Reposted by Barb O'BrienGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today. 226395047142
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Which do you guys think you-know-who is going to post: That Dolly was a pathetic loser or that she was always a fan of his? 000
Reposted by Barb O'BrienClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 21/08/2026*clears throat* *taps mic* criticizing the adult women who knowingly attach themselves to Trump - whether for his approval, proximity to fascist power, party status, or simply the joy of being evil - is not misogyny, no matter how much vicarious embarrassment it gives you to watch them do it 202899551
Reposted by Barb O'BrienDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This is what everyone on that WaPo opinion podcast looks/sounds like 513473267
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Sadly this is true but I believe that eventually, floofiness will prevail 030
Reposted by Barb O'BrienMatt Tobey @mtobey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I’m finally going to listen to my doctor and eat more vegetables and get more fresh air 8056711055
Reposted by Barb O'BrienNatasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Horrible new bullshit from the sea every time. It’s never ‘oh we found a new pink fish that is so happy’ it’s always stuff like this, the crush-depth screw-headed dongwongler, and it’s got to have big long creepy bits. Sick of the ocean tbh. 1773931793
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Not to get off topic, but may I ask where in central NY? (I grew up near Utica in the 80s and agree that it is hardly a woke place!) 000
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Starting to think Harriet Miers wouldn't have been such a bad pick after all. 110
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I mean, like, yes, I support providing "incentives" for people to have kids if that means paid leave, funded daycare, etc. but checking "agree" feels icky. 000
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Pre-vet kid is working at a dairy farm this summer. My heart is bursting with pride (that she finally found a way to make this about ME) 110
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Today, I am finally old enough to move into The Villages. Hang on to your dreams, kids. Hang on to your dreams.static.klipy.comThe Simpsons: Homer Simpson's DanceALT: The Simpsons: Homer Simpson's Dance 030
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 11/06/2026My birthday buddy! (With many many years in between, but still!) 010
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Sorry, @richlucas.bsky.social, I’ve met someone while you were away. We’re in love. 030
Reposted by Barb O'BrienThe Times Of America @timesofamerica.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Today on the Various Men In Dockers Discuss Progressive Politics Podcast, we identify the chief obstacles to the genuine reforms Graham Platner has proposed: bitches 533453
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Note the prosecutor was the infamous Doug Evans from Curtis Flowers’s case. The judge basically just skipped the third step in the Batson analysis 010
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Omg I saw that and had to restrain myself from vandalizing it 110
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Happy to see this but it shouldn’t have even been a close question 120
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 27/05/2026I hear the voice of my late mother asking why I can’t get any president to stay 000
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Starting to wonder if maybe *I’m* the problem president.msu.edu/communicatio...president.msu.eduA Message to the Spartan Community | Office of the President | Michigan State University 110
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Giving real substitute-social-studies-teacher-circa-1986 vibes 020
Reposted by Barb O'BrienCristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 15/05/2026Incredible news and story for those of us who have been following Richard Glossip's brushes with death and a death-prone Supreme Court since . . . 2015. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comRichard Glossip, who was nearly executed 3 times, released while awaiting retrialGlossip, 63, was released from incarceration for the first time since his arrest in Oklahoma nearly 30 years ago. 1229
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Ollie got all floofed and such today too. Look at my shiny boy! 1381
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I do too. It's just less awkward and I don't quite understand the arguments against it. 000
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Man, I don't even charge to testify. I am such a sucker. 320
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 22/04/2026One more comes to mind of another exoneree who was pardoned after he entered an Alford plea: exonerationregistry.org/cases/12338exonerationregistry.org 010
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Also, Kerry Max Cook, though he was eventually exonerated: exonerationregistry.org/cases/13759exonerationregistry.org 010
Reposted by Barb O'BrienPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Right: [reviles academia for generations, celebrates deportations for writing op-eds and protesting, dismantles departments it doesn’t like, enacts de jure speech codes] Left: [is sometimes annoying and unserious] Some Academics: 2055584
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 16/04/2026How, pray tell, am I supposed to get any procrastination done today with Bluesky being intermittently on the fritz? 010
Reposted by Barb O'BrienPaul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 25/11/2024A Brief History of People Have Lost Their Sense of Humour 🧵 13726263
Reposted by Barb O'BrienVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 27/03/2026I would like some of the folks who signed the Harper’s letter or spent years yammering about the threat to free speech posed by Oberlin undergrads protesting eugenicists to bring an ounce of that energy to the state censoring entire disciplines. 9573201
Barb O'Brien @barbobrien.bsky.social · 25/03/2026This actually makes a lot of sense when you think about it: How can they write their "woke college kids are the REAL fascists" if the kids aren't giving them something to scold? 010