barefootwriter

barefootwriter

@bfwriter.bsky.social

PhD candidate, Educational Studies. MA, Human Development, Learning, and Culture. gamer (not the bad kind), budoka, NOLA girl. I blog about POTS at barefootwriterhaspots.com

1,911 Followers 4,614 Following 8,832 Posts Joined Aug 2023
1 hour ago
Correction notice from the New York Times reads: “A correction was made on March 13, 2026: An earlier version of this article described incorrectly John F. Kennedy Jr.’s religious affiliation. Mr. Kennedy was a Roman Catholic, not a “WASP” (an epithet used to refer to white Anglo-Saxon Protestants).”

This is one of the funniest corrections I’ve ever read

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18 hours ago

buzzfeed turning to ai is funny because when i was a kid they were known to everyone online as "the site that steals our posts" and they spent a decade fixing that image and just when they started seeming respectable they turned right back into "the site that steals all our posts"

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3 hours ago

Those videos look like kids caught by the principal and just lying and we're acting like they're dumb. They're just lying. I swear we're so willing to allow this babe in the woods shit because it's easier and more comfortable than facing the reality of what this all is

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3 hours ago

The kids are not playing dumb. They are playing WHITE

like so many of you

Where you think your REFUSAL to hold anybody accountable for harming Black/ Queer / POOR

you need to watch these kids BRAG about how easy it was to play you

because you can’t talk about WHY THE FUCK IT WORKED

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2 hours ago

Doge Dipshit?

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3 hours ago

You are not going to get me to empathize with these grown men - Cavanaugh was 28, and Fox was 27 (they are 29, and 28 now IIRC)

You can argue they didn't know it was potentially criminal but even if what they were doing was legal it was steeped in bigotry. They don't get a pass on that.

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3 hours ago

You don't get to paper over the fact that they are bigots. They knowingly wanted to strip minorities and women of any historical representation. They killed projects simply because they had ethnic identities and genders attached.

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3 hours ago

it's Anyon's famous study of schools and class all over again.

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3 hours ago

right. only elites will receive a real education. everyone else will get worse teacher:student ratios and AI garbage.

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20 hours ago

I want to think. I want to know things. That’s why I do what I do. I just don’t understand. Yes, it’s hard. Yes, it’s work. But again, if you don’t want to read, don’t want to think, then just get out. You don’t need to be here. You don’t need to do this. Obviously scholasticism isn’t for you.

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21 hours ago

I am so seated for Seated Rivalry

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13 hours ago

yep.

bsky.app/profile/bfwr...

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17 hours ago

not surprising but still worth lingering on that proud, self-avowed Nazis say journalists and anti-hate groups pose a bigger threat to white supremacist groups than cops

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2 days ago
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The Fallout from Reporting on White Nationalism in Canada | The Tyee Journalist Rachel Gilmore published an investigation in The Tyee. The men she unmasked showed up to intimidate her in person.

“The extent of Canada’s problem with far-right extremism stared me in the face on an ordinary Wednesday night.” 🇨🇦

After The Tyee published @rachelgilmore.bsky.social’s report on a white nationalist club meeting at a Montreal gym, today she reports the fallout.

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1 day ago
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The Washington Post Is Using Reader Data to Set Subscription Prices. How Does That Work? - Washingtonian If recent events have not compelled you to cancel your Washington Post subscription, then you might have been in for sticker shock at the dawn of your latest billing cycle. Many readers have been…

Many Washington Post readers have been notified via email that their subscription rates are set to increase. Nestled at the bottom of these emails, you’ll find an asterisk and the following: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”

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14 hours ago

This is 10x better and more fun than using AI.

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13 hours ago
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Israel planning massive ground invasion of Lebanon, officials say "We are going to do what we did in Gaza," said a senior Israeli official.

IRAN WAR ESCALATION
Israel planning massive ground invasion of Lebanon, officials say
www.axios.com/2026/03/14/i...

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14 hours ago
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BREAKING North Korea fires around 10 ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan, says South Korea

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14 hours ago

I was in that room, wrist banding students to vote, and we had to evacuate.

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14 hours ago

the KSA is fucking wild. I was there in 2011 during the previous scandal, helping with the removal vote.

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14 hours ago

The KPU student association is an amazing cluster-fudge of an organization that decided last year to go to war with the student press and ban communication with them. This scandal is delightful.

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14 hours ago

Jesus, again? I was there during the KSA nonsense like 15 or so years ago, when they pepper sprayed and pulled fire alarms to disrupt the AGM (or was it SGM?) vote to oust corrupt members.

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14 hours ago

Just had a memory of how mad this menacing man got at me when, after excusing the way his son was behaving towards his female classmates (hitting, etc) due to “it being because he likes them” I asked why he wasn’t concerned his son must “like” his sister according to that logic

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16 hours ago

but because I am pinned there, that changes my perception of the level of aggression.

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16 hours ago

also, if you would be close enough for me to grab or punch you if you weren't on the other side of a window? that's an act of intrusion into an invite-only zone.

if I am not in a car and belted in, I am backing up to get away from you.

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18 hours ago

it was quite clear the original was a hyperbolic joke and so was my response. you really think a renowned sociologist thinks it's perfectly ok to run someone over with their car?

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18 hours ago

bitch, fuck you. I have receipts.

bsky.app/profile/bfwr...

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19 hours ago

“The staff at Shenandoah, a club that serves the Chaldeans, a community of Christian people with roots in Iraq, gave the children chicken nuggets, French fries, cookies and M&Ms… “We treat our neighbors as we treat ourselves,” said Hassan Yazbek... “These are our brothers and sisters.”

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19 hours ago
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A Crash, Gunfire and Then a Race to Save a Synagogue Full of Children

Look for the helpers: “Police officers and teachers carried children out of windows and through a side exit of the synagogue, heading to a nearby house only a short walk from the building.

There, the homeowner brought out blankets and the children cuddled with teachers”

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19 hours ago

also, a driver's side knock is more aggressive than a passenger side knock.

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