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Robin Barber

@robindbarber.bsky.social
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Works in tech, perfect Gen X specimen, loves animals (...all of them). Always thinking about, talking about, or watching the TV show "Patriot." 📍outside PDX, but forever a Michigander

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 15h
This is a sharp closing argument. A real benefit to his party heading into the midterms.
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm wondering if you also watch #TheFloor 🙄 www.tvinsider.com/gallery/the-... (We tuned out and deleted the show after we saw her)
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'The Floor': Season 6 Champion Contestants Include 'Big Brother, 'The Voice,' & 'Jeopardy!' Winners
Plus, an important schedule change.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We’re honestly still taken aback by Elon advising the Pentagon on the future of wars. Didn’t we all see how badly he failed with DOGE?
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've watched entire episodes of TV with my baby boomer Mom, so .. sort of
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think my Apple computer has a worm
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am both of those things and did not know this. 🤣
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I had forgotten that Justin Verlander was the #2 pick in the 2004 MLB draft. I thought, "Who was the #1 pick that year?" and this is a *ride* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Bu...
en.wikipedia.org
Matt Bush (baseball) - Wikipedia
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I wonder what the rate is for non-Obamacare insured people in this country (that don't use it, I mean).
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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My goodness, what an incredible moment. After Justin Verlander secured the final out of his career, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch came out of the dugout...to summon Verlander's daughter out to embrace her dad on the mound.
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Mark Primiano @doctor1hundred.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm all for Rahm running for President and getting his teeth kicked the fuck in at the primaries before disappearing. No one wants you, you clown.
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Detroit Tigers (Unoffical) @nottigers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tomorrow, the curtain call.
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Patriot (and Perpetual Grace LTD) absolutely need to be seen by a lot more people.
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The original also knew when to end, which is such a great quality in a show.
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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know everyone's mad at the star of this show for his subsequent questionable antics but there's no rationale for ranking THE OFFICE UK, which absolutely changed the course and tone of TV comedy, lower than THE OFFICE US, which very successfully adapted THE OFFICE UK
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Jon Coughlin @clicktozoom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Patriot is the best show I watched in the past decade. More people gotta watch Patriot (on Amazon)
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yessssss.
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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 · 24/09/2026
Someone call Matt Oberg and tell him to suit up 👏
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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A still of Jessica Walter as Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development saying “good for her.”
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Paging @briancgrubb.bsky.social 🚨
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Agreed - if you don't put guardrails up, it assumes none exist. This is AI 101
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We have never looked weaker or more pathetic.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Gavin Newsom is a Dem" "Gavin Newsom is actually a Republican" No, Gavin Newsom is rich and that's the only allegiance he has. The only thing that scummy fuckwit would ever to help others would be accidentally falling of a pedo-friend's mega yacht and making himself into a snack for the fish.
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We had so, so much free time because we weren't permanently attached to these god forsaken devices
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wish there were a single sentence that could simultaneously encapsulate and explain every single problem we have in modern society.
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If I swung like that you would never see me do it in public much less on a video that I tweet out to millions of people 😒
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Again, it’s not just that this Tesla asshole killed a mother and her child with his recklessness. It’s that as his victims were dying, he did nothing to help them and instead sat scrolling through his phone.
Another family member noted that at the crash scene, “Chernicky stood idly by complaining of his knee and scrolling through his phone. He offered no assistance. He killed my family members. I believe he is a threat to this community, and deserves to remain in custody.”
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
After nearly two years of economic failure and broken promises, JD Vance’s midterm pitch these closing weeks is “give us another chance.” The American people cannot afford another round of this - and the good news is we don’t have to.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is obviously such cowardly loser behavior but I do wish that if anyone ever tried to make me do a work task I wasn't into, I could just leave for several months while continuing to collect a salary.
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Isn't that what he is doing?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm glad he finally got one, but Stephen Root should have won an Emmy for this character
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NewsRadio: Jimmy James Reads Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
YouTube video by minggnim
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This post is so good.
You say "I am for the dignity and safety and equal rights of trans people everywhere. Fuck you. The end."

And if they keep with the questions about children's sports the answer is "Who gives a shit?"
(emphasis mine:)
"I do not believe you care about this issue. You are lying. In fact you're a straight up weirdo for fixating on kids' genitals so much. That is odd behavior. Let kids run around with their friends."
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“The United States will no longer limit the planet-warming pollution that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants (Gift Article)
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.welcometohellworld.com/i-do-not-bel...
Just once in my life I would like to see a Democrat being interviewed by right wing media like Fox News or right wing media like every single other outlet treat their questions with the contempt they deserve. I know it's not going to fix everything or maybe even anything but how much coverage and how much groundswell of excitement from the base do you think it would inspire if when asked about "boys in girls sports" or some other stupid fucking culture war distraction one of them finally said "What the fuck are you talking about man? You sound like a dumb asshole right now."

What's the worst that's going to happen the New York Times is gonna work overtime to make sure you don't get elected? They were already doing that buddy.

You simply say "Are you stupid? Do you think I am stupid? And do you think all of the people watching at home are stupid? Everyone sees through what you are doing. Using one group as a scapegoat for the very real problems everyone has – all caused by Republicans by the way – unlike this fake one you have made up. Dumb asshole."

Just go on the attack for once instead of sitting there trying to please your enemy who is in the process of trying to humiliate you.

And if you want to say something else true that almost no Democrat ever says for some reason you can top it off with a “Every single Republican in our lifetime has sought to make our lives worse in every way possible. I’d like to try to stop that.”
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Parnell is so underrated (here and everywhere)
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's just such a warm, fuzzy feeling.
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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 13/09/2026
There it is. That's how you do it. You don't "have to" do a goddamn thing with this stupid framing except reject it and point out how it's an obvious distraction from the things that matter. Anything less than this is capitulation.
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Oh My: Man Spits Water, Screams "OH, COME ON!"
Alt: Jim Carrey in Liar Liar drinks a huge glass of water, Spits Water, Screams "OH, COME ON!"
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This feels like a personal attack since I wasn't able to visit you this week, lol 🎯
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Well that depends. Do you think words have meanings? Like, when people say things, should we attach linguistic definitions to the words they use? Or do you think, like, you know, nothing really means anything, language is just kinda jazz and we should just kinda groove and zone out?
USA Today headline: Trump floats $5,000 checks 'if the Republicans win.' Is that a bribe?
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Your annual reminder of what REALLY happened: Donald Trump went on WWOR Radio on 9/11/01--yes, that very day--to say that with the collapse of the Twin Towers, he now had the tallest building in New York. Which was a good preview of things to come, in that it was both disgusting and a lie.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/09/2026
"While XANTOBI is the most effective weight-loss intervention yet trialed, its effects on patient weight have been overshadowed by its remarkable ability to provide a painless, death-free exit from this absolutely absurd current state of affairs."
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Novel GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Delivers Transition to Astral Plane
“XANTOBI works by loosening the chemical and physical bonds of existence, allowing patients to gradually transition to the astral plane, where they can choos...
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Brutal description, I love it! "Premiering at Telluride, Alpha Gang is a mood board in search of a story."
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Definitely lock in those prices before a single guest is announced! 🤪
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(I lived in Michigan for many years) and got a panicked email from her 10 days ago: "HOW WORRIED ARE YOU ABOUT THE SPREAD OF SOCIALISM?" so I clicked through to vote "not at all" then blocked her.
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is really something. People travel from all over and spend hundreds or thousands of dollars at your events. No phone number to call. No response to email sent several days ago. #FANEXPODallas @fanexpodallas.bsky.social
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Robin Barber @robindbarber.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Is anyone monitoring these posts for replies? How can someone get help from your team(email hasn't worked, skeets go ignored)?
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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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