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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Emmanuel Carrère, Kolkhoz.

In my baccalaureate exams, which I took in 1975, I got a 4 in philosophy. To put that into perspective, 10 is a passing mark, 14 to 16 is very good, and 4 is a straight fail. But you have to ask: philosophy isn't maths, so a 4 in it is absurd: why not a 5? Why not a 3? Why not a O, for that matter? Without telling me, my father approached the Paris School Board and after some time was able to view my exam paper. The marker had written: 'insufferable pedantry'.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 28/09/2026

get behind me, charmin

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 28/09/2026

4 days in a hotel. 4 days regressing from _Homo toto_ to mere _sapiens_. it continues to blow my mind that the West turns from the face of God—the washlet—to instead genuflect before toilet paper. i am a fallen angel

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 25/09/2026

intended audience is elon musk i think

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 22/09/2026

me: i've worked years and now finally can think for myself. my mind is my own. also me: wehaddababy-eeetsaboy

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 17/09/2026

we are all of us too fractal for the simplicity of eulogy, and so i know this is not enough. and yet.

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 17/09/2026

Sharif: i am thinking of you today as i think of you all days. i still think The Game is stupid. but i also know that when they opened up your apartment they found a copy that book alongside a stack of all the holiday cards i'd sent you, meticulously ordered by year.

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 17/09/2026

a tourist expedition company asked him to be a guide for them and he refused; couldn't stand the tourists…as an american in ibiza. incredible. a singular person, a reminder that we're all singular people.

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 17/09/2026

he died in part because of a book, but also by way of a thousand thousand turnings, only a fraction his. he died because he'd come to adore his dawn hikes so fiercely that he'd track the moon's phase and the tides, planning routes deep into the countryside, an expat more local than some locals.

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 17/09/2026

he burnt out on the US and moved to Spain and somehow managed to continue his ineffable dichotomy there, hiking the continent alone while cultivating an instagram account of thirst traps to stave off that loneliness.

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 17/09/2026

Sharif was intensely generous. he was deeply musical. he kicked my ass at starcraft over and over again. he played slap bass and i thought that was the coolest thing in the world as a kid and honestly i still do. he biked across the country, one reinvention, and it was brave and enviable and real.

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 17/09/2026

but the reason i am Posting instead of properly writing this up is because every time i've written something along these lines i've felt as if i'm letting the book win; i am characterizing him exclusively by way of the influence i most resented. and people are more than a single book read at age 17.

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 17/09/2026

…and afterward was still all those things but with the honed edge of a grudge. at least so it seemed to me, from somewhat outside. and it was this edge that led him (again, so it seemed) to repeatedly attempt reinvention, first at college, then in california, and finally in spain.

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 17/09/2026

this is why i have struggled to write about him. i could (and have, in drafts) make the argument that Neil Strauss effectively murdered my childhood friend. it's inarguable that before reading the book Sharif was a bubbly, goofy, perpetually friendzoned dude…

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 17/09/2026

the boys in the group, myself included, all tore through it and briefly entertained its gross ideas of how to conceptualize women as a skeleton key for all life as we knew it…and then we all remembered we lived in a society and that way of thinking was poison, and we dropped it. except for Sharif.

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 17/09/2026

it was the start of the mid-aughts pickup artist craze; perhaps you have the misfortune to remember that era.

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 17/09/2026

by senior year things had started to attenuate. college loomed; we would be spread across the country. we were young and stupid and somehow all virgins and absolutely flooded with hormones. into this group was introduced—i'm still not sure by whom—the book The Game, by Neil Strauss.

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 17/09/2026

the blog was read. teachers would reference it to us in class. it was all, in retrospect, quite strange, but at the time it felt divinely correct.

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 17/09/2026

Sharif and i attended high school together. we became very close, he and i and a double handful of others, boys and girls. we named our friend group. we kept a group blog—this was before social networking—where anyone could read our thoughts about ourselves, high school, each other.

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 17/09/2026

a thing i've learned about myself as a writer is that i need an entrypoint. if i can frame the door i can walk through and keep walking. if i can't square starting then i simply won't start. this thread on a stupid social networking site is me not starting. it is not what i want to write.

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 17/09/2026

a year ago today my childhood friend Sharif slipped while hiking the cliffs of ibiza and drowned. i've tried a few times to write about this and have not been able to.

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 16/09/2026

you can (altho its annoying) escape the square brackets, e.g. \[ and \], but i agree that it’s bad. honestly i am increasingly resenting markdown as a thing

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 14/09/2026

my body is a temple. doritos are the sacrament

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 12/09/2026

isn't it just claude code? it's all means and no end

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie's "This is Information" from the 2002 9/11 Tribute Anthology comic is one of my favorite comics ever – its metaphorical approach to narrative had a profound influence on my comics making. I share bits of it in class frequently, but worth revisiting on this day...

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 08/09/2026

smearing ketchup on my face for discord reacji. gonna think about it til i die. gonna be my rosebud

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 08/09/2026

we talked at some length about nolan's (and homer's) odyssey — way before the internet became saturated by thinkpiece after plodding thinkpiece. it just took us a really long time to get it out to you. here's part 1. parts 2 and 3 to come. www.patreon.com/relentlesspi...

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Nolan's Odyssey (part 1) | Stanley Picnic

Earlier this summer, Adam, Erikk, and Nick saw The Odyssey separately, and then came together to talk things out. This discussion took place

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 04/09/2026

i need ppl at the gym to embrace stink and stop wearing bodyspray made from military surplus chemical weapons

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 30/08/2026

A few hours before my kid’s playdate today I trundled outside with the vague sense I should spray for mosquitoes. Lugged hose out, connected pesticide. Stood with it in hand and listened. The yard thrummed with stridulation. Put it all back without spraying

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Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Do you love any of the games that I have created? Whether it's Monsterhearts, Dream Askew, The Quiet Year, Going For Broke, or a deeper cut, now would be a great time to hit quote-tweet and tell your friends about it! It's been a slow month. 💕✨ store.buriedwithoutceremony.com

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Buried Without Ceremony

My name is Avery Alder, and for the past eighteen years I’ve been designing tabletop roleplaying games. These are games about community, relationships, doubt, queerness, and the collapse of civilizati...

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Randall @revuestarlight.net · 27/08/2026

customized my wow server to add ~100 bots to goldshire inn who will never leave and are programmed to argue about the xbox 360 vs ps3 nonstop

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Asher needs 11 more wins @asherball.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The A's just did one of the coolest things I've seen in their broadcast: Just unfiltered audio of the live director calling a Lawrence Butler plate appearance...that went about as well as they could have hoped for.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

the kids dont know enough about raistlin and caramon

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 13/08/2026

excellent, I give w2t a fair bit of money. thanks! justice for lye lychen

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 13/08/2026

Thank you!! If you’re okay sharing…where do you buy your tea?

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 13/08/2026

@carberry.deals where do you like to buy teaware from (and sorry if you've already answered this publicly somewhere)? my shitty teavana teapot that i've used forever has a leak

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kevin @kevinbarrett.org · 09/08/2026

transpose the definite article and suddenly all the MtG buildcrafting becomes nominative determinism

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Walter MOONdale @dabenner.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The removal of the apex predator will collapse the Maryland I-95 ecosystem

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