Reposted by YakBarberpistachiOoOoOo 👻👻👻 @streetlightlily.horntforgood.com · 31/01/2026You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS 1879242541
YakBarber @yakbarber.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Determined to look as silly as possible, Hegseth is now requiring all military personnel to receive gender-affirming care.newsweek.comPete Hegseth Announces New Required Pentagon Testosterone Tests: Who It ImpactsDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon will begin requiring annual testosterone deficiency screenings for active-duty service members age 30 and older. 020
Reposted by YakBarberescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND 312149874236
Reposted by YakBarberDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/06/2026A nice, compact, approachable summary of the latest climate science:vimeo.comReading the Climate PulseThis is "Reading the Climate Pulse" by IGCC on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. 55219
Reposted by YakBarberyaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 16/06/2026if youre worried about jpeg compression you should take the file to the british museum, theyre great at artifact removal 1427
Reposted by YakBarberProfessor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 16/06/2026#WolffBites: France's official cybersecurity agency accuses Israeli company, TechCore, of interfering in elections in Scotland but also in New York City mayoral election won by Zohran Mamdani. Big story abroad but NOT inside US mainstream media. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comFrance accuses Israeli firm of interfering in Scottish elections and targeting SNPCyber agency says BlackCore targeted John Swinney, as well as interfering in New York and French elections 02514
Reposted by YakBarberSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 12/06/2026A society with one trillionaire and millions of people in poverty is something to be deeply ashamed of, actually 444207706098
Reposted by YakBarberMapQuest @mapquest.com · 05/06/2026Traffic does not respect where you came from. 0242
Reposted by YakBarberKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/06/2026This one hurts. I've really enjoyed Tim's work in the past But let's just be totally bloody clear here: every single person using a text fabrication engine to replace their work, research and writing skills: THIS MOMENT IS COMING FOR YOU TOO It is truly just a matter of time. It's inevitable ⏱️ 16873220
Reposted by YakBarberDEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 09/05/2026speaking of strike systems that help enforce community guidelines, you should join a union 0193
Reposted by YakBarberMorgan @morganthemothmaam.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Fuck it, Zordon Mamdani 6676111993
Reposted by YakBarberKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 20/04/2026The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil. It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months. 145203562830
Reposted by YakBarberMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/04/2026Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich. 795362537596
Reposted by YakBarberkottke.org @kottke.org · 06/04/2026Livestream: Artemis II is about to fly around the Moon. At around 1:56pm ET, they’ll surpass the Apollo 13 distance record. And: “At their closest point, they’ll pass roughly 4,000 miles above the lunar surface.” [youtube.com]youtube.comNASA’s Artemis II Crew Flies Around the Moon (Official Broadcast)We're about to fly around the Moon. On Monday, April 6, the four astronauts of Artemis II will travel farther from Earth than any humans in history—breaking the record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. They'll sail around the far side of the Moon, photographing lunar features never before seen by human ey 04214
YakBarber @yakbarber.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Who has "lead in children's clothing" on their Collapse Bingo card?eurekalert.orgInitial tests find lead in children’s fast-fashion clothingFast fashion is appealing because it’s an inexpensive way to dress rapidly growing kids. But preliminary research has found that the fabric in some of these items contains lead. After testing se... 011
Reposted by YakBarberKB @bkeithb.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Via Dan Kovalik Today in Current Affairs, an extraordinary essay from Norman Finkelstein on how US rhetoric justifying the expulsion of the Cherokee was the mirror image of contemporary Israeli rhetoric about Palestinians. currentaffairs.org/news/first-t...currentaffairs.orgFirst the Cherokee, Now the PalestiniansRevisiting the history of U.S. attitudes toward the Cherokee Nation shows how consistent the rhetoric of oppressors is across time and place. The rationalizations for ethnic cleansing do not change. 033
Reposted by YakBarberAnarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 12/03/2026One extra thing the Strait of Hormuz situation is making clear is just how utterly fucked we are on the climate. 20,000,000 barrels of oil per day equates to around 1/5th of oil consumption. Reducing by even that much fucks everything. And we need to be as close to 0 as possible. 48314
Reposted by YakBarberMartyn @martynpedler.com · 05/03/2026Well, this is appalling. I use proton mail and I guess I'm now looking for a replacement.404media.coProton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ ProtesterA court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ... 411650
Reposted by YakBarberButt Praxis @buttpraxis.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Shutting this down is quite possibly the most urgent task of our lifetime and I don’t know who would do that but it needs to happen soon 423255
Reposted by YakBarberGhoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 04/02/2026No matter the breed, every dog has one of three default dispositions: 1. Dipshit 2. Has a Job 3. Trying to Pick a Fight with God 1101826323
Reposted by YakBarberTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/12/2025"The issue with renewables is [thing we're already solving with batteries]" 62392
Reposted by YakBarberjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 24/09/2025/dev/slop directory that pipes out bullshit from an LLM 221719
Reposted by YakBarberI’m a Ghoul’s Girl @saraghaleb.bsky.social · 20/09/2025It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack 170145733298
Reposted by YakBarberBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Chatbots killing their users suggests that big tech has transitioned from simple parasite to parasitoid, indicating that keeping the host alive is no longer essential for their evolutionary strategy 193669581
Reposted by YakBarberBenjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 30/08/2025My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias 573988812
Reposted by YakBarberBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/08/2025how many times am I gonna have to post thistheonion.comConservative Man Proudly Frightened Of EverythingFLOWER MOUND, TX—Condemning the “woke left” for what he called the “modern evisceration of masculinity,” local conservative man Hank Daniels confirmed Monday that he was never going to stop being prou... 15853811067
Reposted by YakBarberPerry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 13/07/2025"Nearly 70 percent of Democrats now have an unfavorable view of Israel, according to Pew. Yet Democratic officials carry on as if full-throated support for Israel were party doctrine," writes @ryuspaeth.bsky.social. nymag.com/intelligence...nymag.comIsrael Was Supposed to Sink Zohran MamdaniWill the Democratic Party absorb the lesson? 1002832541
Reposted by YakBarberMETR @metr.org · 10/07/2025We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't. 11968702993
YakBarber @yakbarber.bsky.social · 05/07/2025"At the urging of Rat Shit Incorporated we have decided to loosen the requirement that there be no rat shit in baby food." 030
Reposted by YakBarberThorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 26/06/2025Mamdani's plan to make it easier for street vendors to get permits is incredibly based. We must work towards a world where there's a taco truck and halal cart at every intersection. 2222
Reposted by YakBarberChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 26/06/2025And then this shit just came out. When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car. When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory. 202127584108
Reposted by YakBarberThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Oh so you don't have to spend millions on a liberal Joe Rogan or attack trans people or support genocide to win after all 101463264
Reposted by YakBarberRude Law Dog @esghound.com · 24/06/2025One of the SpaceX fan cams caught a crane collapse at Starbase in Texas. This kind of thing only happens from a completely unacceptable safety culture failure and I'd be shocked if there wasn't a death here 26064191943
Reposted by YakBarberBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/06/2025There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point. 163174165365
Reposted by YakBarberMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/06/2025It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite. 494217125071
Reposted by YakBarberJohn Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Remember, don't call them "illegals." That's a slur used only on nonwhite people. FOX has never called a white lawbreaker "an illegal." Call them "Christian refugees." It's accurate, moral, and will infuriate the right fake Christians. 32981210
Reposted by YakBarberFall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com · 06/06/2025'...most people experienced the fall of the Roman Empire as, “One day a bridge collapsed, and no one came to fix it.”'truthdig.comWhen Nobody Comes to Fix the Bridge - TruthdigThe decline and fall of a superpower, one piece of collapsed infrastructure at a time. 1321106
Reposted by YakBarberBenn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 05/06/2025The wealthiest person in the history of human civilization has a grassroots proposal for you. 2833234
YakBarber @yakbarber.bsky.social · 31/05/2025@mikethompson.house.gov are you distributing food and essential supplies to the community as well? 010
Reposted by YakBarberThe real impasta @therealimpasta.bsky.social · 28/05/2025How do famous right-wing influencers actually poll with young men in 2025? Rogan: 27% favorable, 35% unfavorable, 45% don't know/never heard of Theo Von: 21% fav, 16% unfav, 55% dk Andrew Tate: 12% fav, 47% unfav, 36% dk Source: iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/5...iop.harvard.edu50th Edition - Spring 2025A new national poll from the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School reveals a generation navigating financial hardship, frayed social bond 1203480745