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Tom Barkas

@tombar.bsky.social
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Mid 70s. Previously research protein biochemist and immunologist, translator, manuscript editor and search dog trainer. Depression for 35 years. Likes prehistoric stuff, previously liked fungi. Any photos are more than 2 years old, before the dog died.

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jen 💙🤍🕊️ @jenzsky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Translucent wings humming their own tune… #insectThursday #bugsky #insects #bees #photography #macro #eck #macrophotography #bugs #nature #photographersofbluesky #flowers #bloomscrolling #purpleFriday
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hills Just a slog Without the dog
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
What's for lunch?
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fernadern.bsky.social @fernadern.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Three months ago Petey was a stray. Now he lives in a house with THREE sets of hands to pet him. Life is good.
A black and white dog sits in the grass, looking unbearably adorable and pet-able.
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
So what stops him?
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'm elderly. Do I qualify?
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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.” ― Max Ehrmann
A large bare tree  growing near the  side a dirt road in the wildlife refuge. There is water on the left and mountains in the distance.
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Is it a Friend of Israel too?
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Clever things, octopuses!
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
An eclipse in a tree's shade. The tiny gaps between leaves act as pinhole lenses, projecting crescent shaped images of the eclipsed sun onto the world below. Original post
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JBC @johnbcaddell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Waterfall #WeekFforFilm #AlphabetChallenge #WaterfallWednesday #creeks #waterfalls
a small waterfall on Swanson Creek in Uvas Canyon County Park near Morgan Hill, CA.
a lot of rocks, a bunch of leaves, and very little water.
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
But will she recognize it after all this time apart?
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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
It would be nice to deport him & his family since he has done it to so many people including people who have been born in this country.
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Aletheia S.R. @aletheia225.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
If you think the global leadership didn't know this would happen, you're naive. Two known war criminals, with warrants for their arrests, have now expanded their wars. They all knew. They did nothing to prevent this. The American government is the worst of it, as far as complicity. Shameful.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.
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JBC @johnbcaddell.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
a #scenic walk in the woods for #ScenicSaturday
a wooden footbridge crosses over a small ephemeral feeder creek into Brandy Creek. looking upstream at Brandy Creek from a footbridge over it.Brandy Creek
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I've just read yesterday in A Natural History of England that "fill dyke" is an old name for February, but I expect you know this
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘February Fill Dyke’ Artist: Rowland Hilder
A bleak, stark oil painting in shades of brown and cream of waterlogged fields under a flat white sky dotted with bare elm trees
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The President has launched our nation and our great military into a war of choice, risking American lives and resources, ignoring American law, and endangering our allies and partners. It does nothing to help with the urgent problems here at home that Americans face every day.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Iran has come at just the right time to draw attention from Gaza, Epstein, Israel's breaking of ceasefires, and Trump's destruction of world order and NATO
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Well, they knew that when they voted for him...
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
You mean join ICE to shoot ICE?
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Beautiful!
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JPK 🇩🇪 @jpk-art.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Awakening. #forest #nature #photography #wander #Teutoburgerwald #forestfriday
​A vertical-oriented landscape photograph of a dense forest during the early morning or late afternoon. The scene is captured from a low angle, with blurred mossy rocks and dark tree trunks in the immediate foreground, creating a sense of depth. In the midground, numerous slender deciduous trees with dark bark stand close together. Visible rays of sunlight (god rays) stream diagonally through the hazy or misty air from the upper left, illuminating patches of the forest floor. The ground is covered in a thick layer of reddish-brown fallen leaves. The background is softly out of focus, filled with a pale, golden light that filters through the canopy, enhancing the atmospheric and ethereal mood of the woodland.
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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 10/01/2026
An ICE agent saying "I don't care" and preventing an innocent woman who's been shot from receiving medical care are not the words or actions of officers lawfully protecting themselves and the community. These are the words of sociopaths happy with murder.
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I've never noticed the pink patches!
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Does he know what he had for lunch?
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Get all the police to strip the masks off them
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Isn't she from the country that routinely assaults pro-Palestinian protesters, with no action taken?
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
But it's not obligatory
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
That's assault
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
If one of these ICE thugs points a gun at you, surely you're entitled to kill him?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I want to see pictures of the World Cup in the USA and see empty stadiums. I want to hear how it was the first World Cup to lose money and they won't be going to a War Criminal's country again. Lets make it happen.
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
And convicted for murder, with no pardon from Trump. He DOES like to pardon the worst in society!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/01/2026
Tim Walz is mobilizing the MN National Guard, and reminds Minnesotans that the guard "is OURS - our teachers and our neighbors." He asks Minnesotans to respect them. "They're there to protect you and your constitutional rights. They don't wear masks."
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
And America's clamp down?
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Looks nice, but any dish mainly rice is off limits for diabetics. Sob!
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Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
More therapy! Mission Creek in sunny Santa Barbara!
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
He's in blood so steeped
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
And was prevented from having medical attention from a doctor
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 07/01/2026
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
So who's he, then?
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"fleeing" doesn't seem quite right - she was "driving off"
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Another lie from Elon Musk the biggest spreader of disinformation on Twitter.
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I thought the black form was a cave - I didn't see the face!😀
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
The American dream - ANYONE can be President
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