Gareth Barnard
@garethbarnard.bsky.social
South African. Technical writer and researcher. Interested in film, art, design and geopolitics.
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BREAKING: ICE announces it has detained Santa Clause because he entered the country illegally and without documentation.
"Nobody is above the law," said Pam Bondi, "especially communists who just want to give things away."
"Nobody is above the law," said Pam Bondi, "especially communists who just want to give things away."
December 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
BREAKING: ICE announces it has detained Santa Clause because he entered the country illegally and without documentation.
"Nobody is above the law," said Pam Bondi, "especially communists who just want to give things away."
"Nobody is above the law," said Pam Bondi, "especially communists who just want to give things away."
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If your holiday gift list includes someone with cancer – or any other serious illness, for that matter – consider hanging those fuzzy socks back on the rack.
December 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If your holiday gift list includes someone with cancer – or any other serious illness, for that matter – consider hanging those fuzzy socks back on the rack.
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one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills
December 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills
It's hard to tell what's real these days and what's AI and I really had no idea with this one. It's like self parody.
December 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It's hard to tell what's real these days and what's AI and I really had no idea with this one. It's like self parody.
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The irony is chilling: a man who exposed a concentration camp is now imprisoned in one himself. If Guan Heng is sent back to China, there's no doubt he will be imprisoned for a very long time or worse. Hopefully, he has a good asylum lawyer.🤞
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM
The irony is chilling: a man who exposed a concentration camp is now imprisoned in one himself. If Guan Heng is sent back to China, there's no doubt he will be imprisoned for a very long time or worse. Hopefully, he has a good asylum lawyer.🤞
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Here's a peek at our new Social Media Research Toolkit, a curated collection of more than 50 social media research tools. This toolkit is unique in that it only features tried and tested tools that have been used in peer-reviewed academic studies. (ETA Jan 5, 2026) #academicsky #comsky
December 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Here's a peek at our new Social Media Research Toolkit, a curated collection of more than 50 social media research tools. This toolkit is unique in that it only features tried and tested tools that have been used in peer-reviewed academic studies. (ETA Jan 5, 2026) #academicsky #comsky
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"Networked misogyny is now firmly established as a key tactic in the 21st-century authoritarian’s playbook. This is not a new trend – but it is now being supercharged by generative AI tools that make it easier, quicker and cheaper than ever ... " www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In this age of authoritarians, online abuse of women is soaring – and it’s leading to ‘real-world’ violence | Julie Posetti
Our UN report reveals the link between the online misogyny and offline crimes that are hounding women out of public life, says Julie Posetti, lead author of a new report published by UN Women
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
"Networked misogyny is now firmly established as a key tactic in the 21st-century authoritarian’s playbook. This is not a new trend – but it is now being supercharged by generative AI tools that make it easier, quicker and cheaper than ever ... " www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If donating isn’t possible right now, sharing this also helps more than you think.
Links again:
paypal.me/TriinuP
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send.monobank.ua/jar/2YDkJFXE5C
Links again:
paypal.me/TriinuP
revolut.me/triinuuqwd
wise.com/pay/me/triin...
send.monobank.ua/jar/2YDkJFXE5C
December 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
If donating isn’t possible right now, sharing this also helps more than you think.
Links again:
paypal.me/TriinuP
revolut.me/triinuuqwd
wise.com/pay/me/triin...
send.monobank.ua/jar/2YDkJFXE5C
Links again:
paypal.me/TriinuP
revolut.me/triinuuqwd
wise.com/pay/me/triin...
send.monobank.ua/jar/2YDkJFXE5C
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December 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Good morning, Bluesky! 🌞
The morning sun shines on the Tianfeng Pagoda at Xiangde Temple in Taroko Gorge, Hualien, Taiwan.
#landscapephotography #landscape #naturephotography #nature #sunrise #pagoda #temple #taiwan #asia #photography
The morning sun shines on the Tianfeng Pagoda at Xiangde Temple in Taroko Gorge, Hualien, Taiwan.
#landscapephotography #landscape #naturephotography #nature #sunrise #pagoda #temple #taiwan #asia #photography
December 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Good morning, Bluesky! 🌞
The morning sun shines on the Tianfeng Pagoda at Xiangde Temple in Taroko Gorge, Hualien, Taiwan.
#landscapephotography #landscape #naturephotography #nature #sunrise #pagoda #temple #taiwan #asia #photography
The morning sun shines on the Tianfeng Pagoda at Xiangde Temple in Taroko Gorge, Hualien, Taiwan.
#landscapephotography #landscape #naturephotography #nature #sunrise #pagoda #temple #taiwan #asia #photography
That's how the bubble bursts. There will be winners and losers.
OpenAI's CEO is reportedly pushing for improvements to ChatGPT and delaying plans to integrate ads on its platform, after Google’s strong showing with Gemini 3.
Altman ‘Code Red’ Memo Urges ChatGPT Improvements Amid Growing Threat From Google, Reports Say
OpenAI's CEO is reportedly pushing for improvements to ChatGPT and delaying plans to integrate ads on its platform, after Google’s strong showing with Gemini 3.
www.forbes.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
That's how the bubble bursts. There will be winners and losers.
Excessive daytime sleepiness is yet another symptom of dementia
I just find it hilarious that his whole cabinet is sloberring praise all over him with ridiculous hyperbole and he is falling asleep while they're doing it.
You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
December 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Excessive daytime sleepiness is yet another symptom of dementia
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The conflict of interest here is off the chart: "Steve Witkoff’s real-estate empire is bankrolled by a former adviser to Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a key architect of Moscow’s Ukraine negotiations" bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/t...
Trump Envoy Has Financial Ties With Former Adviser to Putin’s ‘Money Man’ Now Leading Kremlin Peace Talks
Steve Witkoff’s real-estate empire is bankrolled by a former adviser to Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a key architect of Moscow’s Ukraine negotiations
bylinetimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The conflict of interest here is off the chart: "Steve Witkoff’s real-estate empire is bankrolled by a former adviser to Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a key architect of Moscow’s Ukraine negotiations" bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/t...
But if you want to rule the world you need a mountain of debt
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
—FDR, 1944
—FDR, 1944
December 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
But if you want to rule the world you need a mountain of debt
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I LOVE this!!
TONIGHT, now until 8pm! 🎬 Swing by TINY CINEMA, currently stationed at Spurgeon & 4th, just around the corner from us! Enjoy a free silent short film in a comfy mobile movie theater, with live musical accompaniment by Davey B. Gravey! FREE! (Though donations are always welcome!) 📽️🎵
December 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I LOVE this!!
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I just became aware of this incredibly relatable drawing by John Singer Sargent.
November 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I just became aware of this incredibly relatable drawing by John Singer Sargent.
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If you needed answers 3 years ago, you likely used Google or a YouTube video or Alexa. But many people today just go to ChatGPT. #HBD 🍰 buff.ly/36w45hJ
The ChatGPT effect: In 3 years the AI chatbot has changed the way people look things up
ChatGPT has dramatically altered how people retrieve information, muscling aside Google search as the first stop on the hunt for answers.
buff.ly
November 29, 2025 at 7:06 AM
If you needed answers 3 years ago, you likely used Google or a YouTube video or Alexa. But many people today just go to ChatGPT. #HBD 🍰 buff.ly/36w45hJ
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Obscure YT of the day: Abel Ferrara's still not released in the U.S. MARY (2005). Sort of AF's response to PASSION OF THE CHRIST. Juliette Binoche, Forest Whitaker, Matthew Modine, Heather Grahm, Marion Cotillard, Stefania Rocca star. Good stuff!
m.ok.ru/video/732820...
m.ok.ru/video/732820...
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Obscure YT of the day: Abel Ferrara's still not released in the U.S. MARY (2005). Sort of AF's response to PASSION OF THE CHRIST. Juliette Binoche, Forest Whitaker, Matthew Modine, Heather Grahm, Marion Cotillard, Stefania Rocca star. Good stuff!
m.ok.ru/video/732820...
m.ok.ru/video/732820...
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In case this slipped past your feed, check out Melisa Ross, Kalypso Nicolaidis, and Camille Dobler's piece on their first-hand experience as organisers and observers in the Democratic Odyssey project:
🔗 www.publicdeliberation.net/the-democrat...
Available in German, Greek, Italian and English!
🔗 www.publicdeliberation.net/the-democrat...
Available in German, Greek, Italian and English!
November 28, 2025 at 5:31 AM
In case this slipped past your feed, check out Melisa Ross, Kalypso Nicolaidis, and Camille Dobler's piece on their first-hand experience as organisers and observers in the Democratic Odyssey project:
🔗 www.publicdeliberation.net/the-democrat...
Available in German, Greek, Italian and English!
🔗 www.publicdeliberation.net/the-democrat...
Available in German, Greek, Italian and English!
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said in February that South Africa’s G20 themes of “solidarity, equality, & sustainability” amounted to “anti-Americanism”.
South Africa says US boycott of G20 is ‘coercion by absentia’
US says Johannesburg meeting cannot issue final statement without its presence and that summit’s priorities ‘run counter to US policy views’
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said in February that South Africa’s G20 themes of “solidarity, equality, & sustainability” amounted to “anti-Americanism”.
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It occurs to me, and I'm sure I'm not the only one, that what is happening with the ultra rich oppressing and exploiting everyone else is a mirror of what humans have done to the earth.
November 20, 2025 at 6:16 AM
It occurs to me, and I'm sure I'm not the only one, that what is happening with the ultra rich oppressing and exploiting everyone else is a mirror of what humans have done to the earth.
Very good points made about city budgets
Listening to many speakers over multiple days has been inspiring, and has renewed some slightly shaken faith in civic life in our city.
Well done, Vancouver.
A lot of key issues and elements have been eloquently covered by citizens, so I’ll try to say something relatively “new.”
My Comments here:
Well done, Vancouver.
A lot of key issues and elements have been eloquently covered by citizens, so I’ll try to say something relatively “new.”
My Comments here:
November 20, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Very good points made about city budgets