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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 14h

Um, for no particular reason, can you tell me how to find the full-length cartoon from which this GIF was taken...? <le pant>

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 14h

That's a flak jacket covering his shit-for-brains.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 14h

Data centers have an over-abundance of heat. They couldn't withstand Rep. Pearson adding more Joules to the mix.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 14h

We now have proof that the Scaramucci is not the smallest indivisible particle. It can be further divided in half, the constituent particle being given the name Zacharia. There is an unsettled debate as to whether the Zacharia is a bottom quark or, rather, the bottom of the barrel.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yeah, I thought it seemed kinda far-fetched.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's also an unacceptable attack by one branch of government on another.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I bet he can't convince me that Susan Dell is human.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bears are naturally resistant. Body-fat fluctuations do not impact their physiology like they do ours. For reasons that should be obvious.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Soon-to-be-dead bear. They might try relocating it, but it's already got a *very* bad habit that's likely to cause unavoidable problems, no matter where it's moved 😕

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You're probably thinking of brown bears. This is a black bear--essentially an over-sized raccoon. Yes, it's potentially lethal, but not easily provoked.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Male/Female identical." There've been times I wished I was as beautiful as my wife. And that I *had* a wife.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My understanding of the church is that it’s the most rigorously organized and hierarchical religious entity in the world. It wouldn’t allow Ave Maria to affiliate if it thought they were disloyal to the Catholic tradition and agenda. Right?

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

OK, but this *is* the Catholic Church:

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But he still has an official taster who samples it before he takes a bite, right? I mean, it *is* the Vatican.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nicki Minaj is not a US citizen. She’s a green card holder. Her husband, Kenneth Petty, is a registered sex offender. Her brother, Jelani Maraj, was convicted of repeatedly raping his 11-year-old stepdaughter. So, of course, she’s MAGA.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A mariachi band just played the national anthem to open tonight’s Monday Night Football, and it looks like virtually everyone in the stadium loved it 😍

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ya know what’d shrink those plums down to a gird-the-loins for battle-worthy scale? Testosterone injections.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I dunno. Bona fide conservatives like Goldwater believed in truth, financial responsibility and justice. They just had a different idea about the value of the collective good vs. individualism, I think. I’d give up my rainbow sneakers to have a true conservative in the WH now vs. that cretin.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I wish I could put my finger on what element of design most AI designs have in common…🤔 One commenter recently said that AI creates images that are to human-made art as Christian rock is to popular music.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Alumni donates”?! Is this former student nonbinary?

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He destroys everything he touches. Such a desecration of Kennedy's memory😞

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"While [Stephen Woytek] denies negative intent, his social media activity displays a complete lack of judgement and disregard for its impact on others,' the spokesperson said." Makes me wonder if it was a written statement or verbal. Because that's not how a REAL AMERICAN spells "judgment." 😜

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

OK, but you said it was *all* feds. At least twice.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

That droop is in multiple photos taken at multiple times. But it might be Bell's palsy instead of a stroke.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

At some point, the Sierra Club's "Mr. Green" didn't seem concerned about our krill harvest. But sheesh--considering the impact of climate change, an abundance of caution seems warranted. www.sierraclub.org/sierra/green...

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Ask Mr. Green: Are We Killing Too Many Krill?

Hey Mr. Green,

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yeah, right. The only things we know about data centers: 1. Their expansion will increase our production of greenhouse gases tremendously; and 2. This expansion absolutely, definitely, unavoidably *must* happen. It's a global arms race that has no detente. Mutually assured destruction is the race.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The voice-over during this section of my ethics training explicitly states, "There is generally no restriction on gifts to subordinates."

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I know that's not true for *all* federal employees. The restriction I was taught was in the opposite direction: I cannot give my supervisor expensive gifts (because that could be exploited for promotions, etc.).

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So you’re saying my training modules are wrong? I’ll include that in my post-test survey.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Well, right. But that’s considering meals or other gifts from an entity doing business with HHS. We’d have the same restriction in the VA. But tell me anyone would look sideways at you if you got each of your reports a $100 gift card on her/his birthday (?)

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Personally, I don’t think her role—helping recruit patriotic, capitalist-leaning youth to attend rallies in Europe—was all that corrosive. But consideration of the line she drew regarding communism would offer a teachable moment.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Considering the source, and the title, I was pretty sure this article was going to address Steinem’s collaboration with the CIA. (She actually called The Company liberal do-gooders 😒) Alas, MotherJones ignores that little complication. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Gloria Steinem, a dangerous woman

Remembering a feminist icon.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The training I take every year in the VA says there’s no restriction on gifts I give my staff.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I thought these gifts came from Trump’s personal finances (?)

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In fairness, those are limits on gifts from contractors or others outside the organization. Federal supervisors can give as much as they want to their reports, as long as they don’t show favoritism.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not so fast. Samuel Rosenman, a Democratic presidential speechwriter under Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman, and coiner of the term "New Deal", wrote that "trickle down policies" had been prevalent in American government since 1921.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Those of you who are of a certain age, or just sports historians, will recall Muhammad Ali’s “rope-a-dope” strategy. Muslims have been taking it on the chin to test the opposition’s endurance across the ages.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Damn—I knew I shoulda gone into munitions 😖

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hospitalman Arnold loved ivy so much that he stipulated a leaf would remain perpetually on his marker.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

That’s how you got rid of ICE, right—melt it? I just think it ought to be abolished.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Remember that time Russia was killing children and other Ukrainian civilians like they were ants on the kitchen sink, and Putin hosted us like kings? Man, that caviar was to die for! And don’t get me started on the vodka! No, seriously—don’t let me start the neverending cascade of shots 😆”

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yeah, bub—making sweet, sweet memories. It’s all about himself and his fuckin’ cronies 😡 "We were all talking about when we retire, we'll have all these incredible stories and incredible memories, and yours will be right at the top of it all." www.npr.org/2026/09/06/n...

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Witkoff and Kushner call Kyiv talks 'substantive' after Moscow Putin meeting

U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held meetings in Kyiv with Ukraine's President Zelenskyy on Sunday, a day after lengthy conversations with Russian President Putin in Moscow.

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“White is right, period”

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Shin Barker @neuroglider.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Trump’s SCOTUS says that if the practical effect of redistricting is racial disenfranchisement, that’s no longer sufficient to prove racism was the motive. His IRS now says that any college policies that happen to benefit a minority is proof of reverse discrimination🙄 www.npr.org/2026/09/04/n...

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IRS targets private schools that help racial minority students

The Trump administration has said it will end the tax-exempt status for universities with programs that help racial minority students.

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