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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Make sure you tuck your trousers into your socks.

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

Would love to see what people from 2015 would think of these headlines.

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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 · 17/08/2026

That 2012-2014 run of albums was way better than it should have been

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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

group of people, was something that once again fell to non-white people to raise, risking their own safety in doing so. We’ve got to be better about this division of the emotional burden we place on others, and be better at speaking out (myself included).

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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 · 15/08/2026

I started reading Stolen Focus on a recommendation - halfway through I had to stop because it was so poorly written, and then looked into him and saw all the appalling things he’s done. (Arday’s death is an appalling stain on society - horrific - clear separate standards he was upheld to)

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Barnie @barnie.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

They’re everywhere! Had a week in Cornwall recently and just amazing how prevalent it all is there.

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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 · 05/08/2026

Richard Feynman popping off in your replies

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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 · 22/07/2026

People losing their shit when the portals open up and the Witches of Thessaly walk through

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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 · 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

Keir Starmer as we close the door on him

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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 · 13/07/2026

Any concern it might be embarrassing to introduce Mr Blobby to the world outweighed by the embarrassment of still having a monarchy.

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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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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb

Joe Gebbia
@jgebbia
👇
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

Come for the live stage - stay for the big screen

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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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