Nola Barrett
@nolabarrett.bsky.social
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Nola Barrett
@nolabarrett.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Please be aware that if you want to add alt text, and you post a gif that already has alt text, there is a VERY GOOD chance that the alt text in question is crap and you should just swoop in there to replace it. Literally any kind of description will almost certainly be better than what's in there
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December 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Should I up my daily goal or continue to bask in overachieving?
December 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Should I up my daily goal or continue to bask in overachieving?
Too many people don't realize that the Luddites were not the bad guys--
"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
December 19, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Too many people don't realize that the Luddites were not the bad guys--
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This is a lie and bullshit.
This is the same bullshit Disney pulled at it's parks. Making things ACCESSIBLE costs them money.
So it's much better to astroturf this issue, make some shitty people think oh cool a hack I can use, get everyone else mad
Then you can cut accessibility.
This is the same bullshit Disney pulled at it's parks. Making things ACCESSIBLE costs them money.
So it's much better to astroturf this issue, make some shitty people think oh cool a hack I can use, get everyone else mad
Then you can cut accessibility.
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines. on.wsj.com/3N6apva
They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise ‘Jetway Jesus.’
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines.
on.wsj.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This is a lie and bullshit.
This is the same bullshit Disney pulled at it's parks. Making things ACCESSIBLE costs them money.
So it's much better to astroturf this issue, make some shitty people think oh cool a hack I can use, get everyone else mad
Then you can cut accessibility.
This is the same bullshit Disney pulled at it's parks. Making things ACCESSIBLE costs them money.
So it's much better to astroturf this issue, make some shitty people think oh cool a hack I can use, get everyone else mad
Then you can cut accessibility.
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A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing—mores the pity.
December 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing—mores the pity.
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Today I received FOUR death notifications for people in ICE custody. That's 30 deaths since Trump took office. It's appalling & unacceptable.
ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.
ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.
December 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Today I received FOUR death notifications for people in ICE custody. That's 30 deaths since Trump took office. It's appalling & unacceptable.
ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.
ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.
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NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
December 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
This was also my dad and stepmom; at then end neither one of them could have survived a hike but they could walk to their seats.
YOU DUMB FUCKS. THIS IS ME.
I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center.
People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.
I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center.
People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines. on.wsj.com/3N6apva
December 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
This was also my dad and stepmom; at then end neither one of them could have survived a hike but they could walk to their seats.
You don't say
Ben Shapiro: "Today I want to talk about something even more important — how to discern those attempting to speak truth from frauds and grifters…The conservative movement is in danger from charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracy and dishonesty."
December 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
You don't say
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I had to watch Alabama's ban on gender affirming care for minors go into effect. It impacted multiple people in my life. It is cruel beyond words.
Pick up the phone. Call all of your reps. Don't tell me it won't matter--I call Tommy Tuberville. EVERY FUCKIN' TIME. I won't gift them silence on this.
Pick up the phone. Call all of your reps. Don't tell me it won't matter--I call Tommy Tuberville. EVERY FUCKIN' TIME. I won't gift them silence on this.
This is possibly the most significant attack on trans rights in this country yet, and I can count the number of posts on my timeline about this on my hands.
If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!
If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!
Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
December 18, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I had to watch Alabama's ban on gender affirming care for minors go into effect. It impacted multiple people in my life. It is cruel beyond words.
Pick up the phone. Call all of your reps. Don't tell me it won't matter--I call Tommy Tuberville. EVERY FUCKIN' TIME. I won't gift them silence on this.
Pick up the phone. Call all of your reps. Don't tell me it won't matter--I call Tommy Tuberville. EVERY FUCKIN' TIME. I won't gift them silence on this.
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Lord, please never let me be hated by someone as skilled as that Vanity Fair photographer. Let all my haters be incompetent.
December 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Lord, please never let me be hated by someone as skilled as that Vanity Fair photographer. Let all my haters be incompetent.
Trash cans akimbo--
The wind, the wind!
The wind, the wind!
December 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Trash cans akimbo--
The wind, the wind!
The wind, the wind!
December 17, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Perfect score, here
December 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Perfect score, here
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Part of the Chanukah tradition is to place the light menorah either outside or in a window where outsiders can see it. This is supposed to advertise the miracle of Chanukah. These days, it is also a way of saying, “This is a Jewish home.”
Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.
Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.
December 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Part of the Chanukah tradition is to place the light menorah either outside or in a window where outsiders can see it. This is supposed to advertise the miracle of Chanukah. These days, it is also a way of saying, “This is a Jewish home.”
Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.
Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.
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🧵 inbound.
Gimme a school circle, take a knee, take off your helmets, & drink water.
#CookingForLieutenants is in session.
Gimme a school circle, take a knee, take off your helmets, & drink water.
#CookingForLieutenants is in session.
Still have about an hour left, and I’m serving this with egg noodles instead of mashed potatoes, but it looks like we’re gonna have an impromptu #CookingForLieutenants segment featuring Guinness beef stew. Follow this space.
December 15, 2025 at 2:06 AM
🧵 inbound.
Gimme a school circle, take a knee, take off your helmets, & drink water.
#CookingForLieutenants is in session.
Gimme a school circle, take a knee, take off your helmets, & drink water.
#CookingForLieutenants is in session.
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Listening to Mansfield Park and Jane Austin's surgically precise destruction of the aristocrats of her time remains both unmatched and timeless
December 15, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Listening to Mansfield Park and Jane Austin's surgically precise destruction of the aristocrats of her time remains both unmatched and timeless
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I’ve been lighting candles for Hanukkah for years. I do it for a friend who can’t reliably light, and I do it because the world has gotten darker.
The current kittens are a fire hazard, so this year I’ll be sharing 8 nights from past years.
Jewish friends-I see you and I love you. Chag Hanukkah
The current kittens are a fire hazard, so this year I’ll be sharing 8 nights from past years.
Jewish friends-I see you and I love you. Chag Hanukkah
Chag Sameach. Maccabee says “time for dreidel!”
December 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I’ve been lighting candles for Hanukkah for years. I do it for a friend who can’t reliably light, and I do it because the world has gotten darker.
The current kittens are a fire hazard, so this year I’ll be sharing 8 nights from past years.
Jewish friends-I see you and I love you. Chag Hanukkah
The current kittens are a fire hazard, so this year I’ll be sharing 8 nights from past years.
Jewish friends-I see you and I love you. Chag Hanukkah
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Compassion is universal or it is nothing.
If you don’t hate where we are for EVERYONE, you don’t disagree with what’s happening. You just want to change the targets.
December 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Compassion is universal or it is nothing.
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Fact-check: true
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Fact-check: true
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Someone just sent me an anonymous email complaining I haven’t warned disabled people about measles, ‘how dare you term yourself a public health leader’
I wrote this nine months ago.
I wrote this nine months ago.
…because we now live in the Trump Regime, and the Trump Regime has installed as HHS Secretary someone who is antagonistic to public health generally and vaccines in particular, even if you have been vaccinated against measles, you may want to have titers checked or consider getting a booster shot…
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December 14, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Someone just sent me an anonymous email complaining I haven’t warned disabled people about measles, ‘how dare you term yourself a public health leader’
I wrote this nine months ago.
I wrote this nine months ago.
A thing I like about Tulsa King is that so far the writers are not conflating protagonist and good guy. Like, this is niche but I'm reminded of @stevenbrust.bsky.social 's Taltos series. And it kind of feels like a lost art these days
December 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
A thing I like about Tulsa King is that so far the writers are not conflating protagonist and good guy. Like, this is niche but I'm reminded of @stevenbrust.bsky.social 's Taltos series. And it kind of feels like a lost art these days