Rob B

@robbarbour.bsky.social

Amsterdam-based but chronically British. Former music writer (Metal Hammer, Track Seven, Loudersound). Vinyl collector and pop-punk/emo nerd. Usually watching one of the Johns Wick.

Story that keeps happening 1. Scandal breaks out involving someone with obvious bad vibes 2. Colleagues and admirers circle the wagons 3. Another revelation 4. Doubling down intensifies for some reason 5. Damning no-way-back career-wrecking revelation 6. “But how could we have known?”

just getting out in front of something: 150mg of weed is absolutely doable, once. on a weekend. when you don’t have any other plans. anybody purchasing a package of multiple 150mg gummies-particularly when the package’s suggested serving is 1-2 PER DAY-should be kept away from polite society

Hi, I’m Will Stancil. I hear there’s a small group of people on Bluesky who don’t yet hate me so, you know what time it is. Time to belittle Terry Pratchett.

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

The morally correct response to “It’s antisemitic to call Netanyahu a war criminal” is “No it isn’t; that’s not true.” But some people are going to say, “Fine, I guess antisemitism has some explanatory power over the world after all.” And people who do this have to know that.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s embarrassing that the rabbi of Central Synagogue - one of the most prominent Reform rabbis in the US - is portraying Mamdani’s accurate description of Netanyahu as a war criminal as a sign of antisemitism. This is part of why young people take antisemitism less seriously than they should.