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Rachel Megan Barker

@rachelmeganb.dftba.social
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Highly caffeinated. Mostly travelling, sometimes writing, works in politics now and then. (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 savelife.in.ua/en 🇺🇦

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Maciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fundamentally, the median voter has had a tax cut since 2010 and the result is that nothing works.
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 24/09/2026
Might fuck around and get really into the uefa league for no particular reason
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bluesky is the most learned group ever assembled of smart, funny people who will read a headline and then talk for two days about only the headline
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AFC Wimbledon Women @afcwwomen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A Statement on behalf of The Dons Trust: www.afcwimbledon.co.uk/news/2026/se...
afcwimbledon.co.uk
Dons Trust Statement: AFC Wimbledon Women v Crystal Palace PGA
The Dons Trust shares the disappointment of AFC Wimbledon supporters following the decision that the abandoned AFC Wimbledon Women v Crystal Palace PGA fixture should be replayed.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
BOB DYLAN writing in The New York Times on being 80. We’re so used to Dylan being an enigmatic & elusive trickster that it’s always a delightful surprise when he writes something so personal, heartfelt and wise.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The RNLI have some of the best people in Britain volunteering for them. They put their lives on the line when they are called on and they will rescue anyone who needs them. Because every life matters, and offering help is the right thing to do. You can donate here: rnli.org
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RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 04/09/2026
I wonder what would have happened if I'd gone directly from twitter to bluesky without that break in between
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 04/09/2026
💜💜💜
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
That's why I love the asbestos comparison. We're poisoning the greatest tool since the printing press for the dissemination of knowledge with damaging materials that we'll be ripping out of the walls for a century. I wish we weren't.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Asbestos made fireproof clothing and buildings. Lead in gasoline stopped engines from knocking, which could destroy the engines. CFCs were crazy useful across the board. Freon is a fantastic refrigerant. Radium made shit glow in the dark.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I think folks ignore one big thing in the comparison of Generative AI to Asbestos - because they just think of Asbestos as "that thing that gives people lung cancer in old buildings." When folks argue that AI is 'useful,' Ignoring the ways that I don't accept that premise, Asbestos was useful.
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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The abrupt falling sensation you sometimes experience just as you’re going to sleep, known as a hypnogogic jerk, is a common phenomenon that has a perfectly natural explanation, and is caused by ghosts trying to drag you to hell.
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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
As with so many part of the UK public realm, there's a graph and it shows "something happened in 2010 and we became a society with lesser public capacity to respond to unexpected challenges"
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 10/08/2026
what's your concert history? first concert: Greg Holden last concert: Biffy Clyro next concert: The Pretty Reckless seen most: Biffy haven't seen but want to: Kendrick
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 06/08/2026
💙💛🖤 🙌🙌🙌
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 06/08/2026
🇨🇻👑
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Lots of analysis about threat of the Greens usurping Labour on the left. Reform usurping the Tories on the right. But none about how Binface has completely usurped the Monster Raging Looney Party for the joke vote. Another party that just couldn’t adapt to the attention economy
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
they welcomed it in as a curiosity and it destroyed them
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Messi is like the soft-spoken gang boss who says things like, “While I personally abhor violence, some of my associates may be less fastidious.”
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 20/07/2026
It is sort of hilarious to imagine describing the final to someone like "that it was like the most intense, insane, gruelling game of football, it was nasty but the good guys won and then the losers literally started throwing punches at them....also the muppets showed up at one point"
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 20/07/2026
I think it's really nice that Spain and Cape Verde both won the world cup
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 19/07/2026
I don't like relying this much on someone who is basically a child
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 19/07/2026
Sort of fascinated by Spain's really long kicks
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Clearly what I was trying to say earlier is that I would like to shake that man by the hand and congratulate him on his fine and necessary innovation. Apologies for any confusion
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 14/07/2026
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 12/07/2026
Not saying I understand what the players just went through but I am saying I did just dance for an hour outside the stadium in the Florida heat so....
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 10/07/2026
This being the only six days I will be in England for the world cup is making me overly emotional about all the England team stuff
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 10/07/2026
why were we built just....so ill suited for existing?
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Beanewood Commafurbatch Ending @beanedictc.dftba.social · 08/07/2026
Remember to comment on the proposed OMB rule that would politicize every federal grant before the deadline on the 13th! Learn more here: www.defendpublichealth.org/campaign/cri...
defendpublichealth.org
Critical action needed: Stop OMB's political review of federal grants | Defend Public Health
A proposed rule from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) seeks to take expert review of federal grants out of the hands of experts and put it into the hands of political appointees. This rule co...
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
no World Cup games today but I'm handling it fine, mentally. in fact, you wouldn't believe what my Zlatan Ibrahimovic puppet just said to my Alexi Lalas puppet! PUPPET ZLATAN: Zlatan angry Zlatan still have to see soccer Carrot Top on Zlatan's day off! hahaha! oh Zlatan, what won't you say!
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
the year is 2030. Spain, Portugal and Morocco are hosting the world cup. 46 teams are in attendance. Meanwhile in Vancouver, BC, in the fourth year of the penalty shootout between Colombia and Switzerland, the score is 0-0
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 07/07/2026
just sitting here vaguely gestering in the direction of the Switzerland goal in case that helps at all
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 07/07/2026
"sorry I can't, I am making a pirate raft on Thursday" eavesdropping in London remains good
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 07/07/2026
I have slightly delightfully found myself in a vintage football shirts store's bar area to watch the second half
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AFC Wimbledon Women @afcwwomen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
COMING UP 🔜 Our first pre-season fixture 👇 🗓️ Sun 12 July 🕧 KO 12.30pm 🆚 @dhfcw.bsky.social 🏟️ Imperial Fields, Back 3G pitch, SM4 6BF 🎟️ FREE 🍻 Bar open #AFCW
An image of footballer Kate Jeffery running to the left of the image. She is wearing a navy kit. The logos of AFC Wimbledon and Dulwich Hamlet is at the bottom of the image.
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 07/07/2026
If anyone needs me I'll be in the corner trying to work through my incredibly complicated feelings about the USA men's team
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 06/07/2026
Remember when the game was postponed cause of a thunderstorm what feels like about twelve million years ago
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 06/07/2026
excuse me I will be in a corner weeping with joy for a while
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 06/07/2026
I can feel my heartbeat in my skull
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 06/07/2026
I am in a random hotel in the middle of no where and I just heard three different voices shout "yes!!!!" from different rooms along with my own and it was beautiful 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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Phoebe @junkets.dftba.social · 04/07/2026
This is the best and worst game of football I’ve ever watched
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
CAPE VERDEEEEEEE 💙 #ARGCPV
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 29/06/2026
a curious definition of Gestapo - but also, a curious definition of "displaced"
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 28/06/2026
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Apple TV doesn’t do marketing? Do the whispers of a blind prophet in the Kabul market not count? The petroglyphs depicting the Morning Show found in the Forbidden Tomb in Giza? I personally learnt about See from a statue in Rome that spoke in the voice of a long-dead child.
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 28/06/2026
I was gonna make a joke about AppleTV and HBO sharing strategies but the thing with HBO is it advertises ONE franchise ad nauseam at the expense of all others
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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Pass this on. You never know who might need it and it could make a huge difference if someone is struggling for whatever reason
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 25/06/2026
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Rachel Megan Barker @rachelmeganb.dftba.social · 25/06/2026
YOU KNOW though it's actually very cool that Scotland even made it to the world cup that's so great and important to remember 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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