BARRETT.
barrettwrites.bsky.social
BARRETT.
@barrettwrites.bsky.social
Professional side quest explorer.
I have no issue with Gen Z. For the most part they seem pretty cool.

I have issues with subsets, but I have issues with subsets of millennials and GenX too. That's more an issue of hyperreligiosity and the normalization of Christian ideas being overweighted in American society.
September 22, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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This is a big thing I keep getting stuck on. The bill is being sold as a solution to the financial arms race that will protect nonrev sports.

But it ignores where athletic spending costs have actually skyrocketed...except to the players.

Not only is that unfair, it doesn't solve the problem!
September 22, 2026 at 1:49 PM
There are more than twice as many school shootings this year alone than there are trans athletes in entire NCAA system of over 1000 colleges and universities.

Remember that when people claim they're "protecting" anyone by passing new anti-trans laws.

www.edweek.org/leadership/s...
School Shootings This Year: How Many and Where
Education Week is tracking K-12 school shootings in 2026 with injuries or deaths. See the number of incidents and where they occurred.
www.edweek.org
September 20, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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It is an affirmative, positive choice by those in charge to use this method. To have it behave this way. They have seen the results and they accept them.

It is THEIR CHOICE.
September 19, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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The truth was that if United Health had an AI that was accepting a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate, United Health would stop using the AI in about 0.2 seconds.
September 19, 2026 at 5:38 PM
I've said for years that Carly Rae Jepsen deserved better than we gave her. Her catalogue is far deeper and more musically interesting than most pop artists.
Carly Rae Jepsen is great in part because her songs are horny in ways that most musicians can't capture all of. Cheerfully horny. Wistfully horny. Hornnui. She has the horny range.
September 18, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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Carly Rae Jepsen is great in part because her songs are horny in ways that most musicians can't capture all of. Cheerfully horny. Wistfully horny. Hornnui. She has the horny range.
September 18, 2026 at 1:17 PM
"We've been chewing pretty consistently for about 46 years now, so what if we switch it up unexpectedly and slam these fucking teeth down super hard and off tempo just to see what happens?"

- my mouth, apparently
September 17, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Dear Apple, "and's" is not a fucking word.
September 17, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward
Trump: "If we lose $50 billion a year with a country, and we say 'we're not going to trade with you anymore,' we don't lose $50 billion a year. It's very simple. Right?"
September 17, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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I wish my students knew how good they had it. My dudes, your only job today is to put care and attention and craftsmanship into your art, which by the way, does not need to succeed or satisfy shareholders. You have the rest of your lives to be miserable amd sleepless making 6/10 action games, TRUST.
September 15, 2026 at 4:22 PM
I think one of the core issues I have with the tech world's obsession with peptides and hgh is that it's just an inherently lazy way to achieve something I've put years into achieving and it's treated as an equivalent because the surface level looks similar.

Replication is not achievement.
September 15, 2026 at 4:02 PM