Christine
@klaxoncomms.com
Posts a lot of cat pictures. Former scholar of medieval Islamic history who now writes and podcasts about SciFi and Fantasy at Hugo History: https://klaxoncomms.com/hugo-history/
Queer/Ace/ADHD. #Vancouver 🇨🇦
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Here’s my newsletter, Transfer Orbit: transfer-orbit.ghost.io
I write about the current state of science fiction, tech, reading, writing, and a bit more!
I write about the current state of science fiction, tech, reading, writing, and a bit more!
November 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Here’s my newsletter, Transfer Orbit: transfer-orbit.ghost.io
I write about the current state of science fiction, tech, reading, writing, and a bit more!
I write about the current state of science fiction, tech, reading, writing, and a bit more!
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There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
I am once again a blue (and purple) haired lady.
November 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I am once again a blue (and purple) haired lady.
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THE SHAMSHINE BLIND was meant to be the sort of escapist read one could use as psychological armor to weather arduous thanksgiving family visits, but then the whole “overturning a conspiracy to turn the US into a theocracy” became unfortunately timely
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
THE SHAMSHINE BLIND was meant to be the sort of escapist read one could use as psychological armor to weather arduous thanksgiving family visits, but then the whole “overturning a conspiracy to turn the US into a theocracy” became unfortunately timely
I don't have a book to promote (well, I do, but it's quite old), but I do have a podcast! I'm reading all the Hugo Award winners in order, beginning in 1953, and talking about them with fun guests. Next episode will be Heinlein's Starship Troopers! sites.libsyn.com/586395
Hugo History
Join us in discussing all of the Hugo Award winners beginning in 1953. Updated monthly. SciFi/Fantasy.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I don't have a book to promote (well, I do, but it's quite old), but I do have a podcast! I'm reading all the Hugo Award winners in order, beginning in 1953, and talking about them with fun guests. Next episode will be Heinlein's Starship Troopers! sites.libsyn.com/586395
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PROMOTE IT! BUY BOOKS! YOU WANT BOOKS! YOUR FRIENDS WANT BOOKS! YOUR ENEMIES DO NOT WANT BOOKS SO BUY THEM BOOKS THAT'LL SHOW THEM!
@lollardfish.bsky.social told me to promote my book so if you want a nice, breezy, funny little murder mystery book to read you should cop that shit for only .99!
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Like, Comment, Subscribe, DIE: A Fiona Brooks Murder Mystery - Kenneth Clyburn's Ko-fi Shop
Before this day, I’d seen two dead bodies. By the end of it, I’d seen four.
My name is Fiona Brooks, and you may know me from the time I punched Ame...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
PROMOTE IT! BUY BOOKS! YOU WANT BOOKS! YOUR FRIENDS WANT BOOKS! YOUR ENEMIES DO NOT WANT BOOKS SO BUY THEM BOOKS THAT'LL SHOW THEM!
I need lovingly detailed English-language pop histories of ancient China and India the way we get them for Greece and Rome. Not massive surveys of ‘beginnings to the present’. Some proper ancient history of the Nandas, Mauryans, Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han.
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I need lovingly detailed English-language pop histories of ancient China and India the way we get them for Greece and Rome. Not massive surveys of ‘beginnings to the present’. Some proper ancient history of the Nandas, Mauryans, Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han.
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We're not like regular audiobook retailers. We're a cool audiobook retailer.
That's why we're running a Shop Small Sale now through Dec 1, and every purchase you make supports the indie bookshop of your choice 🎧
Shop the sale: libro.fm/sale/all
That's why we're running a Shop Small Sale now through Dec 1, and every purchase you make supports the indie bookshop of your choice 🎧
Shop the sale: libro.fm/sale/all
All sale audiobooks
Check out the selection of Libro.fm’s on-sale audiobooks!
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November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
We're not like regular audiobook retailers. We're a cool audiobook retailer.
That's why we're running a Shop Small Sale now through Dec 1, and every purchase you make supports the indie bookshop of your choice 🎧
Shop the sale: libro.fm/sale/all
That's why we're running a Shop Small Sale now through Dec 1, and every purchase you make supports the indie bookshop of your choice 🎧
Shop the sale: libro.fm/sale/all
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
I am super excited to start writing for Nerds of a Feather. I specifically want to try to highlight more Canadian SFF/spec-fic, so get me all your Canadian SFF author reccs!
Contributor Profile: Christine D. Baker (
@klaxoncomms.com )
Meet one of the new members of the Flock:
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@klaxoncomms.com )
Meet one of the new members of the Flock:
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/cont...
Contributor Profile: Christine D. Baker
NAME : Christine D. Baker SECRET UNDISCLOSED LOCATION : Vancouver, B.C. (Oops, I disclosed my location. Feel free to say hi if you’re local...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I am super excited to start writing for Nerds of a Feather. I specifically want to try to highlight more Canadian SFF/spec-fic, so get me all your Canadian SFF author reccs!
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I'm going to do a little thread on how the money from books works for traditionally published authors because people have questions, and this is always useful info to share IMO. First, a big disclaimer that every contract is different, and there are a million factors that can change things. 1/
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I'm going to do a little thread on how the money from books works for traditionally published authors because people have questions, and this is always useful info to share IMO. First, a big disclaimer that every contract is different, and there are a million factors that can change things. 1/
I am going to need to spend some time thinking about how to write a review of a book that I fucking HATED. (No advice needed; I'm not an asshole. I will engage with the authors' ideas as intended. I'm just having a moment right now of 'what the fuck did I just read'.)
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I am going to need to spend some time thinking about how to write a review of a book that I fucking HATED. (No advice needed; I'm not an asshole. I will engage with the authors' ideas as intended. I'm just having a moment right now of 'what the fuck did I just read'.)
Hey look, it's me! www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/cont...
Contributor Profile: Christine D. Baker
NAME : Christine D. Baker SECRET UNDISCLOSED LOCATION : Vancouver, B.C. (Oops, I disclosed my location. Feel free to say hi if you’re local...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Hey look, it's me! www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/cont...
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the truly shocking number of people out here just swooning over this man with their whole chest reminds me of how I could never see those magic eye puzzles in the 90s
my eyes don’t do that, sorry! I can’t see the handsome man in this picture
my eyes don’t do that, sorry! I can’t see the handsome man in this picture
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
the truly shocking number of people out here just swooning over this man with their whole chest reminds me of how I could never see those magic eye puzzles in the 90s
my eyes don’t do that, sorry! I can’t see the handsome man in this picture
my eyes don’t do that, sorry! I can’t see the handsome man in this picture
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Holiday season remember!
Don't ask strangers questions about their family if you're not prepared to be cool when they cry because they're in mourning, get anxious because they're estranged, or generally find the question invasive and uncomfortable.
If they brush the question off, let them.
Don't ask strangers questions about their family if you're not prepared to be cool when they cry because they're in mourning, get anxious because they're estranged, or generally find the question invasive and uncomfortable.
If they brush the question off, let them.
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Holiday season remember!
Don't ask strangers questions about their family if you're not prepared to be cool when they cry because they're in mourning, get anxious because they're estranged, or generally find the question invasive and uncomfortable.
If they brush the question off, let them.
Don't ask strangers questions about their family if you're not prepared to be cool when they cry because they're in mourning, get anxious because they're estranged, or generally find the question invasive and uncomfortable.
If they brush the question off, let them.
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Not a fan of the "You won't believe the insane replies my normal post got on Twitter!" engagement bait I see here.
I actually do believe it, because it's a Nazi bar, and also, why are you helping prop up the Nazi bar? And then running here to show us what you contributed to the Nazi bar?
I actually do believe it, because it's a Nazi bar, and also, why are you helping prop up the Nazi bar? And then running here to show us what you contributed to the Nazi bar?
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Not a fan of the "You won't believe the insane replies my normal post got on Twitter!" engagement bait I see here.
I actually do believe it, because it's a Nazi bar, and also, why are you helping prop up the Nazi bar? And then running here to show us what you contributed to the Nazi bar?
I actually do believe it, because it's a Nazi bar, and also, why are you helping prop up the Nazi bar? And then running here to show us what you contributed to the Nazi bar?
Well, this made me go and buy the book.
We Choose Every Day: Hebe Stanton reviews Claire North's SLOW GODS (@orbitbooks.bsky.social)
We Choose Every Day: Review of Slow Gods by Claire North
Hebe Stanton Under Review:Slow Gods. Claire North. Orbit, November 2025. What does it mean? This oldest of questions is the one Claire North sets out to answer in their newest novel Slow Gods. Our …
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November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Well, this made me go and buy the book.
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Writers — the ones you know and love, the ones you think of as successful — have sources of income outside that book you read. Most of us are a half-step ahead of the landlord at best, and struggling to maintain health insurance. We figure out other ways to make a buck.
I wrote 12 novels.
Hit #2 on the NYT bestseller list.
Optioned three works for film and TV.
Have close to 20 short fiction works in anthos.
I have 35,000 BSky followers.
Have you seen my jewelry shop that keeps my lights on.
www.peculiarityshop.com
Hit #2 on the NYT bestseller list.
Optioned three works for film and TV.
Have close to 20 short fiction works in anthos.
I have 35,000 BSky followers.
Have you seen my jewelry shop that keeps my lights on.
www.peculiarityshop.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Writers — the ones you know and love, the ones you think of as successful — have sources of income outside that book you read. Most of us are a half-step ahead of the landlord at best, and struggling to maintain health insurance. We figure out other ways to make a buck.
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I'm so tired of people telling me to have students critique LLM outputs. I'm just going to print this on little cards and hand them out
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I'm so tired of people telling me to have students critique LLM outputs. I'm just going to print this on little cards and hand them out
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GTA friends I will be at this Canadian-Caribbean showcase on Dec 14 discussing Writing Speculative Fiction with Terese Mason Pierre and Lue Palmer! All of it is free. There are workshops on poetry, self pubbing, non fiction, short stories etc!
come say hi? 😀
diasporadialogues.com/diaspora-dia...
come say hi? 😀
diasporadialogues.com/diaspora-dia...
Diaspora Dialogues Presents the 2025 Canadian-Caribbean Literary Showcase - Diaspora Dialogues
The Canadian-Caribbean Literary Showcase is a three-day celebration of Caribbean voices and their influence on Canadian literature, art, and culture. Over the course of the showcase, audiences are inv...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
GTA friends I will be at this Canadian-Caribbean showcase on Dec 14 discussing Writing Speculative Fiction with Terese Mason Pierre and Lue Palmer! All of it is free. There are workshops on poetry, self pubbing, non fiction, short stories etc!
come say hi? 😀
diasporadialogues.com/diaspora-dia...
come say hi? 😀
diasporadialogues.com/diaspora-dia...
A tale of two coffees: first, waiting at the hospital for partner to have cataract surgery; second, with partner at breakfast. Cataract surgery is super fast!
November 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A tale of two coffees: first, waiting at the hospital for partner to have cataract surgery; second, with partner at breakfast. Cataract surgery is super fast!
Help me out classicists: before Solon's reforms, who got to be an Athenian citizen? I know it was only dudes and restricted by military training. Was military training something that only rich families could afford? 🗃️
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Help me out classicists: before Solon's reforms, who got to be an Athenian citizen? I know it was only dudes and restricted by military training. Was military training something that only rich families could afford? 🗃️
Okay, why are people doing quotes referencing Charlie Brown?
November 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Okay, why are people doing quotes referencing Charlie Brown?
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.