for Spanish ✨
February 9, 2026 at 1:20 AM
In this country we press 2 for Spanish ✨
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WAIT THIS IS WHAT RICKY MARTIN LOOKS LIKE NOW????????
Not gonna lie I don’t know who this man is, but also, I would do unspeakable things for him
February 9, 2026 at 1:31 AM
WAIT THIS IS WHAT RICKY MARTIN LOOKS LIKE NOW????????
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There will be AI slop all over the Super Bowl commercials. Reject them. Full stop.
February 7, 2026 at 7:47 AM
There will be AI slop all over the Super Bowl commercials. Reject them. Full stop.
There will be AI slop all over the Super Bowl commercials. Reject them. Full stop.
February 7, 2026 at 7:47 AM
There will be AI slop all over the Super Bowl commercials. Reject them. Full stop.
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1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
February 6, 2026 at 5:42 PM
1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
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From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
February 6, 2026 at 3:47 PM
From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
This weekend was a battle of the fanbases. So far, Iron Lung has done just over $18M with a budget of $3M, while Melania has made $7M with a budget of $75M.
February 1, 2026 at 7:45 PM
This weekend was a battle of the fanbases. So far, Iron Lung has done just over $18M with a budget of $3M, while Melania has made $7M with a budget of $75M.
*looks through three million Epstein documents* I’m really doubting that “the cream always rises to the top.”
January 31, 2026 at 6:47 PM
*looks through three million Epstein documents* I’m really doubting that “the cream always rises to the top.”
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This is actually genius.
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
January 31, 2026 at 6:26 PM
This is actually genius.
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The issue isn't whether "Melania" is a good movie or a bad one. It's that one of the richest men in America, with business interests affected by public policy, gave the President's family $75 million to make it. Like that's somehow legal.
January 30, 2026 at 7:51 AM
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This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
This just in: "Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards," Lemon's attorney Abbe Lowell says.
January 30, 2026 at 2:44 PM
This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
Just a friendly reminder, the American government still hasn’t closed Guantanamo Bay detention camp. You know, the place that famously followed the law.
January 27, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Just a friendly reminder, the American government still hasn’t closed Guantanamo Bay detention camp. You know, the place that famously followed the law.
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the sooner you understand that 90% of democratic caucus doesn’t want to abolish ICE and dismantle DHS, the sooner you can start yelling at them about it properly
January 27, 2026 at 3:58 PM
the sooner you understand that 90% of democratic caucus doesn’t want to abolish ICE and dismantle DHS, the sooner you can start yelling at them about it properly
“Latent talent” is a great matter of flipping into discovery, both IRL and in Scrabble.
January 26, 2026 at 6:38 PM
“Latent talent” is a great matter of flipping into discovery, both IRL and in Scrabble.
Very happy for the horror genre in general. I feel Sinners really pushed the door open on this one with additional support from GDT and Weapons.
January 22, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Very happy for the horror genre in general. I feel Sinners really pushed the door open on this one with additional support from GDT and Weapons.
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Horror showing up to The Oscars this year like
January 22, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Horror showing up to The Oscars this year like
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My hottest Oscars take is that works of art should not be pitted against one another in competition because the process necessarily narrows the field of art people believe to be worth consuming.
*I am pelted with 5,000 pounds of rotten fruit and vegetables but I am comforted by my righteousness*
*I am pelted with 5,000 pounds of rotten fruit and vegetables but I am comforted by my righteousness*
January 22, 2026 at 3:57 PM
My hottest Oscars take is that works of art should not be pitted against one another in competition because the process necessarily narrows the field of art people believe to be worth consuming.
*I am pelted with 5,000 pounds of rotten fruit and vegetables but I am comforted by my righteousness*
*I am pelted with 5,000 pounds of rotten fruit and vegetables but I am comforted by my righteousness*