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Victoria Barrett

@victoriabarrett.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, founder Engine Books. Zero-trick pony, the kind that bites. Writing in Washington Post, Salon, SyFy Wire, Gay Mag, etc. She/her.

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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 3h
When I was really little, not yet six, my older sister was babysitting me and decided that we should watch the original Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. She also read Amityville Horror out loud to me around the same time.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 6h
Is this because he doesn’t think women are people?
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My father died after several years of suffering from brain tumors* likely caused by overspray from farm chemicals, which also likely caused the death of a child in the family he had before mine. He loved the work and seemed happy, but paid a high price for his manual labor life.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Four years ago today I left academia forever. One thing I’m thankful for is that I know those boys would’ve been joking about the Cornell rape in every classroom and I would’ve had to hear it without objecting to keep my job because course evaluations are the only metric the university cares about.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
THANK YOU. I can’t believe this asshole just keeps showing back up.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Know what's more dangerous than trans athletes? BASICALLY EVERYTHING, BECAUSE TRANS ATHLETES DON'T AFFECT YOU AT ALL. IDK how it became okay to joke about both people's lives and gang rape in the same sentence, but fuck off with that shit.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I live in the same city as this guy, and I don’t think anybody recognizes him at the grocery store. Come on.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pretty impressed with myself today. Got a hard one in two guesses. Wordle 1,924 2/6* 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 24/09/2026
this is what happens when cis women don't support their trans neighbors
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sure, why the fuck not, the more the merrier.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Feels like this is probably intentional.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Are the insurance carriers involved in this, who’ve been collecting premiums while paying out nothing, pitching absolute fucking fits?
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was just thinking something similar to this. The only currency that man understands is attention. Starving him of it is going to be interesting.
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Matt Lombardo @mattlombardo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Kickers, man … Every time Harrison Butker misses a field goal, a tradwife gets to leave the kitchen.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 19/09/2026
I don’t think it takes an effort to see the Klan hood and the hanging imagery. I think it takes an effort not to see them.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
These Rockies jerseys look like they bought them from a clearance end cap at Walmart.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A solid mix of both, I think.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don’t give a flying fuck about Sydney Sweeney. But for years, I stopped watching sports because you couldn’t watch a game without the cameraman seeking out the deepest cleavage to feature on the screen. The blatant sexualization of entertainment that’s supposed to be for everybody is so demeaning.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What did I look like in the 80s? Give or take a year, 1980, 1983, 1989.
Me around age 6, blowing a bubble. My 3rd or 4th grade school photo.Me in high school, with big hair and a cheerleader sweater.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
How in the hell are there two major league baseball players on two different teams named Max Muncy?! And how were they born on the same day, twelve years apart?! Twilight Zone shit.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s picture day, so of course I had to fight with my 11 year-old about whether or not he could wear multiple layers of shirts topped off with a too-small flannel when it’s going to be 94°. Middle school is the best.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The handful of us here in Indiana who showed up to fight this bill were fighting for HEALTHCARE. We all knew this would happen.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I haven’t seen anybody mention my favorite Dolly song this week, so here you go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bflk...
youtube.com
Dolly Parton - Here You Come Again (Official Audio)
YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Was reminded recently that I used to have a friend who liked to say that was impossible to be a good teacher if you didn’t love teaching. I want to tell you, four years out from quitting academia, that I now think that is the most toxic advice you could give a human being. 1/2
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
congratulations sophie cunningham on protecting womens sports
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My mom is 80 and recently had emergency surgery for blood clots in her lungs and it’s looking pretty dicey out here for people born in 1946. 😬
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A LOT OF BARREL
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
nytimes.com
Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Widow’s Bay is too scary for me, but Dale Dickey was astonishing in Winter’s Bone, and I hope she wins all the awards. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/a...
nytimes.com
Dale Dickey Is Way Past Crying in Barney Suits
Years ago, she donned a dinosaur costume to help make ends meet. Now she is a first-time Emmy nominee for her role in “Widow’s Bay.”
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I mean, a car can do that, too, so what? Who cares how fast a machine goes?
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Back when Sally Yates was standing up to Trump I made a silly throwaway post about how she should run for office and somehow a gang of mean girls decided that made me racist. Apparently no white women should ever run for office? Or some other mysterious thing I couldn’t figure out?
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I really wish someone would run the numbers on how many multi-victim shootings and stabbing are actually domestic violence related, perpetrated by men who think they own women who are trying to leave them.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
As a resident of the Trumpiest state in the heartland, yes.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I had a rare but documented adverse reaction to one of the Covid shots and my doctor told me that the reaction couldn’t be from the vaccine and suggested I should pray more. That was the last time I went to that doctor.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Anybody else find long-spined raccoons disappointing these days?
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I wish somebody more patient than me would sit Sophie Cunningham down and help her understand how ignorant she sounds and what losers she’s aligning herself with. I’m embarrassed for her. And before she pulled this shit I was gonna buy a pair of her new shoes.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Long past time the Dems should've been done with this dude anyway.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Has the oil industry lobbying against this breakthrough started yet?
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This thread! Truly, MLB players are some wacky mfers.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I thought The Odyssey was fine. All the mythological monsters except the cyclops were underused and underwhelming. Matt Damon was miscast—he doesn’t have the range for the poem’s character with Nolan’s emotional depth layered on.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“I am a child with no impulse control.”
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Public service should be a middle class job with an upper limit on net worth for holding office. It should come with a nice upper-middle-class salary and be restricted to people with, say, less than $2m in assets. Maybe less. Maybe some multiple of the poverty line. Make it an actual service job.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I’m not usually into picking on people’s appearances, but I want allllll the jokes about the absurd getup Andrew Tate was wearing when he was arrested.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I was so excited about the new Maggie O’Farrell book based on the description and reviews, and then I popped it open and saw that the first paragraph is a (obviously intentional) retelling of the beginning of Hundred Years of Solitude, and you all, I don’t think I can read it. I am so annoyed.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Asshole move, puzzlemakers. Wordle 1,852 3/6* ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The rare dude who was somehow hotter in his 70s, or at least cooler looking.
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Victoria Barrett @victoriabarrett.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This is lovely.
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