Jon Barrett @jonbarrett.bsky.social · 22/04/2025I quit using Amazon months ago, but my annual Prime membership is just ending now. When they wrote to remind me to renew, I wrote back to explain why I wouldn’t. My message, of course, bounced back (as I was directed to their customer-service page. So will share here instead :) 040
Jon Barrett @jonbarrett.bsky.social · 19/03/2025“Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth!” 010
Jon Barrett @jonbarrett.bsky.social · 05/03/2025I was looking for alternative program for tonight. But this is not the escape I needed. 110
Jon Barrett @jonbarrett.bsky.social · 15/02/202568, however, is looking pretty shitty. (see tweet thread below). As a former editor in chief of The Advocate, I rescind this 2011 cover because there is no LGB without T. 🏳️⚧️ 323825
Jon Barrett @jonbarrett.bsky.social · 23/01/2025While Matt's story has been removed from the White House website (for now), his name is carved into the stone of the Washington National Cathedral. It's an honor that another (whose name isn't even worth mentioning) would never be worthy. www.them.us/story/trump-... 040
Jon Barrett @jonbarrett.bsky.social · 22/01/2025In case anybody wants to join me: cathedral.org. Also a reminder that the Cathedral, which is the final resting place of Matthew Shepard, has long been our side. 170
Jon Barrett @jonbarrett.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Every day, inch by inch, I will aim to disentangle my life from these asshats. 050
Jon Barrett @jonbarrett.bsky.social · 28/11/2024And? Who needs AI when coverage of this upcoming administration pretty much writes itself in a Mad Libs fashion: Fill in atrocious subject, verb, adjective, adverb, and voila! 110
Jon Barrett @jonbarrett.bsky.social · 25/11/2024I woke up to these roosters (in Playa Zipolite) that, I assume, are crowing because they're not turkeys. 010
Jon Barrett @jonbarrett.bsky.social · 23/11/2024In the immortal words of Real Housewives’ Mary Cosby after her Breakfast at Tiffany’s brunch: “This is [supposed to be] about Audrey Hepburn, not The Flintstones.” 010
Jon Barrett @jonbarrett.bsky.social · 20/11/2024me when I realized by that, for five years, my LinkedIn page said I worked in "pubic-sector innovation." 140
Jon Barrett @jonbarrett.bsky.social · 18/11/202410 years ago, I felt incredibly helpless as I watched the craziness unfold in Ferguson, Mo. And, at the suggestion of someone on social media, I made a $25 donation to the local library. (1/4) 131
Jon Barrett @jonbarrett.bsky.social · 13/11/2024As reported by National Geographic: “In 1965, teenager Robin Lee Graham set off for a round-the-world sailing trip, a multi-year journey covered in National Geographic. While he was known as the boy who sailed the world alone, he did have a companion: a cat.” 031