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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳

@phoebebarton.bsky.social

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Giant queer trans sf/game writer who is NOT AMERICAN, typewriter guardian, mind poisoner. Nebula winner, Aurora winner! Assistant Editor at Escape Pod, CW '19. Hamilton, Ontario. Header by @shargrave.bsky.social. She/her. www.phoebebartonsf.com

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · Nov 15

To all who're new to following and who've been here for a while, hi! I write about the future because I refuse to give up hope, and because giant queer ladies deserve to have their stories told. Check out details of my stories, typewriters, and games at phoebebartonsf.com - thanks for being around!

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 9h

these people seriously think lasering a drone and lasering a goddamn helicopter are equivalent? christ

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 9h

consider: a sniper rifle named AT&T

...because it's used to reach out and touch someone

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 9h

let this be bat country

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 9h

if a song is stuck in my head, surely the solution is to listen to it even more so that it gets dislodged, right

ちゅきちゅきポコポコポン / TAK feat. 初音ミク

YouTube video by Hatsune Miku

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 11h

I showed him the photograph and he looked at it very intently

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 12h

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 12h

I don't think it's possible for this guy to be any more adorable

A black and white cat lounging on a couch next to a blanket and pillows.

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 13h

the guy who did this should be flogged

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

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spoon @iatethedevilfruit.bsky.social · 1d

Bail bond place called Dragon Bail Z

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 20d

today in wikipedia sentences that are alarming if you don't know which article they're from:

following hte death of barack obama, samples were taken from his carcass

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 14h

garold gygax

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 15h

behold, my cat

A scanned film photograph of a black and white cat peering between two stairs on an open staircase. His ears are straight up and his eyes are greenish from the flash.

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 15h

fact: the name Gary is short for Garold

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 16h

🎸 YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHH 🎸

Canada eyes putting nuclear reactors on the moon | CBC News

In order to maintain a presence on the moon, there’s going to be a need for energy. How do you maintain a colony of people in a place that has roughly 14 days of sunlight followed by 14 days of darkne...

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 16h

lol. lmao

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 17h

gotta pump those numbers up. those are rookie numbers

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 21h

85% drop of American liquor sales to Canada.
We were their biggest market.
Now we're done.
Bye bye mon cowboy.

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American spirit exports to Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group | CBC News

American spirit exports to Canada "plummeted" 85 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calling the situation "very troubling" as consumers in ...

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 17h

in this idiom, are ultra-relativistic electron beams orcs

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Doc Vivi Leandra - Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 20h

saw someone say plasma weapons are "more realistic" than laser weapons and I want to scream, people who assess "realism" based entirely on vibes are a plague

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 20h

Did you know the first thanksgiving celebrated by Europeans in North America happened in Canada?
Or that the Indigenous celebrated autumn harvests long before Europeans arrived?
Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving a month earlier than the United States?
This is the story.

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