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Merrill Barr

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πŸ“ Wordsmith & Entertainment Enthusiast πŸ“Ί | Disabled but Unstoppable πŸ’ͺ Links and $ accounts: beacons.ai/merrillbarr

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I have an older friend that always says, β€œyour 30s are just your 20s with money.”

I can say that has patently been untrue for me the last 6 1/2 years.

11.03.2026 18:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
6 Years Ago Today, COVID-19 Was Officially Declared A Global Pandemic

6 Years Ago Today, COVID-19 Was Officially Declared A Global Pandemic

Dude, where did my 30s go?

11.03.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Mission spam calls on iOS.

Mission spam calls on iOS.

I’m really glad for Apple’s spam call blocker, but this is a huge amount of spam calls for me. It started over the weekend and every day I get an alert now for it.

11.03.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is known as as Brandolini’s Law, a.k.a. The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle which says that it takes an order of magnitude greater effort to refute bullshit, than it does to generate it.

AI accelerates this with an unknown exponent.

11.03.2026 17:16 πŸ‘ 137 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
Close-up photo of the legs and feet of JD Vance and Marco Rubio showing some comically oversized shoes

Close-up photo of the legs and feet of JD Vance and Marco Rubio showing some comically oversized shoes

It gets better. Here's Vance and Rubio in the Oval Office...

11.03.2026 09:15 πŸ‘ 3760 πŸ” 582 πŸ’¬ 314 πŸ“Œ 837
Marco Rubio greets Chuck Schumer in January 2026 at the Capitol Visitor Center

Marco Rubio greets Chuck Schumer in January 2026 at the Capitol Visitor Center

A close-up of his foot shows his shoes are too big

A close-up of his foot shows his shoes are too big

hmm

11.03.2026 09:02 πŸ‘ 10054 πŸ” 1288 πŸ’¬ 680 πŸ“Œ 582

lmao bsky.app/profile/cybo...

11.03.2026 12:34 πŸ‘ 590 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 6

Recommendation for LA resident: set those A/Cs to 75 NOW. That way the room is already being worked to a cool place preemptively, as the heat wave begins. Especially right now, your wallet will thank you come energy bill time.

11.03.2026 15:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"

11.03.2026 04:46 πŸ‘ 3320 πŸ” 719 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 88

I refuse to open it just from that quote alone. THE MAN LITERALLY WON AN EMMY!

11.03.2026 05:28 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Kylie, stop fingering the meat.

11.03.2026 05:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Now that’s a President SAG can be proud of.

11.03.2026 05:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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BREAKING

Israeli and Islamic Republic officials told the New York Times that Mojtaba Khamenei, the new Supreme Leader, sustained leg injuries on February 28.

Full Story: nyti.ms/40Tz6Pc

11.03.2026 04:40 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 0

Better than her asking if you know what a Serbian Film is.

11.03.2026 04:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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As a poor, if this happened to me, I’d walk into the sea.

11.03.2026 04:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s so weird how that works for classic FAST channels. Viewership notoriously dips for the latter seasons of some shows.

11.03.2026 04:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Another excellent Shrinking.

11.03.2026 04:13 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

Every day of life under Trump is waking up to a headline like, β€œWyoming is missing”

10.03.2026 11:57 πŸ‘ 5235 πŸ” 972 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 25

Oh that’s true for screenplays too. You walk in with 120 pages as a nobody, you’re just not getting read.

11.03.2026 00:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone want to lay odds that Hegseth sees this as unmanly weakness, orders them to do it, and we lose a ship?

11.03.2026 00:21 πŸ‘ 127 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 1

This sentence is a treat because it gets exponentially worse one word at a time.

10.03.2026 21:27 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man with a stethoscope around his neck is standing in front of a red exit sign Alt: a man with a stethoscope around his neck is standing in front of a red exit sign
11.03.2026 00:03 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just walked by a Waymo that is blocking at least 10 cars from leaving a parking garage (took this after I crossed the street) in downtown LA.

It’s parked directly in front of the garage exit. No one has any ability to move it. So an entire parking garage is getting backed by an empty car

10.03.2026 23:06 πŸ‘ 744 πŸ” 116 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 45
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β€œ20 years ago, you could sell a screenplay pitch on a badass title alone. Today? You can’t get paid with an A-list actor attached.” 🎬✍️

Today, I'm pulling back the curtain on the soul-crushing reality of development in 2026. A raw look at surviving a rigged system. πŸ“‰πŸͺ€

πŸŽ§πŸ“Ί pod.link/1807437928/e...

10.03.2026 21:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is how I access Bluesky

10.03.2026 20:58 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Have you met college kids?

This doesn’t surprise me AT ALL.

10.03.2026 20:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Who the fuck is sending scripts to Harvey Weinstein in jail

10.03.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4