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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Alright I went ahead and did the thing. I didn't include anything that is still running and will definitely second guess this later. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

My top 10 shows of the 21st century: Patriot on Amazon, Perpetual Grace LTD, Breaking Bad, The Office (UK), Fleabag, Deadwood, The Thick of It, Review, Hannibal, The Americans

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nailed it (weird a little because I've spent 1/3 of my life in DFW Texas)

"you talk most like someone from Michigan, about 59% of your answers match a typical resident"

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Is Waze != Google? Anyway looks like they just removed the lake's name 🤔

Waze overview of the eastern great lakes showing no name for lake Ontario

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Newbs upthread, am I right? 🤣🤣

Fark account creation, so old it's not exactly sure when it was.
Text: 2000-10-11 (approx.) (25 years ago)

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Maybe the best opening paragraph I've ever read on this whole disastrous time, but the whole thing is worth it. Even if you're exhausted.

"If everyone in the United States weren't living downstream from its consequences, it would be a pretty good tragic flaw that Donald Trump wants more than anything to be seen as a brilliant man who has always been right about everything when he is transparently a butterfingered dunce whose professional expertise more or less begins and ends at making cutting remarks from a safe distance and directing other people to file nuisance lawsuits on his behalf. If assessed from a sufficient remove, the spread between the opening proposition—the man who knows more about every subject than any expert without even having to study or even pay attention to any of it, because he is just that much of a natural talent—and the relentlessly oafish output is a great bit, if admittedly also a bit one-note..."

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I loved him in The Wonder Years.

Robert Picardo as Cutlip in The Wonder Years, with a questionable rendering of the Female Reproductive System he drew on a chalkboard. He was the gym coach but had to teach reproductive health.

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Hilarious thought by @sarakatew.bsky.social in her excellent newsletter today

"Finally, a day when people can talk about Star Wars on the internet."

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Maybe he got the idea from Hitler, who wanted to build a bigger Arc as well according to this hilarious detail from the NYT's daily email last week (Michael is Michael Kimmelman, their architecture critic).

"Michael remembered another ambitious triumphal arch, also meant to outdo the Arc de Triomphe: the one that Adolf Hitler planned to raise in Berlin. It would have been more than 300 feet tall, covered with the names of the nearly two million Germans who died in World War I.

In 1941, construction began. The massive concrete cylinder at the monument’s base was so heavy that it sank into Berlin’s soft, sandy soil, and the project had to be abandoned unfinished. “The idea for the arch collapsed under the weight of its own megalomania,” Michael said."

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Just a friendly reminder that there are usually other places you can go to get coffee. #starbucks

Starbucks ad for a collab with Mr Beast (text irrelevant)

Starbucks ad for a collab with Khloe Kardashian (text irrelevant)

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains.

Cowboy Mouth's "Are you with me?" album cover with a view of a jester from beneath a glass floor (I guess)

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Note to Equifax - the existence of your app does not qualify as an important update from a credit reporting agency.

Ridiculously emphasized text from an Equifax email subject: "Robin, Important Update from Equifax"

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Why aren't people having more babies? 🤔

Nyt daily email: "The [Trump] administration revoked a Biden-era requirement that hospitals provide emergency abortions to women whose health is in peril, including in states where abortion is restricted or banned."

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I paid $3.99 for (regular) gas *at Costco* in SW Washington yesterday. #trumpDidThat

A sticker for sale on Amazon (in honor of the "Biden did this" stickers seen on gas pumps a couple years ago) where our president is pointing at something and saying "I did that"

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The average American has 3 friends.

John Lakeman from the TV Show Patriot with his 3 friends - Dennis, Birdbath, and Cool Rick (technically his brother). 4 middle-aged white men in a downtown area at night. John is about to throw something down the road.

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Without downloading any pics, where are you mentally?

Magnificent orange cat asks to be excused, goes outside to the garden to scream

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Without downloading any pics, where are you mentally?

A Venn diagram where every circle intersects and varieties of the phrase "what the fuck" is in every circle

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Yes, I'm religious. I believe in the holy trinity.

Michael Dorman, Michael Chernus, and Terry O'Quinn in suits as their characters from the Amazon show "Patriot"

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Also don't sleep on Perpetual Grace LTD (which somehow even fewer people saw). A lot of crossover in cast and other talent!

Hana Mae Lee plays Scottie, she is alone walking down a suburban street in a beautiful white gown

Ben Kingsley and Jimmi Simpson. Ben is wearing a denim jacket and a hat. Jimmi has a flannel shirt with a jacket over it.

New Leaf, played by Chris Conrad, wearing an atheltic jacket, mullet, and tinted glasses.

Terry O'Quinn as a Texas Ranger looking for the main protagonist. He is wearing a full beard and a black hat and suit.

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Introduce yourself with 4 video games.

Ms pac man, level 8. Shows the titular character being chased by 4 ghosts as she tries to eat the dots

Super Mario World for SNES, Mario is inactive. Lots of coins nearby

Eugene from Whacked! wearing a propeller hat - On Xbox

Untitled goose game - an annoyed goose honking and chasing a kid

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

I think this is maybe part of it...

Tom Nichols on Tw*tter: If you want to understand what's happening, forget about "the economy" and immigration and all that. This is happening all over the world, among people who think that others are *unjustly* living better than they are - even while they themselves are living well.

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

How can anyone sleep at a time like this?

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Legit curious if this has ever worked for anyone. @avis

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

Just saw this collectible card at an estate auction (rural Fort Worth). Why are they so weird?

Trump (for some reason) stylized as Captain America compete with muscled figure and the shield on a holographic card.

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

Can you use the drop down to just see what/who you're following in Instagram?

Instagram's hidden drop down menu shows the option to just see accounts you're actually following (what a concept).

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

No spoilers but I literally got light-headed from the "Famous Hair" category on #TheFloor , good lord

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Business idea: A service that helps you get quotes for homeowners insurance every year when you see this: Thanks @WeAreFarmers (perfect credit, no claims, 3 year old home, no floods or hurricanes here)

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

Wow! #thedailyshowwithjonstewart We're so excited to see @jonstewart in the seat again 👏🏻

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Happy new @garytaubes book day! Does Diabetes Therapy Need a (Serious) Course Correction? open.substack.com/pub/unsettledscie…

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

Jesus Christ, Matthew Perry? I adored him in The Whole Nine Yards and so much of his dialog is basically running endlessly in my head. RIP. #thewholenineyards

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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

In honor of Gary Larson's birthday, please share a Far Side that you love.

A man is wearing a device that decides what dogs say. The dogs are just yelling "hey" in various frequencies.

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