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Andrew Barker

@barkerrant.bsky.social
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same guy, a year and a half ago3
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Cops sent out a public APB and splashed surveillance footage everywhere to try and catch an old man who picked up $30 off the floor of a Walmart and gave it back to the guy who dropped it.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Alternatively:
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Ironic that the solitary mention in the piece comes from this quote, about Asian hate crimes being ignored. The article never touches on it again.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I honestly wasn’t worried about AI replacing me until I learned it could also accomplish tasks like “got confused uploading files to Google Drive” and “gave up and downplayed its failure.” Probably faster than me too.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
We’re all kind of numb to it by now, but it remains remarkable that the man running both of these trillion-dollar companies with around 150,000 combined employees is currently spending his time pledging to make an AI-slop Odyssey movie with no black people in it.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Considering that the DA seems embarrassed to have to issue a press release about it, I would say probably not.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
They had it pretty spot-on in the moment. Crazy to soften it into mush the morning after.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Seems to be going well:
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
One of the most consequential political developments of the last five years: the people represented by the blue line on this graph becoming convinced that their wealth and power were on the decline.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I will never understand the NYT copy desk. The story itself is fine — reporter did her job well. But then they give it a headline that weirdly downplays what happened, and a deck that drops in a detail which, absent the context it gets in the full story, almost seems to suggest he deserved it.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Back when the Dutch were kings.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I know everyone kinda decided years ago that there’s nothing to be gained by engaging with his posts. And maybe that’s true. But it’s wild that the President of the United States appears to have regular psychotic episodes online, and his opposition rarely even mentions it. These are all from *today*
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I picked an incredible game to start watching in the second inning.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I’d really like Apple to explain why they thought this was a top news story for me, specifically.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A legit municipal campaign! Local news reporters were wearing the shirts and everything.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Sending this to my Episcopal priest dad just to piss him off:
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The city right next to me just killed a big data center project in town. An account of the city council meeting where it happened includes this detail:
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Jumping through Eras Tour-style hoops to buy Slayer tickets feels morally wrong, somehow.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
We’ve got some VERY deep-cut graffiti here in Alhambra California.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Even CNN put it in the headline.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This is a great thread, and I’m trying not to take it personally how this describes my band almost exactly. (Minus the “made a little bit of a splash” part.)
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Incidentally, this is a great book:
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This is very good, and Exhibit No. 4080 on why allowing the trending tab on social media platforms to dictate your coverage is a terrible idea.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The Blankie Incident is getting all the attention, but Lewandowski’s campaign to get a gun and a phony badge is quite a thing.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Put on any track from any of these three albums, and I am immediately transported to my freshman year dorm room, having just bought an eighth and decided to skip my afternoon classes.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
They just sorta bumped into each other, you know…
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Basically, one of the biggest divisions in American life right now is whether you think the people in the picture on the left or the people in the picture on the right are a greater menace to public safety.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
In the 2010s Inter Milan replaced their great Brazilian RB Maicon with another Brazilian RB named Jonathan who wasn’t any good but looked kinda like Maicon if you squinted right. Fans started making signs depicting him as a messianic figure — “I belong to Jonathan” — and slowly forgot it was a joke.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Back to back at the top of Techmeme. Very normal stuff.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
From Morgan Stanley analysis of Tesla earnings, Jan 2025. Has aged quite well.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
As an Andrew Barker with a lifelong aversion to the name Andy, I spent a very scary few months in 2007 waiting to see if this show would take off.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Ethiopia is mentioned on the very first page of most Odyssey translations.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
In honor of Labcabin’s 30th, shamelessly sharing this excerpt from my book, despite the fact that I somehow misspelled the Manson family’s misspelling of “Helter Skelter” and it made it all the way into print.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Pretty accurate reflection of where I was at for most of this year, tbh.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Metallica’s Cliff Burton in 1986: “There’s a band called R.E.M. that I like a lot…”
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I only saw D’Angelo once, pre-“Black Messiah,” opening up for Mary J. Blige at the very start of his 2010s comeback. It was something else. Made a flailing attempt to describe it at the time.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Maybe we need to talk more about the role of amusement parks in hip-hop production.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Just saw these two posts back-to-back in my feed… Weatherman, wind blows, etc.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
It’s baffling. He’s among the most broadly unpopular figures in American public life. And his unpopularity cuts across both parties and all age demographics.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Serious people were asking if Bored Apes could be the next Disney. One of the most powerful men in the music business actively chose to rebrand himself like this. This was three years ago.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I definitely read that last sentence in exactly this voice.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I don’t co-sign everything in this piece, but this is an entirely accurate, succinct description of Musk’s bio that deserves to be repeated just as often as his genius myth has.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
We’re barely two years removed from people going full molon labe at the suggestion that they should maybe replace their gas stoves someday.
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
30th anniversary of Mobb Deep’s “The Infamous,” one of the greatest records ever made in any genre. I interviewed Havoc for the 25th, and I still love his description of what it feels like to find a perfect sample. variety.com/2020/music/n...
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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Once again re-upping JPMorgan analysis from previous quarter which basically concluded that Tesla’s stock movements no longer have any grounding in objective reality.
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