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Barnie

@barnie.bsky.social
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Fundraising at Friends of the Earth (posts only represent my views and values, not my employer’s), environmentalism, Bristol UK, he/him also: board games, video games, final fantasy, running

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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
One fun bit you can do: when passing a child/baby crying, turn to your friend/partner, cock your thumb in the child’s direction and say ‘someone’s being a real baby over there’
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
America often seems like a desolate, unredeemable place, but then you remember they did that whole Midwest emo thing. Maybe they’re not all that bad.
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Classic Bluesky exchange
Account posts an image that reads:
“I asked my daughter to get the phone book. She laughed at me, called me a aınosaur, and lent me her phone... Now the spider is dead, the phone is broken, and my daughter is furious.”Exchange in the comments of the post that reads:

User 1: 
Don't kill spiders.

User 2: 
If they come into my home they deserve crunching

User 1:
So easy to capture (glass and a piece of sturdy paper) and take outside.

User 2:
So easy for you to have more concern for starving people than a spider. Im living on $1k a month with no housing assistance or food stamps or access to a food pantry because apparently $1k a month makes me ineligible. Our food is poison or expensive and i have to live the entire month on pancake

User 2:
Mix but you all care more about a fucking spider than the elderly and disabled suffering like i am and you have the balls to lecture me?! Do a general strike or stfu. Its your fault im gonna die but nooo you'd care more about a fucking spider than people!
Fuck you. yall deserve trump!!
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Please remember that if you’re in the queue then legally they have to recognise your blood offering and let you have your turn upon the altar of sacrifice
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Final boss beaten of Nine Sols, the closest I’ll get to a religious experience this decade
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Making my way through a Leftovers rewatch and can confirm it is still very good
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Referred to my partner as a kite today and that felt like a good descriptor that more people should use
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Forgetting everything else for a sec, but Lake America is such a pathetic and embarrassingly bad name for a lake.
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The year is 2026, and Apple Music doesn’t know how to handle Weezer
A listing for the new Weezer album on Apple Music, showing duplicate track listings for the new Weezer album and their first record. Likely because they’re both called ‘Weezer’, and some sort of iTunes Match bug.
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
No child of mine is going to be allowed to read the Hobbit before they’ve read the Silmarillion
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I’d think a popular counter to this narrative would be how you reframe his point of view as very anti-Britain. He wants to lose ‘traditional’ countryside scenes, lose the animals we kindly host here, lose our stoic British attitudes to rain - all a bit waffly nonsense, but something there!
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IWGB @iwgbunion.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Don’t boycott GTA VI. Fight for justice for the people who made it: youtube.com/shorts/hhIES... T-shirt preorders open now! All proceeds from the t-shirts, which are ethically made and designed by us, will go towards the fired Rockstar workers’ legal funds. bit.ly/4xLc4IP
youtube.com
Don't Boycott GTA VI. Fight for justice for the people who made it.
YouTube video by IWGB Union
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Music discovery as a thing seems really broken - input what you listen to, the algorithm spits out things it thinks you’d like. When I listened to some of my favourite bands for the first time I had absolutely no idea what I was even listening to, took days for my brain to even parse songs out.
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Jason Arday’s suicide is the appalling result of multiple failures, a substantial portion of which can be levied at the UK press. Speaking out on the situation as it was unravelling though, for what it was, a systemic racism problem that held people of colour to far higher standards than any other
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It is a travesty that it is lunchtime at the Little Bagel Co in Bristol and I am the only one in - their Super VBB is so amazing.
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
honey, the gifted kids are posting about their woes again
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Is 🎵 Old Mac Donald had a data farm / A-I-A-I Oh 🎵 something
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Plagued by AI poster monstrosities everywhere in daily life, I would like to produce stickers that read ‘Your AI poster looks shit, mate’ to stick over them. Would love to commission a design for a these.
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Going to start replying to more people with ‘Okay? Good for you? Firstly, I can't eat beans’
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Friends of the Earth @friends-earth.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"These profits have been built on an energy crisis that's left households across the country struggling with high energy bills at home and expensive fuel at the pumps. This underlines the urgent need to end our dependence on costly oil and gas." - Danny Gross, FoE. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Shell profits double as oil prices rise due to Iran war
Disruption to global supplies of oil and liquid natural gas through the Strait of Hormuz has pushed up prices.
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
They say a picture is worth a thousand words
A blank page with the text ‘Dog’ in large, black writing.
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Just excellent
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
“He’s made The Odyssey too dark and gritty” Oh buddy, you’re going to be devastated when you hear that the new Wes Anderson is full of colour and whimsy
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Remembering a childhood game where you’d pinch the skin on the back of your hand to determine your calcium levels (I know), I googled to see if it was a shared experience and instead stumbled upon the most cursed images imaginable
A crudely drawn cartoon baby with the face of a background character from a police show set in the 70s, has their tummy pinched. The baby looks scornful, and ready to tell the person pinching them to fuck off. A pinching diagram, this one more medically based, showing how to test whether a baby is dehydrated based on pinching. The middle image shows a baby with sunken eyes, looking at you as if they are a cursed infant from a Dark Souls game.
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The UK will never truly enter a gilded age whilst we still have this godawful national anthem
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This story about Reform donations is also a story about climate change.
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Reform’s registered average donation last year was £137,496" and "Reform UK would have raised just £4.1m (in FY), instead of the £26.7m it actually received, if a £100k annual donation limit applied". Analysis by a brill team here shows some terrifying stats: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Reform UK would lose 85% of funding under proposed donation cap, analysis shows
Exclusive: Party would have raised £4.1m instead of £26.7m last year if £100k funding limit had been in place, Electoral Commission data suggests
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The whole English psyche can be explained simply by watching any England football match
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Jez Kemp @jezkemp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Wheeling out this classic. RIP Anne "Bone Farmer" Widdecombe
"Bone Farmer" comic by Mattie Lunchansky. Brief summary (sorry!): Two young-ish adults are commiserating the death of the "Bone Farmer", a terrifying monster who breaks into people's homes and steal their skeletons. They say while they didn't agree with him ideologically "in regards to skeleton ownership", they respected his tenacity (and look at his little bow tie!). The last panel is someone without a skeleton in a large vat saying, unsurprisingly, that they disagree.
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Can’t believe when I basically non-stop listened to Aim and Ignite by fun. all through 2009-10 after a glowing review on SputnikMusic, that I’d be living in a world where their sound would go on to dominate all pop for ever more
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Back in my day, being a FIFA Peace Prize winner used to mean something
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
cursed advertising
A metal plate for OXO cubes, showing a toddler drinking a brown liquid from a glass. It reads ‘OXO makes milk very interesting’
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb
Joe Gebbia
@jgebbia
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John Birch Society
@The_JBS • Jun 30
Your taxes are paying for an Illegal Alien with an Anchor
Baby to live in the starter home your American kids can't
afford.
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
All those people with ‘please, no DMs’ in their profile
We’re The Millers meme, with Will Poulter’s character saying ‘Wait, you guys are getting DMs?’
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Gordon isn’t really the kind of footballer name I can get behind. He should probably rename himself ‘Ronaldo’ - or, at the very least, ‘Ronaldinho’
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Give me a Capcom videogame console
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I don’t think I’ve ever done a two-move checkmate before in all the years I’ve played chess! (Please ignore my rating - this is blitz and I’m a recovering childhood chess prodigy)
A chess game on chess.com showing checkmate by black in two moves - with queen on H4, white pawns on G4 and F3. My rating is 512 (blitz)
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Will 🌱 @willmesilane.com · 30/06/2026
The Rockstar Games Workers Union - which I firmly believe my involvement with was the reason Rockstar fired me and 34 people last October - is formally seeking voluntary recognition from the company. I hope the right thing is done here ✊ 🌱 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Grand Theft Auto workers seek union recognition after mass firings
Exclusive: Staff at Rockstar Games hope move can be completed before release of GTA VI scheduled for November
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Cleaners at the Royal College of Art in Battersea were fighting management harassment, including sexual harassment. Two were sacked just for protesting it. Their union fund supports them through the fight. It’s open for donations till Saturday, every bit helps! www.eventbrite.com/e/radical-ba...
eventbrite.com
Radical Battersea walking tour (supporting the RCA cleaners)
A walking tour of Battersea's radical history, raising money to support workers victimised for speaking out against sexual harassment.
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Over 40 economists write to leader of Unite the Union, rejecting her claim that Ed Miliband would destroy jobs if he becomes next UK chancellor "The net zero economy generates output worth over £100bn and employs over a million workers....these numbers will grow” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Progressive economists reject Unite leader’s criticism of Ed Miliband
Sharon Graham is urged to withdraw her claim that the energy secretary would cost jobs if he became chancellor
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
If I was prime minister my first act would be changing the English language words for places to their local names. We do it with Welsh place names already (Snowden to Yr Wyddfa), let’s do it globally (Florence to Firenze, Germany to Deutschland, etc).
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
yeah my age may be 37, but my average item level is 549
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
One positive takeaway for Kier Starmer after this whole thing is over is his potential on the circuit as an Andy Burnham impersonator.
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Lovely thread about well-loved board games!
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The only bet I’d be willing to place is on how many social media posts reading ‘Vaxxed?’ will appear when JFK Jr dies. I’d say at least five hundred thousand.
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Plato’s sweating rn
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Just to speed up a few things - please understand that to 90% of comments on any internet post I am mentally replying with: ‘what a weird thing to say’
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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
folks, we’re going to be okay - I found nutritional yeast in Italy
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gg @ggdg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
"let people enjoy things" is over. we must want things to be good
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