Reposted by Jake Bartonleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026you know that thing when you're walking on the sidewalk and someone's coming the other way and you go right and they go right so then you go left and they go left and you're like damn we're stupid as fuck. do you think that ever happened to cavemen 2054243
Jake Barton @jakebarton.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Advice for any Luddite ecoterrorists: Bioengineer a bacteria that eats plastic and let it loose upon the world. 010
Jake Barton @jakebarton.bsky.social · 14/03/2025“Spring ain’t the only thing that’s sprung right now.” *overwhelming chorus of boos* 000
Reposted by Jake BartonBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality 53120314308
Reposted by Jake Bartonsoul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025[threatening a baby] here comes the airplane 128159382058
Reposted by Jake BartonThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/01/2025Report: Everything Slightly Worse Than Yesterday theonion.com/report-... 13571091252
Reposted by Jake BartonMarnie Shure @marnieshure.bsky.social · 12/01/2025I think I could look at this hotel bathroom art every day for the rest of my life and never come close to understanding what it's trying to tell me 141
Reposted by Jake BartonViktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 09/11/2024[yelling over club music] Do you think we’re ever truly forgiven 5150921210
Reposted by Jake BartonDisco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 08/01/2025That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another. 016182
Reposted by Jake Bartondepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 05/01/2025back in like 2014 wikipedia's only freely licensed photo of Nick Offerman was from the two weeks he was blond and people hated it so much they basically decided it was better to have no photo 643989282
Reposted by Jake Bartonlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 04/01/2025it's always okay at any stage of your life to develop a deep seated interest in the middle ages. this is not true for every era of history- there are distinct age ranges when it's inappropriate to get way into, for example, feudal japan or napoleon 4161536
Reposted by Jake BartonAnthony Iannaccio @mrtonynacho.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Mister Rogers never misses 195248658236
Reposted by Jake BartonMarnie Shure @marnieshure.bsky.social · 02/01/2025A year or two ago, someone determined that subject lines with emoji had higher open rates than those without. Now *every paragraph* of every newsletter is bulleted with a corresponding emoji. Which means genuine tragedies are prefaced with "💔." The ripple effects of enshittification are manifold 1034659
Reposted by Jake Bartonautumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 01/01/2025American Years of Lead refers to both the Italian Years of Lead and to the lead-lined neural pathways of Gen X fascists 311413
Reposted by Jake BartonCeej @ceejoyner.bsky.social · 31/12/2024missed a spare at bowling and the scoreboard played an animation of me eating a log of shit with a knife and fork 924640375
Reposted by Jake BartonEli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 30/12/2024The Man They Could Not Hang (Grindé, 1939) 534061
Reposted by Jake BartonChris Wade @chriswade.bsky.social · 24/12/2024[don henley] nooosferatu... 91524
Jake Barton @jakebarton.bsky.social · 21/12/2024The NFL announcer just said “Someone is disappointed in the fantasy playoffs right now.” Correct! 000
Reposted by Jake BartonAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/12/2024Reminds me of this from the book review of Timothy W. Ryback’s “Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power." The similarities are stark. 531404451
Reposted by Jake BartonKalvin the Reindeer @kalvinmacleod.bsky.social · 17/12/2024[playing poker] FRIEND: I’m all in ME: [yearning for this type of commitment since we first met] me too, man, I’m all in too FRIEND: um, a pair of kings ME: you bet we are 38107182381
Reposted by Jake BartonGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 17/12/2024my friend pointed out to me that the BARBARIAN poster uses the same font as Sweet Baby Ray's sauces and I cannot stop thinking about it 23763157
Jake Barton @jakebarton.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Kinda rooting for one of these guys: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carring...en.m.wikipedia.orgCarrington Event - Wikipedia 010
Reposted by Jake BartonFrosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 15/12/2024She was there before Elvis, Little Richard or Johnny Cash swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars. If you've never heard Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock 'n' roll, you should.youtu.beSister Rosetta Tharpe- "Didn't It Rain?" Live 1964 (Reelin' In The Years Archive)YouTube video by ReelinInTheYears66 350115272196
Reposted by Jake BartonPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/04/2024the Kent State massacre was metabolized as a tragedy in history books, but it was cheered by reactionaries at the time. the fantasy of delivering violence to naive young liberals is foundational to the modern right. they never learned the lesson of Kent State because they never stopped supporting it 7043221368
Reposted by Jake BartonRyan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 20/04/2024the Dairy Queen upside down cup demonstration is one of the last reliable quality control checks left in our broken world 2163784
Reposted by Jake BartonRogs @stev.bsky.social · 04/04/2024Life pro-tip: Don’t even think of one thing 06922
Reposted by Jake BartonDan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 29/02/2024Alex Schaefer has a new series of paintings of banks hit by space lasers 8564151
Reposted by Jake BartonSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/02/2024“Aaron Bushnell’s final message on Facebook read, “Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”newyorker.comAaron Bushnell’s Act of Political DespairWhat does it mean for an American to self-immolate? 737099