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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
murmuring a quiet yet intense “hell yeah” in ancient greek to my fellow carsonheads today
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New #comic about a senator named Senator Sickman (D-CA). He is a senator. By the way you can read all my dumbass comics at excessivevibrato.com.
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: a dude in a suit doing a sick skateboard trick with the US Capitol in the background and big letters up top that say “Senator Sickman: The sick-ass senator.”

Panel 2: The senator is standing behind a podium. Someone out of frame asks, “Senator Sickman, how do you vote on H.R. 9998, which would stop the executive branch from melting people?” The senator responds, “I vote…”

Panel 3: The senator does another sick skateboard flip thing, knocking over his podium while shouting, “GNARLY!!!”

Panel 4: Wide shot of the senate chamber with several tiny senators visible. A CSPAN-style chyron at the bottom reveals that the bill needed 51 votes to pass, but the final vote totals were 50 for “yes,” 49 for “no,” and 1 for “gnarly.” The senator, though extremely sick, has ruined the bill.
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
periodic reminder that there used to be a late 19th/early 20th century Vienna fashion magazine called Wiener Mode
jaunty cover of the magazine Wiener Mode featuring fancy ladies and a top-hatted gentleman in an old-timey caranother cover of the magazine Wiener Mode with two elaborately dressed ladies by the seaside a more artistic cover of the magazine featuring a drawing of a beautiful person in an elaborate headdress or hat thing. this one is truly going full Wiener Mode
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it is finally the right weather in Seattle for the Forbidden Outfit (shorts + big boxy sweater)
it’s just a goofy-ass drawing of me in shorts and a big sweater
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
please do not make it easier for people to podcast. society is already about 60% podcasters
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
counter-counterargument: telling trans people to “be pragmatic” and vote for centrist Dems who want to eradicate their right to exist in public while pretending to be progressive otherwise is insanely stupid, both morally and pragmatically. nobody wants to vote for Just a Little Bit of Transphobia
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A comic I made about Goldilocks: She tries porridge out of a blue bowl that says “help the poor, let everyone vote, it’s bad when cops murder people” (and you can mentally insert something like “let trans people exist in public”). Goldilocks says, “Hmm, seems kind of… I don’t know, extreme? like it’s too hot or cold or something?”

Then she tries porridge out of a red bowl. Inside the bowl are the words “fuck the poor, let fewer people vote, murder + racism = good” (and go ahead and mentally add “be super hateful to trans people”). Goldilocks says, “Well, I mean, that’s kind of a lot. This one is equally extreme, in the opposite way. To me, they are the same.”

Then she tries a thin gruel out of a purple bowl. Inside the bowl are the words “don’t do anything ever.” She raises her hands in victory, delighted by her choice of Medium Transphobia.
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
opening my comically oversized manila folder labeled NOVEL IDEAS to reveal a single index card with one word hastily scrawled upon it… SUPERGUN
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
this food shelf could be funded for $44,000 a year. remember that billionaires don't just have a lack of conscience or a bad habit of ignoring hungry people. they intentionally starve them to reinforce the idea of money as moral right. it is an active, not passive form of evil
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
in a move that some experts are calling economically unlikely, the president has pledged seventeen trillion dollars to anyone who physically stops a democrat from voting at the ballot box. “he probably doesn’t have enough money for that,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
in a move that some experts are calling economically unlikely, the president has pledged seventeen trillion dollars to anyone who physically stops a democrat from voting at the ballot box. “he probably doesn’t have enough money for that,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
the muppet show already has a premise, one of the greatest premises of all time in fact, and that is simply “what if there were muppets”
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
[panicking as I try to sell some glitchy plagiarism software that I’ve dumped billions into] all right so you know thinking? having thoughts? what if you could do that way less
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
the white house spokesperson has made it clear that the president’s molting skin is a sign of vigor and deep respect for the american people. “for our great leader to shed at this time shows that his current growth has exceeded the rigidity of his former carapace” she said monday
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
this morning I bolted awake with the phrase “smoky sandwich machine” still fresh on my lips. I fear I shall never see such a machine in the waking world
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
ICE Present During Incident Involving the Cessation of Person’s Bodily Activities
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
hard loss tonight but it just goes to show that the old adage about soccer really is true: if the ball doesn’t go in the goal, you’ll be hard pressed to get a point (because points come from goal)
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
the guitar tab forums have erupted into anarchy after I reveal the forbidden “all D’s” tuning (DDDDDD)
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
[youtube influencer whose main thing is reviewing different sea salts tries to start each new vid with a snappy catchphrase to get his lagging views up] rise and brine bro
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
once again imagining what the internet would be like if facebook hadn’t tricked everyone into Pivoting to Video in 2015 by juicing their numbers
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
is there any online information-conveying format worse than the vile Video Where Person Points at Lines of Text On Screen While Nodding and Making the Uh-Huh Face
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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Kagan points out in the dissent here that Alito is too much of a coward to even put Trump’s supposedly non-racist statements in his opinion.
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
YES
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
all this AI shit is like the textbook definition of an unforced error. “it turns out that using a sketchy software program that costs a shitload of money and ruins the environment ALSO atrophies my ability to think.” well you could have, you know, not done that
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
lol “there is no established solution against deskilling right now” actually there is a very good solution. and get this: it’s super established www.nature.com/articles/d41...
headline from Nature: “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good”The study authors say that continuous exposure to such tools can cause clinicians to become “less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance”.

Co-author Yuichi Mori, a physician-researcher at the University of Oslo, says that more studies are needed to confirm the phenomenon. But people who use AI tools should be aware that they risk losing some of their skills, he adds. “There is no established solution against deskilling right now. It should be a very hot research topic in the next decade.”
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
incredible. looking like the villain in a kids’ movie about talking pets
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I asked two guys in my building if they think we should burn the building down. One said yes, one said no. So obviously I’m pretty stunned that half the building thinks it should burn
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Feels insane to show these percentages and make blanket statements like “Democratic voters want…” without mentioning that only 611 people answered the question. 47% of that is 287 people. No matter how randomized your sample is, you can’t extrapolate to all potential Democratic voters!
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
amassing One Trillion Dollars so i can cheat at video games by night and meticulously demolish the social safety net and all humanitarian aid by day
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
it rules that the dudes on the right who push “masculinity” so hard always happen to look like undercooked muffins
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
she’s got bangs for days dude… bangs down to HERE
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
[“tapping the sign” voice] tapping the sign bsky.app/profile/iamt...
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
“most Democrats believe…“ no they don’t! a few hundred people believe that! I get how random sampling works in statistics, but people’s political opinions aren’t a random variable with a predictable distribution
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
every year I animorph further into Angry Old Man Who Thinks Political Polling Is Inherently Useless. you have to dig around to discover that these percentages, which sound so official and persuasive and dire, are talking about a grand total of 611 people
post from some guy on bluesky showing a New York Times graph asking whether “potential Democratic supporters” think the party should move to the left, not move at all, or move to the center on a few different issues (crime, immigration, trans issues, etc), with most bars in the graph showing a clear majority preferring “move to the center,” except on healthcare, which has more people preferring “move to the left”another view of the data from a cross tab version of that same question, this time with an extra line labeled “number of respondents”; only 611 people replied to this question in total
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
someday! sounds righteous
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
hahaaaa that’s such a good one. any hymn really would be deranged and hilarious
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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 04/05/2026
My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
trying to think of the funniest possible walk-on song for a baseball player. maybe “Manic Monday” by the Bangles
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
president donald j trump has stolen one billion dollars from taxpayers and promised to give it to a group of violent insurrectionists, a move some critics are saying may be questionably legal
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
it took this country five decades for the surviving interned Japanese-Americans who were deprived of absolutely everything and imprisoned for no cause to get $20,000 in reparations per person. we are currently awarding the guys who did the Beer Hall Putsch five years ago orders of magnitude more
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Mom, can you come pick me up? Yeah, Seattle is being super mean to me again after I singlehandedly destroyed its beloved NBA team, brutally punished my employees for unionizing, and became a billionaire.
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
the Super Mario Bros, both enhanced by invincibility stars, savagely beating an enraged Homelander to death
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
guessing they mean strikes in the bowling sense, not baseball. i.e. another banger
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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
AT THE HEART OF MODERN CULTURE, A NIGHTMARISH VOID Me, in @currentaffairs.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...
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The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
SENATOR: Sir, did you or did you not tell the president behind closed doors that, quote, “there is no such thing as a vii half-diminished chord; it is merely a V dominant chord with an added ninth and no root”? CABINET NOMINEE: I never said that. I never said that.
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it’s trevor barnes @iamtrevorbarnes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
making a podcast should be more illegal than murdering someone
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The world not screeching to a halt when the US killed more than 100 little school girls on the very first day of this "liberating war" led us exactly to this moment
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