Barley Blair
@joshuadavid.bsky.social
Public Defense researcher. Socialist. Abolitionist. Lawrence, KS. “Imprisonment is an injury, regardless of how you justify it” -Cpt. Jean-Luc Picard
there’s nothing better than a good steak tartare. we had drinks & tartare at the bar at our favorite steakhouse recently and i was telling the bartender how much i love tartare. he agreed, it’s great, and said he heard one time someone ate 3 in one sitting. it was me. i was that patron. i had 3.
this is like expired milk giving you an ultimatum
Mediaite@mediaite.com · last mo.James Carville Tells Fox News He’s Out of the Democratic Party if Hasan Piker Stays: ‘One of Us is Going to Leave’
National monuments are like the sun, you glance briefly and from the corner of your eye. That's what they're there for.
amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.
lawrence is a place i ended up visiting for work that i may not have gotten to otherwise, and i liked it so much that when work took me to mizzou and someone was talking shit i got automatically defensive
while we’re talking about lawrence, kansas, just a quick plug to say that it’s a wonderful place
Love watching, but not a big soccer fan generally. How do you all deal with watching a sport where the end of the game is a subjective decision made by an official based on a timer only he/she can see? It's insane.
newmethos@newmethos.bsky.social · 2mo agoI have no idea where the extra 2 minutes of stoppage time came from to make that Austria goal possible. There will be conspiracy theories about that, for sure #ALGAUT
Me right before I lose at chess:
Mina Kimes@minakimes.bsky.social · 3mo agoCastle isn’t scared of shit man
Happy for Knicks fans. Hope they enjoy this night because they're not winning more than 2 against either SA or OKC.
Capitalism in 2026 looks like using our vanishing water supply to keep our machines nice and cool while people die of heat exhaustion.
The cats in the yard while every local squirrel and about 5 different species of bird are shouting at them to leave.
Ok but now avocado toast might actually prevent me from owning a home. Wtf is this.
New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it. Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.
Refusing to accept big tech's AI-poisoned 'future of journalism'
Humans, however flawed, are
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may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.
I was blow-drying my husband's hair when he signaled me to turn it off. Confused, he nervously asked, "Have I…ascended to a higher level of Asian-ness, and my hair smells of fresh rice when it's being dried..?" "I started the rice cooker half an hour ago." "…that would make more sense."
Nebrasketball is so fun this year. Hoiberg has those boys playing with so much confidence. You'd never know they got their first tourney win two days ago with the way they play.
The man accepted $20,000 in a paper bag in an FBI sting operation. Wtf do you mean a "true law enforcement professional"?
Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 7mo agoQ: The demand was to get ICE and CBP out. To replace Bovino with Tom Homan...do you think that's a satisfactory change? TIM WALZ: "I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt. ...My hope is that Tom Homan is different...that he is a true law enforcement professional."
you know that part in "shawshank redemption" where andy dufresne finally gets a check for the prison library after years of sending a letter a week and the screw asks if he'll stop now and he says no, now I'll send two letters a week? that's where we are now. double down.
How has Scott Drew been the same amount of bald since 2012?
Audiobooks are great, but could we maybe get some captions?
@majorityreport.bsky.social the 60 Minutes CECOT piece apparently aired in Canada. Thread describing it.
AkivaMCohen@akivamcohen.bsky.social · 9mo agoThis has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
