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Barbara VanDenburgh

@babsvan.bsky.social
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Poor, obscure, plain, and little. Writer, critic, book club host extraordinaire. Former books editor at USA TODAY. Ann Patchett told me I’m a wonderful writer.

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 21h
Guy behind me in a restaurant is sitting by himself talking on speaker phone at full volume for the past 20 minutes and death is too good
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 29/09/2026
tom cruise should make a movie about the women in his life who either have been missing for nearly twenty years or who had to enact elaborate schemes to escape their relationship with him. that would probably bring back Cinema or whatever
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s going to be pretty fucked up when this baby yeti starts telling people to kill themselves.
Subway display ad for meta’s muse ai product billed as “ai that gets it done.” The mascot is a little smiling fuzzy white puppet guy.
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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Uh oh.
Orange and white kitten
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it’s forbidden content but i have watched this video of the AI songs a man made for his mistress after murdering his wife being played in court maybe 20 times today. It is one of the most compelling things i have ever seen
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Steve @yinzer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Friday
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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
whats a movie less than 60% on rotten tomatoes that you consider to be a perfect movie? like not a bit, genuinely perfect film. Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette with an inexplicable 58% tomatometer rating
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Lucky McKee @luckymckee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My editor and lifelong best friend Zach and his family are going through a challenging time right now, navigating their youngest child through some intense medical issues. Please share this link and help if you are able to. Hug your loved ones tight! www.gofundme.com/f/team-arlo-...
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Donate to Team Arlo: Supporting Arlo & His Family, organized by Tess Passero
Over the last few months, our family has been navigating an incredibly difficult … Tess Passero needs your support for Team Arlo: Supporting Arlo & His Family
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There’s both no money to pay anyone in entertainment and enough money to pay Seth Rogan to be Launchpad McQuack
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
oh hey it’s SWAMP THING (1982)
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Hank & Townes’s Mom @katehascats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Zac Thompson @zacthompson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I fear we were too hard on the CD Cenobite. A beautiful creature who really embodied the pain/pleasure of being a dedicated lover of physical media.
Promotional photo of the CD cenobite from Hellraiser 3.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"mom said i could break all the pots in this village"
Baby Link from the Ocarina of Time looking unrepentant
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I want to go back to the year 2000 and tell myself that pirating media and selling weed will be done by giant corporations in the future just so I can see the look on 15-year-old-me's face.
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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Touchscreen kiosks, self-checkout machines and QR-code menus were only here to help.” No, they were only here to cut employees and turn all of us into unpaid labor and it’s rightfully driving us mad.
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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
John Carpenter’s PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1987)
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Republican Project for literally my entire life has been to warn us that the Federal Government was Too Powerful and Overreaching and would Strip Our Freedoms and now they have gotten into lockstep behind this loon who's like "I might fuck around and ban muffins"
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Pumpactionmusket @pumpactionmusket.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Holy shit. All of the submission videos are just being uploaded immediately at the bottom of the webpage without any moderation whatsoever. Somebody is getting fired for this. openforlegends.guitarcenter.com/campaign/ope...
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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is partially on us for making this muppet looking ass motherfucker with his child's refrigerator drawing tattoos and grocery store pop music so famous in the first place
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 15/09/2026
just spent like ten minutes explaining this all to my husband and he goes “at this point wouldn’t it genuinely be easier to just Free Palestine” and he’s not wrong
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Remmick will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran
Remmick in sinners
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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’m maybe like a 2 on the Kinsey scale but I have a very specific type which is apparently “blondes who I want to be a little mean to me.”
Florence PughGillian AndersonHannah waddinghamKate Winslet
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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Rhea Seehorn and Stephen Root in the same night, god is real and he wants us to be happy
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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Justice fucking FINALLY for Rhea Seehorn who somehow outshone everyone in Better Call Saul, even the title character
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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mitch McConnell plots triumphant return to Senate floor
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Tar Man from TROTLD Close-Up
ALT: Tar Man from TROTLD Close-Up
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
‘ed sheeran nuked from orbit by ms rachel,’ i mutter to myself, descending deeper into impenetrable madness
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Shenanigans @shenanigans.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
One must imagine Sisyphus dissociating at all times
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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Mmmm panic ramen
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026
"i will shoot myself in the gut if you do not let me cut off my dick!!!"
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Frankendarling @futurehasbeen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
9 to 5 is the rare film in which a dream blunt rotation canonically get high.
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Spooky Sara (Endless Halloween🪦) @pashion.bsky.social · 15/07/2024
Do it
George W Bush on Instagram
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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Forever chasing the high of that night
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This looks like an ad for the worst AI bukkake video you've ever seen
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Busty Shackleford @ginerso.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Well uh, this is weirdly accurate
Top half of the image is Chuck E. Cheese. The bottom is Elizabeth Holmes. They somehow have the same vacantly earnest and untrustworthy facial expression
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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Brontë’s getting surgery today. Everyone say good girl, Brontë!
A very good red tri Aussie
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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Always a little melancholic as the waning days of summer give way to an unexpected autumn chill, then I remember we as a species are trending toward extinction and that makes me feel better
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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My face when I saw my most-watched film on Letterboxd.
Roy Scheider in Jaws, thinking they’re going to need a bigger boat
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
girl stop typing and hit him with your car
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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
this second session being impossible to schedule is the most D&D thing you could possibly imagine
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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I still don’t even know where to find it. Is it an app? A website? You won’t catch me finding out.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hi! Have you had food today? A big glass of water? Do you have too many tabs open? Did you send that important email? Are you slouching right now?
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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My baby girl Brontë has a tumor on her leg that they tell me is likely benign. She’s going back to the vet Friday to see if we can surgically remove and biopsy. Please tell me your stories of fur babies who went through something scary and came out okay? Because I am a mess.
A pensive looking Australian shepherd
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Not when he’s got his prescription pad out
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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Living next to this would destroy you. Hell, they did construction on the house next to mine for several months and they'd start at 6 a.m. every day in the summer, and I stopped eating and sleeping because my mind and body were so on edge about being woken up, and that's minor compared to this.
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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What's making me especially crazy is that not only does this look like shit, it's a "solution" to a problem that doesnt' exist. A picture of a real cookie taken with your iPhone looks better! Royalty-free stock art is readily accessible! What are we doing!!!
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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I would live here.
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Serial Experiments Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New Jane Schoenbrun movie looking good
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